All posts by Randy Shulman
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Soundbite: Sean Bugg discusses King & Spaulding and Chrissy Polis on Swish Edition
On this week’s Swish Edition, Metro Weekly editor Sean Bugg discusses the King & Spaulding brouhaha, the attack on Chrissy Lee Polis in Baltimore, and...
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This week’s episode of Swish Edition
Featuring news headlines and commentary from Metro Weekly editor Sean Bugg.
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Theater Thursday! The Walworth Farce at Studio Theatre!
Two brothers and an innocent stranger are held hostage by a despotic father in Enda Walsh’s The Walworth Farce — and the audience doesn’t escape...
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Theater Thursday! Divorcees at Gala!
You can’t help but notice similarities between the 1988 Spanish film Women On The Verge of A Nervous Breakdown and this Divorcees, Evangelists and Vegetarians,...
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Theater Thursday! Art at Signature!
Three longtime friends debate the purchase by one of a hugely expensive painting in Yasmina Reza’s Art. As the friends become increasingly fractious and, eventually,...
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Greyson Chance continues his fabulous sudden career
You can blame — or praise, if you insist — YouTube for this concert pairing Greyson Chance and Cody Simpson, since it brought both barely...
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The Washington Chorus celebrates Mahler
Julian Wachner leads the The Washington Chorus as it celebrates two notable milestones: Gustav Mahler’s 150th birth year in 2010 and his 100-year death in...
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Blue Velvet at Artisphere
Arlington’s Artisphere wraps up its month-long mini-fest of David Lynch films with Blue Velvet, the influential 1986 surreal mystery starring Kyle MacLachlan, Dennis Hopper and...
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Strathmore: Long live Queen!
In One Night of Queen, a tribute show to Queen and its flamboyant, bisexual front man Freddie Mercury, vocalist Gary Mullen and The Works offer...
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Cyrano opens at the Folger
In Edmund Rostand’s classic, Cyrano, the titular character secretly adores Roxanne but fears she could never share the sentiment because of his extraordinarily huge nose....
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Federico Aubele at the Rock and Roll Hotel
An Argentinean-born singer and guitarist on the D.C.-based ESL Music label — named after the Eighteenth Street Lounge and home to Thievery Corporation — Aubele...
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Editor’s Pick: Femi Kuti and the Positive Force
Femi Kuti carries the torch for his late father, Nigerian Afro-beat pioneer and superstar Fela Kuti, the subject of the exhilarating recent Broadway musical sensation...
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Todd Haynes retrospective launches with Poison
The American Film Institute’s Silver Theatre launches a retrospective of gay filmmaker Todd Haynes with a new 35mm print celebrating the 20th anniversary of Poison,...
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Now Playing: Making the Boys
Before Prop 8, Milk or Will & Grace, before the AIDS epidemic, gay pride parades or the Stonewall uprising, there was Mort Crowley’s brilliant, bitter...
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The Helen Hayes Awards: Honoring the Thespians
The Washington theater community has grown in the past quarter century to the point where it is arguably one of the largest, strongest thriving regional...
