All posts by Randy Shulman
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Jonathan Franzen at Lisner Auditorium
Jonathan Franzen frenzy is back, this time over Freedom, which Oprah just selected for her book club. As a result, a discussion and signing originally...
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BSO Season Opens tonight
Marin Alsop opens the new season of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, celebrating the life and music of Gustav Mahler with the legendary conductor/composer’s arrangement of...
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Now Playing: You Again
Finally, something that makes the trauma, humiliation, and embarrassment of high school seem lesser by comparison. Directed by Andy Fickman, You Again is a clichéd...
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WSC Presents Shakespeare in Klingon
George Takei joins the Washington Shakespeare Company in celebrating 20 years of cutting-edge classical theater by turning Shakespeare on its ear, literally. By Any Other...
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Legwarmers at The State Theatre
Another month, another iteration of The Legwarmers, State Theatre’s two-night party, billed as D.C.’s “biggest ’80s Retro Dance Party,” where guilty-pleasure hits from now nearly...
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Now at City Gallery
“Night Goat and Other Flights of Fancy” features pastel paintings and pen and ink drawings by Ellen Cornett. On display through Sept. 25. City Gallery,...
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The Other City at Landmark’s E Street Cinema
Susan Koch’s documentary The Other Cityexplores Washington, D.C., with its highest-in-the-nation HIV/AIDS rate, and what that says about our country and our compassion. Now playing...
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Un Ballo in Maschera at The Washington Opera
An austere production, perhaps appropriate to tough economic times both at the Washington National Opera and at large, Verdi’s Un Ballo in Maschera is more...
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The Lost Songs of Broadway at Signature Theatre
Signature opens its cabaret season with the songs that got away during the decade that gave us Gypsy, The Music Man, Guys and Dolls, My...
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M*A*S*H at AFI’s Silver Theatre
The American Film Institute’s Silver Theatre screens a new 35mm print of this 1970 film revolving around the antics of Hawkeye (Donald Sutherland) and Trapper...
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Dancing at Lughnasa at Shenandoah University
The Second Stage Theatre Series of Shenandoah Conservatory Performances opens with Brian Friel’s Tony Award-winning Dancing at Lughnasa. Based loosely on the lives of Friel's...
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The Saint Plays at Factory 449
John Moletress directs The Saint Plays, incorporating six short plays, including two written for this cycle, by Erick Ehn. The production offers a theatrical journey...
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The Great Game: Afghanistan
The Shakespeare Theatre Company presents a two-week, limited run of the internationally lauded production The Great Game: Afghanistan, offering perspectives on current and historical conflicts...
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Abba – The Music at Wolf Trap
Waterloo, a tribute band to the Swedish disco fab four, returns to Wolf Trap to entertain with note-for-note recreations of hits including "Dancing Queen," "Fernando"...
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Laura Veirs at The Birchmere
In less than a year’s time Laura Veirs, a Portland, Ore.-based folk artist, has released a widely praised new album, July Flame — her seventh...
