Fringe producers sometime ask each other: How big is your audience tonight? For Ali Oliver-Krueger, that’s sort of a trick question. The audience members at shows by Interact, the Wheaton-based children’s story theatre, aren’t big. But they grow up fast.
Archives for July 2013
Someone to Watch Over Me
Imagine Election Day November 2016. Imagine Presidential candidates committing to reformed taxes. Transparent government. Peace. It’s not hard. Every election since we, the people, chose FDR has echoed its predecessor. And every four Januarys, the same tax, peace, and transparency promises seem to turn to ash.
Tent Talk: Pointless Theatre Company Members Scott Whalen, Devin Mahoney, and Matt Reckeweg
I sit down for a talk with the puppet people. Not the only puppet people in town, mind you, but Pointless Theatre are the heirs apparent. The company started up in the summer of 2009, and now in the midst of their current show, Mark Twain’s Riverboat Extravaganza — their fourth Fringe show and seventh […]
Castle Walk at NYMF
The tenth anniversary season of this valuable festival, New York Musical Theatre Festival, is just concluding. By final curtain on July 28th, it will have presented some 350 new musicals in nine years, 24 of which have moved to off Broadway, 3 to Broadway, 86 of them have gone on to other productions after starting […]
Unexpected area debut of Alan Bennett’s The Lady in the Van
What could be better than one Alan Bennett? How about two? The British playwright (The History Boys, Talking Heads) often injects pieces of his personal life into his work. In The Lady in the Van, Bennett not only recounts a unique fifteen year portion of his life, he is both major character and Greek chorus […]
WIGGERLOVER [whiteboy+blackdad=greyareas]
It is an unpromising start. The title is a slur describing comfortable suburban white boys who pretend to be black. It is based on a much worse slur, an expression which white bigots used when they discovered, to their astonishment, that not all whites were bigots.
The Yellow Brick Road and Beyond
This relatively short (less than an hour) and occasionally interesting documentary deals with, as its subtitle says, “The History of L. Frank Baum’s Classic Books and Movies.” It doesn’t however, deal with them very comprehensively and leaves quite a lot uncovered.
Tent Talks: Playwright Alan Harris and Actress Julia Thomas
Think your Metro ride over to Fort Fringe took awhile? Alan Harris will one-up you – he’s come over from Wales for the run of his new play Marsha.
Fresh photos from Fringe: Week 3
Come one, come all — the 8th Annual Capital Fringe Festival ends this Sunday! No one can claim that DC Theatre Scene photographer Ryan Maxwell hasn’t been putting in his time at the Baldacchino Gypsy Tent. Our roving friend continues to capture some of the most interesting people, friendships, and moments at Fringe’s most popular […]
American Century Theater delivers an I Do! I Do! for the 21st century
You have to hand it to Jack Marshall. While his company, American Century Theater, values works from the past, Marshall has dusted off a charming musical about traditional marriage from the 60’s and re-interpreted it for what he calls ” a post-DOMA America”. Does the concept work for the show subtitled “a musical about a […]
The T Party
The six foot tall panda bear that saunters onstage in the middle of Natsu Onoda Power’s beguiling new ensemble show is rather unexpected. Unless, that is, you’ve gotten to know Onoda Power’s work over the past few years.
The Beheading of Sister Mary Jasmine
Paying your final respects to Sister Mary Jasmine requires a bit of a pilgrimage off the beaten track of your favorite Fringe venues.Mourners gather in Studio 2 of the Emergence Studio Arts Collective near Howard University, hoping to get one last glimpse of their dear sister before she is interred in the earth, but alas, […]