Arts + Entertainment
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Constellation’s The Green Bird
It’s not exactly magic, but what Constellation Theatre Company is pulling off at 14th Street’s Source Theatre right now is pretty extraordinary. The fledgling nonprofit...
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Editor’s Pick: Aisha Tyler at The Improv
The first African-American woman to head Talk Soup on E! and a former regular on Friends, CSI and 24, Aisha Tyler is currently the voice...
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Venus in Fur at Studio
Inspired by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch’s notorious erotic novel, which first shocked readers in 1870, David Ives’s saucy and sensational Venus in Fur is a crackling...
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John Oates, minus Daryl Hall
Less than two years ago, John Oates reunited with Daryl Hall, for an “Up Close and Personal Tour” with the ’80s-era rock & soul pioneers....
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John Grisham’s A Time to Kill
Arena Stage presents a pre-Broadway, world premiere adaptation of A Time to Kill, John Grisham’s first novel — and his first to be adapted for...
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A Prairie Home Companion at Wolf Trap
Public radio star Garrison Keillor comes to Wolf Trap to offer D.C. another live trip to his fictional-but-oh-so-real Lake Wobegon, which will be broadcast over...
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Editor’s Pick: Roseanna Vitro, tonight at Blues Alley
With her new album The Music of Randy Newman, Roseanna Vitro stakes a claim as the first jazz vocalist to explore the richly melodic, sharply...
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Why Torture is Wrong…
American Ensemble Theater presents Why Torture is Wrong, and the People Who Love Them, a new black comedy from Christopher Durang (Beyond Therapy, Laughing Wild),...
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Amadeus at Round House
Peter Shaffer’s Tony-winning play (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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Lady Blah Blah
Which way was Lady Gaga born, exactly? Another album, chock-a-block full of songs that remind you of hits that came before, and another reason to...
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Overblown Buffa
It's a shame the Washington National Opera didn't end its season with the brooding intensity of the memorable Iphigénie en Tauride instead of the determined...
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Stellar Showgirls and Guys
What isn't deteriorating in the Kennedy Center's hauntingly gorgeous revival of Stephen Sondheim and James Goldman's 1971 musical, Follies? Florenz Ziegfeld-like impresario Dimitri Weismann (David...
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Women of the House
With its rather dated depiction of the mores, or lack thereof, of the modern wartime journalist, some aspects of Tom Stoppard's Night and Day may...
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Editor’s Pick: Notorious
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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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...
