All posts by Metro Weekly Contributor
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Couples Therapy
So much unexpected joy is created by Richard Clifford's fresh, frilly production of The Game of Love and Chance at the Folger Theatre that you...
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Gays in Eurabia
Four years after the assassination of gay Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn, his warning of the threat posed to the rights of European gays and women...
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Overboard
Like a bottle of premium champagne that's lost all its fizz, Olney Theatre Center's flat and flimsy Anything Goes manages to somehow relay all of...
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Perking Me Up
Our relationship began in the early '90s, when I was still living in Des Moines and she was in New York City. I'd never been...
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To Tell the Truth
So let's be brutally honest. If I were any kind of critic I would immediately launch into a long list of reasons why you should...
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The Perfect Tonic
Like many of life's little luxuries, from a great glass of wine or a beautifully made suit, the Washington National Opera's production of Donizetti's L'Eisir...
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Bliss Free
Is there anything Will Gartshore can't do? After spectacular turns in last year's Urinetown and A Year with Frog and Toad, the local superhero manages...
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Ball Games
As a kid, I threw like a girl. Or, I would have, if the girls on my little league team hadn't thrown better than I...
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War Torn
Enterprising dad: Bakula and cast (Photo by T. Charles Erickson) It's hard to get excited about a musical set during the American Civil War, no...
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Brass Ring
If you haven't yet tired of the rampant pandering to the American myth present in every daily experience from the selling of cars to the...
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Upping the Ante
I was in Spanish class when the note came. It was a small piece of memo pad paper with an office staffer's handwriting on it....
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Let Catholics Discriminate
As laws protecting gay Americans from discrimination proliferate, they increasingly conflict with important liberties. The latest example of this clash comes from Massachusetts, where the...
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Sudden Departure
Whenever my phone rings and I see my parents' number in the little window, my first thought is always that my grandmother died. She's very...
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Carried Away
Season five of American Idol, everyone's favorite karaoke-fest, may be well underway, but fourth season champion Carrie Underwood isn't ready to give up the limelight....
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Dry Plains Drifter
The old man is snoring, all right. Not because it's raining or it's pouring, but because Lisa Peterson's revival of The Rainmaker hardly revives anything...
