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Coming to the Capital Fringe Festival: Shock/Trauma by Evan Crump

Love, Car Crashes, and Brain Chemistry: The True Story Behind Unstrung Harpist’s Shock/Trauma at the Capital Fringe Festival The events that shape our lives can rarely be narrowed down to the results...

Coming to The Capital Fringe Festival: ‘Daydreams’ by John Curtis

Local Dance Students Get a Chance to Shine Daydreams is an innovative dance show featuring ballet, tap, jazz, modern, contemporary dance, spoken word, and original music. The journey explores the kids...

Coming to The Capital Fringe Festival: ‘A Night In (Or the Night My Wife Left)’ by Director Dannie Snyder

At Capital Fringe this summer, surrealism is rekindled through one character’s quest into the unconscious mind in A Night In (Or the Night My Wife Left), a new dark comedy. The ensemble devised work...

Washington Improv Theater’s ‘Improv-o-matic’ at Artomatic on June 15th & 22nd by Sean Ellis and Rachel Grossman

The decision was a quick and easy “Yes, and Yes” Washington Improv Theater (WIT) would coordinate improv performances, and it would also create space for others to perform at Artomatic 2012. After...

Coming to The Capital Fringe Festival: ‘The Extermination Machine’ by Michael Wright

“To understand the Holocaust we must comprehend Adolf Eichmann.” – Michael Berenbaum, the President of Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation and a respected Holocaust scholar. Adolf Otto...

Coming to the Capital Fringe Festival: ‘Dizzy Miss Lizzie’s… Presents ‘The Brontes’ by Debra Buonaccorsi and Steve McWilliams

Dizzy Miss Lizzie’s Roadside Revue is bringing a new work to the Capital Fringe Festival this summer. This year they are giving the Dizzy treatment to their favorite Victorian gothic novelists, The...

Coming to The Capital Fringe Festival: “Men Don’t Listen to Naked Women’ by Tim Chamberlain

Men Don’t Listen to Naked Women is a show starring Monique Holt. It is part of the 2012 Capital Fringe Festival, which runs from July 12-29th. This provocative piece is a one-woman show. Monique will...

Coming to The Capital Fringe Festival: ‘MINDSET’ by Monique O’Grady

MINDSET Set to Rock Capital Fringe A rock band, nine dance numbers, ethereal creatures, an eight-foot flower, a dramatic trashcan and an accordion – they all are part of one engaging production at...

Coming to the Capital Fringe Festival: ‘Despertar’ by Jon Jon Johnson

I felt the need to write a show, so I did. I was listening to “The Five Tango Sensations” by Astor Piazzolla at the time, and inspiration struck. The movements of the piece are titled: “Asleep”,...

Coming to The Capital Fringe Festival: ‘Sacred and Scared Get the Same Score in Scrabble’ by Charles Shafer

“What’s so funny about God? After all, he never told a single joke (with the possible exception of getting Abraham to kill his son). “This is the sort of question posed by Sacred and Scared Get the...

Coming to the Capital Fringe Festival: ‘Medieval Story Land’ by Scott Courlander

Medieval Story Land at Fringe: Elves, Wizards, Knights Clash in Fantasy Parody I was sick of the poop and fart jokes. I was sick of veiled sexual innuendo. I was sick of unveiled sexual innuendo. It...

Coming to The Capital Fringe Festival: ‘Thomas is Titanic’ by Thomas Choinacky

Thomas Choinacky has been obsessed with the Titanic disaster since he was a child. Watching the A&E special every spring, once his family got cable, in honor of the anniversary of the sinking. He...

A Look at ‘Goldilocks’ at The Puppet Co. by Jon Gazarek

Guilty or not guilty? That is the question. The Puppet Co. in Glen Echo Park is bringing back the popular fairy tale, Goldilocks, with an updated version by moving between the original setting of the...

Coming to The Capital Fringe Festival: ‘The Goddess Diaries’ by Carol Campbell

The Goddess Diaries began as an experiment. Several women were asked to write about a specific milestone in their life as part of a Winter Solstice performance at a local church. Borrowing from the...

Coming to The Capital Fringe Festival: ‘Where in the World? The Untold Story of Camilla Sanfrancisco’ by Patrick English

In her Iconic red trench coat and fedora, Carmen Sandiego has been the subject of a computer game, a cartoon, and a children’s game show. She steals famous artifacts from across the globe and in the...

Coming to The Capital Fringe: Peter Swet’s ‘The Interview’ by Wayne Nicolosi

America in 1970 seemed like the worst of times. Halfway around the world, the problems of a country only slightly larger than the state of Montana, killed almost 40,000 US citizens between 1967 and...

Coming to The Capital Fringe Festival: ‘HeHEE! or ‘What? It’s Not Glee?’ by Harry M. Bagdasian

The first time I directed sketch comedy material was during my New Playwrights’ Theatre days on Church Street, and Yeardley Smith was in the cast. (She was 18 at the time – her first paying acting...

Improv Workshop at Arts Collective at Howard Community College June 26th & 28th & July 3rd & 5th by Sue Kramer

IMPROV WORKSHOP: 4 DAYS: Tuesday & Thursday June 26, 28 and July 3, 5, 7:00pm-10pm In HCC’s HVPA 115/ Dance Studio – (Directions, Map – click here!) The Arts Collective (AC) at Howard Community...

Coming to The Capital Fringe Festival: ‘Paul Gonsalves on the Road’ by Art Luby

Paul Gonsalves on the Road will be performed at the Capital Fringe Festival from July 21st through the 29th. As any jazz listener or follower of the Duke Ellington Orchestra knows, Paul Gonsalves...

Coming to The Capital Fringe Festival: ‘DADA Returns’ (20th Anniversary Edition) by John Spitzer

DADA Returns (20th Anniversary Edition) is a piece well worth revisiting. In its crazy maze of poetry and comedy, this gem from 1924 is a true mirror of today’s socioeconomic, geopolitical, and...

Coming to The Capital Fringe Festival: ‘Beef Encounter’ by Claire Carroll

“Beef Encounter is the only thing ever to have been conceived on a walking holiday,” maintains Claire Carroll. British actress and playwright, Claire, had wanted to go on a cruise to the Norwegian...

A Look at No Rules Theatre Company’s ‘Suicide, Incorporated’ – Week 4 by Brian Sutow

Ahh, tech: the time in every actor’s life where everything else seems to stop. Dishes go undone, dirty laundry overflows in my hamper, and even this article gets written several days behind schedule....

A Look at No Rules Theatre Company’s ‘Suicide, Incorporated’ – Week 3 by Joshua Morgan

As we finish up our fourth week in the rehearsal room and head into tech, I’m feeling cool, calm, and collected. I’m so eager to share this play with Washington, DC and NRTC audiences. As Brian Sutow...

A Look at No Rules Theatre Company’s ‘Suicide, Incorporated’ – Week 2 by Brian Sutow

This is Part 2 of Co-Artistic Director Brian Sutow taking us behind the scenes of No Rules Theatre Company’s production of Suicide, Incorporated: We are now almost half way through the rehearsal...

Six Degrees of Separation opens May 11th at Vpstart Crow Productions by Rob Batarla

Vpstart Crow Productions’ Artistic Director Rob Batarla tells us about their new production of Six Degrees of Separation which opens this Friday at the Hylton Performing Arts Center. “Vpstart Crow...

‘Cupcake Cabaret’ Coming to The Capital Fringe by Peter Sullivan

The 2012 Capital Fringe Festival will be upon us from July 12-29th. We begin our previews of Fringe shows with Cupcake Cabaret. Peter Sullivan and Pamela Nash tells us about this very exotic and...

A Look at No Rules Theatre Company’s ‘Suicide, Incorporated’ – Week 1 by Brian Sutow

For the next three weeks, Co-Artistic Directors Brian Sutow and Joshua Morgan will be taking us behind the scenes of their new production of Suicide, Incorporated. Here is this week’s article by Brian...