Arts + Entertainment
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The Great Typo Hunt at Borders
In The Great Typo Hunt, Benjamin Herson and Jeff Deck humorously document their drive around the the U.S. fixing typos in public signage using markers,...
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Mary Chapin Carpenter at Wolf Trap
“Hometown Girl” Mary Chapin Carpenter returns to Wolf Trap (where she’s performed 16 times) for the first time in five years, and for the first...
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Shakespeare Theatre’s Free for All
The Shakespeare Theatre Company presents this year’s 20th annual “Free for All” production with 22 performances of Twelfth Night, more than double last year’s number....
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Erin McKeown at the Kennedy Center
The folk-pop singer-songwriter Erin McKeownreleased her last album, 2009’s Hundreds of Lions, on Ani DiFranco’s Righteous Babe Records label, and opened for DiFranco earlier this...
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Qomedy's Queen
Fifteen years ago, Carol Leifer wrote an episode of Seinfeld in which the character Elaine Benes tries to get a gay man to ''change teams.''...
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Comedy for a Cause
''I had gotten into a big argument with one of the local ANCs about gay marriage, religion and politics,'' says Sampson McCormick. ''And then I...
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Cabaret at the Atlas Performing Arts Center
On Thursday, Aug. 19, the Atlas Gay 101 Film Series presents Cabaret, Bob Fosse’s 1972 film based on Kander and Ebb’s musical and starring Liza...
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Orlando at the Landmark E Street Cinemas
The gender-bending Orlando, based on a Virginia Woolf novel, starred the late Quentin Crisp — playing Queen Elizabeth! — as well as Billy Zane and,...
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Chess at Signature Theatre
Signature Theatre presents the first major production of Chess, the 26-year-old rock musical with music by the men of ABBA, Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson,...
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Attention Sports fans! Dave Zirin at Politics and Prose
Bad Sports: How Owners Are Ruining the Games We Love rails against the arrogance of team owners of professional sports leagues, who care more about...
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Lalah Hathaway at The Birchmere
Daughter of soul singer Donny Hathaway and classically trained vocalist Eulaulah Hathaway, Lalah Hathaway is a contemporary R&B and jazz singer, now part of the...
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Charade at The National Theatre
The National Theatre focuses its Summer Cinema 2010 on the films of Cary Grant, including Charade, Stanley Donen’s 1963 romantic thriller co-starring Audrey Hepburn and...
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Yoso at the State Theatre
“The voice of TOTO — the magic of YES” is how this “super-group” of ’80s-era classic rock is billed. TOTO vocalist Bobby Kimball and YES’s...
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Jellybean Benitez at the U Street Music Hall
The original Madonna producer, responsible for “Holiday” — and also notable for early dance-pop numbers from Whitney Houston — Benitez was one of the first...
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Avenue Q at The Shakespeare Theatre
Despite the time that’s passed since Robert Lopez, Jeff Marx and Jeff Whitty first sent their profanity-spewing puppets on stage to deliver such toe-tappers as...
