Spotlight
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Hot Pick: UrbanArias Festival
UrbanArias is a new opera company dedicated to producing short, contemporary operas. Its inaugural festival launches this weekend with fifteen different events and three short...
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Hot Pick: Dakshina at Dance Place
For its annual Dance Place performance, the Dakshina/Daniel Phoenix Singh Dance Company presents a mixed program of dance, including Anna Sokolow’s solo pieces Kaddish and...
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Last weekend to catch Blue Man Group
Yes, they’re bluer than blue. And they’re just about the most engaging avant-garde theatrical experience out there. Blue Man Group offers an escape from the...
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Arachne Aerial Arts fly into Joe’s Movement Emporium
With “Flyaway,” Arachne Aerial Arts, showcases some of the most innovative aerial talent in the region at Joe’s Movement Emporium. It’s all part of a...
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Metronomy’s new single: The Look
Check out the new music video — The Look — from the UK band, Metronomy. It’s a bit minimal musically (and, to be honest, visually),...
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Ira Glass comes to Lisner
Ira Glass, the host of public radio’s This American Life talks about his dalliances with television — specifically what he and his staff learned and...
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Atlas’s Tribute to Elizabeth Taylor
The Atlas Performing Arts Center has quickly organized a screening of several of the more memorable films starring the late, great Elizabeth Taylor. The Whitman...
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Anthony De Mare + Piano + Sondheim = Musical Bliss
Anthony De Mare got turned on to the music of Stephen Sondheim at an early age and even now, as a contemporary classical pianist, Sondheim...
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Opening Night: Ford’s Liberty Smith
Ford’s Theatre presents Liberty Smith, the world premiere of a madcap musical romp through Revolutionary America, with music by Michael Weiner, lyrics by Adam Abraham...
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The Kennedy Center ushers in spring with a gala
Smokey Robinson hosts the Kennedy Center’s annual Spring Gala that this year also honors Michael Kaiser’s 10 years at the helm. The gala features such...
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Out in the Media: Sean Bugg and Charles Perez at the DC Center
Roby Chavez hosts an OutWrite discussion with authors Sean Bugg and Charles Perez. Bugg, Metro Weekly co-publisher and editor, comically recounts his life experiences in...
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Can peer pressure save the world?
Join The Club: How Peer Pressure Can Transform The World explores the value of peer pressure to make positive social change. The book, written by...
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Just announced: Britney Spears launches North American Tour
Tour dates for Britney Spears‘s North American Summer tour have been announced, and they include a Washington, D.C. date — July 31 at the Verizon...
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Kaki King is everywhere, including the Birchmere on Tuesday
From collaborations with uber-producer Timbaland and other artists such Tegan and Sara and the Foo Fighters, plus contributions to movies such as Into The Wild...
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Hot Pick: The Grand Sushi Event
This one’s for sushi lovers only (though, really, who doesn’t love sushi?). At National Geographic Live’s Grand Sushi Event, author Casson Trenor signs copies of...
