Butter A Love Story — Queen Of The Bohemian Dream

by Ronnie Ruff

The Queen of the Bohemian Dream (Produced By Lorraine Treanor)
My Award: Off The Finge-o-meter
Capital Fringe 2007 winds down to an inevitable ending, I force my way out into the evening heat to see a few shows that I have been excited about since the Fringe started.

The Gregor and Olga Show

The Gregor and Olga Show
Our award: 0 Fringes
by Joel Markowitz
It’s 3:44 AM, and I can’t sleep because I am still in schlock shock.
What were they thinking? They claimed it was a “comedy about Love, Lust and Loathing.” Nothing was funny, no one could sing, and all we saw was Gregory Levine (Gregor) screaming at the [...]

An Evening with George Burns

An Evening with George Burns 
An interview with Alan DeValerio by Joel Markowitz
People always say that Lucille Ball was the greatest comedienne on TV, but I always believed that Gracie Allen was. Gracie was quick-witted and punny and she had that twinkle in her eyes that made her endearing. When something silly came out of her [...]

The Trojan Women - in performance

Happy Friday! As the final weekend of Fringe dawns, we hope you can come check out our performances. Yesterday we had tech rehearsal in the afternoon and a show at 7 pm. Tonight we have a show at 5 pm, and Saturday at 4:30 pm!  We’ve been preparing and rehearsing for a [...]

The Neon Man and Me

The Neon Man and Me
An interview with solo performer Slash Coleman
by Joel Markowitz
He’s the man I keep bumping into at Warehouse, handing out cards for his shows and schmoozing with potential ticket buyers. I love a man who can schmooze, so here’s Slash Coleman enlightening us on his one-man, multi-character show, The Neon Man and [...]

Super Glossy

Super Glossy!
Our Award: 4 Fringes (based on my gut feeling)
By Ronnie Ruff
I really wanted to get this show - I really did! Heck, I am a modern guy who enjoys trying to understand the opposite sex, right? I have read my female friend’s glossy fashion magazines. Vogue, Glamour, GQ… no that’s a guy glossy. [...]

City Paper Sold. No Joke.

It sounds like a Fringe show:  Big wind from Tampa blows into town and swallows up the city’s hip freebie. Budgets get whacked. Production staff get one way tickets to Atlanta.  Funny. Ha Ha.  But the news released Tuesday is no joke.  City Paper, along with Chicago’s Reader, have been sold to Tampa-based Creative Loafing. (whose production offices are in Atlanta.)  We first [...]

Super Glossy! 4 days left!

Okay, I haven’t even told you how my opening night went - despite our wishes for an empty theater and fears of a totally fubar show, we had a decent house of 31 people. We went an hour over on our tech rehearsal, my projectionist didn’t show up (the venue manager kindly [...]

The Trojan Women - a day away

Happy Wednesday! How nice to find a mention of Trojan Women in this morning’s Washington Post’s Fringe coverage. The article points out many of the festival’s female-centric shows, among which we are proud to be counted.
Under the cut: pictures from our director’s triumphant return, and preparing to storm the Source Theater tomorrow.

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Warehouse Closing. Party This Sunday

As announced in DCist:  “For those of you who love the Warehouse Arts Complex as much as we do, some bittersweet news just came in from owners Paul and Molly Ruppert. As you’ve already heard, Warehouse will close its cafe and music venue at the end of this month, thanks to skyrocketing property tax bills. [...]

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