46 stories by "Justin Schneider"
Do you like to laugh? If you don’t, you should probably see a doctor about that. But if you do like to laugh, I suggest you get yourself to The Keegan Theatre for their current run of …
"Everything is real, especially that crate of beers." That’s not a preface you expect to hear at the theatre, but it’s a fitting opening to The Václav Havel Project, presented…
One of my favorite things about attending shows at The Kennedy Center is how helpful the ushers are. In this case, they helped me pick my jaw up off the floor. Cirque de la Symphonie, the fi…
Casanova. Lothario. Bill Clinton. Among the world’s famous playboys, the figure of Don Juan holds a special place in the theatre. Faction of Fools, DC’s premiere commedia troupe,…
I’m going to go out on a limb and say that MOTHS is the most challenging piece of theater currently playing in this year’s Capital Fringe Festival. I don’t mean in the sens…
Let’s get this out of the way: The Bradford Güild’s Crime Buster Blast-Off 3000 (Yeah!) is a hot mess. The plot (supposedly based on a poem written by Writer/Director Ian McDerm…
Here’s a quick test for you: if you start giggling when I tell you to imagine Captain Picard reading this review and shouting "There are FOUR AND A HALF stars!", then Fireball XL is a …
One of the best things about Fringe is that you have a chance to encounter shows that push the boundaries of theater. AVAdventure Production’s Double Freakquency does just that. Using …
"You’re not in a better place than me, just a different one." An entire play is summed up in that one line, and when Susan Marie Rhea utters it you can feel all the carefully set piece…
Baby Universe starts out dark. Actually, dark may not even be a strong enough term for the mood. Grim. Fatalistic. The last man to escape the Earth’s surface for the safety of undergro…
If I were writing a one-word review, that word would be "Astounding." But much more deserves to be said about Tantehorse‘s The Death of the Marquis de Sade & Dante, a ‘Must-S…
"It’s so tawdry and terrible and everyone’s having such a great time." It must be a cliché at this point to use Clifford Bradshaw’s summary of 1930s Berlin as a summary of…
It’s not often that a company can so completely remake a piece of history and claim it as their own. Gilgamesh is an amazing display of storytelling, and the production is a fantastic …
There’s an analogy to be drawn between musical composition and the theater. A play is like a theme; each production is a variation on that theme, stretching it past its original bounds…
How do we determine our place in the world? How do we give our lives meaning? And how do we do both of these things while dealing with loss and change? These are just a few of the questions …
I’m going to start this review with two important facts. The first fact is that the night I went to see Faction of Fools’ The Lady Becomes Him, it was raining. Hard. One of those…
Is it possible for two people be irrevocably connected, regardless of action or distance? Can we ever really be certain about where our lives are headed? And can we ever grow as people witho…
Sing it with me! "It’s time to play the music / It’s time to light the lights…" Oh, no, wait. That’s those other singing puppets. The Socky Horror Puppet Show is the …
Since its Toronto premiere in 1999, Michael Healey’s The Drawer Boy has been one of the most produced plays in the United States. After seeing Port City Playhouse’s production, I…
On stage, a man tosses and turns in his sleep. Nearby in an overstuffed leather chair, a woman rests. The view from the audience, on bleachers overlooking the stage, is intimate. And "intima…
Let’s get this out of the way: I cried. A lot. And I wasn’t the only one. The crying started before a single word of The Laramie Project Cycle was even spoken. At Saturday’…
