Archives for July 12, 2019

I’m going to come right out and admit it: I’m no millennial sympathizer.Too many years of sleeping under my desk and being forced (by corporate dress code) to wear nylons through DC’s sweltering summers. #SelfCare? Come on, this is D.C. So the very idea of Codependent, a two-woman coming-of-age comedy written by two millennials and […]

Franz Kafka and musical theatre might not automatically go together in the minds of most theatre-goers. But Fringe festivals often showcase such juxtapositions and thus we have the musical tale based on Kafka’s masterwork from 1915, Metamorphosis, playing this weekend at Capital Fringe. If you like shows in the Bloody, Bloody Andrew Jackson-vein, or post-modern […]

In case you haven’t heard, the future is female—and fiercely funny. At least as told by the Pipeline Playwrights—a collective of sharp-tongued women playwrights from NoVa, each presenting one of five original comedies at this year’s Capital Fringe festival. If you come to the festival in search of new voices, and up-to-the-minute political theater, HTWOFY […]

There are lots of ways to be stuck in life and many of them are explored in Stuck, an engaging two-hander written by Joy Cheriel Brown. Nickie, the winning MoNieshia Hunt, is an ambitious teen with big plans. Noah Williams plays Sequan, Nickie’s neighbor and classmate, with just the right mix of bravado and sensitivity. Home […]

If a dream deferred dries up like a raisin in the sun, what happens to a dream fulfilled, but at the expense of one’s own principles? Office of the Speaker delivers a soul-wrenching exploration of a young woman’s decision to put her writing talents to work for a man who stands for all she opposes: […]