Spotlight
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The Washington Chorus celebrates Mahler
Julian Wachner leads the The Washington Chorus as it celebrates two notable milestones: Gustav Mahler’s 150th birth year in 2010 and his 100-year death in...
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Blue Velvet at Artisphere
Arlington’s Artisphere wraps up its month-long mini-fest of David Lynch films with Blue Velvet, the influential 1986 surreal mystery starring Kyle MacLachlan, Dennis Hopper and...
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Strathmore: Long live Queen!
In One Night of Queen, a tribute show to Queen and its flamboyant, bisexual front man Freddie Mercury, vocalist Gary Mullen and The Works offer...
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Cyrano opens at the Folger
In Edmund Rostand’s classic, Cyrano, the titular character secretly adores Roxanne but fears she could never share the sentiment because of his extraordinarily huge nose....
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Federico Aubele at the Rock and Roll Hotel
An Argentinean-born singer and guitarist on the D.C.-based ESL Music label — named after the Eighteenth Street Lounge and home to Thievery Corporation — Aubele...
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Editor’s Pick: Femi Kuti and the Positive Force
Femi Kuti carries the torch for his late father, Nigerian Afro-beat pioneer and superstar Fela Kuti, the subject of the exhilarating recent Broadway musical sensation...
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Todd Haynes retrospective launches with Poison
The American Film Institute’s Silver Theatre launches a retrospective of gay filmmaker Todd Haynes with a new 35mm print celebrating the 20th anniversary of Poison,...
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Now Playing: Making the Boys
Before Prop 8, Milk or Will & Grace, before the AIDS epidemic, gay pride parades or the Stonewall uprising, there was Mort Crowley’s brilliant, bitter...
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The Helen Hayes Awards: Honoring the Thespians
The Washington theater community has grown in the past quarter century to the point where it is arguably one of the largest, strongest thriving regional...
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The American College Theater Festival
The Kennedy Center takes something of a spring break and shines a national light on several college theater productions. Remaining highlights include: Minnesota State University,...
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Iron & Wine at Rams Head Live
Sam Beam is Iron & Wine, a dazzling folk-pop act whose latest album, Kiss Each Other Clean is a rich, idiosyncratic collage of sounds and...
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Rags at The Theatre Lab
The Theatre Lab School of the Dramatic Arts offers a production of the little-known 1986 musical Rags, by Stephen Schwartz (Pippin, Wicked), Charles Strouse (Annie)...
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Gentlemen Prefer Blondes… well, some do anyway.
Jane Russell and Marilyn Monroe star in Howard Hawks' wicked musical romp Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. You may have heard the showstopper before — a little...
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Lord of the Rings Marathon
The Arlington Cinema N' Drafthouse will return all films in the Lord of the Rings trilogy to the big screen for a one-day marathon, Sunday,...
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Michael Feinstein at the Kennedy Center Concert Hall
More than 25 years since his professional recording debut, Michael Feinstein has become something of a gay activist. But he remains best known as a...
