Santa’s Helper follows Jack (Joel White), a middle-aged serial child molester, as he kidnaps 8-year-old Jim (Jarrett Ley) on Christmas Eve.  Moved by something about the boy, Jack claims to be Santa Claus and offers Jim the chance to be his helper, which Jim eagerly accepts. 

Love Noir: The Music of Lenny, Kurt & Harold is a two-person cabaret show staring Lonny Smith and Maris Wicker.  The show presents eighteen songs from the songbooks of Leonard Bernstein (best known for writing the music for the classic Broadway shows West Side Story, On the Town and Wonderful Town), Kurt Weill (composer of […]

Having witnessed countless Shakespearean takeoffs that were both intentionally funny (e.g., the Reduced Shakespeare Company) and unintentionally funny (a country-western version of Romeo and Juliet comes painfully to mind), my expectations were uncertain for Romeo and Juliet: Choose Your Own Ending.  Yet the ability of theatre to surprise, astound, and amuse is again demonstrated by […]

This reviewer had a confession to make- until last night, I was a drag show virgin, and I have no idea why I waited so long. Special Agent Galactica is a stunning lip-sync artist and she takes her audience through numbers ranging from country and gospel, to rock and jazz standards. Aided by her Boys […]

When seeing a show called Singing Eggs & Spermless Babies, you know you are going to be seeing something….different. Singing Eggs & Spermless Babies takes place on a Gay Cruise attended by a frustrated lesbian couple who have been trying to conceive. Miraculously, there is a fertility doctor on board whose research with lizards has […]

Humankind has always been fascinated by the ocean- its beauty and its deadly power. The Water Plays, three short plays by Brett Steven Abelman, deals with our morbid fascination with the sea’s most present danger- drowning.

Violence! Love! Blood! Incest! The Georgetown Theatre Company’s production of ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore has it all. This 17th century play tells the tale of a brother and sister whose incestuous relationship brings death and destruction to all around them.

In the darkness, an agitated man tells a woman in a white coat that he’s not sure about therapy.  An interesting start, given that the man is David Freud, great-great-grandson of “the other one,” Sigmund Freud.  To learn how the characters reached this point, the story moves back in time, a journey in which the […]

Bernadette’s Bravo! is a musical story about five middle-aged girlfriends who decide to enter a writing contest called “Bernadette’s Bravo,” in which each woman must think of a particularly meaningful story from her lifetime of experiences and then create a “bravo” (a phrase of seven words or less) that best explains what this story or […]

The Playwright Zone is reminiscent of  the Source Festival:  five short plays (all written by John Becker) lasting about an hour.  [Although the plays are framed by the theme music from The Twilight Zone, there is no special significance to this title.] 

Eight actors are ready to perform Eight monologues about Eight offbeat British characters facing the economic, sexual, and political challenges of modern life.  (Let’s hope you remember the title now.) 

From the overture, we hear moments of melodic music that warm your soul, juxtaposed with moments of dissonance and foreboding. At its close, the Narrator (Chris Dwyer), dressed in tattered clothing, sets the scene, informing the audience, “This production is about love.” Padrevia, presented by Opera Alterna, is about to transport you from a time […]