Arts + Entertainment
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Hot Stuff
Hot Fuzz is a cross between Die Hard and The Full Monty. No, that's not quite right. Maybe it's more like Point Break meets Four...
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Unburied Treasure
Escobar, right, with Russotto.|Stan Barouh In 1994, Washington theater lost a treasure. In 2007, that treasure has been reclaimed, albeit briefly. For those who don't...
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Current Events
What a difference a week makes. Round House Theatre's production of Crime and Punishment concludes its run in an environment much different from the one...
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Roman Meal
Knobbly English knees, homoerotic grappling and an awful lot of heavy breathing filled the Eisenhower Theater's stage for opening night of the Royal Shakespeare Company's...
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Sissy Fuss
A freak and a sissy. Not to mention an orphan and, most challenging, a Southerner. Such was the childhood of Kevin Sessums, best known for...
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Chronic Heidi
Well, the pressure is on. With Arena Stage reviving The Heidi Chronicles, the seminal and much lauded play of cultural icon Wendy Wasserstein, ''in loving...
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More Is Less
If you stayed awake in 10th-grade history, then correctly answering, ''What was the fate of Sir Thomas More?'' is a no-brainer: He crossed the King,...
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Geek Love
First of all, it's okay if your first reaction to hearing about a show that parodies Andrew Lloyd Webber musicals is, ''How will I know...
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Monsters and Mayhem
Wake up, moviegoing America! Right before your eyes last weekend came an original: a witty, exceedingly well-crafted tribute to the exploitation flicks of the '70s,...
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Serving Up Evil
A headline catches your eye. Or maybe its America's Most Wanted and suddenly you are immersed in the graphic details of an unspeakable crime. It...
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Looney Tunes
He may sing ''I've gone identity mad!'' on his debut album's opening tune and single, ''Grace Kelly,'' but Mika doesn't actually sound as confused about...
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Culture Club
A voice-over narration that condescends to the audience isn't the most auspicious start for a film, particularly for Boy Culture, the story of a Seattle...
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Stumbling 'Regiment'
As soon as Placido Domingo, wearing his Washington National Opera General Director hat, stepped on stage to tell us that former Domingo-Cafritz Young Artist JiYoung...
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Classic Failings
How is it that two strong leads, a romantic love story and a few catchy musical numbers combine to make such a mediocre production? However...
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Conquering Comedy
Only see Woolly Mammoth's production of She Stoops to Comedy if you want to laugh. Only see this show if you enjoy intelligent humor. Only...
