A scene from The President's New Clothes, a play from the upcoming Capital Fringe Festival.
Photo: Deborah Langerman
The fledgling Capital Fringe Festival—D.C.'s answer to Edinburgh's large-scale theater fest—opens tomorrow with 120 arts groups and 20 venues participating, and 649 performances planned (up from last year's 408). The festival's edgy and alternative productions take over the city for 18 days—through July 27—with shows ranging from the twisted puppet show 3 Murdered Clowns at the D.C. Arts Center, to stand-up from Washington native Sean O'Brien at the Robert Cole Studios, to Wiener Sausage: The Musical! at the Chief Ike's Mambo Room/Chaos Theater, which promises a "science-fiction rock n' roll parody of life, love, politics, war, and death."
Capital Fringe kicks off at its Fort Fringe headquarters, in an adjacent tented area (dubbed the Baldacchino) complete with a bar and stage for the evening's performers, which includes the Pointillism Jazz Consort dance company and the Teatro Jaguar Luna contemporary puppet group.
Capital Fringe kicks off at its Fort Fringe headquarters, in an adjacent tented area (dubbed the Baldacchino) complete with a bar and stage for the evening's performers, which includes the Pointillism Jazz Consort dance company and the Teatro Jaguar Luna contemporary puppet group.
