The Rape of Lucrece
Whenever a Shakespeare play is "modernized," "updated," or otherwise altered to appeal to a contemporary audience, it’s important to be skeptical, for we would hate to witness a poor r…
Whenever a Shakespeare play is "modernized," "updated," or otherwise altered to appeal to a contemporary audience, it’s important to be skeptical, for we would hate to witness a poor r…
Making Love Legal is funny, ambitious in its plot twists, and concludes the way comedies are supposed to end. Hint: there's a ceremony in the final scene focused on two people in lo…
“The applicant must have a bachelor’s degree and at least 2 years of relevant experience.” These are the words that the audience first encounters during In This Economy. Th…
It was fitting enough that the opening performance of the Occupy DC focused play Tent of Dreams: An Occuplay was being staged at the Baldacchino Gypsy Tent. Even more fitting was the Fringe …
As a Fringe reviewer, it is always nice to read something in a program that acknowledges the challenges of creating the play in question. In the words of Charlie Fink, producer of Who’…
What do the women do while the men are at war? It is this question, asked in the midst of an all-out musical and visual spectacle, that drives director Tracey Elaine Chessum’s producti…
Many people have attempted adaptations of Hamlet. And so has Mel Gibson. Anytime it happens, there is always the problem of how to faithfully depict Shakespeare’s masterpiece without g…
David Mamet’s Glengarry Glen Ross is a top notch play. Saturday’s performance at the Warehouse was a quality one, but it did not exceed expectations. Call me jaded, but this prod…
Have you ever met a human manifestation of the ozone layer before? I hadn’t either, but upon viewing Terry McKinstry’s 70 Million Tons, my answer to that question will never be t…