Everything old is new again this weekend, as CityDance Ensemble partners with actors from the Shakespeare Theatre Company to present Shakespeare’s Sonnets. Blending together dance, literature, theater, and music, the pairing of the two groups aims to explore age-old interpretations of Shakespeare’s sonnets as well as look at them with a modern eye. There's a whole lot of talent joining together to present Shakespeare’s Sonnets, between all of the dancers, actors and musicians involved in......

DCist's highly subjective and hardly comprehensive guide to the most interesting movies playing around town in the coming week. Major Release: There Will Be Blood We should have held our tongues on our top 10 for the year until the actual end of the year. Paul Thomas Anderson's new film slipped in just under the 2007 wire in limited release last week, and the director channels John Huston, Stanley Kubrick, and his own wild-eyed imagination......

>> The Shakespeare Theatre Company has started a special program, called 20/10, that offers people aged 35 and under discounted tickets for their performances. The program launches tonight, with a special performance of Christopher Marlowe's Tamburlaine where all of the tickets will be $10 for the under 35 crowd, and they're promising a DJ, drink specials and door prizes for those who take advantage. Call the box office at (202) 547-1122 for details. >>......

>> Plácido Domingo conducts the orchestra and selected singers of the Washington National Opera in a special concert performance in the Music Center at Strathmore. A few tickets in the orchestra section remain at the box office, if you are looking for a last-minute luxury date. $68, 8 p.m. >> Time is running out to catch this year's Shakespeare Free For All, Love's Labor's Lost, at the Carter Barron Amphitheater. The final performance is......

>> At the the Guy Mason Recreation Center tonight there will be an open house to discuss DDOT's Glover Park Transportation Study. 6:30 to 8 p.m. [via FreeRide] >> Trippy Japanese instrumentalists Mono stop by the Rock and Roll Hotel with Grails and World’s End Girlfriend. $10/$12, 8 p.m. doors. >> The American City Diner & Cafe hosts a special screening of the still great Mike Nichols film Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, starring......

Never has a nineteenth-century Ibsen drama felt so contemporary than with Shakespeare Theatre Company's current production of An Enemy of the People. And while this makes a somewhat lofty play resonate more clearly with its audience, it can also add a strange, didactic clunkiness to some of Ibsen's words. An Enemy of the People is an appealing study of personal integrity in the face of devastating opposition. Dr. Thomas Stockmann, a town-employed engineer, helped build......

FRIDAY: For many of us, going to see Garrison Keillor’s “A Prairie Home Companion” recorded live was one of the few times in our early teens when both we and our parents could agree on attending the same event without rancor. But Keillor's getting up there, and it seems more likely we'll be sharing "This American Life" or even some yet-to-be produced program with our own kids. For now, thank goodness, Keillor and company are......

If you're the type who turns to your friends haughtily when they're jonesing for some Hamlet or Othello and replies contemptuously, "I don't pay for Shakespeare," it's almost your time of year. That's right, while companies like Folger Shakespeare Theatre and Washington Shakespeare Company are wrapping up their productions, and we'll have to wait until 2007 for the amazing Shakespeare In Washington extravaganza, we still have options to get our Bard fix, and we don't......

DCist theater critic Missy Frederick contributed to this report. Signature Theatre's production of Urinetown took top honors at last night's Helen Hayes Awards, D.C.'s local theater awards ceremony, taking home 8 prizes including director of a musical (Joe Calarco), choreographer (Karma Camp), four different acting awards (Will Gartshore is pictured right accepting his award for lead actor in a musical, which he shared in a tie with Michael McElroy from Big River), and outstanding resident......

FRIDAY: Canadian supergroup Stars wowed Death Cab for Cutie fans when they opened their show last year at 9:30 Club, and now they return as headliners to set the Black Cat stage on fire. Of course, this concert has been sold out for ages, and the desperation for tickets on Craigslist is palpable. We'll see you fellow lucky bastards in what will no doubt be a breathtakingly long will-call line. For the rest of you,......

When a 17th century play feels fresh, contemporary and accessible, without having to modernize the setting or pull any other tricks, you know a production is on to something. Enter Shakespeare Theatre Company's production of Moliere's Don Juan. The Don Juan legend is fairly commonplace at this point: rich lord seduces the ladies, over and over again, without regrets, and ultimately has to answer for his indiscretions. Directed and translated by Stephen Wadsworth, the new......