Spotlight
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Coldplay and Robyn come to Verizon this weekend
Coldplay is always one of the hottest concerts of the season, but this time around the British superstars have managed to be even hotter by...
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The Keegan gets a Spring Awakening
Inspired by Frank Wedekind’s controversial 1891 play about teenage sexuality and society’s efforts to control it, Spring Awakening was the toast of Broadway in 2006,...
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Wolf Trap presents Don Giovanni
Mozart’s celebrated dramatic comedy Don Giovanni tells the story of a famous womanizer who is given one last chance to repent. Wolf Trap presents a...
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Hurry! Bachelorette at The Studio Theatre closes Sunday!
It’s worth knowing that Bachelorette has made playwright Leslye Headland a very, very popular woman. This was the play, after all, that attracted Hollywood goofballs...
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Montgomery College’s LGBT Portraits of Life
Portraits of Life: LGBT Stories of Being focuses on gay residents of Maryland’s Montgomery County who have contributed to its success, including Montgomery College President...
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Sarah McLachlan with the National Philharmonic
The mostly genteel Canadian balladeer Sarah McLachlan comes to town on a national tour featuring local symphony orchestras reinterpreting her hits in classical style. For...
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Can’t Stop the Music at Atlas
Atlas’s third annual Gay 101 film series has been more than cut in half, with only four films screening as opposed to last year’s eleven....
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Brave is not Pixar’s finest, but it’s ruddy lovely
Brave is like nothing Pixar’s made before, but not for the reasons you might expect. For starters, it’s a straightforward fairy tale, and for the...
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Titanic: 100 Year Obsession at NatGeo
Titanic: 100 Year Obsession showcases the importance of the Titanic and its sinking on April 15, 1912, taking visitors through the history of the ship...
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The Washington Chorus
Commissioned by Carnegie Hall, acclaimed young Italian composer Paola Prestini’s folk opera Oceanic Verses is a multimedia opera concert event with scenic installation. Julian Wachner...
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Sister Mary hauls out her ruler at American Century
Christopher Durang’s controversial and satirical 1979 comedy, Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For You skewers religion, dogma and the Catholic Church in a way...
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Rain: A Tribute to the Beatles at Wolf Trap
Wolf Trap welcomes back the national tour of the Broadway hit production RAIN, featuring Beatlesmania performers re-creating live every note, song, gesture and nuance of...
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Beauty and the Beast: Tale as old as time.
It’s not a tale as old as time, but it’s definitely been told many times: The 1994 musical Beauty and the Beast, based on the...
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Master Class with Barbara Cook at the Kennedy Center
If you missed her namesake cabaret shows last Friday, fear not. You can at least see why Barbara Cook, a 2011 Kennedy Center honoree, is...
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Arena Stage trots out the pianos
Cast members from the two shows currently being staged in the Arena Stage complex, The Music Man (pictured) and The Normal Heart, will stick around...
