At the close of last year's Capital Fringe festival, Executive Director Julianne Brienza was saying what had always seemed inevitable: Fringe's time in Mount Vernon Square was running out. At the time, the scrappy, massive theater festival was operating under the assumption that 2013 would be its last summer in its ramshackle campus at 6th [...]
Ex-Ford's Theatre chairman Wayne Reynolds throws a fancy party to pitch his ideas for the Corcoran. [Post]
Arts Desk fave RDGLDGRN plays Jimmy Kimmel. [Absolute Punk]
More about The River and the Mountain, the play controversial in Uganda for featuring a gay character, that comes to Artisphere this weekend. [D.C. Theatre Scene]
Capital Fringe wins the Washington Post [...]
Peace out, cynical 2012. We’re embracing optimistic 2013.
Last year, we saw the arts take a few hits: Artisphere booted its in-house theater company, WSC Avant Bard; Riot Act Comedy Theater closed; the Corcoran threatened to sell its building; Shakespeare Theatre’s landlord tried to jack up its rent by 700 percent; Red Palace shut its doors; [...]
Will TV ever get D.C. right? Frankly, that was never the point, argues Tom Carson in his essay on Washington-set TV shows on the cover of this week's Washington City Paper. Leading the arts section is Chris Klimek's wrap-up on the seventh Capital Fringe Festival—which, he argues, finally feels professional. Derek Hills breaks down the [...]
Peter Marks: Fringe is incubating promising new work. D.C. theaters need to help it finish the job. [Post]
A Fringe artist explains how much money he made at the festival and why [Fringe & Purge]
"Perhaps art world fashion will change someday. Perhaps someday the in-crowd will place a higher value on Rogers’s logistical wizardry and Boy [...]
In response to our post about Brian Miller's brilliant Minor Treat ice-cream truck, Travis Morrison from Dismemberment Plan solicits Plan-themed food ideas. Dismemberment Flan, anyone? [Facebook]
Village Voice interviews local experimentalists Janel and Anthony—and Janel gives us a shout-out. [Village Voice]
The Style blog attempts to unfurl the overarching themes of this year's Capital Fringe festival. [Post]
DCist [...]
Google maps the Smithsonian! [AP via Huffington Post]
Tareq Salahi is gonna git that Journey guitarist who stole his wife, by God! [DCist]
In an interview, Capital Fringe Executive Director Julianne Brienza floats the idea of an affordable "theater barn" for D.C.'s performing-arts scene [Huffington Post]
U Street Music Hall co-owner Will Eastman criticizes a contracted security guard for trying to boot two men who were dancing provocatively at the club this weekend. He says the guard was promptly fired. "If anyone knows the individuals who were approached by the security guard please ask them to contact me so that I can offer them [...]
The Capital Fringe Festival is entering its Diamonds Are Forever phase. The unjuried, free-form performing arts festival's seventh iteration kicks off July 12 and will sprawl across 18 venues through July 29. And with another slate of 130-plus shows from acts ranging from greenhorns to old timers, the menu can be overwhelming. [...]
Performing arts live & uncensored, promises the cover of program of the seventh Capital Fringe Festival, which will once again occupy a mix of year-round and seasonal performance venues—18 sites this year—for three weekends in the dead of summer, July 12 to 29.
The photo on the cover is of a young woman who appears to [...]
