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Arts + Entertainment

  • Cirque Dreams Holidaze at The Kennedy Center

    By on December 9, 2010

    Neil Goldberg, creator of Broadway’s Cirque Dreams Jungle Fantasy, presents Cirque Dreams Holidaze, an extravaganza with over 30 artists pulling stunts — from gingerbread men...

  • NSO Pops: Happy Holidays

    By on December 9, 2010

    Marvin Hamlisch conducts the NSO Pops along with special guests, including sopranos Christiane Noll and Mikaela Schneider, cellist Kristina Winiawski, flutist Niles Watson and the...

  • Paula Crawford at Long View Gallery

    By on December 9, 2010

    “New Work” features paintings by Paula Crawford of colorful, spherical forms. She started painting these just before she was diagnosed with Hepatitis C, a disease...

  • Moscow Ballet performs The Nutcracker

    By on December 9, 2010

    ‘Tis the season for ballet companies to perform their own version of Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker. The Moscow Ballet’s Great Russian Nutcracker pays tribute to Marius Petipa,...

  • Oliver Sacks at Sixth & I Synagogue

    By on December 9, 2010

    In The Mind’s Eye, Oliver Sacks offers case studies of people who have lost certain cognitive abilities yet who nonetheless lead fairly normal lives as...

  • Tragedy offers all-metal Bee Gees

    By on December 9, 2010

    If you can stomach the Bee Gees’ signature falsettos, maybe you can stomach anything, including heavy metal’s signature screeching guitars courtesy Tragedy: An All-Metal Tribute...

  • Convicts in Love

    By on December 8, 2010

    Steven (Jim Carrey) is living the American dream: a wife, a kid, a job as the church organist, and gay sex on the side. A...

  • Emotional Release

    By on December 8, 2010

    ''We've had a successful same-sex relationship for 23 years,'' says John Requa of his partner, Glenn Ficarra. Perhaps some clarification is needed -- his screenwriting...

  • Pretty in Pink

    By on December 8, 2010

    Six years ago, Craig Cipollini was the Nutcracker prince in a Gay Men's Chorus of Washington production. Now, he's the king. That is to say,...

  • Loving Lucy

    By on December 8, 2010

    Lucy Wainwright Roche was going to be the exception. ''I had grown up with all around me, and grown up being on the road,''...

  • Time Warp

    By on December 8, 2010

    When writing his 1995 play Mojo, playwright Jez Butterworth could hardly have suspected that fewer than five years later a certain dentally challenged swinging super...

  • Dave Koz and Friends at Strathmore

    By on December 6, 2010

    The 2010 Smooth Jazz Christmas — the 13th edition of the tour — features gay saxophonist Dave Koz alongside South African singer/guitarist Jonathan Butler, keyboardist...

  • every tongue confess at Arena Stage

    By on December 5, 2010

    On the surface, Marcus Gardley has written a kind of Southern fairy tale about hatred and racism and rejection in every tongue confess, the world...

  • Logan Circle Holiday House Tour

    By on December 5, 2010

    Twelve eye-popping homes are featured in the Logan Circle Holiday House Tour, sponsored by the Logan Circle Community Association, which concludes as always with a...

  • WIT’s Seasonal Disorder

    By on December 4, 2010

    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 —...