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Make no mistake about it, Baltimore's Single Carrot Theatre has the edge. If you are looking for an intellectually challenging, experimental theatrical production, then P.O Box Unabom…
The symphony on a temperate summer night. Musicians in short sleeves, sending off lilting vibrations into the cooling air, the possibility of musical magic.  Even better, a theme to l…
The 2013 Ruby Griffith Award winners were announced on Sunday, July 7, 2013 during a ceremony held at Bretton Woods Recreation Center in Germantown, MD. The awards honor the best performance…
This Friday your friendly neighborhood columnist starts a well deserved ten day vacation in Chicago and Boston with his lovely wife Jen. Today’s ‘A Quick 5′ is a taste of s…
To stage a show in D.C. that criticizes the War on Terror takes guts. That's just what Evan Crump and Unstrung Harpist are doing with Body Armor, which debuted at the Fringe Festival this su…
1. Dr. Seuss's Cat in the Hat at Adventure Theatre MTC “Adventure Theatre, MTC has done it again " 'Dr. Suess's Cat in the Hat' is another supreme production that is an honor to see…
What better way to end my 2013 Capital Fringe viewing experience than with a show that merges two of the performing arts' oldest forms. The forms of musical theatre and burlesque collide in …
James Konicek is currently playing the dual role of Captain Hook/Mr. Darling in Imagination Stage’s Peter Pan and Wendy. He is one of DC’s most popular actors having worked…
Writing about the end of the world is hard. Creating theatre about the end of the world is even harder. What must it be like facing that horrible, final stop in time? Quotidian Theat…
One of the joys of seeing Shakespeare in the open air is that it can remove all the nonsense that has plagued the Bard for decades. Gone is the hyper-subtlety of the Stanislavski "Method…
"In its first wild promise all the mystery and beauty in the world," F. Scott Fitzgerald once said. He was referring, of course, to New York City. Paying tribute to this iconic city is Love,…
Karel Capek's R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots), playing at the Capital Fringe Festival, is a frantic cautionary tale of what happens when mechanical efficiency surpasses human intelligence…
If you were to tell me 24 hours ago that the high point of my weekend would be watching a play with an incomprehensible plot, trashy topical humor, and characters that are like the imaginary…
The key to a good solo show is to have an interesting story. For a performer, getting up in front of an audience and telling us about their real life experience can be unnerving. If the stor…
Mary Leaphart's solo cabaret show Almost Together combines an eclectic list of show tunes mixed with a few pop standards and her personal story of her battle with Bi-Polar disorder. This sou…
Here is an interesting idea for a show. Take a Nina Simone song entitled "Four Women"Â and build an evening of dance, sketch and spoken word based on that song around it. Wild Women Theatr…
Grain of Sand Theatre has achieved the impossible by keeping their perfect track record of well acted, well staged productions at Capital Fringe with this year's entry Tell-Tale, which is…
AVAdventure Production introduced interactive audio theater with "Double Freakquency" at the Fringe. If you're the kind of person who finds themself falling asleep during your average theate…
"How do you review Frankie Valli? He's a legend." This daunting question was posed to me by Joseph Leo Bwarie, the young actor who played "Frankie Valli" for nearly five years on the First N…
I Do! I Do! opened originally on Broadway in 1966 and starred Mary Martin and Robert Preston. The show was written by Tom Jones (Book and Lyrics) and Harvey Schmidt (Music), whom you most pr…
It is not easy to get up on stage and talk about your life experiences. Sometimes it is quite unnerving being up there alone with just you and your audience. Richard D. Graham is a United St…
Three cheers for what has to be the down-homiest, eye-catchiest, gee-whizziest show in the Fringe. Â And three special cheers for Pointless Theatre Founders and Designers Patti Kalil and M…
43 ½ isn't exactly what you'd expect. Indeed, towards the end of the bloodbath on Wednesday night, an ensemble member looked out at the sold-out house and speculated that they had been "l…
Walking into the space where Field Trip Theatre is performing Fallbeil is a sobering experience. For those unaware that "fallbeil" is a German word, seeing pictures of Hitler and Nazi German…
With all of the solo shows to choose from at Capital Fringe, Underneath The Lintel is one you might really want to consider seeing. Featuring TV and film actor Pat O'Brien (Mr. Dewey on Save…
