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Cole Porter’s ‘Anything Goes’ hits Warner Theatre

WASHINGTON — Even if you’ve never seen Cole Porter’s “Anything Goes,” you’ve seen traces of its pop culture legacy.

Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett just covered the title song on their Grammy-winning duet album.

Frank Sinatra and Ella Fitzgerald have performed famous covers of “I Get a Kick Out of You.”

And Steven Spielberg used the show to open “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom” (1984), presenting a musical number performed by his now wife, Kate Capshaw.

Now is your chance to catch the Cole Porter classic at the for a two-day engagement on Wednesday, Feb. 25 and Thursday, Feb. 26.

It’s part of a national tour following the show’s Tony win for Best Musical Revival in 2011, breathing new life into a play that opened on Broadway with Ethel Merman in 1934.

This time, Emma Stratton plays the legendary lead, Reno Sweeney, a nightclub singer who gets caught in a love triangle while performing on an ocean liner from New York to London.

²ÝÝ®´«Ã½ spoke with Stratton about what makes this show so special:

April 27, 2026 | (Jason Fraley)

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Jason Fraley

Hailed by The Washington Post for “his savantlike ability to name every Best Picture winner in history," Jason Fraley began at ²ÝÝ®´«Ã½ as Morning Drive Writer in 2008, film critic in 2011 and Entertainment Editor in 2014, providing daily arts coverage on-air and online.

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