Arts + Entertainment
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Angele Dubeau & La Pieta at Lisner
La Pieta is an all-female string ensemble performing gyspy, klezmer and other “music of the wanderers,” led by one of Canada’s most prominent virtuoso violinists,...
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Tim Gunn guests bartends at MOVA
Out for Work, which is holding its national conference this weekend in Washington, hosts a special reception tonight, Sept. 25, with the fabulously stylish Tim...
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Eric Himan’s Trevor Project Benefit
Gay Tulsa, Okla.-based tattooed hunk Eric Himan performs a live acoustic rock set to benefit The Trevor Project, the nation’s leading organization focused on crisis...
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Pocket Operas at The In Series
Always adventurous, always classy, The In Series presents a provocative “pocket opera” double-bill of William Bolcom & Arnold Weinstein’s Casino Paradise and Leonard Bernstein’s Trouble...
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Shakespeare in Klingon featuring George Takei
George Takei joins the Washington Shakespeare Company in celebrating 20 years of cutting-edge classical theater by turning Shakespeare on its ear, literally. By Any Other...
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Jonathan Franzen at Lisner Auditorium
Jonathan Franzen frenzy is back, this time over Freedom, which Oprah just selected for her book club. As a result, a discussion and signing originally...
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BSO Season Opens tonight
Marin Alsop opens the new season of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, celebrating the life and music of Gustav Mahler with the legendary conductor/composer’s arrangement of...
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Now Playing: You Again
Finally, something that makes the trauma, humiliation, and embarrassment of high school seem lesser by comparison. Directed by Andy Fickman, You Again is a clichéd...
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WSC Presents Shakespeare in Klingon
George Takei joins the Washington Shakespeare Company in celebrating 20 years of cutting-edge classical theater by turning Shakespeare on its ear, literally. By Any Other...
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Legwarmers at The State Theatre
Another month, another iteration of The Legwarmers, State Theatre’s two-night party, billed as D.C.’s “biggest ’80s Retro Dance Party,” where guilty-pleasure hits from now nearly...
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Spanish, Class
GALA Hispanic Theatre is launching its 35th anniversary season with a production that will not only make you want to be certain the company has...
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Well Done
If ever a jukebox hit was made for a Shakespearian play, it is Diana Ross' ''I'm gonna make you love me,'' as applied to All's...
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Moon Shine
Marry for money? Why not? If one marries up, life can be that much better. That, at least, is the guiding philosophy of Susy Branch,...
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Rocking Out
Men will be at Phase 1 this weekend. And by men, organizers don't just mean MEN, the queer electro band featuring JD Samson of Le...
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Blocks Party
The construction that had crowded parts of 17th Street NW since December is gone. Accordingly, it's time to celebrate. This Saturday's 17th Street Festival does...
