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All posts tagged "the birchmere"

  • A John Waters Christmas at The Birchmere

    In what’s now become an annual event, legendary Baltimore filmmaker John Waters returns to the Birchmere with a one-man show motivated by a genuine love...

  • Lesbian Central

    Why have all the lesbians gone to Alexandria? That may be the question on many minds next weekend, when the Birchmere hosts a couple shows...

  • Koz Celebre

    A random shirtless guy ran right through a video shoot for smooth jazz artist Dave Koz's new single, ''This Guy's In Love With You.'' ''He...

  • Eric Roberson at The Birchmere

    Just two months ago, the Philadelphia-area singer-songwriter Eric Roberson performed on a double-bill with Vivian Green at the Birchmere under the title “Soul Survivors.” Now...

  • Duncan Sheik at The Birchmere

    Duncan Sheik is once again working with Steven Sater, with whom he created the Tony-winning 2006 sensation Spring Awakening, this time on an adaptation of...

  • Trail Blazer

    ''I thought that I hadn't really lived that much,'' says the 48-year-old legendary punk-rocker Bob Mould about being approached by a publisher in 2001 to...

  • Everything’s coming up Bob Mould

    He may now call San Francisco home, but Bob Mould still stops in his former D.C. stomping grounds regularly, for the dance party Blowoff and...

  • Sheik Appeal

    ''Musical theater -- it just wasn't my cup of tea,'' says Duncan Sheik. The Tony Award-winning composer of Spring Awakening performed in Oliver! and Annie...

  • Queer Ear

    Susan Werner trained to be an opera singer, but admits she ''was a little too much of an introvert.'' She wasn't loud enough. Instead, Werner...

  • Ashford & Simpson at The Birchmere

    The husband-and-wife songwriting duo Ashford & Simpson is still solid — solid as a, well, soul is what this is. And ain’t no mountain or...

  • Lizz Wright at The Birchmere

    A blues-fired R&B singer with a countrified bent and a gospel and jazz background, New Yorker by way of Georgia Lizz Wright sometimes powers her...

  • Lesbian Laughs

    In the early '90s, Suzanne Westenhoefer made the rounds of that era's spate of daytime talk shows -- hosted by the likes of Sally Jesse...

  • A John Waters Christmas at The Birchmere

    An encore performance after last year’s sellout success, legendary Baltimore filmmaker John Waters returns to the Birchmere in his one-man show motivated by a genuine...

  • Kelly Willis & Bruce Robison Holiday Show

    In 2003, Kelly Willis and Bruce Robison, two married country music singer-songwriters who you may remember as stars in Claritin commercials from a few years...

  • Shelby Lynne and Allison Moorer at The Birchmere

    Sisters Shelby Lynne and Allison Moorer perform together in only five cities on this fall’s Side by Side Tour. Area alt-country fans, consider yourselves lucky....