Factory 449’s current production of “Agnes of God,” directed by Rick Hammerly, rises above the weaknesses in John Pielmeier’s well-known but uneven script with three exceptional performances... Read more
Anchuli Felicia King’s “White Pearl,” making its U.S. premiere at the Studio Theatre, is a sharp and often hilarious satire of corporate culture, the beauty-industrial complex, and cross-cul... Read more
Several decades of August Wilson’s monumental Pittsburgh Cycle are on Washington stages this season. A strong production of “Jitney” is currently running at Arena Stage, where “Seven Guitars... Read more
“Jitney” was the first of the 10 plays of August Wilson’s Pittsburgh Cycle to be written and performed, but the last to make it to Broadway, finally arriving there just two years ago. It is... Read more
The best one-word description of “Home, Sweet, _____” is right there in the title. But this 40-minute clowning piece, created by Accademia dell’Arte-trained performer Collette Campbell, is m... Read more
The only bad thing to say about “Kafka’s Metamorphosis: The Musical!” is that you will not get a chance to see it at the Capital Fringe Festival. The company of the short musical popped down... Read more
Audiences attending “Caribbean Command” at the Capital Fringe Festival will be presented with a stilted, repetitive debate between four members of the service over which one of them should t... Read more
Annexus Theatre Company’s “Thanksgiving at Macbeth’s” is a work by a very smart director and very talented actors who all work very well together. Frustratingly, despite the scads of talent... Read more
Not so many years ago in America, there was a political party that believed that low taxes and less regulation would create a better economy for all. It believed in free trade between nation... Read more
There will probably be no other show at the Capital Fringe Festival this year more earnest than Tim Caron’s “The Knights of Salisbury,” a coming-of-age musical set in coastal Massachusetts i... Read more
