All posts by Doug Rule
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Queer youth gang doc “Check It” screens at FilmFest DC
Documentary follows the members of a gang formed to fight back against anti-LGBTQ violence
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Filmfest DC brings 60 features, documentaries and shorts to AMC Mazza Gallerie
The festival opens with Lucas Belvaux's This Is Our Land, a timely tale about the appeal of populism
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Ballet Across America celebrates diversity in American ballet at the Kennedy Center
Misty Copeland and Justin Peck curate two distinct programs
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Todrick Hall brings Straight Outta Oz to the Howard Theatre
Hall reenacts his hour-long visual album live
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The Choral Arts Society brings a world-premiere commission to the Kennedy Center
In addition to Jake Runestad's original work, Mozart and Bach will also feature
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Library of Congress to screen every episode of Queer as Folk
It's the British original, not the American remake
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Ford’s “Ragtime” is almost “shockingly relevant” to what’s going on in America
Police brutality, women's rights and immigration all feature in the musical
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Pointless Theatre’s “d0t:: a RotoPlastic Ballet” is a “robot puppet spectacle”
It addresses the struggles of assimilation and obsoletion within a changing power system
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Jane Hirshfield reads her essays and poetry at Folger
Hirshfield has written two books of essays and eight collections of poetry
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Gallery: Black Artists of DC present “Transitions”
Russell Simmons, Daniel T. Brookings, Akili Ron Anderson and more show works at the Carlyle Hotel
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E. Faye Butler brings an intimate solo cabaret to Halcyon House
Butler will sing sexy, edgy songs by Nina Simone, Etta James, Aretha Franklin, and others
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Out On the Town: Washington, D.C. Arts & Entertainment picks for April 13-20
Highlights for Film, Stage, Music, Dance, Art and more
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Broadway Sings Beyonce & Bruno Mars on April 15 at Sixth & I
Show features Broadway-transformed hits -- from "Single Ladies" to "Grenade."
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Jazz vocalist Cecile Mclorin Salvant comes to Wolf Trap on April 8
Salvant performs original songs and unique interpretations of obscure jazz and blues compositions
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“Queen of Mean” Lisa Lampanelli returns to DC on April 8
Lampanelli -- who is never mean for the sake of it -- comes to the Lincoln Theatre
