Capital Fringe Festival Opens Tonight
The third annual Capital Fringe Festival opens tonight with a slate of 120 productions over 18 days at 20 venues in theaters, bars, tents and defunct Italian restaurants around town. City Paper will be covering the chaos on its Fringe & Purge blog, with veteran critics like Trey Graham and Glen Weldon, online producer Ted Scheinman and myself, as well as a phalanx of guest bloggers who will help us report back on the good, the bad, and the ugly of this year's festival.
I'm actually at Fort Fringe as I type--formerly known as A.V. Ristorante Italiano--which the festival folks have artfully transformed into their guerilla headquarters, complete with offices in a crumbling bar, a two-tiered tent deemed the Baldacchino in the parking lot, and a permanent black box theater in what used to be a meat-curing pantry. I will be blogging live from here until the shows begin this evening--so if you want to know if the toilets will be working in time for the opening night party later, you know where to look for updates.
Oh yeah, there's a party: 9 PM at Fort Fringe, 607 New York Avenue NW. But really this festival is all about the performances, so turn off your computers, get off your rolling chairs, and go check out a show or two or twenty. Then visit Fringe & Purge and let everyone know what you thought.
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