DCTS Guide to Capital Fringe 2016

July 7 – 31, 2016

Capital Fringe Performance Awards:

Best Overall Show in 2016 Festival: Over Her Dead Body, presented by Pinky Swear Productions
Best Comedy: Let Trump Be Trump, presented by John Krizel
Best Drama: Too Close, presented by Luigi Laraia
Best Musical Theatre or Opera: Over Her Dead Body, presented by Pinky Swear Productions
Best Dance or Physical Theatre: Kick Before you Drown, presented by Steal a Step

Numeric Rating (hidden)	Show title	In their own words: Fringe Peeks (click the image)	Get tickets
4	12 Steps		Go
4	15 Villainous Fools		Go
2	22 Boom!	Renana Fox	Go
3	35MM: A Musical Exhibition		Go
3	75 Lezbos, 2 Trannies, 1 Pannie, Me & Me Too!		Go
3	...and a Ghost Grrl		Go
5	"POWER!" Stokely Carmichael		Go
4	, she took me back so tenderly,	Carmen C. Wong	Go
3	A Breakup Is Swift		Go
4	Act Like a GRRRL		Go
2	Adolescence 2.0		Go
5	Ain't That Rich		Go
3	Aliens, Nazis and Angels	Leah Harris	Go
3	Amelia Earhart... IN SPACE!		Go
4	A Midsummer's Burlesque Dream		Go
4	Am I There Yet?		Go
4	And 1! a dansical		Go
3	An Indian Comedian: How Not To Fit In		Go
5	A Romp Around Uranus with Special Agent Galactica		Go
1	AS IT WERE and/or WHAT (ever) DOESN'T MATTER		Go
3	Barry Beaver's Adventures in Happy Valley		Go
5	Becoming	Carla Preshong	Go
2	Before The Lights Go Up		Go
2	Better A Witty Fool		Go
1	Brownie and Lolli Go To Hollywood		Go
3	BRYCE: Hydrogen Blonde		Go
4	Cake!		Go
5	Color Theory		Go
3	Complexity: A One Woman Show		Go
4	Concrete Devotion		Go
2	Confederates		Go
3	Connectivity/Complexity		Go
5	Coping		Go
3	Cracked	Marcus Salley	Go
4	Crazy In America		Go
4	Dark Times at Grimesville High		Go
2	DEATH BE NOT LOUD!		Go
2	Dial R for Robot		Go
5	Different, Damaged, Damned		Go
4	Dial R for RobotDo Not Disturb	Carla Rountree	Go
3	Fat Kids are Harder to Kidnap		Go
4	Fractals		Go
3	Free Range	Jeff Reiser	Go
5	GLACIER: A Climate Change Ballet		Go
5	Good Kids		Go
5	H5x7	Kevin O'Connell	Go
5	Hello \| Brother		Go
3	How to Be The Perfect Wingwoman		Go
5	How to Give Birth to a Rabbit		Go
3	HUNT	Jean P. Bordewich	Go
4	I Found That The Sun Will Rise Tomorrow		Go
4	In a Day of Dreary		Go
2	In A Nutshell		Go
2	It Will All Make Sense in the Morning	Erik Harrison	Go
4	Jamie and Duncan's Glorious Suicide at the End of the World		Go
4	JUICED		Go
5	Kick Before You Drown		Go
3	Let Trump Be Trump		Go
3	Lil Women: a rap musical		Go
4	Love in Ruins		Go
2	Macbeth in the Basement		Go
4	Medieval Story Man		Go
3	Normal/Magic		Go
3	Once Upon a Bedtime	Molly Pinson Simoneau	Go
3	One Man Romeo	Darius McCall	Go
5	One Mutual Happiness	David Kessler	Go
5	Oral Histories	Ward Kay	Go
5	Over Her Dead Body		Go
4	Paul Gonsalves on the Road	Art Luby	Go
4	Perception		Go
3	Perfect Liars Club		Go
4	Petunia and Chicken		Go
5	Play Cupid	Brett Abelman	Go
5	POE, TIMES TWO		Go
3	PowerPlays		Go
3	Prison Break, Incorporated		Go
4	Rain Follows the Plow	Stephen Coffee	Go
3	Rapists and Drug Dealers		Go
4	Ready to Serve		Go
3	Reflecting Antigone		Go
5	Romanov		Go
5	Saudade; the one where I miss you		Go
5	Secret Honor		Go
3	Seven Windows		Go
4	soft animal.hideous heart		Go
3	Song Reader: The Musical		Go
2	SpookyMsgPlsFWD!		Go
3	SuperNOVA		Go
4	TARGET GOLDBERG (HELP! ROGUE GOVERNMENT AGENTS ARE TRYING TO FRAME ME!)		Go
5	Ten Principles )'(		Go
2	The Apocalypse of Darkness		Go
2	The Computer That Loved		Go
4	The DOMA Diaries		Go
4	The Elephant in the Room	Jennifer Gwirtz	Go
5	The Golden Smile		Go
3	The Good Death		Go
3	The Greatest Science Fiction Show (No One's Ever Seen)		Go
5	The House of Yes	"Jackie-O"	Go
4	The Human Algorithm		Go
2	The Immaculate Big Bang		Go
5	The Importance of Normal		Go
3	The Missing Peace	Christine Debuth	Go
2	The Real World: Kabul	Emily Liner	Go
4	The Root of All Knowledge		Go
2	The Tragedy of Mario and Juliet		Go
4	The Trial of Mrs. Surratt	Natalie Villamonte Zito	Go
1	Timon 2016		Go
4	Too Close	Luigi Laraia	Go
5	Underneath the Lintel	Pat O'Brien	Go
1	Waiting for Godot		Go
3	Wash Over You	Jane Franklin	Go
4	Whisper Into My Good Ear	Larry Ripp	Go
4	Yes, And...		Go

Amy says

June 6, 2016 at 8:12 pm

An exciting show coming to the 2016 Fringe Festival….

This July, the D.C. Capital Fringe Festival will include the world premier of the new rock opera “Song Reader” based on the work of the same title by the Grammy Award-winning alternative musician Beck. Rolling Stone named the album, Song Reader, as one of the top 50 albums of 2013.

Song Reader was released as 20 songs worth of sheet music and more than 100 pages of art by Beck. Song Reader was later made into an album with performances by an all-star group of musicians, each putting their own spin on Beck’s work. Collaborators Harvey Droke and Daniel Hornal created a conceptual story to accompany the beautiful music and received a green light from Beck’s management company to write a new musical from the material. When director Clare Shaffer read the libretto to the rock opera, she signed on with a vision to help shape the working draft into a sincere exploration of taboo trauma.

The story centers on a conservative, sheltered new Army recruit who meets a jaded stripper—Ziz— at a club the night before his deployment to Iraq. Just as their relationship begins, it is brought to a violent halt when the soldier is beaten and thrown out by the club’s jealous owner, Larcen, who rapes Ziz in retaliation for her “betrayal”. What follows is a story of missed connections as Ziz works to overcome the trauma of her abuse, just as the soldier starts to experience extreme trauma of his own on the front. The musical is an exploration of how we deal with events that shake us at our very core, and how our personal traumas can re-shape us and our relationships with those we were once close to.

Song Reader the Musical, which premiers at the Fringe Festival, parallels the characteristics of war trauma and rape trauma using various genres of music, paired with versatile and creative choreography by Patrick Murphy Doneghy. The talented fourteen-person cast compellingly brings these new characters to life for the first time in this world debut feature, accompanied by an eight-person ensemble of musicians from the Washington D.C. Temple Orchestra.

Shows will be held at:
The Atlas Performing Arts Center
1333 H. St NE, Washington D.C. 20002

Performances: 7/10, 8 p.m.; 7/12, 5:45 p.m.; 7/17, 6:15 p.m.; 7/20, 8:30 p.m.; 7/23, 2:15 p.m.

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Gabriel Hudson says
June 18, 2016 at 5:14 pm
Each year, the Capital Fringe Festival showcases innovative and avant garde artists making one-of-a-kind immersive experiences for audiences. One production this summer pushes that axiom to its limits. What happens when a Political Philosophy professor collaborates with a company member of Synetic Theater? A production so stunning it cannot be missed!
Justin J. Bell (Synetic Theater) combines eloquent storytelling through movement with Gabriel Hudson’s (George Mason University) densely philosophical and poetic script. The result is a transcendent night of theatre that challenges audiences to confront universal questions within the human experience. Root of All Knowledge tells the story of a typical relationship through the prism of the Hegelian dialectic. Ten performers breathe life into a narrative of seeking, longing, learning and loss, bringing truth to the show’s tagline, “The search for love begins and ends with the self.”
Root of All Knowledge, presented by Atramental Arts, opens July 9, 2016 at the Atlas Performing Arts Center on H St. NE in DC and runs through July 23. Confronting life’s greatest mysteries has never been more entertaining.
Full Schedule:
7/9 6:15pm
7/13 9:30pm
7/17 6:30pm
7/22 8:25pm
7/23 6:15pm
Amy says
June 6, 2016 at 8:12 pm
An exciting show coming to the 2016 Fringe Festival….
This July, the D.C. Capital Fringe Festival will include the world premier of the new rock opera “Song Reader” based on the work of the same title by the Grammy Award-winning alternative musician Beck. Rolling Stone named the album, Song Reader, as one of the top 50 albums of 2013.
Song Reader was released as 20 songs worth of sheet music and more than 100 pages of art by Beck. Song Reader was later made into an album with performances by an all-star group of musicians, each putting their own spin on Beck’s work. Collaborators Harvey Droke and Daniel Hornal created a conceptual story to accompany the beautiful music and received a green light from Beck’s management company to write a new musical from the material. When director Clare Shaffer read the libretto to the rock opera, she signed on with a vision to help shape the working draft into a sincere exploration of taboo trauma.
The story centers on a conservative, sheltered new Army recruit who meets a jaded stripper—Ziz— at a club the night before his deployment to Iraq. Just as their relationship begins, it is brought to a violent halt when the soldier is beaten and thrown out by the club’s jealous owner, Larcen, who rapes Ziz in retaliation for her “betrayal”. What follows is a story of missed connections as Ziz works to overcome the trauma of her abuse, just as the soldier starts to experience extreme trauma of his own on the front. The musical is an exploration of how we deal with events that shake us at our very core, and how our personal traumas can re-shape us and our relationships with those we were once close to.
Song Reader the Musical, which premiers at the Fringe Festival, parallels the characteristics of war trauma and rape trauma using various genres of music, paired with versatile and creative choreography by Patrick Murphy Doneghy. The talented fourteen-person cast compellingly brings these new characters to life for the first time in this world debut feature, accompanied by an eight-person ensemble of musicians from the Washington D.C. Temple Orchestra.
Shows will be held at:
The Atlas Performing Arts Center
1333 H. St NE, Washington D.C. 20002
Performances: 7/10, 8 p.m.; 7/12, 5:45 p.m.; 7/17, 6:15 p.m.; 7/20, 8:30 p.m.; 7/23, 2:15 p.m.

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