Vpstart Crow Productions puts the laughs in black comedy, opening their 2012 season with Arsenic and Old Lace. You know you shouldn't be laughing at people murdering each other –…
Forum Theatre successfully takes on religion, teenage pregnancy, and Chucky's slightly milder cousins in Holly Down in Heaven -Â their new work by Resident Playwright Kara Lee Corthron. Fo…
Zero Cost House is billed as playwright Toshiki Okada's autobiography but, like Walden, Thoreau's book that is quoted extensively in the play, this is more of a travelogue through the …
A Midsummer Night’s Dream was an extraordinary production with young actors in a partnership between University of Maryland School of Theatre and Dance Performance and the Nat…
Port City Playhouse steps up with their version of Medea. The Greek tragedy by Euripides starts off their 35th Season with a hit. Port City Playhouse is a community theater based at the Lab …
The 8 actors in Romeo and Juliet by the National Players, under the direction of Jason King Jones, attack this play like it was written yesterday and no one in the world has seen it before. …
What would you do if the apocalypse arrived tomorrow? Impossible Theater Company answers that question for four characters in their second production [missed connections]. The pl…
The Play About the Coach tracks the three potentially most important minutes of a man's life and career. It is also one of the tensest hours of theater I've experienced and one of the be…
Thomas is Titanic could more accurately be called "Stalking Kate Winslet." Thomas Choinacky wrote and performed this one-man show about his preoccupation with her and her role in Titanic gro…
Blanche: The Bittersweet Life of a Wild Prairie Dame is something special and unlike most musicals I have seen before. Onalea Gilbertson found a photo album of her Grandmother's as she mo…
Burlesque and Belly Laughs provides plenty of both. With a cast of improv actors and burlesque dancers from troupes around DC, the evening alternates between improv sketches and more traditi…
Rockville Little Theatre’s production of A Year of Giving is an extraordinary story and it makes for an extraordinary play. Reed Sandridge was laid off in ’09 and decided to give…
 Making Love Legal is clearly a labor of love. Sara Schabach, a first-time director, and her cast infused every odd-ball scene with enthusiasm. It is an ambitious and sensitive topic to e…
HeHEE! or "What It's Not Glee? is a production of The Comedy Academy, Inc., which is a non-profit that teaches middle and high school and college students to write sketch comedy. I know, …
I walked out of Will Rogers’ USA thinking that this guy was the most awesome man on the planet. Everyone should see this play, especially if they have no idea who is. I was intrigued b…
 The Every Fringe Show You Want To See in One Fringe Show Fringe Show is hilarious! I (and most of the audience) was laughing out loud, uncontrollably, every 20 seconds. Why? The show'…
If you have ever known or happen to be either a 20-something searching for a job in DC or employed in a perpetual entry-level position, In this Economy will be both funny and severely pai…
Breaking up with Ed was not written so much as collected by Angela Pitko but from survivors of eating disorders. Five actors " Caroline O'Grady, Rebecca Philips, Anika Harden, Stefanie Garci…
Hayley Cutler is the choreographer behind this memorable hour of dance called Donna Has a Boyfriend. Her background is in the postmodern style. I was unaware that we have moved on from moder…
Dreams In The Arms of The Binding Lady is a deliciously dark and weird (in a good way!) performance by Izumi Ashizawa and her performers, Izumi production members Nick Horan, Raechel Nol…
The Disreputables is a theater company dedicated, as they say, to “giving voice to those people deemed unfit by society.” Lee Mikeska Gardner directs this production about a few …
Amelia Adams, Michael Cavanaugh, and Alex Corby are all well-trained, incredibly gifted performers in the ancient Italian art of Commedia Dell’Arte. They call themselves AlulA, a group…
The first thing to know about Barter is that it has very little to do with bartering. In 75 fascinating, touching, and amusing minutes, the characters spent roughly 5 minutes bartering. Nor …
Where in the world is Camilla Sanfrancisco? is pure, well-produced fun. Jeff Vonch is both co-writer and producer, with fellow writers Patrick English and J. Adrian Verkourteren. Under the s…
Pericles is not performed very often and local company The Rude Mechanicals from Laurel, MD offers a reason why in this shortened, but, they insist, unedited version of this Shakespeare&#…