A look at the art of the Fringe button The Capital Fringe button you’ll be sporting somewhere on your person this July may look like you bought it at a Winslow Homer exhibit, but actually it’s art created by a member of the Capital Fringe staff whose proceeds support both the Festival and its performers.
Archives for July 2011
Capital Fringe Festival 2011
Welcome to this year’s Capital Fringe splash page, an easy reference to all of our Fringe coverage throughout the site.
Just one more, then Cherry Red goes out with a big bang
The press release reads CHERRY RED PRODUCTIONS TO CLOSE FOREVER AND EVER AND EVER, AFTER ONE FINAL NIGHT OF DEBAUCHERY! And on that one final night, August 27th, DC’s smut-loving theatre company bows out after performing two shows based on – what else? – the dirtiest joke of all time, The Aristocrats. (If you don’t already know […]
Next to Normal – Original Cast Recording
Musical theatre lovers now fall into two groups — those in Washington, Charlotte and Toronto, and all the rest. Those in the first group ought not listen to the original Broadway cast recording of the searingly emotional, surprisingly melodic rock musical Next to Normal. Instead, they should set aside an evening to go see the […]
Next to Normal
Out on a limb, up on a tightwire, off the high dive — Brian Yorkey (librettist and lyricist) and Tom Kitt (composer) took a bold challenge in constructing a musical around an otherwise typical suburban household rocked to its foundation by storms of mental illness.
DC’s Hip-Hop Theater Festival opens July 11th
Back by popular demand, the DC Hip-Hop Theater Festival celebrates its 10th anniversary by returning to Washington, D.C. with free and low cost events centered on hip-hop in the form of theatre, dance, art and music will be featured. Beginning July 11 and continuing through July 16, and with historical venues such as The Kennedy […]
The Illusion
Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Tony Kushner (Angels in America) continues to make me question that I was valedictorian at PS 139 once in the long ago. I usually leave theatres in which his plays are playing feeling intellectually inferior, for I have not been moved to laughter or tears at any of his subsequent works.