Arts + Entertainment
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Summer Sounds
Has Lady Gaga already peaked? Oh sure, it was only last summer that her career as a mega-star took off. But it's been threatening overexposure...
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Life Changing
Who should star in a movie about your life? Inspirational writer Elizabeth Gilbert now joins Erin Brockovich in getting to say Julia Roberts. Often found...
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Campy Olympics
A wig relay. A banana-eating contest. A Crisco-covered egg toss. ''The whole concept of the event was a kind of campy, sort-of off-color field day,...
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Jiffy Lube Live’s Special KISS Deal Day
Who doesn’t crave a little KISS? The band, not the thing you do with tongues. Well… actually, KISS the band does things with tongues, if...
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Rufus and Martha Wainwright at Strathmore
Siblings Rufus and Martha Wainwright, spawn of Canadian folk legends Loudon Wainwright III and the late Kate McGarrigle, are jointly touring in support of new...
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Studio Theatre’s Annual Garage Sale
As part of the 11th Annual Mid City Dog Days of August Sidewalk Sale, the Studio Theatre hosts this annual sale featuring items from productions...
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Noises Off at the Keegan Theatre
Keegan Theatre’s decision to punch up the summer season with Noises Off, packed with horseplay and good humor (including quirky double playbills) is as smart...
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Winnebago Man at the Avalon Theatre
For the documentary Winnebago Man, filmmaker Ben Steinbauer went in search of Jack Rebney, unintended star of one of the Internet’s first viral videos and...
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The Kids Are All Right at Area Theaters
The modern family in Lisa Cholodenko’s The Kids Are All Right is more than just funny. They’re also quirky, endearing, flawed, and entirely believable. And,...
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Arcade Fire at Merriweather Post Pavilion
Arcade Fire produces swelling, ethereal, heartbreaking dramatic rock, with probing lyrics fraught with concerns over death and dreams, and existential questioning. Tonight, Friday, Aug. 6....
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Serenading Louis at the American Century Theatre
Serenading Louis, Lanford Wilson’s intimate examination of marriage — entrapment — in suburbia, Serenading Louie, from 1970, is building a reputation as a neglected masterpiece....
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DC Black Theatre Festival
The new week-long DC Black Theatre Festival showcases the talents of individuals from the D.C. area’s African-American theater community through 70 productions. There are at...
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Housewife Commission
Think Michaele Salahi is the only local you'll recognize on Bravo's new Real Housewives of D.C.? The infamous White House party crasher may have gotten...
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Cabaret Gal
You wouldn't know it from her often-racy acting roles, but Jane Krakowski calls herself traditional. Old-fashioned, even. Her debut solo album, The Laziest Gal In...
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All About Eve at the Atlas Performing Arts Center
This Thursday brings 1950’s Oscar-winning classic All About Eve, starring Bette Davis as an aging Broadway star whose biggest fan, played by Anne Baxter, becomes...
