Arts + Entertainment
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Pretty in Pink
Let's get right to the point. It is as silly and bubblegum as you thought it would be. Those question marks you included the first...
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Musical Therapy
You have to hand it to D.C.'s theater community. They never miss a chance to surprise or, perhaps more accurately, to shock. Arena Stage has...
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Ring Leader
Well, she did it. Britney Spears now has her comeback. Her new album debuted at No. 1 on Billboard's main album chart and moved nearly...
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Epic Intimacy
It's been some 20 years since Victor Hugo's novel of students and street hustlers took to the stage in a spectacle about poverty, true love...
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Broken Wing
In many ways, the theater is an ideal home for the dramatic treatment of subjects controversial, disturbing and even sickening. Alive, breathing and intimate, the...
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Winter Wonderlands
Among the signs of the holiday season is the appearance of ''family friendly'' shows meant to bridge the divide between serious grown-up work and (the...
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Flyboy
'Tis the season for traditions. The stories behind some family traditions are unpacked every year like a favorite Christmas tree ornament. Others are observed because...
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Bathhouse Blues
If you were to record an album at a gay sex club, what kind of music would it be? Dance music seems obvious -- it's...
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Chilled Milk
Bio-pics are tricky things. Filmmakers who undertake them are required to balance narrative flow with documented real-life experiences. They often take liberties with the truth,...
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Musically Gifted
Hilary Duff just released a Best Of collection. Sure, the Disney Channel's Lizzie McGuire is only 21. Only five years and some eight hits into...
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Life Songs
After a recent dress rehearsal with the Capitol Pride Symphonic Band, director Joe Bello was feeling emotional. ''They actually moved me to tears on the...
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Crazy Rich
The difference between eccentricity and madness is, sometimes, how much money sits in your bank account. At least that's how it would seem to have...
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Young Americans
With no overly heavy lifting and plenty of '70s atmosphere, Peter Morgan's Frost/Nixon is not just for those old enough to have personally witnessed David...
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Well Done
There is something appealing and unpretentious about the cave-like, yet artfully accented, interior of the Clark Street Playhouse in Crystal City. The many cheerful regulars...
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Destiny's Adults
It sounds like a joke, right? And not an especially good one. But Beyonce isn't kidding. She really has adopted a laughably bad alter ego...
