Actors portraying real-life figures will often pick up a history book to research their roles. But the homework hasn't been easy for actors Frank Britton and Dane Figueroa Edidi. The charact…
The ring is up. The wrestling is as real as it gets. All they need is the roar of the crowd. Most plays are no sweat. Actors Jose Joaquin Perez and Shawn T. Andrew have been around the block…
If this presidential race has been giving you tunnel vision, come veer way off to the left with us into Shirley, Vermont. The people of playwright Annie Baker's fictional New England town &#…
Read, sleep, repeat. Grad students run this sad circuit every week, none more so than those in law school. What workaholic wunderkind hasn’t passed out face-down in a stack of books fr…
Hunter talks with Capital Fringe co-founder and Executive Director, Julianne Brienza The Capital Fringe Festival is a marathon of organized chaos, made up of hundreds of artists working hard…
Jason is nursing a carbonated beverage when I approach him. A light rain is starting to fall, but it hasn’t dampened his spirits. “I feel really good,” he says. “We h…
Melissa is riding a post-show high when I bump into her at the Tent. She’s just gotten done with a performance of We Tiresias. “This is my third Fringe in a row, and my second Fr…
It's unclear whether Chris Schwartz's hat is keeping him cool in this hot weather, but he wears it well. He's standing on the main deck of the Fort Fringe bar, chatting and enjoying a drink …
I bump into the Antichrist on the sidewalk patio. She's trying out the new table service at Fringe. "I'm the devil's daughter, to be exact," says Maya. "It's my first time playing the Antich…
TD Smith doesn't do any juggling in his role as Capitano in this year's Faction of Fools Fringe show, Tales of Marriage and Mozzarella, but he's still got multiple balls in the air. TD is on…
In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Somewhere nearby, there lived an elf. The hobbit found a ring and carried it with him — an act of courage that led him and his kin to 2.6 …
Fringe performers have to overcome any number of technical limitations when they put up their plays. For Claire Carroll, that meant having to stage a new play featuring a field full of cattl…
The Tent at Fringe is pretty small, except when it's Madison Square Garden. That was the thundering scale of things on Saturday night as the first performance of Jilly Manilly got under way.…
It took a few days of Fringe-going before I saw fake vomit hit the wall during a show (and, accidentally, the ceiling too) but thank goodness it came sooner rather than later. Every Fringe f…
Some people seek out their fantasy girl on the internet, but Jack is going old-fashioned in Artists' Initiative's new play. The object of his desire is painted with loving strokes and framed…
Sometimes critics can shed light on the darkness. It's our duty and our pleasure to clue in the public to an unknown piece of theatre when we can, holding the front door open for others to p…
When a show about death starts with video clips from Mork and Mindy, Woody Allen, and The Mary Tyler Moore Show, you can safely assume it'll have a comic bent. And it's clear from the first …
Some people join the Occupy movement to rise up against a corrupt system. Tommy Nugent showed up with his picket sign to try and get the word "asshole" on national TV. But we often end up st…
DC Theatre Scene launches a new series today called Tent Talk, a special month-long celebration of the friendships, conversations, and brief encounters that happen at the 2012 Capital Fringe…
A big, fresh wave of new people and plays hits DC next Saturday, with the kickoff of the third annual DC Black Theatre Festival. From June 23 to July 1, the festival will showcase a massive …
Although many will remember David Schramm as the cantankerous airline owner Roy Biggins from the nineties NBC sitcom “Wings,” the Kentucky-born actor has been a man of the stage …
For one brief moment halfway through Cuchullain, Aaron stops and smells the roses. Walking along a quiet Belfast street in the middle of the night with two friends, he pauses, bends down, an…
Dissecting an episode of The Simpsons used to fall to those bored on the couch or small-talking at a friend's party. That was before the grid went down, the cities caught fire, and the Ameri…
"Every writing project is driven by something personal," says Andrew Hinderaker. "You have an impulse to tell a story. Then you get into it, and you realize… Oh, man. This is a complet…
For every two or three hats most people wear in the theatre world, Joe Banno wears four or five. Over the last 25 years he has directed over 100 theatre productions, many of them operas and …