Arts + Entertainment
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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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Melissa Etheridge at Strathmore
Melissa Etheridge is touring in support of her 10th studio album, Fearless Love. The newly separated famous lesbian mother of four and cancer survivor told...
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Paul Taylor Dance Company at Wolf Trap
The Paul Taylor Dance Company celebrates its namesake’s 80th birthday with a D.C. premiere of a new Wolf Trap co-commissioned work. Taylor’s choreography, once deemed...
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The Complete Metropolis at the Avalon
The Avalon Theatre and Kino International present the Washington-area release of the new restoration of Fritz Lang’s remarkable 1927 science fiction epic Metropolis, now with...
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New Jerusalem: The Interrogation at Theater J
A mix of fact and fiction, theology and philosophy, David Ives’s New Jerusalem: The Interrogation of Baruch De Spinoza at Talmud Torah Congregation: Amsterdam, July...
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Screen on the Green: The Goodbye Girl
The annual Screen on the Green series has returned to the National Mall for a four-week run. Next up, The Goodbye Girl, the 1977 original,...
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Informed Design at the Long View Gallery
Informed Design expounds on the role of art objects within the context of interior design and architecture. The exhibition features a sampling of the gallery’s...
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Forever Plaid at Olney
The National Players, America’s longest-running touring theater company, presents Forever Plaid for its annual summer musical, a deliciously goofy story of a classic ’50s all-male...
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Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work
To make the cleverly titled documentary Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work, filmmakers Ricki Stern and Annie Sundberg followed the pioneering female comedian Joan Rivers...
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Comedy Central’s The Daily Show and Friends
If you can get to New York on Wednesday, July 21, you’ll be rewarded with much laughter. Correspondents and friends of The Daily Show perform...
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His Girl Friday at The National Theatre
The National Theatre focuses its Summer Cinema 2010 on the films of Cary Grant, including the 1940 screwball romantic comedy His Girl Friday, by the...
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Signature Theatre’s Target Open House
Signature Theatre’s Target Open House, an annual all-day extravaganza of free performances, classes, demonstrations and exhibits returns. This year’s activities include a Broadway-style “Signature Idol”...
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Stonewall Uprising
If you’re a first-time visitor to the Stonewall Inn, then the documentary Stonewall Uprising by Kate Davis and David Heilbroner will be an adequate Gay...
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Modern Family
Modern families are funny. There's a sitcom that proves it. But the modern family in Lisa Cholodenko's The Kids Are All Right is more than...
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Dream State
Ever had one of those dreams when you couldn't wake up, a dream that seemed to go on forever and ever? Welcome to Inception. At...
