2019 Capital Fringe Review: ‘Good & Kissed’
Ladies, grab your closest friends, make a post-show dinner reservation, and head to Capital Fringe’s Good & Kissed for a night out that will...
2019 Capital Fringe Review: ‘Flirting Like an American’
George Washington University researcher Sufian Zhemukhov is a popular guy around Washington. He has several awards for his storytelling and some of the stories...
2019 Capital Fringe Review: ‘She Sings Light’
She Sings Light, written by Claudia Rosales-Waters and directed by Josh Sticklin, is one of four ‘curated’ shows in the 2019 Capital Fringe Festival....
2019 Capital Fringe Review: ‘Conversations’
One of the more common phenomena of fringe festivals like ours is to see young actors commit to intensely personal projects, creating a cohesive...
2019 Capital Fringe Review: ‘Veneer of Beauty’
Last year, Shaun Michael Johnson put himself on the map as a master storyteller, whose protean moves captivated audiences at the Capital Fringe Festival...
2019 Capital Fringe Review: ‘Hold the Tomato’
Back at the Fringe Festival after their successful 2018 appearance, Laugh Index Theatre’s production of Hold the Tomato strikes a number of funny bones...
2019 Capital Fringe Review: ‘Passing’
Passover, the holiday that marks the Exodus, that signals to Jews and the world that this night is different from all others because we...
Daily Dispatches from Mike Daisey’s ‘A People’s History’
Chapter 18: The Living Moment, July 21 7pm
This final chapter continued to retell and reinterpret a people's history, meaning the nation's, from the Obama...
2019 Capital Fringe Review: ‘I Know It Was the Blood: The...
Written, directed, and acted by playwright Tara Lake, I Know It Was the Blood: The Totally True Adventures of a Newfangled Black Woman, is...
2019 Capital Fringe Review: ‘Oizys in the Waiting Room’
There is reason for concern or apprehension as you scroll the morning headlines or track developing news moment by moment. Closer to home, the...
2019 Capital Fringe Review: ‘Our Town Plus Zombies’
By Rebecca Kurtz
What fun! The Adequate Players make a splash again at Fringe this summer with writer/director/actor John Geoffrion’s one-act parody of Thorton Wilder’s...
2019 Capital Fringe Review: ‘The Heist’
Improv, as any actor knows, is harder than it looks. And dramatic improv—in which actors invent their roles as they go, expanding on a...
2019 Capital Fringe Review: ‘Intimate Dinner’
Anyone who has been a server in a restaurant will likely sympathize with the plight of the well-intentioned and yet deterioratingly cheerful waitress, Lauren,...
2019 Capital Fringe Review: ‘A Short History of Unfortunate Animals’
Aficionados of modern dance and movement theatre take note: if you are hungry for something unique, abstract and poetic, get thee to the Plum...
2019 Capital Fringe Review: ‘That’s Not How It Happened’
Funny, sweet, and poignant, Colleen Hindsley’s one-woman show, That’s Not How It Happened, will resonate with anyone who misses their parents, has endured the...
2019 Capital Fringe Review: ‘Velvet Determination’
When Cynthia Shaw sits down at the piano and casually busts out Bach’s Allegro from Italian Concerto, you know Velvet Determination isn’t your average...
2019 Capital Fringe Review: ’52 Pickup’
So here’s the deal: the card game 52 Pickup is, technically, not a game so much as it is a mess. You grab a...
2019 Capital Fringe Review: ‘CRAPSHOOT!’
It turns out Al Stone (Todd Blakesley) is that guy – the one who admits to voting for Donald Trump in 2016. His participation...
2019 Capital Fringe Review: ‘Amelia’
By Rebecca Kurtz
There is a lot to love about historical fiction, and writer/director Robert McNamara chose a good branch of history with the beautifully...
2019 Capital Fringe Review: ‘Body.’
If you’re not familiar with devised theater, it’s when an ensemble collaborates on the script, movement, and even score of the production, often through...