59 stories by "Marshall Bradshaw"
Autobiographical solo performances are a major food group at Capital Fringe. Spy in the House of Men follows the recipe step-by-step, but stands out from the rest as particularly well-writte…
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 tak…
Against a backdrop of trendy dramedies and raunchy musicals, the Wheel Theatre Company's The Blind leads its audience to a cold, dark forest a century old. Your experience depends on how far…
In a moving memorial, director and co-conceiver Todd Kreidler uses solo actor Eugene Lee to call his friend and mentor's spirit back to the world. Playwright August Wilson seized the opportu…
Oberon, king of the fairies, has been challenged by his queen Titania to write a play to rival Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream without resorting to magic. But Oberon, though beautifu…
Playwright David Ives's mastery of rhymed verse builds on Molière's 17th-century comedy of manners. Together, they will leave your sides aching. The School for Lies is the fourth French col…
A wordless production of The Hunchback of Notre Dame makes plenty of sense: Quasimodo has literally gone deaf from ringing the bells of Notre Dame. And on a deeper level, the primal forces a…
Speculative political fiction written six months ago and set a mere two years from today is a bold thing to write and produce. But there was a moral imperative to the subject of this p…
In the midst of a fever dream, The Most Spectacularly Lamentable Trial of Miz Martha Washington flips the power dynamic of Mt. Vernon and leaves first First Lady Martha Danbridge Washington …
The Late Wedding doesn't have a traditional plot. Instead, the play is more like a lesson plan: Its central theme is introduced and explained methodically, and then the audience is exposed t…
With puppetry, projection, lighting, and video timed perfectly to a live, original, nerdcore rap score, .d0t:: a RotoPlastic Ballet runs like clockwork, even as it tells the stories of machi…
Nilaja Sun's latest solo-performance, Pike St., calls back to her upbringing in the Lower East Side to invoke a rich cast of characters, but is held back by a design choice and brief d…
Coolatully hits every single trope of a modern Irish story with an impeccable, though taciturn exactitude. Solas Nua is "the only organization in the United States dedicated exclusively t…
Coolatully hits every single trope of a modern Irish story with the impeccable, taciturn exactitude. Solas Nua is "the only organization in the United States dedicated exclusively to contemp…
There are many different types of laughter in a theater: Chuckles from slapstick, a knowledgeable laugh at word play… God of Carnage reaches into the audience, grabs hard, and drags ou…
Baby Screams Miracle is a wild storm of religion, sexuality, and family that leaves the audience unsure if the rest of the world is still standing. From the first moment that Cody Nickell as…
Full of song, love, and laughter, As You Like It will sweep you off your feet. If you don't love it at first sight, wait. Of all the couples in this romantic story, the best chemistry in As …
Lumina Studio Theatre packs LEAR with high-concept projections and mute scenes, but does best when they give their actors room to play. Director/Assistant Director David Minton's adaptation�…
Something strange happened last Halloween: The Tarot Reading took its first steps. With both inaugural performances sold out, the brainchild of Alan Katz and Quill Nebeker could have a long …
In Straight White Men, playwright Young Jean Lee finds remarkable insight and startling sympathy with our society's least oppressed identity. Far from a brutal if well-deserved takedown, Lee…
The Welders' latest show, Girl in the Red Corner by Stephen Spotswood, falls short of some expectations, but makes up for it in its many human moments delivered by its talented cast. A…
Switching between mediums can be as difficult as telling someone about a dream. If the new version cannot deliver on everything the original does (next to impossible), it better bring some v…
Staceyann Chin is a memoirist, a spoken-word poet, and a live wire. The best qualities of all three are on display in her autobiographical show, MotherStruck now at Studio Theatre. The show …
It is a daunting challenge to perform as Anne Frank. Not only is she an historical figure whose face is known worldwide, but she is also one who went through puberty during the events that m…
For a show about scars, YOU HAVE MADE A STORY ON MY SKIN is surprisingly comforting. It embodies a beautiful acceptance and even love for the wounded past and scarred present that make us wh…
