Tag: DC Metro Theatre Arts

Barbara Selfridge’s one woman show asks the question “You decide which is scarier: epilepsy or prime numbers...and sex.” An intriguing and beguiling question that...

I hate giving my age away, but I spent my childhood in the 1960s and 70s. Since I was fortunate enough to have the...

I love reading Fringe show descriptions. I usually develop an expectation in my mind that is rarely relevant to the actual production I witness....

Jace Casey is, put simply, a wunderkind. This young DC area teen with Signature Theatre, Ford’s Theatre, and Olney Theatre Center performing credits, has...

I walked out of Will Rogers' USA thinking that this guy was the most awesome man on the planet. Everyone should see this play,...

Thought-provoking, probing and deeply personal, The Hair Chronicles, written by Nileah Bell, Mary Nyingi and Michelle Whittaker is based on the real event of...

Fallen Angels, a trio of miniature operas composed, produced, and musically directed by Michael Oberhauser, shows much promise for future expansion. Under the direction...

The Webcam Play, written by Timothy J. Guillot and directed by Sasha Bratt, is a funny dramedy about online dating. Most of us singletons...

Despertar. Literally Spanish for awakening or to wakeup. The wakeup call here is that there are 122 other shows at The Capital Fringe Festival...

Quite frankly, this is a play that should be called Discord. Directed by Matthew Sonnenfield, the plot centers around three women (Amelia Bane as Regina,...

As you enter the basement level of the Mount Vernon United Methodist Church for OUR Theatre’s modern adaptation of Sartre’s No Exit, the play’s...

Jilly Manilly (written by Carl A. Fischer and Walt F. Strasser; directed by Patricia Woolsey) riffs on the Milli Vanilli lip-syncing controversy of the...

Justin Purvis’ autobiographical monologue, Hysterical Blindness, is a compelling one. Directed by Daniel Flint  and co-created/produced by Chantal Martinaeu, it starts off as largely a...

The Theatre Lab’s production of Jason Robert Brown's musical Parade marked another entry in the long line of excellent musicals that showcase the outrageous...

Discharged, written by Erin Webreck and performed by Kelley Quinn, is a solo-piece, which explores how family pressures and relationships impact one’s life no...

MOVEius Dance’s Flight of Fancy (A Steampunk Ballet) will invigorate your senses with a dance performance set to fourteen indie rock songs. I love...

When Mark Whitney, solo performer of Rightful Masters, thanked us for supporting 'independent theater' at the end of his 'performance', the audience looked puzzled....

 The Every Fringe Show You Want To See in One Fringe Show Fringe Show is hilarious! I (and most of the audience) was laughing out...

If you have ever known or happen to be either a 20-something searching for a job in DC or employed in a perpetual entry-level...

Breaking up with Ed was not written so much as collected by Angela Pitko but from survivors of eating disorders. Five actors – Caroline...