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Studio Theatre 2nd Stage Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson

By • Jul 18th, 2012 • Category: Reviews

The show is not bad; but it represents a distortion of history while advancing ignorance of a people’s history that reverberates today.



Imagination Stage The Lion, The Witch, & The Wardrobe

By • Jul 17th, 2012 • Category: Reviews

Imagination Stage’s collaboration with The Washington Ballet, an original adaptation of The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe, packs quite a lot into its modest run time.



Bowie Community Theatre Love, Sex, and the IRS

By • Jul 17th, 2012 • Category: Reviews

Love, Sex, and the I.R.S. was a fun, lighthearted comedy about what happens when you try to outwit the Internal Revenue Service.



The Hub Theatre Big Love

By • Jul 16th, 2012 • Category: Reviews

There’s comedy. There’s tragedy. There’s romance. There’s even a piquant mix of poetry, politics, psychology, anthropology and philosophy. All in about an hour and a half.



Faction of Fools Theatre Company Tales of Marriage and Mozzarella

By • Jul 15th, 2012 • Category: Fringe, Reviews

Faction of Fools has figured out that there is no love without cheese, cut or otherwise and presents a series of comic scenes where the comic love is as tasty as the cheeses it references.



NoteTaker Productions The City of God – A New Opera

By • Jul 15th, 2012 • Category: Fringe, Reviews

Josh Armenta’s The City of God is a self serious derivative of the works of Arnold Schoenberg and Boris Gudonov, only not as cheerful as the latter two.



Victorian Lyric Opera Company Trial by Jury

By • Jul 15th, 2012 • Category: Fringe, Reviews

Gilbert and Sullivan’s Trial by Jury is a traditionally-structured show in which the words are supremely important.



Triptych Productions The Confines of Flattery

By • Jul 15th, 2012 • Category: Fringe, Reviews

All three plays were crisply paced with well-timed interactions among the distinct characters, aided by crystal-clear diction.



Actors Repertory Theatre Madwoman in the Attic: Evening of Shorts

By • Jul 15th, 2012 • Category: Fringe, Reviews

Even though the scenes are short, they evoke powerful emotions that will make you feel like you are right there with them experiencing them.



Tilted Torch Wild Night

By • Jul 15th, 2012 • Category: Fringe, Reviews

You think you can handle a trip down Tilted Torch’s Wild Night? Then you better hold on to your tiny hats and your nipple tassels.