Arts + Entertainment
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Un Ballo in Maschera at The Washington National Opera
The Washington National Opera company kicks off its new season with Opera Colorado’s production of Giuseppe Verdi’s Un Ballo in Maschera, about a king who...
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Eastern Market Music Series
The Capitol Hill Community Foundation presents the Eastern Market Music Series, a month-long series of free Sunday concerts by local acts, beginning this weekend with...
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Kennedy Center Open House Arts Festival
The 26th annual Kennedy Center Open House Arts Festival helps kick off the center’s 2010-2011 season and comes as part of its Celebrate Mexico 2010,...
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Vampire Weekend at Merriweather Post Pavilion
From its self-titled debut to the new Contra, Vampire Weekend has maintained a consistent sound — a melting pot combination of Afro-pop, British New Wave...
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The Day the Earth Stood Still at the AFI Silver
The American Film Institute’s Silver Theatre screens a new 35mm print of Robert Wise’s 1951 sci-fi classic The Day the Earth Stood Still, about a...
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BSO’s Season Highlights Concert
Marin Alsop leads the BSO in a Season Highlights concert, with excerpts from this year’s classical programs, focused on youth and beauty, plus the work...
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Return of the King featuring a Live Orchestra
A live orchestra and soloists perform Howard Shore’s Oscar-winning score to Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, the final installment of Peter...
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Fairfax Symphony Orchestra’s season opener
Christopher Zimmerman leads the Fairfax Symphony Orchestra and pianist Phillipe Bianconi in a performance of Tchaikovsky's The Tempest Overture-Fantasy and Rachmaninoff's Symphony No. 3, which...
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DC Shorts Film Festival
Washington's only festival solely devoted to films with run times 20 minutes or less returns for a seventh year with 97 films screening in nine...
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Demetri Martin at the Hippodrome
A former staff writer for Late Night with Conan O’Brien and also a former writer/performer on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Demetri Martin is...
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Glimpses of the Moon at Metro Stage
MetroStage kicks off its season with this jazz age musical based on the novel by Edith Wharton, with book and lyrics by Tajlei Levis and...
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The Whole Plate Project at Art Reactor
Art Reactor Gallery, new artist-run photo-focused space in Hyattsville presents its first curated exhibit. “The Whole Plate Project” focuses on photographs made using a variety...
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High Notes
Falsettos is about a gay man – a father – who divorces his wife but vows to keep the family together. In 1992, during the...
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Anti-Climax
Over-hyped, overlong and ultimately under-sexed, Sarah Ruhl's In the Next Room, or The Vibrator Play leaves much to be desired. Trying for the ever bigger...
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Revolutions
We all have that negative thing that lurks in the back of our head with surprising ferocity. Maybe it was a moment of humiliation so...
