16 stories by "Dante Atkins"
I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix. But enough about how my…
We may be some years removed from the height of the sexual abuse scandal that rocked the Catholic Church and gave Spotlight its turn on the Academy stage. But even if those events are no lon…
Intelligence takes us back to a simpler time in American politics, when outing a CIA agent to punish her husband for revealing that the administration started a war based on alternative fact…
The opening night of Lisa Loomer's Roe was the evening of January 18"a mere two days before the inauguration of a President who now unifies the federal government under a party that places i…
Stephen Sondheim's musical Into the Woods has been the subject of numerous stage productions since its debut in 1986 and even a critically acclaimed film. As a result, the discerning thea…
Whenever I attend an opera, I always try to ask myself, "if this were the first opera I were seeing, would I enjoy this performance?" After a quarter-century of seeing them, sometimes tha…
I've seen my fair share of interactive theater. I've even seen the occasional "immersive show" or two. But I've never quite been to something like Beertown, and you owe yourself this experie…
It's delightful that Capital Fringe has its own dedicated, permanent theater spaces these days"because it's the perfect place to take in an innovative, avant-garde arthouse-style show like P…
If you're contemplating seeing Love's LaBEERS Lost, and I hope you are, you might be thinking, "hey, it's Shakespeare in a bar! We can get a drink and watch a comedy in an intimate ve…
The daily challenges faced by women in the workplace have increasingly become a cultural touchstone. In addition to traditional discussions of glass ceilings and equal pay, there is now an e…
One should probably not use the phrase "steals the show" to describe the performance of an actor in a movie featuring Meryl Streep as the leading lady, for such a thing is almost certainly i…
Part Monty Python, part Da Vinci Code, part Fiddler on the Roof, and part Albert Camus having an existential crisis, Glen Berger's Underneath the Lintel is an engrossing one-man detective st…
I'll be honest: I'm not usually a fan of interpretive dance. Most of the time, it's nearly impossible for me to tell what's being interpreted without having read it in the guide, which means…
Solo shows in small venues are a high-stakes venture for both the performer and the audience. If it's bad, sitting through it up close and personal can be inescapably awkward. But if it's…
If there's an award for best promotional materials at Fringe, Macbeth in the Basement would win hands down: their paper crowns are a hot commodity. But in attempting to adapt the worl…
The Real World: Kabul tells the story of three American writers in Afghanistan's capital of Kabul rushing to get a soap opera script written for Afghani television under a very tight deadlin…
