Arts + Entertainment
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Hey, it’s tradition! Fiddler on the Roof at Wolf Trap
A Jewish Sound of Music of sorts and one of Broadway’s cash cows, Fiddler on the Roof was first staged in 1964, as directed and...
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Harry Potter, already breaking records
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2 broke the domestic box office record for a midnight opening. The film took in a whopping $43.5...
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Country Gold: Miranda Lambert, tonight at Merriweather
She may have only come in third during the first season of the USA Network’s Nashville Star, in 2003, but Miranda Lambert is arguably the...
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The Man Who Fell to Earth 35th Anniversary Print restores missing 20 minutes
Nicolas Roeg’s dazzling, visionary sci-fi allegory, The Man Who Fell to Earth stars, David Bowie in his cinematic debut. The pop icon played a space...
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Synetic hosts The Second City
The Second City, Chicago’s legendary comedy theater troupe, stops by Virginia’s Synetic Theater to regale the audience in some of the best sketches, songs and...
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What if Candy Darling met Dorothy Day?
Mongtomery County’s Unexpected Stage Company lives up to its name with the show that kicks off its second season, David Johnston’s Candy and Dorothy. When...
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Confirmed: Chris Colfer leaving Glee at end of next season
Chris Colfer, Lea Michele and Cory Monteith will all be graduating Glee next year. We’re sorry to see him (them) go. Extra had this interview...
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Get a preview of The Fillmore Silver Spring
The Fillmore Silver Spring — a new venue we’re extremely excited about — is scheduled to open in September. But they just opened an official...
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Pop! goes 2ndstage
Keith Alan Baker directs Pop!, a madcap musical murder mystery that peeks into Andy Warhol’s infamous Factory, as written by Maggie-Kate Coleman with music composed...
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Survive at Freddie’s and raise funds for ASGRA
The drag queens of Freddie’s Beach Bar in Arlington present Survivor Freddie’s, a fundraiser for the Atlantic States Gay Rodeo Association (ASGRA). The queens raising...
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Birds of a Feather at The Hub
The Hub Theatre presents the world-premiere production of gay humor writer Marc Acito’s Birds of a Feather, an inspiring story about families and the bird-brained...
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Everybody Hurts
When Harry Potter makes his curtain call, it's not just any end. It's The End. The end to a decade-long cinematic buffet that's made such...
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Rock Out
I know what you're thinking. A jukebox musical with cheesy rock and noisy hair metal from the '80s? Starring Constantine Maroulis, an American Idol also-ran...
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Pounding Flesh
Even considered as tragicomedy, The Merchant of Venice is an awfully dreary affair. The tale is dominated by the Jewish moneylender, Shylock, who is reviled...
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Sizzlin' Good Stuff
The theater world is on notice: In a few weeks, a past season's worth of understudies at Signature Theatre will take the stage in a...
