Arts + Entertainment
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Dog & Pony DC presents Beertown
The radical theater company Dog & Pony DC, responsible for the popular Fringe Festival twisted vaudeville show Bare Breasted Women Sword Fighting, now offers a...
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Vitruvian Gallery’s Rob Vander Zee Closes today with a concert
The gay-owned Vitruvian Gallery, located near Eastern Market and focused on male figurative art, offers its first official exhibit with over 20 male figurative paintings...
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Scotland’s Puppet State Theatre at the Alden
Virginia’s Alden Theatre presents one performance of The Man Who Planted Trees from the Puppet State Theatre Company of Scotland. Based on Jean Giono’s classic...
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A Broadway Christmas Carol at MetroStage
“Deck the halls with lots of showtunes,” goes the opening number of Kathy Feininger’s A Broadway Christmas Carol. And that, the show, now in its...
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Catie Curtis at the Barns
Pure musical yum. The New Yorker calls the energetic Catie Curtis, part of Massachusetts’ thriving lesbian folk scene, a “folk-rock goddess.” She puts on a...
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Trance nation: Armin Van Buuren comes to D.C.
Trance is still kicking, even if it has gone totally corporate. Dutch producer Armin Van Buuren is the keeper of the flame and glowsticks, and...
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Midlife Aloha
Alexander Payne had made quite a name for himself on the backs of middle-aged discontents. In Election, it was the stagnant, scheming sort. In Sideways,...
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Bucking Tradition
Every city needs an alternative theater scene. Why? The official answer is that alternative theater speaks to and informs the norm, challenges tradition, broadens ideas...
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Victorian Nightmare
A stylized Victorian nightmare with lashes of Sam Peckinpah realism and the odd sporran, David Alden's rendering of Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor isn't for everyone....
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Transcendent Disco
''The great irony is the fact that we're so associated with the gay dance world and the queer scene -- we're actually pretty much...
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Lasting Value
''Sometimes I'll look into the audience and I'll see people crying,'' says Suzanne Vega. ''Or I'll talk to someone after the show and they tell...
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The Normal Heart national tour will launch at Arena Stage in June 2012
Arena Stage will launch the national tour of the 2011 Tony Award-winning production of Larry Kramer’s The Normal Heart, to coincide with AIDS 2012, the...
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A Lady Gaga Tease: You and I
Lady Gaga just released a clip of her performance of “You and I,” from Lady Gaga Presents The Monster Ball Tour at Madison Square Garden....
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The 9:30 Club wins the Top Club prize at 2011 Billboard Touring Awards
Congratulations to our hometown’s iconic 9:30 Club, which won the Top Club honor at the 2011 Billboard Touring Awards. The award is attendance-based, so clearly...
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Desert Oasis
''And there you have it, a preview of coming attractions,'' Polly Wyeth (Stockard Channing) says, roughly 30 minutes into Other Desert Cities. The line is...
