11 stories by "Ellouise Schoettler"
 Ready to Serve is written and performed by Ellouise Schoettler. The Capital Fringe is a great venue for a performer to premiere or to season work. This July marks my eighth consecutiv…
Last year as the 2013 capital Fringe closed Iwas already beginning to wonder what I would be telling in 2014. My show Arlington National Cemetery: My Forever Home had gone well and I knew…
A Double Feature of two plays: An Actor’s Nightmare and Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For You by Christopher Durang, the Tony Award-winning winning playwright, is be…
TED and TEDx talks are a kind of popular mini-theater that has a world-wide audience. Although it wasn't spelled out on my ‘bucket list," having a chance to tape a TEDx Talk for the in…
Have a ball! Start the holidays with the laugh-filled family show "The British Players' Cinderella, written by James Barry and directed with over-flowing humor by Charles Hoag. Cinderell…
As a storyteller I strongly urge you to buy tickets to see The Night Watcher at The Studio Theatre, especially if you appreciate good storytelling, a fine actor, and a thought-provoking s…
Last week my son and I were part of yet another audience captivated by Estelle Parsons and Stephen Spinella playing mother and son in Eric Coble's marvelous play The Velocity of Autumn, n…
Several years ago when Silver Spring, MD story-lover Laura Hagmann was driving back from the annual October National Storytelling Festival in Jonesborough, Tennessee, she realized she wanted…
        SOLO  SERIES Double Feature " Two more Saturdays to see this Outstanding Performance by two Fine Storytellers. (For Adults). SpeakeasyDC, the leadi…
When I was a junior at Central High School in Charlotte NC I was cast as Mrs. Soames, the town busybody, in our school production of Our Town. Thornton Wilder's play captured my imagination.…
On April 7th at Dance Exchange, the room was filled Saturday night when Georgia storyteller Andy Offutt Irwin was in Takoma Park for a show sponsored by the Institute of Musical Tradition…