Archives for July 13, 2014

For a little home-brewed, laid-back conversational, and oh-so compelling storyteller’s journey as a street performer, Andrew Potter juggles the art of sharing home movies or what we used to call “Pictures-on-the-Wall,” giving it all a 21st century shine.  The show combines music, video production, story telling, and “nostalgic” digital scrapbooking in a most entertaining way.

It’s fitting that there’s a joke about Tumblr early on in Field Trip Theatre’s production of Giant Box of Porn, because the feeling I had when I first read about the show’s conceit is the same I have when I stumble upon a new, brilliant Tumblr for the first time: thrilled by how genius it […]

With a wife devoted to quinoa and Whole Foods, a husband who loves poking jabs at the Washington Post, and two kids who hate looking up from their cell phone screens, Bethesda pays plenty of homage to its titular Maryland locale. But Jennie Berman Eng’s dark comedy isn’t a big-picture commentary on a place and […]

It is difficult to pin down a race of people, but the six ladies of Wild Women Theatre attempt to do just that with their hilarious but truthful interpretation of being a black woman in Letters to and from Me. Reading letters addressed to oneself, the women who refer to themselves as the Gone Postal […]

France has given the world many important contributions to arts and culture. Literature. Fashion. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Superior cheeses and wines. Voltaire. Cezanne. Proust. And then they’ve given us Tomorrow’s Dawn.

Everything is big in Texas, or so I’ve been told. Big sky, big land, big opinions, big accents. So to be a Texas teenager, in the 1980’s no less, must have been a tall and interesting order. Eddy Roger Parker’s About A Girl takes us back to Texas in the 80’s, introducing us to four […]

Rabble Crew Productions’ Writing Miss Clark’s Résumé, helmed by the writer and director sister team of Kelly and Emily Canavan is a sprightly delight. With the shaping of the show all in the family, this piece is a labor of love that’s paid off in spades.

This eccentric, two and a half person show from Not a Robot Theatre Co will leave you smiling.  Jacy Barber and Jason Patrick Wells wrote, produced, and star in this quirky, trans-media creation. They have transformed the Sprenger Theater at Atlas into a sci-fi, rock music adventure using well-timed projections, lights, props, and puppets.

Where does one take the leap between apathy and compassion for our fellow people? Are we content to pass by a grieving stranger on the street without a second thought, or can we extend a kind thought or word and maybe actually connect with them? That feeling, in both its positive and negative outcomes, is […]