Echoes by N. Richard Nash, is the story of two very real people who deeply love each other despite their struggles with mental illness.
A Capital Fringe Peek at MacBheatha
This project began two summers ago, when a small group of actors, including myself, thought of devising a piece comparing the dramatic character of Shakespeare’s Macbeth with the life of the actual medieval King Macbeth. This turned out to be an interesting bit of fun, because the characters were really very different, but with just […]
Capital Fringe Peek at David Kleinberg’s new play Return to the Scene of the Crime
For two years, I had performed my one-man show, Hey, Hey, LBJ! in San Francisco, on 42nd Street in New York, in Washington DC (where it got a rave review in the Washington Post), in New Orleans and in Sydney, Australia. Hey, Hey, LBJ! is about my year as an army combat correspondent in Vietnam, and […]
A Capital Fringe Peek at One in Four
This play might help you feel better. If you’re anything like me, you’re in constant awe of people who can just, like, talk to other people. What in God’s name is that like– do these confident freaks visualize the course of conversations they’re about to spark? If so, are they not certain that every possible […]
A Capital Fringe Peek at Clara Bow: Becoming ‘It’
We like to pretend that the rise of social media has forever changed America’s relationship to celebrity culture. That somehow Facebook and Twitter have ripped our Hollywood icons from their private lives and subjected them to unprecedented public scrutiny. I say, come meet my friend Clara Bow.
Repentance, a Capital Fringe Peek at sin and forgiveness
Tell us about the moment when you said to yourself: “I just have to do this!” Michael E. Hammond: I woke up at 4 in the morning. And probably all the usual clichés applied: “jarred awake,” “bathed in sweat,” “alone,” “heart racing.” But those are clichés, so ignore them. But I thought: “What about a play where a fallen […]
A Capital Fringe Peek at I’m Margaret Thatcher, I Is!
Zack Walsh and David Koenigsberg have their way with our questions. Well now, really, what did we expect from two guys who titled their show I’m Margaret Thatcher, I Is!
A Capital Fringe Peek at Life, Death, & Everything In-Between
This show came from a desire to create a mood and an experience for the audience without wholly relying on the traditional storytelling arc. So much of American theater is in the head, the expected point-by-point storytelling pattern that we see over and over again on stage, in television, and in movies. This play was […]
Think Before You Holla, a Capital Fringe Peek at mindfulness
Have you ever walked down the sidewalk and felt someone watching you as you pass? Have you ever been in a grocery store and noticed that someone just happens to be going down the same aisle as you over and over again? Have you ever been in a park and had someone shout something sexually […]
Wit & Wrath: The Life & Times of Dorothy Parker, a video Capital Fringe Peek
New Orleans performer Claudia Baumgarten has had a 10 year romance with the writings of journalist, critic, poet and famous member of the Algonquin Round Table, Dorothy Parker.
A Capital Fringe Peek at HOWL in the Time of Trump, looking back at Ginsberg’s “Make America Great Again”
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.
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.