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From the clear and driving melody of Shakespeare's action-packed hit, MacBheatha pulls out jazzy tangents to the point of what is for some cacophony and others ecstasy. As all good art…
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 …
Ah, to be thirteen again- the age full of equal parts hubris and insecurity. Such are the epic struggles of two teenage would-be rappers in this funny new piece by Emma Choi, herself a senio…
See this show. Stop reading this review, click this hyperlink, buy a ticket, and see it. Don't want to go alone? I'll see it with you. We've never met before? Who cares. I'm your new best fr…
Set in a fictionalized American magical kingdom, The Happiest Place on Earth, now playing at Hub Theatre, is a wonderfully bittersweet family saga that actor Tia Shearer crushes in her solo …
Ten-minute plays are a modern phenomenon. Some critics refer to them as "theatrical fast food" or "audience sound-bites" but this type of play demands a writer who can present exciting ideas…
There is a moment in Sean Surla's one-woman piece, Ghouls, (playing at the Atlas Performing Arts Center through July 16) where Emel Haddad " Surla's stand-in for herself, and an extraordinar…
Every year, the REV Theatre Company fills Laurel Hill Cemetery " Philadelphia's resting place of the rich, the powerful, and the famous " with an almost cult-like following of theatergoers, …
The success of any production of Steven Sater and Duncan Sheik's Spring Awakening rests on the ability to find harmony between the two dichotomous elements of setting and song. The musical i…
Lynn Nottage's Fabulation or the Re-education of Undine is an outrageously hilarious romp into the fabulated life of Undine Barnes Callas, a feisty, successful African American woman whose c…
Described as "D.C.'s only all-original political satirical musical comedy troupe," Hexagon gives a musical zing to the political madness of the past year. Now in its 62nd year, Hexagon bring…
Divorced. Beheaded. Died. Divorced. Beheaded. Survived. What a clever mnemonic device to track the tragic lives of Henry VIII's many wives. And this play will not let you forget it. It has a…
The Words She Gave Me, Solia Bickersteth's ambitious multimedia project, is a bighearted and moving exploration of how African-American women have shaped one another's concept of womanhood. …
The unofficial rules for crafting a successful play also tend to apply to compiling the perfect mixtape: tell a compelling story, know your audience but keep them guessing, set a tone, stick…
Large swatches of fabric move time forward or weave through space. The bold colors catch the eye. Confrontational dialogue sets characters in opposition while bodies remain static or surge f…
Abortion Road Trip tells the story of three women in a cab headed to New Mexico from Texas for an abortion. In this reviewer's experience, shows covering the oh-so-taboo topic tend to be …
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 h…
It's winter in Evanston, Illinois, and a woman has gone missing. Her name is Mitzi, and beyond that we know just a scant few details: she works as an Administrator, is unafraid of bumble bee…
The notion that medical technology will one day enable human beings to live indefinitely is not just science fiction. Preventing the aging process (or “ending aging”) is an actua…
One of the most fascinating items on the Broadway scene is the current production of a British import, 1984. Co-adapted from the 1949 novel of George Orwell by Duncan Macmillan and Robert Ic…
Caveat (written and directed by Ben Lockshin and playing at Gallaudet University's Eastman Studio Theater) is a "One's-a" show, where each character is an idea of a person more than an actua…
Four Broke Guys: LIVE! is classified as a comedy, but don't expect mere fluff or pratfalls from this one-man show. Actor and playwright J. Shawn Durham's sequence of four monologues from fou…
This show is Art with a capital "A". It is awe-inspiring. It is life-changing. As the actors inform us in the prologue, it may, in fact, be "the most important piece of theatre you will ever…
Was ever a jailed sex offender more self-righteous and self-pitying than Rabbi Barry Freundel in this brilliantly disturbing new play by A. J. Campbell? Were ever such a predator’sR…
You don't have to understand quantum mechanics " or even elementary physics " to follow Quantum Suicide: A Talk by Professor Sophie Miller, the one woman show now enjoying its first Fringe p…
