Arts + Entertainment
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The Kids Are All Right at Area Theaters
The modern family in Lisa Cholodenko’s The Kids Are All Right is more than just funny. They’re also quirky, endearing, flawed, and entirely believable. And,...
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Arcade Fire at Merriweather Post Pavilion
Arcade Fire produces swelling, ethereal, heartbreaking dramatic rock, with probing lyrics fraught with concerns over death and dreams, and existential questioning. Tonight, Friday, Aug. 6....
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Serenading Louis at the American Century Theatre
Serenading Louis, Lanford Wilson’s intimate examination of marriage — entrapment — in suburbia, Serenading Louie, from 1970, is building a reputation as a neglected masterpiece....
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DC Black Theatre Festival
The new week-long DC Black Theatre Festival showcases the talents of individuals from the D.C. area’s African-American theater community through 70 productions. There are at...
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Housewife Commission
Think Michaele Salahi is the only local you'll recognize on Bravo's new Real Housewives of D.C.? The infamous White House party crasher may have gotten...
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Cabaret Gal
You wouldn't know it from her often-racy acting roles, but Jane Krakowski calls herself traditional. Old-fashioned, even. Her debut solo album, The Laziest Gal In...
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All About Eve at the Atlas Performing Arts Center
This Thursday brings 1950’s Oscar-winning classic All About Eve, starring Bette Davis as an aging Broadway star whose biggest fan, played by Anne Baxter, becomes...
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Hercules & Love Affair at the Rock and Roll Hotel
Named after the Greek hero and his male travel companion Hylas, the gay Andrew Butler's mixed-gender, mixed-sexuality band Hercules and the Love Affair offers club...
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Transparency at the Zenith Gallery
Transparency features glass sculptures by Jackie L. Braitman, an architectural designer by trade. To Sept. 30. Zenith Gallery, 1111 Pennsylvania Ave. NW. Call 202-783-2963 or...
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Up Where We Belong at the National Museum of the American Indian
Up Where We Belong: Native Musicians in Popular Culture explores the many native artists who have had successful and influential careers in pop music over...
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Screen on the Green: Bonnie and Clyde
The annual Screen on the Green on the National Mall concludes its summer run with Bonnie and Clyde, the 1967 classic starring Warren Beauty and...
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Serenading Louis at the American Century Theater
Lanford Wilson’s intimate examination of marriage in suburbia, 1970’s Serenading Louie is building a reputation as a neglected masterpiece. Steven Scott Mazzola directs. To Aug....
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Gods of Angkor at the Sackler
“Gods of Angkor: Bronzes from the National Museum of Cambodia” presents the fascinating story of bronze sculpture and casting in Cambodia through 36 works. Through...
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The Art of Gaman at the Renwick
The Renwick Gallery presents “The Art of Gaman: Arts and Crafts from the Japanese American Internment Camps, 1942-1946.” The exhibit features more than 120 art...
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Tegan & Sara on the Honda Civic Tour
Though lesbian Canadian pop-rockers Tegan & Sara are on some dates of the Lilith Fair, they won’t be on the stop at Merriweather Post Pavilion...
