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, [...]
No wonder those pious clerics up and declared the western objectification of women and glorification of dick jokes as deserving of–dare I say it?–jihad. Zed Headscarf, infidel-licking lesbian though she be, really could change all that.
Several commenteers (the extra “e” is purposeful, in the vein of “buccaneers” or “racketeers”) have requested a daily open thread for purging purposes.
So…what’s turning you on? What’s turning you off? What’s turning you around in circles? Good God, please, tell us!
I struggle with plays about the Iraq War. On Sunday, I saw Jack Gilhooley’s The Warrior, and it was probably the best Iraq piece I’ve seen. Still, I can’t say I enjoyed it, nor did I find it very dramatically compelling, and as I left the theater I realized that I have never [...]
A theater critic burns through memo pads at a fast clip. Mine get filled up with the stuff you’d imagine they would: bits of dialogue, a lighting cue, dashed-off descriptions of a set or a costume. For me at least, the notes are little more than mnemonic street lamps, each one lighting up a few [...]
Abe Lincoln: A One-Man Show
at Cole Studio
Remaining Performances:
Saturday, July 19 @ 3pm
Friday, July 25 @ 7pm
Saturday, July 26 @ 8pm
They say: “You probably know that Abe Lincoln was the 16th US president, but did you know he was a joke teller? See Abe tell his amusing anecdotes and relate some of his historical decision-making moments [...]
Metro: In the State of Mind
The Baldacchino
Remaining Performances:
July 11 @ 9:30 PM
July 12 @ 3:00 PM
July 13 @ 2:00 PM
July 18 @ 7:00 PM
July 19 @ 7:30 PM
July 20 @ 1:00 PM
They say: “poetic non sequiturs …. punctuate illusive conformity …. minimalist … sounds effect … existential expression … on the platform into tangents. Through [...]
This is what happens when people stop being polite, and start getting real. Real Fringey! More tales from the Fringe Confessional…
