Arts + Entertainment
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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...
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Liz Lerman Dance Exchange at the Clarice Smith Center
With "The Matter of Origins,” the Liz Lerman Dance Exchange combines a performance and an informal salon, offering dance, video, soundscapes, tea, cake and conversation...
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Something You Did at Theatre J
Theater J launches its 2010-2011 season with Willy Holtzman’s political drama Something You Did, about an anti-war activist’s attempt to win early release from prison,...
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Blondie at The State Theatre
Several years after a lackluster solo release, pop icon Debbie Harry returns to the area in a sure-to-be high-energy performance with her original band, the...
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Art by the Yard at The Textile Museum
Art by the Yard: Women Design Mid-Century Britain focuses on three women designers pivotal in transforming Britain from a country devastated by World War II...
