Arts + Entertainment
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Great Escape
Ragtime is one of those musicals. It's big. It's opulent. It's filled with infectious songs that will remain firmly in your head for days after...
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Rock On
Tom Stoppard junkies may scoff, but any discussion of Studio's Rock 'N' Roll must begin with the caveat that the uninitiated may wish to either...
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The Pitts
Why is summer the season of change? Really, think about the number of films about transformative summers, from the iconic Summer of '42, to the...
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Drinking Again
Pulling it out yet again (sometimes literally in this case), the Washington Shakespeare Company delivers a superbly in-yer-face production of Tennessee Williams' study in disheveled...
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Hall of Fame
It's amazing what people will post online. Leave aside the conversations people will have, loudly, on their cell phones while walking down the street or...
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Being Boring
Neil Tennant wants to rekindle the romance. ''I'd survive with only memories, if I could change the way I feel,'' the Pet Shop Boys frontman...
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Life Before Wartime
''Berliner Kabarett is like a musical quilt,'' says the show's director Christopher Gallu. ''It's got all these songs that were never intended to be put...
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Nuts
Sometimes you should absolutely judge a book by its cover. 'One Flew Over the Cukoo's Nest' The moment you take your seat for Round House...
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Squaring Off
When square-dance devotees talk about this all-American (well, sort of) art form, they're bound to get to the patterns eventually. And why not? From above,...
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Strangely Enough
Patsy Cline's is the first voice heard on the debut, solo-artist album from Sharam Tayebi, one-half of the celebrated D.C. dance duo Deep Dish. Doesn't...
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Collision Course
Excelente. Una maravillosa película. Fantástico. And many other superlatives that I no longer remember from high school Spanish. By all standard measures, Sin Nombre should...
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South Rising
Regardless of the geographic realities, there are times when one could be quite sure that the Mason-Dixon Line runs right through the center of our...
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Life and Love
Bob Mould (Photo by Noah Kalina) Bob Mould sounded like he had all but given up on his last album, District Line. ''It's the same...
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Roller Coasting
Ah, the '80s. Who doesn't miss the hair, the fashion sense, the music, and the simpler times? James (Jesse Eisenberg) might disagree with that last...
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Storyteller
The stoop is a culture all its own. It's a city thing, somehow different than the rural or small-town front porch. It's the original social-networking...
