All posts by Doug Rule
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Staging the Impossible
''Every seat in the house has a little bit different experience of the show,'' says Jenny McConnell Frederick, referring to Rorschach Theatre's Neverwhere. As staged by...
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Harried: ''Potted Potter''
Daniel Clarkson has a valid fear of “Potterheads.” “These people come dressed up with all their wands,” he says about fans of Harry Potter. “Although...
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Kiki Starter
Recently, Ana Matronic left a voicemail. But it wasn't for Pickles, so she didn't ham it up. And since she was calling for a Metro...
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‘Call Me Maybe’ Tonight at Wolf Trap
It may have been the Song of Summer last summer, but that doesn’t mean you can’t still listen to it. As simple as it is,...
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MOW50: 5 Things to See and Do
“There’s so much going on in the days leading up to the 28th,” Terri Harris Reed of the George Washington University tells Metro Weekly. She’s...
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Eric Himan at Town Tonight
“I feel the gay community, we can create our own popular musicians,” says Eric Himan, who, point of fact, is one of the gay community’s...
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Sara Bareilles To Rally The ‘Brave’ to Lincoln Theatre
Yesterday, we told you about Janelle Monae. Turns out, she’s not the only talented female singer-songwriter coming to the Lincoln Theatre in October — with...
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Night Beat
A few years ago, Shea Van Horn performed at night on the National Mall as part of the Hirshhorn Museum's After Hours programming. Next Thursday,...
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Celebrating Freedom
''There's so much going on in the seven days leading up to the 28th,'' says Terri Harris Reed of The George Washington University, referring to...
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En Vogue
You won't hear Lady Gaga's ''Applause'' at Baltimore's Club Hippo this Saturday, Aug. 24. You won't hear Katy Perry's new single ''Roar,'' either. You might...
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Janelle Monae to Electrify Lincoln Theatre in October
The amazingly talented, ambitious, stylish and total class act Janelle Monáe will stop in town for a show in October, a month after release of...
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Howard Jones at Howard Theatre Tonight
Erasure’s Andy Bell was to appear tonight at the Howard Theatre alongside Howard Jones as part of the D.C. stop of the Regeneration Tour —...
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Exploring the ‘Intense’ Work of Faith Ringgold
“It’s really intense,” says Kathryn Wat of the National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA), referring to Die, a 1967 oil painting by Faith Ringgold...
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How The Phillips Collection Came to Be
“I’m embarrassed by some of the premature judgments of my youth,” Duncan Phillips wrote in 1927. That was roughly 14 years after the founder of...
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Hillwood: A Museum Like Few Others
Marjorie Merriweather Post’s Hillwood Estate in leafy upper Northwest D.C. has been open to the public as a museum since 1977, or four years after...
