BWW Review: CONVERSATIONS at Capital Fringe
While it takes a few minutes to really start moving, Natasha Preston's Conversations - which she wrote and performs - is one of the most emotionally raw and honest pieces of theatre I've seen this year.
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BWW Review: INTIMATE DINNER at Capital Fringe
There's a moment in Intimate Dinner, written and performed by Lauren French, that made me laugh harder than anything in the Capital Fringe Festival so far, and it's a quiet gesture - she just swings a towel onto her shoulder.
BWW Review: ANN at Arena Stage
It was rare that a Democrat became governor of red-state Texas in the 1990s; rarer still that she was a woman.
BWW Review: A SHORT HISTORY OF UNFORTUNATE ANIMALS at Capital Fringe
Described as 'a dark romp with teeth' - a wonderfully evocative tagline - A Short History of Unfortunate Animals is one of the more abstract Fringe offerings this year.
BWW Review: AIR MAIL / PAR AVION at Capital Fringe
Part of the adventure of any Fringe show is how best to utilize a space that was not necessarily built as a performance venue and there are plenty of approaches to creating an immersive experience for your audience.
BWW Review: PASSING at Capital Fringe
Some events in history are too large in scope for us to properly grasp and process them.
BWW Review: The Hub Theatre's AMERICAN SPIES AND OTHER HOMEGROWN FABLES premieres at NextStop Theatre
HUB Theatre's production of American Spies and Other Homegrown Fables, directed by Kathryn Chase Bryer, features powerful moments, but certain artistic choices prevent the production from making its full impact.
BWW Review: BRIGHT COLORS AND BOLD PATTERNS at Studio Theatre
Gerry is the kind of guy who arrives at a party like an explosion, talks a mile a minute, has an opinion about everything, exudes outrageous hilarity and hardly lets anyone else get a word in.
BWW Review: THE EXPLORERS CLUB at Prologue Theatre
Prologue Theatre's 'The Explorers Club' is both immensely funny and immensely profound.
BWW Review: REWIRING EDEN at Capital Fringe Festival
Resurrecting and redefining the misunderstood women of myth and history is not breaking ground for a Fringe Festival in the #MeToo era, but Rewiring Eden manages to make its mark with a thoughtful enough conceit - what if all of those women had the opportunity to meet one another?
BWW Review: CODEPENDENT at Capital Fringe
Capital Fringe is one of the best places to catch artists self-producing work in DC, many of them for the first time.
BWW Review: Brilliant BE MORE CHILL at Monumental Theatre Company
Jeremy Heere is a socially-awkward, hopelessly uncool student languishing at the bottom rung of the high school's social ladder.
BWW Review: THE MOLLUSC at Quotidian Theatre Company
Quotidian Theatre Company's presentation of 'The Mollusc' is delightful, emotional, and fun.
BWW Review: THE BAND'S VISIT Stirs Emotions at Kennedy Center
The national tour, now playing the John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, gave me the opportunity to take another look at the show.
BWW Review: Elvis Costello's THE JULIET LETTERS Revived by Urban Arias
Running a small opera company requires innovation enough, but Washington's Urban Arias goes further, by commissioning new works, or finding pieces that are little known or rarely performed and infusing them with reliable company talent that can electrify their purposely small audiences.
BWW Review: SHE SINGS LIGHT - Capital Fringe Curated Series
I'll get this out of the way: one of my biggest theatrical pleasures is when entire worlds are created and destroyed and recreated in front of us.
BWW Review: HATPIN PANIC at Capital Fringe Curated Series
As part of this year's Fringe Curated series, Hatpin Panic by Iris Dauterman is a relevant romp through the long-running suffrage movement with a heart of giddy resistance.
BWW Review: A PEOPLE'S HISTORY at Capital Fringe
Master monologist Mike Daisey is known locally for his many performances at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company.
BWW Review: 50 YEARS OVER THE RAINBOW: A JUDY GARLAND CELEBRATION at Kennedy Center
This past week marked the 50th anniversary of the passing of the iconic entertainer Judy Garland.
BWW Review: BLACKBEARD at Signature Theatre
Signature Theatre concludes its 29th season with a World Premiere musical written by, in my opinion, one of the most underrated writing teams working in musical theatre today.
BWW Review: THE BALLAD OF MU LAN at Imagination Stage
Children will thoroughly enjoy the vivid physicality of Alvin Chan's hour long adaptation of The Ballad of Mu Lan, onstage at Bethesda's Imagination Stage through August 11.
BWW Review: The Donny Hathaway Story TWISTED MELODIES at Mosaic Theater
There's a transcendent moment in 'Twisted Melodies,' the one-man Donny Hathaway show by Kelvin Roston Jr.
BWW Review: PANTHEON at Happenstance Theater
There's one thing I find comforting about theatre that I take care to remember: we will always find new ways to tell old stories.
BWW Review: THE SECOND CITY'S AMERICA; IT'S COMPLICATED! at The Kennedy Center
The Second City, known for both its poignant comedy and its incredible alumni list, knows it's difficult to wrap your mind around the world we live in today, let alone navigate it.
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CrazySexyCool – The TLC Musical Arena Stage (6/12-8/09) |
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Macbeth - Academy Summer Repertory Shakespeare Theatre Company (7/16-7/25) |
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Pete the Cat: A Live Rock Musical Imagination Stage (6/17-7/26) |
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Twelfth Night - Academy Summer Repertory Shakespeare Theatre Company (7/15-7/25) |
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King Lear Kimball Theare (7/29-7/29) |
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Hairspray Hylton Performing Arts Center (9/18-9/27) |
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Rockville Musical Theatre presents "Caroline, or Change" F. Scott Fitzgerald Theatre (10/31-11/15) |
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Paula Atherton comes to Blues Alley - July 23rd and 24th, 2 shows a night, 7 PM and 9:30 PM Blues Alley Club (7/23-7/24) |
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Summer Concert Series: EU (Experience Unlimited) McLean Central Park Amphitheater (7/16-7/16) |
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone in Concert Wolf Trap (8/27-8/27) |