Archives for July 15, 2018

Titus Andronicus is well-known as several things: as Shakespeare’s first true tragedy, as a foreshadow of the brutal Jacobean revenge dramas that would dominate the first quarter of the 17th century, and (perhaps most famously) as Shakespeare’s most visceral and bloody work. Yet Vengeance in my Heart presented by Wowdacious Theatre at Capital Fringe delivers […]

After nearly two centuries of begging, God allows Karl Marx a brief visit to Earth to clear his name. “I am NOT a Marxist!” he emphatically declares in historian Howard Zinn’s play. Were he alive, Marx would be 200 years old this year. He wrote Das Kapital 150 years ago. Zinn wrote Marx in Soho 19 […]

Actor Elan Zafir only sees his son four times a year. You will never forget this fact after you see The Unaccompanied Minor. Each time he reminded me, I could see a little bit of the pain underneath the words. And it seems that one of the ways that Mr. Zafir has chosen to process […]

“Opera,” declares the 1948 book Nights at the Opera, “is like an oyster; it must be swallowed whole or not at all.” Seventy years later, this principle certainly applies to Capital Fringe’s The Lives Left Behind, which features four one-act operas that offer a whole lot to swallow — sex, death, infidelity, intrigue, stardom, and more. […]

Joey Maranto, a stand-up comedian, tells here the story of a failed stand-up comedian, failed improv performer, and failed children’s entertainer for a Christian television show (all the same person) who revenged himself for the show’s cancellation by working in a large number of mildly smutty double-entendres to the final production. If you wonder what […]

Musical Therapy is a laugh-a-minute from start to finish, starring some pretty dysfunctional relationships influenced by an even more exceedingly dysfunctional therapist. Although it features delightfully animated singing sock puppets, this show is not for kids! Some of the jokes are fairly obscene, but it’s virtually nonstop comedy as long as you find sexual innuendo […]

A Slow Bullet combines comedy with tragedy to explore the darkest parts of depression, some ways to cope with it, and begin moving on after losing someone to it. Slow Bullet begins with a theater company sitting around,  talking about the review of its latest show. The play tells its story through a series of cold […]

American history is littered with great tragedies, but perhaps none have held onto our collective consciousness as strongly as the Civil War. It was an epic moral and ideological test for a young nation, and the fallout still trickles down over 150 years later (see: last year’s monument disputes, and the chaos at Charlottesville). I […]

At this point, theatrical works about gay men and their over-the-top, overbearing mothers practically comprise an entire genre unto themselves—think Torch Song Trilogy and Mothers and Sons, just to name two. You can now add to that list Jamie Brickhouse’s one-man show, Dangerous When Wet: Booze, Sex & My Mother—an alcohol-soaked romp to rock bottom […]

Since the introduction of the Travel Ban, has there been a quantifiable increase in Islamophobia? After being officially pulled out of the Paris Agreement, will present and future Americans suffer more greatly from the effects of global warming? These topics are tackled in John Lanou’s Love in Three Scenes, an odd but generally engaging show […]