1,260 stories by "Joel Markowitz"
As the 2012 Capital Fringe Festival is only 5 weeks away – July 12th to the 29th – I asked Executive Director Julianne Brienza to fill us in on what’s new and exciting i…
Making Love Legal by Carl Frandsen is a farce. It takes place in Old Jerusalem in 1968, 9 months after the Six Day War. A Muslim man and his 9 month pregnant Jewish girlfriend are desperate …
There’s enough ‘razzle dazzle’ and ‘all that jazz’ at First You Dream: The Music of Kander & Ebb to satisfy any John Kander and Fred Ebb fan and all fans…
Love, Car Crashes, and Brain Chemistry: The True Story Behind Unstrung Harpist’s Shock/Trauma at the Capital Fringe Festival The events that shape our lives can rarely be narrowed down…
Local Dance Students Get a Chance to Shine Daydreams is an innovative dance show featuring ballet, tap, jazz, modern, contemporary dance, spoken word, and original music. The journey explore…
At Capital Fringe this summer, surrealism is rekindled through one character's quest into the unconscious mind in A Night In (Or the Night My Wife Left), a new dark comedy. The ensemble devi…
The decision was a quick and easy "Yes, and Yes” Washington Improv Theater (WIT) would coordinate improv performances, and it would also create space for others to perform at Artoma…
"To understand the Holocaust we must comprehend Adolf Eichmann." - Michael Berenbaum, the President of Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation and a respected Holocaust scholar. Ado…
Help send my play Bareback Ink to Edinburgh Fringe this August!! So earlier this year I decided to get a second tattoo  - twenty years after my first – this one also commemora…
Dizzy Miss Lizzie's Roadside Revue is bringing a new work to the Capital Fringe Festival this summer. This year they are giving the Dizzy treatment to their favorite Victorian gothic novelis…
Men Don't Listen to Naked Women is a show starring Monique Holt. It is part of the 2012 Capital Fringe Festival, which runs from July 12-29th. This provocative piece is a one-woman show. …
MINDSET Set to Rock Capital Fringe A rock band, nine dance numbers, ethereal creatures, an eight-foot flower, a dramatic trashcan and an accordion " they all are part of one engaging product…
I felt the need to write a show, so I did. I was listening to “The Five Tango Sensations” by Astor Piazzolla at the time, and inspiration struck. The movements of the piece are t…
"What's so funny about God? After all, he never told a single joke (with the possible exception of getting Abraham to kill his son). "This is the sort of question posed by Sacred and Scared …
There were several surprises at tonight’s Tony Awards, but it was the musical Once that swept the awards with 8 wins. Clybourne Park which had two successful runs at Woolly Mammoth …
Medieval Story Land at Fringe: Elves, Wizards, Knights Clash in Fantasy Parody I was sick of the poop and fart jokes. I was sick of veiled sexual innuendo. I was sick of unveiled sexual i…
Thomas Choinacky has been obsessed with the Titanic disaster since he was a child. Watching the A&E special every spring, once his family got cable, in honor of the anniversary of the si…
Guilty or not guilty? That is the question. The Puppet Co. in Glen Echo Park is bringing back the popular fairy tale, Goldilocks, with an updated version by moving between the original setti…
The Goddess Diaries began as an experiment. Several women were asked to write about a specific milestone in their life as part of a Winter Solstice performance at a local church. …
I was not expecting to direct Next to Normal now or any time soon when I was told about the opportunity with Taking Flight Theatre Company (TFT). Bobby McCoy, our Music Director, and I inter…
This begins a series of interviews with the very talented group of five young actors in the cast of Arena Stage’s production of The Music Man. Today – meet Mia Alessandra Good…
In her Iconic red trench coat and fedora, Carmen Sandiego has been the subject of a computer game, a cartoon, and a children's game show. She steals famous artifacts from across the globe an…
The first time I directed sketch comedy material was during my New Playwrights' Theatre days on Church Street, and Yeardley Smith was in the cast. (She was 18 at the time " her first paying …
IMPROV WORKSHOP: 4 DAYS: Tuesday & Thursday June 26, 28 and July 3, 5, 7:00pm-10pm In HCC's HVPA 115/ Dance Studio - (Directions, Map – click here!) The Arts Collective (AC) …
Paul Gonsalves on the Road will be performed at the Capital Fringe Festival from July 21st through the 29th. As any jazz listener or follower of the Duke Ellington Orchestra knows, Paul Gons…
