“Home is where my parents live.” “Home is a place you go back to.” “Home is where I sleep at night.” These definitions were part of Alaine Handa’s creation Chameleon. Like the creature that changes color, we acclimate to our environs. What makes Handa’s production intriguing is that she has researched and interviewed Third Culture […]

iSchool Musical is the latest hilarious brainchild of the Washington Improv Theater’s iMusical, The Improvised Musical.  Inspired by the overwhelming popularity of Fox’s “Glee”, iMusical decided to develop its own “high school musical” format and created iSchool Musical for the 2010 Capital Fringe Festival.

Duets is a collection of three one-act musicals exploring the ups and downs of romantic love.  Two actors, the boyishly handsome Jonny Price, and Bligh Voth, whose achingly lovely voice easily fills the small Clinic venue, play all the roles. 

Vijay Nathan, a standup comedian of considerable gifts, takes us through a whirling tour of her amusing life in this pleasant romp at the fabulous Chief Ike’s Mambo Room. Despite the title, there is little gynecology in her routine. There’s hardly time for it, or for the subject of medicine at all.

Equilibrium is a collection of five very short plays done by graduates of the Theatre Lab Honors Conservatory, Buzz Mauro’s and Deb Gottesman’s excellent program of theater education. The best of these is clearly the last: The Greener Lot (Playwright: Carl Brandt Long), in which a young couple (Echika U. Agugua and Mark Ludwig) believe, […]

Two perverted men in raincoats. On a park bench. Outside a girls’ school. Think you know what’s going on? Just wait til they start calling each other Sigmund and Karl, claiming to have witnessed events from a hundred years ago – throw in some torture talk and vague references to Chilean dictators, and you have […]

Alternative Methods is a world premiere work in which Patricia Davis examines the role of psychologists involved in interrogation and torture of an Iraqi prisoner.  While the play stacks the deck a little more than needed, thanks to a strong cast, the play is mostly successful dramatizing and illuminating important ethical issues.

“The reason women should go to college is because it gives them something to think about while ironing.” This line didn’t come from performer Ellouise Schoettler, but was inspired by her show Pushing Boundaries. As we stood outside the Goethe Institute post-performance, one of the audience members offered this quote, and it made Schoettler laugh […]

Cigdem Oktem is a smooth and likeable storyteller.  It is a shame that her material is rarely up to her performance skills. Oktem’s show is mostly a mash-up of two different topics:  how I kept my sanity during a period of unemployment (mostly by watching way too much cable television) and why I love my […]

“You’re boring the audience!” the Sprite (Jessie Dulaney) spits at Joan (Rachel Duda), who is trying to write a play. Sadly, this is one insightful sprite. Busted is a story about a woman in the process of writing a dreadful play, which she must complete in one month’s time. We are treated to bits and […]