I’m going to come right out and admit it: I’m no millennial sympathizer.Too many years of sleeping under my desk and being forced (by corporate dress code) to wear nylons through DC’s sweltering summers. #SelfCare? Come on, this is D.C. So the very idea of Codependent, a two-woman coming-of-age comedy written by two millennials and […]

Franz Kafka and musical theatre might not automatically go together in the minds of most theatre-goers. But Fringe festivals often showcase such juxtapositions and thus we have the musical tale based on Kafka’s masterwork from 1915, Metamorphosis, playing this weekend at Capital Fringe. If you like shows in the Bloody, Bloody Andrew Jackson-vein, or post-modern […]

In case you haven’t heard, the future is female—and fiercely funny. At least as told by the Pipeline Playwrights—a collective of sharp-tongued women playwrights from NoVa, each presenting one of five original comedies at this year’s Capital Fringe festival. If you come to the festival in search of new voices, and up-to-the-minute political theater, HTWOFY […]

There are lots of ways to be stuck in life and many of them are explored in Stuck, an engaging two-hander written by Joy Cheriel Brown. Nickie, the winning MoNieshia Hunt, is an ambitious teen with big plans. Noah Williams plays Sequan, Nickie’s neighbor and classmate, with just the right mix of bravado and sensitivity. Home […]

If a dream deferred dries up like a raisin in the sun, what happens to a dream fulfilled, but at the expense of one’s own principles? Office of the Speaker delivers a soul-wrenching exploration of a young woman’s decision to put her writing talents to work for a man who stands for all she opposes: […]

Four for the price of one – what a deal! That’s four characters making a strong impression in the one-person show American Tranquility, which deserves to play to sold-out audiences every night during its all too-short run at the 2019 Capital Fringe Festival. Examining the state of affairs in the United States during these volatile […]

If Would You Rather… issued a warning label for real life situations it would read: Beware of elaborate questionnaires and their accompanying release forms. The play takes you into a swirling adventure yarn that is equal parts comedic romp and exploration of personal choice. TMD Theater’s production is a fun and charming magical realist escape […]

Breaking up might be hard to do, but watching The Breakup is a joyful, poignant, moving, and laugh-filled adventure for the audience. We follow Aldi on his emotional roller-coaster journey as his life falls apart and then is slowly put back together following a breakup with his treasured girlfriend. The show opens with Aldi – […]

Oh wow,” an audience member said as she stepped into the theater for Heartbeats & Algorithms. The world created by the light and the sound was palpable. The physical sensations continued as a torrent of social alerts and computer chimes hurled us into the opening of Jenny Lee’s captivating one-woman show. Lee, playwright and performer, […]

Rozina Kanchwala nails it: we in the U.S. live in a world of too many choices, where a girl can just ask Google to serve up a song instantly to match her mood. It’s a time when everyone is so busy doing whatever they do in their lives (and scrolling through their iPhone apps,) there’s […]

Plastic, leather, and love all reign supreme with Up In Your Face’s production of Saucy Jack and the Space Vixens. Not familiar with the show? In 1995, this wildly campy space musical/murder mystery/rock opera was the blitzkrieg hit of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Lucky me, I saw it in Scotland that year, the first week […]