In this week's cover story, featuring interviews with Glenn Close and Janet McTeer, the stars of Albert Nobbs, there were a few nice moments with McTeer that, sadly, landed on the cutting-room floor. One of them dealt with McTeer's work on the new film The Woman in Black, a thriller starring Daniel Radcliffe and releasing today into theaters nationwide. She told Metro Weekly:

"I really don't have a ton to do in [Woman in Black]. I play Ciaran Hinds's wife. Ciaran and I have worked together many times and all we do is laugh from start to finish. And Daniel Radcliffe, of course, was just delightful, I have to say. Absolutely delightful. Somehow, I appear to be the only English actor who wasn't in a Harry Potter movies -- I don't know how that happened.

"Daniel and I hadn't met before and it was so lovely to watch a young actor transitioning from all of those things he did as a kid to now being a young adult doing young adult kind of roles. And he's so clever. He's a very, very intelligent young man and such a nice man for somebody who has gone through that whole uber-uber fame at such a very young age. I think that's quite tough on the kids during their developing years. He just turned out this incredibly hard-working, very concentrated, absolutely charming young man. I thought he was delightful."

I also asked McTeer a question I frequently pose to straight actors I interview: "Do you remember the first time a gay person came out to you?" Her response:

"I remember the first person who came out to me who I knew was gay and other people didn't inasmuch as I guessed that they were gay. I was about 19, I think. And I remember saying to this person, 'You've really got to stop pretending that you're something that you're not. Why are you doing that? You have every right to be who you are. It doesn't matter. 'I said, 'Your parents will get over it.' I don't really remember. It must have been before I went to college. I honestly don't remember. I suppose the thing is, inherently, it's never made no nevermind to me. I've never quite understood why anyone had a problem with it. But then I do slightly live in my own world."

Read the full Janet McTeer interview here.

Photo by Robert Ashcroft

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Suzanne Westenhoefer may not have been the first openly gay comic -- her friend Kate Clinton beat her to that punch -- but she did help pave the way for the many we're blessed with today. She returns to the Birchmere for an annual stop, where she's sure to talk about her budding career as a web and film actor. Saturday, Feb. 4, at 7:30 p.m. The Birchmere, 3701 Mt. Vernon Ave., Alexandria. Tickets are $45. Call 703-549-7500 or visit birchmere.com.

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"Light Moves" is a collaborative piece, co-commissioned by the Clarice Smith Center, from choreographer Margaret Jenkins working with media artist Naomie Kremer, composer Paul Dresher and poet Michael Palmer. Friday, Feb. 3, and Saturday, Feb. 4, at 8 p.m. Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center's Ina and Jack Kay Theatre, University of Maryland, University Boulevard and Stadium Drive. College Park. Tickets are $35. Call 301-405-ARTS or visit claricesmithcenter.umd.edu.

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A multi-genre but roots-centered supergroup featuring D.C.-area musicians from the Billy Coulter Band, the Junkyard Saints, Alexandria Kleztet and Western Bob, The Natty Beaux will stir the crowds at the new Hamilton club into a frenzy. Expect to hear toe-tapping renditions of familiar tunes from Ray Charles, Elvis Pressley, Nat King Cole and Jerry Lee Lewis. Thursday, Feb. 2. Doors at 6:30 p.m. The Hamilton, 600 14th St. NW. Tickets are $15. Call 202-787-1000 or visit thehamiltondc.com.

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Landmark's E Street Cinema presents a screening of Opera on Film: 3 Superstars in Berlin, a taped performance at Berlin's massive Waldbuhne amphitheater featuring three of the opera world's biggest stars: Soprano Anna Netrebko, her baritone husband Erwin Schrott and tenor Jonas Kaufman. The opera's greatest hits program, with the Prague Philharmonic Orchestra accompanying the singers, includes selections from Bernstein's West Side Story, Gershwin's Porgy and Bess, Mozart's Don Giovanni, Gounod's Faust and Puccini's Manon Lescaut. Thursday, Jan. 26, and Wednesday, Feb. 1, at 7 p.m. Landmark's E Street Cinema, 555 11th St. NW. Call 202-452-7672 or visit landmarktheatres.com.

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In a work commissioned by Ford's Theatre, playwright Richard Hellesen explores the two documented encounters between Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln during a period of national crisis. As Lincoln searches for a way to end slavery in the summers of 1863 and 1864, Douglass's rhetoric and conviction challenges the president to envision a post-emancipation world. Together, the men imagine not only a unified nation but a society that brings truth to the Declaration of Independence's assertion that "all men are created equal." Jennifer L. Nelson directs the production starring David Selby as Lincoln. To Feb. 12. Ford's Theatre, 511 10th St. NW. Tickets are $15 to $45. Call 800-982-2787 or visit fordstheatre.org.

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The Washington Performing Arts Society presents a concert with celebrated pianist Simone Dinnerstein. The program includes Schumann, Bach, Brahms and Chopin. Tonight, Sunday, Jan. 29, at 7 p.m. Music Center at Strathmore, 5301 Tuckerman Lane, North Bethesda. Tickets are $45 to $85. Call 301-581-5100 or visit strathmore.org.

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The rock legend and his band return in March with the act's 17th studio album, Wrecking Ball, and it's said to live up the title, with Springsteen at his angriest over the woeful state of economic justice in America today. A month after the set's release, he'll stop at the Verizon Center, and tickets go on sale this Saturday, Jan. 28, at 10 a.m. for the Sunday, April 1 show. Verizon Center, 601 F St. NW. Tickets are $71 to $101. Call 202-628-3200 or visit verizoncenter.com.

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Local drag phenom Special Agent Galactica, a.k.a. the "pink-haired diva," performs with her live band, the Escape Pods, led by musical director Captain Satellite, and featuring two new members of the crew, dubbed the Comettes. "The Last of the Secret Agents" is an all-new show in which the motley crew sings and spins through a hodgepodge of songs by Pat Benatar, Queen, Alan Menkin, B.B. King, Stevie Nicks, Justin Timberlake, Etta James, Oscar Hammerstein, even an original from Johnson himself. It's billed as "the only show of its kind in the Washington, D.C. area," and it's hard to argue that. Friday, Jan. 27, and Saturday, Jan. 28, at 8 p.m. Black Fox Lounge, 1723 Connecticut Ave. NW. Tickets are $15. Call 202-483-1723 or visit blackfoxlounge.com.

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The DCJCC's GLBT Outreach and Engagement entity wants to play matchmaker with its special speed-dating fundraising event next weekend. But this isn't your speed-dating of old. No, GLOE's matchmakers will pair LGBT Jews with similar interests or desires, as long as they register for the schmoozing event in advance. Door prizes, silent auction items and sweets will also be on hand at the fundraiser, hosted by drag yenta Silvia Sparkelstein. Advanced registration required, with a deadline of Sunday, Jan. 29, for the event Saturday, Feb. 4, at 7:30 p.m. Hotel Palomar. Tickets are $24 to $36. Visit washingtondcjcc.org/gloe.

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