Fringe is usually filled with scrappy fledging companies of artists banding together in the hopes of making some theatre magic on zero budget, a wing and a prayer. But, every once in while there is a show, like Harlot Production’s Gilded, that obviously has greater resources at their disposal. It shows in everything from the […]

On the simple and appropriately bleak set, Seed Productions presents its premiere of This Historic Night, five short plays wound into one terrific show, written by local DC playwright, Jack Novak, wonderfully directed by Lizzy Albert, with few props and simple and effective lighting.

Who needs to see another rehash of the play about a moody prince from Denmark? You do. Get thee to A Two Woman Hamlet for this palpable hit. The titular women, Hannah Sweet and Nicola Collett, bring energy, clarity, and fun to this well-trodden tale that you don’t want to miss.

Talented young playwright Raina Greifer sums up her own work Mesa, Arizona, or Something Like It. “It’s messy and surreal and strange, but so is so much of growing up,” she writes in her director’s note. A young woman named Sam leaves her mentally deranged mother to hitchhike with her best friend to Arizona, where, […]

There are all sorts of weddings: Destination Weddings, backyard weddings, shotgun weddings, DIY weddings… the list goes on. They all, however, have a few things in common: At least one person is going to cry, and someone else (or perhaps NOT someone else) is going to get very, very drunk.

If you’re too young or unfortunate enough never to have seen the Carol Burnett Show, my telling you that Hold the Tomato reminded me of it won’t be very helpful. If you do know the TV variety show from the 70s you’ll recognize its goofy, friends-making-friends laugh nature in this production featuring Laugh Index Theatre’s Hot […]

Prior to the start of MasterMimes: The Show, a man and a woman are sleeping on the floor. Every few minutes, an alarm clock goes off and the woman hits snooze with ever increasing annoyance. Finally, the lights go down as lively old-timey music starts.

Titus Andronicus is well-known as several things: as Shakespeare’s first true tragedy, as a foreshadow of the brutal Jacobean revenge dramas that would dominate the first quarter of the 17th century, and (perhaps most famously) as Shakespeare’s most visceral and bloody work. Yet Vengeance in my Heart presented by Wowdacious Theatre at Capital Fringe delivers […]

After nearly two centuries of begging, God allows Karl Marx a brief visit to Earth to clear his name. “I am NOT a Marxist!” he emphatically declares in historian Howard Zinn’s play. Were he alive, Marx would be 200 years old this year. He wrote Das Kapital 150 years ago. Zinn wrote Marx in Soho 19 […]

Actor Elan Zafir only sees his son four times a year. You will never forget this fact after you see The Unaccompanied Minor. Each time he reminded me, I could see a little bit of the pain underneath the words. And it seems that one of the ways that Mr. Zafir has chosen to process […]

“Opera,” declares the 1948 book Nights at the Opera, “is like an oyster; it must be swallowed whole or not at all.” Seventy years later, this principle certainly applies to Capital Fringe’s The Lives Left Behind, which features four one-act operas that offer a whole lot to swallow — sex, death, infidelity, intrigue, stardom, and more. […]

Joey Maranto, a stand-up comedian, tells here the story of a failed stand-up comedian, failed improv performer, and failed children’s entertainer for a Christian television show (all the same person) who revenged himself for the show’s cancellation by working in a large number of mildly smutty double-entendres to the final production. If you wonder what […]