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 [...]
Goethe Institut
Remaining Performances:
No more in the 2011 Capital Fringe Festival, because that’s done. But Ellouise Schoettler posts her tour dates on her site.
They say: ”Genealogy Meets Entertainment as 75-year-old storyteller Ellouise Schoettler puts flesh on old family bones to weave this intriguing collage of romance, hunky heroes, love, loss and reunion. Come for fun – leave [...]
Wonderbox, 629 New York Ave. NW
Remaining Performances:
Saturday, July 23, 9 p.m.
Sunday, July 24, 12:30 pm.
Sex on drugs, sex on love, sex from above (or rather, news of such delivered by the angels from on high). That’s what hookups explores—the spectrum of romantic couplings from the dawn of time through present-day one-night stands. And that’s how [...]
Wonderbox, 629 New York Ave. NW
Remaining Performances:
Saturday, July 23, 9 p.m.
Sunday, July 24, 12:30 pm
They say: “What was Plato like in bed? Do pandas get performance anxiety? Who moved third base? And where did Romeo leave his hose? Find out at the original comedy Hookups. We’d love it if you came!”
Hip Shot: 70 Million Tons
Capitol Hill Arts Workshop, 545 7th St. SE
Remaining Performances:
Saturday, July 23 at 8 p.m.
They say: ”God has had it. We’ve spent centuries desecrating Her favorite planet and She’s ready to bring another Great Flood. Can an extravagant director and clueless bunch of classical actors produce an eco-friendly farce in an hour and [...]
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 [...]
Goethe Institut- Mainstage
Remaining Performances:
Saturday, July 23rd at 6 p.m.
They say: “Sadie is turning 90. ‘Life is wonderful? Really? So where did everybody go? Living your life, it’s like open heart surgery: a big annoying pain!’”
The Mountain – at Mount Vernon Church, 900 Massachusetts Ave NW
Remaining Performances:
Friday, July 22nd, 6 p.m.
Saturday, July 23rd, 7:30 p.m.
Running Time: 70 minutes
They say: “Rob and Flick aka ‘Assembly Required,’ the edu-tainers and self-proclaimed artistic geniuses behind last year’s hit shlecture (that’s a show lecture) about musicals return with a new assembly that will teach [...]
Hip-Shot: The N Word?
Wonderbox, 629 New York Ave NW
Remaining Performances:
Friday, July 22nd at 8 p.m.
Saturday, July 23rd at 3 p.m.
Sunday July 24th at 7 p.m.
They Say: “Four friends’ emotional boundaries are tested when their varied views and opinions on the N-word are shared. This heated, informative and passionate debate is delivered [...]
