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.

There are numerous themes to Edgar Allan Poe’s body of work: Perverse, mysterious, grotesque, and merry. Coincidentally, those are the names of the characters for this compilation of scenes intended to reflect Poe’s work. That is about the last recognizable things which ties these characters to Poe.

You know when you are watching Isadora Duncan’s work. Her technique, created over a century ago, is easily recognizable. With parading skips, subtle gestures and a wide emotional vocabulary, her works were revolutionary at the turn of the 20th Century when the traditional ballet hierarchy ruled the dance world.

Bartleby the Scrivener, in Herman Melville’s short story of the same name, was a man of massive silences, who spoke only when his employer asked him to do something. “I would prefer not to,” he would reply. His restraint and dignity gave him an inexplicable power over his environment.

D Mitchell’s Flight of the Xenophobe encases 2013 in amber to examine the issues of race and gentrification. Xenophobia comes from Greek and means a strong fear of what is foreign, so who, Flight asks, is the xenophobe?

The #MeToo era has been brought to light by unrelentingly brave female voices. Sobriety of Fear, and specifically its playwright and solo performer Shaun Michael Johnson, successfully turns the light on domestic abuse and its myriad and devastating effects on one entire family.

FREE CAKE!! And now that I’ve grabbed your attention – Burn Out Blessings has a lot less to do with teaching and a LOT more to do with sex than I expected from its brief Capital Fringe blurb.

It’s the Mr. Darcy/Elizabeth Bennett proposal scene! But – what if Mr. Darcy were directing a play about a butterfly catcher and his prey, and instead of wanting to MARRY Elizabeth, he wants her to play his leading lady butterfly?

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, […]

Two charismatic women rule the roost in the engagingly interactive Painted Ladies: Bosses of the Wild West, but their bright lights tend to overshadow the rest of the production.

In The Tragical Comical Fool’s Game, the Masters of SHX present a cocktail of Shakespearean characters, blended with philosophical musings, and garnished with fourth wall-breaking asides. It goes down smoothly overall, but it is missing the touch of acid that could add that extra dimension.