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  • Billy Elliot at the Kennedy Center

    By on December 30, 2011

    Writer Lee Hall, director Stephen Daldry and choreographer Peter Darling reprise their responsibilities adapting the popular 2000 film Billy Elliot, with Hall also penning the...

  • Stand-Up Ann

    By on December 29, 2011

      Politics as theater? Oh, sure. We see that all the time. But politics as stand-up comedy? Ah, now that is much trickier territory –...

  • The Best Music of 2011

    By on December 29, 2011

      Lady Gaga and Beyoncé both released new albums in 2011. But aside from some great tracks (most notably ''Americano'' and Sheibe'' from Gaga, ''Run...

  • The Best and Worst Movies of 2011

    By on December 29, 2011

    The past year has been fantastic for moviegoers. More so than any other year in recent memory, the best films of 2011 are incredibly different...

  • The Great American Hall of Wonders at the Smithsonian

    By on December 26, 2011

    The Great American Hall of Wonders examines the American ingenuity that energized all aspects of 19th-century society, from the painting of landscapes and scenes of...

  • Chopteeth Afrofunk Big Band at Iota

    By on December 25, 2011

    The Washington Post has called Chopteeth Afrofunk Big Band “a storming powerhouse of big-band African funk. . .smart, tight and relentlessly driving.” Chopteeth has already...

  • Theater Alliance presents Black Nativity

    By on December 24, 2011

    Theater Alliance presents Black Nativity, Langston Hughes’s retelling of the Biblical Christmas story from an Afro-centric perspective, incorporating gospel, blues, funk, jazz and dance with...

  • David Cronenberg’s Videodrome

    By on December 23, 2011

    The Washington Psychotronic Film Society, dedicated to independent, experimental, low-budget, off-the-beaten-path filmmaking, presents a weekly Monday night screening series, hosted by The Incorrigible Dr. Schlock....

  • Erin Jackson appears tonight at the DC Improv

    By on December 23, 2011

    Hoping to follow in the footsteps of fellow D.C.-bred comics Wanda Sykes, Dave Chappelle and Martin Lawrence, Erin Jackson has garnered some national credibility with...

  • WIT’s Seasonal Disorder

    By on December 23, 2011

    Washington Improv Theater’s annual holiday extravaganza features shows based on audience suggestions, showing you the good, the bad and the ugly of the season —...

  • The Kinsey Sicks at Theater J for one weekend only!

    By on December 23, 2011

    Winnie (Erwin Keller), Ben Schatz (Rachel), Jeff Manabat (Trixie) and Trampolina (Spencer Brown) make up the popular “dragapella beautyshop quartet” The Kinsey Sicks, specializing in...

  • The Raspberry Brothers present Home Alone

    By on December 22, 2011

    The Raspberry Brothers, a trio of Brooklyn comedians, return to the Arlington Cinema & Drafthouse, this time to riff on the 1990 Christmas flick Home...

  • Last Chance: Lauren Weedman’s Bust

    By on December 22, 2011

    A former correspondent on Comedy Central’s The Daily Show, Lauren Weedman juggles between Bust‘s more than two dozen characters, snapping back and forth with a...

  • Review: Ellen Greene with the Gay Men’s Chorus

    By on December 22, 2011

    Last Saturday night, Dec. 17, at the holiday concert of the Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington, Broadway and screen star Ellen Greene had what she...

  • Tattoo Paradise

    By on December 22, 2011

    I might as well admit it -- I've never read The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. When I sat down to watch director David Fincher's...