a bluegrass Hootenanny from Guillotine Theatre (review)
Part Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, part Agatha Christie mystery (your pick), and part ‘Strangers at a Bus Stop’ actor’s warmup, Hootenanny by Monique LaForce is a …
Part Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, part Agatha Christie mystery (your pick), and part ‘Strangers at a Bus Stop’ actor’s warmup, Hootenanny by Monique LaForce is a …
Before we begin, a question for the grownups: How many of you still have a treasured stuffed animal from our childhoods, still hidden away in a plastic bin in the closet or in a cardboard bo…
You know something? Shakespeare is funny. This production is a delight, and I am going to recommend it – wait for it- most especially for people who hate Shakespeare. The more you hate…
If I Hold My Tongue is a new work by playwright Patricia Henley. Focusing on a group of women in a halfway house in Baltimore, it explores what it is to be a parent, a member of the communit…
Sumptuous costumes that take your breath away. Glorious voices in soaring harmonies, accompanied by a live orchestra. Corseted ladies on swings, and a storyline that encompasses the sweep of…
It’s a old wives’ tale that comics are at odds with the audience- the heckler at a comedy show these days is more far likely to be shouted down by the audience than by the comic.…
Caps For Sale: The Musical is the first show of the 64th season- yep, folks, 64 years- of Adventure Theatre, a children’s theatre company based in Glen Echo Park, Md. Haven’t bee…
Well, folks, I’m not sure I should bother to tell anyone to go see this, as without a doubt it will have sold out before I finish writing this sentence. Word of mouth being what it is …
Playwright Ann V. Wixon sets before us the well-worn topic of a middle aged woman’s journey through divorce in this one character play. Eve is 45, newly divorced, and comes to a meetin…
J.M. Barrie, who penned "Peter Pan" over a century ago, meant his tale to be a simple one of a boy who doesn’t wish to grow up. RelEASE Physical Theatre Company has taken the character…
Ever been to a party where there’s a running joke but you arrived too late to hear the original joke? You feel a bit left out at first, but a couple of drinks later, the joke’s s…
43 people did not have a good time tonight at Journey of a Bombshell: The Ina Ray Hutton Story last night. That’s because the Anacostia Arts Center Black Box theater seats 60 and was l…
This is the entry in our Fringe Binge journal for 2015 Capital Fringe What’s a girl to do when she hits a piece of truck tire on 295 and misses the show she’s supposed to review?…