Arts + Entertainment
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Esperanza Spalding at the Lincoln Theatre
Following two performances at the White House and a sold-out appearance at Sixth & I Historic Synagogue, this bassist and vocalist returns to D.C. with...
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Nature/Data at Industry Gallery
Nature/Data is the first solo U.S. exhibition for New York-based Italian designer and architect Antonio Pio Saracino, with works executed in plywood, metal, carbon fiber...
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Girl in a Coma at The Black Cat
As a lesbian trio from Texas, sisters Phanie and Nina Diaz with Jenn Alva — aka Girl in a Coma create noisy music inspired by...
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Drake at D.A.R.
This charming, cute Canadian hip-hopper Drake is one of the genre’s newest stars, part of the Lil Wayne family. His debut album Thank Me Later...
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A Chorus Line at Shenandoah Conservatory
Shenandoah Conservatory Performances opens its season with the Tony Award-winning musical A Chorus Line, exploring the life of 17 dancers on their journey through an...
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Dakshina’s Art of Peace Sitar Concert
The Art of Peace Sitar concert featuring Alif Laila (pictured) is an annual concert commemorating Mahatma Gandhi’s birthday and his contributions to peace. Saturday, Oct....
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Geckos at the National Geographic Museum
Geckos: Tails to Toepads features more than 15 species of live geckos from all over the world. Through a series of computer and tactile interactives...
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Altar Boyz at Dominion Stage
A robust spoof about an all-boy contemporary Christian singing group, Atlar Boyz, with music and lyrics by Gary Adler and Michael Patrick Walker and book...
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Waiting for Superman at Landmark’s E Street Cinema
From the director of An Inconvenient Truth comes another film about America wasting a natural resource: the next generation. In Waiting for Superman, public schools...
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The Social Network
It’s so meta that The Social Network has a Facebook fan page. Aaron Sorkin adapts Ben Mezrich’s 2009 book, The Accidental Billionaires, about the founding...
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Terror Tween
Let Me In is not your average tween's vampire movie. There are no lingering shots of over-primped adolescents with rippling abs. No angst-filled scenes of...
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Pink Flamingos at Landmark’s E Street Cinema
Through early November, Landmark’s E Street Cinema is hosting weekend midnight screenings of camp and cult classics, including, of course, Rocky Horror Picture Show —...
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Justin Nozuka at The State
Born in New York, bred in Canada, the 21-year-old, part-Japanese R&B singer-songwriter Justin Nozuka writes playfully complex lyrics atypical of the norm, and he turned...
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Beethoven’s No. 9 at the NSO
In his first concerts of the regular season, the NSO’s new director Christoph Eschenbach conducts Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9, one of classical music’s most-heralded compositions....
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The Saint Plays at Factory 449
John Moletress directs this Factory 449 production of The Saint Plays, which incorporates six short plays, including two written for this cycle, by Erick Ehn....
