Arts + Entertainment
-
Sunset Boulevard at Signature Theatre
Sunset Boulevard, starring Florence Lacey (Broadway’s Evita) as faded screen star Norma Desmond, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s lush noir musical is one of the greatest Hollywood...
-
The Joy of Christmas Concert
J. Reilly Lewis leads the Washington National Cathedral Choral Society, along with the Maret School Concert Choir and the Washington Symphonic Brass, in The Joy...
-
The Apartment at the AFI Silver
Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine gave career-making performances in the Oscar-winning classic, The Apartment, from Billy Wilder, about a workplace romance of uncommon sophistication. It...
-
Reel Affirmations Xtra presents Undertow
In Undertow, a Spanish man carries on a clandestine affair with a handsome drifter. Meanwhile, his wife prepares to deliver their firstborn. You just know...
-
Cirque Dreams Holidaze at The Kennedy Center
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
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
“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
‘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
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
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
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
''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
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
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
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...
