Arts + Entertainment
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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...
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Dinner with Friends at Olney Theatre
The Pulitzer Prize-winning play Dinner with Friends, by Donald Marguilies, explores what happens to decades of friendship between two married couples when one couple is...
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Lori Anne Boocks at Studio Gallery
“Small boxes…some on fire” features Lori Anne Boocks’ “textscapes,” or works on canvas with layers and washes of colors meant to evoke the passage of...
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Simone de Beauvoir’s translators at Politics and Prose
Translators Constance Borde and Sheila Malovany-Chevalier present a new version of de Beauvoir’s classic on the place of women in society The Second Sex. When...
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Joe’s Movement Extravaganza Extraordinaire
Wednesday, Sept. 8, brings a hodgepodge of performances to the Maryland venue Joe’s Movement Emporium. Portland-based Underscore Orkestra plays a blend of original and traditional...
