If you're thinking about seeing one show this year (or one more) you might start with this list:
- July 24 @ 3:00 pm
- Drama
- DCTS Review
- Fringe and Purge Review
- See it: If you’re a fan of great acting and great dialogue.
- Skip it: If you need an action-driven plot to hold your interest.
- July 23 @ 8:15 pm
- July 25@ 4:00 PM
- Solo Performance
- DCTS Review
- July 22 @ 9:15 PM
- Drama
- DCTS Review
- Fringe and Purge Review
- See it if: You take a socially conscious interest in the child welfare system.
- Skip it if: You like your metatheater a bit more transcendent.
- July 22 @ 8:00 pm
- July 24 @ 10:30 pm
- July 25 @ 1 pm
- Comedy
- DCTS Review
- Washington Post Review
- Fringe and Purge Review
- See It If: You refuse to believe that there is ever more than one way to teach a sex-ed class.
- Skip It If: You still have nightmares from having watched The Rocky Horror Picture Show on your high school class trip to Florida.
- July 21 @ 6:00 pm
- July 24 @ 10:00 pm
- Solo Performance
- DCTS Review
- Fringe and Purge Review
- See it: If you’re a foodie, a fan of great storytelling, and/or want to see one of the best shows at Fringe this year.
- Skip it: If you’re on a diet or immune to the joys of food.
- July 24 @ 7:00 pm
- Experimental
- DCTS Review
- Washington Post Editor’s Pick
- July 20 @ 9:00 pm
- July 23 @ 10:30 pm
- Solo Performance
- DCTS Review
- July 22 @ 8:00 pm
- July 23 @ 10:00 pm
- Comedy
- DCTS Review
- Washington Post Editors Pick
- July 23 @ 8:15 pm
- July 24 @ 4:00 pm
- Musical Theater
- DCTS Review
- Fringe and Purge Review
- See it if: You yen for an intimate Dolly Parton concert, but are looking for more affordable tickets. You won’t be disappointed.
- Skip it if: You like your Galacticas preceded by Battlestars.
- July 24 @ 8:00 pm
- Comedy
- DCTS Review
- Fringe and Purge Review
- See it if: You’re prone to powerful fits of nostalgia for the Golden age of radio and fedora-wearing.
- Skip it if: You reject out of hand the notion that sometimes style is substance.
- July 23 @ 10:30 pm
- July 24 @ 5:30 pm
- July 25 @ 6:30 pm
- Experimental
- DCTS Review
- July 23 @ 8:00 pm
- July 24 @ 2:00 pm
- July 24 @ 8:00 pm
- Musical Theater
- DCTS Review
- Fringe and Purge Review
- See It If: You believe the best playwrights do their work on stage while the play is happening.
- Skip It If: You enjoy watching Hamlet because you know there is only one way for it to end each time.
- July 21 @ 6:00 pm
- July 22 @ 6:00 pm
- July 25 @ 6:00 pm
- Comedy
- DCTS Review
- July 20 @ 6:00 pm
- July 22 @ 10:30 pm
- July 25 @ 1:00 pm
- Drama
- DCTS Review
- Fringe and Purge Review
- See It If: You’ve always been frustrated that the grandest excesses of Greek tragedies traditionally happen offstage. (Because Burke puts ‘em downstage center — vividly.)
- Skip It If: You can’t keep your Furies and your Fates straight — or even a brisk hour devoted to infanticide is more than you want your Fringe to include.
- July 21 @ 6:00 pm
- July 24 @ 6:00 pm
- Musical Theater
- DCTS Review
- July 24 @ 2:00 pm
- Solo Performance
- DCTS Review
- Fringe and Purge Review
- See it If: You don’t know much (or do know a whole lot) about the campaign to pass the Equal Rights Amendment and think personal narratives can make for thought-provoking theatre.
- Skip It If: Tales of lobbying, political jockeying, the ethics of leadership, and fundraising with movie stars bores you.
- July 22 @ 10:00 pm
- July 23 @ 11:00 pm
- July 25 @ 7:00 pm
- Solo Performance
- DCTS Review
- July 25 @ 7:00 pm
- Puppetry
- DCTS Review
- July 20 @ 6:00 pm
- July 24 @ 10:00 pm
- July 23 @ 7:15 pm
- July 24 @ 12:30 pm
- July 25 @ 3:15 pm
- Musical Theater
- DCTS Review
- Fringe and Purge Review
- See It If: You are equally devoted to the tunes of “the American songbook” as WNYC’s Jonathan Schwartz.
- Skip It If: You believe that any music without a drumbeat is archaic, if not downright awful.
- July 20 @ 8:00 pm
- July 23 @ 6:00 pm
- Comedy
- DCTS Review
- July 22 @ 8:00 pm
- July 25 @ 5:00 pm
- Experimental
- DCTS Review
- Fringe and Purge Interview
- July 20 @ 6:00 pm
- July 24 @ 1:30 pm
- Drama
- DCTS Review
- Fringe and Purge Review
- See It If: The melancholy-yet-menacing siren song of the sea calls to you. Or you’re just a bargain hunter looking for the best minutes-per-dollar deals that Fringe has to offer.
- Skip It If: You always thought Meat Loaf was kind of full of it when he claimed that “Two out of three ain’t bad.”
- July 25 @ 6:30 pm
- Drama
- DCTS Review
- Fringe and Purge Review
- See it if: VC Andrews-brand siblings + “Have at you!” + Post-mortem dismemberment = Your winning formula.
- Skip it if: You’re unwilling to wait a bit to get your visceral ya-yas out, and routinely eat dessert first.
- July 22 @ 8:00 pm
- July 24 @ 6:00 pm
- July 25 11:30 am
- Experimental
- DCTS Review
- Fringe and Purge Review
- See it if: You’re ready for Little Red to come of age.
- Skip it if: Birds help you get dressed in the morning.
- July 21 @ 8:00 pm
- Drama
- DCTS Review
- July 25 @ 11:00 am
- Musical Theater
- DCTS Review
- Fringe and Purge Review
- See it if: You like music and high quality performers with ‘Rent’-esque moments.
- Skip it if: You don’t want to hear even a second of Toad the Wet Sprocket meets Nelson. (Look ‘em up for a laugh.)
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