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Dissonance Dance’s Shawn Short is ensuring his place within DC’s storied legacy of dance
Short founded his own dance company to share a world of history and hard-won wisdom with his dancers and students
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Exclusive Photos: The cast of Round House’s breathtaking ‘Spring Awakening’
Duncan Sheik's Tony-winning "Spring Awakening" finds relevance in the burgeoning sexuality of teenagers
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Pragmatic Progressive: Mary Washington’s history-making run for Baltimore mayor
State Senator Mary Washington is offering Baltimore a break from politics-as-usual
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Josh Thomas on autism, authenticity, and defining gay sex on television
The star and creative force behind Freeform's heartfelt comedy Everything's Gonna Be Okay has his own way of looking at the world
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A Leather Perfect MAL Weekend
Filled with camaraderie and high spirits, Mid-Atlantic Leather Weekend 2020 was bigger and better than ever
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Super Friends: Inside the Superhero Meetup at MAL 2020
At MAL, cosplayers and comic book fans assemble for an erotically charged meetup of masks, muscles, and spandex
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Out of the Box: Bite the Fruit’s Russwin Francisco
Eight years ago, Russwin Francisco was faced with reinventing a legendary D.C. leather store. In the process, he created a new, lasting icon: Bite the...
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Opera Provocateur: Timothy Nelson has big ideas for the In Series
Nelson is positioning the forward-thinking company as a model for the future of opera
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2019 in Review: The Age of Push-and-Pull
In unsettled times, progress for the LGBTQ community is often measured by a string of triumphs and pitfalls. Such was the story of 2019.
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The Year in Scene 2019
An assortment of some of our favorite Scene photographs from 2019, taken at various D.C. bars, venues, and community events
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Cover Story: Director Alan Paul on taking flight with Peter Pan and Wendy
With "Peter Pan and Wendy," Alan Paul helps to reshape a treasured classic and reimagines it for a new generation
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At Home with John Waters
The legendary icon on A John Waters Christmas, his book collection, his parents, and why it's going to be so hard to beat Trump
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Taylor Mac on “Holiday Sauce,” gender creativity, and the lies of Donald Trump
The MacArthur Genius grantee brings an extra-spicy Christmas pageant to the Kennedy Center
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Brian Sims has dedicated his life to achieving equality — and he won’t stop until it happens
The gay Pennsylvania state rep. is passionate, outspoken, and unwilling to censor himself
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Paula Poundstone’s cure for the Trump era is laughter. Lots of it.
After 40 years of performing stand-up, Paula Poundstone has decided that nothing heals the soul quite like laughter
