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

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 ...

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