Arts + Entertainment
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Hitchcock’s Shadow of a Doubt and Saboteur at AFI Silver
The American Film Institute’s Silver Theatre presents the second in a three-part series this year exploring the works of the great filmmaker. Part II focuses...
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Crazy Choral Love
The Gay Men’s Chorus’s select ensemble Potomac Fever teams up with two other ensembles from men’s choruses in Virginia and North Carolina to present “Crazy...
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Editor’s Pick: Carl Tanner performs at Aurora Opera Theatre Benefit
Carl Tanner got his start as a singer with a Glee-like moment: The Washington-Lee High School footballer and wrestler joined the school chorus after someone...
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Velvet Goldmine at AFI
As part of a month-long retrospective of Todd Haynes’s work, the American Film Institute’s Silver Theatre presents one of the earlier films from the somewhat...
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Walking Wounded
You can't be blamed for balking at the idea of seeing Ruined, a play that confronts head-on the mass-rape of civilian women by combatants during...
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Vocally Proud
Why settle for a Ford Focus when you could drive a Saab 9-3 Convertible instead? It may not be quite as high profile as American...
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Hammer Time
It takes a big man to wield the hammer of Thor, God of Thunder. And going on looks alone, Chris Hemsworth is just the man...
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Go West
What's a 10-person modern dance troupe with three gay members -- including its founder -- doing based full-time in Boise, Idaho? ''It's a pretty liberal...
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Joan as Police Woman
Joan “As Police Woman” Wasser has been a member of Antony and the Johnsons, has a connection with the Scissor Sisters and has been championed...
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Cyrano noses his way into the Folger
In Edmund Rostand’s Cyrano, our hero secretly adores Roxanne but fears she could never share the sentiment because of his extraordinarily huge nose. So he...
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Blues for an Alabama Sky
The African Continuum Theatre Company presents Blues for an Alabama Sky. Set in the summer of 1930 in Harlem, the creative euphoria of the Harlem...
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Hitchcock Retrospective at AFI
The American Film Institute’s Silver Theatre presents the second in a three-part series this year exploring the works of the great filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock. Part...
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Deconstructing the Beatles
The composer and producer Scott Freiman offers “Looking Through A Glass Onion: Deconstructing The White Album,” a sure-to-be fascinating live multimedia lecture exploring all aspects...
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The Washington Bach Consort’s Season Finale
The Washington Bach Consort’s season finale celebrates Easter and draws from four distinct areas of Bach’s incomparable creative genius, including Toccata, Adagio and Fugue in...
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Crosby and Nash at Strathmore
David Crosby and Graham Nash, two of the anti-Vietnam War era’s most prolific singer-songwriters — and core members of Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young —...
