Sunday, July 9, 2017
Watching a great sex comedy provides some of the most fun you can have with your clothes on. Watching a bad sex comedy is painfully awkward and embarrassing. The creative team behind Mr. …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:24AM[SHARE]Magical realism meets morality play with a dash of sideshow in The Dream Dancer, an entrancing journey through time at this year's Fringe. If magic, hypnosis, and feminism tickle your fan…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:23AM[SHARE]An autobiographical one-man show about performing a different autobiographical one-man show? It sounds like the ultimate Fringe Festival cliché. But despite its conceit, David Kleinbe…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:22AM[SHARE]From the clear and driving melody of Shakespeare's action-packed hit, MacBheatha pulls out jazzy tangents to the point of what is for some cacophony and others ecstasy. As all good art…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:22AM[SHARE]8 Bit Circus Sh*t's two acts are almost as different as fire and ice. Both are video game-inspired displays of fire circus tricks, but vary greatly in excitement and accessibility. Act I …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:29AM[SHARE]Ah, to be thirteen again- the age full of equal parts hubris and insecurity. Such are the epic struggles of two teenage would-be rappers in this funny new piece by Emma Choi, herself a senio…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:22AM[SHARE]Saturday, July 8, 2017
Divorced. Beheaded. Died. Divorced. Beheaded. Survived. What a clever mnemonic device to track the tragic lives of Henry VIII's many wives. And this play will not let you forget it. It has a…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:54PM[SHARE]Abortion Road Trip tells the story of three women in a cab headed to New Mexico from Texas for an abortion. In this reviewer's experience, shows covering the oh-so-taboo topic tend to be …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:35AM[SHARE]It's winter in Evanston, Illinois, and a woman has gone missing. Her name is Mitzi, and beyond that we know just a scant few details: she works as an Administrator, is unafraid of bumble bee…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:34AM[SHARE]Friday, July 7, 2017
Four Broke Guys: LIVE! is classified as a comedy, but don't expect mere fluff or pratfalls from this one-man show. Actor and playwright J. Shawn Durham's sequence of four monologues from fou…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:33PM[SHARE]This show is Art with a capital "A". It is awe-inspiring. It is life-changing. As the actors inform us in the prologue, it may, in fact, be "the most important piece of theatre you will ever…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:24PM[SHARE]Nevertheless, She Persisted takes the pulse of the American landscape before and after the November 2016 election, offering a moving compendium of raw emotion, personal drama, and flicker…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:13PM[SHARE]There are certain topics that one avoids on first dates. Like race, politics, religion, Moby Dick, your ex. Mixed Blessings is the story of how these topics can make a first date go sp…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:23AM[SHARE]I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix. But enough about how my…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:17AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 6, 2017
Between Hebrew classes and surviving middle school, best friends Jared "J-Swizzle" and Daniel "D-Man" dream of becoming the biggest rap stars in the universe. It will take a magical ques…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:01AM[SHARE]Sunday, July 2, 2017
AnyStage Theater presents I'm Margaret Thatcher, I Is! After premiering their sci-fi comedy Amelia Earhart In Space at last year's Capital Fringe Festival, AnyStage is thrilled to bring …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, July 1, 2017
NTC goes viral. What happens next will Blow. Your. Mind. We’re baa-aack! Naked Theatre Company returns to the Capital Fringe Festival with a world premiere production, ClickB@it. In…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:13PM[SHARE]Friday, June 30, 2017
First of all, I don't remember where I was on November 22, 1963 at 12:40 pm, CST when CBS News interrupted, As the World Turns to announce "In Dallas, Texas, three shots were fired at …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:21PM[SHARE]Choreographed by Olivia Sabee with original sound design by DeLesslin George-Warren. Performed by Hannah Joo, Melissa Lineburg, Catherine Roth, Robert Rubama, and Meredith Stapleton. In a po…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 29, 2017
A young man and woman build a low-keyed paradise of happiness within an asylum, only to have it shattered by the intrusion of the outside world. The two characters search, at times agonizing…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:16PM[SHARE]A teacher and a student argue over a remark in class. Or was it a remark about class? Or was it really about race? Or gender? My new play Paper brings the explosive confrontation…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:25PM[SHARE]"I sell life, secondhand": Unstrung Harpist Productions' Lazarus at the 2017 Capital Fringe Festival What does immortality mean to you? Â Is it the hope that modern medicine will discover …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:57PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 28, 2017
Mr. Taken — it's a sex comedy with an emotional heart. The sex comedies of late 20th century " such as Joe Orton's What the Butler Saw or Foote and Marriott's No Sex Please, We're B…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:58PM[SHARE]Listen, I can’t even get my dog to stay down. Do I look to you like someone who could overthrow the government?"During an FBI interrogation at her apartment in 1952. Claudia Baumgarten…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:29PM[SHARE]Last Ditch Playlist is about two men, Aaron and Wes. They’re probably just broken up. So we flash backwards and forwards in a whirlwind of Aaron’s memories to figure out exactly …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:54AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 27, 2017
Unless you're an heiress or robber baron, a room of one's own in DC is hard to come by. Enter the group house scene " where the young, cash-strapped, and slightly desperate commit to living …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:56AM[SHARE]Theater Alliance announces its 15th Season with an impressive lineup, including the return of its Helen Hayes Award"winning production Word Becomes Flesh, presented with two regional p…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:10AM[SHARE]Monday, June 26, 2017
The night I went to see the opera Les Mamelles de Tiresias, I was not expecting to hear a duet about bacon. I'd gone to the dress rehearsal of the Wolf Trap Opera Company's production knowin…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:17PM[SHARE]Sunday, June 25, 2017
Imagine you are lost and alone in the forest. You have never been here before and you cannot see to find your way out. You don't know if anyone knows you are missing or if they will be able …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:13PM[SHARE]Exit Carolyn “Best Friends Forever?” Written by Jennie Eng Directed by Bridget Grace Sheaff Featuring Alison Donnelly, Hilary Kelly, Jasmine Jones, and Torin Lusebrink. About Exi…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:30PM[SHARE]Have you ever wanted to be inside a video game? Now is your chance. 8 Bit Circus S*it will bring video games to life through two games of fire and circus art. In Game I, our cast will useÂ…
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