From a solo show about a mermaid’s love life to an interactive murder mystery, Capital Fringe is back and more eccentric than ever.

Our critics check out a comedic romp at Round House, a one-woman show at Theater J and a play that touches on abortion themes from Solas Nua. See what they recommend.

This month’s theater preview includes a Pulitzer winner set in a Memphis wing shop, a drama about reproductive rights, and for something lighter, some romantic comedies.

This excellent, semi-autobiographical play makes its world premiere as part of both the Women’s Voices Theater Festival and the 2015 Locally Grown Festival.

Theater J’s latest raises a tangled knot of questions that no one could ever hope to answer.

A spiritual sequel to Posner’s insanely popular Stupid Fucking Bird, which definitely doesn’t suck.

More than 60 artistic directors of theaters across the country denounced Roth’s firing in an open letter.

Described as a “comedy about relationships, faith and the fine line between compromise and regret,” Theater J’s production of The Religion Thing is, in fact, a melodrama that’s about as subtle as a sledgehammer.

Mommy Queerest is comedian Judy Gold’s one-woman, show-length pitch for her own TV series, complete with piano playing, slides and character voices. But if you’re not someone already interested in the life of a remarkably tall Jewish lesbian mom, chances are this bumpy production won’t win you over. Gold’s life from childhood to present is meant to be smoothly stitched together by TV show asides, with high school, college and even parenthood explained in…

Tana Hicken and Holly Twyford in Theater J’s “Lost in Yonkers” Despite its World War II period setting and the old-fashioned feel of its Broadway by way of the Catskills laughs, Neil Simon’s Lost in Yonkers feels remarkably of the moment. A father is driven to bankruptcy trying to take care of his dying wife. In tough economic times, he joins the war effort to get himself out of debt, leaving his two teenage…