Arts + Entertainment
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Pocket Operas at The In Series
Always adventurous, always classy, The In Series presents a provocative “pocket opera” double-bill of William Bolcom & Arnold Weinstein’s Casino Paradise and Leonard Bernstein’s Trouble...
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Shakespeare in Klingon featuring George Takei
George Takei joins the Washington Shakespeare Company in celebrating 20 years of cutting-edge classical theater by turning Shakespeare on its ear, literally. By Any Other...
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Jonathan Franzen at Lisner Auditorium
Jonathan Franzen frenzy is back, this time over Freedom, which Oprah just selected for her book club. As a result, a discussion and signing originally...
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BSO Season Opens tonight
Marin Alsop opens the new season of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, celebrating the life and music of Gustav Mahler with the legendary conductor/composer’s arrangement of...
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Now Playing: You Again
Finally, something that makes the trauma, humiliation, and embarrassment of high school seem lesser by comparison. Directed by Andy Fickman, You Again is a clichéd...
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WSC Presents Shakespeare in Klingon
George Takei joins the Washington Shakespeare Company in celebrating 20 years of cutting-edge classical theater by turning Shakespeare on its ear, literally. By Any Other...
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Legwarmers at The State Theatre
Another month, another iteration of The Legwarmers, State Theatre’s two-night party, billed as D.C.’s “biggest ’80s Retro Dance Party,” where guilty-pleasure hits from now nearly...
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Spanish, Class
GALA Hispanic Theatre is launching its 35th anniversary season with a production that will not only make you want to be certain the company has...
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Well Done
If ever a jukebox hit was made for a Shakespearian play, it is Diana Ross' ''I'm gonna make you love me,'' as applied to All's...
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Moon Shine
Marry for money? Why not? If one marries up, life can be that much better. That, at least, is the guiding philosophy of Susy Branch,...
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Rocking Out
Men will be at Phase 1 this weekend. And by men, organizers don't just mean MEN, the queer electro band featuring JD Samson of Le...
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Blocks Party
The construction that had crowded parts of 17th Street NW since December is gone. Accordingly, it's time to celebrate. This Saturday's 17th Street Festival does...
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Now at City Gallery
“Night Goat and Other Flights of Fancy” features pastel paintings and pen and ink drawings by Ellen Cornett. On display through Sept. 25. City Gallery,...
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The Other City at Landmark’s E Street Cinema
Susan Koch’s documentary The Other Cityexplores Washington, D.C., with its highest-in-the-nation HIV/AIDS rate, and what that says about our country and our compassion. Now playing...
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Un Ballo in Maschera at The Washington Opera
An austere production, perhaps appropriate to tough economic times both at the Washington National Opera and at large, Verdi’s Un Ballo in Maschera is more...
