Wednesday, July 5, 2017
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 Orl…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:04AMMonday, July 3, 2017
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 the…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:54PMTell 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…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:36PMZack 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…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:36AMSunday, July 2, 2017
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 e…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:04PMHave 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 …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:36PMNew 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 havin…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:36PMFriday, June 30, 2017
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 S…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:48PMLost 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…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:18AMA warning from A GOD You mortals keep screwing up in the same way again, and again, and again! How many times do I have to visit destruction on your vain leaders who think they can control m…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:06AMThursday, June 29, 2017
Choreographer, Yoshiko Usami (AKA Yokko) & Producer Bob Lyness responded to some questions from DC Theatre Scene. ———————— Tell us about …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:36AM Theater can be entertainment and be delightfully distracting, but I think theater can and should comment on current events by setting the stage and letting it play out before our eyes…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:18AMWednesday, June 28, 2017
Coming soon to Capital Fringe! Nu Sass brings our 4th Installment of our acclaimed Small Batch Audience Series this summer to Caos on F. Exit Carolyn, a tale of a friendship to withstand the…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:32PMNeurotic dreamers, perverse philosophers, booze-ridden angels and sometime fools, mourners of forgotten history, hypochondriac, misogynist and addict bicker, shed their tales and confess the…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:12AMSo Tiresias’ Tits is a ridiculously over-the-top show based on an equally over-the-top French play from 1917 called Les Mamelles de Tiresias which was the origin of the word “surreal”.…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:54AMTuesday, June 27, 2017
Mr. Taken: Too Normal for Fringe? I didn’t conceive Mr. Taken as a Capital Fringe show. It is a more traditional show, based on real human actions and not hyperrealism or extreme satire or…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:36AMMonday, June 26, 2017
I’m genetically predisposed to be a storyteller. No one in my family can respond to a simple question with a simple answer. A colorful narrative, complete with flourishing hand gestures, a…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:36AMActor Alec Seymour responded to some our questions, and added a few of his own. What story are you telling? You know, just a good old fashioned bromance between a boy and a plant trapped in …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:32AMSaturday, June 24, 2017
A teacher and a student argue over a remark in class. Or was it a remark about class? Or was it really about race? Or gender? My new play Paper brings the explosive confrontations on campus …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:24AMFriday, June 23, 2017
Imagine you are lost and alone in the forest. You have never been here before and you cannot see to find your way out. You don’t know if anyone knows you are missing or if they will be abl…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:04PMBen Lockshin wrote Caveat, about his experiences with DC’s underground world of group housing. Here he talks about his upcoming Fringe show. Tell us about the moment where you said to…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:32AMPortraits of GRRRLS is a short performance piece created by participants of the program, GRRRLS with HEART. During GRRRLS with HEART we work in Vienna, VA for two weeks. The first five to si…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:12AMThursday, June 22, 2017
Everyone remembers their first love. And everyone remembers what it’s like to lose it. Heartbreak sucks and my first heartbreak was rough. I was in my early 20s and on the road with a …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:04AMIt was 2012 when King’s Players was born. For our first show, we tackled an original piece called In the Company of de Sade. The premise was simple: a director attempts to stage the Ma…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:36AMWednesday, June 21, 2017
The idea for my show started 6 years ago after I attended a voice workshop, when one of the coaches told me that I would be good at doing cabaret; I never thought of doing that. At the tim…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:24AMIn my experience, there are two kinds of science fiction that tend to make their way to movie audiences: action blockbusters with a veneer of futuristic technology like The Terminator or The…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:18AMMonday, June 19, 2017
I came across Blue Over You at the Dayton Playhouse FutureFest two summers ago and immediately fell in love with it. The story of Francis, this incredibly funny and difficult drama teacher, …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:54AMMonday, March 27, 2017
On March 9, 2017, John Patrick Shanley, the author of Doubt: A Parable, granted an exclusive interview to the Quotidian Theatre Company (QTC), where Doubt will be performed from April 7 …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:54AMThursday, December 15, 2016
A caring, open-minded producer and perceptive, engaged audience members played crucial roles in the success story of the original new Broadway musical Dear Evan Hansen’s journey from page …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:48AMFriday, November 11, 2016
Why Nu Sass Productions is giving away their closing weekend tickets to 43 1/2: The Greatest Deaths of Shakespeare’s Tragedies. “DC is an amazing city. It is full of some of the har…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:42PMThursday, October 13, 2016
Nu Sass’s fall show, a remount of our audience-acclaimed 43 ½: The Greatest Deaths of Shakespeare’s Tragedies opens next week at the Capital Fringe’s Logan Fringe Arts Space. To…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:50PM 
