Ask yourself: how much do you need to know about the inner workings of local government in Flemington, New Jersey? If the answer is "I'd rather know about Flemington, NJ than what's going on…
How far are we willing to go to seek happiness? That's the intriguing premise of Jona Tarlin's Lost Teeth, a world premiere production from New York City's Blowout Theatre Company whi…
By Debra Cope The timeless story of kind and courageous young heroine Sara Crewe comes to life on an Alexandria stage in A Little Princess, a new adaptation of the classic Frances Hodgson Bu…
By Guest Author Robin Lynch Now playing at the Kentland's Arts Barn, Dial 'M' For Murder by the Sandy Spring Theatre Group has a lot to offer those who enjoy a mystery-thriller. First of all…
The tagline for Larry E. Blossom's latest Capital Fringe offering, Just Like A Woman, is "Will Trans Trump Fear in These Troubled Times?" Unfortunately, neither the issues of transphobia …
Watching a great sex comedy provides some of the most fun you can have with your clothes on. Watching a bad sex comedy is painfully awkward and embarrassing. The creative team behind Mr. …
Magical realism meets morality play with a dash of sideshow in The Dream Dancer, an entrancing journey through time at this year's Fringe. If magic, hypnosis, and feminism tickle your fan…
An autobiographical one-man show about performing a different autobiographical one-man show? It sounds like the ultimate Fringe Festival cliché. But despite its conceit, David Kleinbe…
From the clear and driving melody of Shakespeare's action-packed hit, MacBheatha pulls out jazzy tangents to the point of what is for some cacophony and others ecstasy. As all good art…
8 Bit Circus Sh*t's two acts are almost as different as fire and ice. Both are video game-inspired displays of fire circus tricks, but vary greatly in excitement and accessibility. Act I …
Ah, to be thirteen again- the age full of equal parts hubris and insecurity. Such are the epic struggles of two teenage would-be rappers in this funny new piece by Emma Choi, herself a senio…
Divorced. Beheaded. Died. Divorced. Beheaded. Survived. What a clever mnemonic device to track the tragic lives of Henry VIII's many wives. And this play will not let you forget it. It has a…
Abortion Road Trip tells the story of three women in a cab headed to New Mexico from Texas for an abortion. In this reviewer's experience, shows covering the oh-so-taboo topic tend to be …
It's winter in Evanston, Illinois, and a woman has gone missing. Her name is Mitzi, and beyond that we know just a scant few details: she works as an Administrator, is unafraid of bumble bee…
Four Broke Guys: LIVE! is classified as a comedy, but don't expect mere fluff or pratfalls from this one-man show. Actor and playwright J. Shawn Durham's sequence of four monologues from fou…
This show is Art with a capital "A". It is awe-inspiring. It is life-changing. As the actors inform us in the prologue, it may, in fact, be "the most important piece of theatre you will ever…
Nevertheless, She Persisted takes the pulse of the American landscape before and after the November 2016 election, offering a moving compendium of raw emotion, personal drama, and flicker…
There are certain topics that one avoids on first dates. Like race, politics, religion, Moby Dick, your ex. Mixed Blessings is the story of how these topics can make a first date go sp…
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…
Between Hebrew classes and surviving middle school, best friends Jared "J-Swizzle" and Daniel "D-Man" dream of becoming the biggest rap stars in the universe. It will take a magical ques…
AnyStage Theater presents I'm Margaret Thatcher, I Is! After premiering their sci-fi comedy Amelia Earhart In Space at last year's Capital Fringe Festival, AnyStage is thrilled to bring …
NTC goes viral. What happens next will Blow. Your. Mind. We’re baa-aack! Naked Theatre Company returns to the Capital Fringe Festival with a world premiere production, ClickB@it. In…
First of all, I don't remember where I was on November 22, 1963 at 12:40 pm, CST when CBS News interrupted, As the World Turns to announce "In Dallas, Texas, three shots were fired at …
Choreographed by Olivia Sabee with original sound design by DeLesslin George-Warren. Performed by Hannah Joo, Melissa Lineburg, Catherine Roth, Robert Rubama, and Meredith Stapleton. In a po…
A young man and woman build a low-keyed paradise of happiness within an asylum, only to have it shattered by the intrusion of the outside world. The two characters search, at times agonizing…