Actually, as I write this, it’s looking more like the Apocalypse. Monster thunderstorm, lightning over the Baldacchino, etc.
So, we’re winding down, eh? Which seems like a good time to start asking big-picture questions.
So tell us:
How did Fringe — not the shows, but the festival itself — work for you as an audience member this year? [...]
So it’s been a while since I did anything other than write up a show, eh? And surely you all, no matter how high-minded your approach to Fringe, expect a certain amount of trash-talking here at Fringe & Purge.
(I’ve got an excuse, involving my sister, my nephews, and a beach house on the Isle of Palms. [...]
Ethan Now
The Universe – Universalist National Memorial Church
Remaining Performances:
Friday, July 18 @ 7pm
Sunday, July 20 @ 12:30pm
Saturday, July 26 @ 3pm
Sunday, July 27 @ 12:30pm
They say: “Ethan Now tells the story of the Lansdown brothers – Ethan, successful investment banker with a smart and beautiful wife, and Bradley, struggling writer who has “never even had [...]
This just in—may want to reshuffle your Fringe schedule if you were planning on seeing any of the following.
Shows cancelled for the full run:
Just Add Glitter
Tartuffe
The Legislative Process
Break Even
…plus, the midnight showing of Signor Deluso & the Women has been nixed for July 17.
Further bulletins as events warrant. I’m off to the Shop to check [...]
I just got a phone call from a friend of mine asking if there was a $15 cover charge for tonight’s opening night party.
The answer, emphatically, is NO! No, no, no.
There is indeed a party, however–tonight, 9 PM, Fort Fringe, 607 New York Ave NW–and it’s free as the wind is windy.
But [...]
You’ve heard about The Button, right? The Button is new this year. Fear the Button.
The Button, in economic terms, is a transfer of wealth. Specifically, from you to a Fringe performer. The Button costs five bucks, or roughly 5/7ths of the cost of a warm domestic beer at Nationals Park. The money gets [...]
Dear Lovely Fringe People:
Yes, Fringe is all about breaking down walls.
Yes, we stiff-necked media types welcome the opportunity Fringe offers us to escape our sad little cubicles and move among you, the creatively inspired.
Yes, we are delighted to meet you outside Fringe venues, to hear about your show, perhaps even to have [...]
Check out Trey Graham’s post from two years ago on the inaugural Fringe & Purge blog giving the run-down on what the Fringe Festival is exactly. Bear in mind that back then, this whole Fringe thing was a new concept for DC. But lest we take it for granted–or if this is your first Fringe [...]
Check out Marc Fisher’s insightful piece on DC Fringe in Sunday’s Post. It’s about the banal, nitty-gritty obstacles–and, on the flip side, the simple triumphs–that are an inevitable part of mounting a festival like this. It’ll make you glad that you don’t have Julianne Brienza’s job. Give me rats over fire inspectors any day.
First, the bad news: In its third year, the Capital Fringe Festival will have to get by without Courtney.
Ah, Courtney. Courtney, whose outré outfits, brassy personality, and shameless sidewalk busking helped draw audiences in droves to her one-woman shows.
Courtney, who last year successfully sent up both Barbarella and Cosmo in a single solo evening.
Courtney who, [...]
