318 stories by "Guest Writer"
Nu Sass's fall show, a remount of our audience-acclaimed 43 ½: The Greatest Deaths of Shakespeare's Tragedies opens next week at the Capital Fringe’s Logan Fringe Arts Space. …
Past the pottery yurts, glass-blowing demonstrations, and children’s theatres, a troupe of dancers practiced enthusiastically in the Hall of Mirrors at the recent Glen Echo Park Open H…
When new leadership takes the reigns of an arts institution, the focus tends to be on where the company is going in the future. For the new Artistic Director of The Washington Ballet, Julie …
Even if you think of yourself as being more cultured than the average American, it can be hard to work up the courage to attend ballet performances. What if it's too long? What if it's borin…
When he received the 2015 Gary Maker Audience Award, long time theatre supporter turned performer David S. Kessler encouraged a Folger audience: "Being in the audience is not a spec…
Since 2013, the 4615 Theatre has popped up in many different corners of DC, from basements and backyards  to Woolly Mammoth’s rehearsal hall. We mount innovative stagings of c…
In , she took me back so tenderly, loss and regeneration shape-shift, dance, cling, fold, blink, burn and are filed away into multiple experiences that inform our present moment. If we have …
A phone rings. The voice on the other end reports that there's an emergency: a teddy bear has broken its leg and needs to see a doctor right away. Thankfully, the phone was answered by teach…
–Solo performer Leah Harris responds to some questions from DC Theatre Scene– Tell us about the moment where you said to yourself: “I just have to do this!” I've been…
Theatergoers from the Washington, DC area are no strangers to American political history, but few of us know about the despicable, yet true, events on which HUNT is based. I'm …
The second collaboration between Broadway playwright Lanie Robertson (Lady Day at the Emerson's Bar & Grill, Broadway & HBO) and Director Natalie Villamonte Zito, The Trial of Mrs. S…
When William Shakespeare was writing The Life of King Henry the Fifth, an extraordinarily famous and polarizing nobleman was on his way to Ireland to put down a very bloody and persistent re…
Tell us about the moment you said, I JUST HAVE TO DO THIS!! Beck Hansen released an album to the public that he said "was open to artist interpretation." With the visual art and music wi…
Director Renana Fox shares her thoughts on 22 BOOM! Long ago I came across a quote by the author and museum director Kenneth Clark explaining the value of public art. He said, "The o…
For those who know me, the concept of Oral Histories doesn't sound like the type of play that I would write. I'm seen as a little straight-laced. I have people who apologize to me when they …
Sex, lawyers, and slamming doors — when opera meets the modern sitcom, it leads to comedy of operatic proportions! The Forgotten Opera Company is pleased to present the world premiere …
Who is the kind of person who decides to move to Kabul, Afghanistan? Obviously, there are diplomats, military service members, and NGO workers who accept assignments in dangerous locations l…
We used to live down the street from a playground with a giant cement slide that dated from the 1950s. Our daughter has always loved thrilling experiences, so when she was two she decided th…
For the past eight years I've been performing Glen Berger's terribly titled but brilliantly written play; Underneath the Lintel. (Not lentil; "lintel". It's the horizontal top of a door fram…
My grandfather was the meanest S.O.B. this side of the east coast. Seriously! My mother once told me that if you wanted to meet the devil, all you had to do was knock on my grandparent's doo…
Free Range actually has little to do about Free Range Parenting. The play is not so much inspired by Free Range Parenting as it is inspired by the media coverage that Free Rang…
November 17th, 1983 Dear Capital Fringe, Hello Capital Fringe, I do hope you are doing well, as I am doing just fantastic. Well, I am reaching out to you to inquire about your Thanksgiving. …
What I didn't get to see was what drew me to these shows. I'm talking about Eight and Romeo and Juliet: Choose Your Own Ending, both presented at Capital Fringes past. Ella Hickson, the Brit…
Where did the idea for One Man Romeo come from? After a coaching session, I told my acting coach, Martin Blank, that I always wanted to play Romeo. He suggested that I put on a solo show …
“Okay, explain your play to me.” It’s Fringe preview night, I'm drinking at the bar, and this is the third time in an hour I’ve been asked this question. Since we sho…
