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  • Queer as Carrie

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    ''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

    ''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

    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...

  • Films for Fall 2013: Blockbuster Movies and Documentaries

    Our long summer nightmare of terrible movies is over. For the rest of the year, we'll no longer slog through the bloated dregs of Hollywood....

  • Galleries and Museums in D.C.

    Museums and galleries often see their role as one of spotlighting and analyzing pivotal events and developments. So it should come as no surprise that...

  • Dance: Ballet, Modern and Cultural Performances in D.C.

    Washington may not be a capital when it comes to the art of dance, but a growing number of nationally known dance companies do call...

  • Classical Music: Symphonies, Operas and Choral in D.C.

    The region's fall classical music season doesn't start in earnest until after the leaves begin to turn. And then in no time it's holiday season,...