318 stories by "Guest Writer"
by Guest Writer Jon Jon Johnson This all started on a whim. I've always wanted to try my hand at devising a piece. While season planning for Avalanche Theatre Company's 2012-2013 season, I m…
All you have to say is, "Newtown, Aurora, Columbine." Instantly, as if they have been scorched into a collective memory, we are transported to tragic deaths and horrific violence. And the qu…
I created The Goddess Diaries as an experiment after years working as a women's advocate in the Washington area. Click for tickets to The Goddess Diaries In 2008, I joined with a friend and …
After wrapping up our first official show The Sleeping Beauty in Summer 2010, director Matt Reckeweg started talking about the future of Pointless Theatre.  At the time, it seemed as i…
Carry a Big Stick is not your typical Capital Fringe show. It takes us back to September 1901, and tells the story of the accidental president, Teddy Roosevelt, who enters office under t…
“His name… He said he wants me to call him Orson. He won’t look like an alien. He said he’d try and find a person’s body willing to let him overtake it for a li…
Four Women is not a performance, but a journey. Not a traditional play, but a glimpse into the multiple dimensions of black womanhood. This production was inspired by Nina Simone's song with…
Some marriages are tragical. Â Some farcical. Â All are challenging! At the time of writing this article, it is the eve of a landmark Supreme Court decision. Soon, the country will know …
This year Doorway Arts Ensemble is producing Godiva Dates & One Night Stands at the Capital Fringe Festival. This production marks our third trip to Fringe. Previously, we produced Herbi…
Kinky Boots. Bring It On: The Musical. A Christmas Story: The Musical. What do all these musicals have in common? Well, yes, they're all Tony Nominated musicals but there's one other unifyin…
– Erin Bylander is a D.C.-based writer, working on her first novel, “Groan.” She is an editor at a health policy journal, a freelance journalist and a connoisseur of mash-u…
– Guest writer Lee Kaplan is a New York actor, writer and producer. – Part of Fringe Peeks, our “in their own words” series When I found my sixth grade journal, I kne…
– Guest writer Lola Rose is a dancer, choreographer and director of Burlesque Classique – Part of Fringe Peeks, our “in their own words” series Lola Rose Who doesn't …
– Guest writer Alan Harris: Â An obsession with how people cope with change in extreme circumstances has led to this leading Welsh playwright making his Capital Fringe debut this yea…
– Guest writer Qurrat Ann Kadwani, from New York City, is an actress, producer, TV Host and and founding Artistic Director of eyeBLINK – Part of Fringe Peeks, our “in t…
Get a deconstructionist drunk (if you must), and you'll probably be treated to an excitable if slurred rant about text: what is it? How can it ever be called 'fixed?' Who's in charge of it? …
This just in from WSC Avant Bard – After two years as the resident theatre company at Arlington County’s Artisphere, WSC Avant Bard finds itself unexpectedly homeless. At a meeti…
She sells herself as merely the second fiddle to playwright and co-director Michael Merino on the new show from the team that brought you Squirrel, or The Origin of the Species, and The Quic…
