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Since the introduction of the Travel Ban, has there been a quantifiable increase in Islamophobia? After being officially pulled out of the Paris Agreement, will present and future Americans …
With Why is Eartha Kitt Trying to Kill Me?, UrbanArias has given us an operatic gem, and the talents assembled for the production have encased this most entertaining work in pure gold. Wh…
There's an old logic puzzle about a farmer trying to get a wolf, a chicken, and a pile of corn across the river, but the farmer can only take two at a time in his boat. Leaving the wrong com…
Once there was a couple that so loved peace and justice that they would blow up buildings and kill people on its behalf. After that, they would move to another town, changing their identitie…
If any play is a complete 180º polar opposite of the safe suburban outdoor Shakespeare I reviewed most recently, it is certainly B. Stanley and company's inscrutable, frustrating, and nea…
Sometimes the identities we construct for ourselves become our prisons. This is the scenario playwright M. Cristina Garcia uses as the central conceit of her play, Lesbians and the Men Who L…
Has our obsession with true crime always been with us? In 1551, Alice Arden and her lover arranged the murder of Alice's husband, Lord Arden of Faversham. In 1592 this true crime sensation w…
I am not equipped to write this review. That much was apparent from the moment I saw Daryl "Spook" Spokane (Meshaun Labrone) stoically reclining on the day of his execution in Spook, a play …
A holon, coined by Arthur Koestler in his book The Ghost in the Machine (1967), is philosophical term for something that is simultaneously a whole and a part. For example, Holon! is one whol…
Some of the best theatre presents you with an impossible choice and asks what decision you would make in each character's place. In the case of 2000FeetUp Theatre Company's The Body of a Wom…
In two years, David Rodwin went out with 120 women. Evidently, that changes a man. F*ck Tinder, Rodwin's solo show on his dating life, ranges from deep vulnerability to unrestrained boasting…
There are numerous themes to Edgar Allan Poe's body of work: Perverse, mysterious, grotesque, and merry. Coincidentally, those are the names of the characters for this compilation of scenes …
We Americans now find ourselves deep into the presidency of Donald Trump. Whatever opinions one may have on his policies, it's tough to deny that Donnie's personality is ripe for satire. Fur…
If you had told me when I got a job as a hostess/busser at a small local restaurant in high school that 15 years later I would have made a career of working in restaurants, I would have laug…
You know when you are watching Isadora Duncan’s work. Her technique, created over a century ago, is easily recognizable. With parading skips, subtle gestures and a wide emotional vocab…
To put on a fresh show every night, Upright Citizens Brigade (UCB) must know its audience down to the core of their prides and insecurities. The New York- and Los Angeles-based improv comedy…
D Mitchell’s Flight of the Xenophobe encases 2013 in amber to examine the issues of race and gentrification. Xenophobia comes from Greek and means a strong fear of what is foreign, so …
Bartleby the Scrivener, in Herman Melville’s short story of the same name, was a man of massive silences, who spoke only when his employer asked him to do something. “I would pre…
The #MeToo era has been brought to light by unrelentingly brave female voices. Sobriety of Fear, and specifically its playwright and solo performer Shaun Michael Johnson, successfully turns …
FREE CAKE!! And now that I've grabbed your attention – Burn Out Blessings has a lot less to do with teaching and a LOT more to do with sex than I expected from its brief Capital Fringe…
It's the Mr. Darcy/Elizabeth Bennett proposal scene! But – what if Mr. Darcy were directing a play about a butterfly catcher and his prey, and instead of wanting to MARRY Elizabeth, he…
A New Nation has found the right city, the right moment and the right place at the Anacostia Arts Center this month. As national headlines bear down on this administration's Muslim travel ba…
As an amateur history buff, I've long been fascinated by Revolution-era France. Between podcast binges and addictive ancestry research, I want to better understand how the greatest power in …
Two charismatic women rule the roost in the engagingly interactive Painted Ladies: Bosses of the Wild West, but their bright lights tend to overshadow the rest of the production. Painted Lad…
In The Tragical Comical Fool's Game, the Masters of SHX present a cocktail of Shakespearean characters, blended with philosophical musings, and garnished with fourth wall-breaking asides. It…
