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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 …
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 …
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…
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 …
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…
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…
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…
"I sell life, secondhand": Unstrung Harpist Productions' Lazarus at the 2017 Capital Fringe Festival What does immortality mean to you?  Is it the hope that modern medicine will discover …
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…
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…
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 …
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 …
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…
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…
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 …
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…
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 use…
It was 2012 when King's Players was born. For our first show, we tackled an original piece called In the Company of de Sade. The premise was simple: a director attempts to stage the Marquis …
