Large swatches of fabric move time forward or weave through space. The bold colors catch the eye. Confrontational dialogue sets characters in opposition while bodies remain static or surge f…
Described as "D.C.'s only all-original political satirical musical comedy troupe," Hexagon gives a musical zing to the political madness of the past year. Now in its 62nd year, Hexagon bring…
The notion that medical technology will one day enable human beings to live indefinitely is not just science fiction. Preventing the aging process (or “ending aging”) is an actua…
Four Broke Guys: LIVE! is classified as a comedy, but don't expect mere fluff or pratfalls from this one-man show. Actor and playwright J. Shawn Durham's sequence of four monologues from fou…
Caveat (written and directed by Ben Lockshin and playing at Gallaudet University's Eastman Studio Theater) is a "One's-a" show, where each character is an idea of a person more than an actua…
You don't have to understand quantum mechanics " or even elementary physics " to follow Quantum Suicide: A Talk by Professor Sophie Miller, the one woman show now enjoying its first Fring…
Was ever a jailed sex offender more self-righteous and self-pitying than Rabbi Barry Freundel in this brilliantly disturbing new play by A. J. Campbell? Were ever such a predator's' victims"…
Morningstar is a small chamber drama playing in the basement of Shopkeeper's on Florida Ave, (a venue whose old wooden floors add quite a bit of natural folly to the performance, some use…
Dorothy Parker claimed, famously, that she was "just a little Jewish girl, trying to be cute." In fact, she was a legendary wit; the first female drama critic in America; and a successful wr…
With a breezy "Hi, y'all!" Clyde Ensslin welcomes us to the complicated story of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings, as told by none other than Big Bill Clinton himself. It's a chance to rel…
It was Emerson, who wrote: "If the whole of history is in one man, it is all to be explained from individual experience." Well, if that one man was Lee Harvey Oswald, then it's his lunch hou…
Nevertheless, She Persisted takes the pulse of the American landscape before and after the November 2016 election, offering a moving compendium of raw emotion, personal drama, and flickering…
Stories of war wounded told from the point of view of military medics"those who try to save lives and bag the bodies of the ones they can't"give glimpses into the bravery and heroism of the …
This isn't your normal poetry reading. Those words, spoken by Creator and Director Caleb Beissert as he introduced the Asheville-based Poetry Cabaret Collective, could serve as the tagline f…
Director Haley Murphy and your playwright Emma Choi talk about their Fringe show. How did you two meet? Haley Murphy: Across a crowded elementary school gym. Emma was my stage manager when s…
I first heard Toni Rae Salmi sing at the 2012 Capital Fringe Festival. The show was Cabaret XXX: Love The One You’re With, the second in a much-loved series of annual rock cabarets by …
Back in early November of 2016, Theatre Prometheus was trying to choose between several strong, gripping stories for our Fringe play. We were split on which to choose. And then… the electi…
Echoes by N. Richard Nash, is the story of two very real people who deeply love each other despite their struggles with mental illness. It is a story that shows us again how love is truly…
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…
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 c…
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 O…
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…
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…
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! Tell us about the…
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 e…