Reviews

Stories are a key to unlocking connections between people and hearing other’s stories can bring us deeper insights into our own lives. Elizabeth McCain’s personal...

(Best of the Capital Fringe) According to their wesbite, Brick Penguin is a "DC-based comedy 'tough-love' sketch group, and it features members and teachers of...

Sage of Blackwell is a good example of the Capital Fringe Festival’s mission to provide “a showcase for…raw and authentic live performance work.” The...

(Best of the Capital Fringe) Who, indeed, has come to play?  Five women in ten choreographic (no less compelling, for being non-cinematic) captures, their bodies...

In this delightful comedy, six 6th graders are running for President of Mrs. Jacobson’s Sixth Grade class.  You, the audience, get to participate and...

(The Best of the Capital Fringe)  When Lee Ordeman stalks his female prey as the title character in Dracula. A Love Story, he might just...

(Best of the Capital Fringe) Giant Box of Porn opened in the big Warehouse black box before a standing-room-only audience Saturday, and once the show got...

(Best of the Capital Fringe) Letters To and From Me is an extraordinary hour of spoken word, story telling, singing, and dancing from the Wild Women...

(Best of the Capital Fringe) Dr. Dour and Peach present a delightfully quirky and surprisingly physical performance in The Monster Songs, playing in the Gearbox on 7th St...

(Best of the Capital Fringe) DC Reynolds Bar hosts an unconventional take on Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. Directed by Sara Bickler, and originally performed by...

When I first arrived to the theater, I met family members and friends of the playwight.  Apparently she attended UVA, like me, so I...

(Best of the Capital Fringe) Point…Blank…Period, created by Tramaine Brathwaite and written along with Ryiesha Simms, Kenya D. Morris, and and Devynne Stevenson, is a hilarious,...

Just when I worried this year’s fringe was veering more mainstream than ever before, I found myself at Barking Fish Theatre Project’s surrealistic W3....

Four good comics, eight short skits and one ‘ha, ha, not so funny’synopsis made for a sporadically funny performance of this collection written by...

King’s Players, a young company in DC, named after Artistic Director and Founder Timothy R. King, has presented well-received original shows at the last...

(Best of the Capital Fringe) Upon reading the short blurb attached to Sasha Sinclair's new solo performance piece Self Portrait here, I must confess I found myself...

(Best of the Capital Fringe) Shakespeare’s Coriolanus has been played, memorably, by some of the greatest actors.  Richard Burton played it; Laurence Olivier played it...

(Best of the Capital Fringe) Did you know Bethesda means House of Mercy? In Jennie Berman Eng's new play , the city may be anything...

Not Every Card is a 50's style caper in an occupied country which may or may not exist when the underground resistance conceives to win...

The Rude Mechanicals of Virginia present "Master Harold"... and the Boys, a play by Athol Fugard. It's a piece of theater that lends itself to...