Arts + Entertainment
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Editor’s Pick: Special Agent Galactica’s Rapture
Local drag phenom Galactica, a.k.a. the “pink-haired diva,” will sing — not lip-synch — at her latest cabaret-style show “Rapture!” A live band, the Escape...
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I Want Candy: Beautiful Darling
An early transsexual celebrity, Candy Darling (nee James Slattery) became a downtown New York fixture in the ’60s and went on to become part of...
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High Art vs. Hard Cash
Let's call it... The One With the Ross-like Nebbish Who Didn't Actually Marry the Lesbian Who Left Him for Another Woman. Oh sure, The Moscows...
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Flights of Fancy
The Green Bird features statues that talk, apples that sing and waters that dance. Even more unbelievable, the play humorously explores philosophical notions about love,...
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Just Announced: Lil Wayne at Jiffy Lube Live
Lil Wayne brings his “I’m Still Music Tour” to Jiffy Lube Live on Saturday, July 16. The artist will be joined by Rick Ross, Keri...
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Editor’s Pick: Ruined at Arena Stage
In Ruined, playwright Lynn Nottage and director Charles Randolph-Wright manage to confront head-on the mass-rape of civilian women by combatants during the Second Congo War...
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Far From Heaven
As part of a month-long retrospective of the work of queer filmmaker Todd Haynes, known for I’m Not There and most recently the HBO miniseries...
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A benefit for American Century Theatre
Paul Morella performs a benefit for The American Century Theater, reprising An Encounter with Clarence Darrow: A Passion for Justice, the one-man show created by...
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The Cathedral Choral Society unearths Russian Riches
J. Reilly Lewis conducts the choral group, mezzo-soprano Viktoriya Bright and the National Cathedral School Girls Chorale in the return of the popular Russian Riches...
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Spellbound and Lifeboat at the AFI
The American Film Institute’s Silver Theatre continues exploring the works of the great filmmaker. Up this weekend: Spellbound (1945), starring Ingrid Bergman and Gregory Peck...
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GMCW gets crazy about love
The Gay Men’s Chorus’s select ensemble Potomac Fever presents the second of two performances of “Crazy Little Thing Called Love,” a celebration of “what makes...
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Amadeus at Round House
Peter Shaffer’s Tony-winning Amadeus (which became an Oscar-winning film) depicts the flamboyant genius of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart as seen through the eyes of his desperately...
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Win tickets to Pat Benatar at the 9:30 Club
We’re giving away a pair of tickets to the Pat Benatar concert at the 9:30 Club this July. Enter now for a chance to win....
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The Trey McIntyre Project at Sidney Harman Hall
The gay-led Trey McIntyre Project has become known for its efforts to broaden the appeal of dance, including by setting up its home base in...
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NSO Pops: Jon Secada and Tito Puente Jr.
Marvin Hamlisch conducts the NSO Pops in a concert paying tribute to Latin rhythms, courtesy of percussionist Tito Puente Jr., son of the legend, and...
