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• [eureka] 
• • Reviewed by Joel Markowitz

  Patrick Bussink (last seen as Jesus in Forum’s The Last Days of Judas Iscariot) fit the battle of [eureka] and the walls came tumbling down, in only 44 minutes! (more…)

  

• Thousands of Years - Rome  
• Reviewed by Tim Treanor

 This is kind of a cute idea - first-century lovers whose bond is so powerful that it compels them to reappear again and again over the next two thousand years in the Eternal City, notwithstanding war, heartache and death. (more…)

• The Frustrations of Stoker Pratt  
  Reviewed by Miranda Hall

  Stoker Pratt double-dog dares you to try and out-prank him. Ignite the tool shed. Scribble mustaches in art history books. Steal a pirate hat from the history department. You cannot win - he’s done it all.

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Diamond Dead  
by Danielle Martin

I love Zombies. I think they’re cool, and so do all the other people who stood in line to see this show with me. And it was written by the same dude who composed Rocky Horror Picture Show.

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• We Three  
• Reviewed by Tim Treanor

 Subtle, closely observed, full of compassion, We Three is a wonderful little play animated by some superb acting, including the best performance I have seen at this year’s Fringe. (more…)

• Muscle and Mortar:   
• Animating Architecture
  Reviewed by Hunter Styles

  The massive atrium of the National Building Museum is deserted as audience members step inside. Echoes bounce to the far walls

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• The Object of My Obsession  
• Reviewed by Tim Treanor

 ”We have free Ex-Lax after the show,” playwright Mike Fox announces cheerily during the intermission. He’s joking, of course. But the thought is appreciated, since never before has there been a play so much in need of an enema. (more…)

• Tales of Doomed Love (or is it Ever Worth it?) 
• Reviewed by Steven McKnight

If you ever enjoyed the “fractured fairy tales” on the Rocky and Bullwinkle Show as a child, here’s an adult version (more…)

• Uncle Tom, Uncle Sam, Uncle Ben, and the Rest 
  Reviewed by Miranda HallUncle Sam is dead. Guided by the urging of a Fellow American, Harriet Beecher Stowe’s protagonist Uncle Tom, pancake matriarch Aunt Jemima,

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Self Accusation  
Reviewed by Danielle Martin

Theatre Du Jour and DC Arts Center collaborate to bring us Peter Handke’s Self Accusation! In the DC Arts Center itself, this simple blackbox builds an auditory atmosphere all abuzz in preparation (more…)