All posts by Doug Rule
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Religious Enrichment
Jay Michaelson thought coming out would spell the end of his religious life. He was wrong. It became a new beginning. ''I really thought that...
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The People Sing
''Oh, I don't know if this is something my parents would want to come see me in,'' Eric Van Tielen remembers thinking when he auditioned...
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Photos of Angie / Bullied
Reel Affirmations 2011 Review by Doug Rule Rating: (4 out of 5) Tuesday, 10/18/2011, 5:00 PM Feature presentation, $5 at West End Cinema JUSTICE WAS SERVED...
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An enchanted evening at the NSO
Rebecca Luker is as corny as Kansas in August. Well, at least that’s what she’s singing at the Kennedy Center Concert Hall this weekend. What...
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We Were Here
Reel Affirmations 2011 Review by Doug Rule Rating: (5 out of 5) Saturday, 10/15/2011, 11:00 AM Feature presentation, $12 at Globe Theatre DAVID WEISSMAN...
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Bashment
Reel Affirmations 2011 Review by Doug Rule Rating: (5 out of 5) Saturday, 10/15/2011, 6:00 PM Feature presentation, $12 at Atlas Center for the Performing...
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Lesbian Central
Why have all the lesbians gone to Alexandria? That may be the question on many minds next weekend, when the Birchmere hosts a couple shows...
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Surround Sounds
''In the '80s, I was a synth-pop boy,'' says Richard Chartier. ''I was very into that.'' But unlike many or even most synth-pop fans, the...
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Reel Affirmations 20
Welcome to Metro Weekly's total review and guide to the Reel Affirmations film festival for 2011. Reel Affirmations 20 runs from Thursday, Oct. 13, through...
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A Musical Mystery
Adam Gwon got the idea for his new musical The Boy Detective Fails from the most mysterious of places: Amazon.com. The online superstore's complicated algorithms...
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Raising the Bar
Sitting on its prominent 17th Street corner, the expansive windows of JR.'s look out on a community that its helped become a little more ''out''...
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Refreshing
Is Andy Bell over electronic music? ''Then I go insane, I'm bored of this modern town,'' Erasure's gay frontman sings on one track of the...
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A fortunate symphony
Almost anytime a particular scene calls for dramatic, downright scary music, Hollywood instinctively turns to the opening number, “O fortuna,” in Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana....
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Shows of Shows
There's something truly troubling about Trouble in Mind. A half-century ago, Alice Childress was set to become the first African-American female playwright on Broadway. But...
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Marriage Singer
''I want my child to be able to marry whoever she wants to marry when she grows up, and have the same rights as everyone...
