This year, DC Fringe is offering the cinephiles out there a show that’s very well-tailored to the silver screen – Movie Magic Live! While this production is technically a work of theatre, it’s actually a sincere, kinetic game show devoted to film. Over the course of 90 minutes, “all audience members will be asked to […]

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 […]

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 […]

We Americans now find ourselves deep into the presidency of Donald Trump. Whatever opinions one may have on his policies, it’s tough to deny that Donnie’s personality is ripe for satire. Furthermore, living in and around the capital guarantees being spectator to some ribbing at the Commander in Chief and his administration.

As an amateur history buff, I’ve long been fascinated by Revolution-era France. Between podcast binges and addictive ancestry research, I want to better understand how the greatest power in continental Europe was nearly torn apart by unprecedented social and political reform, and how countries today might avoid such chaos. It was just my luck, then, […]