We have only just started to see straight again after Sunday night’s Captital Fringe Festival-concluding bacchanal, which is why it took so long for these video interviews we shot at Fort Fringe that night to see the light of day. We didn’t interview all the winners; just the ones who hung around to party [...]
It was a Capital Fringe Festival in which technically impressive shows—whether the technique on offer was digital or manual—were the talk of the Baldacchino Gypsy Tent Bar.
It was a festival that cost more to attend than in prior years, at least until a withering heat wave inspired a $12 weekend ticket special.
And if it didn’t [...]
So I was talking with Capital Fringe Festival Supreme Allied Commander Julianne Brienza last night about her and her confederates’ decisive action to counter this soul-searing heatwave by cutting ticket prices from $17 to $12. Based on no data, and drawing upon the nigh-Greenspanian fiscal savvy that has made me the independently wealthy man of [...]
You know, we thought the razor-toothed winged-pig graphic for this year’s Capital Fringe Festival looked like some apoca-beast straight outta the Book of Revelations.
This morning at 1:30 a.m., Fringe & Purge had a nice sweat going while standing perfectly still in the Baldacchino Gypsy Tent. Today, tomorrow and Sunday, the heat index shall not just [...]
When I arrived at the (air-conditioned!) basement of the Universalist National Memorial Church to see Evan Crump’s new one-giant-leap-for-mankind drama FLYBOY, I spotted a trim, sharp-featured man in a Navy uniform milling around. That guy looks like Kyle MacLachlan’s dad, I thought. Or maybe like Kyle MacLachlan. How old would he be [...]
There’s an invaluable, hotly pursued commodity at the Capital Fringe Festival this year, and it isn’t nudity, air conditioning, or a properly carbonated draft beer.
It’s the swing voters, you might say. Civilians. People who appreciate, but do not participate in the making of, theater. Normals.
Besides presenting unconventional or unfinished work that perhaps doesn’t lend itself to [...]
The Fringe & Purge Action News and Commentary Squad has been honest with you, on occasion brutally so. We consider this to be our duty, as well as a sign of our respect for you, the artist and/or consumer.
But we’re not always right.
Key members of our elite blog-squad — tireless (and tire-changing) film critic/theater reviewer [...]
A fun game to delight ladies and gentlemen both young and old, if of a sporting disposition: Try to match Andrew Bossi‘s must-see photos of Friday night’s Julianne Brienza-starring edition of The Match Game DC to each moment of gameplay, as faithfully reported by Fringe and Purge. (If you were following us on Twitter @FringePurge, [...]
Everyone knows the Capital Fringe Festival’s lineup is crazy varied—deliberately provocative fare like F#@KING UP EVERYTHING (sic), The N Word? (sic), and Hotel Fuck are but one button-pushing demographic in the vast taxonomy of the festival’s 100-plus shows. But what’re the odds we’d get two solo shows about two different Roosevelts?
How about ONE HUNDRED PERCENT?
(I [...]
Okay, thrillseekers, another weekend’s Fringe-ry is upon us. The Fringe & Purge Action News and Commentary Squad will be out in force!
But then, we’ve been out in force. Here’re some shows that when filetered through our proprietary critical assessment algorithm came up at least 51 percent fresh, meaning, in clinical terms, that [...]
