The fine actor Vincent Clark, known mostly for his work at Washington Stage Guild, plays a sick man in this one-actor show. A very sick man. Imagine yourself at a holiday party with an elder…
In these times of change, it’s comforting to be reminded that nothing ever stays the same. Almost exactly two thousand years ago, Publius Ovidius Naso, known to scholars as Ovid, wrote…
Imaginative, kinetic, engaging, and bold – those are just a few words to describe The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by Synetic Theater. For the young and young at heart, this fanciful and …
Don’t let the unsettling title scare you away. Yes, it’s direct and upfront but the characterizations build and the interactions usher us into precious reflections on life. On th…
I am generally not a forced gaiety and audience-participation kind of guy. And yet Saturday night, there I was some 20 minutes before show time for H.M.S. Pinafore, in Olney Theatre's Mulitz…
Heading for Capital Fringe today? Taking Metro (Green Line) is your best choice to avoid road closures due to the All-Star Game at Nationals Park. Exit at Waterfront. Plan your Metro …
Cold Rain opens with a familiar scene: three women, joining hands as they light candles and recite a simple love spell. A Macbethean trope, this spell acts as the inciting incident catapulti…
Quantifying the impact of suicide is a business of estimation. According to the Centers for Disease Control there were nearly 45,000 suicides in the U.S. in 2016. For each suicide there are …
Fringe is usually filled with scrappy fledging companies of artists banding together in the hopes of making some theatre magic on zero budget, a wing and a prayer. But, every once in while t…
On the simple and appropriately bleak set, Seed Productions presents its premiere of This Historic Night, five short plays wound into one terrific show, written by local DC playwright, Jack …
Who needs to see another rehash of the play about a moody prince from Denmark? You do. Get thee to A Two Woman Hamlet for this palpable hit. The titular women, Hannah Sweet and Nicola Collet…
Lindsey is in love with a rock. Yes, an actual rock. More specifically, a rock that's made up of many other rocks encased in concrete. Yes, actually in love. As she says herself while gently…
Talented young playwright Raina Greifer sums up her own work Mesa, Arizona, or Something Like It. "It's messy and surreal and strange, but so is so much of growing up," she writes in her dir…
If you're too young or unfortunate enough never to have seen the Carol Burnett Show, my telling you that Hold the Tomato reminded me of it won't be very helpful. If you do know the TV var…
There are all sorts of weddings: Destination Weddings, backyard weddings, shotgun weddings, DIY weddings… the list goes on. They all, however, have a few things in common: At least one per…
Prior to the start of MasterMimes: The Show, a man and a woman are sleeping on the floor. Every few minutes, an alarm clock goes off and the woman hits snooze with ever increasing annoyance.…
After nearly two centuries of begging, God allows Karl Marx a brief visit to Earth to clear his name. "I am NOT a Marxist!" he emphatically declares in historian Howard Zinn's play. Were he …
Titus Andronicus is well-known as several things: as Shakespeare's first true tragedy, as a foreshadow of the brutal Jacobean revenge dramas that would dominate the first quarter of the 17th…
Actor Elan Zafir only sees his son four times a year. You will never forget this fact after you see The Unaccompanied Minor. Each time he reminded me, I could see a little bit of the pain un…
“Opera," declares the 1948 book Nights at the Opera, "is like an oyster; it must be swallowed whole or not at all.” Seventy years later, this principle certainly applies to Capit…
Joey Maranto, a stand-up comedian, tells here the story of a failed stand-up comedian, failed improv performer, and failed children’s entertainer for a Christian television show (all t…
A Slow Bullet combines comedy with tragedy to explore the darkest parts of depression, some ways to cope with it, and begin moving on after losing someone to it. Slow Bullet begins with a…
Musical Therapy is a laugh-a-minute from start to finish, starring some pretty dysfunctional relationships influenced by an even more exceedingly dysfunctional therapist. Although it feature…
At this point, theatrical works about gay men and their over-the-top, overbearing mothers practically comprise an entire genre unto themselves"think Torch Song Trilogy and Mothers and Sons, …
American history is littered with great tragedies, but perhaps none have held onto our collective consciousness as strongly as the Civil War. It was an epic moral and ideological test for a …