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HUSTLE, new musical, workshops at DC Black Theatre Festival
HUSTLE The Musical, one of the more than 100 shows in this year’s 10th anniversary DC Black Theatre & Arts Festival, is a sparkling example of the festivals mission to produce new works. Being...
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Fringe button deals: best places to grab a quick snack or dine on DC’s SW wharf
Now that you have your shows lined up for the Capital Fringe Festival, the question is: where are you eating and drinking between shows? This year, Capital Fringe has made purchasing their Fringe...
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Stuck in a room with no exit: Beyond These Walls at Capital Fringe
What do people do when they are forced to wait? What if they are forced to wait in a room with no door? What happens when, in these strange circumstances, people begin to disappear? Emily Collins You...
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Review: My Lord, What a Night at Contemporary American Theater Festival
The great opera contralto Marian Anderson (Angela Wildflower), has been denied accommodations at the Nassau Inn because of her race. So instead she stays at the home of one of her enthusiastic fans,...
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Capital Fringe show The Hound: Idle Hands in a Devil’s Playground
One evening, in September of 1922, legendary horror writer, H.P. Lovecraft, visited an old Brooklyn graveyard and took home a small souvenir: a chip from a tombstone dated 1747. Later, he mused in a...
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Fringe show reveals what not to say to someone in mourning: You Don’t Have a...
I was, am and always will be a mama’s boy. Not in a creepy, Norman Bates, refer to her as “mother” with dead eyes way, but just for the simple fact that my mom and I shared a beautiful, positive and...
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Review: Antonio’s Song: I Was Dreaming of a Son at Contemporary American...
Antonio’s Song is a masterful collaboration between two distinguished artists—some may remember Dael Orlandersmith’s emotionally charged Yellowman that tore through Washington D.C. some years ago, or...
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Review: Chester Bailey at Contemporary American Theater Festival
“If there’s one thing reality can’t tolerate,” says Dr. Phillip Cotton (Reed Birney), “it’s competition.” But you knew that already, didn’t you, Mr. or Ms. Avid Theatergoer, you fiction-lover, you...
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Best late night hangouts on DC’s SW Wharf
Looking for a place to gather with your fellow Fringe-goers after an evening show? Want somewhere where the “last call” arrives just a little bit later? Looking to spend less than a small fortune on...
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Before the Fall author on life, death, and stripping away the small stuff
So, I was reading “Norwegian Wood” by Haruki Murakami (yes, I also roll my eyes when someone casually mentions they were reading Murakami) and there is this beautiful line: “Life is here, death is over...
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Would You Rather… in this Capital Fringe play, the ice breaker answers come...
After answering ice-breaker questions, three strangers mysteriously end up on a deserted island, premised on the classic “would you rather” scenario. Now all their answers are coming to life. Dara Gold...
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Capital Fringe show, Veneer of Beauty, presents Sobriety’s family 15 years later
This play is the second in a trilogy of plays, all with a theme of domestic violence and its horrible multi-generational scourge on one family. The first play, Sobriety of Fear, was a one-person show....
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Eye for an Eye Fringe writer reaches back to Euripides and the Greek tragedies
For Capital Fringe this year, I have adapted The Bacchae by Euripides. I am true to the source material, except for a surprise in the beginning and the end, where I bring in the work of another famous...
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Review: La traviata at Glimmerglass Festival
A “new” production of La traviata shared the buzz opening weekend at Glimmerglass Festival. Nonetheless, as a co-production with Washington National Opera (and a handful of other opera companies...
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Review: Show Boat at Glimmerglass Festival
Glimmerglass Festival opened its 45th season with a sensational Show Boat. (From left) Judith Skinner as Queenie, Alyson Cambridge as Julie La Verne, Charles H. Eaton as Steve Baker, Lauren Snouffer as...
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Review: Support Group for Men at Contemporary American Theater Festival
Gaseous and unpredictable, witty and sentimental, Support Group for Men is ninety minutes traffic of our stage which seems longer, an earnest foray into secrets and feelings masked as a comedy. It is...
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Review: A Welcome Guest (a Psychotic Fairy Tale) at Contemporary American...
In 2010, the Contemporary American Theater Festival staged something called The Eelwax Jesus 3-D Pop Music Show. It was the first musical they ever did. They’ve never done one since. The play began...
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A show truly on the Fringe: Marx in Soho, an interview with Karl herself
Mary Myers is about to embark to the Edinburgh Fringe festival to play Karl Marx in Mark in Soho. Before leaving, she’s given us these words as she prepares for her last show in the States. The...
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Review: Wrecked at Contemporary American Theater Festival
In Hillel Mitelpunkt’s The Accident, a self-involved man, somewhat drunk, hits and kills a Chinese immigrant at about eighty miles per hour. Then, with his passenger, an equally self-involved and even...
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We’re All Going To Fucking Die!, a Fringe solo show about joy
Twanna A. Hines, a sexual and reproductive health educator and creative entrepreneur, answers our questions about her Capital Fringe show at Arena Stage. Where did the idea for your show come from?...
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