318 stories by "Guest Writer"
Toni Rae Salmi is an actor seen frequently on DC stages, most recently “enjoyably grand” in Perfect Arrangement at Source Festival. In Help Me, Wanda!, she belts out a r…
There are no absolutes in Proper Care of the Peace Lily. In this 100 minute performance, everything exists in relation: analogies, power differentials, and those actual familial relations…
Exit, Pursued by a Bear, produced by Barabbas Theatre for their 2017 CapFringe entry and directed by Kevin O'Connell, is a welcome DC introduction to Lauren Gunderson's …
By far the best show I have seen at Fringe so far this year, The Regulars will have you laughing in your seat, squealing at insider "DC" jokes and dancing in the aisles, (Really, be pr…
Dancing Through Life…By the Way is a one-man show starring Christopher Bennett. No director is credited in the Playbill, but it appears that Mr. Bennett did the majority of the heavy li…
The post World War II Japanese dance theatre form, Butoh, is traditionally performed in white body make-up. Slow controlled movement, body tension and muscular involvement may rely on elabor…
A light night of theater Repentance is not. In one uninterrupted dialogue that unfolds over the course of 90 minutes, Repentance tells a story of mental anguish, power games and …
Four black men in their forties sit around a chess game in Dupont Circle park in 1980. They open the show singing barbershop-quartet style, an upbeat song about themselves: They are the 1342…
Let's get this part out of the way quickly: Lisa VillaMil's Kara Sevda (at Shopkeepers through July 22) is an exhilarating piece of theater, masterfully and assuredly directed by Kat H…
KOENIGSBERG – It started off a day just like any other. My colleague and I had just finished a performance of our play I'm Margaret Thatcher, I Is! at Atlas's Lab II venue (plug plug p…
Internet addiction is no laughing matter. However, for the talented team now lighting up the stage at the Sprenger Theatre at Atlas, the Internet"and all the craziness it has produced"is the…
There is no doubt in my mind that Jane Franklin Dance's Aflight brings something special to Fringe. Usually based in Arlington, this group blends music, dance, and visual art in a way …
Over the 65-minute run time of Caroline Bennett's Garbage Person Karaoke, there are moments of painful comedy and bitter emotional connections with that specific kind of heartbreak that k…
Welcome to show business! And welcome to this comedy revue where four talented actors burst on and off the stage offering send-ups of various show biz situations, real and imaginary. Geoffre…
LIFE: A Comic Opera in Three Short Acts is neither quite an opera nor a musical; it is not a really a comedy or a drama. It's a bit of everything, using classical music, Broadway, doo-wop…
One of the most frequently performed plays in America today, The Laramie Project, is now on view at the Atlas Performing Arts Center, where the bare stage of the Lang Theatre has been transf…
A cluttered desk, a twenty-minute appointment, a student and a teacher, and what ensues are cerebral twists and turns, well beyond the subdued, weightiness of departmental office hours. We i…
Tiresias' Tits is a self-described satirical, surreal, burlesque (fun fact – the author of the ur-source material, The Breasts of Tiresias, Guillaume Apollinaire, is respon…
Sitting in the audience of To Be or Not To Be In Love " That Is The Question?, a one-woman cabaret starring writer-choreographer Beverly Merella, might be the modern equivalent of attendi…
I love Fringe. And like many theatergoers, I head off each day with tolerance and hope. The tolerance is for shows that are long on ambition, and the hope is for something more. Imagine my s…
No way around it, this is a dark, harsh, and gritty domestic drama. For some, it may be too dark, too harsh, too gritty, perhaps a partner violence trigger. A fun, frothy, feel-good frolic t…
An exciting aspect of CapFringe is getting a sneak peek at a new show in the first stage of development. Such is the case with DC Dogs'Â Release: A Rock Opera, now playing at the Gallaudet…
There is a moment in Sean Surla's one-woman piece, Ghouls, (playing at the Atlas Performing Arts Center through July 16) where Emel Haddad " Surla's stand-in for herself, and an extraordinar…
See this show. Stop reading this review, click this hyperlink, buy a ticket, and see it. Don't want to go alone? I'll see it with you. We've never met before? Who cares. I'm your new best fr…
The Words She Gave Me, Solia Bickersteth's ambitious multimedia project, is a bighearted and moving exploration of how African-American women have shaped one another's concept of womanhood. …
