All posts by Randy Shulman
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Dominion Stage’s Psycho Beach Party
Dominion Stage mounts a production of the off-the-charts Charles Busch camp classic Psycho Beach Party, a mashup of mid-20th century-era beach movies and Hitchcockian suspense...
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Outspoken, Ep. 31 – Touch or Tackle? [video]
For this episode of Outspoken, Ebone Bell ventures into the D.C. Divas season afterparty at Lace nightclub and asks the ladies if they prefer touch...
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Lisa Lampanelli at the New Majority Comedy Tour
Comedy’s Lovable Queen of Mean, Lampanelli is just the "special guest" for the New Majority Comedy Tour with Gabriel Iglesias, a Last Comic Standing finalist...
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Constellation’s The Green Bird
It’s not exactly magic, but what Constellation Theatre Company is pulling off at 14th Street’s Source Theatre right now is pretty extraordinary. The fledgling nonprofit...
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Editor’s Pick: Aisha Tyler at The Improv
The first African-American woman to head Talk Soup on E! and a former regular on Friends, CSI and 24, Aisha Tyler is currently the voice...
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Venus in Fur at Studio
Inspired by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch’s notorious erotic novel, which first shocked readers in 1870, David Ives’s saucy and sensational Venus in Fur is a crackling...
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John Oates, minus Daryl Hall
Less than two years ago, John Oates reunited with Daryl Hall, for an “Up Close and Personal Tour” with the ’80s-era rock & soul pioneers....
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John Grisham’s A Time to Kill
Arena Stage presents a pre-Broadway, world premiere adaptation of A Time to Kill, John Grisham’s first novel — and his first to be adapted for...
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A Prairie Home Companion at Wolf Trap
Public radio star Garrison Keillor comes to Wolf Trap to offer D.C. another live trip to his fictional-but-oh-so-real Lake Wobegon, which will be broadcast over...
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Editor’s Pick: Roseanna Vitro, tonight at Blues Alley
With her new album The Music of Randy Newman, Roseanna Vitro stakes a claim as the first jazz vocalist to explore the richly melodic, sharply...
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Why Torture is Wrong…
American Ensemble Theater presents Why Torture is Wrong, and the People Who Love Them, a new black comedy from Christopher Durang (Beyond Therapy, Laughing Wild),...
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Amadeus at Round House
Peter Shaffer’s Tony-winning play (which became an Oscar-winning film) depicts the flamboyant genius of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart as seen through the eyes of his desperately...
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Holliday's Road
When you hear Jennifer Holliday launch into her signature song, ''And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going,'' with the Gay Men's Chorus of Washington...
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Editor’s Pick: Notorious
The American Film Institute’s Silver Theatre presents the second in a three-part series this year exploring the works of the great filmmaker. Part II focuses...
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Editor’s Pick: Special Agent Galactica’s Rapture
Local drag phenom Galactica, a.k.a. the “pink-haired diva,” will sing — not lip-synch — at her latest cabaret-style show “Rapture!” A live band, the Escape...
