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  • Cho-Zen

    By on October 31, 2013

    She may have catapulted to fame for her standup when she was barely old enough to drink, but Margaret Cho has shown no signs of...

  • Keep Calm and Carrie On

    By on October 24, 2013

    What better an occasion than Halloween to don our best silk prom dresses and highest of heels, douse ourselves in a liberal splash of pig's...

  • Heel Thyself

    By on October 24, 2013

    Click here to see photographs from the High Heel Races, 2002-2012, by Todd Franson, Ward Morrison and Michael Wichita Edging up on three decades, preparations...

  • Boo Binge

    By on October 24, 2013

    Halloween isn't until next Thursday, Oct. 31, but around these parts this will be a Halloweek -- with a full week's worth of entertainment, from...

  • Queer as Carrie

    By on October 24, 2013

    When Kimberly Peirce, director of the 1999 Oscar-winning drama Boys Don't Cry, was offered the chance to helm a remake of the 1976 horror classic,...

  • The Decline and Fall of the Ex-Gay Movement

    By on October 17, 2013

    When Tracey St. Pierre was 16-years-old, she fell in love with a girl from her high school. They were head over heels for each other...

  • Pipe Dreams

    By on October 10, 2013

    Go figure. The young celebrity musician behind the biggest and loudest musical instrument is himself relatively brash and audacious. Moreover, Cameron Carpenter, the international concert...

  • Savage Intent

    By on October 3, 2013

    A decade ago Dan Savage irreverently propagated the term ''santorum'' as ''the frothy mix of lube and fecal matter that is sometimes the byproduct of...

  • Hyman S. & Freda Bernstein Jewish Literary Festival

    By on October 3, 2013

    Sunday, October 6 E.L. DoctorowAndrew's Brain: A NovelMontgomery College Cultural Arts Center7995 Georgia Ave., Silver Spring7-8:30 p.m.$30 Monday, October 7 Man of Mystery: Walter MosleyPresented...

  • From Wyoming to Washington

    By on September 26, 2013

    Setting the Stage TWO YEARS AGO, under the guidance of artistic director Paul Tetreault, Ford's Theatre launched the Lincoln Legacy Project to annually build programming...

  • Transformational Faith

    By on September 26, 2013

    In marking these 15 years since the death of Matthew Shepard, Ford's Theatre has partnered with a number of other entities. Some of the partners...

  • Special Events Calendar

    By on September 26, 2013

    Note: The sudden ''shutdown'' of the federal government may affect some performances at Ford's Theatre. Please read this update. Sunday, Sept. 29 The Laramie ProjectPay-What-You-Can...

  • Carrying the Torch

    By on September 19, 2013

    ''Torch Song Trilogy had a very big emotional impact upon me when I saw it the first time around,'' Michael Kahn says. Of course, that...

  • Moving Up

    By on September 19, 2013

    ''Have you always been a dancer?'' Actor Alex Mills gets that question a lot, since his principal work in the D.C. theater scene has been...

  • Television: 31 New Shows for 2013

    By on September 13, 2013

    I'll say this now -- Fall 2013 will go down as one of the worst in recent memory for television. The caliber of entries is...