Sky Sitney, longtime director of AFI Docs film festival.
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Olney returns to ‘Angel Street,’ the play that inspired ‘Gaslight’
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Boys Noize serves up relentless techno set at U Street Music Hall
The audience seemed thrilled with the German DJ’s bass-heavy offerings.
Strange mysteries in alien worlds
Exile, piety and battles in “Gameboard of the Gods,” “Bristol House” and “Abaddon’s Gate.”
Books: ‘Legends of the Blues’
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‘Futurama’: One last rocket ride around the block
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Before the band goes on stage, can I get a countdown?
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Dave Chappelle to headline 13-show, monthlong comedy tour for Funny Or Die
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An InSeries double bill: ‘L’histoire du soldat’ and ‘Gianni Schicchi’
A pocket-scaled pairing stretches the material: One becomes a lively pageant; the other gets an update.
Group turns nerdiness into theater in ‘The Best of Craigslist’
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‘Monsters University’: Dan Scanlon on his big leap to director’s chair
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‘Anything Goes’ at the Kennedy Center
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Storytellers: The Eye of Gaiman
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Step Afrika! presents ‘Ke Nako’ (Snippet)
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Actress known for swimming, Esther Williams, dies at 91
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