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Generating Sparks
Last weekend, Hal Sparks helped Chely Wright launch an LGBT center in Kansas City, Mo. Of course, Fred Phelps and his nearby Westboro Baptist Church...
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Amsterdamned
Who over 30 hasn't thought at some point that know-it-all twentysomethings -- lounging in their skinny jeans, tweeting about their favorite CW shows -- will...
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Rocky Concert
Craig Cipollini, and Anthony Preston as Rocky, photographed by Todd Franson, Friday, Feb. 24 If Lady Gaga were to stage The Rocky Horror Show, the...
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Beyond Bare
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...
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Bad Company
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...
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Cree-ative Calling
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.''...
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Review: Blood Wedding
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...
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Review: Peter Pan: The Boy Who Hated Mothers
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,...
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Review: Kinsey Sicks in ''Electile Dysfunction''
{Kinsey Sicks (Photo by Erez Ben Or)} Have you tired of the Republican presidential circus? If not, then here's to the Santorum surge --...
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Fundamentally Flawed
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...
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Review: Josephine Tonight
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...
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Fabulous Baker Boy
''My grandmother was a Cotton Club showgirl and knew Josephine Baker,'' Maurice Hines says, referring to the famous Prohibition-era Harlem nightclub. ''My brother Gregory and...
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Mother Complex
Michael Lluberes's mother refuses to see his new show. ''She heard the title,'' he laughs, ''and she is not making an appearance.'' Technically, the show's...
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Review: The Two Gentlemen of Verona
Two Gentleman from Verona at Shakespeare Theatre Matters of the heart take a rather bloody turn in director P.J. Paparelli's vision of Shakespeare's comedy The...
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Review: The Elephant Room
Part magic show, part witty performance piece, part hilarious guy-silliness, The Elephant Room is the theatrical equivalent of 3 a.m. in the basement ''rec room'' with your...
