59 stories by "Marshall Bradshaw"
With stars overhead and faint sounds from picturesque Ellicott City, Chesapeake Shakespeare Company (CSC) brings a homey atmosphere to their movable Macbeth, performed amongst the renovated …
With characters named "Dude," "Gal," and "Chick," I was wary that Spills would be just another cliché story about millennials (What industry did we kill this time?). I was wrong. Who What W…
East of Eden is an American classic, a huge and sprawling novel, stretching from the Civil War to World War I and from California to Connecticut. John Steinbeck — who won the Pulitzer …
Washington Stage Guild’s Summerland serves up spirits from the next world but fails to make much of the play’s unusual post-Civil War subject and its fascinating antagonist. S…
In Chesapeake Shakespeare Company's She Stoops to Conquer, a skilled cast with a script that has stayed light and funny for over two hundred years makes for a great night out, hour after hou…
Perhaps more than any other show at this Fringe, 52:15 challenges its audience to reconsider one of its core beliefs. The 100th Monkey Theatre Ensemble's mix of traditional, surreal, and psy…
In Aphrodite’s Refugees, Monica Dionysiou finds new ways to share stories she grew up with: in this case, as show’s description puts it “the fate of four teenage refugees i…
Brian Quijada is unstoppable. In his autobiographical Where Did We Sit on the Bus?, he sings, dances, and wields a live looper like a genius to create a solo performer musical that takes us …
The Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelkey brilliantly subverts both crime procedurals and comedy. This is a show not about catching the bad guys or laughing at weirdos, though it'll trick yo…
After nearly two centuries of begging, God allows Karl Marx a brief visit to Earth to clear his name. "I am NOT a Marxist!" he emphatically declares in historian Howard Zinn's play. Were he …
A holon, coined by Arthur Koestler in his book The Ghost in the Machine (1967), is philosophical term for something that is simultaneously a whole and a part. For example, Holon! is one whol…
In two years, David Rodwin went out with 120 women. Evidently, that changes a man. F*ck Tinder, Rodwin's solo show on his dating life, ranges from deep vulnerability to unrestrained boasting…
Sam Shepard's obituary in the New York Times describes his plays as hallucinatory, though his Pulitzer Prize finalist, True West, is relatively close to naturalistic. Critics often count …
Girlfriend, a distinctly gay love story built around a specific alt-rock album, delivers a universal narrative of first time young love and the music that makes the teen years survivable. Ji…
Rapture, Blister, Burn is a masterful exploration of feminism in practice, and Maryland Ensemble Theatre (MET) gives it a sharp, engaging production sure to stoke important conversations ove…
Perisphere Theater refreshes Molière's classic Tartuffe with a skilled and playful cast. But you need be patient. The show digs itself a very deep hole in its first full scene, exhibiting m…
Safe as Houses seizes a few opportunities to explore how unintentionally hurting loved ones does not make that hurt any less your responsibility. It gets bogged down, however, in handwringin…
There's something noble in sticking with your family no matter what, but there's also something noble in finally cutting ties with a toxic parent. The Price grinds that contradiction against…
This past weekend, En Garde Arts brought a new multimedia documentary theatre piece to the Kennedy Center. True to the best of its genre, Wilderness strikes right at the core with devastatin…
With a title like Love and Information, Forum Theatre's newest show grants itself a wide warrant, delivering quite a bit of the former and volley after volley of the latter. The show really …
In Cabaret We Trust is a carnival of artistic talent from across a variety of media, even inviting the audience to participate. TBD Immersive earns its name by opening up a tremendous set…
It's very easy to wheel out Shakespeare for yet another production. It's effortless to claim that your production is Important because it speaks to the current political climate. But without…
In their first original piece in five years, Synetic Theater tells a grand story, from humanity's flawed origin all the way to an ignominious end. The non-stop display of physical prowess an…
With P.I.C. : The Prison Industrial Complex, the Conciliation Project hits the cruelty of the American criminal justice system hard with just about everything they can throw at it: Scores of…
We sent Marshall Bradshaw out to check on what the bars near Fringe headquarter have to offer all you Fringe-goers. Here’s his report. Star & Shamrock Tavern & Deli 1341 H St N…
