19 stories by "Julieanna Novak"
With the Presidential race heating up, some of us might find ourselves thinking you’d have to be brain-dead to vote for one candidate or another. Woolly Mammoth’s Zombie: The …
It is nearly impossible to think of modern absurdist playwrights without thinking of Christopher Durang. Mostly popular in the 1980s with plays including Baby With the Bathwater and Sister M…
It's a touchy subject " the relationship between a priest and a young boy. Nowadays, it's the kind of story that makes most people uncomfortable. Yet that is just what John Patrick Shanley a…
Showcasing the best tenor-dominated songs from music and show business alike, Signature Theatre is now running Signature Tenors. The latest in their Cabaret series, the showcase covers every…
Written by famous screenwriter Nora Ephron, Love, Loss. And What I Wore is now playing at Next Stop Theatre Company. This collection of stories from various women about outfits that they or …
For those to whom silent theater seems an oxymoron, Synetic Theater's decade-long decision to produce wordless Shakespeare must seem a very strange decision. How does one tell a complex, mov…
At last there is a musical for those who enjoy horror movies. Creative Cauldron in Falls Church has premiered an original musical which may be in a genre all its own. Based on Henry James's …
July 27th saw the closing of the Capital Fringe Festival. Before it went however, I was able to snag some last-minute advice for post-grads from a show called C-. While that grade may strike…
For any literary nerds who have ever desperately wished there was a way to get two characters from disparate novels together, the Capital Fringe Festival has now provided the answer. Miss Em…
Leaves of Grass is perhaps Walt Whitman's most famous work, a collection of poems numbering up to four hundred. If that sounds to you like a daunting prospect to turn into a performance piec…
Perfect Liars Club is an underground event in the DC area that has been entertaining audiences for over a year. Most of its performances, including the Fringe shows, are sold-out in record t…
Debuting at the Capital Fringe Festival this year, Tour de Farce follows the antics of Peter, a young man who decides to race in the Tour de France from atop a stationary bike in his Manhatt…
To stage a show in D.C. that criticizes the War on Terror takes guts. That's just what Evan Crump and Unstrung Harpist are doing with Body Armor, which debuted at the Fringe Festival this su…
"In its first wild promise all the mystery and beauty in the world," F. Scott Fitzgerald once said. He was referring, of course, to New York City. Paying tribute to this iconic city is Love,…
Walking into the space where Field Trip Theatre is performing Fallbeil is a sobering experience. For those unaware that "fallbeil" is a German word, seeing pictures of Hitler and Nazi German…
When you walk into the space where Eclectic Mayhem Productions is debuting Mirabilia, you feel as if you had interrupted an improve troupe at rehearsal. The space was missing any elements of…
The Afflicted opened at the Capitol Fringe Festival July 16th, running through the 21st. Presented by the Wandering Theatre Company, the play focuses on the young girls and women who accused…
Silent theatre may seem like an outlandish concept " how can one tell a story or relate to an audience without words? However, 2011's surprise movie hit The Artist proved that the very best …
"I Wanna Rock" " and Rock of Ages is just the musical to help a girl out. This jukebox musical, featuring covers of great 80s bands from Styx to Asia, REO Speedwagon to Whitesnake, (and of c…
