There is something lurking in the Undercroft of the Mount Vernon Methodist Church, and it is waiting… to… get… YOU! At least, that’s how you just might feel after hearing Beyond the Page Theatre Company retell their versions of classic urban legends in their first foray into Capital Fringe.

From the start, Love, NY looks and sounds exactly like what you would expect a musical about love, sex, and chasing your dreams to be: catchy, up-tempo, and full of eager starry-eyed dreamers looking to make their way in the big city.

A woman greeted me at the top of the steps at Caos on F as I trudged up the multi-flights out of the heat. Dripping with gleaming jewelry, a pink goblet of yellow nectar slung between her fingers, she beamed at me with a relaxed smile before I’d reached the top and queried pointedly, “Is […]

Anyone who’s ever found themselves hypnotized by an episode of the Real Housewives franchise will recognize the seating arrangement and musical interlude as Jenny Splitter’s comedy, H Street Housewives, opens. It’s the reunion show! All grievances not previously aired will be aired.

The corporation isn’t so much in the business of robot-building as it is in “the manufacture of artificial people,” explains Harry (played by Mike Rudden), the manager of Rossum’s Universal Robots. Oh, well, then. Can’t imagine this going downhill.

The late night crowd was primed and thirsty, bloodthirsty that is, on Saturday night at Redrum, in anticipation of Nu Sass productions 43 1/2: The Greatest Deaths of Shakespeare’s Tragedies. And their lust was sated!

There’s an elderly woman on an assisted living floor somewhere spinning carelessly to a song from her childhood.  She’s young again, and she’s joyful, failing to notice the stares and gossip of her floormates.

To Know a Veil is all about the reveal – and what it means to withhold it. From the very start, viewers are compelled to watch the ensemble dress for the show, albeit through a thinly-curtained wall that sets the stage for events to come.  Never preachy, Emma Crane Jaster and her fellow performers – […]

Kathryn Elizabeth Kelly’s one-woman show begins with a simple idea: “say yes.” Following the end of a six-year relationship, Kelly resolves to “say yes” to every social invitation, to prevent herself from moping on the couch. When a friend invites her to a soiree at a local art gallery soon after, Kathryn agrees. So begins […]

Stephanie Svec was seeking a new normal for years until she realized that normal is whatever she makes it. So, what’s yours?

Jimmy Grzelak knows not to shout ‘fire’ in a crowded theatre, but he gets pretty close. Clad in Eagle Scout uniform (an outfit that, unlike most theatrical costumes, this actor earned over time) Grzelak strides briskly onstage, and ten seconds later he’s dumped wood and kindling from his rucksack onto the floor of the Bedroom […]

Raucous. Rowdy. Rebellious, with a yell: this isn’t your 7th grade version of American history. 1814! The War of 1812 Rock Opera highlights three important things about the US of A. It kicked England’s ass back in the day. Its patriotism is better than your patriotism. And, its national pastime is really Rock ‘n’ Roll.