Spotlight
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Billy Elliot at the Kennedy Center
Writer Lee Hall, director Stephen Daldry and choreographer Peter Darling reprise their responsibilities adapting the popular 2000 film Billy Elliot, with Hall also penning the...
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The Great American Hall of Wonders at the Smithsonian
The Great American Hall of Wonders examines the American ingenuity that energized all aspects of 19th-century society, from the painting of landscapes and scenes of...
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Chopteeth Afrofunk Big Band at Iota
The Washington Post has called Chopteeth Afrofunk Big Band “a storming powerhouse of big-band African funk. . .smart, tight and relentlessly driving.” Chopteeth has already...
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Theater Alliance presents Black Nativity
Theater Alliance presents Black Nativity, Langston Hughes’s retelling of the Biblical Christmas story from an Afro-centric perspective, incorporating gospel, blues, funk, jazz and dance with...
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David Cronenberg’s Videodrome
The Washington Psychotronic Film Society, dedicated to independent, experimental, low-budget, off-the-beaten-path filmmaking, presents a weekly Monday night screening series, hosted by The Incorrigible Dr. Schlock....
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Erin Jackson appears tonight at the DC Improv
Hoping to follow in the footsteps of fellow D.C.-bred comics Wanda Sykes, Dave Chappelle and Martin Lawrence, Erin Jackson has garnered some national credibility with...
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WIT’s Seasonal Disorder
Washington Improv Theater’s annual holiday extravaganza features shows based on audience suggestions, showing you the good, the bad and the ugly of the season —...
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The Kinsey Sicks at Theater J for one weekend only!
Winnie (Erwin Keller), Ben Schatz (Rachel), Jeff Manabat (Trixie) and Trampolina (Spencer Brown) make up the popular “dragapella beautyshop quartet” The Kinsey Sicks, specializing in...
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The Raspberry Brothers present Home Alone
The Raspberry Brothers, a trio of Brooklyn comedians, return to the Arlington Cinema & Drafthouse, this time to riff on the 1990 Christmas flick Home...
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Last Chance: Lauren Weedman’s Bust
A former correspondent on Comedy Central’s The Daily Show, Lauren Weedman juggles between Bust‘s more than two dozen characters, snapping back and forth with a...
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Review: Ellen Greene with the Gay Men’s Chorus
Last Saturday night, Dec. 17, at the holiday concert of the Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington, Broadway and screen star Ellen Greene had what she...
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Holland Taylor stars as Ann Richards at the Kennedy Center
On seeing Holland Taylor’s portrayal of former Texas governor Ann Richards for the first time, Don Temples cried. “It was as if someone I love...
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Erin Jackson at the DC Improv
Hoping to follow in the footsteps of fellow D.C.-bred comics Wanda Sykes, Dave Chappelle and Martin Lawrence, Erin Jackson has garnered some national credibility with...
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Joy of Christmas Concert
J. Reilly Lewis leads the Washington National Cathedral Choral Society, along with the 18th Street Singers, organist Todd Fickley, carillonist Edward Nassor and the Washington...
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Last Train Home’s free concert at the Kennedy Center
Named Washington’s “Artist of the Year” in 2003, this roots-rock band — part rock, part blues, part bluegrass — has since relocated to Nashville, but...
