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All posts tagged "atlas performing arts center"

  • Gay Chanticleer

    ''I THINK I'D PREFER IF YOU DIDN'T know anything special about me,'' Matt Alber sings at the start of his latest album Constant Crows. ''Yes,...

  • Can’t Stop the Music at Atlas

    Atlas’s third annual Gay 101 film series has been more than cut in half, with only four films screening as opposed to last year’s eleven....

  • Arts Hub

    Over the past few years the once-derelict H Street Corridor near Union Station has become one of the city's buzziest. And it has the arts...

  • Balladeers

    The In Series targets one performance of every production to the LGBT community, labeling it ''OUT at the In Series.'' But honestly, any performance of...

  • Required Viewing

    ''The real difference between last year and this year,'' says Scott Kenison, founding chief operating officer of the Atlas Performing Arts Center, ''is that this...

  • Ain’t MIsbehavin’ at the Atlas

    The Washington Savoyards presents a production of this rollicking, swinging, finger-snapping revue, a tribute to the music of 1930s Harlem, where Thomas “Fats” Waller and...

  • Atlas’s Tribute to Elizabeth Taylor

    The Atlas Performing Arts Center has quickly organized a screening of several of the more memorable films starring the late, great Elizabeth Taylor. The Whitman...

  • Mixing It Up

    ''It was really great. Lots of new people, younger people, and a lot of the performances sold out.'' Scott Kenison is still basking in the...

  • Cultural Crossroads

    ''There's so much stuff going on,'' says Scott Kenison. ''It's really like multicultural on steroids.'' Kenison, chief operating officer of the Atlas Performing Arts Center,...

  • Baked Alaska

    Is Sarah Palin the Antichrist? “That’s to be interpreted by the ,” says Gross National Product’s John Simmons, referring to his theater company’s latest comedy...

  • Halloween Screenings at the Atlas

    The Atlas Performing Arts Center, haunting the H Street Corridor, is screening creepy classic films all day on Halloween Sunday, Oct. 31, starting at 2...

  • Cabaret at the Atlas Performing Arts Center

    On Thursday, Aug. 19, the Atlas Gay 101 Film Series presents Cabaret, Bob Fosse’s 1972 film based on Kander and Ebb’s musical and starring Liza...

  • Camp Celluloid

    ''The first time I ever went out in drag was as Patty Duke. So I have this thing.'' That ''thing'' is why Valley of the...

  • Dancing Duality

    Economic turmoil. War. Chaos and totalitarianism. You think things are bad now? Let the In Series and the Washington Ballet transport you back to a...

  • The Return of the Lizard

    Mark Lee knows how to make an impression. There was the success of his first Sunday night party in Adams Morgan during the late 1980s....