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Archive for July, 2007

Hip Shot: ‘Super Glossy’

Super Glossy
Warehouse Arts Next Door – 1021 7th Street NW
Remaining Performances:
Friday, July 27, Midnight
Saturday, July 28, 9 pm
She says: “Cosmopolitan meets The Stepford Wives meets The Venture Bros in this sci-fi satire on women’s magazines. Courtney McLean is dorky and single everywoman Jane Fuller, who reluctantly caves to society’s pressures after *$@%ing a Hollywood heartthrob [...]

Guest Hip Shot: ‘Bad Dad’

Today’s guest reviewer is Bill Chappell, who’s a colleague at NPR and my home-boy from down South. Saw him coming out of this one last night and asked him to write it up…
– trey
Bad Dad!
Warehouse Arts – Beyond
Remaining Performances:
Friday, July 27, 11 pm
Saturday, July 28, 4 pm
Sunday, July 29, 4 pm
Bad Dad says: “Winner, San [...]

Overheard at Fringe

“Sometimes it’s better to be quiet than to be loud.”
– Patron coming out of a certain show about a certain Baltimore poet.

After-Action Report: ‘Nutshell’

Waiting on a giant download at my desk, so I’ve just got a few minutes. And plenty of people have commented already on Callie Kimball’s sprawling 27-character (or was it 28?) show about the actress and the talking elephants. So I’m not gonna go on at length here.
I did wanna say, though, that “astoundingly [...]

Hip Shot: The Swami Lives! (Maybe)

Swami Yomahmi – Unnatural Acts of Comedy
The Scientarium, 709 D St. NW
Remaining Performances:
Friday, July 27, midnight
Saturday, July 28, 2:30 p.m.
Sunday, July 29, 2 p.m.
They say: “From last year’s wildly popular Cheeky Monkey Sideshow comes SWAMI YOMAHMI. Razor blades, broken glass, rusty nails, bondage–you’d have to be crazy to do this stuff! Hilarious, shocking, and always [...]

Fringe Video 14: The One Without Brooke Shields

First-time Fringer Jonathan Padget is taking a literal plunge with his play The Blue Lagoon: A Musical. Turning films into musicals is all the rage these days, but Jonathan deserves much credit for going where even Hollywood wouldn’t dare venture. And in true Fringe spirit, the production was built largely from dollar-store items.
The next performances [...]

Housekeeping

So, quick and sorta random notes about a few things:

Festival director Julianne Brienza reports that the venue for The Super Secret Show, starring Trixie Little and the Evil Hate Monkey, has changed: The show’s at the Warehouse mainstage now, not at the Scientarium. (Something about their rigging and their tech rider.) Dates and venue info [...]

Guest Hip Shot: ‘Too Much Light…’

Ladies, germs, children of all levels of annoyingness: Permit me to introduce this evening’s guest Fringe-blogger, Mr. Glen Weldon.
You may have seen him at local theaters recently, sitting in the City Paper press seats: He’s the pale one. (And coming from me … )
Also he’s smart. And even if he did go and [...]

Fringe Confessions: Video 4

This is really getting out of hand…

Hip Shot: ‘Christmas in Bakersfield’

Christmas in Bakersfield
Goethe-Institut
Remaining Performances:
Thursday, July 26, 9 pm
He says: “Heart warming! Hysterical! Puts the fun in family dysfunction. Les finally meets Mike, the man of his dreams. Mike takes Les home to meet his conservative Caucasian family he realizes that he forgot to tell him one small detail, that Les is African American. Oops!”
Trey’s take: [...]