Spotlight
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Reel Affirmations 20: Day 8 – Vamp Night!
It’s Vamp Night at Reel Affirmations, with two vampire films showing back-to-back at the West End. The first is the lesbian-oriented German We Are the...
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Velocity DC Dance Festival
A special partnership between Dance/MetroDC, Washington Performing Arts Society and the Shakespeare Theatre Company, the popular Velocity DC Dance Festival returns for a third year...
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Reel Affirmations 20: Day 7 – Love in Action
Reel Affirmations hits mid-week with all three of today’s showings at the conveniently located West End. The first screening is at 5 p.m. with the...
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Kazim Ali at The DC Center
A novelist and a translator and assistant professor at Oberlin College, Kazim Ali will focus a discussion at the DC Center on his poetry, reading...
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Under the covers with Johnson and Goss
Popular local folk troubadour Tom Goss performs with Jeffrey Johnson, aka drag queen Super Agent Galactica. The duo’s show is billed as “Under the Covers...
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Hanson at The State
Oklahoma’s Hanson brothers are still around, 14 years after their one and only true pop hit. Chances are, it’s a little ditty you still hear...
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Reel Affirmations 20: Day 6 – Shorts galore!
All three of today’s showings are at the conveniently located West End, so why not end your workday by starting your RA viewing day at...
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An Horse at Red Palace
Not only does the Australian duo An Horse sound like a punkier version of Tegan & Sara. Lesbian singer and guitarist Kate Cooper and drummer...
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A Bright New Boise at Woolly
In the parking lot of a mega craft store in Idaho, someone is summoning the Rapture. John Vreeke directs Samuel D. Hunter’s A Bright New...
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Reel Affirmations 20: Day 5 – Mary Lou!
Today’s offerings include the Critic Picked Mary Lou (from acclaimed Israeli filmmaker Eytan Fox), the documentary Our Lips Are Sealed, So Hard to Forget and...
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Signature’s Music in the Movies
Natascia Diaz, Eleasha Gamble and Bobby Smith — three of Signature Theatre’s favorite performers, and among the very best in town — salute movie melodies,...
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Reel Affirmations 20: Day 4
A slew of good films today, including the critic’s picked Tomboy, the documentary Vito, the always-popular shorts collection Best of the Fest (if all they...
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Deer Tick at the 9:30 Club
This Rhode Island quintet blends folk, blues and country — you know, all styles of music you’d hear outdoors, where the deer and the antelope...
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Duran Duran at D.A.R.
Duran Duran, Brit-pop’s Fashionable Fab Four (lead guitarist Andy Taylor left the original Fab Five once and for all a few years ago) have come...
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The Heir Apparent at the Shakespeare
Adaptation is a funny thing. What worked so shamelessly and wonderfully for adaptor David Ives in the Shakespeare Theatre Company’s production of The Liar two...
