Arts + Entertainment
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Diana Krall returns to Strathmore
Krall has made her mark as one of the most successful jazz artists ever
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A Drag Salute to the Divas: Disney Twisted Edition
Two years ago, indefatigable local drag sensation Shi-Queeta Lee launched a drag show series at the Howard Theatre in which each show is built around...
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The National Portrait Gallery’s look at portraiture in the age of abstraction
The National Portrait Gallery presents “Face Value: Portraiture in the Age of Abstraction,” an exhibit featuring the works of a group of young artists in the...
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The Walters showcases the Sondheim Artscape Prize finalists
The Walters Art Museum, one of Baltimore’s leading museums, presents an exhibit featuring the visual artworks of this year’s seven finalists for the prestigious Janet &...
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Classic Album Revisited: The Cars, “Heartbeat City”
The Cars are one of the biggest and most important American bands to come out of the new wave scene of the late ’70s...
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Arcade Fire continues its tour with a stop at D.C.’s Verizon Center
Led by the singing husband and wife team of Win Butler and Regine Chassagne, Montreal’s seven-piece rock band Arcade Fire has long been celebrated by...
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Danny Kaye springs to life at American Century Theater
The American Century Theater wraps up its 19th season with Brian Childers reprising his role as legendary stage and screen showman Danny Kaye, which earned him...
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Heavy metal, slit throats: Sweeney Todd goes “prog metal”
Yes, Stephen Sondheim really did give the quirky and risque Landless Theatre Company permission to adapt the score of his most commercially successfully musical as...
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Darius Rucker headlining WMZQ Fall Fest 2014
First he was leader of the ’90s rock band Hootie & the Blowfish. Then a decade ago he set out to become Darius Rucker, the...
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“Every single painting is worth the trip” – Whistler’s London works at the Sackler
An American in London: Whistler and the Thames is now at the Sackler
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Mad for Medieval in Alexandria
Touted as an out-of-the-ordinary experience, Alexandria’s Medieval Madness blends the fields of art and history — and not simply by way of historical reenactment, though...
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Conversations: WAMU’s Rebecca Sheir to talk with Michael Kaiser at Hill Center Stage
Rebecca Sheir of WAMU 88.5 FM’s Metro Connection leads an in-depth conversation with Michael Kaiser, departing longtime head of the Kennedy Center. Kaiser will reflect...
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Curtain up: The Richmond Triangle Players present Pageant
The Richmond Triangle Players brings back a new production of one of its most-requested shows, Pageant, the drag-queen musical with book and lyrics by Side...
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Now Playing: Finding Fela
Alex Gibney’s film examines the Afrobeat pioneer’s life.
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Prison Break: Selenis Leyva
Orange is the New Black's Selenis Leyva's devotion to LGBT rights begins with her own family
