When I was a twenty-two year old classical piano student, I moved from my home in Colorado to New York City to try and get into graduate school at The Manhattan School of Music.  I had already auditioned once but was not accepted.  But my Colorado family encouraged me to take a chance and move […]

I guess I was “nervous in the service.” But who wasn’t in those fretful days after September 11, 2001? So when the telephone rang just after the Presidential Mobilization Order came out and I saw it was a DOD number, I knew I was being recalled. Ordered to Active Duty for one year. To Headquarters. At the United States […]

Hola, mi nombre is Erick. I was born and raised in Peru, and a couple of years ago I moved to Washington DC to work on a non-profit human rights organization (and do comedy as well). Now I’m performing my solo show Acuña Acuna around the country. When I moved to the US it was […]

Jane Franklin, Artistic Director, Jane Franklin Dance, thinks about how Amazon’s HQ2 in Virginia might impact her neighbors in EyeSOAR, her latest Capital Fringe show. The idea for EyeSOAR came from the neighborhood itself.  It’s probably the only remaining industrial area left in Arlington County.  What does that mean?  It means that there is no […]

It all started with two overlapping events in childhood. To amuse the five-year-old me, my father drew a face on the inside bottom of a large water thermos that he used for tennis. When you looked into the empty container, you could see a swollen horizontal slit at the end where the halves of the […]