Arts + Entertainment
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Hobbit Forming
I was ready to be underwhelmed by The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey. Nearly a decade after The Return of the King, director Peter Jackson hasn't...
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A Cheyenne New Year's
Cheyenne Jackson is surely one of the nicest guys working in the entertainment industry today -- but everyone has a breaking point. ''Some of our...
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Show Stopper
Jane Siberry isn't your typical pop singer/songwriter, so why would her live show be any different? ''It's quite unusual, or that's what people tell me,''...
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Untraditional Tidings
Got the holiday spirit – but tired of tradition? Call it bah-humbug blasphemy, but most area theaters and concert venues aim to entice the average...
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Sharing Stories
Amy Saidman got turned off of becoming a standup comic. ''Other comedians are cold and aloof and unfriendly,'' Saidman says, ''telling homophobic jokes to 20...
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Breakups and Breakdowns
There are several moments on Rihanna's new album Unapologetic in which the synthesizers sound as if they simply couldn't handle all the pressure and sputter...
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Birchmere Babes
''I like to say I went from being a Hag to being a Bitchin' Babe, which is clearly a promotion,'' jokes local singer-songwriter Debi Smith....
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Musical Trips
No doubt, you've heard the hype. Last month The Washington Post reported that Signature Theatre decided to stage Dreamgirls, purely and simply, as a showcase...
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Back to the Bard
''Elizabethan London and contemporary Washington, D.C., probably have more in common than any two other cities,'' says Ethan McSweeny. It's because of that link that...
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Fairy Dust
Enchantingly atmospheric and often funny, the Shakespeare Theatre Company's A Midsummer Night's Dream is rich with love's intangibles: wistfulness, a touch of cynicism, and its...
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Anais Mitchell at The Hamilton
After opening for Bon Iver at Merriweather Post Pavilion a couple months ago, swoon-worthy indie-folk artist Anais Mitchell stops by downtown’s Hamilton Live on a...
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The Santaland Diaries at Fort Fringe
City Artistic Partnerships offers this year’s local production of the popular stage show Joe Mantello adapted from David Sedaris’s writings. Joe Brack returns as the...
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The Santaland Diaries
City Artistic Partnerships offers this year’s local production of the popular stage show Joe Mantello adapted from David Sedaris’s writings. Joe Brack returns as the...
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Six Characters in Search of an Author at Avant Bard
WSC Avant Bard presents a production of Luigi Pirandello’s Six Characters in Search of an Author, translated by Carl R. Mueller and directed by Tom...
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Mobster Capitalism
If you're looking for a mediocre night at the movie theater, look no further than Andrew Dominik's Killing Them Softly. It has everything: a retread...
