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…
Third time still charms with Hamilton, Lin-Manuel Miranda's game-changing, blood-drumming 2015 musical about Alexander Hamilton, whom he describes in his syncopated, ear-worm lyrics as a "$1…
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…
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…
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…
Are you aware that most of the Greek and Roman gods can be found working in Brooklyn? It's not much of a stretch: whether driving the Chariot of the Sun, ferrying the dead, or guarding the e…
I've been in Our Town five different times in my acting career, from college to community to summer stock to regional over a twenty year span. I have played or understudied nearly every adul…
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 …
Casey Kaleba, of Tooth and Claw Combat Arts, has been a fight choreographer at Signature Theatre for approximately a decade, teaching combat arts for shows from Jelly's Last Jam to Midwester…
"Give me one reason to stay here," crooned Tracy Chapman in 1995, "and I'll turn right back around." A few years earlier, a 7-year-old named Duncan MacMillan embraced the spirit of this lyri…
Bertolt Brecht's The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (trans. George Tabori) presents us with a familiar story: a churlish Chicago mobster slashes and wheedles his way to the top. This time, it'…
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…
The new Second City comedy show, America; It's Complicated, takes aim at liberals, conservatives, and independents, leaving the audience exhausted from laughter while perhaps noodling a few …
The irresistible paradox of T.S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" is its gritty transcendence. It is grounded but out of body, a free-floating passage through a quotidian life w…
I guess I was "nervous in the service." But who wasn't in those fretful days after September 11, 2001? So when the telephone rang just after the Presidential Mobilization Order came ou…
As co-founder and co-executive director of The Theatre Lab, Deb Gottesman is a well known and respected director and teacher, preparing up-and-coming actors for a life in the theatre. Now, a…
GALA Hispanic Theatre's 2019-2020 season will feature a beloved classic from the Golden Age of Spanish theater leading into two plays by contemporary writers, interspersed with dance, theate…
Toni Stone was the first woman to play big-league professional baseball. She succeeded Hank Aaron playing second base for the otherwise all-male Indianapolis Clowns of the Negro American Lea…
In David Lindsay-Abaire's Ripcord, there are two odd couples. The first are roommates Abby and Marilyn at the Bristol Place Senior Living Facility. The second are the farce and melodrama com…
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…
On June 21st, the 2019 DC Black Theatre & Arts Festival kicks off a fifteen day multidisciplinary arts celebration, with loads of theater showcases presented by artists from around the w…
Childhood, magic, myths and legends, and Patsy Cline " who is arguably all of those " will make up the docket for Creative Cauldron's 2019-2020 season. Creative Cauldron will open the season…
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…