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Stop selling your handmade Pigskins thongs on Etsy.
Soak up some art and some air conditioning at new museum shows today.
Do you like politics and bad decisions? Literature and anthropomorphism?
Sex can be awkward. Like, really, really, really awkward. So awkward, in fact, that some might never want to share with friends, let alone perfect strangers, tales of awkward intercourse.…
Sending humans to Mars poses an extraordinary set of challenges"the long distances, the need to carry massive amounts of materials into space, and the off-the-charts radiation levels"so in N…
About 10 years ago, Arlington's American Century Theater was facing a doomsday scenario. With a deficit of more than half of its operating budget, "We were technically bankrupt," says Art…
Last month, I walked into Woolly Mammoth a half-hour before a showing of the hilarious political farce The Totalitarians, and my eye started twitching. Ticketholders were chit-chatting and m…
Now that its Kennedy Center run is through, can Side Show succeed on Broadway? [Post]
Experimental guitarist Chris Grier of To Live and Shave in L.A. has died. [Arts Desk]
Dana Carvey …
Who hasn't, in the wake of a loved one's passing, wished for a world without death, or bargained with death's hypothetical doorman for one last goodbye?
Erin Bregman's A Bid to Save th…
Kimberly Gilbert is one of the most versatile, fearless and reliably thrilling actors in Washington. Whether she's playing the spinster held hostage by her wicked mother in The Beauty Queen …
Funding is a constant concern for D.C.'s nonprofit theaters. While deep-pocketed donors and season subscribers help offset some costs, and online crowdfunding can work in certain situations,…
Michael Urie is the kind of charmed storyteller who can get away with laughing at his own jokes. As an underemployed L.A. actor with a decidedly unusual day job, he'll drop some gem-sharp ab…
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Last week, Conflicts of Interest began with an error, when I misspelled my friend Dan Pavlik's name. The error made it through fact checking and copy editing. Then I saw it again as I p…
Extreme wealth allows eccentricities to proliferate and blossom in its owners, turning normal folk into divas that can't function outside their own self-made worlds. And if Buyer &…
The Apocalypse comes at 6 p.m.
By Georgi Gospodinov
Directed by Genevieve de Mahy
Through June 29 at Single Carrot Theatre
Back in 2002, when the so-called "Beltway snipers" were t…
"Slick Ass" Dan Pavlick was having a bad night. In his first round of kick the can, all four of Pavlick's beer cans had skittered across the wooden floor of the practice space and merely bou…
The acquisition of language is one of the great philosophical problems: It is impossible to go from not having it to having it without presupposing it. Think of the stereotypical cave man gr…
WILD WITH HAPPY
By Colman Domingo
through June 29 At Center Stage
There's a scene early in Colman Domingo's Wild with Happy at Center Stage where the protagonist, a 40-year…
Ed Lieberman
Through June 30 at Gallery 1301
Charles Bukowski wrote "To do a dull thing with style is preferable to doing a dangerous thing without it. To do a dangerous thing wi…
A star vehicle without stars, Shakespeare Theatre Company's revival of Noel Coward's Private Lives is more airily amusing than D.C. audiences might be inclined to expect. This comedy of mari…
Megan Mullally may have first come to public consciousness with the popularity of Will & Grace, but she's been a staple in theatrical performances for quite a bit longer. Similarly…
New York improv troupe The Tenderloins have been hammering out comedy via long-form improv, stand-up, and sketches since 1999. In 2011 they scored big with hidden-camera/improv/comedy/compet…
Sylvia is going deaf. And she's not happy about it.
"You don't know what it's like going deaf! You don't!" she says to Billy, who was born deaf and reads lips. She begins to sign while s…
With Deathfest"and the parasitical Deathscape"a couple weeks ago, the season of fests has kicked off. We usually count Transmodern the beginning of the season, but organizer Laure Drogoul te…
After a fruitless year-long search for a new home, Forum Theatre confirmed last week that it will stay in its 150-seat black-box space in Silver Spring.
Forum, which became the first residen…
