Review: ‘Yellowman’ at Arena Players (closing tomorrow!)
This is what my mother/her mother before her believed / they believed had they been born “rich and high yella,” they wouldn’t have suffered. Clear your calendar, call the sitter and postpone your plan...
View ArticleReview: ‘Intimate Apparel’ at Everyman Theatre
In 2015, Everyman Theatre produced an acclaimed run of Playwright Lynn Nottage’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Ruined. Tazewell Thompson directed and actors Jade Wheeler, Bueka Uwemedimo, and Resident...
View ArticleReview: ‘The Sea Voyage’ at Baltimore Shakespeare Factory
Ask most theater lovers if they have heard of Jacobean-era playwrights such as John Fletcher and Philip Massinger and you would probably receive a confused “no.” Fletcher and Massinger, who wrote The...
View ArticleReview: ‘Little Shop of Horrors’ at Vagabond Players
The timing of Vagabond Players’ production of Little Shop of Horrors is fortuitous, opening Halloween weekend when thoughts turn to the spooky and macabre, and running through November 25, before the...
View ArticleSixth Annual Charm City Fringe Festival: What to See and Where to See It
The Sixth Annual Charm City Fringe Festival is in full swing! Today alone (11/4/17), there are TEN different shows for you to enjoy. And after that, there are two Fringe After Dark events. Here’s a...
View ArticleReview: ’Foodless Food’ at Charm City Fringe Festival
For every good ad there are a hundred bad ones. This is where Foodless Food by BlueShift Dance starts. The projections of advertising for unhealthy food products takes us from the advent of television...
View ArticleReview: ‘Cody Clark: A Different Way of Thinking’ at Charm City Fringe Festival
Cody Clark is obsessed with magic. At the start of Cody Clark: A Different Way of Thinking, the audience is handed a Rubik’s cube to play with. Everyone passes it around and, when Cody comes on stage,...
View ArticleReview: ‘Godly Chaos’ at Charm City Fringe Festival
Oh, gosh. What to say about Godly Chaos? This show, produced by QuaQuaQua, is highly ambitious. It takes place, primarily, on a large screen where the movements of the artist/actor are captured in a...
View ArticleReview: ‘Magnificent Machines & Astonishing Tales’ at Charm City Fringe Festival
Steampunk fans! Your moment has arrived on the deck of a time traveling airship in Night Watch Paradox’s Magnificent Machines & Astonishing Tales. With lead singer Kaya Kismet weaving her spell...
View ArticleInterview: Nine Dollar Bill Theatre, performing ‘THEM’ at the Charm City...
The Sixth Annual Charm City Fringe Festival, running through November 12 in the Bromo Arts District, has a ton of fantastic stuff happening. One of the things I am most looking forward to is a show...
View ArticleInterview: Michael Brush & Zachary Michel of Charm City Fringe Fest 2017
DC Metro Theater Arts was excited to speak to Charm City Fringe Festival founders Zach Michel and Michael Brush last week at the Lexington Market. We enjoyed a nice chat over crab cakes and local beer....
View ArticleReview: ‘Origin of Species’ at The Strand Theater
You are young and life is long and there is time to kill today And then one day you find, ten years have got behind you No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun – “Time,” by Pink Floyd...
View ArticleReview: ‘The Pink Hulk’ at Charm City Fringe Festival
The Pink Hulk, written and performed by Valerie David, is not your typical sad cancer story. After surviving lymphoma and breast cancer, Valerie decided to create The Pink Hulk to share her experiences...
View ArticleReview: ‘You’re in Danger’ at Charm City Fringe Festival
You’re in Danger, written and performed by Lucius Robinson, is an absolute delight for those who enjoy creepy tales. Lucius commits fully to the role of middle-aged Mitchell Barnes, telling his...
View ArticleReview: ‘Smack ‘Em in the Snout’ at Charm City Fringe Festival
Confession: I saw the audition notices for Smack ‘Em in the Snout, written and directed by Rufus Drawlings, a few months ago and I thought to myself, “Wow, what a strange concept for a show!” Now,...
View ArticleReview: ‘Fruit of the Sea’ at Charm City Fringe Festival
FLORIDA MAN DRESSES UP 13-FT ALLIGATOR IN NOVELTY HAT AND SUNGLASSES FOR HALLOWEEN. News stories about the tragic exploits of Florida Man and Florida Woman are the first thing to greet you when you...
View ArticleReview: ‘The Structure of Us’ at Charm City Fringe Festival
The last time I was in NYC, I visited the Rubin Museum; there was an that exhibit allowed you to listen to different Buddhist chants representing performances of ceremonies marking various transitions...
View ArticleInterview: ‘Dandy Darkly’s Myth Mouth!’ Creator and Performance Artist Neil...
It’s a bit of an understatement that Fringe festivals lead you to encounter some very interesting people. Every now and then you run into a kindred spirit, as I did when I was getting ready to see...
View ArticleIn the Moment: Arena Stage and USO “Annual Military Thanksgiving”
It is a season of thanksgiving and spending time with family and friends. But, untold numbers of D.C. and Baltimore area military families spend the Thanksgiving holiday away from loved ones serving...
View ArticleReview: ‘You Don’t Know Jack’ at Charm City Fringe Festival
MAP Underground, the 14 Karat Cabaret performance space in the basement of the Bromo Arts District’s Maryland Art Place, was the perfect venue to meet “philosopher clown,” Jack Golden. Before taking...
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