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  • Paying Homage

    By on April 12, 2012

    Every night just before performing his one-man show, Jorge ''Jay'' Alvarez has a moment of panic. ''Oh my God, do I have this in me...

  • Swimming from the sharks

    By on April 7, 2012

    In the one man show, Be Careful! The Sharks Will Eat You!, Jorge “Jay” Alvarez recounts his family’s escape from Fidel Castro’s Cuba in 1964....

  • Review: Josephine Tonight

    By on February 15, 2012

    There aren't a lot of musicals to see around town over the next month. But even if every theater in town easily accessible by Metro...

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    Fabulous Baker Boy

    By on February 9, 2012

    ''My grandmother was a Cotton Club showgirl and knew Josephine Baker,'' Maurice Hines says, referring to the famous Prohibition-era Harlem nightclub. ''My brother Gregory and...

  • A Broadway Christmas Carol at MetroStage

    By on December 14, 2011

    Kathy Feininger’s A Broadway Christmas Show tells the famous Charles Dickens classic by altering the lyrics to familiar Broadway tunes, 40 or so in all,...

  • Broadway Carols

    By on November 23, 2011

    ''I was the first gay Scrooge they ever had,'' says Michael Sharp, who starred in Kathy Feininger's A Broadway Christmas Carol when it was originally...

  • A Broadway Christmas Carol at MetroStage

    By on December 14, 2010

    “Deck the halls with lots of showtunes,” Donna Migliaccio sings in the opening number of A Broadway Christmas Carol. And that, she does. By the...

  • Fruitcake Carols

    By on December 1, 2010

    ''Deck the halls with lots of showtunes,'' Donna Migliaccio sings in the opening number of A Broadway Christmas Carol. And that, she does. By the...

  • Moon Shine

    By on September 22, 2010

    Marry for money? Why not? If one marries up, life can be that much better. That, at least, is the guiding philosophy of Susy Branch,...

  • Glimpses of the Moon at Metro Stage

    By on September 8, 2010

    MetroStage kicks off its season with this jazz age musical based on the novel by Edith Wharton, with book and lyrics by Tajlei Levis and...

  • Cabaret Pearl

    By on October 29, 2008

    Pearl Bailey died 18 years ago, but her irrepressible spirit has been reincarnated in the body of Roz White -- and Washington is all the...

  • Shock Operas

    By on August 6, 2008

    Normally, there is nothing more irritating (to some at least) than a creative work that feels the need to announce itself upon arrival, to clarify...

  • Unfinished Business

    By on October 17, 2007

    While ''Seasons of Love'' was the unquestioned centerpiece of the late American composer Jonathan Larson's musical Rent, it was the more intimate ''One Song Glory''...

  • Geek Love

    By on April 18, 2007

    First of all, it's okay if your first reaction to hearing about a show that parodies Andrew Lloyd Webber musicals is, ''How will I know...