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 [...]
For our last stop on the Fringe Festival venue tour, newly-shaven producing artistic director Scot McKenzie tells us about Apothecary, a former pharmacy and retail store devastated by fire in D.C.’s Civil Rights-era riots. Today the space is host to art galleries, fashion shows, and—with the help of an improvised sprung floor—Fringe’s more dance-oriented productions.
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 [...]
Once an antebellum print shop dating back to the 1830s, the spooky, airy Wonderbox now serves as a good backdrop for post-apocalyptic fantasies. Navid Azeez — venue manager, 9:30 Club lighting director, and emcee with local band Whole Damme Delegation — tells us a little about it.
Shot and edited by Matt Bevilacqua.
In the upper recesses of Fort Fringe is a room where Jack Torrance could have very well hacked someone to death with an axe. So naturally, the good folks at the Capital Fringe Festival saw it as an ideal space to put on plays.
Shot and edited by Matt Bevilacqua.
Behold The Shop, the newest of three stages located inside the Fort Fringe complex. Though fatigued after two sleepless days of prep, producing artistic director Scot McKenzie agreed to talk to us about the theater-in-the-round once used as a storeroom for salsicce.
Shot and edited by Matt Bevilacqua.
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 [...]
Unintended Consequences: Three One-Act Comedies
Warehouse – Next Door
Remaining Performances:
Saturday, July 19 @ 8:30pm
Wednesday, July 23 @ 6:30pm
Saturday, July 26 @ 3:30pm
They say: “What the hell were they thinking? The delightfully perplexed characters in this trio of one-acts cope with the unintended consequences that ensue when the INS investigates illegal trafficking in undocumented genies, the Devil [...]
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 [...]
Watch and listen as Fringe & Purge chats with Jeffrey of Speakeasy D.C., Mark and Sabrina of Happenstance Theater, and Julianne and Scott, the masterminds behind D.C. Fringe.Trouble viewing? Try the YouTube version of this video
