Angst. Jealousy. Introspection. Betrayal. These are all emotions that could potentially arise when two cohabitating best friends interview for the same job and only one gets it. Unfortunately, none of these feelings ever make it to the surface with very much vigor in John Krizel’s new play The Program Assistant, a piece about #postgradlife (his […]
Archives for July 2014
The Tumbling
If you go to this show expecting to get it, stop trying so hard and then you might understand it. Jack and Jill fell down the hill and now Jack’s head is a mess. Jill searches for pleasure, Mary Jane and Nell may have found it and Jack can’t find his most treasured part. Lost […]
The Tournament
For a guy who is not into mixed martial arts or kung-fu movies, I sure did love The Tournament. Bold and ballsy and featuring a kick-ass story and even kick-assier action, this show is great theatre.
Dream Love
Being in a love triangle must f*cking suck because someone is going to get hurt. How does this phenomenon even happen? Does it have something to do with all that chemistry crap concerning protons and electrons, oh hell you know…opposites attracting? In Dream Love, those are a few of the questions posed silently through a […]
The Monster Songs
I would buy a ticket to watch Toby Mulford and Rachel Spicknall Mulford eat their cereal in the morning. I won’t, because that might be considered weird, and I’m pretty sure they don’t want me staring at them in their kitchen. But as Dr. Dour and Peach in The Monster Songs, this musical duo proves […]
Isis and Vesco Investigate the Curious Death of Dr. Freud
The mythology of ancient Egypt and a police procedural might make strange bedfellows but the fine folks at Guillotine Theatre make the combination work in a delightful way with Isis and Vesco Investigate the Curious Death of Dr. Freud. The mighty Isis herself joins forces with a convicted felon, now consulting for the NYPD, to […]
La Llorona
The Capital Fringe Festival is a time for trying ballsy shows and occasionally finding surprising gems such as La Llorona. It is an intelligent and affecting drama about a woman accused of drowning her two children and the impact of the case on the woman serving as her public defender and her spouse.
Intrigue, a mystery on marley…
A murder mystery dance show? As the curtain rose, I’d already made one critique: murder mysteries are too detail-oriented to work as dance. (There’s a reason why ballet plots are usually broad.) How can the “Aha!” Raymond Chandler moment possibly reach the audience?
The 27 Club
Brian Jones, Jimi Hendrix, Amy Winehouse, Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin, Kurt Cobain. Their names are firmly cemented in Rock n’ Roll history, forever associated with musical genius, loyal fans and lasting legacies. But these names are also associated with tragedy, the unfortunate loss of their lives, all at the age of just 27 years old.
Tango, Cabaret, Love!
So you didn’t get to go to Brazil for the World Cup. Fret not. Tango, Cabaret, Love! will surely send you straight to Argentina!
Districtland
There’s a grand spectrum of people and situations to satirize about the District of Columbia, yet Bucharest Inside the Beltway’s production of Districtland manages amazingly to capture only one narrow band of it.
Saving Private Poo
As you enter Redrum at Fort Fringe to see 1UP Theatre’s Saving Private Poo—a violent smashing-together of the film Saving Private Ryan and A.A. Milne’s classic Winnie-the-Pooh characters—you’ll hear mash-ups of pop songs playing from the speakers. This will be your first clue that what you’re about to witness will be a production full of […]