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This is what the Fringe should be about: emerging writers, fearless performers, and bold new work. (Not to mention a low-budget concept and a benevolent run-time.) [Read more...]
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Miranda Hall Miranda Hall is a student at Georgetown University studying Theater and Performance Studies, English, and French. A Baltimore native, she has come to love DC as a runner, poet, and cupcake scavenger. Her work as a performer and director fuels her writing. The Audible Group and the Capital Fringe really strike her fancy.
All Good Men
July 18, 2009 By Leave a Comment
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You might think a tale about forbidden love and bioethics would be a shoe-in for a good story, especially if you sprinkle in some gender role reversals and five masterful movers. [Read more...]
Rent: The Broadway Tour
May 29, 2009 By Leave a Comment
The rent is late. No one’s got a job. No one can afford health insurance, and someone has contracted HIV/AIDS. The circumstances faced by the friends in Rent were as urgent in 1996 as they are now. [Read more...]
Dai (Enough)
January 17, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Dai (Enough)Written and performed by Iris Bahr
Originally directed Off-Broadway by Will Pomerantz
Produced by Theater J at Studio Theatre’s Milton Theatre
Reviewed by Miranda Hall
Stop me if you’ve heard this one: a Russian prostitute, a German furniture designer, and an Arab statistics professor walk into a café. Not ringing any bells? Iris Bahr is willing to betit doesn’t.
What she can imagine, however, is that you have heard something about the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. She can assume that you’ve experienced political conversations that splatter food on the walls instead of advance mutual understanding. And she’s probably right. [Read more...]
Punch -That’s the Way We Do It
November 9, 2008 By Leave a Comment
Punch – That’s the Way We Do ItWritten and directed by Wyckham Avery
Produced by dog and pony dc
Reviewed by Miranda Hall
Welcome to Adventure Seating 101. dog and pony dc’s production of Punch is an in-your-face – and frequently an in-your-lap – homage to vulgarity, violence, and questionable satire. If you’re in the mood for some crude, late-night entertainment, pull a trash bag over your clothes (if you’re sitting in the front two rows, they’re already attached to your seat), grab a beer (they’ll make sure you have one in the prologue), and get ready to jump into an evening of Fringe-esque debauchery. [Read more...]
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents
September 29, 2008 By 2 Comments
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents
by Karen Zacarías
based on the novel by Julia Alvarez
directed by Blake Robison
produced by Round House Theatre
reviewed by Miranda Hall
Lime-green suitcases. American flag underpants. Blow-out birthday parties. Welcome to the world of the Garcia family.
Playwright Karen Zacarias’s latest adaptation, from Julia Alvarez’s acclaimed novel, bursts with music, compassion, and vivacity. [Read more...]
Songs of My Life
July 28, 2008 By Leave a Comment
Songs of My Life/Going Against the Flow 
Reviewed by Miranda Hall
In the green-purple darkness of the 9:30 Club, languages mingle coolly above casual pre-show music. A trim woman wearing a black dress with enviable twirl potential snakes knowingly through the crowd. [Read more...]
The Frustrations of Stoker Pratt
July 26, 2008 By 1 Comment
Uncle Tom, Uncle Sam, Uncle Ben..
July 26, 2008 By 3 Comments
