– by guest writer Ty Hallmark- Some marriages are tragical. Some farcical. All are challenging! At the time of writing this article, it is the eve of a landmark Supreme Court decision. Soon, the country will know whether nine justices have decided for or against DOMA as the law of the land. While marriage in […]
Archives for June 2013
Capital Fringe: Godiva Dates and One Night Stands
– by guest writer Matt Ripa – This year Doorway Arts Ensemble is producing Godiva Dates & One Night Stands at the Capital Fringe Festival. This production marks our third trip to Fringe. Previously, we produced Herbie: Poet of the Wild West and Sex and Education. Our latest offering is a a detour from our […]
Capital Fringe: The Snuff Musical
– by guest writer Derek T. Pickens – Kinky Boots. Bring It On: The Musical. A Christmas Story: The Musical. What do all these musicals have in common? Well, yes, they’re all Tony Nominated musicals but there’s one other unifying factor. How about a few more shows to help out:
Source Fest full length: A Frontier, As told by the Frontier
A group of children dressed in animal costumes perform a fable in an outdoor setting. Seems as wholesome as a Norman Rockwell picture. The truth is far more complex and troubling in A Frontier, As Told by the Frontier, a fascinating new play from Jason Gray Platt premiering at the Source Festival.
DCTS receives $10,000 grant for Washington coverage
The DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities has awarded DC Theatre Scene a $10,000 matching grant for covering theater in Washington, DC. The grant, the largest received to date, allows DCTS to enhance its coverage of festivals such as CulturalDC’s Source, Capital Fringe, and the Page-to-Stage Festival, as well as that of every theater […]
Aaron Posner receives RuleBreaker Award, then breaks it
Fighting back appreciative tears, Joshua Morgan declared “Aaron Posner is like a theatrical father” to No Rules Theatre Company. The day after Father’s Day, Monday, June 17, the young company, about to finish its fourth season, honored Posner as the 2013 RuleBreaker Award winner at the historic Anderson House mansion in Washington, DC.
Capital Fringe: OK Stupid’s Secret Math Lab
– by guest writer Erin Bylander – “At OK Stupid, the greatest dating site in the universe, we use the sacred teachings of math find your mate. It’s fast, accurate and infallible – like all Math.
In Series’ season closer Love and Money, a double thrill
Three cheers for an invigorating collaboration. The In Series Opera Company, that constantly reinvents itself, closes its 30th season with an extraordinary Pocket Opera Double Bill: Love and Money. Two masterworks, usually staged independently, are performed side-by-side. Thematically they may not be related. But historically, they were created about the same time, in 1918, near […]
Mashup Fest: Urban Legend Edition
If a night of good theatre is a main course unto itself, then the Mashup Festival at Landless is more like a pizza delivered after everyone else has gone to bed. The fun is in the shrugging indulgence of an added late-night meal, not in the quality of the food itself. The festival, now playing […]
Avengers director goes light and jazzy with Much Ado About Nothing
Joss Whedon, a man whose name is synonymous with some of the most feverishly obsessed-over fantasy and science-fiction franchises of the last 20 years, is also a hardcore Shakespeare fan. In-between helming cult TV shows like “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” and blockbuster epics like “The Avengers,” the writer-director frequently hosts actor friends at his house […]
Capital Fringe: John Feffer’s The Politician
– by guest writer John Feffer – Washington is well known for its revolving door. One day Dick Cheney is vice president. The next day he’s a talking head on a Sunday morning news show lobbing verbal grenades at the new president. Who knows: even at the age of 72, he might return to a […]
Capital Fringe: The Actual Dance
– by guest writer Sam Simon – It turns out that The “Actual Dance” has been inside me for nearly 13 years – and maybe longer. I just did not know it until I began to write it, and then it just poured out. It is as if the show itself existed inside of me […]