All posts by Randy Shulman
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Anais Mitchell at The Hamilton
After opening for Bon Iver at Merriweather Post Pavilion a couple months ago, swoon-worthy indie-folk artist Anais Mitchell stops by downtown’s Hamilton Live on a...
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The Santaland Diaries at Fort Fringe
City Artistic Partnerships offers this year’s local production of the popular stage show Joe Mantello adapted from David Sedaris’s writings. Joe Brack returns as the...
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The Santaland Diaries
City Artistic Partnerships offers this year’s local production of the popular stage show Joe Mantello adapted from David Sedaris’s writings. Joe Brack returns as the...
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Six Characters in Search of an Author at Avant Bard
WSC Avant Bard presents a production of Luigi Pirandello’s Six Characters in Search of an Author, translated by Carl R. Mueller and directed by Tom...
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Scotland’s The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart
The National Theatre of Scotland presents an international tour of its 2011 Edinburgh Festival Fringe hit play, performed in an actual pub. For the D.C....
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Lianne La Havas at The Birchmere
The Birchmere has done it again, snagging a breakthrough act — before the act has actually broken through. Following in the footsteps of British folk...
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Olivia Newton-John comes to Strathmore
From the films Grease and Xanadu to the mega-pop hit “Physical” to LOGO’s Sordid Lives, Australian performer Olivia Newton-John has managed to achieve a sense...
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A Clockwork Orange at Scena
Robert MacNamara has wanted to stage A Clockwork Orange essentially from the moment he co-founded his stalwart theater company Scena — the same year Burgess...
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Buy a Food & Friends pie, sustain a life.
Thanksgiving is drawing near and that means it’s pie time! Food & Friends is offering four pie flavors as part of its Slice of Life...
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Round House grows a beard — James Beard, that is.
Nick Olcott portrays James Beard, who brought fine cooking and a jolly personality to the small screen in 1946 — long before Julia Child, Emeril...
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Steve Harvey on the Red Carpet at the Mark Twain Prize
Comedian Steve Harvey was part of the celebration for Ellen DeGeneres at the 2012 Mark Twain Prize, on Monday, Oct. 22. Metro Weekly's Randy Shulman...
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Ellen DeGeneres wins Mark Twain Prize [video]
On Monday, Oct. 22, the John F. Kennedy Center awarded Ellen DeGeneres the Mark Twain Prize for humor at its 15th annual event. Several of...
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Testosterone and Other Toppings at Vitruvian Gallery
”Testosterone and Other Toppings” is the latest exhibit of male figurative art at the gay-owned Vitruvian Gallery, but this time the art comes from a...
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Mavis Staples is coming to The Hamilton
Chicago-born gospel great Mavis Staples got her start in her family band the Staple Singers and has gone on to sing with everyone from Ry...
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Mock the Vote’s Pre-election Comedy Showcase
Brian Parise, winner of the 2011 Pardon the Pundit Political Comedy Competition, hosts this showcase featuring three politically minded comedians: Jordan Carlos, Stephen Colbert’s black...
