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  • Get ready for the Prom!

    By on March 16, 2011

    The Capital Queer Prom, that is. B.O.I. Marketing (headed by Metro Weekly’s Outspoken host Ebone Bell) presents this fifth annual event, this year benefiting the...

  • Jewish Conflict

    By on March 16, 2011

    You don’t go to the theater for silence. It’s not a place for meditation or prayer, after all -- at least not if it’s a...

  • Joker's Wilde

    By on March 16, 2011

    For those familiar with Bill Bryson's latest doorstop, At Home, a humorous and highly informative historical account of Anglo-American domestic life, the Shakespeare Theatre Company's...

  • Nothin' Dirty Goin' On

    By on March 16, 2011

    The message popped up on the Gay Men's Chorus of Washington, DC's (GMCW) Facebook page early on Thursday morning, just about a week before the...

  • Return to Form

    By on March 16, 2011

    ''It's just like me to overstay my welcome,'' Michael Stipe sings near the top of R.E.M.'s new album Collapse Into Now. Later, the queer artist...

  • Norwegian Nonsense

    By on March 16, 2011

    ''It's just a ridiculous name for a group,'' chuckles Svein Berge, one-half of the Norwegian duo known as Röyksopp. ''Let's call ourselves something that is...

  • Marriage Convenience

    By on March 16, 2011

    Mayor Gray may have taken time out March 3 at the Covenant Baptist United Church of Christ to mark the one-year anniversary of marriage equality...

  • Hanson’s exuberant new music video

    By on March 15, 2011

    Hanson’s new video for the upbeat single “Give A Little” — to be released on iTunes on April 5 — is playful, punchy and, quite...

  • The Strokes headline Sweetlife Festival Sunday, May 1 at Merriweather

    By on March 15, 2011

    Just announced — The Sweetlife Festival 2011 is coming to Merriweather on Sunday, May 1, and what an amazing line-up of acts: The Strokes, Girl...

  • Loretta Lynn Postponed

    By on March 15, 2011

    The Loretta Lynn concert set for this Thursday, March 17 has been rescheduled. The new date is Oct. 15, 2011. Tickets will be honored. Refunds...

  • Whores and Hard Candy

    By on March 15, 2011

    This weekend the Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington presents a fully staged, all-male production of the Broadway musical The Best Little Whore House In Texas...

  • The Big Uneasy at AFI Silver

    By on March 13, 2011

    Simpsons castmember — voice of Mr. Burns, Waylon Smithers, Ned Flanders and Principal Skinner, among others — and New Orleans resident Harry Shearer will appear...

  • Theatre J’s The Chosen

    By on March 13, 2011

    Aaron Posner directs his adaptation of this beloved play based on the novel by Chaim Potok about two boys, two fathers and two very different...

  • Outtake: Edward Albee on why critics should read plays

    By on March 12, 2011

    In creating a final cut of this week’s Edward Albee cover story, we had to lose a few passages for space. One of those was...

  • Play in a Day

    By on March 11, 2011

    Teams representing six D.C.-area professional theater companies will write, direct, rehearse and perform six original plays in a 24-hour period in this seventh annual event...