Category: Reviews
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He sounds too experienced to be this young.
Date: October 5, 2024 Venue: DC Improv Socials: With a presidential election looming, Ian Lara arrived in a Washington, DC that wanted to laugh at anything BUT what we’ve argued about on social media or at family dinner tables. In a room of scattered demographics united in their collective need of a safe but real…
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Does he even need a mic to do this?
Date: November 10, 2023 Venue: The Venue at Hard Rock Hotel Socials: Donnell Rawlings, the DC born comedian who is not afraid to speak his mind (or yours), returns. The high energy exchange other comedians can struggle to get out of a crowd, is the fevered pitch at which a Rawlings show begins. Donnell’s voice…
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Has Crayons Will Travel
Date: October 5, 2023 Venue: Apollo Theater Socials: Often when the word colorful is used to describe a comedian, it’s referencing their language or their clothing… When discussing Patrice Deveaux, I feel compelled to use the word. But only to describe how she intends for you to see the world when she leaves the stage.…
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An evolution in progress.
Date: June 1, 2023 Venue: Howard Theater Socials: | Fans of the verbal and intellectual martial art that takes place behind a microphone and in front of an audience… know how easy it is, to oversimplify why things work or don’t. To say “this is better because…” when at the end of the day it…
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Master of His Own Style.
Date: May 14, 2023 Venue: DC Improv Socials: | If the Earth were to suddenly stop spinning…I mean really came to a screeching halt….with everything hanging in suspended animation. I know two things for sure: Stevie Wonder would still be loving whomever he was talking to in “As” … If he happened to be…
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standing room only
Date: August 18-20, 2022 Venue: DC Comedy Loft Socials: | There are only a few seconds left to claim “early adopter” status on the bullet train comedians know as Zainab Johnson before it leaves the station. If you’re just now buying a ticket, I’ll warn you…you’ll struggle to find a seat. Her ascent to the…
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Family Valued
Date: September 22-23, 2022 Venue: DC Improv Socials: | The worst kept secret about the black community: though the majority of us may vote liberal, the homes that raised us were not. While other American cultures have been slow in finding the intersection where familial acceptance meets identity and sexuality, black families all too often…
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Self-advocacy realized.
Date: October 22, 2022 Venue: Lincoln Theater The Lincoln theater on U st. fills up with patrons. Aside from a chair and a microphone, the stage sits empty but lit. There was no zany music playing in the background, there was no opening act (or two) trying to raise the crowd’s temperature. The random conversations…
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