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Using education and a mix of traditional and modern dance, Washington, D.C.’s Lesole’s Dance Project has been...

ARTS Pick: New Year’s Eve

First Night Virginia $6-38, 3pm-midnight. Downtown Mall, locations vary. New Year’s in Ireland 7pm. Tin Whistle Irish...

ARTS Pick: Jane Eyre

National Theatre Live in HD presents an acclaimed retelling of Charlotte Brontë’s 170-year-old classic, Jane Eyre....

ARTS Pick: A Christmas Carol

Ghostly fun plays out in Dickens’ holiday classic, A Christmas Carol, when the miserly Ebenezer Scrooge is confronted...

Staging the screen

From the minute the show starts, the story is on. At the back of the theater, a live band shimmers the percussive...

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One-woman show The Twelve Dates of Christmas follows Mary, who discovers her boyfriend is cheating on her when she...

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An unlikely holiday tradition took hold when David Sedaris told the sour, witty story of his experience as an...

ARTS Pick: KnucklesCracker

Ballet meets burlesque in KnucklesCracker, a reimagining of the classic Nutcracker story, set in the bygone era of...

Night vision

When Georgia Castleman takes her third and final curtain call for the lead in Amahl and the Night Visitors on...

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Former U.S. Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize winner Rita Dove guest narrates The Night Before Christmas at the UVA...