Award-winning novelist Bernice McFadden enters the memoir genre, explaining to a Politics and Prose audience that her writing, whether fiction or memoir, draws from her personal and familial experiences.
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Everyone carries something: a secret, a shame, a weight tethered to their heart. In The Bedwetter, performed at Arena Stage and directed by Anne Kauffman, that weight is literal for ten-year-old Sarah Silverman—she still wets the bed.
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Washington, D.C. – The D.C. Walls Festival hosted an outdoor NASA-themed art exhibition at Union Market this past month. This festival brought together 11 local, national, and international artists for an outdoor live installation and celebration for the eighth consecutive year. The new-level cosmic collaboration with NASA was expanded to District to Adams Morgan, Navy Yard, Shaw, and Union Market.
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Before visiting Zsudayka Nzinga's Homecoming / Homegoing exhibition at Phillips@THEARC, I regarded fabrics merely as a collage component. The six artworks on display by Nzinga showcase the expressive power of textiles, where fabrics serve as frames, depict figures and vegetation, create landscape backdrops, and convey concepts of meaning like grief.
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The New York Circus Project‘s HAMLET, a contemporary circus adaptation of the Shakespearean classic performed at Union Market Dock 5 in Washington, DC, this past month, took the flexibility of what is generally accepted as Shakespeare’s most successful story to a literal place, with several tricks up their sleeve
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At Washington, DC’s Union Station passenger railway waiting area, you'll come across a series of murals spanning the upper walls from Gate A through L. The murals, entitled The Potomac Shen River Series, were created by local artist Katherine Tzu-Lan Mann. They’re the second installation of Art @ Amtrak at Union Station, part of Amtrak's initiative to revitalize the station and enhance the travel experience for its visitors.
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As the final installment of the “Women, Arts and Social Change” program hosted by the National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA) in its 2023-2024 season, the museum invited Schwanda Rountree and Myrtis Bedolla to speak at an event titled “Fresh Talk: Influence and Collecting.” The event discussed the progress and challenges faced by women and non-binary people in the art industry, specifically in curating and collecting.
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Just opened in May at the Mexican Cultural Institute in Washington, DC, La Vida Entre Latidos, in collaboration with IBERO University, features the lush, high-definition photography anthological series of Mexican artist Miguel Milló (b. 1959). Best translated as “Life Between Heartbeats,” the show highlights strange and fragile figures that are the protagonists of the portraits.
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Our lives are an amalgam of ordinary moments and significant events. Interior Lives, an exhibition featuring works by up-and-coming local artist Sydney Vernon at Philips@THEARC captures the subtleties and complexities of these experiences.
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The Art of the Challenge part of the Alexandre Diop: Jooba, Jubba, L'Art du Defi, the Art of Challenge exhibit at the museum, showcases five potent works by the French-Senegalese artist. Diop tackles complex themes such as colonialism's lingering effects, violence, and suffering. While the themes he explores are timeless, his choice of found materials adds a fresh perspective, transforming them into a powerful commentary on the contemporary issues he grapples with
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“Phone rings, door chimes, in comes… Company?” That refrain is one of Stephen Sondheim’s greatest earworms (second only perhaps to “Bobby, Bobby baby, Bobby bubi, Robby,” etc. in the same song). And, in the shaky touring production of Marianne Elliott’s inventive reimagining of the beloved musical, playing at the Kennedy Center through March 31, it presents more like a cautious question than a confident declaration.
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If Bravo had been spinning off franchises in the 12th century BC, one can only imagine that Penelope would be the wine-soaked breakout star of the Real Housewives of Ithaca.
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Playwright Marshall Pailet was captivated by Private Jones’ story and dreamed for many years of telling a First World War story through a unique lens—the true story of Private Jones, a deaf, Welsh sniper. Melding dramatic moments with comedy, music, and innovative sound design, Private Jones seeks to replicate Jones’ experience theatrically for both the hearing and hard-of-hearing audience.
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Public Obscenities, written and directed by Shayok Misha Chowdhury was performed at Woolly Mammoth Theater until late this month.
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Watching the Shakespeare Theatre Company’s new production of William Shakespeare’s As You Like It, I kept leaning forward in my seat, grinning, as the Bard’s poetry …
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To commemorate the 60th anniversary of the March on Washington, the National Archives and Records Administration held a screening of The March and a panel discussion on August 25, 2023.
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The Kennedy Center has never graced such glitz and glamour like that of the vibrant and eclectic, Parisian burlesque romance, adorned with covers of pop hits from then and now — Moulin Rouge! The Musical. The performance celebrates music and theatre design all in the name of love and runs through September 24, 2023.
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Settling in my seat waiting for the curtain to rise, I didn’t expect to not only experience, but to participate in a riveting revision of Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird.”
As the cast took their final curtain calls on the Eisenhower Theater stage at The Kennedy Center in Northwest on Thursday night, I could barely hold back the tears that flowed freely from my eyes – and I was not alone.
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