Arts + Entertainment
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Folksy Feeling
If your idea of a fun Saturday night is popping a cold one and tuning the radio to A Prairie Home Companion, then you should...
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Lingering Accents
''I think it's a universal story that's quite specific to this moment in time in America,'' says Arena Stage's artistic director Molly Smith, who directed...
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Cox Appeal
For the record, Deborah Cox does not think she's a gay man trapped in a straight woman's body. ''I've never looked at myself like that,''...
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Bombs Away
All My Sons opens with a terrible thunderstorm – made more ominous by incorporating the sounds of fighter jets and bombs bursting in air. It's...
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Pop Symphony
Will Madonna one day turn her hits into three-chord punk-rock blasts? Might Katy Perry relaunch ''Firework'' – or ''I Kissed A Girl'' – as a...
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Off the Gay Grid
As far as humorist Mike Albo knows, his older brother Dave Albo hasn't taken anti-gay stances as an elected official representing Fairfax County in the...
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Lianne La Havas at The Birchmere
The Birchmere has done it again, snagging a breakthrough act — before the act has actually broken through. Following in the footsteps of British folk...
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Olivia Newton-John comes to Strathmore
From the films Grease and Xanadu to the mega-pop hit “Physical” to LOGO’s Sordid Lives, Australian performer Olivia Newton-John has managed to achieve a sense...
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A Clockwork Orange at Scena
Robert MacNamara has wanted to stage A Clockwork Orange essentially from the moment he co-founded his stalwart theater company Scena — the same year Burgess...
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Bond That Binds
Midway through Sam Mendes's Skyfall, James Bond is stuck in a familiar situation. He's tied to chair, smirking as a peculiar-looking man lectures him on...
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Operatic Obsession
''I've recently fallen in love with opera,'' says Alan Paul, conceding, ''I've been on an obsessive, opera-going mission over the last year.'' And he's not...
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Lovely Lianne
''Actually, I expected nothing and I was pleasantly surprised,'' says Lianne La Havas, when asked about her success as a singer-songwriter. Only 23 years old,...
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Log Cabin Fever
Lincoln is why Hollywood should exist. Steven Spielberg's wonderful film about our 16th president isn't a war epic or a maudlin biography. The film only...
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Flock of Foul
''There is nothing in the world as amazing as something that is neither completely clear, nor completely unclear,'' goes one of the morals imparted in...
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Theater Booster
''By several different measures, Washington is the nation's largest theater community outside of New York,'' says Buzz Mauro. ''It's a great theater town, but it...
