8,108 stories from DC Theatre Scene
An exciting aspect of CapFringe is getting a sneak peek at a new show in the first stage of development. Such is the case with DC Dogs'Â Release: A Rock Opera, now playing at the Gallaudet…
Watching a great sex comedy provides some of the most fun you can have with your clothes on. Watching a bad sex comedy is painfully awkward and embarrassing. The creative team behind Mr. …
Magical realism meets morality play with a dash of sideshow in The Dream Dancer, an entrancing journey through time at this year’s Fringe. If magic, hypnosis, and feminism tickle your …
An autobiographical one-man show about performing a different autobiographical one-man show? It sounds like the ultimate Fringe Festival cliché. But despite its conceit, David Kleinberg's R…
Alana Wiljanen made a good choice in calling her group's co-created Shakespeare adaptation MacBheatha, instead of the more famous Macbeth, Shakespeare's sordid tale of a Scotsman murdering h…
See this show. Stop reading this review, click this hyperlink, buy a ticket, and see it. Don't want to go alone? I'll see it with you. We've never met before? Who cares. I'm your new best fr…
There is a moment in Sean Surla's one-woman piece, Ghouls, (playing at the Atlas Performing Arts Center through July 16) where Emel Haddad " Surla's stand-in for herself, and an extraordinar…
Ah, to be thirteen again- the age full of equal parts hubris and insecurity. Such are the epic struggles of two teenage would-be rappers in this funny new piece by Emma Choi, herself a senio…
8 Bit Circus Sh*t's two acts are almost as different as fire and ice. Both are video game-inspired displays of fire circus tricks, but vary greatly in excitement and accessibility. Act I tak…
The tagline for Larry E. Blossom's latest Capital Fringe offering, Just Like A Woman, is "Will Trans Trump Fear in These Troubled Times?" Unfortunately, neither the issues of transphobia nor…
So tell me what's better: living in the love, support, and strength of a community at the cost of your independence, or living a life that's free and lonely? "Living with other people and le…
The Words She Gave Me, Solia Bickersteth's ambitious multimedia project, is a bighearted and moving exploration of how African-American women have shaped one another's concept of womanhood. …
Described as "D.C.'s only all-original political satirical musical comedy troupe," Hexagon gives a musical zing to the political madness of the past year. Now in its 62nd year, Hexagon bring…
Large swatches of fabric move time forward or weave through space. The bold colors catch the eye. Confrontational dialogue sets characters in opposition while bodies remain static or surge f…
Divorced. Beheaded. Died. Divorced. Beheaded. Survived. What a clever mnemonic device to track the tragic lives of Henry VIII's many wives. And this play will not let you forget it. It has a…
Abortion Road Trip tells the story of three women in a cab headed to New Mexico from Texas for an abortion. In this reviewer's experience, shows covering the oh-so-taboo topic tend to be hea…
The notion that medical technology will one day enable human beings to live indefinitely is not just science fiction. Preventing the aging process (or “ending aging”) is an actua…
The unofficial rules for crafting a successful play also tend to apply to compiling the perfect mixtape: tell a compelling story, know your audience but keep them guessing, set a tone, stick…
Four Broke Guys: LIVE! is classified as a comedy, but don't expect mere fluff or pratfalls from this one-man show. Actor and playwright J. Shawn Durham's sequence of four monologues from fou…
It's winter in Evanston, Illinois, and a woman has gone missing. Her name is Mitzi, and beyond that we know just a scant few details: she works as an Administrator, is unafraid of bumble bee…
Against a backdrop of trendy dramedies and raunchy musicals, the Wheel Theatre Company's The Blind leads its audience to a cold, dark forest a century old. Your experience depends on how far…
Caveat (written and directed by Ben Lockshin and playing at Gallaudet University's Eastman Studio Theater) is a "One's-a" show, where each character is an idea of a person more than an actua…
Was ever a jailed sex offender more self-righteous and self-pitying than Rabbi Barry Freundel in this brilliantly disturbing new play by A. J. Campbell? Were ever such a predator's' victims"…
You don't have to understand quantum mechanics " or even elementary physics " to follow Quantum Suicide: A Talk by Professor Sophie Miller, the one woman show now enjoying its first Fring…
This show is Art with a capital "A". It is awe-inspiring. It is life-changing. As the actors inform us in the prologue, it may, in fact, be "the most important piece of theatre you will ever…
