April 8, 2008
Capital Fringe Festival Announces 2008 Dates
The annual summertime deluge of theater shows comes back again this year with the Capital Fringe Festival, which announced today it will run from July 10 to 27. The non-profit, which started the city-wide festival in 2006, took home two well-deserved awards last year for their programming, the Mayor's Arts Award for Innovation in the Arts and the Momentum Award from the Downtown DC BID. This year's festival promises us even more shows and participants: a 30 percent increase over last year.
The festival says it has already lined up 130 performing arts groups, 20 venues, and will go on for the longest-run so far, a full 18 days. As the organizers put it:
Presentations run the gamut - there will be one act plays, comedies, dramas, musicals, dance, audience participation, puppetry, improvisation, clowns, hip-hop, jazz, poetry, social commentaries, mime, and more that is just simply unclassifiable.There are shows for all ages and tickets typically run $15 to $35, which will go on sale in late June. The Festival runs on grants, donations and ticket sales -- and 70 percent of the latter go back to the performers. Since they tend to celebrate emerging and experimental performances, they're not kidding about shows "running the gamut." Check out our reviews of past shows to get a taste of the good, the bad, and the ugly. But the mystery behind what quality of show you've signed up to see is all part of the fun -- you never know if you'll end up with a cringeworthy, soul-crushing experience, or happen upon a tightly-honed production of dance, music and acting with a message that's worth every penny. We'll bring you more details when this year's Festival schedule is released.
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WORLD PREMIERE AT STUDIO THEATRE 2ndSTAGE
FROM VETERAN CAP FRINGE HIT MAKERS
"TALES OF DOOMED LOVE
(or is it ever worth it?)"
"BEST ORIGINAL SCRIPT" –TRIANGLE INDEPENDENT
WHAT: World premiere play, "TALES OF DOOMED LOVE (or is it ever worth it?)," at Capital Fringe Festival.
WHEN: Friday, July 18, 2008, 10:00 p.m. – 11:00 p.m.
Sunday, July 20, 2008, 4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Thursday, July 24, 2008, 9:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m.
Friday, July 25, 2008, 6:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.
Saturday, July 26, 2008, 6:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, July 27, 2008, 2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
WHERE: Studio Theatre 2ndStage, 1501 14th Street, NW, Washington, DC, 20005, 202-332-3300. [PRICE: $15.]
Come to the Studio Theatre 2ndStage for six performances July 18 – July 27 as Washington, D.C., Actor-Manager Hilary Kacser and Director Jessica Lefkow, creators of past Capital Fringe Festival sold-out shows, bring to life playwright Andrea Stolowitz' world premiere play, "TALES OF DOOMED LOVE (or is it ever worth it?)" at the 3rd Annual Capital Fringe Festival. Funny, biting, and heart wrenching, five reinvented classic stories turn love on its head in an intimate and emotional evening of theatrical storytelling.
Stolowitz travels to Washington, D.C., from Oregon for her play’s CapFringe world premiere. "The best original script we saw in this region last year," The Triangle Independent called "Tales of Doomed Love" in development, citing "riveting if not prescient" connections to present-day geopolitics. Stolowitz’s plays have been developed and presented at such venues as The Old Globe and The Long Wharf. Lefkow’s "Margherita" sold out at CapFringe 2007, and she directs new play "Honey Brown Eyes" this autumn for Theater J.
Dramatizing 2007 Nobel Laureate Doris Lessing’s memoir, Kacser’s "In Pursuit of the English: Rose" sold out at CapFringe 2006. DC Theatre Scene says, "Lessing imbued Rose with real and sympathetic characteristics, and Kacser captures every one of them. Kacser’s extraordinarily detailed characterization…is minutely observed and displayed to us with exquisite specificity." Since then Kacser has performed in acclaimed productions of "Dark Rapture" at Spooky Action and "Good Woman of Setzuan" and "The Oresteia" with Constellation. A graduate of Brown University, Kacser studied acting at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA) and has performed widely in D.C., south Florida, and London. Known to a cult following for internet acting (www.DCLugi.tv), Dave Coyne completes the cast.
Box Office Phone is: 866-811-4111. Studio Theatre 2ndStage is wheelchair accessible and air-conditioned. For more information, please go to: http://www.myspace.com/talesofdoomedlove, www.CapFringe.org, and www.studiotheatre.org.
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