>> Artists Virgil Marti and Pae White, whose new conceptual piece has recently been installed in the lobby of the Hirshhorn, will give a Meet the Artists talk in the museum's Ring Auditorium. [7th St. and Independence Ave. SW, Free, 7 p.m.] more ›

Howard Shalwitz, the longtime artistic director of the Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, co-founded the theatre back in 1980--at a time when the repertory of American plays was limited to academic classics and NYC vogue. With a commitment to new approaches to theatre and a devotion to bringing new playwriting voices into the limelight, Woolly has had not just a tremendous national impact, but has been an important local influence as well as a partner in community development and a force for bringing new audiences to the theatre. Against the backdrop of the Capital Fringe Festival, DCist took to the interwebs to ask him about Woolly's Fringe-minded roots and the Festival's future in the city. more ›

Today at the Fringe, it's your last chance to see a pair of shows from Canada, we give you a good reason to see Atlantis Bones, and Star Wars nerds have their day in the sun. It's everything you need to know about Wednesday at the Fringe, and finding it all is just a click away. New Today: Grounded, by Andrew Ullrich We don't know what Grounded is about, and we don't know who Andrew... more ›

Have you heard? There's this Fringe Festival going on all across the city. It looks like Flickr user Beck Exposed made it out to the Woolly Mammoth Theatre this week and took a fine photograph while she was at it (under a Creative Commons license). The opposing staircases tightly frame the center as the lines slowly take you out to the edges. The photo's EXIF data is here.
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We all know that high schools, public or private, urban or rural, can be a more than a little messed up. And now that we've been through the gauntlet ourselves, we also lack the illlusion that our teachers were perfect, and now can see them more as the flawed human beings they inevitably are. more ›

DCist theater critic Missy Frederick contributed to this report. Signature Theatre's production of Urinetown took top honors at last night's Helen Hayes Awards, D.C.'s local theater awards ceremony, taking home 8 prizes including director of a musical (Joe Calarco), choreographer (Karma Camp), four different acting awards (Will Gartshore is pictured right accepting his award for lead actor in a musical, which he shared in a tie with Michael McElroy from Big River), and outstanding resident... more ›

It's easy to scare children with talk of Boogeymen and Bloody Marys, creatures in the closet, or things that go bump in the night. But we adults are immune to such terrors, right? Right? more ›

Plays by women; plays about women. The fairer sex captures the imagination of many D.C. theaters this September, offering works by celebrated female authors and performing plays that focus on female characters. And if that's not your thing, well, there's always Kafka. more ›

The Post reports today that a new experimental arts festival is planned for July 2006. The Capital Fringe Festival will be a 10-day showcase of local and visiting performers working in theater, dance, music and other disciplines. According to festival founder Damian Sinclair, director of marketing for Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company and a relative newbie to D.C., Capital Fringe will be concentrated downtown along the Seventh Street corridor in 20 venues, including theaters, galleries, lobbies, vacant storefronts and outdoor areas. Tickets will be a reasonable $10 and the festival will include approximately 1,000 events. more ›