Friday, June 28, 2019
I never wanted Daddy Poo, my Catholic, conservative, Republican father down in Texas, to know about the priest, or the dwarf or the crack addict. But when you write a memoir about your alcoh…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:32PMThursday, June 27, 2019
In 1937, the German playwright, activist Ernst Toller lived in Hollywood. He was public enemy number one of the Nazi regime, from which he was an exile. He was also one of the first German r…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:06PMOur work in DC and Baltimore started with Edgar Allan Poe. We partnered up with the Poe Society in Baltimore and we’re sort of living in this space of the darker side of human motivation a…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:12AMWednesday, June 26, 2019
Age 19. I was getting off the plane from Kenyon College to be home for Thanksgiving Break. My dad had colon cancer, but I didn’t think it was serious. My mom picked me up, and before I cou…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:24AMSpent many years waiting for the right play of mine to head to the Fringe again. Loved the experience in 2010 and plan to love it all over again with this show. But it’s a very different s…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:24AMTuesday, June 25, 2019
A brief interview with NY-based Actor/Playwright Daniel Damiano regarding his acclaimed solo play, American Tranquility, coming to the 2019 Capital Fringe Festival. What was the impetus for …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:42AMMonday, June 24, 2019
Energie grew out of the two events I was thinking about over the last year or so. The first was Anthony Bordain’s suicide, and how he seemed to have touched so many people so deeply. He wa…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:12PMSunday, June 23, 2019
I was on an airplane, flying back to the States from Heathrow. I had stopped, as is my habit, at the National Theatre Bookstore before heading back, and purchased my weight in playscripts.…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:36AMSaturday, June 22, 2019
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 alre…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:48PMThursday, June 20, 2019
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�…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:24PMWednesday, June 19, 2019
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…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:33PMTuesday, June 18, 2019
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 …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:03AMMonday, June 17, 2019
In Nashville, there’s an Urban Outfitters that used to be an empty warehouse in a sketchy neighborhood where I performed my first adaptation of The Metamorphosis. It was 2001 (a few week…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:03AMWednesday, February 13, 2019
William Shakespeare will get two of the six slots in Simon Godwin’s debut season at Shakespeare Theatre Company (STC), along with four playwrights never before seen on STC’s stag…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:54AMWednesday, January 30, 2019
María Celeste Arrarás interviewed Lin-Manuel Miranda in El Dorado, Puerto Rico for “Al Rojo Vivo” the day after the closing night of Hamilton in Puerto Rico, in which Miranda reprised …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:04AMSunday, August 26, 2018
This review was originally published on DC Metro Theater Arts and appears here with permission. In Jonathan Dahm Robertson’s set for Constellation Theatre Company’s production of Sarah R…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:04AMWednesday, July 18, 2018
Being genderqueer or part of the LGBTQIAA* community in the Theater world is nothing new and usually accepted without much question. To be part of that same world and out about it in the Tea…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:32PMMonday, July 16, 2018
On the simple and appropriately bleak set, Seed Productions presents its premiere of This Historic Night, five short plays wound into one terrific show, written by local DC playwright, Jack …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:18PMMonday, July 9, 2018
My interior critic sounds like Jackie Hoffman as Mamacita and for years she grimly told me I’d never be a writer or performer. My exterior champion Mama Jean—part Auntie Mame, part Mama …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:24PMPerfecting the Kiss came into the world almost on a dare. Sometime around the turn of the millennium, I was at a brunch for theater folk and someone (I can’t recall who) pondered aloud…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:24PMHave you ever watched “The Good Place” on Netflix? The Tragical Comical Fool’s Game is kind of like that, but with Shakespearean characters. Last year, five graduate students (studying…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:12AMFriday, July 6, 2018
Four years ago I was held up at gunpoint an hour after my girlfriend broke up with me. That’s how my show begins. I didn’t realize it was the beginning of a show at the time – much les…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:48AMCarrie Fisher once said to “take your broken heart and make it art.” I aim to live by these words, which is why all of my solo shows have been derived from my real life experiences–…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:48AMThursday, July 5, 2018
On November 8, 2016, I was watching MSNBC cover what would become one of the most shocking moments in our nation’s history. That election felt like a catastrophe. The future had never seem…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:18PMOn the Eve wasn’t really a play that I decided to write. I stumbled into it. In 2011 I was nannying on the Upper West Side in New York City, and was slowly feeling that I had lost any semb…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:12PMI’m going to be honest with you guys – I’m scared out of my mind to do this Fringe show, 50 Ways to Date Your Aubrey. Aside from feeling like some self-important, Kardashian-level …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:12PMMovie Magic Live! answer our questions. Where did the idea for your show come from? While the submission process was in progress, my friends at Fringe mentioned that there were quite a fe…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:54AMJoey Maranto answers our questions about Meet the Glory Wholes. Tell us about the moment where you said to yourself: I just have to do this! I developed Meet the Glory Wholes while driving…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:24AMHello, we are Area Woman – a new performance collective made up of women who love and respect each other, and also love and respect you. We formed when we realized that we liked each o…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:24AMAs a poet and director, when I came across the script, the poetic language, the dramatic aspects of the play, and the possibility of creativity the story provides attracted me to direct T…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:24AMActor Elan Zafir answers our questions about his play coming to Capital Fringe, The Unaccompanied Minor. – Tell us about the moment when you said to yourself: I just have to do thi…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:24AM 
