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  • GLOE’s 5th Annual Queer Purim Party

    By on March 1, 2012

    The DC JCC’s Kurlander Program for Gay & Lesbian Outreach and Engagement presents its fifth annual Purim party, “Masquerade & Mischief,” with a repeat performance...

  • Review: We Need to Talk About Kevin

    By on March 1, 2012

    Film doesn't get much grimmer than We Need To Talk About Kevin. It's an utterly bleak, astonishing piece of work that demands your attention just...

  • Review: Cosi fan tutte

    By on March 1, 2012

    When an opera is as much a staple in the repertoire as Mozart's Cosi fan tutte, it's hardly surprising when a director gets the urge...

  • Gay by Association

    By on February 29, 2012

    Michael Ian Black once made out with Bradley Cooper. ''He wasn't yet People's Sexiest Man Alive,'' Black says. ''Had I known he would be that,...

  • Nominees for 2012 Helen Hayes Awards Announced

    By on February 28, 2012

    The Helen Hayes Awards nominees for 2012, DC’s theater awards, were announced on Monday, Feb. 27, and include nominees ranging from fifteen nominations, including Outstanding...

  • Suprasensorial at the Hirshhorn

    By on February 27, 2012

    Suprasensorial: Experiments in Light, Color and Space reevaluates the evolution of the international multimedia Light and Space installation movement through the work of five pivotal...

  • Beyond Bare

    By on February 27, 2012

    When Rutgers University student Tyler Clementi killed himself in 2010, Carl Menninger might have been more disturbed than most. As a gay assistant professor at...

  • From Shuffle to Show Boat at the In Series

    By on February 25, 2012

    From Shuffle to Show Boat: Prelude to the American Musical explores how the musical came to be, drawing from vaudeville, operetta, blues and Tin Pan...

  • Devil Boys from Beyond at Landless

    By on February 25, 2012

    Landless Theater Company’s latest campy cartoon character romp — Devil Boys from Beyond — is said to be a hybrid of Invasion of the Body...

  • Fortune’s Bones: The Manumission Requiem

    By on February 24, 2012

    The Washington Performing Arts Society presents this musical tribute to an African-American slave who served as a doctor in post-Colonial Connecticut, which grew out of...

  • Pardon the Pundit at The Harman

    By on February 24, 2012

    The D.C.-based political comedy theater Pardon the Pundit makes hay out of the hypocrisy, absurdity, corruption and self-righteousness from both parties in the nation’s political...

  • Astro Boy and the God of Comics

    By on February 24, 2012

    Astro Boy and the God of Comics is a highly visual, retro-sci-fi show about the 1960s animation series Astro Boy, focused on a crime-fighting robot,...

  • Bad Company

    By on February 23, 2012

    In the words of Mahatma Gandhi, ''There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supersedes all...

  • Hooray for Hollywood

    By on February 23, 2012

    Why watch the Oscars alone at home when you could do it with hundreds of your best gay friends? That at least is part of...

  • Oscar Fix

    By on February 23, 2012

    Well, it's Oscar time again! Somewhere out West, at this very moment, starlets are shrieking at their personal assistants about ill-fitting Dior, Billy Crystal is...