Arts + Entertainment
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Angels Heart
A production of Angels In America -- in the mountains of Virginia? ''There's always been a hesitation because the traditional audience is fairly conservative,'' says...
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Jonathan Butler at Blues Alley
After signing his first record deal as a teenager with British record producer Clive Caulder’s Jive Records, Jonathan Butler‘s premiere single became the first by...
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Furious Dancing at Busboys & Poets
Furious Dancing: The Art Exhibit is a group exhibit featuring 18 artists curated by Simone Jacobson and Sonja Kubota Johansson celebrating Alice Walker’s new book,...
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John Heilemann and Mark Halperin at Politics and Prose
Politics and Prose brings back John Heilemann and Mark Halperin, authors of the riveting best-seller Game Change, about the 2008 presidential campaign. The book has...
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Oklahoma at Arena Stage
Arena Stage’s Molly Smith sets her production of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s great American musical Oklahoma!in the robust world of territory life filled with a dynamic...
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Now Playing: Fair Game
If there’s one consolation for Valerie Plame being exposed as a CIA operative, it’s that Naomi Watts was cast to play her in Fair Game....
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Jonsi at the 9:30 Club
The 35-year-old Jonsi launched his solo debut Go with the same giddy sense of joy and wonder you may remember from your first carnival —...
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Our weekly contest roundup.
Here’s our weekly contest roundup. We have four currently active with more on the way this week. To win a pair of tickets to Signature...
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Cafe Green’s vegan fare
“Organic” and “vegan” may not be phrases that fire up the appetite like “deep fried” or “golden brown.” But they might once you’ve tried Cafe...
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Don McLean at The Birchmere
A 2004 inductee into the Songwriter’s Hall of Fame, Don McLean is still singing about that “American Pie,” so the levy’s clearly not dry. Sunday,...
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Gil Shaham this afternoon at the Kennedy Center
Xian Zhang conducts the NSO and violinist Gil Shaham, whom the New York Times calls “a highly physical player,” in a program that includes Prokofiev’s...
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The Lost Ones at Spooky Action Theater
With special permission from Samuel Beckett’s estate, Spooky Action Theater presents a re-imagined staging of The Lost Ones, a Dantesque story first staged in the...
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DC Different Drummers 30th Anniversary Concert
“My passion for the group grows every time I’m with them,” says Joe Bello of D.C.’s Different Drummers. Bello is not the only one. Tonight...
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Tammy Grimes at the Kennedy Center
Two-time Tony Award winner Tammy Grimes is the latest Broadway star to get Barbara Cook’s Spotlight treatment. In honor of her 75th birthday, Grimes will...
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House of Gold at Woolly Mammoth
Sarah Benson directs a first-rate cast including Mitchell Hebert and Michael Russotto in House of Gold, a darkly funny story, written by young playwright Gregory...
