Disclaimer:  This show clearly has a target audience.  I am not in that target.  If you enjoy jokes about drag queens, jokes about ridiculous evangelical preachers, or jokes about JR’s Bar on 16th Street, this show might be for you. 

It was clear that the sizable and chatty crowd in the Burke Theatre was ready to have a blast.  The Fringe goers who were looking for a subdued evening of theatre had gone other places.  This was going to silly fun.  And Speakeasy DC did not disappoint with The Showcase Showdown.

After the Garden is an hilarious play exploring the “real” story behind Adam and Eve’s banishment from the Garden of Eden.  Even if you are not entirely familiar with the story from the Book of Genesis, this show will tickle your funny bone from start to finish. 

The Diary of a Dancer may be more aptly titled Diary of someone who aspired… The production, a one-man show written and performed by Wade Dooley, is about a woman, Mary Shennanbragger, who goes from the small town to the big city but who never makes it as a star.

The Ed Hamell experience is a unique blend of music, comedy, social and political commentary delivered at a manic pace.   Hamell is a one man punk band with the accompanying attitude and who plays an accoustic guitar with extreme amplification (extreme is an adjective one can use often with Hamell).

The character of Nina in Chekhov’s The Seagull is one of the finest roles available for any young actress and her relationship with the devoted young would-be writer Konstantin is an intersting aspect of the play.  The idea of the The Nina Variations is to present numerous variations on their interaction together,

Bright as a pack of Skittles, loopy as a Looney Tunes cartoon, and jam-packed with sibling rivalry, metaphysical angst and a tragically misunderstood, fire-breathing, homicidal purple platypus.

At least it’s a good premise – selling your soul to Satan – and it features young hipster roommates in the Internet age.  And the writing has promise and potential despite the dual-author syndrome where portions of the play reflect the distinctly different styles of the two writers, Lee Alan Bleyer and Jessica Pearson.

This “mind-expanding musical romp through the world of numbers” is a fun-filled exploration of the role and evolution of numbers. It is enjoyable enough, and filled with imagination for children’s theater goers.  Not that us elders couldn’t afford a trip to “Numbers Land”

It’s a bit of a puzzle whether Mark Whitney is an idealist with the heart of a cynic or a cynic with the heart of an idealist. He uses both like a double-barreled shotgun aimed at the Patriot Act, mandatory sentencing guidelines and other fear-mongering policies that are eroding our constitutional rights.

You know a story is in trouble when the characters need to explain it to each other. Thus when June (Caitlin McCormick), on the heels of her marriage to Billy (Trey Ervine), feels obliged to detail the process by which she pried Billy away from older sister Betty (Elise Edwards) to Betty, who doubtlessly knows […]

Which would YOU choose?  A lifelong ride in an electric wheelchair, paralyzed from the neck down?  Or a one-way ticket to oblivion, – call that, to round off the metaphor, a seat in the electric chair where YOU can pull the switch?