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. [Read 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. [Read 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 [Read 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 [Read more...]

• Outrageous Dames 
• Reviewed by Tim Treanor 

“Outrageous” is probably not the best word to describe Lizzie Borden and Eleanora Duse, [Read more...]

• 7 (x1) Samurai 
• Reviewed by Danielle Martin

 Adapted from Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai this sprawling tale gets turned afresh in the accomplished imagination of  writer, director, and performer David Gaine. [Read more...]

• Psycho Cabaret  
• Reviewed by Danielle Martin  

 Chief Ike’s Mambo Room has the air of a place where class goes to die, owing to the garrish paint and sinister murals. [Read more...]