14 stories by "Amrita Khalid"
Sapphire is hard to stomach. Written by God's Boo and directed by Tyrell T. Lashley, the play involves a series of unflinchingly revealing therapy sessions between a troubled middle-aged wom…
 iLust for G-Love: An Auto-Ethnography is probably the most enjoyable play I've seen at Fringe, but take that with a grain of salt, because I'm a Millennial. It's probably the first play …
With its previous efforts, the famed Chicago-based improv engine Second City showed a knack for tickling the hard-to-reach funny bone of many a Washingtonian. Back in 2009, Barack Stars: The…
What does it feel like to be in New York City for the first time when you're young, gay and from Iowa? An adrenaline rush. A sensory overload of sights, sounds and action. A constant stream …
If you're on the fence about online dating, OK Stupid's Secret Math Lab might encourage you to shackle your laptop and keep your romantic exploits limited to the offline variety. Click fo…
If you're too ADHD to make a habit of seeing Shakespeare on the stage, there's now a special show for you. The We Happy Few DC theatre company has bought a rollicking, movement-based, celest…
Something shocking happens at the end of Suzan-Lori Parks’ Pulitzer Prize-winning play Topdog/Underdog, now making its Baltimore premiere at Everyman Theatre, that is so shocking, it c…
If you're an Arthur Miller devotee, you'll probably have mixed feelings about The Price. But if you've yet to see Death of a Salesman or The Crucible or All My Sons or any of Miller's earlie…
The dysfunctional sex lives of six urban dwellers living in Mexico City in the 90's makes great fodder for comedy in Sexo, Pudor y LÃ grimas, the newest production from Teatro de la Luna. …
Daydreams is a tap-infused journey through time brought to stage by NYC-based company "The Call Me Crazy Dancers". Mixing the choreographic and lyrical talents of John Curtis and Amy Smith, …
"What sort of man is Adolf Eichmann?" asks Israeli interrogator Avner Less. "Does he feel anything at all?" These two questions are posed to us in the opening of The Extermination Machine, a…
Some people can think of no worse fate than having their most private thoughts laid bare for public consumption. One of the more mortifying moments of my life had to be when I accidentally p…
"Why don't you want to talk about sex?" inquires Cecily in an innocuous tone, addressing the crowd of characteristically guarded Washingtonians. The silence speaks volumes. That night's crow…
There is a Yiddish proverb that goes, "Better to laugh about your problems than to cry about them." Â The real trick lies in getting other people to laugh about your problems, particularly…
