Once more, there were dozens and dozens of shows this year at Capital Fringe, this time in churches in and around Southwest D.C., already being overrun by All-Star Game activities and the opening of a new soccer stadium. I wrote about a few of them for The Washington Post.
Among them were opera and dance, a high school response to Parkland and a whole lot of one-man shows including:
- One in which a man copes with the heartbreak of part-time fatherhood with flashbacks of his own life.
- Another entertaining one about an overbearing mother and addiction (scroll down).
- A mildly amusing one about his own medical maladies (scroll further down).
- Four operatic scenes with a live orchestra.
- A theatrical piece involving movement and audience participation.
- A satire on contemporary racial issues and advertising, with a nod to Melville (scroll down)
- A high school playwright and largely teenage cast react to the spate of school shootings (scroll down).