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This year’s LAFF, running Sept. 16 to Oct. 7, features a lineup of intense, observant films about inherited and adopted families.

Venezuelan-born actor Kevin Jorges makes his D.C. debut in GALA’s production about a failed actor who becomes a double agent during World War II.


A halcyon Tuesday morning in the D.C. area descended into horror on September 11, 2001. Nineteen hijackers, members of Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaeda, stormed the cockpits of four commercial jetliners, killed the pilots, and seized the controls. It was a suicide mission with the intention of ramming the four planes into buildings that symbolized American […]

Those of us of a certain age and of this city have a seared-in-the-brain recall of where we were and what we were doing when we first heard the news about the attacks on September 11, 2001. I was in a parking lot of a coffee shop on Wisconsin Avenue after dropping our kids at […]

Sporty Spice, Art All Night, launch event for a new book on D.C. go-go, the Armors’ bass player throws herself a party, and literary trivia night.

The velvet-voiced singer-songwriter was a founding member of the British band the Zombies, one of the best all-time guitar pop bands. Now he’s bringing his solo songs along with some Zombies classics to the Warner Theatre.


Putting together a theater season is like three-dimensional chess, a game of calendaring, budgeting, and logistics nonprofits play long before the lights go up on their first show. Three years ago, City Paper spoke to area theaters about gaming out their 2023–24 season at a time when pandemic-era financial relief was drying up but audience […]


No one wrote ambivalence like composer Stephen Sondheim, which makes his and George Furth’s Merrily We Roll Along stand apart in its prescriptive reckoning with the unchecked pursuit of fame and fortune. “How did you get to be here?” the ensemble sings pointedly at its sellout lead character, leaving little question for the audience that […]

“It is tempting,” the psychologist Abraham Maslow wrote, “if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail.” And if your favorite filmmaker is John Carpenter, the synthesizer-playing low-budget auteur of Assault on Precinct 13, Halloween, Escape from New York, and a half dozen other VHS-era classics, […]
