Arts + Entertainment
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Rocky Horror at the Landmark E Street Cinema
Landmark’s E Street Cinema is hosting weekend midnight screenings of camp and cult classics through early November. This weekend brings the biggest cult classic of...
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West End Cinema opens with Howl
The newest theater in town — the West End Cinema — focuses on indie and international fare, as well as documentaries. It opens this weekend...
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Joshua Bergasse at Shenandoah Conservatory
Guest theater choreographer Joshua Bergasse (national tour of Fame, regional productions of Carousel, West Side Story) contributes a new work for the kick-off to the...
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Barbara Cook at The Birchmere
Widely considered the foremost interpreter of the American Songbook, the Tony- and Grammy-winning Barbara Cook performs a one-night-only concert at the intimate Birchmere. The original...
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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...
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Scott G. Brooks at Longview Gallery
The prolific and uniquely gifted Brooks — responsible for the occasional Metro Weekly cover illustration — unveils an exhibit of all-new paintings. We the People...
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The Washington International Horse Show
An equestrian tradition since 1958, the Washington International Horse Show brings top horses and riders from the U.S. and abroad, including Olympic champions, to the...
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Robert Randolph at the 930 Club
After four years, soul/funk collective Robert Randolph and the Family Band finally released a new record, We Walk This Road. Produced by T Bone Burnett,...
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Golden Silence
Mummenschanz is now in its 38th year. ''It sounds so important when we number the years,'' says the European performance art company's Floriana Frassetto, ''but...
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Poetry in Motion
Howl is a piece of art. The statement is true for both the poem by Allen Ginsberg and the film from co-directors Rob Epstein and...
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Elaine Paige and Linda Lavin cast in Kennedy Center’s Follies
The Kennedy Center just dropped an additional casting announcement for their upcoming spring revival of Stephen Sondheim’s Follies. Of course, the biggest news here is...
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Fox Hunt
It's a formula that seems ridiculously easy. You need a set with multiple doors to facilitate fast exits and unexpected entrances. You need a young...
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Improv Insanity
''He's sort of that guy who everybody knows is gay, but nobody talks about it,'' says Mark Chalfant. Chalfant plays Skip ''Skippy'' Skipperton in Washington...
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Modern Love
Did you know William Shakespeare's Mercutio might be gay? ''Perhaps Mercutio is bisexual, who knows? He's a sexual provocateur, let's put it that way,'' says...
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17th Street High Heel Race
The wildly popular 17th Street High Heel Race is the highlight of Halloween for many Washingtonians, gay and straight. The blocks between JR.’s and Cobalt...
