Arts + Entertainment
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Play On! Review: Signature Swings with Duke Ellington and Shakespeare
Signature Theatre’s “Play On!” blends Duke Ellington’s jazz and Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night in a joyful Cotton Club-set production.
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King Molasses Brings D.C. Drag to Sasha Velour’s NightGowns
Revry’s King of Drag champion King Molasses heads to New York for NightGowns’ landmark 10th-anniversary celebration.
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Parade Review: Touring Revival Plods Through History
Max Chernin leads a capable cast in the Tony-winning revival, slowed by slack pacing and uneven sound at the Kennedy Center.
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Honey Don’t! Review: Stylish Lesbian Neo-Noir Falls Flat
Ethan Coen and wife Tricia Cooke's lesbian neo-noir "Honey Don't!" opens with a bang but sputters into a muddled mystery.
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Highest 2 Lowest Review: Denzel Washington Shines in Spike Lee’s Latest
Spike Lee’s Highest 2 Lowest reimagines Kurosawa’s High and Low, with Denzel Washington leading a tense kidnapping thriller in New York City.
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Mary Chapin Carpenter Sings Her Life on Personal History
Mary Chapin Carpenter brings her most intimate album yet, Personal History, to Wolf Trap on Aug. 16 with special guest Brandy Clark.
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Ravi Roth Brings Global Adventures to Bear World TV
The globe-trotting travel guru is one of Bear World TV’s Fab Five, spotlighting travel, culture, and adventure in the bear community.
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Las Culturistas Awards Serve Camp and Celebs
Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang’s Las Culturistas Culture Awards bring camp, celebs, and quirky pop culture honors to their first televised show.
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Review: Weapons Is Terrifying, Gruesome, Gasp-Inducing Fun
Zach Cregger conjures a frightening vision of modern horror in the gripping missing-kids chiller "Weapons."
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Review: The Naked Gun Reloads With Rapid-Fire Laughs
Liam Neeson stars in The Naked Gun reboot, showing off his deadpan comedy skills in Akiva Schaffer’s gleefully silly new film.
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Heathers: The Musical Delivers Dark Laughs and Deadly Lessons
"Heathers: The Musical" revels in camp, cruelty, and high school carnage -- but should we still be laughing?
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Fantastic Four: First Steps Gets Marvel’s First Family Right
Marvel successfully launches its First Family into the MCU with the charmingly retro-futuristic "Fantastic Four: First Steps."
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The First Homosexuals: How Art Revealed a New Queer Identity
A groundbreaking exhibit at Chicago’s Wrightwood 659 uncovers how visual art helped shape global queer identity between 1869 and 1939.
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New Voices, Bold Stories, and Fearless Theater in West Virginia
The Contemporary American Theater Festival presents five world premieres in Shepherdstown, featuring bold stories and diverse voices.
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Eddington Skewers COVID Hypocrisy and Small-Town Madness
Eddington's lacerating social satire about a town torn apart by pandemic paranoia takes a violent turn without losing the plot.
