Coming to the Kennedy Center this week.

PETA doesn’t actually take offense to the depiction of rats as the bad guy in the classic ballet, but rather the ballet-goers sartorial choices. PETA has been protesting the Washington Ballet’s production the past few days, targeting the audience members who chose to wear fur. Dressed as a bunny in a tutu (don’t you know fur is tutu cruel), PETA protesters were seen mostly as funny to passerbys. Apparently as protesters approached probable fur-wearers, all…

If you’re a regular reader of DCist, you know that we’re big Kojo Nnamdi fans. So you can imagine our excitement when we saw that Kojo would be making a special guest appearance during tonight’s Washington Ballet’s performance of The Nutcracker.

Chestnuts are not only for roasting on open fires. Each December, arts organizations cash in on the unfathomable frenzy for certain holiday favorites, Messiah and The Nutcracker. The former is Handel’s most performed — let’s face it, disturbingly over-performed — oratorio. It is without doubt a work of great beauty, which I could probably learn to love again in a few years if I had not had to perform in some version of it every…