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A Report on ‘AFI DOCS’ Part 3: ‘The Dog’ and ‘Chicken...

Final Day of the AFI DOCS and it ends with a nice and easy day, just two but sadly for you, I can only...

2016 Capital Fringe Preview #25: An Interview with Chè Monique on...

I think everyone who’s ever popped a pastie or twirled a tassel has thought about jumping out of a cake. When one actually considers the...

A Report on ‘AFI DOCS’ Part 2: ‘Sonita,’ ‘The Road,’ and...

One of my favorite strategies for navigating the sheer volume of films in a packed festival is to, on at least one day, let...

Review: Dick Gregory: An Evening of Comedy & Jazz at The...

Internationally known comedian and civil rights activist, Dick Gregory, closed out the last of a series of five District of Comedy Festival performances along...

Capital Fringe Preview #24: ‘The House of Yes’ by JP Sisneros

November 17th, 1983 Dear Capital Fringe: Hello Capital Fringe, I do hope you are doing well, as I am doing just fantastic. Well, I am reaching...

Capital Fringe Preview #23: ‘Glacier’ at MOVEIUS Contemporary Ballet

 DANCING CLIMATE CHANGE: Merging Ballet, Science, and Film in MOVEIUS Contemporary Ballet’s “GLACIER” at the 2016 Capital Fringe Festival This groundbreaking, multimedia production puts...

Post-Play Palaver: ‘Next to Normal’ at The Keegan Theatre

Post-Play Palaver is an occasional series of conversations between DCMetroTheater Arts writers who saw the same performance, got really into talking about it, and...

An Interview with Patrick Garrity of ‘Round About’

I interviewed Patrick Garrity, who plays rhythm guitar and sings, about his band Round About, their favorite venue to play in the DC area...

Review: ‘See Jane Sing’ at The Kennedy Center

It’s hard to imagine what to expect at a cabaret debut from a television actor turned Broadway performer turned television game host. Jane Lynch—who...

Review: ‘Mariposa & the Saint’ by Arcturus Theater Company

The very transportable set for this touring production consists of a small enclosure of flimsy, fragile fabric cubes painted to look like stone blocks...

A Report on ‘AFI DOCS’ Part 1: ‘Zero Days’, ‘Tempestad,’ and...

The Opening Night Gala which featured a new documentary from Alex Gibney on that Stuxnet virus you’ve probably forgotten about called Zero Days. That has...

Review: The District of Comedy Roast of James Carville at The...

How do you make fun of someone who always makes fun of himself? Well, last night, Roastmaster Bob Saget and The Kennedy Center’s District...

2016 Capital Fringe Preview #22 ‘Hunt’ by Jean Bordewich

HUNT: A Political Drama NEW POLITICAL PLAY IS BASED ON A TRUE STORY OF PARTISAN POLITICS, HOMOPHOBIA, BLACKMAIL AND TRAGEDY IN THE U.S. SENATE HUNT: A Political...

2016 Capital Fringe Preview #21: ‘Juiced’ by Glenn Ricci

Power Punk Dance Trio Penetrates The Fringe  Are you worthy? The Gods of Rock command you to stand in awe before this fearsome feminist punk...

2016 Capital Fringe Preview #20: ‘Dial R for Robot: a Sci-Fi...

Hitchcock’s Rope meets Blade Runner in an Interactive Rock Opera Science-lab rivalry turns deadly in the race to build the perfect robot. Hidden passions explode...

2016 Capital Fringe Preview #19: ‘Ready to Serve: Unknown Stories of...

Ellouise Schoettler is very excited to be returning to Cap Fringe 2016, for the seventh year. This year she is performing the premiere of...

Review: “Celebrating Joan: A Tribute to Joan Rivers” at The Kennedy...

Celebrating Joan: A Tribute to Joan Rivers, which left the audience of admirers howling last night at The Kennedy Center's Eisenhower Theater, was an evening for “mature...

Review: ‘Chalk’ at We Happy Few Productions

There’s an ancient child-custody legend about two women who claim to be the mother of the same infant. In the well-known Hebrew Bible version,...

Review: ‘Next to Normal’ at The Keegan Theatre

‘Next to Normal’ Confronts Depression, and Anxiety Depression hurts. It deadens and dulls the edge of life and can even kill. With a Tony Award-winning...

2016 Capital Fringe Preview #18: ‘In a Day of Dreary’ by...

Creator Henry Ragan enlightens us on In a Day of Dreary: A horror play. Joel: In the marketing, In a Day of Dreary is described as...