Forget about Adam. In Rewiring Eden, Paradise is a women-only zone, home to Eve, Lilith, and a host of other female figures borrowed from legend and myth. Long maligned or misunderstood, the women of Eden set the record straight in this heartfelt and humorous world premiere from The Coil Project. Theatergoers may already be familiar […]

“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. […]

What happens when a man and a woman love each other very much? In the case of O Monsters, they spend a glorious night together before the man disappears and leaves his lover (now pregnant) behind to raise their triplets in a sort of subterranean limbo, haunted by the specter of their disappeared patriarch. While […]