Do you know who wrote “Blue Suede Shoes”? I’ll give you a hint: it wasn’t Elvis Presley. No, that honor belongs to Carl Perkins. (known to all as Mr. Phillips), the founder and owner of Sun Records out of Memphis, TN., famously promised a Cadillac to the first musician on his label to score a […]
The Deadly Seven
The results of the Trayvon Martin/George Zimmerman case were fresh as the crew of The Deadly Seven took the stage. Fresh enough to make its way into The Deadly Seven, a show about prejudice and marginalization, both in the black and the LGBT community.
Dance of the Wasp and Spider
In Costa Rica, there exists a wasp that paralyzes spiders. It then lays an egg on the spider’s abdomen. When the egg hatches, the emerging larva lives off the spider’s blood then essentially takes over the its mind. The spider builds a web unlike any it’s ever built before, which will become the home for […]
The No Rules Show
Joshua Morgan is the Artistic Director of No Rules Theatre Company. Fittingly, he’s the host of The No Rules Show, a variety show in the mind of The Late Show, in which Morgan plays piano, drinks, offers monologues, drinks, interviews guests and, umm, drinks.
Carry a Big Stick
Before last night, the most I could have told you about the Panama Canal is that it exists, that it was a big deal when the United States built it and that the French had tried and failed to do so before us.
The Encyclopedia Show
A race for the vice-presidency of Capital Fringe. Poetry. A totally historically accurate depiction of the duel between Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton, replete with dance-fighting and karate tops. History. Multi-cultural reporting. Break dancing. Female reporters in referee costumes. Fact-checking. King of the Yetis. Stand up comedy. And a cliffhanger.
The Politician
Peter Peters is back. Sort of. Our favorite Fringe pundit has returned in an extended version of last year’s The Pundit. The first act follows Peter Peters (totally embodied by Sean Coe), a TV pundit who puts his foot in his mouth when he pretends to be an expert on Khazaria, even though he can’t […]
Crime Buster Blast-Off 3000
Ever try to describe a dream to someone? Maybe you just had the most fascinating, exhilarating, deliriously fun dream that took you places you never knew existed (because they don’t), and you so badly want to share that experience with someone else. That someone else will never understand, will they?
The Agony and Ecstacy of Steve Jobs: The Musical
“I’m Mike, and I like my shit.” These are the first words out of the mouth of Steve Isaac, who portrays Apple visionary Steve Jobs and Apple consumer Mike (Daisey, presumably) in The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs: The Musical. That “shit” refers to his electronics. The line does a good job of […]
Must-see Blues musical Thunder Knocking on the Door
Robert Johnson was arguably the greatest blues guitarist to ever roam the South or anywhere on this good earth. In fact, most folks don’t argue that he’s the best. Rather they argue about how the young man, who died at 27, earned that skill. The long-standing legend is that he met the Devil himself at […]
Eleemosynary
Family. F-A-M-I-L-Y. It can be difficult no matter how easily you can spell it, no matter how eccentric you choose to be in order to escape it, no matter how far you run from it. Which is exactly how Echo (Maya Brettell), Dorothea (Ilona Dulaski) and Artie (Janel Miley) attempt to make sense of it […]
I, Jack, am the Knave of Hearts
A gray brick wall interrupted by two black velvet curtains, and a bare stage offer the setting for an other-worldly place, between Heaven and Hell, somewhere on Earth. A man bursts through one of the curtains and faces the audience, a confused look on his face. He’s got black pants tucked into large brown boots, […]