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  • SpeakeasyDC’s Born This Way at Atlas Intersections

    By on February 22, 2012

    Speakeasy DC’s “Born This Way: Stories About Queer Culture in America” features gay and straight storytellers speaking out on the impact of “Queer Culture” on...

  • Cree-ative Calling

    By on February 21, 2012

    This Friday, Feb. 24, the National Museum of the American Indian will open its doors after hours for a special treat ''recommended for mature audiences.''...

  • Concert Review: Zola Jesus

    By on February 21, 2012

    ''We're having technical issues,'' singer Nika Roza Danilova, who performs as Zola Jesus, told the packed crowd at U Street Music Hall toward the beginning...

  • The Washington Ballet presents TwylaTharp: AllAmerican

    By on February 20, 2012

    TwylaTharp: AllAmerican pays homage to the high priestess of contemporary dance by showcasing works from two decades of Tharp’s prodigious career, including “Nine Sinatra Songs”...

  • Oscar-nominated Short Films 2012

    By on February 20, 2012

    Landmark’s E Street Cinema, in partnership with ShortsHD, offers two feature-length programs of the short films nominated at the upcoming Academy Awards this Sunday, Feb....

  • Review: Blood Wedding

    By on February 16, 2012

    Over the past few years Constellation Theatre Company has made its name staging ambitious productions of old plays, and stunning you with a terrific acting...

  • Review: Peter Pan: The Boy Who Hated Mothers

    By on February 16, 2012

    In No Rules Theatre Company's adaptation of Peter Pan, the actors don't actually fly -- not even in suspended fashion. There's no physical Tinker Bell,...

  • Estelle Shines Anew

    By on February 16, 2012

    ''I've felt so much love and acceptance, it's overwhelming,'' Estelle says. '' gay people, it's a whole different level.'' In fact, the Grammy-winning British soul...

  • Review: Kinsey Sicks in ''Electile Dysfunction''

    By on February 16, 2012

      {Kinsey Sicks (Photo by Erez Ben Or)} Have you tired of the Republican presidential circus? If not, then here's to the Santorum surge --...

  • Fundamentally Flawed

    By on February 16, 2012

    For all the suffering that's been heaped upon gays onstage over the years -- from the alcoholic angst of The Boys in the Band to...

  • Frida's Photos

    By on February 15, 2012

    Sometimes it pays to be a sister city. Right now in Arlington, for instance, you can see a collection of Frida Kahlo's photographs, never before...

  • Joey Arias and Paddy Boom at L’Enfant’s Speak Easy

    By on February 15, 2012

    Following on its insanely popular brunch house party La Boum every Saturday and the annual Bastille Day French Maid Relay Race, L’Enfant Café and Bar...

  • Review: Josephine Tonight

    By on February 15, 2012

    There aren't a lot of musicals to see around town over the next month. But even if every theater in town easily accessible by Metro...

  • Review: Wanda Sykes at Strathmore

    By on February 14, 2012

    “Here he is!” Wanda Sykes said in a nelly voice as she swished across the stage at Strathmore last Friday night. The popular lesbian comedian...

  • Les Justes at WSC Avant Bard

    By on February 14, 2012

    WSC Avant Bard presents a new adaptation of Albert Camus’s eerily relevant exploration of politically motivated violence. Les Justes, whose title translates in English as...