Archives for July 21, 2018

Calling all vegans, tree-huggers, and activism junkies: I have found the perfect Capital Fringe show for you! How to Fall in Love on a Warming Planet is a casual concert celebrating activism (focusing mainly on environmental responsibility) with a vital message—“the oceans are rising and so must we.”

Under the title Hawaii Nei, author Paul Handy has crafted two plays, both set in the picturesque Pacific islands of Hawaii. One is a revival of sorts; the other is a new companion piece. The new play which opens the dual bill offers a romantic and compelling glimpse at an unusual meeting which grows into […]

In settling in to The Truth, I was reminded of the show within the show of A Midsummer Night’s Dream and its PR buzz of being of “very tragical mirth.” How else could you package a tale of four dictators fighting to carve up a fifth territory and leaving ravaged poisoned land, corruption, violence and […]

Three sleek suburban women stay active by running around their neighborhood and spying on their somewhat suspicious neighbor. Choreographer and director Jane Franklin has devised the smart movement-based work, with an eye for our societally aerobic-obsessed and an unerring ear for picking up verbal lines of banality to craft a work marked by both wit […]

In Aphrodite’s Refugees, Monica Dionysiou finds new ways to share stories she grew up with: in this case, as show’s description puts it “the fate of four teenage refugees is merely a high-stakes card game played by the Greek goddess, Aphrodite.”  Dionysiou tells us the story of her father and aunts’ experience fleeing the 1972 […]