Fort Fringe – Redrum, 610 L Street NW
Remaining Performances:
Tuesday, July 12th, 7 p.m.
Thursday, July 14th, 8 p.m.
Friday, July 22nd, 10:45 p.m.
They say: “Captain Freedom has saved the world countless time and looked fantastic doing it, but not even a superhero is recession-proof. A super-heroic comedy from Landless Theatre (Diamond Dead, Carrie Potter) and humorist G. Xavier Robillard (alldaycoffee.net).” Read more Hip Shot: Captain Freedom
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.
Wonderbox, 629 New York Ave NW
Remaining Performances:
Tuesday, July 12th at 7:15 p.m.
Sunday, July 17th at 8:30 p.m.
Saturday, July 23rd at 12:30 p.m.
They say: “Written by emerging local playwright Timothy Guillot, Insurgent Sonata tells the story of five teenagers who attempt to start a revolution by killing their parents. Together they confront abuse, find friendship, understand love, and slowly tear each other apart.” Read more Hip-Shot: Insurgent Sonata
The Apothecary
Remaining Performances:
Tuesday July 12th at 10:00 p.m.
Saturday July 16th at 8:00p.m.
Saturday July 23rd at 4:00 p.m.
Sunday July 24th at 12:00 p.m.
They say: “Laughs, romance and a tinge of steampunk fantasy are on view in W.S. Gilbert’s farce. Ever wish you could erase someone from your life? The lovestruck Foggerty does, aided by an unconventional fairy godmother. He soon wishes he hadn’t.” Read more Hip Shot: Foggerty’s Fairy
Wonderbox, 629 New York Ave. NW
Remaining Performances:
Tuesday, July 12th, 8:15 p.m.
Wednesday, July 13th, 9 p.m.
Saturday, July 16th, 10 p.m.
Sunday, July 17th, 2:15 p.m.
They say: ”Pentecostal preacher turned atheist street magician turned Fringe Comedic Cult Leader finding ‘accidental enlightenment’ over two trips to the Burning Man festival. ‘Nuge makes it look easy and fun’ – (CRITIC’S PICK) Cincinnati CityBeat.” Read more Hip Shot: Preacherman
The Shop, 607 New York Ave. NW
Remaining Performances:
Tuesday, July 12 at 6 p.m.
Friday, July 15 at 10:30 p.m.
Wednesday, July 20 at 6 p.m.
Saturday, July 23 at 10 p.m.
They say: “cloudism is an experiential theater performance which incorporates the audience directly into its production. A space is created for participants to explore, interact and experience, blending poetry, art and music into a unique theatrical happening. Witness! Experience! Participate!”
A railroad spike. "That shit ain't mine, I don't know how it got there," says F&P's Ian Buckwalter.
CapFringe Audience Services Director Cory Ryan Frank dons a tie to do the numbers: Nine thousand tickets! Five thousand buttons! A thousand passes! Uncountable memories!
It almost didn’t get off the ground at all. The milk of human kindness, as we all know, is in actuality beer. Some undetermined time prior to 1630 hours Thursday afternoon—a mere T-minus 30 minutes from festival launch at the Baldacchino Gypsy Tent Bar, which had actually opened for drinking a couple weeks earlier—the bar’s Co2 canisters had walked away, perhaps aided in their egress by miscreants. Intolerable!
Losing no time, festival Food & Beverage Manager Matty Griffiths appealed to the beneficence of several nearby imbibing establishments—The Passenger, Busboys & Poets, The DC Eagle, Room 7—securing enough donated Co2 to get the taps flowing only a few minutes after the tent-bar was set to open. (Kat Hansen, events & marketing coordinator at Busboys & Poets, confirms that her establishment was among the donors.)
Read more Regrets: Too Few to Mention! Getting Nostalgic for Capital Fringe Festival VI, Part the First
The Shop, 607 New York Avenue NW
Remaining Performances:
Sunday, July 10, at 5:15 p.m.
Wednesday, July 13, at 9:15 p.m.
Saturday, July 16, at 8:30 p.m.
They say: “If control is impossible…let’s pack up those sexual emotions that are getting us in such big trouble and head straight for the Hotel Fuck,” implores Ken Pussy Puss in avant garde giant Richard Foreman’s colorful masterpiece, which follows a motley group, including Tony Turbo, Giza von Goldenhein and Julia Jacobsen, in a desperate yet hilarious quest to find the infamous yet elusive Hotel Fuck.”
Fort Fringe – The Bedroom, 610 L Street NW
Remaining Performances:
Tuesday, July 12th, 9:45 pm
Friday, July 15th, 8 pm
Saturday, July 16th, 6 pm
They say:They’ve been broken up for nearly 500 years [sic], but William Shakespeare is getting the band back together and releasing the most ambitious concept album since Hamlet, proving that high culture once was pop culture, and shall be again! Read more Hip Shot: Shall I Compare Thee to a Purple Haze? The Lost Rock Sonnets of William Shakespeare
Fort Fringe – The Baldacchino Tent Bar, 607 New York Ave NW
Remaining Performances:
Wednesday, July 13th at 9:45 p.m.
Wednesday, July 20th at 9 p.m.
Friday, July 22nd at 6 p.m.
They say: “Four sirens ignite the stage in this rock cabaret. These sexy songstresses will seduce you, love you, and leave you. With looks like Jessica Rabbit and voices like Joan Jett, this ain’t your mama’s femme fatale.” Read more Hip Shot: Cabaret XXX: Les Femmes Fatales
