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  • Eddie from Ohio at The Birchmere

    By on January 14, 2011

    Despite its name, the celebrated American folk band has no connection to the Buckeye State. Instead, all members are natives of Northern Virginia, and its...

  • The BSO gets scientific

    By on January 14, 2011

    Marin Alsop conducts the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra in a multi-media recreation of physicist and author Brian Greene’s book for children Icarus at the Edge of...

  • The Peabody Trio at Wolf Trap

    By on January 13, 2011

    Vivid interpreters of the classics in the chamber repertoire, advocates for new music and dedicated teachers and mentors to a generation of young musicians, The...

  • American Century presents Beyond the Horizon

    By on January 13, 2011

    Beyond the Horizon, Eugene O’Neill’s 1920 romantic tragedy and first to earn him a Pulitzer Prize is considered a turning point in the development of...

  • Sweet Secrets

    By on January 12, 2011

    With Marcus; Or the Secret of Sweet, playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney returns Studio Theatre audiences to San Pere, La., a housing project that sits somewhere...

  • Tuck & Patti at Blues Alley

    By on January 12, 2011

    Oklahoma born guitarist Tuck Andress met singer Patti Cathcart, a native of San Francisco, at an audition in Las Vegas in 1980. The husband-and-wife jazz...

  • Sergey Khachatryan with the NSO

    By on January 12, 2011

    Kirill Karabits conducts the NSO and violinist Sergey Khachatryan in a performance including Shostakovich’s Violin Concerto No. 2, plus Silvestrov’s Elegy for Strings and Sibelius’s...

  • The Kennedy Center’s Enchanted Evening

    By on January 11, 2011

    The Lincoln Center Theater touring production of Rodger & Hammerstein’s South Pacific — now doing shore leave at the Kennedy Center — has waded waist...

  • Julia Nixon at Signature Theatre

    By on January 11, 2011

    Former Broadway Dreamgirl, and Helen Hayes Award-winner for her role in Studio Theatre’s Caroline"¦or Change, the timeless, and locally legendary, Julia Nixon appears as part...

  • National Geographic’s Unpublished Photos

    By on January 11, 2011

    Beyond the Story: National Geographic Unpublished showcases nearly 50 never-before-seen photographs taken by 15 of National Geographic’s best photographers over the course of last year,...

  • Marcus; or the Secret of Sweet at The Studio Theatre

    By on January 11, 2011

    Gay playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney’s “Brother/Sister Plays” — The Brothers Size, In The Red and Brown Water and Marcus; Or the Secret of Sweet —...

  • Marc Bamuthi Joseph at Dance Place

    By on January 6, 2011

    Marc Bamuthi Joseph, artistic director of HBO’s documentary “Brave New Voices” series presents solo works, including the break/s and new material from the upcoming red,...

  • Strathmore gets Gleeful (Yale style)

    By on January 6, 2011

    One of the world’s most esteemed collegiate choruses, The Yale Glee Club celebrates its 150th season with a gala concert at Strathmore. The program will...

  • Mad About You

    By on January 5, 2011

    While it's not necessarily the answer you expect, Florence Lacey makes a little bit of madness sound kind of relaxing. At least, that is, when...

  • Beat It

    By on January 5, 2011

    ''This is the best one yet, and I'm so happy,'' Stacy ''Fergie'' Ferguson boasts toward the end of The Beginning. Regardless of how much you...