This summer, DC Theatre Scene will be adding coverage of four major festivals to our regular review and podcast schedules. Here’s the run-down.
Source Festival – we turned up for Tech Tuesday at Source to talk with directors and actors getting ready for Week 1 of this new play festival which runs through July 13. See and hear the coverage here.
Hip-Hop Theater Festival – Poet/journalist Porscha Coleman will be covering this 5 day celebration of hip-hop culture for us The Festival is in town from July 8 – 12. It’s all free. The schedule is here. So check out this dynamic festival, and come back to read Porscha’s interviews and coverage.
Contemporary American Theater Festival runs from July 9 – August 3. Tim Treanor will take you to Shepherdstown, WV for this 5-play festival. He’ll see all 5 in 2 days, and report back. Consider a trip – it’s only 80 miles west of Washington. Here’s the schedule.
Capital Fringe Festival – I am very excited to announce that we will have 9 new reviewers from area colleges along with some of our staff reviewers giving you the low-down on the shows. Fringe runs from July 10 – 27. Tickets are on sale now from the brand new Fringe site.
It’s a lot to cover, and we hope you’ll be there with us, telling us what you saw and felt, keeping the conversation going.
And at summer’s end – get ready to vote for your favorite shows from the past season in DC Theatre Scene’s Audience Choice Awards. Don’t know about them? Click here for last season’s nominees and to listen to our big Awards Show.
Hope you’ll be able to catch our show that we love and think you will too, namely “TALES OF DOOMED LOVE (or is it ever worth it?” a world premiere by Andrea Stolowitz. “The best original script we saw in this region last year,” said The Triangle Independent of “Tales of Doomed Love” in development, citing “riveting if not prescient” connections to present-day geopolitics. In these classic stories told with a twist, you will recognize warriors, rulers, and star-crossed lovers whose mistaken identity, role reversal, and ironic sacrifice show in new light that touches on important present day themes.
Director Jessica Lefkow’s “Margherita” sold out at CapFringe 2007. She directs world premiere “Honey Brown Eyes” this autumn for Theater J. Kacser’s dramatization of 2007 Nobel Laureate Doris Lessing’s memoir “In Pursuit of the English: Rose” sold out at CapFringe 2006 and went on to England to play the Doris Lessing Conference. His internet acting known to a cult following and picked up by Turner Broadcasting (www.DCLugi.tv), Dave Coyne completes the cast. Stolowitz plays have been at such venues as The Old Globe and The Long Wharf. She visits D.C. from Oregon for this production.
FWD!
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~~Hilary