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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.''...

  • 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...

  • 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,...

  • 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 --...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Review: Red

    Paint splatters and spills like blood in Red, soaking skin and canvas alike as an aging artist and his young assistant toil in a Manhattan...

  • Riffing on Republicans

    How could anyone be funnier than Michele Bachmann or Herman Cain? ''I kid you not,'' says Ben Schatz of the Kinsey Sicks, ''there were jokes...

  • Review: Wit

    Cynthia Nixon laughs and laughs and laughs in one late scene in Wit. The actress even seems genuinely tickled, too. (Maybe she's reveling in the...

  • Drag Race

    Ooh la La Cage. It's holding up remarkably well for a nearly 30-year-old musical, especially one that reflects an era of gay life often written...

  • Rising Star

    ''I can't even straighten my hair,'' the unforgettable Afro-headed character Michael Flores joked in Todd Graff's endearing indie film Camp from 2003. ''That's kind of...