Home on the Fringe

washingtonpost.com: "About 40 percent of the 116 entries at the festival -- which begins Thursday in nearly two-dozen performance spaces around the city, many concentrated in Penn Quarter -- come from District sources, says festival director Julianne Brienza. That is a significant increase from last summer, when fewer than one-third of the 97 productions were from the city. And artists from the larger metropolitan area are contributing 84 percent of the offerings, up from 80 percent last summer."