Archives for July 11, 2019

Four for the price of one – what a deal! That’s four characters making a strong impression in the one-person show American Tranquility, which deserves to play to sold-out audiences every night during its all too-short run at the 2019 Capital Fringe Festival. Examining the state of affairs in the United States during these volatile […]

If Would You Rather… issued a warning label for real life situations it would read: Beware of elaborate questionnaires and their accompanying release forms. The play takes you into a swirling adventure yarn that is equal parts comedic romp and exploration of personal choice. TMD Theater’s production is a fun and charming magical realist escape […]

Breaking up might be hard to do, but watching The Breakup is a joyful, poignant, moving, and laugh-filled adventure for the audience. We follow Aldi on his emotional roller-coaster journey as his life falls apart and then is slowly put back together following a breakup with his treasured girlfriend. The show opens with Aldi – […]

Oh wow,” an audience member said as she stepped into the theater for Heartbeats & Algorithms. The world created by the light and the sound was palpable. The physical sensations continued as a torrent of social alerts and computer chimes hurled us into the opening of Jenny Lee’s captivating one-woman show. Lee, playwright and performer, […]

Rozina Kanchwala nails it: we in the U.S. live in a world of too many choices, where a girl can just ask Google to serve up a song instantly to match her mood. It’s a time when everyone is so busy doing whatever they do in their lives (and scrolling through their iPhone apps,) there’s […]

Plastic, leather, and love all reign supreme with Up In Your Face’s production of Saucy Jack and the Space Vixens. Not familiar with the show? In 1995, this wildly campy space musical/murder mystery/rock opera was the blitzkrieg hit of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Lucky me, I saw it in Scotland that year, the first week […]