July 2011
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Artistic Blind Date Artists on Being a Part of...
Martin Gendelman
To get away from the University cycles and into the city and because of my interest in cross-disciplinary collaborations.
Dave Bobb
To be given the experience to collaborate on a piece with other artists that I did not previously know
Hal Small
I thought it would be too intriguing not to try for this, so I applied and unfortunately I was accepted. Just kidding. Although...
10-Minute Play Artists: What's an interesting...
What’s a funny or interesting thing that happened to you during the festival?
Juanita Rockwell
Director Carmen Wong asked if I would divide the role of Mom into three parts - which I loved. My mom would have loved it too, since she had to do the work of at least three women to raise us.
Martha Karl
We are not sister wives, but just three Moms, and we got our own body language down...
Pinkline Project puts the spotlight on our panel... →
Washingtonian Picks the Festival as a Must See for... →
NoVa Magazine Takes a Closer Look at the Festival →
June 2011
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Second Annual Talent Show, July 1 at 8pm
New and seasoned artists reveal their hidden (and not-so-hidden) talents. With celebrity judges and a prize for #1, this is not your middle school talent show. Whether you’re a hula-hoop pro, accordion master or Lady Gaga impersonator — this is the night for you. Stop hiding behind the shower curtain — unveil your talents.
A sample of our talents from this year:
Tosin Aribisala, African...
Tim Treanor of DCTS on Artistic Blind Date,... →
Mad props from Tim at DCTS: →
“The principal pleasure of Volcanic in Origin is watching the work of the four actors, none of whom is widely known in Washington. They should be, and I predict that they will be.”
DC Theatre Scene reviews our full-length,... →
Lost and Found 10-Minute Plays reviewed by DCTS →
MD Theatre Guide on our 10-Minute Play Group... →
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DC Theatre Scene stops in for our Lovers and... →
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DCTS on The Making of a Modern Folk Hero →
Learning experiences... →
Volcanic in Origin reviewed: →
Brandon of CP fame and fortune comes back for more…
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From DC Theatres to the Nation’s Stages:...
June 26, 11:30am Source | 1835 14th Street NW
Join Source Festival for a conversation with dramaturgs, producers, and other DC-area artists as we discuss developing new work inside the nation’s capital. How does our location within this global city affect the work we develop and put on stage? How are our conversations about theatre and art informed by being “inside the beltway?” In what...
WatchThe creators of Nacirema have released a mini-film experience to give you just a bite of what is to come - a mash-up featuring video, movement and original music.
Watch the video
From the creators: Teaser video from NACIREMA, a multimedia experience exploring identity, culture and control, weaving a narrative that encourages the audience to consider what it means to be a citizen. Using...
ARTISTIC BLIND DATES: Dancer and Choreographer...
To start, we each came to each other with questions that we were hoping to answer through this project. How does performance right now in Washington, DC relate to what other artists are doing across the world? Why are we all doing what we are doing? How can we affect total presence in our audience? To forget about all immediate tasks, troubles, frustrations and enjoy some art. What is human at...
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Old-Old-School Comfort Food with Lewis and Clark
Edible dramaturgy is our favorite kind of dramaturgy. This is kind of food Lewis and Clark would have eaten when times were good on the expedition of the Corps of Discovery – corn and beans with sunflower nuts. Eat on. Corn and Beans with Sunflower Nuts Ingredients: ¼ cup butter or margarine 1 cup canned black beans 2 cups canned and drained (or frozen and thawed) whole kernel corn ¾ cup water...
Washingtonian interviews Producer Jenny McConnell... →
Washington Post's Jane Horowitz takes the plunge,... →
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Brandon Wetherbee is on a two-day review sprint... →
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HEY HEY HEY! Source shoutouts across DC!
The Festival is full underway now and we’re already getting facetime all over town! Thanks to everyone who has been spreadin’ the word so far and to CityPaper, Washington Post, Washington Examiner, and local bloggers like Borderstan, DC This Week, and Frivolosity to giving our lil ol’ 3-week extravaganza of theatre a virtual wink and a shoutout this week.
We’re guessing...
Brandon Wetherbee from City Paper Arts Desk gives... →
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A Non-Overview of the Festival →
Washington CityPaper writer and Onion writer hopeful attempts to comically describe Source Festival without actually yet seeing Source Festival, enrages two CityPaper commenters, later reviews our Lovers and Friends group of Ten-Minute Plays.
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FULL-LENGTH PLAY: An interview about The Making of...
Did a vision of the pudgy Mexican hero of the people known as Superbarrio inspire you to write this play?
It wasn’t Superbarrio himself so much as the story of his creation that inspired the play. I read this story in the book Mexican Enough by Stephanie Elizondo Griest, which I’d received as a birthday present from my girlfriend/partner. Thereafter, I did some research about...
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10-MINUTE PLAYS: The Art of Being Lost
LaRonika Thomas, Dramaturg, illuminates the 10-Minute Play Lost & Found group with an excerpt from Laurene Vaughn’s The Art of Being Lost: An Alternate Approach to Mapping “It is interesting to consider the relationship between the Art of Being Lost and the creation of maps and atlases. Although it is generally assumed that maps, atlases and other cartographic way-finding devices...
Going Out Guru's Name us the Top Theatre Spot for... →
Source saves a barren wasteland. Community safe at... →
Overview of the entire Festival in Express today: “D.C.’s traditional theater scene mellows out in the summer to the point of being, well, a barren wasteland. Happily, this leaves these three months wide open for more experimental works to find an audience… the Source Festival, a three-week showcase for new works that’s in its fourth year. The new works come in all shapes...
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Sympathizing with Monsters by 10-Minute Play...
An essay on Fugue for Amorous Tornadoes…
From a few thousand yards, a slow tornado dancing on a grassy prairie is inspiring. Sometimes though, tornados show up unannounced like alcoholic uncles. These drunk giants stumble through small towns that are filled with executives at lunch counters, fresh graduates making plans, couples spreading mulch in the back yard. The storms drag and...
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FULL-LENGTH PLAY: A Lesson on Volcanic in Origin...
“In a recent bulletin of the Superintendent of the Census for 1890 appear these significant words: ‘Up to and including 1880, the country had a frontier of settlement, but at present the unsettled area has been so broken into isolated bodies of settlement that there can hardly be said to be a frontier line. In the discussion of its extent, its westward movement, etc., it can not, therefore, any...