Arts + Entertainment
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Shakespeare With Love
There is no better feeling than sitting in a theater, particularly one of significant reputation and stature, and watching a performance so fresh and vital...
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Roman Candle
It's funny the way the mind works. We hear a story of political intrigue, of petty grudges fueled by unhindered access to great power, and...
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Cat and Mouse
Cat and mouse games can be fun -- when you know who's the cat and who's the mouse. When you don't, it's like watching two...
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Mass Impact
Despite the title of her new album, Annie Lennox isn't exactly marching off to war. But one listen to Songs of Mass Destruction ()and it's...
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Soundwaves
POST-PORN POP... Glenn Soukesian has been singing professionally for over 20 years. But you know him mostly for work he apparently only engaged in for...
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Gay Ghost?
Between the Miss Adams Morgan pageant and the annual High Heel Races, it's often suggested that Halloween must be a kind of gay holiday, considering...
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Unfinished Business
While ''Seasons of Love'' was the unquestioned centerpiece of the late American composer Jonathan Larson's musical Rent, it was the more intimate ''One Song Glory''...
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Bite Night
''I don't care what they are,'' barks an anxious Sheriff Eben Oleson (Josh Hartnett). ''I just care what they do about them!'' And well he...
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Female Trouble
What's so remarkable about The Taming of the Shrew is that, despite all the changes to the status of women in the last century, Shakespeare's...
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Word Smiths
It's hard to say what's tougher about Steve Connell and Sekou (tha misfit)'s two-man show, The Word Begins -- the raw-to-bleeding wordplay, the street-hard posturing...
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Law and Disorder
''I'm not a miracle worker,'' scowls Michael Clayton (George Clooney) to a self-important client of Kenner, Bach & Ledeen, a corporate law firm for whom...
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Karen Black Magic
In case you were wondering, Karen Black, whose acting career has spanned the last five decades, has never seen Karen Black Like Me, the infamous...
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Spiritual Shenanigans
Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale, a tale of a fateful trip... Maybe I have TV Land on the brain, but director...
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Coming Home
He created a stir earlier this year by stripping Macbeth down to its bare essentials. But one Shakespearean tragedy performed entirely in the buff is...
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Melissa Warming
Melissa Etheridge reassures herself that she's fine on her bright and boisterous new single ''Message to Myself.'' The song is suspiciously sunny and sweet. It...
