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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Insect Factory is Silver Spring guitarist Jeff Barsky. By day, Mr. Barsky is a mild-mannered fourth grade teacher. But come nightfall, he metamorphoses into an axe-wielding noisenik whose intense guitar drones would bug out even the calmest 10-year-old. Fringe & Purge caught up with Barsky in advance of his Friday gig under Fort Fringe’s Baldacchino [...]
When manned space exploration makes its next big leap forward, “the right stuff” will no longer be lightning reflexes and nerves of steel, but rather the even-more-uncommon ability to withstand decades of confinement and isolation without losing your mind. In space no one can hear you scream—which might just be the reason you’re screaming.
Playwright/actor Evan [...]
Goethe Institut – Mainstage, 812 7th Street NW
Remaining Performances:
Thursday, Jul 14th 10 p.m.
Saturday, Jul 16th 1 p.m.
Tuesday, Jul 19th 8:15 p.m.
Friday, Jul 22nd 10 p.m.
They say: “An untold story of 9/11, the stranding of 6000 airline passengers in Gander, Newfoundland (Canada), population 10,000. This “heartwarming & hilarious” solo performance recounts the story of Irish, English [...]
In Which Three WCP Theater Critics Set Out To Discuss Matters of Pressing Import, But Get Stuck Bitching About Draconian Late-Seating Policies, Tapped Kegs and The Fact That The Apothecary is HOT AS BALLS.
Glen Weldon: All right, Graham. Klimek. It’s about time we blew the lid off a subject that THE MAN doesn’t want [...]
Forget The Namesake. Screw Kal Penn. Slumdog what? The hottest Indian export these days is sexy ‘n’ sassy comedian Vijai Nathan. Her one woman show, Give Them Vagina: Tips from Mom, Dad & COSMO, is a devastatingly funny takedown of her life as a single lady out on the dating scene. Though Nathan grew up [...]
