The Havel Project reminds us that the stubborn determination of the individual can undermine totalitarian systems, and that revolutions can be born of childlike imagination and whimsical fun.
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“The absence of people of color in the greatest of white literature,” Scott said. “I do think that it's a weird absence. It's a gaping hole. ... [W.E.B.] Du Bois’s line about race, ‘the problem of the Twentieth Century is the problem of the color-line,’ is true. And now we're into the twenty-first.”
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Right to Be Forgotten, a timely new play for the digital age written by Sharyn Rothstein and directed by Seema Sueko, is having its world premiere production at Arena Stage, in the Arlene and Robert Kogod Cradle.
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Right to Be Forgotten, a timely new play for the digital age written by Sharyn Rothstein and directed by Seema Sueko, is having its world premiere production at Arena Stage, in the Arlene and Robert Kogod Cradle.
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In Mike Maggio’s new collection of short stories, Letters from Inside, bizarre things happen to ordinary people. “M,” while crossing Washington’s Key Bridge, finds himself unwittingly at the center of a scandal that sweeps the city.
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Young Professionals in Foreign Policy (YPFP) will be celebrating its Annual Affairs of State Awards Gala and Fundraiser on October 19, 2019 at the Sidney Harman Hall, home of the Shakespeare Theatre.
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Arena Stage’s production of August Wilson’s Jitney, newly extended through October 27, 2019, is a tour de force. It’s moving.
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This past month, the Westmoreland Congregational Church hosted “Visions of Home: An Afternoon of Palestinian Poetry and Art.”
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Walking through the National Museum of Women in the Arts’ new exhibition, The End: A Meditation on Death and Extinction, is a solemn, intimate experience.
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When you think of Abstract Expressionism of the 1940s and 1950s, a New York-centered, male-dominated movement comes to mind.
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Jackie Sibblies Drury’s Fairview, which won the 2019 Pulitzer is an exercise in setting up expectations, subverting those expectations, and then completely throwing them out the window.
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At a time when only bad news headlines our nation’s immigrant story, it’s good to hear something positive.
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When you start reading Maryland native Rion Amilcar Scott’s new short story collection, The World Doesn’t Require You, you realize, almost from the first page, that this is something special.
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This is what Massumeh Farhad, Chief Curator and Curator of Islamic Art at the Freer | Sackler Gallery commented when asked about the American media’s portrayal of the exhibit, My Iran: Six Women Photographers, currently on view at the gallery.
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As a child, New Orlean’s born artist, Anne Marchand was enchanted by what lies between the earth and sky.
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Still vocally vibrant and pushing artistic boundaries, Meredith Monk and her vocal ensemble performed her piece Cellular Songs at the Rasmusen Theater located in the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington DC.
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The 2019 Capital Fringe Festival is one of those DC events where you read the schedule and you want to see it all.a
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Thai artist, Rirkrit Tiravanija’s first ever exhibition at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Who’s Afraid of Red, Yellow, and Green, brings people together amid political images of violence and protest.
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I spent the Sunday before Mother’s Day (May 5) at the third annual Mother’s Day Climate Rally, which I helped organize and was co-sponsored by 21 different local groups.
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