Spotlight
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Tron: Legacy opens today at area theaters
Father and son (Jeff Bridges and Garrett Hedlund) battle Master Control in Tron: Legacy, Disney’s sequel to the 1982 original. The graphics — and danger...
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Usher at the Verizon Center
One of the best dancer/singer dynamos performing today, R&B/pop sensation Usher Raymond IV is sure to have the whole crowd moving and grooving and sweating...
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Gay Men’s Chorus presents A Pink Nutcraker
Originally staged six years ago, Men In Tights: A Pink Nutcracker has been revived and re-imagined. The first half of the show features over 200...
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The Kinsey SIcks at Theater J
They’re back! The “dragapella beautyshop quartet” comes to Theater J for what’s sure to be a must-see romp of a holiday show, intended as a...
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Gallery 10 closes with Last Picture Show
After 36 years in operation, this Gallery 10 closes with the “Last Picture Show,” an exhibition of some 40 works in all media by gallery...
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The Roches at The Birchmere
“ is so steeped in the history of The Roches, it’s just a natural extension ,” Suzzy Roche told Metro Weekly...
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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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Central Michel Richard’s New Menu Taste Tests
On 15 consecutive nights at the bar, Central Michel Richard‘s chef de cuisine Arthur Cavaliere gives away free samples of a different new dish each...
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A Christmas Carol at Ford’s
Ford’s Theatre remounts its music-filled production of the Dickens classic, A Christmas Carol, adapted by Michael Wilson and directed by Michael Baron. Edward Gero returns...
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Candide at The Shakespeare Theatre
Candide is the Shakespeare Theatre Company’s first musical theater performance at Sidney Harman Hall. The comic operetta boasts music by Leonard Bernstein (West Side Story)...
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Liz Phair at the 9:30 Club
Best known for her 1993 album Exile in Guyville, Liz Phair fused lo-fi indie rock production techniques with the sensibility and structure of classic singer/songwriters....
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A John Waters Christmas at The Birchmere
An encore performance after last year’s sellout success, legendary Baltimore filmmaker John Waters returns to the Birchmere in his one-man show motivated by a genuine...
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Helen Hayes Awards Showtunes & Cocktails
Pianist Glenn Pearson and special guests from Washington theater stages perform an evening of showtunes, with a portion of the proceeds from specialty cocktails and...
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Lucia Perillo at The Folger
The Folger Shakespeare Library invites the entertaining and enlightening poet Lucia Perillo to discuss her work and pay tribute to Emily Dickinson’s birthday. Poetry Society...
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A Broadway Christmas Carol at MetroStage
“Deck the halls with lots of showtunes,” Donna Migliaccio sings in the opening number of A Broadway Christmas Carol. And that, she does. By the...
