37 stories by "Travis Andrews"
Do you know who wrote "Blue Suede Shoes"? I'll give you a hint: it wasn't Elvis Presley. No, that honor belongs to Carl Perkins. (known to all as Mr. Phillips), the founder and owner of …
Fringe closes tonight. And, along with it, our Twitter Fringe contest, sponsored by Signature Theatre. We had some great entries, and we want to thank everyone who followed us on Twitter, wh…
The results of the Trayvon Martin/George Zimmerman case were fresh as the crew of The Deadly Seven took the stage. Fresh enough to make its way into The Deadly Seven, a show about prejudice …
It's not too late to enter our contest for the wittiest Tweet to win 2 tickets to any performance of Miss Saigon at Signature Theatre! All you have to do is Tweet @DCTheatre_Scene with a rea…
In Costa Rica, there exists a wasp that paralyzes spiders. It then lays an egg on the spider's abdomen. When the egg hatches, the emerging larva lives off the spider's blood then essentially…
Joshua Morgan is the Artistic Director of No Rules Theatre Company. Fittingly, he's the host of The No Rules Show, a variety show in the mind of The Late Show, in which Morgan plays piano, d…
Before last night, the most I could have told you about the Panama Canal is that it exists, that it was a big deal when the United States built it and that the French had tried and failed to…
A race for the vice-presidency of Capital Fringe. Poetry. A totally historically accurate depiction of the duel between Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton, replete with dance-fighting and…
Peter Peters is back. Sort of. Our favorite Fringe pundit has returned in an extended version of last year's The Pundit. The first act follows Peter Peters (totally embodied by Sean Coe), a …
Ever try to describe a dream to someone? Maybe you just had the most fascinating, exhilarating, deliriously fun dream that took you places you never knew existed (because they don't), and yo…
"I'm Mike, and I like my shit." These are the first words out of the mouth of Steve Isaac, who portrays Apple visionary Steve Jobs and Apple consumer Mike (Daisey, presumably) in The Agony a…
We're excited to announce our First Annual Capital Fringe Fan Twitter Contest. (We're still working on the name.) Click for more information about Miss Saigon. But the concept is easy! Just …
Marriage has undergone a few changes since the 1960s. Most notably, who can engage in it. While these changes are amazing in a civil rights sense, they can create some brambles when it comes…
In some strange way, hip-hop aficionados will admit that the dog days of summer go hand-in-hand with classic hip-hop. It's not like this is explicitly stated anywhere, but memories of bumpin…
– Can a man follow two passions at the same time? A familiar DC actor supports his theatre company by launching a new career - Alex Cook seems a little like every one of us who har…
-Â As One Night with Janis Joplin opens its return summer engagement Friday, June 21st at Arena Stage, we were treated to an interview with Janis’ brother and sister – Forty-t…
Robert Johnson was arguably the greatest blues guitarist to ever roam the South or anywhere on this good earth. In fact, most folks don't argue that he's the best. Rather they argue about ho…
Family. F-A-M-I-L-Y. It can be difficult no matter how easily you can spell it, no matter how eccentric you choose to be in order to escape it, no matter how far you run from it. Which is ex…
A gray brick wall interrupted by two black velvet curtains, and a bare stage offers the setting for an other-worldly place, between Heaven and Hell, somewhere on Earth. A man bursts through …
Most anyone who has ever left his home has longed to be back in it. There exists an unmistakably powerful pull to the familiarity that has been burned into our brains by the repetition of li…
Rarely, if ever, would you match up the pop song "Hey Jealousy" by The Gin Blossoms with William Shakespeare's Two Gentlemen of Verona. But Chesapeake Shakespeare Company's production of the…
John Fredriksen seems like an odd center for a play revolving around a teenage HIV-positive prostitute, a multi-media artist who is grieving for her recently deceased son and a cuckolding bu…
Marriage is difficult, and Barefoot in the Park doesn’t try to make it seem like anything but. Penned by Neil Simon of Biloxi Blues fame, the three-act play follows a newlywed couple t…
Religion is a touchy subject among people of different religions. It can become an even touchier subject among people of the same religion. At least people with different beliefs can leave i…
The easiest way to shatter your notions of a person is to actually meet him. Sometimes, this is a positive thing: someone who you presumed to be a jerk turns out to be friendly. Sometimes, i…
