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Christina Pazsitzky: Not Your Mother's Comedian
This month, unabashedly bold comedian Christina Pazsitzky speaks her mind with On Tap Magazine. The emerging stand up comedian-slash-reality TV addict (and participant) will be at the DC Improv for the first time February 14 to 17. But be warned, this isn’t your mother’s comedian. On Tap: So you’re from LA and you’ve toured all read more »» Film
Gilgamesh Film Review and Bar Crawl
Story and bar photos by Justin Acklen Dating back to the dawn of history, Gilgamesh is considered to be the world’s oldest written story. Constellation Theatre has certainly done justice to this sprawling epic of violence, sex and redemption with stunning choreography, a unique live soundtrack and expert performances all around. A stage adorned with read more »
Film: Disconnect
Chances are you’re reading this article online, perhaps on a smart phone in your living room while your significant other is sitting next to you on their MacBook Pro typing away. Your Internet connection is strong, but what about your connection to one another? Oscar-nominated director Henry Alex-Rubin (Murderball 2005) explores this interconnectedness in the read more »
Our City: Bringing a Diverse City Together through Film
In its sixth year, Our City Film Festival will bring DC film to INTERSECTIONS, Atlas Performing Arts Center’s annual festival of the arts. The two festivals come together for a celebration of the rich culture that defines DC. Our City is recognized by area filmmakers as an essential stop in the film festival circuit. read more »
DC Shorts' Award Winning Weekend
DC Shorts WINS Showcase Before you find out which ingénue is Hollywood’s favorite (the uproarious Jennifer Lawrence or the fiery Jessica Chastain?) or which film the Academy deems “just right” (will Beasts of the Southern Wild surprise the nation?), sit down with the best of DC Shorts! The DC Shorts WINS Showcase takes place the read more »» Theater
Spank
Ladies, looking to change up your usual girls night out itinerary of drinks and dancing at the newest club? Round up your crew and head to the Fillmore between May 22 - 25 to see SPANK, the hilariously racy new musical which has quickly become a hit in theaters across the nation. A parody of read more »
The Winter's Tale
The Shakespeare Theatre Company is tackling one of Shakespeare’s most complex plays this spring, with a plotline spanning 16 years and at least three genres: romance, comedy and tragedy. The Winter’s Tale will play at the Lansburgh Theatre from May 9 to June 23 under the direction of STC Affiliated Artist Rebecca Bayla Taichman, who read more »
Coriolanus and Wallenstein: The Hero/Traitor Repertory
The Shakespeare Theatre Company offers audiences a relevant portrayal of the challenges of wartime and the price of power through the lens of two very different yet complimentary military plays: Shakespeare’s Coriolanus and Friedrich Schiller’s Wallenstein. The Shakespearean tragedy and German drama will be performed in repertory at STC’s Sidney Harman Hall, the first in read more »
Monologist Mike Daisey's: American Utopias
Mike Daisey is fascinated with the civic spaces we create for ourselves to fulfill our need to belong. The NYC-based monologist and theatrical provocateur returns to Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company from March 25 to April 21 to highlight four very different communities: the theme park perfection of Disney World, the anarchic excesses of Burning Man, read more »
