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Danielle Martin Capital Fringe Reporter Danielle Martin teaches the creative arts around town, sees and makes theatre both here and in Philly, and is in between graduate school programs. Last year she finished up her MA in Theatre History and Criticism at CUA and is heading up to Boston very soon to begin an MA in Arts in Education at Harvard.

Soup!

soup

3redfringeDanielle rates it:

Structured as a night at a restaurant with six small courses, each sketch is a course to amuse the mind and lighten the heart.  [Read more...]

Peace Warriors

peacewarriers

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Set from dark until morning, Peace Warriors seizes upon and shakes out the Lewis family, their closest friend and the guest they are hosting until each character confesses their political and personal passions and paramours. [Read more...]

South Asian American Dance

  • South Asian American Dance  
  • Reviewed by Danielle Martin

 Tehreema Mitha Dance Company combined classic South Asian dance with contemporary concepts innovating both form and the notion of borders [Read more...]

Gasoline Hits $10 a Gallon

  • eXtreme eXchange: Gasoline Hits $10 a Gallon    
  • by Danielle Martin

eXtreme eXchange’s Fringe offering Gasoline Hits $10 a Gallon took over Woolly’s mainstage yesterday in partnership with the Fringe Training Factory. [Read more...]

Diamond Dead

Diamond Dead  
by Danielle Martin

I love Zombies. I think they’re cool, and so do all the other people who stood in line to see this show with me. And it was written by the same dude who composed Rocky Horror Picture Show.

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Self Accusation

Self Accusation  
Reviewed by Danielle Martin

Theatre Du Jour and DC Arts Center collaborate to bring us Peter Handke’s Self Accusation! In the DC Arts Center itself, this simple blackbox builds an auditory atmosphere all abuzz in preparation [Read more...]

7 (x1) Samurai

  • 7 (x1) Samurai 
  • Reviewed by Danielle Martin

 Adapted from Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai this sprawling tale gets turned afresh in the accomplished imagination of  writer, director, and performer David Gaine. [Read more...]

Psycho Cabaret

  • Psycho Cabaret  
  • Reviewed by Danielle Martin  

 Chief Ike’s Mambo Room has the air of a place where class goes to die, owing to the garrish paint and sinister murals. [Read more...]

Carnal Node

  • Carnal Node  
  • by Danielle Martin

 Fringe ain’t just theatre, folks. And things that fall into ‘ain’t theatre’ sure can appeal to the theatre folks, as Great Noise Ensemble’s Carnal Node now running at the Harman Center proves. [Read more...]

Sex, Love and Vomit

  • Sex, Love & Vomit 
  • by Danielle Martin

Another day at Fringe. Another blackbox. Another simple lighting plot. Another pair of women, Katie Knutson and the hugely pregnant Arianna Ross, spend 50 minutes sharing their bumpy journeys to love and self-acceptance with an unwitting audience. [Read more...]