The term “Boston marriage” refers to a relationship between two women considered both emotionally and physically intimate. After watching David Mamet’s silver-tongued play of the same title, one would infer the term “Boston marriage” to mean an agreement between two women with too much time and no soul.  Deliciously witty.  Historically scandalous.  Tiresomely shallow.

With Ann Noble’s energetic, solo performance in Stanley Ann: The Unlikely Story of Barack Obama’s Mother, we come to learn the life of Stanley Ann Dunham, the mother of the 44th President of the United States, Barack Obama, Jr. and get introduced to a brave, adventurous woman whose tests of moral survival ran thick.

With the cadence of a Pentecostal pastor, Tommy Nugent hardly comes up for air in Preacherman, the one-man performance which opened yesterday afternoon at the Capital Fringe Festival.

In a post-apocalyptic America, two men compete over the last woman and that last bag of barbecue Fritos. Zero Hour Theatre’s amusing Apocalypse Story explores the tension that boils over when two Omega Men meet one Omega Woman in a nuclear wasteland.

Patrick M. Doneghy of the Dominion Stage had a good idea. Why not write a sketch about a gay men’s support group and use it as the platform to feature the men singing songs written for women? It’s the kind of fun, out of the ordinary thing theatre companies like to do from time to […]

So what, exactly, goes on behind the concrete walls of those large government office buildings? Writer Jason Ford offers you a provocative glimpse in GS-14, which opened last night for its third consecutive year at the Capital Fringe Festival.

The premise is enticing: A Day at the Museum is a wordless glimpse of various characters passing in front of three images in a gallery. The set design creatively positions three frames where the stage ends and the front row of seats begins so the audience has the perspective of the women in the paintings: […]

The small intimate theatre was a perfect setting for the one man show put on by Jay Nachman. My Dad Is Now Ready For His Spongebath, is an ode to Nachman’s father, who passed away after a fight with lung cancer.

Womanhood is a topic that has inspired art throughout all recorded history. But until recently, women were almost always depicted by men. Not so anymore, and the all-female cast behind SHE explores the female condition in an extremely organic way — through the body itself, in this contemplative dance piece.

Derek Evans is a professional Teddy Roosevelt. His show, called The Man in the Arena for the purposes of Fringe, is usually known simply as The TR! Show and is performed at school assemblies.