It's time for an ALL-NEW episode of #broadway #jeopardy !! 5 Categories, 25 Clues PLUS the Final Jeopardy Question! The questions start off easy and then get slightly more challenging until the ultimate test, the $1000 ro…
The Black Artist Coalition (BAC), a collective of DC-area performers, designers, administrators and arts supporters, announced its purpose and plans today. The BAC was formed in response to …
"Without the arts, without music, without dance, without drama, without photography, the civil rights movement would have been like a bird without wings." " John Lewis The Honorable John Lew…
 My name is Pamela Jafari. I am a Washingtonian senior who is Black, lesbian, a mother, a grandmother, and a great-grandmother. I have a 26 y/o grandson, and 3 y/o great-grandson…
It began with sawdust, clowns, and the high wire. It began with walking excitedly across muddy English fields to a gaudy big top. It began with spectacle and a world elsewhere. Then, on my n…
I can't remember a time when I was NOT hooked on performing. Â My Mama played 'Let's pretend' with my sister and me in the kitchen back when I was four and five years old and I loved it.Â…
I grew up in a small town in the middle of Amish Country in Pennsylvania. There wasn't much to do other than ride your bike, go to the pool or count cows. So we had a first grade teacher…
Dear Friends, We were saddened to learn this week that Tia Shearer Bassett, a valued member of the DC theater community and a bright shining light of a human, has recently been diagnosed wit…
What is it like for leaders of Color to work in White theatres? This Howlround Theatre Commons interview is between two well-known Washington area leaders:Â Michael J. Bobbitt, former Art…
This review by Jennifer Georgia was first published by DC Metro Theater Arts on July 15, 2019. We are unable to attend the performance and are very grateful to DCMTA for permission to reprin…
It was a windy spring day, and I was taking a moment to zone out during rugby practice. As I looked up, noticing a plane flying above me, my mind wandered, as minds often do. "I wonder what …
As I write this, I have now seen Mike Daisey do 8 of the 18 consecutive chapters in his A People's History. Â I've written a dispatch about each (which you can read here), and I'll be cove…
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 com…
We listened as Allison Malcomstogle sat down with Robert Kittredge, the uthor of 33 1/3 Chorus Girls, to talk about the upcoming festival. Some of what we heard was barely believable. Malcom…
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 Stat…
So, I was reading "Norwegian Wood"Â 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,…
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-pe…
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 l…
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 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, posi…
 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.  Late…
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? You know…
In August of 2015, at the tender age of 23, I decided to pack up my car and drive across the country from New York to Oregon for an acting apprenticeship opportunity with a small theater com…
Quick chat with Capital Fringe artist Miranda Jonte, on the how and why of her play, good & kissed. Â Tickets for good & kissed Take your broken heart and turn it into art. Mirand…
Passing had an unusually long gestation period. The idea for a play about the Holocaust first came to me in 2010. But, as is often the case, the story in my head did not translate well to th…
A History of Laughter is my stand-up comedy walking tour of Pennsylvania Avenue. Already sounds amazing, right? Why are you doing this? I started performing stand-up in DC several years …
Mike Daisey's shows are unique experiences. From past observations, tell us how you view him as a performer or what you're expecting to see. I've seen so many of Daisey's past monologues at …
The Heist is a dramatic improvised show about a 1970's bank robbery gone wrong and I wrote it because I wanted more drama in my life. Pretty literally. I have been doing improvisational come…
Intimate Dinner offers a comic look at fine dining. The solo show written and performed by Lauren French explores our unique and absurd experiences with food. The play takes place at a Po…
Lies? Truth? It's all up for grabs in A Gentleman & A Liar. Brian Curry and I have been performing our show, "The Magic Duel," at The Mayflower Hotel for over five years. During …
Dreamer/Seeker was written by a good friend and classmate of mine from Virginia Tech, Devan Andrews. He is a fellow actor and drew loosely from his experience playing Bottom in A Midsumme…
I never wanted Daddy Poo, my Catholic, conservative, Republican father down in Texas, to know about the priest, or the dwarf or the crack addict. But when you write a memoir about your alcoh…
In 1937, the German playwright, activist Ernst Toller lived in Hollywood. He was public enemy number one of the Nazi regime, from which he was an exile. He was also one of the first German r…
Our work in DC and Baltimore started with Edgar Allan Poe. We partnered up with the Poe Society in Baltimore and we're sort of living in this space of the darker side of human motivation and…
Age 19. I was getting off the plane from Kenyon College to be home for Thanksgiving Break. My dad had colon cancer, but I didn't think it was serious. My mom picked me up, and before I could…
Spent many years waiting for the right play of mine to head to the Fringe again. Loved the experience in 2010 and plan to love it all over again with this show. But it's a very different sor…
A brief interview with NY-based Actor/Playwright Daniel Damiano regarding his acclaimed solo play, American Tranquility, coming to the 2019 Capital Fringe Festival. What was the impetus for …
Energie grew out of the two events I was thinking about over the last year or so. The first was Anthony Bordain's suicide, and how he seemed to have touched so many people so deeply. He was …
I was on an airplane, flying back to the States from Heathrow. I had stopped, as is my habit, at the National Theatre Bookstore before heading back, and purchased my weight in playscript…
When I was a twenty-two year old classical piano student, I moved from my home in Colorado to New York City to try and get into graduate school at The Manhattan School of Music. I had al…
Hola, mi nombre is Erick. I was born and raised in Peru, and a couple of years ago I moved to Washington DC to work on a non-profit human rights organization (and do comedy as well). Now I'm…
Jane Franklin, Artistic Director, Jane Franklin Dance, thinks about how Amazon's HQ2 in Virginia might impact her neighbors in EyeSOAR, her latest Capital Fringe show. The idea for EyeSOAR c…
It all started with two overlapping events in childhood. To amuse the five-year-old me, my father drew a face on the inside bottom of a large water thermos that he used for tennis. When you …
In Nashville, there's an Urban Outfitters that used to be an empty warehouse in a sketchy neighborhood where I performed my first adaptation of The Metamorphosis. It was 2001 (a few week…
William Shakespeare will get two of the six slots in Simon Godwin’s debut season at Shakespeare Theatre Company (STC), along with four playwrights never before seen on STC’s stag…
MarÃa Celeste Arrarás interviewed Lin-Manuel Miranda in El Dorado, Puerto Rico for "Al Rojo Vivo" the day after the closing night of Hamilton in Puerto Rico, in which Miranda reprised …
This review was originally published on DC Metro Theater Arts and appears here with permission. In Jonathan Dahm Robertson's set for Constellation Theatre Company's production of Sarah Ruhl'…
Being genderqueer or part of the LGBTQIAA* community in the Theater world is nothing new and usually accepted without much question. To be part of that same world and out about it in the Tea…
On the simple and appropriately bleak set, Seed Productions presents its premiere of This Historic Night, five short plays wound into one terrific show, written by local DC playwright, Jack …
My interior critic sounds like Jackie Hoffman as Mamacita and for years she grimly told me I'd never be a writer or performer. My exterior champion Mama Jean"part Auntie Mame, part Mama Rose…
Perfecting the Kiss came into the world almost on a dare. Sometime around the turn of the millennium, I was at a brunch for theater folk and someone (I can’t recall who) pondered aloud…
