Arts + Entertainment
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Required Viewing
''The real difference between last year and this year,'' says Scott Kenison, founding chief operating officer of the Atlas Performing Arts Center, ''is that this...
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Editor’s Pick: Pictures of the Years at the Newseum
Pictures of the Year features the best news images from last year, courtesy of the Pictures of the Year International, the oldest photojournalism contest in...
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Editor’s Pick: Jared Ball at Busboys and Poets
Jared Ball’s I Mix What I Like!: A Mixtape Manifesto analyzes the increasing corporate control in the music industry and suggests that popular homemade hip-hop...
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The Cornel West Theory
A D.C.-based ensemble, the Cornel West Theory combines spoken word, instruments, electronics and vocals, and draws from genres ranging from D.C.’s own go-go to jazz...
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Editor’s Pick: Race to the End of the Earth at NatGeo
Race To The End of the Earth follows the race to reach the South Pole a hundred years ago between Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen and...
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It is easy being Green
Green: the Color and the Cause is the second exhibit in The Textile Museum’s year-long exploration of the ties between textiles and environmentalism, following on...
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Now Playing: Bad Teacher
Bad Teacher scares us. First, for the students who go to this school. Second, that we might die laughing. Cameron Diaz stars as a teacher...
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Editor’s Pick: David Cale at The Studio Theatre
David Cale’s one-man show The History of Kisses focuses on seaside shanties, or work songs that sailors sing to help distract them from their arduous...
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Night and Day
Tom Stoppard’s Night and Day, set in a fictional African nation on the cusp of internal rebellion, reveals, as one would expect with Stoppard, far...
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The Silver Docs Film Festival
The American Film Institute/Discovery Channel presents the Silver Docs Film Festival, now in its ninth year. The event closes this Sunday, June 26, but not...
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A new documentary examines To Kill A Mockingbird
Mary McDonagh Murphy’s documentary Hey, Boo: Harper Lee & To Kill a Mockingbird explores the history, context and impact of the Deep South-centered novel To...
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Conan O’Brien Can’t Stop
Rodman Flender’s documentary Conan O’Brien Can’t Stop offers an intimate portrait of an improvisational artist at the most improvisational time of his career. Of course...
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Peruvian Struggle
It might sound silly or superficial, but you just might fall in love with actor and dancer José Manuel Ozuna-Báez, who's starring in GALA Hispanic...
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Einstein’s Dreams at Spooky Action
Rebecca Holderness directs an adaptation of the international bestselling book about how Einstein came to be Einstein. Einstein’s Dreams stars Elver Ariza-Silva, Frank Britton, Jonathan...
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Editor’s Pick: Dan Fishback performs tonight at the DCJCC
The New York-based musician Dan Fishback, a native of Olney, Md., returns to D.C. tonight, Wednesday, June 22, at 7:30 p.m. to perform as part...
