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  • A Little Bloated

    By on May 18, 2012

    How does a family endure? Studio Theatre 2ndStage's The Big Meal is entirely preoccupied with that question, and curiously, its answer is found in an...

  • Bull's Eye

    By on May 18, 2012

    Let's get one thing out of the way: Bernie is about much more than a real-life murder. ''What you're fixin' to see is a true...

  • Donna Summer’s everlasting dance

    By on May 17, 2012

    When I first came out as a college student in the mid-‘90s, the gay dance club in Columbia, Mo., would end the night with Donna...

  • Beautiful Dreamers

    By on May 17, 2012

    If opera is your music for heartbreak and plots be damned, then Massenet's gorgeously overwrought Werther is for you. This is boy meets already-engaged girl...

  • Martyr Complex

    By on May 17, 2012

    Was Saint Sebastian gay? History is actually iffy on the subject. But the celebrated, martyred Christian is sometimes referred to as ''a homosexual icon,'' in...

  • Black Comedy

    By on May 17, 2012

    Even Jack Black isn't sure if his newest film, Bernie (see review, page 54) is a comedy or a tragedy -- but don't hold that...

  • Theatre Lab’s Dramathon

    By on May 17, 2012

    The Theatre Lab School of the Dramatic Arts reprises last year’s popular Dramathon tomorrow, Friday, May 18. The Dramathon features eight 10-minute plays, written in...

  • Dustin Lance Black’s Prop 8 Play Coming to DC for Pride

    By on May 17, 2012

    Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company announced a one-night-only reading of 8, Dustin Lance Black’s play about the trial over the constitutionality of Proposition 8, to take...

  • New Video: Nicki Minaj “Right By My Side”

    By on May 17, 2012

    Nicki Minaj has released the video for “Right By My Side,” featuring Chris Brown. It’s the latest single off her new album Pink Friday: Roman...

  • Mid City Artists’ Spring Open Studios Tour is Saturday

    By on May 17, 2012

    Artists who are part of the Mid City Artists collaborative open their studios for the public to meet, learn, enjoy and buy art as part...

  • School Dances

    By on May 17, 2012

    ''Do you know that I performed at the national festival 20 years ago?'' Diane DeFries of the American College Dance Festival Association says she hears...

  • New Music: The Dig’s I Already Forgot Everything You Said

    By on May 16, 2012

    The New York City-based The Dig will release their new album, Midnight Flowers, on May 29. We’ve got a sample of their first single, the...

  • Proud Son

    By on May 15, 2012

    ''I think there's no doubt that whatever the stereotype of two lesbians raising kids is, a clean-cut, engineering, Eagle Scout entrepreneur from Iowa probably isn't...

  • Deborah Cox Headlines Capital Pride Main Stage

    By on May 14, 2012

    Gay-popular singing sensation Deborah Cox will close this year’s Capital Pride festivities as headline performer on Sunday, June 10. The festival Main Stage lineup also...

  • Hair-Raising Tale

    By on May 14, 2012

    When Everett Maroon puts his mind to writing, there's no telling what might come out. Take the novel Super Queers he's shopping around. It's your...