Spotlight
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The Margaret Jenkins Dance Company at Smith Center
“Light Moves” is a collaborative piece, co-commissioned by the Clarice Smith Center, from choreographer Margaret Jenkins working with media artist Naomie Kremer, composer Paul Dresher...
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The Natty Beaux at The Hamilton
A multi-genre but roots-centered supergroup featuring D.C.-area musicians from the Billy Coulter Band, the Junkyard Saints, Alexandria Kleztet and Western Bob, The Natty Beaux will...
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With 3 You Get Amazing Opera
Landmark’s E Street Cinema presents a screening of Opera on Film: 3 Superstars in Berlin, a taped performance at Berlin’s massive Waldbuhne amphitheater featuring three...
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Ford’s Theatre brings together two historical icons
In a work commissioned by Ford’s Theatre, playwright Richard Hellesen explores the two documented encounters between Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln during a period of...
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Simone Dinnerstein, tonight at Strathmore
The Washington Performing Arts Society presents a concert with celebrated pianist Simone Dinnerstein. The program includes Schumann, Bach, Brahms and Chopin. Tonight, Sunday, Jan. 29,...
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Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band
The rock legend and his band return in March with the act’s 17th studio album, Wrecking Ball, and it’s said to live up the title,...
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Special Agent Galactica
Local drag phenom Special Agent Galactica, a.k.a. the “pink-haired diva,” performs with her live band, the Escape Pods, led by musical director Captain Satellite, and...
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GLOE’s LGBT Jewish Speed Dating – Registration Closing!
The DCJCC’s GLBT Outreach and Engagement entity wants to play matchmaker with its special speed-dating fundraising event next weekend. But this isn’t your speed-dating of...
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Aimee Mann at The Birchmere
The former lead singer of 1980s new-wave band ‘Til Tuesday (“Voices Carry”), Aimee Mann gained further recognition as a solo artist for her work on...
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Close, Mara Among Best Actress Oscar Nominees; Plummer, McTeer Get Supporting Nods
Among the nominees for Academy Awards announced this morning are several who were nominated for playing characters from across the spectrum of LGBT identity, including...
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Time Stands Still at the Studio
After seeing Donald Margulies’s stunning Time Stands Still, now at Studio Theatre, you just might walk away contemplating changes in your own life. Chiefly about...
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The Brad Linde Sextet at Hamilton Live
A co-founder of the Bohemian Caverns Jazz Orchestra among other jazz ensembles, saxophonist Brad Linde brings his eponymous sextet to Hamilton Live, the new performance...
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Joshua Bell at the Kennedy Center
After helping kick off the National Symphony Orchestra’s season last fall, the classical music superstar Joshua Bell returns to the Kennedy Center for a Washington...
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Cheryl Wheeler’s double stop
A natural storyteller with a fantastic sense of humor and spontaneity, Cheryl Wheeler performs many songs in concert that haven’t even been recorded on one...
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Glenn Fry’s “unrestrained urges”
Local silk-screen artist Glenn Fry’s “unrestrained urges” is meant to be “an homage to vintage gay porn magazines.” Though tame by today’s porn standards —...
