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 12:50PMPast the pottery yurts, glass-blowing demonstrations, and children’s theatres, a troupe of dancers practiced enthusiastically in the Hall of Mirrors at the recent Glen Echo Park Open H…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:44AMWhen new leadership takes the reigns of an arts institution, the focus tends to be on where the company is going in the future. For the new Artistic Director of The Washington Ballet, Julie …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:27PMEven if you think of yourself as being more cultured than the average American, it can be hard to work up the courage to attend ballet performances. What if it’s too long? What if it’s b…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:37AMWhen he received the 2015 Gary Maker Audience Award, long time theatre supporter turned performer David S. Kessler encouraged a Folger audience: “Being in the audience is not a spectato…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:33AMSince 2013, the 4615 Theatre has popped up in many different corners of DC, from basements and backyards to Woolly Mammoth’s rehearsal hall. We mount innovative stagings of classic…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:10PMIn , she took me back so tenderly, loss and regeneration shape-shift, dance, cling, fold, blink, burn and are filed away into multiple experiences that inform our present moment. If we have …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:12AMA phone rings. The voice on the other end reports that there’s an emergency: a teddy bear has broken its leg and needs to see a doctor right away. Thankfully, the phone was answered by tea…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:03AM–Solo performer Leah Harris responds to some questions from DC Theatre Scene– Tell us about the moment where you said to yourself: “I just have to do this!” I’ve be…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:06PMTheatergoers from the Washington, DC area are no strangers to American political history, but few of us know about the despicable, yet true, events on which HUNT is based. I’m fa…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:25AMThe second collaboration between Broadway playwright Lanie Robertson (Lady Day at the Emerson’s Bar & Grill, Broadway & HBO) and Director Natalie Villamonte Zito, The Trial of Mrs.…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:29AMWhen William Shakespeare was writing The Life of King Henry the Fifth, an extraordinarily famous and polarizing nobleman was on his way to Ireland to put down a very bloody and persistent re…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:29AMTell us about the moment you said, I JUST HAVE TO DO THIS!! Beck Hansen released an album to the public that he said “was open to artist interpretation.” With the visual art and music …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:25PMDirector Renana Fox shares her thoughts on 22 BOOM! Long ago I came across a quote by the author and museum director Kenneth Clark explaining the value of public art. He said, “The onl…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:54PMFor those who know me, the concept of Oral Histories doesn’t sound like the type of play that I would write. I’m seen as a little straight-laced. I have people who apologize to me when t…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:33PMSex, lawyers, and slamming doors — when opera meets the modern sitcom, it leads to comedy of operatic proportions! The Forgotten Opera Company is pleased to present the world premiere …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:33PMWho is the kind of person who decides to move to Kabul, Afghanistan? Obviously, there are diplomats, military service members, and NGO workers who accept assignments in dangerous locations l…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:28AMWe used to live down the street from a playground with a giant cement slide that dated from the 1950s. Our daughter has always loved thrilling experiences, so when she was two she decided th…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:22AMFor the past eight years I’ve been performing Glen Berger’s terribly titled but brilliantly written play; Underneath the Lintel. (Not lentil; “lintel”. It’s the horizontal top of a…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:00PMMy grandfather was the meanest S.O.B. this side of the east coast. Seriously! My mother once told me that if you wanted to meet the devil, all you had to do was knock on my grandparent’s d…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:09AMFree Range actually has little to do about Free Range Parenting. The play is not so much inspired by Free Range Parenting as it is inspired by the media coverage that Free Range Pa…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:56PMNovember 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 Theatre Scene at 03:08PMWhat I didn’t get to see was what drew me to these shows. I’m talking about Eight and Romeo and Juliet: Choose Your Own Ending, both presented at Capital Fringes past. Ella Hickson, the …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:30AMWhere did the idea for One Man Romeo come from? After a coaching session, I told my acting coach, Martin Blank, that I always wanted to play Romeo. He suggested that I put on a solo show de…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:44PM“Okay, explain your play to me.” It’s Fringe preview night, I’m drinking at the bar, and this is the third time in an hour I’ve been asked this question. Since we s…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:16AMAbout a year ago, I was having dinner with a friend of mine and the conversation turned towards the pros and cons of technology and to what extent technology negatively affects climate chang…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:12PMMy one grandmother was so important to me, but weren’t there supposed to be two? What would it have been like for my dad, to lose his mother at age six? These were questions from childhoo…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:40AMWhy 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 eith…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:39PMWhen I was a kid, I loved Saturday morning cartoons (of course), and the old Superman series, but most of all I loved the black-and-white films of physical comedians of yore—Chaplin and La…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:21PMClose to forty four years ago the Duke Ellington Orchestra made an appearance in Rhode Island on a bleak November evening. I was attending a nearby college and was able to persuade several f…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:11AM– Solo performer Christine Demuth responds to some questions from DC Theatre Scene about The Missing Peace. – – Tell us about the moment where you said to yourself: “I just…
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