We knew it had to be the blood eggs. When you’re only given four minutes to present your play at the Fringe Preview night, it focuses you. You’ve been immersed in a rich, funny, tragic, …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:52PMTake a trip with us through time and space! Grain of Sand Theatre, winner of the Capital Fringe Festival’s Best Drama Awards in 2011 and 2013, returns to the Capital Fringe Festival w…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:19AMThe life of Edgar Allan Poe is a subject of endless and fascinated discussion and debate. But at the core of our fascination with Poe is the work itself – his poems, and literary criticism…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:14PMSteal A Step World Premieres Kick Before You Drown at the Capital Fringe Festival on July 7-14, 2016 Genre-bending company debuts a provocative show melding contemporary circus and performa…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:43PMMental illness, addiction, and inherited family trauma: these are the ingredients from which Leah Harris spins her solo performance. Working with Director Regie Cabico, she mined her …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:00AMWe might have been on over 100 dates between the seven us – in fact I’m betting that’s a low estimate. Myself (creator/director Brett Steven Abelman), assistant director Emily Cohen, a…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:31PM181 school shootings have occurred in the United States since the Columbine shooting on April 20, 1999. 231 young people died from gun violence in their place of education. High school stude…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:26AMYou’ve run marathons in Kuala Lumpur, did the half Ironman in Hawaii, and proved your mettle on the now-quaint Tough Mudder race course as well as its clones. But where to go for your next…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:48AMHUNT: A Political Drama about Power, Blackmail and Tragedy in the U.S. Senate It’s hard to believe that the events in this play actually happened, but they did. I started my research when …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:52AMSometimes it starts with the title. While taking a graduate research class on qualitative methods, playwright Ward Kay learned about oral histories and thought “That would make a great tit…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:23AMAND 1! a dansical parody by ArasDance Join ArasDance for an exciting summer as they present their newest work, AND 1! a dansical parody. Yes, that is correct, a dansical parody! This will b…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:35AMAct Like a GRRRL (ALAG) is an autobiographical writing and performance program that inspires girls (ages 12-18) to write about their lives and transform their thoughts into monologues, dance…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:45AMA Spellbinding New Play by Gabriel S. Hudson Sees Its World Premier in the Capital Fringe Festival this Summer Each year, the Capital Fringe Festival showcases innovative and avant garde art…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:23AMLocal, middle-aged playwrights become first-time Fringers They’re eager. They’re excited. They’re budding playwrights. Oh, and some of them are retired. Five local playwrights, somewha…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:25AMHere is Part 3 of 5 interviews by Sharon J. Anderson, Contemporary American Theater Festival Trustee/Professional Story Listener and Creative Director. Meet Playwright Allison Gregory and l…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:00AMHere is Part 2 of 5 interviews by Sharon J. Anderson, Contemporary American Theater Festival Trustee/Professional Story Listener and Creative Director. Meet Playwright Christina Anderson …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:35PMWhy BECOMING will challenge everything you think you know about dance Becoming….’to begin to be’….you may be asking yourself, what does that even mean? I wasn’t sure either…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:43PMNovember 17th, 1983 Dear Capital Fringe: Hello Capital Fringe, I do hope you are doing well, as I am doing just fantastic. Well, I am reaching out to you to inquire about your Thanksgiving. …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:53AMDANCING CLIMATE CHANGE: Merging Ballet, Science, and Film in MOVEIUS Contemporary Ballet’s “GLACIER” at the 2016 Capital Fringe Festival This groundbreaking, multimedia production pu…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:00AMHUNT: A Political Drama NEW POLITICAL PLAY IS BASED ON A TRUE STORY OF PARTISAN POLITICS, HOMOPHOBIA, BLACKMAIL AND TRAGEDY IN THE U.S. SENATE HUNT: A Political Drama explores the dangers o…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:00AMPower Punk Dance Trio Penetrates The Fringe Are you worthy? The Gods of Rock command you to stand in awe before this fearsome feminist punk rock modern dance band! Some call them political…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:30AMHitchcock’s Rope meets Blade Runner in an Interactive Rock Opera Science-lab rivalry turns deadly in the race to build the perfect robot. Hidden passions explode as artificial intelligence…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:10AMEllouise Schoettler is very excited to be returning to Cap Fringe 2016, for the seventh year. This year she is performing the premiere of Ready to Serve at Caos on F. Ready to Serve: Unknown…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:35AMCelebrating Joan: A Tribute to Joan Rivers, which left the audience of admirers howling last night at The Kennedy Center’s Eisenhower Theater, was an evening for “mature audiences…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:30PMAladdin and the Magic of Dance On June 4, 2016, in the Poolesville High School auditorium, Hope Garden Children’s Ballet Theatre staged a production of original ballet, Aladdin and His M…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:42AMSometimes a house is just a house. Sometimes it’s a home. Sometimes it’s the bearer of secrets or of legacies. And sometimes it’s a stage where dreams, emotions, fears, and changes pla…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:09PMCreator Henry Ragan enlightens us on In a Day of Dreary: A horror play. Joel: In the marketing, In a Day of Dreary is described as a “horror play.” What does that mean? Henry: More ofte…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:22PMPaul Gonsalves (1920-1974) was an immensely talented tenor saxophonist with the Duke Ellington Orchestra from 1950 until his death in 1974. He is best known as the creator of one of the most…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:37AM“The first time I played through the score, I was struck by its beauty and shocked that it was written twenty years ago– the message is still relevant now, and I knew the story neede…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:39AMThe rumors are true. After months of speculation, BRYCE confirmed he will be gracing the 2016 Capital Fringe stage with a brand new show BRYCE: Hydrogen Blonde. After a successful debut at T…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:45AMDark Times at Grimesville High: A Darkly Funny Take on the High School Musical Everybody loves high school! Well, at least Olivia Hope (Tess Higgins) does. As a hard-hitting school journal…
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