Capital Fringe 2014 Review: ‘The Hello Girls: Unknown Heroines of WWI’
(Best of the Capital Fringe)
Ellouise Schoettler enlightens us in her one-woman show.
US history provided little to inform us about the role of women in...
Capital Fringe 2014 Review: ‘Coosje’
(Best of the Capital Fringe)
Every now and then CapFringe makes a divine pairing of venue and production. Such is the case with No....
Capital Fringe 2014 Review: ‘Chesapeake’
(Best of the Capital Fringe)
Chesapeake by Lee Blessing - A One-Man - Er, Dog - Show!
Chesapeake by Lee Blessing opened last night in the intimate...
Capital Fringe 2014 Review: ‘TAME.’
(Best of the Capital Fringe)
When the DC Women's Voices Theatre Festival rolls around in October, 2015, I sincerely hope Playwright Jonelle Walker will be...
Matthew Morrison With Special Guest Laura Benanti and The NSO at...
Undeterred by Thursday night’s rainstorm, it was a slightly soggy yet enthusiastic crowd that turned out for Matthew Morrison in concert with the National...
Capital Fringe 2014 Review: ‘Dream Love’
(Best of the Capital Fringe)
Ryan Tumulty’s devised movement piece Dream Love is a surreal combination of dance and theater, switching back and forth from...
Capital Fringe 2014 Review: ‘Interrogation’
(Best of the Fringe!)
In his play Interrogation, John Feffer, a foreign policy analyst who writes widely on privacy issues, pokes gentle fun at U.S....
Capital Fringe 2014 Review: ‘Four Dogs and a Bone’
(Best of the Fringe!)
Welcome to the savage world of moviemaking where success-hungry humans, snarl and growl at each other like dogs fighting for a...
Capital Fringe 2014 Review: ‘The Man in the Desert’
(Best of the Fringe!)
Stephen Mead is no stranger to Fringe—or to one-man shows: his “Dark. Powerful. Mysterious. Magnetic. Suspenseful” performance in Murder on the...
Capital Fringe 2014 Review: “C-“
(Best of the Fringe!)
C-, a SPNP Tech production is a one-man play featuring writer and director Eric Jaffe. The performance, based on Jaffe’s interviews...
Capital ‘Fringe 2014 Review: ‘Everybody Know This is Now Here’
Everybody Know This is Now Here, by Mountain Empire, is a disappointing multi-media performance that takes an exploratory look of female friendship over a...
Capital Fringe 2014 Review: ‘The Program Assistant’
(Best of the Fringe!)
Fringe favorite John Krizel is at it again with his new show The Program Assistant, which he wrote, directed, and produced. It...
Capital Fringe 2014 Review: ‘Tomorrow’s Dawn’
(Best of the Fringe!)
What would you get if you crossed a French High School Musical with some of the characters from The Breakfast Club?...
Capital Fringe 2014 Review: ‘The Old Man Never Let It Go’
(Best of the Fringe!)
If Ernest Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea strikes you as an interesting choice of subject for a movement theatre...
‘Bearlesque’ From The City of Brotherly Love at Town Dance Boutique
WHERE THE BOYLESQUERS GRRR…
On a recent Friday night at Town Dance Boutique a large group of gentlemen gathered to watch a group of large...
Magic Time! ‘Rodney King’ at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
If ever there was an Inadvertent American Hero, it’s Rodney King, the black construction worker whose brutal beating in 1991 by white cops in...
Capital Fringe Preview 2014: ‘La Llorona’- An interview with Playwright Amanda...
Thee Candidates Graduate Theatre Company presents a production of Amanda Zeitler’s La Llorona in this year’s Capital Fringe festival. The play recently won the...
Capital Fringe 2014 Preview: ‘The Matty Matthews Foundation’ by John McGrath
Matty Matthews Wants Young People to Learn His Cash’n Carry Politics
The Matty Matthews Foundation is allegorical, historical, funny, and disturbing. Before Citizens United, before the...
Capital Fringe 2014 Preview: ‘Medea’s Got Some Issues’ by Joanna Castle...
Medea's Got Some Issues - the Funniest Tragedy of the Summer
The first time I saw Lisa Hodsoll read the role of Medea in Medea’s Got Some...
Capital Fringe 2014 Show Preview: ‘Size Doesn’t Matter: 7 Shorts By...
For the seventh consecutive summer, Fully Charged Productions gleefully romps at Capital Fringe in Size Doesn't Matter — 7 Shorts by DC Playwrights In this incarnation, Fully Charged...