Grieving the sudden death of a cherished person is a most personal process, not bound to an expiration date or applied formula. The passage from shock to acceptance is a campaign for control over pain and a rationalization of the unfathomable.
Archives for July 2013
Capital Fringe: Tell-Tale
— by guest writer Carl Brandt Long — A car crash survivor wakes up. He has made a miraculous recovery – so miraculous that his wife is suspicious. He finds he has a strange connection to his donor, and they seek her out to uncover the truth.
Capital Fringe: Madam Ambassador
— by guest writer Henry “Duke” Ryan — I admit it, I am an addicted writer. If I don’t write, I get nervous, upset, irritable. So one day, with nothing to write I thought, “how about a play for an actress friend. It will start with her asking for a divorce, while her husband is […]
Capital Fringe: Tickets to an Event
Tickets to an Event –the Fringe is on the Streets of DC – by Graham Pilato – This was a vision we had back in early 2012. Chinatown, H and 7th Streets, NW DC, late afternoon on a weekend.
DC Hip-Hop Festival starts this weekend
In some strange way, hip-hop aficionados will admit that the dog days of summer go hand-in-hand with classic hip-hop. It’s not like this is explicitly stated anywhere, but memories of bumping Nas’ Illmatic or Ghostface Killah’s Fishscale or fill-in-album-here always seem to go with sitting on the front porch and sipping a cold one on […]
Capital Fringe: RFK
– by guest writer Kevin Rodden – RFK: 45 years after and we still can’t forget him President John Fitzgerald Kennedy was shot and killed 50 years ago. His brother, Robert Francis Kennedy, died 45 years ago this summer. To commemorate these dual national tragedies, Philadelphia’s New City Stage Company brings Jack Holmes’ RFK to the […]
Capital Fringe: Polaroid Stories
— by Lauren R. Alexander — After a wildly successful production of Naomi Iizuka’s Polaroid Stories at American University in November 2012, Blind Pug Arts Collective picked up the opportunity to remount this show at the 2013 Capital Fringe Festival.
Slings and Arrows: Season 1:03 Madness in Great Ones
[wpcol_1quarter id=”” class=”” style=””] [/wpcol_1quarter] [wpcol_1quarter id=”” class=”” style=””] This week’s guests: (see their reactions below)[/wpcol_1quarter] [wpcol_1quarter id=”” class=”” style=””] [/wpcol_1quarter] [wpcol_1quarter_end id=”” class=”” style=””] [/wpcol_1quarter_end] “Actors! You’re all the same! You’re all a bunch of selfish, whiny children! Well fuck you all! Fuck off, you fuckers!” – Maria
Capital Fringe: A Guide To Dancing Naked
– by guest writer Brynn Tucker – I first got the idea for A Guide to Dancing Naked while dancing naked by myself in my apartment. I said to myself: I do this all the time, and no one knows I do this! Not even my boyfriend who lives with me! I’ve become a professional […]
Peter Pan and Wendy
Lots of fresh new insights abound in this cheerful rendition of Peter Pan and Wendy at Imagination Stage. The well-known story feels bubbly fresh in the hands of director Kathryn Chase Bryer who orchestrates the cast’s multiple entrances with Peter, covering every inch of the stage and sending them out through the audience seeking affirmation […]
Source Festival extends Perfect Arrangement
CulturalDC’s Source Festival just added 3 more performances for its festival hit, Topher Payne’s comedy Perfect Arrangement. The premiere is about two closeted Georgetown couples in the 50s, whose perfect arrangement is to pose as straight couples. It works until their government jobs place them in the midst of the gay witch hunts. Tim Treanor […]
Lumina and Round House respond to Round House Silver Spring issue
Lumina Studio’s Artistic Director David Minton, on Sunday, called a Lumina report that a Lumina spokesperson had given DC Theatre Scene “strictly internal and used to generate new ideas” and characterized its release as “a mistake.” Complaints about the space’s management, Minton said, “had nothing to do with suggesting a change to the single operator […]