These are excerpts from an interview with some of the cast and crew of the upcoming Capital Fringe show Everything I Do, a musical loosely adapted from Shaw’s Man and Superman. [Everything I Do Director] Brad Porter, you were involved in Mother Courage at Arena Stage. Any interesting interaction with Kathleen Turner? “The Wardrobe Supervisor, […]
Christopher Henley, fan of the Prince of Darkness, on co-directing Dracula . A Love Story
– DC Theatre Scene has been able to lure actor/director Christopher Henley into writing for this site. Here is his personal account of co-directing Dracula . A Love Story, the Fringe show written by DCTS writer Tim Treanor. – Between Bela Lugosi and Bella from the Twilight series, there was Hammer Studios. From the late […]
The Mutualistic Melody, a Fringe Peek
By guest writers Taylor Rascher (director) and W.R. Heispascher (playwright) Heispascher: The play’s genesis began with a single charge: to analyze the role that relationships play in our lives. This structure prompted an initial phase of research; thus, I turned to nature’s various relationships. The natural world exhibits the gambit of diversity when it comes […]
A Fringe Peek at John Feffer’s Interrogation
The artist Hasan Elahi was detained in the aftermath of 9/11 and subjected to six months of questioning by the FBI. Elahi comes from Bangladesh, and the FBI was very interested in his travel itineraries. Eventually, after a harrowing series of interrogations, the FBI released him. But Elahi retaliated by providing the FBI – and […]
Stone Tape Party and the Art of the Soundtrack, a Fringe Peek
Sex, drugs, jazz – you know, the classic ghost story. So reads the tagline for Nu Sass Productions’ 2014 Fringe show, Stone Tape Party. The play is making its world debut at DC’s summer Capital Fringe festival this July, but the production team has been working hard round the clock since mid-April to get the […]
13 Men, a Fringe Peek into the frisky comedy cabaret
– An interview with Faith Hayden and Kendra Keller, co-founders of Leopard Print Productions Tell us about the moment where you said to yourself: “I just have to do this!” Hayden: In my mid-20s I literally moved 11 times in a three-year period because I was constantly moving in and breaking up with a different […]
Chesapeake, a Fringe Peek
We’re a fairly new company, and we were looking for new and unknown work to produce for the Capital Fringe Festival (also a first for us). But behold, the face of a Chesapeake Bay Retriever came to us in the form of Lee Blessing’s Chesapeake, and we were hooked. This one-person play has been done […]
This Gonna Be on the Test, Miss?, a Fringe Peek
This Gonna Be on the Test, Miss? is a solo show that has been 20 years in the making. Twenty years ago I detoured from acting into academia. I became so frustrated trying to explain what I teach (Remedial English is for dummies, right?) and more particularly whom I teach (What do you mean your […]
Cross the Line, a Fringe Peek
A few years ago I took a semester to study abroad in Spain. On returning, I realized that my circles of friends at school had found other friends and created new worlds that no longer included me in them. I felt alone and isolated until I heard that a family member of mine had committed […]
Point…Blank…Period! a Fringe Peek
We all have one. That friend that you share WAY too much information with. That friend that you say the most embarrassing things to and know, secretly, they are thinking the same thing too.
From France, Tomorrow’s Dawn, a Fringe Peek
Tom is in love with Alice, who loves him too. But nothing is easy: they are young; they have parents and teachers… They are teenagers, obviously full of questions and pains. Fortunately, they are not alone: they have friends, brothers and sisters – thousands of emotions and feelings at the same time. And they have […]
Gods, Con Men, and Psychoanalysts Invade Fringe, a Fringe Peek
Isis and Vesco Investigate the Curious Death of Dr. Freud mixes it all up –genres (thriller, myth, and classical theater), collaborators (producer Catherine Aselford , director Carl Brandt Long), time periods (modern New York City, Nineteenth Century Vienna, and Ancient Egypt), and “ologies” (psychology and mythology).