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Posts Tagged ‘solo performance’

Hip Shot: ‘God’s Wrath Revealed and Deserved’

Join the congregation of Pastor Daniel to learn about what is in store for those who sin.

Hip Shot: ‘How to Profit From Your Family’

How To Profit From Your Family

Busboys & Poets @ 5th & K

Remaining Performance:
July 11 @ 10 pm
They Say: “A woman. A stage. An eccentric family. Follow an amateur’s humorous attempts to put together a 2009 Fringe show. It has a happy ending. She made dozens of dollars. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry…well, you’ll probably just laugh.”
Adam’s [...]

Fringe Profile: The Road Warrior

Of the 20-odd solo performers on the 2010 Capital Fringe roster, several of them have white-collar back-up plans.
Ed Hamell is the other kind.
At 55, he’s been touring in one guise or another since the mid-seventies, and peddling his “conceptually Tom Waits-esque” public-service-announcement-with-guitar act — solo acoustic, but aggressive and loud — under the name Hamell [...]

Hip Shot: Sex, Dreams, and Self Control

I hope years from now we’ll say, “they just don’t write songs like Kevin Thornton used to.” Accompanied by gorgeous guitar riffs and a sweet, melodic voice, no written description can do his songs justice. You need to hear the refrain “After bible study hand jobs…We’ll read the word of God and then throb…” set to music to understand fully how poignant his lyrics can be. And lucky for you, you can, tonight and every night this weekend.