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Matt Bassett, new Artistic Director of The Hub Theatre
This week, The Hub Theatre welcomed Matt Bassett as successor to Helen Murray as Artistic Director, the company announced. Matt Bassett is now Artistic Director of The Hub Theatre (Photo: DJ Corey...
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Black Confederates at Fringe. The Civil War nearly lost, the Confederacy...
Black Confederates have long been considered a minor historical footnote, and even a debatable one at that. What isn’t open to debate is the fact that there were some 4 million Blacks living in the...
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Review: People for Whom the World Spins and Turns
The Essential Theatre’s new play People for Whom the World Spins and Turns is best described by its subtitle A World Premiere Play about Addiction & Recovery. It is a thoughtful and timely...
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Love in Three Scenes at Capital Fringe. Love in the age of rage – possible?
John Lanou wrote Love in Three Scenes to explore “love in the age of rage.”The piece could stir controversy (on both the right and the left) as it tackles Muslim-American patriotism, climate change...
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On directing The Body of a Woman as a Battlefield in the Bosnian War
As a poet and director, when I came across the script, the poetic language, the dramatic aspects of the play, and the possibility of creativity the story provides attracted me to direct The Body of a...
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A guide to watching modern dance at Capital Fringe by Area Woman
Hello, we are Area Woman – a new performance collective made up of women who love and respect each other, and also love and respect you. We formed when we realized that we liked each other and liked...
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Meet the Glory Wholes or How to play the game of life, no matter what hand...
Joey Maranto answers our questions about Meet the Glory Wholes. Tell us about the moment where you said to yourself: I just have to do this! Joey Maranto. To see Meet the Glory Wholes, click the image...
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Elan Zafir’s true story of parent/child separation, Unaccompanied Minor
Actor Elan Zafir answers our questions about his play coming to Capital Fringe, The Unaccompanied Minor. – Tell us about the moment when you said to yourself: I just have to do this! Elan Zafir. Click...
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Creators of Fringe game show Movie Magic Live! want to help DC lighten up
Movie Magic Live! answer our questions. Where did the idea for your show come from? Jon Gann and Kerri Sheehan, showrunners. While the submission process was in progress, my friends at Fringe...
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The night we all remember from 2016: This Historic Night at Capital Fringe
On November 8, 2016, I was watching MSNBC cover what would become one of the most shocking moments in our nation’s history. That election felt like a catastrophe. The future had never seemed so dark or...
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On the Eve at Capital Fringe: What if Joan of Arc made another choice?
On the Eve wasn’t really a play that I decided to write. I stumbled into it. In 2011 I was nannying on the Upper West Side in New York City, and was slowly feeling that I had lost any semblance of...
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Usually fearless Aubri O’Connor gets ready for a terrifying show at Fringe
I’m going to be honest with you guys – I’m scared out of my mind to do this Fringe show, 50 Ways to Date Your Aubrey. Aubri O’Connor Aside from feeling like some self-important, Kardashian-level...
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David Rodwin: How a holdup and online dating brought him to Fringe
Four years ago I was held up at gunpoint an hour after my girlfriend broke up with me. That’s how my show begins. I didn’t realize it was the beginning of a show at the time – much less a comedy – I...
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PolySHAMory, for women who find themselves in a pickle
Carrie Fisher once said to “take your broken heart and make it art.” I aim to live by these words, which is why all of my solo shows have been derived from my real life experiences–experiences so crazy...
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Review: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, performed midsummer in the open air
Ah, the quintessential play set in the magical woods… and performed there as well. Park in the town lot, walk up the hill (or if you or your theatre date wore heels, take the complementary shuttle van)...
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Review: O Monsters, Capital Fringe
What happens when a man and a woman love each other very much? In the case of O Monsters, they spend a glorious night together before the man disappears and leaves his lover (now pregnant) behind to...
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Review: Andromeda Breaks at Capital Fringe
There are certain individuals who haunt the Capital Fringe festival (and I’m not talking about the reviewers). Antigone and Medea always seem to make an appearance. And, of course, every character from...
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Review: Berta, Berta at Contemporary American Theater Festival
There are two people on the stage in front of us – Leroy Grant (Jason Bowen) and Berta (the remarkable Bianca Laverne Jones), writhing in love and sorrow – but a third character hangs over them,...
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Review: A Late Morning [in America] with Ronald Reagan at Contemporary...
Has there been, in our lifetimes, a greater political enigma than our 40th President, Ronald Wilson Reagan? We saw him, as the public man, on our television screens for twenty-eight years: the nation’s...
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Review: Memoirs of a Forgotten Man at Contemporary American Theater Festival
“Where does the past exist,” asks O’Brien, “if at all?” “In records,” replies Winston Smith. He is tied to a chair. “It is written down.” “In records. And–?” “In the mind. In human memories.” “In...
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