– a guest article written by Fringe artist Andrew Potter – The Road to High Street is the live, multi-media, musical, storytelling performance of my days as a guitar-playing, uni…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:01AM– Jane Franklin, Artistic Director of the Arlington, VA-based Jane Franklin Dance, on her collaboration with musician Tom Teasley on Blue Moon/Red River coming to the 2014 Capital Fr…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:10AMSouth Carolina isn’t the first place that comes to mind when considering good theatre, but there are several gems ‘down south’ just waiting to be sought out. One South Carolina theatre…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:34AM- Playwright Patrice Cassedy writing about her new play debuting at the 2014 DC Black Theatre Festival - A few days after Trayvon Martin was killed, my husband and I ate out in Burbank, Cali…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:29AMRecently, the FringeArts blog of Philadelphia interviewed the critically successful performer-producer Charlotte Ford about her decision to take a leave the arts scene to pursue a more forma…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:40AMLiz Lerman is the sort of artist who constantly finds herself fascinated. The veteran choreographer and MacArthur “Genius” has conceived and choreographed dance productions for nearly fo…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 04:29PM“People love their mothers,” Tovah Feldshuh said. “Golda Meir is the full bodied, big breasted woman whose greatest love is the state of Israel. For one night, I can bring this…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:46AMFor the first time in 5 years, I’m not working at a theatre box office. Before I started university, I decided I’d rather my day job be in the theatre. I ended up working for 3 different…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:20AMIn an effort to spur interest in the local performing arts scene, which has been anemic at best, and to cut ticket escalating costs, an advocacy group known as the Virtual Theatergoers Union…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:43AM- by guest writer Harv Lester – I routinely search out new cast albums for musical theater shows. I have what I once thought was a very large cast album collection – between 900 an…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:32PMby guest writers Robert Michael Oliver (director) and Elizabeth Bruce (author) Oliver: I think of this show as a sort of grand experiment. I’ve done poetry in performance before, and thi…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:11PM- by guest writer Laura Zam - For several years, I had been wanting to write a comedy about the long-term effects of my own childhood sexual abuse. I know, this subject is a riot! But that&#…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:05AM- by guest writer David Dudley - Like many world-changing ideas, the notion to create a rock opera based on the War of 1812 came upon us after a few drinks. This was in the early 1990s, when…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:09AM- by guest writer Kelly Weckesser - It all began with an obsession of the human head. The collaborative process of creating heady collectables stemmed from Deep Vision Dance Company’s shar…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 04:46AM- by guest writer Stephen Mead - George Bernard Shaw said “Imagination is the best scene-painter.” Sometimes people say they prefer radio to TV because the pictures are better. W…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:52AM– by guest writer Meghan Long – Do you ever wonder where your sh%t comes from? Those in the theatre community are no stranger to Mike Daisey. His engaging and epic work has s…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 04:53AM– by guest writer Emma Crane Jaster – I was first inspired to create To Know a Veil while traveling in Morocco a couple years ago. It was my first time in a predominantly Musli…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 04:48AM– by guest writer Carl Brandt Long – A car crash survivor wakes up. He has made a miraculous recovery – so miraculous that his wife is suspicious. He finds he has a strange…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:44AM– by guest writer Henry “Duke” Ryan – I admit it, I am an addicted writer. If I don’t write, I get nervous, upset, irritable. So one day, with nothing to write I …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:15AMTickets to an Event –the Fringe is on the Streets of DC - by Graham Pilato - This was a vision we had back in early 2012. Chinatown, H and 7th Streets, NW DC, late afternoon on a week…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:21AM- by guest writer Kevin Rodden - RFK: 45 years after and we still can’t forget him President John Fitzgerald Kennedy was shot and killed 50 years ago. His brother, Robert Francis Kenned…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:31AM– by Lauren R. Alexander – After a wildly successful production of Naomi Iizuka’s Polaroid Stories at American University in November 2012, Blind Pug Arts Collective picked …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:34AM- by guest writer Brynn Tucker - I first got the idea for A Guide to Dancing Naked while dancing naked by myself in my apartment. I said to myself: I do this all the time, and no one knows I…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:00PM- by guest writer Kevin Finkelstein - Washington, DC is the seat of political power in America. Within these 68 square miles, decisions are formed, mistakes are made, and policies are implem…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:32AM- by guest writer Vaughn Irving - Who’s the only son of God who really knows how to get it on? It’s Jesus…Disco Jesus. Click for tickets There is no energy in the world quite like a li…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:58AM– Guest writer Noa Baum – I was born and raised in Jerusalem and let me tell you, growing up in Israel is more than Moses and matzos or war. I’ve lived in the USA since 1990 an…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:16AM- by guest writer Vanessa Strickland - Debuting in DC this summer, The Young Olympians & the Most Amazingly Awesome Adventure Ever! (aka “YO“) is an all-ages musical with a…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 04:34AMHave you ever seen a show that’s so bad, it somehow becomes good? You might laugh because you can relate to all those horrible moments on stage. You may even cry through the laughter becau…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:24AM- Our guest writer is Patrice Gerideau - You are so Ugly… Can you imagine hearing those words everyday of your life? I can. In my twenties, I developed a skin condition, vitiligo, which …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:05AM- Guest writer is Shaina Lynn - Growing up in New Orleans I’ve experienced a unique culture that can be foreign to the rest of America. How we eat, speak, and live is very specific in our …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:38AMby Guest Writer Jon Jon Johnson This all started on a whim. I’ve always wanted to try my hand at devising a piece. While season planning for Avalanche Theatre Company’s 2012-2013 season,…
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