pt film and stage
Sunday, July 19: Synchronized swimming is all anybody’s talking about these days, and, lucky for you, you can see it in action at the Capitol Skyline Hotel this Sunday from 6PM-7PM. As if that wasn’t exciting enough, Conner Contemporary Art is screening “experimental videos” (we’ll leave that is up to your imagination) poolside after the [...]
Tonight through early August: If you’re a fan of musical theater, inappropriate sexual innuendos, failed pop icons, or ’80s hits, and you just LOVE when underdogs triumph over adversity, you should catch Spring Awakening or The Color Purple at the Kennedy Center. Both shows have won numerous Tony awards, so regardless of your feelings toward [...]
Tonight Friday, June 24: To mourn the passing of the King of Pop, you can try to snag tickets to Who’s Bad the “World’s No. 1 Michael Jackson cover band” at the 9:30 Club tonight (a concert that was coincidentally scheduled prior to his death). Unfortunately, no Charlie’s Angles marathon was randomly scheduled for this [...]
Tonight through Sunday, June 21: Some people would rather stab themselves in the eyes than see a ballet. But then there are the more refined folk who, like everyone’s favorite ballet-dancer-turned-politician Rahm Emanuel, cherish the idea of watching pretty people dance in circles and do fun twists in the air. If you fall into the [...]
It Is Back: Screen on the Green is back! DCers were devastated when it was canceled. There were riots in the streets, people were twittering like mad, there may have been hearings on Capitol Hill, and who knows what other displays of unnecessary emotion all due to the demise of an outdoor film festival, even though the [...]
Tonight through Sunday, June 14: None of Tom Stoppard’s plays actually make sense unless you have PhD in something very random and esoteric, but his latest show, Rock and Roll, just got extended until the middle of June, so it must be pretty good. The play is about Rock and Roll, but for the tricky [...]
Tuesday, May 26 through Sunday, May 31: There’s no musical that screams young white suburban angst like RENT. It managed to make AIDS the hit disease that all the teen-aged girls wanted, as did it make hating your parents and wanting to live in abject poverty the coolest things ever!!
Done: Screen on the Green: Two wars, the housing bubble, pig AIDS, and waterboarding all seem to pale in comparison to DCers’ outrage over the end of Screen on the Green. There’s no other way to interpret this except that God hates all of us.
Tonight through May 10: A festival about political films, here, in the nation’s capital? They just love to keep us on our toes! The inaugural “Politics on Film” festival is this weekend and a dozen different films, including four international movies, will be screened at E Street Cinema, the Navy Memorial Auditorium, and at George [...]
Tonight through May 14: Bernie Maddoff may have stolen tons of money from the Jews, (and just about every other group, including unicorns, one-eyed monsters, and probably even contaminated pigs) but the show most go on, and indeed it will with the 9th Northern Virginia International Jewish Film Festival.
Tonight and Saturday, April 18: The Palace of Wonders is up to its usual shenanigans this weekend, starting with the The Olde City Sideshow tonight. A bevy of performers will be jamming swords and other gadgetry into themselves, for variety, with guest stars Hellcat Girls Burlesque.
Friday, April 3: Christian Finnegan of Chapelle’s Show and Best Week Ever fame comes to DC Improv till Sunday. Listen to his comedy bit about the DC metro system, which is he says is “the fucking Tron compared to NYC subways, where there’s always someone “twisting one off in the corner.” Gross. [DC Improv]
Friday, March 27: The Paul Taylor Dance Company performs a Mexican-themed dance extravaganza at the Kennedy Center, maybe in anticipation of Hillary Clinton’s visit to Mexico this week, or maybe not. 8PM, $22-65. [Kennedy Center]
