318 stories by "Guest Writer"
Imagine creating theatre for an audience that has never seen a play before; that responds freely and fully to the unfolding story, sounds, and images; that hops, spins, and jumps on stage wh…
While many Broadway producers play hard to find, that’s not Ken Davenport’s style. Through his website The Producer’s Perspective, he trumpets advice and interviews of inte…
We know at least some of you out there are spending your last days of summer putting the polish to your next groundbreaking play or musical. Before you type END OF PLAY, we offer the…
“… life is a drawn-out stream of people making entrances you're unprepared for and exits you barely notice.” There's a street corner in Paris with a cast of thousands. Take…
With 60+ characters but only one senior citizen, Interviews With… is an escapade of word play that dabbles between the silly, absurd and mildly scandalous. It's a fast paced milieu of char…
Have you ever had to wait on hold for 20 minutes, only to be transferred to another department and then accidentally hung up on? How about the time someone promised they would get back to yo…
Director Stevie Zimmerman on the English language premiere of Our Lady of the Clouds by Aristides Vargas. I found the script online when looking for a piece suitable for a performing arts fe…
"Here is a wonderful business opportunity," I said while watching a documentary about North Dakota’s oil boom. There were tens of thousands of men living in what they call “man c…
One of the greatest things about Interconnected is I can't remember who did what. Karen and I sat there at Modern Times coffeehouse, a notebook with "Gratitude" on it's front, passed back an…
My idea to tell the story of Ina Ray Hutton came about by accident. I was looking for an audition song on Youtube, and a black and white video kept popping up in the search results. I wasn't…
I had no idea what I was getting into when I started to work on straight on til moUrning. Tori [Bertocci] and I met a month after last year’s Fringe festival had ended and we thought "…
The Memorial to Japanese American Patriotism in World War II sits quietly in the shadow of our lawmakers in Senate Park. In its center is a sculpture of two Japanese cranes caught in barbed …
For the performer, stand-up comedy is a really weird experience. It’s not like going into your day job, where you know how many steps there are between the parking lot and your des…
When I first read the scene in Shakespeare's The Life and Death of King John in which the prince tries to save himself by crawling out a tower window to disastrous results, I had to start ov…
– Solo performer Max Gahgoub 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 r…
When We Grow Up hasn't always been the interactive, game-like theatre experience we know it as today. It started out as a single idea. At a Critical Point Theatre ensemble meeting, Matthew S…
“Most women have a strong desire to be fully expressed, free, to totally be themselves and share their voice/vision with the world. AND most women also have this overwhelming urge to b…
My co-executive producer at Dodgeball Theatre, Sally Cusenza, and I have been obsessed for YEARS with the whole Alice in Wonderland story. Developing it into a piece of theatre has been a lo…
I was standing in my kitchen with a baby on my hip, and a toddler on the floor, making brownies, as I watched the Twin Towers fall. I felt sick. But that's not the moment I decided to do thi…
Subtitle: How to Write, Direct and Produce a New Musical by the Writer, Director and Producer of “How to Quit Your Day Job” Step 1) Don’t. It’s too much work.Â…
Playwright Stephen Spotswood give you a peek backstage at a fading burlesque house. ———————— "Yeah, I think all of this can be represented in …
When I asked Alexandra Petri if she had any plays in the works that I might want to direct in the Capital Fringe Festival, one of the stories she mentioned was especially intriguing. This st…
My play, Ripple of Hope: One Teacher's Journey to Make an Impact, is a comedic one-woman show that explores public education issues through my personal experiences as a drama teacher in some…
When President Obama was elected in 2008, the Washington Post ran a story on the front page a few days later about Eugene Allen, who was a former maitre d' at the White House. Â I had work…
Beyond the "Girlfriend" with Megan Dominy and Mimsi Janis WARNING: when you see The Wedding Party at Fringe, you will be witnessing a true(ish) story based on real people and real events. Na…
