All posts by Randy Shulman
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Three Sisters at the Kennedy Center
Kennedy Center presents the exclusive North American engagement of the Chekhov International Theatre Festival’s productions of Three Sisters and Twelfth Night, the first the classic...
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Jill Sobule at Jammin Java
Jill Sobule is the original “I Kissed A Girl” pop singer — which was, apparently, the first song with an overtly gay topic aired on...
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Nick Hornby and Ben Folds
The Folger Shakespeare Library presents an exclusive evening with English novelist Nick Hornby and singer/musician Ben Folds, featuring a reading from Hornby’s novel Juliet, Naked...
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Jewish Literary Festival at the DCJCC
Festival highlights of this year’s Jewish Literary Festival include Ruth Franklin, Senior Editor at The New Republic, discussing her book A Thousand Darknesses: Lies and...
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BearCity at the Harman Center
In lieu of a full festival — that will wait until the spring — Reel Affirmations presents a few film screenings this month, kicking off...
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Paula Poundstone at The Birchmere
Longtime standup comic Paula Poundstone, self-proclaimed “virginish” and “asexual,” is these days usually the funniest person on NPR’s amusing weekend news quiz show Wait Wait"¦Don’t...
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Cinematic Titanic at Lisner
Creator Joel Hodgson and members of the original cast of the award-winning cult television show Mystery Science Theater 3000 return for more movie riffing, this...
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Enchanted April at Clarice Smith Center
In an Italian villa in the 1920s, four Englishwomen — formerly strangers — open themselves to new possibilities and find unexpected pathways to self-discovery. Matthew...
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True Colors
Whatever you do, don’t ask David Bromstad to name his favorite color. “Impossible!” he exclaims. “That’s such an unfair question!” Who said life was fair,...
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Ibex Puppetry at Clarice Smith Center
In Panther and Crane, Ibex Puppetry’s Heather Henson carries forward the legacy of her father Jim Henson through her own vision, with a story of...
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Angella Foster at the Kennedy Center
Angella Foster’s commissioned piece “Speechless” uses movement, text, live music and video projections to tell the stories of families who care for special needs children...
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Talkies
In the '80s, Joel Hodgson was in his 20s living in L.A., working the stand-up comedy circuit. He was offered a sitcom. He turned it...
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Kruder & Dorfmeister at the 9:30 Club
The Austrian chillout electronica duo Kruder & Dorfmeister celebrates (as its new compilation puts it) Sixteen F**king Years of G-Stone Recordings, which includes new tracks...
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Dear Harvey: Tribute to Harvey Milk
Georgetown University presents a staged reading of Patricia Loughrey’s Dear Harvey, with music by Thomas Hodges, that pays tribute to the first openly gay man...
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Now at the Ann Loeb Bronfman Gallery
“Memory of a time I did not know"¦” features works on paper by Miriam Morsel Nathan, Silver Spring resident and former director of the Washington...
