Arts + Entertainment
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On the Waterfront at American Century
Kathleen Akerley directs an American Century Theater production of Budd Schulberg’s On the Waterfront, which has some significant differences from Elia Kazan’s 1954 Oscar-winning film,...
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Opera in Cinema: Rigoletto
Opera In Cinema offers opera lovers a rare treat: select screenings of some of the most notable current productions at venerable opera houses across Europe,...
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Jesus Hernandez, today at The InSeries
Jesus Hernandez sings with The InSeries in From My Latin Heart. The show runs to April 21, but an LGBT-geared OUT at InSeries performance, including...
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Latin Romance
''I really enjoy this and it would have never happened if Placido had not invited me to his program.'' Of course, Placido Domingo would have...
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Cab Calloway’s Minnie the Moocher — with puppets!
Puppets, dancers and a seven-piece jazz band weave together Cab Calloway’s most famous songs to tell the story of a “frail” named Minnie the Moocher...
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Monty Python at the Movies
This weekend into next week the American Film Institute’s Silver Theatre screens the legendary British comedy troupe Monty Python‘s popular movies, which took smart absurdity...
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The City Choir presents Bach: Magnificat
The City Choir of Washington presents Johann Sebastian Bach’s powerful, exciting “Magnificat.” The evening will include variants by Mozart, Stanford and Berio. Sunday, April 15,...
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Concert Review: At the 9:30 Club the Ting Tings say shut up, go
Last night, April 12, Katie White unceremoniously took to the 9:30 Club stage after the house lights had dimmed. Wearing a ball cap low on...
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Arias with a Twist at Woolly Mammoth
Man, if we had a dollar for every time we’ve seen a drag queen onstage simulating a three-way with satanic puppets, we’d have… a dollar...
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Amy Ray at Iota Cafe
In the past dozen years, Amy Ray has released several solo albums in between Indigo Girls records and tours, all informed more by her punk...
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Cabin Fever
Don't watch the trailer, don't ask your friends, and above all else, don't read about it online. (Except, um, here.) The Cabin in the Woods...
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Comic Culture
Fandom has reached something akin to a roaring pitch on the fringes of today's pop culture. For every hit television show or movie, dozens of...
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Untamed: Review of 'Taming of the Shrew'
Strip the art from Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew and you are left, more or less, with a rather bitter, violence-prone woman who, married against...
