Today, the Capital Fringe Festival 2019 starts its final week. While audiences are picking out the shows to catch, Julianne Brienza, (CEO and Capitol Fringe Festival Founder) and CF staff ar…
Rachel Hynes is excited. She is a few hours away from the Friday night performance of LadyM, a devised production based on interviews with D.C. women on their experiences with menstruation. …
"Only connect," wrote the novelist E.M. Forster, "Live in fragments no longer." Ah, but that's easier said than done, E.M., particularly in the windblown wilds of the Western U.S., the so-ca…
"The best thing about majoring in Invisibility Studies," jokes Emil Guillermo early on in his one-person show, Emil Amok! All Pucked Up: Harvard, NPR and more, making its DC premiere right n…
Wit, wisdom, and class are all on display through the southern, Texas charm and steely resolve of the late Ann Richards at Arena Stage. As portrayed by stage and screen veteran Jayne Atkinso…
What would Euripides say about the liberties being taken with his tragedies in New York? Medea, one of his last and most-produced plays, has been turned into the harrowing tale of an undocum…
Playwright Nell Benjamin's (Legally Blonde) The Explorers Club lambasts the last bastion of the manly man"an 1879 London gentleman's club where explorers and scientists of great renown impar…
American Spies and Other Homegrown Fables emanates an understated sensory clash before any actor sets foot on stage. The play's world is a simple 1940s living room and bedroom, decked out in…
This review by Jennifer Georgia was first published by DC Metro Theater Arts on July 15, 2019. We are unable to attend the performance and are very grateful to DCMTA for permission to reprin…
Washington DC faces near record breaking heat and humidity this weekend, with temperatures in the upper 90s and higher and a heat index of 110 to 115. Capital Fringe reports that all shows a…
DC is (in)famous for being a "transitional" city"people move here, stay for a few years, and then leave. But what happens when you discover your love of playwriting here and then move back t…
Darkness. Silence. The flapping of wings. A gunshot. A single dead dove hovering above the stage. These are the opening moments of Douglas Robinson's surreal look at the senselessness and cy…
Few things in life are genuinely unexplainable. One of those is undoubtedly modern dance. You may not make a habit of visiting intimate black box theaters to see premieres by small, relative…
meg jo beth amy & louisa is a fictional depiction of how Louisa May Alcott's "Little Women" evolved into the classic story we know. True, Alcott was pressured by her publisher to abandon…
Over 100 and some years ago, The Mollusc was the best-known work of an Englishman considered to be in affinity with the likes of Oscar Wilde. About 10 years ago, my colleague at DC Theatre S…
Simon Godwin is poised to take the reins of the Shakespeare Theatre Company, but the presence of Michael Kahn hangs over it like a mist. If you have any question, you should see the free-for…
It was a windy spring day, and I was taking a moment to zone out during rugby practice. As I looked up, noticing a plane flying above me, my mind wandered, as minds often do. "I wonder what …
As the doors to the theatre open, five jazz musicians play to the crowd, setting a comfortable flow to the dance of finding our seats. These are talented performers, and much of the joy from…
An actor, Nick (Matt Calvert) goes into rehearsal for William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, to reprise his role as Bottom. Bottom is the (both literally and figuratively) donkey-h…
Well, it's mid-July, so we're deep in the thick of it and there's no turning back now… it's officially wedding season. It was fitting, then, that I was returning to DC from a lovely weeken…
First it was just strange dreams. Then it was sinister voices. Now, the followers of Cthulu roam the streets in search of the servants and sacrifices that can bring the Old Ones " specifical…
Broadway musicals' 11 o'clock numbers are often defiant, triumphant character studies or orchestra-swelling realizations of love " think "Rose's Turn" from Gypsy or "She Used to Be Mine" fro…
Imagine that you are a soldier " an intelligence analyst " deployed to the Caribbean Command in Key West, Florida. Your daily tasks involve reading reports and commenting on them in air-cond…
It's been more than a day since I left Before the Fall, and I still don't know for sure that I can say what I think about it. That's a crummy thing for a theater critic to admit, but I'm hop…
Thomas Edison was really good at selling himself. Media attention and ruthlessness helped him claim sole credit for inventing the light bulb. In reality it was the work of many scientists. E…