Mike Daisey's shows are unique experiences. From past observations, tell us how you view him as a performer or what you're expecting to see. I've seen so many of Daisey's past monologues at …
The Heist is a dramatic improvised show about a 1970's bank robbery gone wrong and I wrote it because I wanted more drama in my life. Pretty literally. I have been doing improvisational come…
Intimate Dinner offers a comic look at fine dining. The solo show written and performed by Lauren French explores our unique and absurd experiences with food. The play takes place at a Po…
Lies? Truth? It's all up for grabs in A Gentleman & A Liar. Brian Curry and I have been performing our show, "The Magic Duel," at The Mayflower Hotel for over five years. During …
Dreamer/Seeker was written by a good friend and classmate of mine from Virginia Tech, Devan Andrews. He is a fellow actor and drew loosely from his experience playing Bottom in A Midsumme…
I never wanted Daddy Poo, my Catholic, conservative, Republican father down in Texas, to know about the priest, or the dwarf or the crack addict. But when you write a memoir about your alcoh…
In 1937, the German playwright, activist Ernst Toller lived in Hollywood. He was public enemy number one of the Nazi regime, from which he was an exile. He was also one of the first German r…
Our work in DC and Baltimore started with Edgar Allan Poe. We partnered up with the Poe Society in Baltimore and we're sort of living in this space of the darker side of human motivation and…
Age 19. I was getting off the plane from Kenyon College to be home for Thanksgiving Break. My dad had colon cancer, but I didn't think it was serious. My mom picked me up, and before I could…
Spent many years waiting for the right play of mine to head to the Fringe again. Loved the experience in 2010 and plan to love it all over again with this show. But it's a very different sor…
A brief interview with NY-based Actor/Playwright Daniel Damiano regarding his acclaimed solo play, American Tranquility, coming to the 2019 Capital Fringe Festival. What was the impetus for …
Energie grew out of the two events I was thinking about over the last year or so. The first was Anthony Bordain's suicide, and how he seemed to have touched so many people so deeply. He was …
I was on an airplane, flying back to the States from Heathrow. I had stopped, as is my habit, at the National Theatre Bookstore before heading back, and purchased my weight in playscript…
When I was a twenty-two year old classical piano student, I moved from my home in Colorado to New York City to try and get into graduate school at The Manhattan School of Music. I had al…
Hola, mi nombre is Erick. I was born and raised in Peru, and a couple of years ago I moved to Washington DC to work on a non-profit human rights organization (and do comedy as well). Now I'm…
Jane Franklin, Artistic Director, Jane Franklin Dance, thinks about how Amazon's HQ2 in Virginia might impact her neighbors in EyeSOAR, her latest Capital Fringe show. The idea for EyeSOAR c…
It all started with two overlapping events in childhood. To amuse the five-year-old me, my father drew a face on the inside bottom of a large water thermos that he used for tennis. When you …
In Nashville, there's an Urban Outfitters that used to be an empty warehouse in a sketchy neighborhood where I performed my first adaptation of The Metamorphosis. It was 2001 (a few week…
William Shakespeare will get two of the six slots in Simon Godwin’s debut season at Shakespeare Theatre Company (STC), along with four playwrights never before seen on STC’s stag…
MarÃa Celeste Arrarás interviewed Lin-Manuel Miranda in El Dorado, Puerto Rico for "Al Rojo Vivo" the day after the closing night of Hamilton in Puerto Rico, in which Miranda reprised …
This review was originally published on DC Metro Theater Arts and appears here with permission. In Jonathan Dahm Robertson's set for Constellation Theatre Company's production of Sarah Ruhl'…
Being genderqueer or part of the LGBTQIAA* community in the Theater world is nothing new and usually accepted without much question. To be part of that same world and out about it in the Tea…
On the simple and appropriately bleak set, Seed Productions presents its premiere of This Historic Night, five short plays wound into one terrific show, written by local DC playwright, Jack …
My interior critic sounds like Jackie Hoffman as Mamacita and for years she grimly told me I'd never be a writer or performer. My exterior champion Mama Jean"part Auntie Mame, part Mama Rose…
Perfecting the Kiss came into the world almost on a dare. Sometime around the turn of the millennium, I was at a brunch for theater folk and someone (I can’t recall who) pondered aloud…