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The Washington Chorus at the Kennedy Center
Following on the success of last season’s “The Essential Puccini,” The Washington Chorus presents “The Essential Rachmaninoff,” featuring instrumental and choral music by the Russian...
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War of the Worlds at Scena Theatre
Scena Theatre’s production of Orson Welles’s War of the Worlds takes audiences into the CBS radio studios where an ensemble of actors, a soundman and...
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Diane Schuur at Blues Alley
Grammy-winning vocalist and pianist Diane Schuur embraces not only the jazz of her parents’ generation — she’s a longtime disciple of Dinah Washington — but...
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Amanda Simpson speaks on Transgender Day of Remembrance [video]
On Thursday, Nov. 18, District and area residents gathered for the Transgender Day of Remembrance at the Metropolitan Community Church of Washington. The annual event,...
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News Analysis: A DADT Repeal Tipping Point?
On Wednesday evening, Nov. 17, some were questioning Greg Sargent’s report that there could be 60 votes in the U.S. Senate to overcome a filibuster...
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Violinist Timothy Fain with the Fairfax Symphony Orchestra
Violinist Timothy Fain joins the FSO and guest conductor Eckart Preu in music from the first half of the 19th Century and the second half...
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Cheryl Wheeler at The Birchmere
A natural storyteller with a fantastic sense of humor and spontaneity, Cheryl Wheeler performs many songs in concert that haven’t even been recorded on one...
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Lights, Camera, Love
A video of LGBT people embracing love in the streets of Paris has caught the attention of the Arlington Gay and Lesbian Alliance (AGLA), which...
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Storied Lives
Moises Kaufman Moises Kaufman enjoys telling stories. He especially enjoys telling stories about how we tell stories. The Venezuelan-born, gay playwright and director says narrative...
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New Wings
''My whole life has been making sure I ran the Eagle properly,'' says Bill Cappello. And that he has certainly done: This weekend, the DC...
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Opposites Attract
On the surface, it might seem Signature Theatre's world premiere comedy Walter Cronkite is Dead and Studio Theatre's production of Tracy Lett's Superior Donuts have...
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House of Games
A semi-hallucinogenic, unapologetically creepy fantasia on the life and unsolved murder of pre-pubescent beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey, House of Gold is a play that withers...
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Crazy Good
Last year, British star Lily Allen caused a stir with an impossibly sweet-sounding song called ''Fuck You.'' The title alone was an attention-grabber, of course....
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Mr. Wizard
You're a tease, Harry Potter. That's right, you heard me. A great big wizard tease. Just when things really get rolling in Harry Potter and...
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Crystal City
''The question we've had all week long,'' says Lia Halloran of the large ''crystals'' currently on display at Arlington's Artisphere, '' what are these made...
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Horoscope
Heavenly Round-Up: It's a heavy time. There's a lot going down. And the holidays haven't even gotten off the ground. Yet there's a sense of...
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HHS Finishes Hospital Visitation Rules
In a call with reporters on Wednesday, Health and Human Services Department officials discussed the final rules submitted today regarding hospital visitation policies for hospitals...
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Angels in America Part I at Shenandoah Conservatory
This weekend, Shenandoah Conservatory, part of Shenandoah University in conservative Winchester, Va., mounts a production of the first part of Tony Kushner’s award-winning 1993 masterpiece,...
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Special Agent Galactica lands tonight at ACKC
Special Agent Galactica, DC’s “Chanteuse of Sync,” presents an intimate cabaret performance at ACKC tonight for two half-hour sets of “Galactica and the Chocolate Factory.”...
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Hair at the Kennedy Center
Equal parts revival and outright rave, there is something slightly bizarre about mounting Hair in the red velvet box that is the Kennedy Center’s Opera...
