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  • Project Nim: Planet of the Ape

    By on July 23, 2011

    Director James Marsh and the Oscar-winning team behind the documentary Man on Wire offer Project Nim, the story of a chimpanzee who became the focus...

  • Steel Magnolias at the Keegan

    By on July 22, 2011

    Somebody ought to bake a giant Armadillo cake and present it to Keegan Theatre for deciding to close its 2011 season with Robert Harling’s Steel...

  • Long View Gallery’s Refresh

    By on July 22, 2011

    Long View Gallery’s Refresh: New Works by Some of Long View’s Best offers new works by Mike Weber, Scott Brooks, Tony Savoie, Michelle Peterson-Albandoz, Anne...

  • American Idol

    By on July 21, 2011

    Captain America: The First Avenger is a tease. The latest in a string of superhero movies churned out by Marvel Studios, it's little more than...

  • Tori Amos tix go on sale Friday; special pre-sale event on Thursday

    By on July 20, 2011

    Tickets go on sale this Friday, July 22, for Maryland-native Tori Amos‘s hometown concert at D.A.R. Constitution Hall in December supporting Night of Hunters, a...

  • Editor’s Pick: Woolly Mammoth revisits Clybourne Park

    By on July 20, 2011

    Woolly Mammoth reprises its production of Bruce Norris’s Clybourne Park, after having won a couple Helen Hayes Awards and this year’s Pulitzer Prize. As Metro...

  • Role Model

    By on July 20, 2011

    By day, Sajdah Golde is a field organizer with the L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center's Vote for Equality initiative, canvassing neighborhoods that voted for California's...

  • Art and Artifice

    By on July 20, 2011

    Could it be time for a Candy Darling revival? It's been 37 years since her death due to leukemia -- and the Andy Warhol-associated starlet's...

  • Bird Watching

    By on July 20, 2011

    Right now, a play about gay penguins -- and more broadly, gay marriage -- is playing at a small, relatively new theater in Fairfax County....

  • Having a Ball

    By on July 20, 2011

    In a way, the June 21 Night Out at the Nationals was just a warm-up, with Team DC now running down the court to the...

  • Oklahomo

    By on July 20, 2011

    ''I think being in the Midwest, people don't expect it to be quite like that, but in Tulsa there's just a lot of support,'' says...

  • The Tweet Life

    By on July 20, 2011

    Broadway, take note: Lizz Winstead's big dream in life is to play Martha in a revival of Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? ''That...

  • Pat Benatar: Hit us with your best shot

    By on July 19, 2011

    Multi-Grammy-winning ’80s hitmaker Pat Benatar, a pioneering woman in rock, is about to go into the studio to record her first album in nearly 20...

  • This Afternoon: NatGeo presents Peruvian Films and Dances

    By on July 17, 2011

    In collaboration with the Embassy of Peru, the National Geographic Society presents screenings today of two Peruvian films, each followed by demonstrations of the dances...

  • Editor’s Pick: A Perfect Circle, tonight at D.A.R.

    By on July 17, 2011

    An American rock supergroup formed in 1999 by guitarist Billy Howerdel and Tool vocalist Maynard James Keenan, A Perfect Circle now includes bassist Matt McJunkins...