Aida

Comic Aida Rodriguez at Comedy Loft, Awkward Sex… and the City returns, a Gail Rebhan retrospective at AU, and Broadway's Into the Woods.

on Feb. (Thank goodness Block is under a magic spell that prevents her from leaving the [Kennedy Center](https://www.kennedy-center.org/whats-on/explore-by-genre/theater/2022-2023/sunset-boulevard/), lest she be cursed for all eternity.) Under the direction of Lear deBessonet, who directed the Public Theater’s production of Hercules, this rendition of Into the Woods has captured critical and popular attention. On Feb. The The Smithsonian’s Recovering Voices initiative is a collaboration between Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, the National Museum of the American Indian, the Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, and the Asian Pacific American Center. 23 through March 19, direct from the Great White Way. Larrabee, barred from combat zones, photographed on the edges of the conflict, documenting the survivors and the troops, including less familiar subjects such as Black South African soldiers. The other large-scale work consists of brutally honest images of aging women’s body parts, appended by a stream of printed descriptors, from “grandma,” “dowager,” and “woman of a certain age” to “battleaxe,” “babushka” and “harridan.” The museum’s other photography exhibit, Eastern Front – Western Front, pairs the World War II photojournalism of the Jewish Russian Georgi Zelma and the English-born South African Constance Stuart Larrabee. “It’s a very funny and liberal and smart city and audience members seem to really get the show.” She’s hopeful that this year will be the same. Rebhan, born in 1950, has focused her art on such issues as family history, feminism, and aging, with special attention to the Washington area. It’s happened to all of us in some shape or form.” While the event is part of a nationwide tour, Wall says the Black Cat—and D.C. Creator and headliner Natalie Wall says the show was created to chronicle some of these inelegant stories in order to help others realize—and laugh at—the inherent awkwardness in intimacy.