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Weekend Roundup: MLK Weekend Packed With Music, Theater & Ways to Give Back
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Kitty Kelley Book Club: ‘The First Eight: A Personal History of the Pioneering Black Congressmen Who Shaped a Nation’
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Washington National Opera Bids Kennedy Center Adieu
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Shakespeare Still Slays at the 83rd Golden Globes
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Jazz Icon Monty Alexander Ushers in the New Year at Blues Alley
WNO’s ‘Marriage of Figaro’: A Big Musical Cake
• September 29, 2016
The season-opening production runs through Oct. 2 at the Kennedy Center.
An Intimate ‘Anne Frank’ at Olney
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Olney Theatre Center’s production of “The Diary of Anne Frank,” playing in the harrowingly compact Mulitz-Gudelsky Theatre Lab through Oct. 23, has a remarkable young actress in the title role.
WNO Debut for a Countess Who Tap Dances
• September 26, 2016
Amanda Majeski will play Countess Almaviva in Mozart’s “The Marriage of Figaro” at the Kennedy Center through Oct. 2.
Rehm, Woodward and Gingrich Make News at National Book Festival
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Three of D.C.’s best-known authors pitched their latest last Saturday at the convention center.
WNO’s ‘Marriage of Figaro’: A Big Musical Cake
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The season-opening production runs through Oct. 2 at the Kennedy Center.
WNO Debut for a Countess Who Tap Dances
• September 22, 2016
There’s a friendly tornado aspect to speaking with the talented, ever-rising American lyric soprano and opera star Amanda Majeski, as if something momentous once again was just around the corner. […]
Julie Kent: A New Stage, A Different Role
• September 19, 2016
The first time I “met” Julie Kent was by way of a voice on the phone. She was rushing to fly back to New York after the Washington Ballet’s announcement […]
The Newest Smithsonian — With a Move-In-Day Energy
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Taking in the new National Museum of African American History and Culture at yesterday’s packed press preview.
A Contradictory Convergence of History, Fiction and Politics
• September 15, 2016
On the 15th anniversary of 9/11, during an anarchic political campaign, finding inspiration in a musical and a movie.
International Student House Global Leadership Awards
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The International Student House of Washington, D.C., celebrated 80 years of providing an exceptional residential experience to a diverse international community of graduate students, interns and visiting scholars in three […]
