Arts + Entertainment
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Gleeful Melodies
American Idol helped propel Sara Bareilles's career into the mainstream. Now, the California singer-songwriter is hoping Glee will sustain her fame. Those are exaggerated claims,...
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Oh, Henry
''It's amazing how accessible and fun it is. It's not a dry, dusty, old, antique museum of an occasion,'' says the Folger Consort's Robert Eisenstein....
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Retro Run
With so many playwrights cramming a circus's worth of plot and issues into their pages, it can seem they are writing for an audience with...
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Hitched to Hillwood
''With the passage of the bill to legalize same-sex marriage in D.C., it just seemed like a great time to celebrate that newfound right for...
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Marlena Shaw at Blues Alley
Marlena Shaw’s range, class and swing is often compared to eternal jazz lights like Sarah Vaughn, Dinah Washington and Nancy Wilson, but Shaw is also...
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Circle Mirror Transformation at Studio
A series of beautifully drawn vignettes, Circle Mirror Transformation is a clever and smart season opener for Studio Theatre and provides an excellent opportunity for...
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Sheryl Crow at Strathmore
After honing her brand of rock-pop over the past 20 years, Sheryl Crow has shifted gears for her latest album, 100 Miles From Memphis, an...
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What We Leave Behind at Evolve
What We Leave Behind features works by encaustic collage artist Marty Ittner and painter Michele Cormier — visually dense works referencing the discarded physical and...
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Vivat Rex!
Vivat Rex! Commemorating the 500th Anniversary of the Accession of Henry VIII features rare books, manuscripts, handwritten letters and prints offering an in-depth look at...
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Breathe Owl Breathe at Iota
Pitchfork has swooned that Breathe Owl Breathe , a Michigan harmonizing dreamy folk trio of Micah Middaugh, Andrea Moreno-Beals and Trevor Hobbs sounds “as intimately...
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Now at the Gay Community Center of Richmond
On loan from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, “Nazi Persecution of Homosexuals 1933 – 1945” tells the story of homosexuals in Nazi Germany, when...
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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...
