22 stories by "Maura Judkis"
New York's Third Rail Projects stages immersive production in Folger reading room.
"Just because we can, doesn't mean we should."
Pity the cheerleader. Depending on your former place in the hierarchy of high school cliques, it might not be the easiest thing to do. Even though they rule the school, cheerleaders don't fa…
A roundup of Fringe reviews, tweets and more.
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"Hamlet"
: "The production's conceit is inherently problematic: A psychotic Hamlet who is imagining a nightmarish soap o…
Their trip down the aisle was a short one " both the bride and the groom were seated only a few rows back in the Studio Theatre's Milton Theater. But for Thad Brown, 22, and Carrie Suggs, 29…
"Aaaaaagh! Murder!" would certainly be considered clever, if only Tom Stoppard hadn't beaten the Ad Interim Theatre to the punch 50 years ago. The show is a parody of Agatha Christie-style p…
Your daily roundup of Fringe reviews, tweets, and news.
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"I <3 [Heart] Hummels"
: "Like the best quirky comedies of this ilk, "I <3 Hummels" is about something b…
Your daily roundup of Fringe reviews, tweets, and news.
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"The Every Fringe Show You Want To See in One Fringe Show Fringe Show"
: "You don't have to be a seven-year ve…
Watching a show that mocks every cringe-worthy Fringe Festival show cliche, it turns out, feels exactly the same as watching a cringe-worthy Fringe show: You'll leave it with feelings of reg…
Your daily roundup of Fringe reviews, tweets, and news.
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"Girls Who Think They're Hot"
: "A loud, Hawaiian-shirted girl, Skrunk, comes on the scene and declares that s…
With Fringe performances dark last night " the most energetic theater festival in the city needs to rest sometime " it's time to step back and contemplate the big question: What is this year…
Fringe theaters are dark today, but that means it's a good day to catch up on reviews. Here's what our critics saw this weekend:
"Cabaret XXX: Love the One You're With"
: "Embarking on a …
If Millennials are said to be the Peter Pan generation, prolonging childhood as long as they can live rent-free in their parents' house, Jack, the frustrated young man in Pointless Theater C…
Act One, scene one of Carrie Suggs's and Thad Brown's story features the most familiar of romantic comedy devices: The "meet cute." The curtains open to the students in a fluorescent-lit, wh…
Today, especially, would NOT be a good day to tell a Fringe performer "Good luck." Adhere to the age-old theater superstition of "Break a leg" on a day that is especially superstitious: Frid…
D.C.'s weirdest three weeks of theater kicks off tonight: It's the annual return of the Capital Fringe Festival, where you'll find horror opera and steampunk ballet, dinosaurs and pizza " an…
The Shakespeare Theatre Company has filed a lawsuit against its landlord, a nonprofit organization created in support of the theater, to prevent it from raising the Lansburgh Theatre's rent …
You might call Washington's small-theater scene D.C.'s off-off-Broadway, but Julianne Brienza, executive director of the Capital Fringe Festival, hopes you won't.
"That's so lame," she says.…
When Miriam Silverman performed in "The Liar" at Shakespeare Theatre last year, her character Lucrece faced a man who compulsively lied through his teeth. But lies weren't the only thing tha…
Last season's audience was 65 percent female, 83 percent caucasian, 78 percent college-educated, with an average age of 44 and an average annual household income of $244,100.
Good citizens of Beertown always bring dessert. And by citizens of Beertown, Dog & Pony DC means you, the ticketholders to its newest show: Each performance of "Beertown" " for which mem…
Like any other stage parent, Frank Robinson Jr. arrives at the Shakespeare Theater after the curtain falls on each performance of "The Heir Apparent" to pick up his little star. Unlike any o…
