Stage
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A Single Man
Boy, do people really get hung up about getting hitched. It wasn't that long ago when gay people were effectively immune from a lot of...
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Don't Miss the Boat
Deep into Act 1 of Anything Goes, two listless gossipmongers groan that there's nobody famous aboard this voyage of the cruise ship the S.S. American....
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Marriage Inequality
In a new play now running as part of the lineup at the Source Festival, a gay couple and a lesbian couple in D.C. swap...
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Metal Musical Monster
''That's pretty much what we do, a lot of rock operas and rock musicals, anything with a little punch to it,'' says Melissa Baughman of...
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Art Imitates Life
Nathan Lane is playing a flamboyantly gay character on Broadway, one who feels compelled to be closeted, or at least discreet. No, his name is...
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Bird Brain
A gloriously neurotic, hilariously self-aware cri de coeur as told through a cleverly irreverent adaptation of Chekhov's The Seagull, Aaron Posner's Stupid Fucking Bird is...
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Sensually Cerebral
One of the things that separate playwright Tom Stoppard from the herd is his near ruthless assumption of his audience's intelligence, his plays racing with...
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Wintry Mix
There are two challenges to Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale. The first is protagonist King Leontes's near-instantaneous and murderous conviction that his pregnant queen Hermione is...
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Olney’s Edge
'' were a little concerned that this might not be the kind of show you should take your children to,'' says David Elliott. ''Another person...
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Long Story Short
''There's no real local GLBT theater company that's producing regularly,'' says Matt Ripa. ''When you do see theater companies that are doing plays with gay...
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All for One
Though the urge to wax lyrical is almost overpowering (and follows below), let's cut to the chase: Synetic's The Three Musketeers is a joyously accessible...
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Arid and Overwhelming
It's always a little disconcerting when you don't get what all the fuss is all about. A case in point, Jon Robin Baitz's Other Desert...
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Gilgamesh Follies
Right now, there's a work of art gracing the stage at the Source on 14th Street. And I don't mean Gilgamesh, the fantastical show created...
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Heel Thyself: ''Kinky Boots''
The new Broadway musical Kinky Boots is hands down this year's gayest -- or ''most fabulous,'' to go with Entertainment Weekly's coded description. You could...
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War Torn: ''Wallenstein''
Playing in rep with Coriolanus, the Shakespeare Theatre Company's Wallenstein offers another angle on a powerful military man falling fatally from grace. As extraordinary as...
