All posts by Randy Shulman
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A Prairie Home Companion at Wolf Trap
Public radio star Garrison Keillor comes to Wolf Trap to offer D.C. another live trip to his fictional-but-oh-so-real Lake Wobegon, which will be broadcast over...
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Editor’s Pick: Roseanna Vitro, tonight at Blues Alley
With her new album The Music of Randy Newman, Roseanna Vitro stakes a claim as the first jazz vocalist to explore the richly melodic, sharply...
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Why Torture is Wrong…
American Ensemble Theater presents Why Torture is Wrong, and the People Who Love Them, a new black comedy from Christopher Durang (Beyond Therapy, Laughing Wild),...
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Amadeus at Round House
Peter Shaffer’s Tony-winning play (which became an Oscar-winning film) depicts the flamboyant genius of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart as seen through the eyes of his desperately...
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Holliday's Road
When you hear Jennifer Holliday launch into her signature song, ''And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going,'' with the Gay Men's Chorus of Washington...
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Editor’s Pick: Notorious
The American Film Institute’s Silver Theatre presents the second in a three-part series this year exploring the works of the great filmmaker. Part II focuses...
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Editor’s Pick: Special Agent Galactica’s Rapture
Local drag phenom Galactica, a.k.a. the “pink-haired diva,” will sing — not lip-synch — at her latest cabaret-style show “Rapture!” A live band, the Escape...
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I Want Candy: Beautiful Darling
An early transsexual celebrity, Candy Darling (nee James Slattery) became a downtown New York fixture in the ’60s and went on to become part of...
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Just Announced: Lil Wayne at Jiffy Lube Live
Lil Wayne brings his “I’m Still Music Tour” to Jiffy Lube Live on Saturday, July 16. The artist will be joined by Rick Ross, Keri...
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Editor’s Pick: Ruined at Arena Stage
In Ruined, playwright Lynn Nottage and director Charles Randolph-Wright manage to confront head-on the mass-rape of civilian women by combatants during the Second Congo War...
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Far From Heaven
As part of a month-long retrospective of the work of queer filmmaker Todd Haynes, known for I’m Not There and most recently the HBO miniseries...
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A benefit for American Century Theatre
Paul Morella performs a benefit for The American Century Theater, reprising An Encounter with Clarence Darrow: A Passion for Justice, the one-man show created by...
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The Cathedral Choral Society unearths Russian Riches
J. Reilly Lewis conducts the choral group, mezzo-soprano Viktoriya Bright and the National Cathedral School Girls Chorale in the return of the popular Russian Riches...
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Spellbound and Lifeboat at the AFI
The American Film Institute’s Silver Theatre continues exploring the works of the great filmmaker. Up this weekend: Spellbound (1945), starring Ingrid Bergman and Gregory Peck...
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GMCW gets crazy about love
The Gay Men’s Chorus’s select ensemble Potomac Fever presents the second of two performances of “Crazy Little Thing Called Love,” a celebration of “what makes...
