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Our weekly contest roundup.
Here’s our weekly contest roundup. We have four currently active with more on the way this week. To win a pair of tickets to Signature...
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Cafe Green’s vegan fare
“Organic” and “vegan” may not be phrases that fire up the appetite like “deep fried” or “golden brown.” But they might once you’ve tried Cafe...
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Don McLean at The Birchmere
A 2004 inductee into the Songwriter’s Hall of Fame, Don McLean is still singing about that “American Pie,” so the levy’s clearly not dry. Sunday,...
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Gil Shaham this afternoon at the Kennedy Center
Xian Zhang conducts the NSO and violinist Gil Shaham, whom the New York Times calls “a highly physical player,” in a program that includes Prokofiev’s...
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The Lost Ones at Spooky Action Theater
With special permission from Samuel Beckett’s estate, Spooky Action Theater presents a re-imagined staging of The Lost Ones, a Dantesque story first staged in the...
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DC Different Drummers 30th Anniversary Concert
“My passion for the group grows every time I’m with them,” says Joe Bello of D.C.’s Different Drummers. Bello is not the only one. Tonight...
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Tammy Grimes at the Kennedy Center
Two-time Tony Award winner Tammy Grimes is the latest Broadway star to get Barbara Cook’s Spotlight treatment. In honor of her 75th birthday, Grimes will...
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House of Gold at Woolly Mammoth
Sarah Benson directs a first-rate cast including Mitchell Hebert and Michael Russotto in House of Gold, a darkly funny story, written by young playwright Gregory...
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Romeo+Juliet at The Washington Ballet
For his adaptation of the classic Prokofiev ballet Romeo + Juliet, the Washington Ballet’s Septime Webre has Mercutio taunt Tybalt sexually — even kissing “the...
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Ameriville
The performance troupe UNIVERSES is raising its brilliantly woven voices on social issues, from basic civil rights to access to healthcare to earning a living...
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Pirates of Penzance at Atlas Performing Arts
The Washington Savoyards offer their lively and fast-paced take on one of Gilbert & Sullivan’s most famous operettas, Pirates of Penzance. “I Am The Very...
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Women Beware Women at Constellation Theatre
Kitted out like the slightly mad mix of a children’s theater production of a tale by the Brothers Grimm and a fantasy conjured by Tim...
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Citydance at Strathmore
CityDance presents its only fall evening-length stateside engagement. Returning home to the newly enhanced CityDance black box, Studio 405, the company presents Paul Taylor’s masterpiece,...
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Fag Life: A Conversation with Fred Phelps
A celebration of gay culture, Fag Life: A Conversation with Fred Phelps mixes thoughts from “gay — but not gay” comedian Brent Sullivan about his...
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Worldleaf Cinema Festival
A first-of-its-kind event, the Worldleaf Cinema Festival showcases the highest caliber of deaf film from around the world. Among the festival’s 17 films, organized into...
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SLDN: DADT “Focus Right Now Is in the Senate”
Although — as Metro Weekly reported earlier — some analysts and strategists are discussing the impact of the loss of Rep. Patrick Murphy (D-Pa.) in...
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Immigration Equality’s Tiven: “Very Difficult to Move Immigration Reform” in 2011
Saying she is “sanguine” not overly hopeful about the chances for passage of comprehensive immigration reform that includes the Uniting American Families Act in the...
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Gil Shaham with the NSO
Xian Zhang conducts the NSO and violinist Gil Shaham, whom the New York Times calls “a highly physical player,” in a program that includes Prokofiev’s...
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GNP’s Don’t Tea on Me at Atlas Performing Arts
Gross National Product, whose aim is “making headlines hilarious,” offers a parody of the mid-term elections, highlighting the lowlifes and issues of the Tea Party....
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Slim Pickings
I spent my Tuesday evening looking for bright spots. Not bright spots like, ''Thank you, Lord, for not sending Christine O'Donnell to the Senate or...
