Arts + Entertainment
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Chess at Signature Theater
Signature Theatre kicks off its fall season off with the first major production Chess in nearly 20 years and, while some elements feel just a...
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UMD Symphony Orchestra: White Heat
White Heat features passionate pieces from Sibelius and Tchaikovsky. James Ross conducts the University of Maryland Symphony Orchestra. Guest violinist James Stern. Tonight, Friday, Oct....
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Casiokids at DC9
DC9’s weekly electro-pop Liberation Dance Party presents the Norwegian troupe Casiokids Norwegian troupe, which sprung out of an idea of making electronic music more visual,...
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Pocket Operas at The In Series
The In Series’s “pocket opera” provocative double-bill of William Bolcom & Arnold Weinstein’s Casino Paridise and Leonard Bernstein’s Trouble In Tahiti provides an evening of...
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Gleeful Melodies
American Idol helped propel Sara Bareilles's career into the mainstream. Now, the California singer-songwriter is hoping Glee will sustain her fame. Those are exaggerated claims,...
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Oh, Henry
''It's amazing how accessible and fun it is. It's not a dry, dusty, old, antique museum of an occasion,'' says the Folger Consort's Robert Eisenstein....
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Retro Run
With so many playwrights cramming a circus's worth of plot and issues into their pages, it can seem they are writing for an audience with...
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Hitched to Hillwood
''With the passage of the bill to legalize same-sex marriage in D.C., it just seemed like a great time to celebrate that newfound right for...
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Marlena Shaw at Blues Alley
Marlena Shaw’s range, class and swing is often compared to eternal jazz lights like Sarah Vaughn, Dinah Washington and Nancy Wilson, but Shaw is also...
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Circle Mirror Transformation at Studio
A series of beautifully drawn vignettes, Circle Mirror Transformation is a clever and smart season opener for Studio Theatre and provides an excellent opportunity for...
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Sheryl Crow at Strathmore
After honing her brand of rock-pop over the past 20 years, Sheryl Crow has shifted gears for her latest album, 100 Miles From Memphis, an...
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What We Leave Behind at Evolve
What We Leave Behind features works by encaustic collage artist Marty Ittner and painter Michele Cormier — visually dense works referencing the discarded physical and...
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Vivat Rex!
Vivat Rex! Commemorating the 500th Anniversary of the Accession of Henry VIII features rare books, manuscripts, handwritten letters and prints offering an in-depth look at...
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Breathe Owl Breathe at Iota
Pitchfork has swooned that Breathe Owl Breathe , a Michigan harmonizing dreamy folk trio of Micah Middaugh, Andrea Moreno-Beals and Trevor Hobbs sounds “as intimately...
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Now at the Gay Community Center of Richmond
On loan from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, “Nazi Persecution of Homosexuals 1933 – 1945” tells the story of homosexuals in Nazi Germany, when...
