Colin Hovde, who has served as Artistic Director of the Anacostia-based Theater Alliance since 2011, will be stepping down from that position at the conclusion of the 2018-2019 season, t…
For parents pondering how they might introduce their children to opera and which might be most appropriate, look no further than The Cunning Little Vixen. This curious and fanciful little op…
With a big nod to the continued centennial celebration of "Lennie" (Leonard Bernstein) that this opening of Glimmerglass 2018 season represents, one cannot overestimate the importance of Jer…
Marc Acito’s Secrets of the Universe depicts how, in 1937, our country’s most brilliant mind, Albert Einstein, befriended the one and only Marian Anderson when she had been denie…
Dating. Dating in DC. A play about dating in DC. "This must be dystopian," I thought as I entered Caos on F to take in the latest world premiere by Nu Sass Productions. To my delight, what t…
My interior critic sounds like Jackie Hoffman as Mamacita and for years she grimly told me I'd never be a writer or performer. My exterior champion Mama Jean"part Auntie Mame, part Mama Rose…
Perfecting the Kiss came into the world almost on a dare. Sometime around the turn of the millennium, I was at a brunch for theater folk and someone (I can’t recall who) pondered aloud…
As long as there have been buses, there have been men trying to talk to women at bus stops. Or at least I assume that's the case. But sometimes the man is just a boy, and the boy is just try…
Have you ever watched "The Good Place" on Netflix? The Tragical Comical Fool's Game is kind of like that, but with Shakespearean characters. Last year, five graduate students (studying Shake…
Playwright Matthew Capodicasa has tapped into a truly terrifying idea in The City Of… The premise: What would happen if an entire town just gradually started forgetting everything about ea…
Farah Lawal Harris' America's Wives is an extended metaphor, really. Its central two characters are both married to a distant, narcissistic, unfair man named America. His first wife is a…
I do not know with what weapons World War III will be fought, Albert Einstein once said, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and rocks. It is after the war now. The great cities are …
There are stories we must approach carefully, as we might, unarmed, approach a wolf in a leg trap. Amy E. Witting’s wolf of a story, The House on the Hill, is such a tale. It is a stor…
The buzz about The Cake is that it attempts to humanize a cakemaker who refused to make a wedding cake for a lesbian couple, but it is different than that, and better. Bekah Brunstetter's st…
Has there been, in our lifetimes, a greater political enigma than our 40th President, Ronald Wilson Reagan? We saw him, as the public man, on our television screens for twenty-eight years: t…
"Where does the past exist," asks O'Brien, "if at all?" "In records," replies Winston Smith. He is tied to a chair. "It is written down." "In records. And–?" "In the mind. In human mem…
There are two people on the stage in front of us " Leroy Grant (Jason Bowen) and Berta (the remarkable Bianca Laverne Jones), writhing in love and sorrow " but a third character hangs over t…
There are certain individuals who haunt the Capital Fringe festival (and I'm not talking about the reviewers). Antigone and Medea always seem to make an appearance. And, of course, every cha…
What happens when a man and a woman love each other very much? In the case of O Monsters, they spend a glorious night together before the man disappears and leaves his lover (now pregnant) b…
Ah, the quintessential play set in the magical woods… and performed there as well. Park in the town lot, walk up the hill (or if you or your theatre date wore heels, take the complementary…
Four years ago I was held up at gunpoint an hour after my girlfriend broke up with me. That's how my show begins. I didn't realize it was the beginning of a show at the time " much less a co…
Carrie Fisher once said to "take your broken heart and make it art." I aim to live by these words, which is why all of my solo shows have been derived from my real life experiences–exp…
On November 8, 2016, I was watching MSNBC cover what would become one of the most shocking moments in our nation's history. That election felt like a catastrophe. The future had never seemed…
On the Eve wasn't really a play that I decided to write. I stumbled into it. In 2011 I was nannying on the Upper West Side in New York City, and was slowly feeling that I had lost any sembla…
I'm going to be honest with you guys – I'm scared out of my mind to do this Fringe show, 50 Ways to Date Your Aubrey. Aside from feeling like some self-important, Kardashian-level narc…