Tag: DCMetroTheaterArts
2017 Capital Fringe Review: ‘Lost Teeth’
How far are we willing to go to seek happiness? That’s the intriguing premise of Jona Tarlin’s Lost Teeth, a world premiere production from New...
2017 Capital Fringe Review: ‘Paper’
A cluttered desk, a twenty-minute appointment, a student and a teacher, and what ensues are cerebral twists and turns, well beyond the subdued, weightiness...
2017 Capital Fringe Review: ‘The Laramie Project’
One of the most frequently performed plays in America today, The Laramie Project, is now on view at the Atlas Performing Arts Center, where...
2017 Capital Fringe Review: ‘This Too Comes By Hard’
No way around it, this is a dark, harsh, and gritty domestic drama. For some, it may be too dark, too harsh, too gritty,...
Review: ‘A Little Princess’ at Aldersgate Church Community Theater by Debra...
The timeless story of kind and courageous young heroine Sara Crewe comes to life on an Alexandria stage in A Little Princess, a new...
Review: ‘Dial ‘M’ for Murder’ at Sandy Spring Theatre Group by...
Now playing at the Kentland’s Arts Barn, Dial ‘M’ For Murder by the Sandy Spring Theatre Group has a lot to offer those who...
2017 Capital Fringe Review: ‘Exit Carolyn’
I love Fringe. And like many theatergoers, I head off each day with tolerance and hope. The tolerance is for shows that are long...
2017 Capital Fringe Review: ‘To Be or Not To Be In...
Sitting in the audience of To Be or Not To Be In Love - That Is The Question?, a one-woman cabaret starring writer-choreographer Beverly...
Review: ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ at Baltimore Shakespeare Factory
Sitting outdoors is probably the best venue to watch Shakespeare, and watching a production in July of his classic comedy A Midsummers Night’s Dream under the direction...
2017 Capital Fringe Review: ‘Release: A Rock Opera’
An exciting aspect of CapFringe is getting a sneak peek at a new show in the first stage of development. Such is the case...
2017 Capital Fringe Review: ‘Tiresias’ Tits’
Tiresias’ Tits is a self-described satirical, surreal, burlesque (fun fact - the author of the ur-source material, The Breasts of Tiresias, Guillaume Apollinaire, is responsible for giving us...
2017 Capital Fringe Review: ‘Just Like a Woman’
The tagline for Larry E. Blossom’s latest Capital Fringe offering, Just Like A Woman, is “Will Trans Trump Fear in These Troubled Times?” Unfortunately, neither...
2017 Capital Fringe Review: ‘Mr. Taken’
Watching a great sex comedy provides some of the most fun you can have with your clothes on. Watching a bad sex comedy is...
2017 Capital Fringe Review: ‘The Dream Dancer’
Magical realism meets morality play with a dash of sideshow in The Dream Dancer, an entrancing journey through time at this year’s Fringe. If magic,...
2017 Capital Fringe Review: ‘Return to the Scene of the Crime’
An autobiographical one-man show about performing a different autobiographical one-man show? It sounds like the ultimate Fringe Festival cliché. But despite its conceit, David Kleinberg’s Return to...
2017 Capital Fringe Review: ‘MacBheatha’
From the clear and driving melody of Shakespeare’s action-packed hit, MacBheatha pulls out jazzy tangents to the point of what is for some cacophony and others...
2017 Capital Fringe Review: ‘8 Bit Circus S*it’
8 Bit Circus Sh*t’s two acts are almost as different as fire and ice. Both are video game-inspired displays of fire circus tricks, but...
2017 Capital Fringe Review: ‘J-Swizzle’s (and D-Man’s) Epic Awesome Swaggy Broventure...
Ah, to be thirteen again- the age full of equal parts hubris and insecurity. Such are the epic struggles of two teenage would-be rappers...
2017 Capital Fringe Review: ‘Not Quite: Asian American by Law, Asian...
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Review: ‘The Happiest Place on Earth’ at The Hub Theatre
Set in a fictionalized American magical kingdom, The Happiest Place on Earth, now playing at Hub Theatre, is a wonderfully bittersweet family saga that...