Arts + Entertainment
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The Center’s Brother Tongue Poetry Workshop Series
The Center, D.C.’s LGBT community center, and Tongue in Your Ear present a multi-part series led by Regie Cabico of HBO’s Def Poetry Jam and...
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Mark Walter Braswell’s Two Guys…Become Interns
Mikey Cafarelli and Paul Scanlan play D.C. interns in Two Guys…Become Interns, a funny and touching new musical revue from Mark Walter Braswell that “reveal...
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The Indigo Girls at Strathmore
Amy Ray and Emily Saliers — aka The Indigo Girls — have been at it for well more than two decades now, but the popular...
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Win tickets to Owl City at the 9:30 Club
We’re giving away a pair of tickets to Owl City, appearing in November at the 9:30 Club. Enter all our current contests at metroweekly.com/win.
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DC Black Pride presents a screening of Leave It on the Floor
Leave It on the Floor is a musical film about a black gay boy who discovers the Los Angeles ball scene after being thrown out...
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Review: 50/50
Walking the line between comedy and tragedy is tricky. How can filmmakers draw out the appropriate emotions from their audiences? When do those triggers inspire...
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Degas exhibit opens at the Phillips Collection
The Phillips Collection’s new exhibition Degas’s Dancers at the Barre: Point and Counterpoint traces impressionist master Edgar Degas’s devotion to ballet as represented in his...
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A fortunate symphony
Almost anytime a particular scene calls for dramatic, downright scary music, Hollywood instinctively turns to the opening number, “O fortuna,” in Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana....
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Good Chance
Walking the line between comedy and tragedy is tricky. How can filmmakers draw out the appropriate emotions from their audiences? When do those triggers inspire...
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The works of Tom Price at Industry Gallery
The gay-owned Industry Gallery presents the first U.S. solo exhibition work by innovative British artist and designer Tom Price, who specializes in modern furniture products,...
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Tea Time
Intimate one-man shows are like that friend who's just been on a cooking course. You know, the one who's frantic to make you dinner? On...
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Shows of Shows
There's something truly troubling about Trouble in Mind. A half-century ago, Alice Childress was set to become the first African-American female playwright on Broadway. But...
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Musical Realities
Among tragically themed musicals, Parade marches to the beat of a particularly bleak (and real) drummer: Leo Frank, a Northern Jewish factory manager doomed to...
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Marriage Singer
''I want my child to be able to marry whoever she wants to marry when she grows up, and have the same rights as everyone...
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Fall into WIT!
If you love improv, you don’t have to wait for regular visits from Chicago’s esteemed Second City. D.C.’s own Washington Improv Theater, or WIT, may...
