Arts + Entertainment
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Wanda Jackson at the 9:30 Club
Recently inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the Queen of Rockabilly — and former girlfriend to Elvis Presley — Wanda Jackson is...
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Family Ties
The Irish tenements of the early 1920s were a close-knit and crowded place. Seated cheek-by-jowl at the Washington Shakespeare Company's Juno and the Paycock, Sean...
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Winds of Change
When Valerie Coleman was forming what became the Imani Winds quintet, Mariam Adam says, ''she wanted the players to look like her.'' Specifically, Coleman, a...
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Cultural Crossroads
''There's so much stuff going on,'' says Scott Kenison. ''It's really like multicultural on steroids.'' Kenison, chief operating officer of the Atlas Performing Arts Center,...
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Oscar Night
What movie are you rooting for to win at this Sunday's Academy Awards? The Kids Are All Right? Black Swan? As long as you like...
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Sex and the Apocalypse
Gregg Araki's Kaboom is a gay, sexually charged version of Donnie Darko. It's destined to either become a cult classic or fade into obscurity. The...
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Kathy Griffin at the Kennedy Center
Kathy Griffin‘s hit a rough patch of late. She recently lost in her third bid for a Grammy for Best Comedy Album, this time to...
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Bill T. Jones pays tribute to Lincoln at the KenCen
The ever-provocative Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company, led by the great Tony Award-winning choreographer Jones, offers a performance of “Fondly Do We Hope"¦Fervently Do...
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Crystal City’s 1K Wine Walk
In partnership with the Crystal City Business Improvement District, the Washington Wine Academy offers a “wine walk” through the interior walkways of Crystal City, with...
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Glee Live is coming to the Verizon Center
The cast of Glee will perform at the Verizon Center in Washington, D.C. on Thursday, June 9. Tickets for Glee: Live on Stage go on...
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Tony Kushner at the Smith Center
The University of Maryland Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center and its School of Theatre, Dance and Performance Studies presents a conversation with gay Pulitzer/Emmy/Obie/Tony-winning playwright...
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Second Lives at the Textile Museum
“Second Lives: The Age-Old Art of Recycling Textiles” highlights the ways people in various cultures ingeniously have repurposed worn but precious fabrics to create beautiful...
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Richard Whitmore at Politics and Prose
Richard Whitmore‘s The Bee Eater: Michelle Rhee Takes on the Nation’s Worst School District offers a profile of the rabble-rouser Rhee, fleshing out the public...
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Edgeworks Dance Theater
The all-male company celebrates its 10th anniversary season with a special program featuring signature works performed by former and current members, plus the D.C. premiere...
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Rock & Roll at the Washington Ballet
The Washington Ballet touts Rock & Roll as an edgy program featuring Christopher Bruce’s “Rooster,” set to the music of the Rolling Stones, Trey McIntyre’s...
