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Rep Stage Names Suzanne E. Beal and Joseph W. Ritsch as New Co-Producing Artistic Directors by Mike Scrivener

Guest Author 2013-07-02

Suzanne E. Beal and Joseph W. Ritsch Named New Co-Producing Artistic Directors of Rep Stage A past vice president of Frederick Community College and the associate artistic director of Baltimore’s Iron...

2013 Capital Fringe Show Preview: ‘The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs: The Musical’ by Meghan Long, Producer

Guest Author 2013-07-02

Do you ever wonder where your sh%t comes from? Those in the theatre community are no stranger to Mike Daisey and his work. His engaging and epic work has spanned a vast array of topics – from the...

2013 Capital Fringe Preview: ‘Thank You for Staring’ by Patrice Gerideau

Guest Author 2013-06-30

You are so Ugly… Can you imagine hearing those words everyday of your life? I can. In my twenties, I developed a skin condition, vitiligo, which caused me to lose pigment on the right side of my face....

2013 Capital Fringe Show Preview: ‘How to Have it All: The Musical ’ by Jessica North Macie

Guest Author 2013-06-30

Alumni of the National Conservatory of Dramatic Arts return to the Fringe stage for the fifth straight year, now with a new company name and a brand new musical. Fully Charged Productions debuts How...

2013 Capital Fringe Show Preview: ‘heady collectables’ by Nicole A. Martinell

Guest Author 2013-06-28

heady collectables is sure to thrill this year’s Capital Fringe goers, as zany dancers bob, float and dart about the stage. This clever representation of American ‘head-slang’ is a fun hour-long...

2013 Capital Fringe Show Preview: ‘Romeo and Juliet’ by Kiersten Dittrich

Guest Author 2013-06-28

This year, We Happy Few Productions tackles the perennially-staged ROMEO AND JULIET by William Shakespeare at the Capital Fringe Festival. In 2013, which seems like the year of ROMEO AND JULIETs, why...

2013 Capital Fringe Show Preview: ‘Godiva Dates & One Night Stands’ by Matthew Ripa

Guest Author 2013-06-28

DOORWAY ARTS ENSEMBLE AND REGIE CABICO PREMIERE HIS NEW SOLO SHOW: GODIVA DATES & ONE NIGHT STANDS AT CAPITAL FRINGE FESTIVAL Godiva Dates & One Night Stands is a tour de force of poetic virtuosity &...

2013 Capital Fringe Show Preview ‘Impossible to Translate But I’ll Try – True-Life Israeli Stories’ by Noa Baum

Guest Author 2013-06-28

Acclaimed Storyteller Noa Baum shares delicious Israeli stories never seen on the news, in her Capital Fringe debut of: Impossible to Translate But I’ll Try – True-Life Israeli Stories. Impossible To...

2013 Capital Fringe Festival Show Preview: ‘The Young Wife’ by K. Brochocka

Guest Author 2013-06-28

A rare one-woman opera crosses the Atlantic Not yet twenty years old, a sheltered girl named Gabriela was forced to marry a greedy lieutenant who only valued her for her dowry. She was miserable and...

2013 Capital Fringe Show Preview: ‘Tell-Tale’ by Grain of Sand Theatre

Guest Author 2013-06-28

How do you put something back together? How do you keep it from falling apart? How do you stand up out of bed if your bed is the wall and you’re already standing? These are some of the questions Grain...

2013 Capital Fringe Show Preview: ‘Crime Buster Blast-Off 3000’ by The Bradford Güild

Guest Author 2013-06-28

The following poem was written by Musical Director Ian McDermott, in the year 1999. It is the basis for the entire production. He was nine years old* when he wrote it. What will the new Millennium...

2013 Capital Fringe Show Preview: ‘Four Women’ by Clarissa McKithen

Guest Author 2013-06-28

Four Women is not a performance, but a journey. Not a performance, but an experience into the multiple dimensions of black womanhood. This production was inspired by Nina Simone’s song with the same...

2013 Capital Fringe Show Preview: ‘Waiting for Orson’ by Ian Leahy

Guest Author 2013-06-27

“His name… He said he wants me to call him Orson. He won’t look like an alien. He said he’d try and find a person’s body willing to let him overtake it for a little while…” Waiting for Orson’s...

2013 Capital Fringe Show Preview: ‘McPherson Madness’ by Kelly Canavan

Guest Author 2013-06-27

McPherson Madness is what happens when revolution hits family, friendships, and romance head-on in a freezing tarp-tropolis on K Street, in in Washington, DC In February 2012, activist and playwright...

2013 Capital Fringe Show Preview: ’43 and a ½: The Greatest Deaths of Shakespeare’s Tragedies’ by Emily Crockett and Sun King Davis

Guest Author 2013-06-27

“Exeunt!” It’s a fancy Shakespearean word that means nothing fancier than “everybody leaves.” Yet it brings to mind flourishing capes, actors strutting dramatically into the wings, and velvet curtains...

2013 Capital Fringe Show Preview ‘Polaroid Stories’ by Lauren R. Alexander

Guest Author 2013-06-27

A fucked up love story for a Fringe Festival premiere. After a wildly successful production of Naomi Iizuka’s Polaroid Stories at American University in November 2012, Blind Pug Arts Collective picked...

2013 Capital Fringe Show Preview: ‘The Young Olympians & the Most Amazingly Awesome Adventure Ever!’ by Vanessa Strickland

Guest Author 2013-06-27

Debuting in DC this summer, The Young Olympians & the Most Amazingly Awesome Adventure Ever! (aka “YO“) is an all-ages musical with a story rooted in Greek mythology. Drawing inspiration from pop...

2013 Capital Fringe Show Preview: ‘What’s in the BOX?!’ by Justin Purvis

Guest Author 2013-06-27

Pride. Wrath. Lust. Greed. What do these things have in common, other than being on Rock Tender’s ‘things about me that the ladies love’ list? They are sins, and more specifically some of the Seven...

2013 Capital Fringe Show Preview ‘H Street Housewives’ by Jenny Splitter

Guest Author 2013-06-27

Chickens in the backyard. Flame wars on the mommy listserv. Slutty househusbands and a plot to change H Street forever. H Street Housewives is the story of four housewives – the homeschooling...

2013 Capital Fringe Show Preview: ‘The Burlesque of Broadway’ by Laura Maravilla

Guest Author 2013-06-27

Who doesn’t love a good musical? Or making fun of a good musical?! Burlesque Classique presents The Burlesque of Broadway at the Capital Fringe Festival this summer. Nothing is sacred in this sassy,...

2013 Capital Fringe Show Preview: dog & pony dc’s ‘A Killing Game’ by Colin Bills (Director)

Guest Author 2013-06-26

dog & pony dc’s A Killing Game (or AKG) casts its audience as citizens in a town that is beset with a mysterious plague. It’s not clear what causes the deaths that terrorize this town. It’s not clear...

2013 Capital Fringe Show Preview: ‘1814! The War of 1812 Rock Opera’ by David Dudley and Dave Israel

Guest Author 2013-06-26

Experience the epic rock splendor of the battle that birthed our National Anthem Forget White House Down. This summer’s most thrilling spectacle of executive-mansion destruction is the one about the...

2013 Capital Fringe Show Preview: ‘Apples & Oranges’ by Tim Chamberlain

Guest Author 2013-06-26

Rex and Dana have a problem – each other. Apples & Oranges by Jessica Willoughby Apples & Oranges is a play about a married couple with issues. Well, actually Rex doesn’t think so and that is one of...

2013 Capital Fringe Show Preview: ‘The Chronic Single’s Handbook’ by Randy Ross

Guest Author 2013-06-25

The Chronic Single’s Handbook, an original comedy by Randy Ross, is about a never-married hypochondriac who takes a trip around the world looking for the woman of his dreams. It’s a male spin on Eat,...

2013 Capital Fringe Show Preview: ‘Madam Ambassador’ by Duke Ryan

Guest Author 2013-06-25

Madam Ambassador is a comedy of serious intent, but a comedy nonetheless. What I really want people to do is enjoy watching the conniving of Valerie Butts, bored senseless in a prairie town and...

2013 Capital Fringe Show Preview: ‘Bully’ by Lee J. Kaplan

Guest Author 2013-06-24

A hit in theatres and schools since its sold-out New York City premiere last Fall, Bully will appear at the Capital Fringe Festival in July and in the New York International Theatre Festival...

2013 Capital Fringe Festival ‘Rosemary with Ginger’ by Shawna Leonard

Guest Author 2013-06-24

Rosemary with Ginger will spice up the stage at Capital Fringe Festival! Edward Allan Baker’s one-act play, Rosemary with Ginger, raises many questions about the nature of family devotion. How much is...

2013 Capital Fringe Show Preview: ‘Sanka, Ya Dead Mon’ by Philip Dallmann

Guest Author 2013-06-24

Sanka, Ya Dead Mon is the story of Ben. Ben was an artist who never got to the point of struggling. Giving up his passion of music he followed his heart to Albany to one day marry the woman of his...

It’s a Done Deal! ‘The Andrew Keegan Theatre’ Arrives as The Keegan Theatre Purchases Church Street Theater! by Jeff Klein

Guest Author 2013-06-23

THE KEEGAN THEATRE ANNOUNCES PURCHASE OF CHURCH STREET THEATER The Keegan Theatre has closed on the purchase of the Church Street Theater in Washington, DC. The theater, located at 1742 Church Street...

2013 Capital Fringe Show Preview: ‘RFK’ by Russ Widdall

Guest Author 2013-06-23

Actor Russ Widdall on being Bobby I was born in 1965. That year is identified as both the end of the Baby Boom and the beginning of Generation X. Straddling these two eras gave me a respect for the...

2013 Capital Fringe Show Preview: ‘The Actual Dance’ by Sam A. Simon

Guest Author 2013-06-23

A Rare and Courageous Male Voice Brings to DC Fringe the Unique Perspective of the Love Partner in the Breast Cancer Struggle The Actual Dance is a true story. But did it really happen? You must...

2013 Capital Fringe Show Preview: ‘The Crayon King, or Learning to Share’ by Jeffrey Higgins

Guest Author 2013-06-22

A Silly Musical about a Serious Subject: Crayons Capital Fringe has a surprise visitor during the 2013 Festival and he has more crayons than anyone age 4 (or 5) to 93! The Crayon King, or Learning to...

2013 Capital Fringe Show Preview: ‘Dementia Melodies: It Ain’t Over ‘til It’s Over’ by Steve Little

Guest Author 2013-06-21

Playing in clubs, I never felt irritated until one night when a bunch of drunk strangers called out, “Freebird.” “Play Freebird.” It was near the end of the night at a busy, smoky Capitol Hill bar. I...

2013 Capital Fringe Show Preview: ‘Murder on the Bare Stage’ by Stephen Mead

Guest Author 2013-06-21

A Program of Masterful Literary-Poetic Suspense For some years in Britain and elsewhere, I (Stephen Mead) have been performing pieces of literature, mostly from the Victorian era, as dramatic...

2013 Capital Fringe Show Preview: ‘Big River (and Other Wayfaring Ballets)’ by Tina Barksdale

Guest Author 2013-06-21

MOVEiUS Contemporary Ballet, the 2012 winner of Capital Fringe Audience Award, returns to the Fringe this summer for a deeper, more mysterious examination of an emotional journey. A contrast from last...

2013 Capital Fringe Show Preview: ‘The Snuff Musical’ by Derek T. Pickens

Guest Author 2013-06-21

Kinky Boots. Bring It On: The Musical. A Christmas Story: The Musical. What do all these musicals have in common? Well yes, they’re all Tony Award nominated musicals but there’s one other unifying...

2013 Capital Fringe Show Preview: The British Players’ ‘Old Time British Music Hall’ by Chrish Kresge

Guest Author 2013-06-20

The British Players’ Old Time British Music Hall is an annual event which has been taking place in the Washington/DC area since 1964. Originally called The British Embassy Players, the group now puts...

2013 Capital Fringe Preview: ‘What It’s Like? One Veterans Tale of Addiction, Survival and PTSD’ by Richard D. Graham Jr.

Guest Author 2013-06-20

What It’s Like? One Veterans Tale of Addiction, Survival and PTSD focuses on the experiences of myself, Richard D. Graham Jr., United States Marine Corps. and Persian Gulf War veteran combined with...