Arts + Entertainment
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Songs of the Dragons at Studio 2ndstage
Young Jean Lee's show is more jagged kinetic poem than traditional narrative, and it plays with stereotypes at a pace that is at once furious...
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Catie Curtis at Jammin Java
The New Yorker calls the energetic Catie Curtis, part of Massachusetts’ thriving lesbian folk scene, a “folk-rock goddess.” She puts on a lovely show, and...
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Henry VIII at the Folger
Robert Richmond directs Henry VIII, Shakespeare’s final history play that reverberates with power struggles — both political and personal — as Henry’s advisors, paramour Anne...
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Cho-sen One
When gay-fave Margaret Cho takes to the Warner Theatre stage Friday, Oct. 29, she won't be alone. Aside from the audience, there will be one...
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Law and Order
Last year it was The Blind Side. This year it’s Conviction. That feel-good, based-on-a-true-story film that allows established stars to flex their acting muscles by...
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Honky Cat
''I know you could be just like you should,'' Elton John sings at the top of his new set The Union. ''If it wasn't for...
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Sweet Harmony
''Throughout the '70s,'' says Carol Maillard, ''there were a lot of pop and R&B singers putting out songs that had something to do with people's...
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Truth and Consequences
Trying to draw a conclusion about Constellation Theatre Company is not unlike looking up into the night sky, trying to discern the actual figures of...
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Frock On
''It was getting a little tedious, frankly,'' says Bette Bourne. ''All these men kind of waving their dicks around, telling us what they'd read and...
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Three Sisters at the Kennedy Center
Kennedy Center presents the exclusive North American engagement of the Chekhov International Theatre Festival’s productions of Three Sisters and Twelfth Night, the first the classic...
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Jill Sobule at Jammin Java
Jill Sobule is the original “I Kissed A Girl” pop singer — which was, apparently, the first song with an overtly gay topic aired on...
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Nick Hornby and Ben Folds
The Folger Shakespeare Library presents an exclusive evening with English novelist Nick Hornby and singer/musician Ben Folds, featuring a reading from Hornby’s novel Juliet, Naked...
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Jewish Literary Festival at the DCJCC
Festival highlights of this year’s Jewish Literary Festival include Ruth Franklin, Senior Editor at The New Republic, discussing her book A Thousand Darknesses: Lies and...
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BearCity at the Harman Center
In lieu of a full festival — that will wait until the spring — Reel Affirmations presents a few film screenings this month, kicking off...
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Paula Poundstone at The Birchmere
Longtime standup comic Paula Poundstone, self-proclaimed “virginish” and “asexual,” is these days usually the funniest person on NPR’s amusing weekend news quiz show Wait Wait"¦Don’t...
