Church basements have a long and surprisingly illustrious history in the evolution of modern dance, particularly in the mid-20th-century when they were creative strongholds for iconoclastic …
Riverside Center for the Performing Arts in Fredericksburg, Virginia is excited to be celebrating 20 years of bringing the best of Broadway in Virginia with the legendary and iconic Broadway…
By Beatrice Loayza "So, what are we seeing again?" my friend asks me at dinner prior to the show. Pause. Â I scrape the corners of my mind for a suitable answer, but the reality is– …
Shakespeare is alive and well at this year's Fringe, and that includes both the usual adaptations and some of the more surprising spin-offs. One of the most entertaining of the latter"qualif…
Aficionados of ancient tragedy will tell you that the main difference between the Romans and the Greeks was that the Romans "Seneca, especially"loved their violence served up downstage cente…
Let's stop for a moment to consider how much of the grey matter we've got upstairs, between those infernal ears, is dedicated to memory. Even as you read this review your mind is stockin…
by Allison Considine Ready for your next summer adventure or weekend getaway? Each July, the Contemporary American Theater Festival in Shepherdstown, West Virginia, presents new plays in the…
Dystopias can be off-putting places, for those in search of more traditional fictional locales. Why would you want to begin your story in a wasteland, where everything we associate with civi…
Truth be known, there is much about Ronald Reagan that is eminently unlikeable: his shameless embrace of the southern, "State's Rights" strategy, his contempt for social welfare programs, hi…
"The past is never dead. It's not even past." –William Faulkner, Requiem for a Nun. Of the many great moments in the late August Wilson's Twentieth Century cycle, the most powerful…
Count Shaun Michael Johnson among the stunning new talents to be discovered at Capital Fringe. His solo show, Sobriety of Fear, is a tour-de-force of empathic acting. With breathtaking emoti…
Featured in this April's Limerick Fringe Festival and now playing in repertory in their North American premieres at SoHo Playhouse, Eavan Brennan and Siobhan Donnellan's Get the Boat and …
The Contemporary American Theatre Festival is off to a rocking start, and with the local premiere of Bekah Brunstetter's ripped-from-the-Supreme-Court-blotter comedy The Cake, the Festival m…
by Emily Canavan Opinion Since the 2016 election, I am sure you have noticed the term Fascist is being dusted off and nervously applied to our current president. I have banged my head agains…
Who run the world? Painted ladies. And this year's Fringe production of the same name by Too Much Damn (TMD) Theater rode that point home, in more ways than one. Set in a nameless one-horse …
Review by Caroline Bock For one brief minute at the opening of Lesbians and the Men Who Love Them, written by M. Cristina GarcÃa and directed by Mediombo Singo Fofano at the Christ …
Happenstance Theater, the much-lauded purveyors of cheekily sophisticated whimsy, have brought another original devised work to Fringe, and if it doesn’t tickle your funny bone, you mi…
They are likely the unseen in our midst; that is until a particular, probably short-term job needs the informal employment market as the source of a worker. They have their own personal stor…
Against a background of black timber walls, a beautiful dark-haired woman stretches out languorously on a table. Dressed in a skimpy black nightgown, she moves like a dancer. On the floor, t…
Sunday morning, before I drove from my home in Western Maryland to see Convergence Theatre's production of A New Nation, I noted the following in a letter to the editor of my local newspaper…
One of the myriad things Lin-Manuel Miranda does so beautifully in Hamilton: An American Musical is his portrayal of the profound symbiosis among the Schuyler Sisters: Angelica, Eliza, AND P…
Aldersgate Church Community Theater presents Matthew Barber's Enchanted April. Directed by Marzanne Claiborne, Enchanted April follows a group of disillusioned women who embark on a life-cha…
By Beatrice Loayza Directed by Patrick Pearson and written by Matthew Capodicasa, The City Of . . . is an ambitious work self-described as inspired by the metaphysical wrestlings of Jorge Lu…
The Vandal, which opened to a sold-out audience on the first weekend of the 2018 Capital Fringe, is a comedy about loss. It's also a bittersweet riff on death, performed by a trio of talente…
A main point of Michelle Alexander's The New Jim Crow is that the oppression of people of color in the U.S. cannot be explained as a matter of mean-spirited bigots lashing out at African-Ame…