Fringe Festival 2011: ‘Pun: (n) a play on words’
(Patrick Magill/ Courtesy of Capital Fringe / Patrick Magill)
Some words on a play (ha!) that tries too hard to make you laugh.
Fringe Festival 2011: ‘Belle Parricide’
(Catherine Aselford)
Well before Casey Anthony and O.J. Simpson, there was Beatrice Cenci.
Choose your own Fringe adventure
(John Shryock)
What are the biggest themes of the Capital Fringe Festival?
Capital Fringe-cabulary: Comedy. Love. Hedgehogs.
(Mark Gail / THE WASHINGTON POST)
Through Wordle, we learn that this year’s Capital Fringe offerings are most often about sex and comedy, with a few surprises.
A joyful ‘Oklahoma!’
Arena Stage’s hit production returns for an encore run with its cast, and its happy sparkle, intact.
Theater review: ‘Pop!’
Maggie-Kate Coleman and Anna K. Jacobs’s 90-minute production is a bold and inventive attempt to give tuneful form to Andy Warhol’s obsessive pursuit of the mundane.
Needing more for a good time
“Rock of Ages,” playing at the National Theatre, gives you a hint to why it’s been so successful on Broadway and is on the way to the big screen. But it’s just a hint.
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‘Pop!’ back to the Sixties
The madcap musical whodunit re-creates the Factory, the eccentric environment of Sixties pop art icon Andy Warhol and his hangers-on.
Losing faith in drama festival’s offerings
A review of the showcase’s five plays — “We Are Here,” “Race,” “The Insurgents,” “From Prague” and “Ages of the Moon” — that run through July 31.
On local stages, hits return
Various area theaters will do replays of successful shows, including “Oklahoma!,” “Clybourne Park” and “New Jerusalem.”
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