Arts + Entertainment
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Review: Time Stands Still
''Happy trails.'' ''Be careful!'' Two ways to say goodbye to someone – one playful and lighthearted, the other cautionary and concerned. Those are also the...
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Review: The Religion Thing
Theater J's The Religion Thing centers on two couples. But, as that bland title suggests, the show's primary focus is on faith. Is faith the...
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Artful Porn
When is porn art? When is an art gallery a back room? The answer to both questions is now – at least as conceived by...
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Review: Corman's World
If Jack Nicholson and Martin Scorsese trash a director's films, saying that ''nobody was trying to make them good,'' or that ''taste was out of...
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Alexandra Tomalonis’s Ballet 360
In “Ballet 360 — What Ballet Does Best II: Exotic Dreams,” dance critic Alexandra Tomalonis uses video of well-known ballets to explore the craft of...
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Barber & Barberillo at the InSeries
The In Series opens the year with an opera/zarzuela double bill: Samuel Barber’s 10-minute pocket-opera A Hand of Bridge, which features two couples playing cards...
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Folger’s MLK Tribute
The Folger Shakespeare Library celebrates Martin Luther King, Jr. Day with dramatic readings of speeches and poetry, all on the au courant theme of protest....
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Hurry! The Smithsonian’s Frank Kameny exhibit closes Monday
The Smithsonian National Museum of American History’s exhibit on the gay pioneer Frank Kameny, who died in October, includes protest signs donated by Kameny, and...
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Violinist Leila Josefowicz at the NSO
Hannu Lintu conducts the orchestra and violinist Leila Josefowicz, who has “exceptional technical aplomb and nuance,” according to the Baltimore Sun, in a program including...
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The next best thing to seeing ABBA live
Bjorn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson — the two B’s in ABBA — have given their stamp of approval to the show put on by The...
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Chris O’Brien’s Winter Brews Tasting
“Beer activist” Chris O’Brien, author of Fermenting Revolution: How to Drink Beer and Save the World, leads a “tutored tasting” of beers that have been...
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Coma Catch-Up
''How long until I know you don't care for us?'' Nina Diaz coos sweetly on ''Adjust,'' the song that launches the fourth studio album from...
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Taking the Stage
Will today's musicals have lasting cultural relevance? In most cases no, argues Robert Aubrey Davis. ''One hundred years from now,'' says the local arts critic...
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From Short to Feature
''I set out to write well-rounded characters,'' says Dee Rees of her filmmaking debut, Pariah. ''Each one has their own wants, their own needs, their...
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Coming Out
In the wrong hands, Pariah could have easily settled as the sum of its parts. Its premise -- a poignant look at a black teenage...
