Arts + Entertainment
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Pop Cultured: Taylor Mac
Taylor Mac explores history and community through pop music
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Review: “Man of La Mancha” at Shakespeare Theater Company
Interpreting the musical theater version of Man of La Mancha takes some finesse. Though most know it as the iconic tale of an elderly knight...
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Review: “Freedom’s Song” at Ford’s Theatre
"Freedom's Song" at Ford's Theatre is a don't miss, "only-in-Washington" kind of show
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Review: “Laugh” at Studio Theatre
“I just want to laugh,” playwright Beth Henley has been quoted as saying. That may well be, but her latest work, Laugh, fails to incite...
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Shawn Short: Truth in Dance
Shawn Short is humbled by the impact of his annual dance event focused on the LGBT experience
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Full Bloom
The National Cherry Blossom Festival has grown in recent years
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Battlefield Hardline (Review)
Battlefield Hardline’s focus on cops and robbers is a big change for the series -- or is it?
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HBO cancels Looking
— Facebook post by writer Kevin Sessums in reference to the HBO TV series, Looking. UPDATE: Since this post was written, HBO has officially cancelled Looking....
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Brookyn Rider: Stretching Boundaries
It’s unusual enough that Glenn Kotche would write an instrumental composition for Brooklyn Rider. That he titled it “Ping Pong Fumble Thaw” is stranger still....
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Ori and the Blind Forest (Review)
Gaming is a medium rife with tropes and recycled ideas. If a particular style, or method, or setting is proven effective, it will be repeated...
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Shonda Rhimes: “Normalization” is the new “Diversity”
— Shonda Rhimes, creator of Grey’s Anatomy and Scandal, accepting the Human Rights Campaign’s Ally for Equality award. “It’s diversity…as if there is something unusual about...
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Editor’s Pick: The Gay Men’s Chorus presents “When You Wish”
The Gay Men's Chorus salute the animated classics of Disney
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Editor’s Pick: Bessie’s Blues at MetroStage
Twenty years ago, Studio Theatre won six Helen Hayes Awards with its production of Bessie’s Blues by Thomas W. Jones II. If you missed its first...
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Editor’s Pick: The Metromanics at The Shakespeare Theatre
A new adaptation of Alexis Piron’s classic 1738 French farce
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WAMA Jam: The 29th annual Wammies
The District hasn’t always been kind to aspiring musicians. It was once accepted practice to escape D.C. as soon as talent — and opportunity —...
