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  • Sweet Secrets

    By on January 12, 2011

    With Marcus; Or the Secret of Sweet, playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney returns Studio Theatre audiences to San Pere, La., a housing project that sits somewhere...

  • Tuck & Patti at Blues Alley

    By on January 12, 2011

    Oklahoma born guitarist Tuck Andress met singer Patti Cathcart, a native of San Francisco, at an audition in Las Vegas in 1980. The husband-and-wife jazz...

  • Sergey Khachatryan with the NSO

    By on January 12, 2011

    Kirill Karabits conducts the NSO and violinist Sergey Khachatryan in a performance including Shostakovich’s Violin Concerto No. 2, plus Silvestrov’s Elegy for Strings and Sibelius’s...

  • The Kennedy Center’s Enchanted Evening

    By on January 11, 2011

    The Lincoln Center Theater touring production of Rodger & Hammerstein’s South Pacific — now doing shore leave at the Kennedy Center — has waded waist...

  • Julia Nixon at Signature Theatre

    By on January 11, 2011

    Former Broadway Dreamgirl, and Helen Hayes Award-winner for her role in Studio Theatre’s Caroline"¦or Change, the timeless, and locally legendary, Julia Nixon appears as part...

  • National Geographic’s Unpublished Photos

    By on January 11, 2011

    Beyond the Story: National Geographic Unpublished showcases nearly 50 never-before-seen photographs taken by 15 of National Geographic’s best photographers over the course of last year,...

  • Marcus; or the Secret of Sweet at The Studio Theatre

    By on January 11, 2011

    Gay playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney’s “Brother/Sister Plays” — The Brothers Size, In The Red and Brown Water and Marcus; Or the Secret of Sweet —...

  • Marc Bamuthi Joseph at Dance Place

    By on January 6, 2011

    Marc Bamuthi Joseph, artistic director of HBO’s documentary “Brave New Voices” series presents solo works, including the break/s and new material from the upcoming red,...

  • Strathmore gets Gleeful (Yale style)

    By on January 6, 2011

    One of the world’s most esteemed collegiate choruses, The Yale Glee Club celebrates its 150th season with a gala concert at Strathmore. The program will...

  • Mad About You

    By on January 5, 2011

    While it's not necessarily the answer you expect, Florence Lacey makes a little bit of madness sound kind of relaxing. At least, that is, when...

  • Beat It

    By on January 5, 2011

    ''This is the best one yet, and I'm so happy,'' Stacy ''Fergie'' Ferguson boasts toward the end of The Beginning. Regardless of how much you...

  • Ripped Apart

    By on January 5, 2011

    Blue Valentine is the love story antidote for all the romantic comedies that flood movie theaters every year. It's a look at what comes after...

  • Cause Célèbre!

    By on January 5, 2011

    ''We were just thrilled about decision that gay marriage would be legal,'' says Judy Gilbert Levey, co-president of the Foundry Gallery. ''We...

  • Frontiers, Journey Tribute band at The State Theatre

    By on January 5, 2011

    Now that Glee has helped revive interest in the ’80s arena rockers, Virginia’s State Theatre invites tribute band Frontiers to conjure up that bygone era...

  • Magic at the Washington Stage Guild

    By on January 5, 2011

    The Washington Stage Guild presents the first U.S. production in decades of British essayist and mystery writer G.K. Chesterton’s witty fairy-tale of a comedy Magic....