Growing up, Ryan Ellington was the kid always cracking jokes with his friends.

At this year’s Georgian International Festival of Arts in Tbilisi (GIFT), Euripides Laskaridis’s Lapis Lazuli broke the ...

The latest example of the Second City’s D.C.-centric programming is “Dance Like There’s Black People Watching,” a defiantly upbeat, occasionally uproarious mixtape of comedy sketches and aerobic dance ...