As a developing company creating and producing work off-center from standard theatrical fare in the Washington area, dog & pony dc (d&pdc) has found the Capital Fringe Festival a vital developmental partner. Producing shows through and in conjunction with Cap Fringe enabled our 4 ½ year old company to experiment...

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  • September 6, 2012

In another life I was the assistant production manager at the Exit Theatre in San Francisco. Mostly that meant mopping and house managing and babysitting load-ins but the Exit is also the home of the San Francisco Fringe Festival. I loved that month every year. We work in a field...

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  • September 4, 2012
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As I just mentioned, the Edinburgh Festival Fringe was born in 1947 as the brainchild of a group of theatre artists who were rejected from the fledgling International Festival and responded to that rejection by, in essence, giving it the finger.  They came to Edinburgh, they found their own venues,...

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  • August 31, 2012
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I am a snob. Five years into my association with the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, and having just completed the second successful Festival with the venue company I co-founded and manage, I admit this: I have to grit my teeth to keep from correcting the lovely, hard-working, earnest, theatre-loving, innovation-encouraging people...

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  • August 31, 2012