In November of 1998, the novelist and iconoclastic leftist essayist Gore Vidal wrote in Vanity Fair that mass murderer Timothy McVeigh bombed the Murrah Federal Office building in Oklahoma as a way of lashing out against a Federal government which was itself murderous, and that he, Vidal, shared McVeigh’s view that the United States had […]

Picture yourself a 20-something secular humanist, liberal in politics and agnostic in religion. In other words, a  2010 Everyman, smug and complacant and oh so typical. But now imagine that your penis has a mind of its own. Or as Woody Allen once pointed out, “when the blood rushes to your penis, it leaves your […]

Black and Kinky Amongst Brown Waves hits a wonderful stride as soon as Margaux Belotte-Bennett takes the stage and starts her story, inspired by a seven month sojourn to India as part of a work project at Gallaudet University.  What’s a sign-language  teaching, kinky headed sister doing on a Passage to India? Stick around for […]

The artist Joseph Cornell (Ethan Slater) is sitting at a café table. A waitress (Kate Villa) enters and asks him what he wants to eat. “What will I have?” The question seems to startle the young man. “I don’t know!” “You’re not hungry?” she asks. He says nothing. “Well, then, I’ve got honey-colored seashells…” She […]

Fresh From the Funny Farm presents a collection of twenty-three comedy skits written and performed by current and former DC area high school students who are members of The Comedy Academy, Inc. of Silver Spring, MD,  a DC area after school program that seeks to foster student comedy writers and performers by providing writing workshops […]

Personal ads are a slippery slope. Writers can exaggerate and underplay their physical features and psychological nuances as much as they want, throwing the respondents for a loop when they meet. Prudence and Bruce are in this situation. As Beyond Therapy opens, they are on their first date.

From Don Whiteside of WeLoveDC: Jenn Larsen has been doing our reviews for Capital Fringe 2010 in partnership with DC Theater Scene, but when scheduling and venue confusion prevented her from getting to this production I agreed to pitch in. As it turns out, this was my lucky break.

Little did I know, when I entered The Shop at Fort Fringe,  that I was about to witness a beautiful expression of some of Shakespeare’s most noteworthy relationships. Through sign language, spoken verse, and physical movement, the cast takes the audience through a number of different relationships, from the comic, to the bittersweet, to the […]

Thursday night’s audience was stripping off layers before the show had started. Maybe it was the smooth R&B pre-show soundtrack. Maybe it was an effect of the deep hot glow of the red footlights. Seems more likely it was the venue’s A/C unit, which gave us time to warm up while it warmed up, but […]

Every so often a piece of theatre comes along that touches the audience, making them laugh and cry, illuminating  issues that we all experience privately, but seldom address in mixed company. Logic, Luck and Love does all this, and more, shedding light on both the heterosexual and homosexual male and female experiences in love. 

DC theatregoers have a unique opportunity to see a heart-warming, funny, touching, and beautifully written one-man show, with a tour-de-force performance by Queer in the USA’s writer and performer Manuel Simons.