HOWL in the Time of Trump is my third poetry-in-performance solo piece. First, there was Poe’s most mystical poetic pieces, performed with music and images. Then came Whitman’s Song of Myself, performed with original music and film. Now, I’m doing Allen Ginsberg’s famous 1956 protest poem against a patriarchal, heterosexually monogamous America.
Archives for June 2017
Ticket giveaway for The School for Lies. Enter by July 1
Update: We have our winners. This contest is closed. We have 2 free pairs of tickets from Shakespeare Theatre Company to see David Ives’ The School for Lies in its closing week at the Lansburgh Theatre.
1st Stage welcomes acclaimed performers for Tysons solo play festival
For their inaugural Logan Festival of Solo Performance, 1st Stage will welcome acclaimed artists from San Francisco, Portland, Chicago, and New York for two-weeks of performances and community conversations, July 6-16.
Lost Teeth . A Capital Fringe Peek
Lost Teeth which Jona Tarlin, originally titled Tori Please Be Happy, began 15 years ago when Jona saw a picture of a woman with a bandage around her head, Ray-Bans, and a drill going into her skull.
THE NASTY WOMEN… A Capital Fringe Peek from god
A warning from A GOD You mortals keep screwing up in the same way again, and again, and again! How many times do I have to visit destruction on your vain leaders who think they can control my forces of sensuality, instinct and freedom?
Wonderland: Alice’s Rock & Roll Adventure (review)
Eclectic and electric, Wonderland: Alice’s Rock & Roll Adventure is a wild and wondrous ride through Lewis Carroll’s world of imagination but this time with a heavy beat, some killer rock guitars and enough imagination to spare some for Willy Wonka.
SHINKA. A Capital Fringe Peek
Choreographer, Yoshiko Usami (AKA Yokko) & Producer Bob Lyness responded to some questions from DC Theatre Scene. ———————— Tell us about the moment where you said to yourself: “I just have to do this!” Yokko: The idea came to me few years ago with the title. While I was having a conversation with my friends, I […]
Constructive Fictions, a ripped from the headlines story about DC’s Peeping Tom rabbi
Theater can be entertainment and be delightfully distracting, but I think theater can and should comment on current events by setting the stage and letting it play out before our eyes.
Friends Forever? A Capital Fringe Peek at Exit Carolyn
Coming soon to Capital Fringe! Nu Sass brings our 4th Installment of our acclaimed Small Batch Audience Series this summer to Caos on F. Exit Carolyn, a tale of a friendship to withstand the bonds of life and death…if only it could withstand the mess currently growing in the sink. Nu Sass sat down with […]
A Capital Fringe Peek at Mamet’s Lakeboat
Neurotic dreamers, perverse philosophers, booze-ridden angels and sometime fools, mourners of forgotten history, hypochondriac, misogynist and addict bicker, shed their tales and confess their fantasies; all which converge to instruct a younger man on a journey to adulthood.
Tiresias’ Tits: A Capital Fringe Peek told entirely in GIFs
So Tiresias’ Tits is a ridiculously over-the-top show based on an equally over-the-top French play from 1917 called Les Mamelles de Tiresias which was the origin of the word “surreal”. Our version has burlesque and dance numbers and clowning and singing and all kinds of spectacle. Inside our heads it looks like this: via GIPHY […]
Junie B. Jones Is Not a Crook at Adventure Theatre (review)
Junie B. Jones has to face a lot of moral and social quandaries for a 5-year-old. Who took her furry black mittens, should she be able to keep a multi-ink pen she found, should she compete against her best friends for the attentions of handsome new student Warren, and how should she best pursue a […]
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