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What do our readers want most from our site?  If they are actors or theatre companies,  the answer is probably  to be able to print our reviews.  [Read more...]

Little Mermaid, The Temperamentals and Dinner

mermaidseffI’d been avoiding The Little Mermaid because ever since The Lion King I haven’t been happy with the Disney approach to Broadway, [Read more...]

DC theatre fans pick Dead and Psychosis: Bitch edges Medea by an angry inch

Tues, July 28, 10pm — Fans of the DC Capital Fringe Festival selected 4:48 Psychosis as Favorite Play in the 2009 Fringe Festival and awarded Diamond Dead (Continued…) laurels as the Festival’s Favorite Musical in an exclusive DC Theatre Scene poll. [Read more...]

Creating the Fringe Musicals

Fall of the House of Usher, Fictitious The Musical, Captain Swishy’s Yee Haw Jamboree, Titus X, Pepe! The Mail Order Monkey Musical, Life in Death, Magnum Opus, The Saints, Please Listen …., The Bea & The Bug ….., Diamond Dead (Continued) plus 2 Musical Scene Stealers: Jordan Klein and Cristen Hall [Read more...]

Fringe voting ends tonight at 10 pm

This year, DC Theatre Scene’s 20 reviewers covered 118 shows in Capital Fringe, with a record-breaking 40 shows earning their Top 5 Picks. Online voting is open now [Read more...]

Flag Boy

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With unbridled energy and a finely written script, Cornelius Jones unfurls his life experiences as a black gay man, growing up in a time and place that didn’t always nurture his identity. [Read more...]

The Pirates of Penzance

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5redfringe2Joel rates it:

There was great singing in waves at the Gilbert and Sullivan (G&S) Youth Company’s mini-production of the very popular The Pirates of Penzance. The production was comprised of primary, secondary and college students, [Read more...]

Cover Me in Humanness

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5redfringe2Tim rates it:

This is a play about melting. The play takes the “yea” position on the subject. Let me explain.

There are few things less vulnerable in the world than statues. Sure, they may be pulled down in time of revolution [Read more...]

The Attack of the Big Angry Booty

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2redfringeTim rates it:

This show is all hat and no shadow. It takes a slender premise and gives it a slender treatment, chopping the material into a dozen or so slender stories. And the worst part is [Read more...]

The Bea & The Bug, Writing Stories,Wowser Bowser!

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5redfringe2Joel rates it:

The Mountain at Mount Vernon Place United Methodist Church was buzzin’ with Moms and Dads, and sisters and brothers, and grandparents clapping along and singing along with BungleBug, HoneyBea, and DragonFly, [Read more...]