The Capital Fringe Festival takes Mondays off, but the lack of scheduled performances doesn’t leave us wanting for work.
Senior members of the Fringe & Purge Action News and Commentary Squad yesterday convened before a huge fireplace at Fort Fringe to have a red-tinted, measured, nuanced, insightful discussion about theater criticism as it relates to both [...]

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.

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.
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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.
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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.

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At the MLK library on Monday, the folks from the Molotov Theatre presented a workshop on stage blood in the style of the old Grand Guignol in Paris. It was a rather sanguine affair, just slightly depraved and a lot of fun. We got to mix our own blood (and eat it, [...]

This past Thursday, the stars, architects and friends of Fringe converged under the Baldacchino for an evening of romance and revelry. Watch in awe as a gaggle of performers spill the beans on their upcoming shows.
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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 [...]

On Monday, we assembled our army of guest bloggers and sat them down with Fringe & Purge theater critic Trey Graham to teach ‘em a thing or two. It was an extremely long, pedantic, and intensive session–half the bloggers couldn’t even make it through the first half without running out of Fort Fringe [...]