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Lost Teeth . A Fringe Peek
Lost Teeth which Jona Tarlin, originally titled Tori Please Be Happy, began 15 years ago when Jona saw a picture of a woman with a bandage around her head, Ray-Bans, and a drill going into her skull....
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1st Stage welcomes acclaimed performers for Tysons solo play festival
For their inaugural Logan Festival of Solo Performance, 1st Stage will welcome acclaimed artists from San Francisco, Portland, Chicago, and New York for two-weeks of performances and community...
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Ticket giveaway for The School for Lies. Enter by July 1
We have 2 free pairs of tickets from Shakespeare Theatre Company to see David Ives’ The School for Lies in its closing week at the Lansburgh Theatre. A farce set in 17th century France, Ives based the...
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A Fringe Peek at HOWL in the Time of Trump, looking back at Ginsberg’s “Make...
HOWL in the Time of Trump is my third poetry-in-performance solo piece. First, there was Poe’s most mystical poetic pieces, performed with music and images. Then came Whitman’s Song of Myself,...
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Wit & Wrath: The Life & Times of Dorothy Parker, a video Fringe Peek
New Orleans performer Claudia Baumgarten has had a 10 year romance with the writings of journalist, critic, poet and famous member of the Algonquin Round Table, Dorothy Parker. After having read almost...
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Think Before You Holla, a Fringe Peek at mindfulness
Have you ever walked down the sidewalk and felt someone watching you as you pass? Have you ever been in a grocery store and noticed that someone just happens to be going down the same aisle as you over...
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A Fringe Peek at Life, Death, & Everything In-Between
This show came from a desire to create a mood and an experience for the audience without wholly relying on the traditional storytelling arc. So much of American theater is in the head, the expected...
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Sing out! July 4 flash mob protest at White House. All welcome
First came Nelson Pressley’s in-depth article on theatre makers as activists in Sunday’s Washington Post. Now comes this call to take theatrical activism to the streets. Americans Take Action is...
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A Fringe Peek at I’m Margaret Thatcher, I Is!
Zack Walsh and David Koenigsberg have their way with our questions. Well now, really, what did we expect from two guys who titled their show I’m Margaret Thatcher, I Is! Tell us about the moment where...
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Repentance, a Fringe Peek at sin and forgiveness
Tell us about the moment when you said to yourself: “I just have to do this!” Michael E. Hammond: I woke up at 4 in the morning. And probably all the usual clichés applied: “jarred awake,” “bathed...
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A Fringe Peek at Clara Bow: Becoming ‘It’
We like to pretend that the rise of social media has forever changed America’s relationship to celebrity culture. That somehow Facebook and Twitter have ripped our Hollywood icons from their private...
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A Capital Fringe Peek at One in Four
This play might help you feel better. If you’re anything like me, you’re in constant awe of people who can just, like, talk to other people. What in God’s name is that like– do these confident freaks...
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Capital Fringe Peek at David Kleinberg’s new play Return to the Scene of the...
For two years, I had performed my one-man show, Hey, Hey, LBJ! in San Francisco, on 42nd Street in New York, in Washington DC (where it got a rave review in the Washington Post), in New Orleans and in...
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An SNL-style Godspell from Infinity Theatre (review)
It is incredible that no one’s thought of pairing Godspell with the structure of “Saturday Night Live” before. I am sure I have just turned off a purist or two who might think such a combination is...
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Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat at Toby’s (review)
Disney’s Beauty and the Beast may claim to be the “tale as old as time” but it has nothing on Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. As Tim Rice’s accessible lyrics state, this through-sung...
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A Capital Fringe Peek at MacBheatha
This project began two summers ago, when a small group of actors, including myself, thought of devising a piece comparing the dramatic character of Shakespeare’s Macbeth with the life of the actual...
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Echoes, a Capital Fringe Peek
Echoes by N. Richard Nash, is the story of two very real people who deeply love each other despite their struggles with mental illness. It is a story that shows us again how love is truly universal and...
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A Capital Fringe Peek at the comedy Abortion Road Trip
Back in early November of 2016, Theatre Prometheus was trying to choose between several strong, gripping stories for our Fringe play. We were split on which to choose. And then… the election happened....
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A Capital Fringe Peek at rock n’ roll show Help Me, Wanda!
I first heard Toni Rae Salmi sing at the 2012 Capital Fringe Festival. The show was Cabaret XXX: Love The One You’re With, the second in a much-loved series of annual rock cabarets by Pinky Swear...
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A Fringe Peek at J-Swizzle (and D-Man’s) Epic Swaggy Broventure for Sweet Rhyme
Director Haley Murphy and your playwright Emma Choi talk about their Fringe show. How did you two meet? Haley Murphy: Across a crowded elementary school gym. Emma was my stage manager when she was in...
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