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  • Spring Awakening at Dominion Stage

    By on October 13, 2012

    Arlington’s LGBT-minded Dominion Stage offers a production of Spring Awakening, Duncan Sheik and Steven Sater’s exhilarating, sexually and angst-driven musical about coming of age in...

  • Jacques Brel is Alive and Well at MetroStage

    By on October 12, 2012

    Natascia Diaz, one of D.C. theater’s greatest performers, is currently polishing Jacques Brel’s standard “Ne Me Quitte Pas (“If You Go Away”) at MetroStage in...

  • Spooky movies at the AFI Silver

    By on October 12, 2012

    Now in its seventh year, the Spooky Movie International Horror Film Festival nearly doubles to nine days of horror screenings, and also includes the first-ever...

  • Survival Instincts

    By on October 11, 2012

    I don't have to tell you that How to Survive a Plague is an important film. Nor do I have to tell you that it...

  • Nina's Legacy

    By on October 11, 2012

    Meshell Ndegeocello isn't living in the past. She says the present is far better. ''I was reading the Nina Simone I Put A Spell...

  • Diva Delights

    By on October 11, 2012

    ''We've nicknamed it the Beef Jerky Dress around here,'' laughs Kathryn Wat, chief curator at the National Museum of Women in the Arts. She's referring...

  • Campus Politics

    By on October 11, 2012

    Professors are supposed to be smart. That's why they're professors. Certainly, Joy Ladin is no dummy. The literature professor waited until she'd secured tenure before...

  • Killing Yourself

    By on October 4, 2012

    There's no such thing as time travel without plot holes. As characters jump backward and forward in a timeline, technical complexities multiply. Laws of physics...

  • Hot Mess

    By on October 4, 2012

    The Paperboy is a hot mess. ''Hot'' because it contrives to get Zac Efron out of his clothes as often as possible. ''Mess'' because it's...

  • Pink Passion

    By on October 4, 2012

    Lady Gaga may be the reigning diva for many, or most, of those in the younger gay generation. But if they'll only reconsider, there is...

  • Life and Deathfix

    By on October 4, 2012

    ''I'm in good health,'' says Rich Morel, adding with a laugh, ''I'm going to make it through the weekend.'' Morel is in better health –...

  • Love Hate

    By on October 4, 2012

    With its nightmare-filled bank of jumbled TV screens – always on and always ready – Synetic's dance-theater interpretation of Jekyll and Hyde suggests mightily that...

  • Watch Barbra Streisand’s new video, “I Think It’s Going to Rain Today”

    By on October 2, 2012

    Barbra Streisand’s new album Release Me drops on Tuesday, Oct. 9. The music video from “I Think It’s Going to Rain Today,” is available to...

  • Animal Collective at Merriweather

    By on September 30, 2012

    The little ensemble Animal Collective, originally from Baltimore but now spread out around the world, years ago became the big kahuna in the indie-rock universe,...

  • In Spite of Love at GALA

    By on September 30, 2012

    GALA opens its 37th season with the delightful comedy from Agustin Moreto, a contemporary of Lope de Vega, or the master of Spain’s Golden Age...