Arts + Entertainment
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Last weekend to catch Blue Man Group
Yes, they’re bluer than blue. And they’re just about the most engaging avant-garde theatrical experience out there. Blue Man Group offers an escape from the...
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Arachne Aerial Arts fly into Joe’s Movement Emporium
With “Flyaway,” Arachne Aerial Arts, showcases some of the most innovative aerial talent in the region at Joe’s Movement Emporium. It’s all part of a...
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Metronomy’s new single: The Look
Check out the new music video — The Look — from the UK band, Metronomy. It’s a bit minimal musically (and, to be honest, visually),...
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Ira Glass comes to Lisner
Ira Glass, the host of public radio’s This American Life talks about his dalliances with television — specifically what he and his staff learned and...
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Atlas’s Tribute to Elizabeth Taylor
The Atlas Performing Arts Center has quickly organized a screening of several of the more memorable films starring the late, great Elizabeth Taylor. The Whitman...
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Anthony De Mare + Piano + Sondheim = Musical Bliss
Anthony De Mare got turned on to the music of Stephen Sondheim at an early age and even now, as a contemporary classical pianist, Sondheim...
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Lights Up
The American musical wasn't born overnight. Like any art form, it came to be in fits and starts. Even today, some audience members -- and...
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Send in the Clowns
For those of us who avoid the antics of clowns at all costs, 95 minutes in their company might sound like torture. In fact, we'd...
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Short Rounds
Composer Ricky Ian Gordon's brief relationship with the late Jeffrey Grossi in the mid-'90s provided, if not a lifetime, then at least a few years'...
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Deja View
Source Code is a cross between 24 and Groundhog Day and Moon and The Matrix and The Adjustment Bureau and Avatar and Quantum Leap and...
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Opening Night: Ford’s Liberty Smith
Ford’s Theatre presents Liberty Smith, the world premiere of a madcap musical romp through Revolutionary America, with music by Michael Weiner, lyrics by Adam Abraham...
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The Kennedy Center ushers in spring with a gala
Smokey Robinson hosts the Kennedy Center’s annual Spring Gala that this year also honors Michael Kaiser’s 10 years at the helm. The gala features such...
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Out in the Media: Sean Bugg and Charles Perez at the DC Center
Roby Chavez hosts an OutWrite discussion with authors Sean Bugg and Charles Perez. Bugg, Metro Weekly co-publisher and editor, comically recounts his life experiences in...
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Can peer pressure save the world?
Join The Club: How Peer Pressure Can Transform The World explores the value of peer pressure to make positive social change. The book, written by...
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Just announced: Britney Spears launches North American Tour
Tour dates for Britney Spears‘s North American Summer tour have been announced, and they include a Washington, D.C. date — July 31 at the Verizon...
