Arts + Entertainment
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Beyond Bare
When Rutgers University student Tyler Clementi killed himself in 2010, Carl Menninger might have been more disturbed than most. As a gay assistant professor at...
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From Shuffle to Show Boat at the In Series
From Shuffle to Show Boat: Prelude to the American Musical explores how the musical came to be, drawing from vaudeville, operetta, blues and Tin Pan...
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Devil Boys from Beyond at Landless
Landless Theater Company’s latest campy cartoon character romp — Devil Boys from Beyond — is said to be a hybrid of Invasion of the Body...
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Fortune’s Bones: The Manumission Requiem
The Washington Performing Arts Society presents this musical tribute to an African-American slave who served as a doctor in post-Colonial Connecticut, which grew out of...
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Pardon the Pundit at The Harman
The D.C.-based political comedy theater Pardon the Pundit makes hay out of the hypocrisy, absurdity, corruption and self-righteousness from both parties in the nation’s political...
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Astro Boy and the God of Comics
Astro Boy and the God of Comics is a highly visual, retro-sci-fi show about the 1960s animation series Astro Boy, focused on a crime-fighting robot,...
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Bad Company
In the words of Mahatma Gandhi, ''There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supersedes all...
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Hooray for Hollywood
Why watch the Oscars alone at home when you could do it with hundreds of your best gay friends? That at least is part of...
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Oscar Fix
Well, it's Oscar time again! Somewhere out West, at this very moment, starlets are shrieking at their personal assistants about ill-fitting Dior, Billy Crystal is...
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Reagon's Rites
Our community's progress with marriage equality has been impressive, but it's not enough for Toshi Reagon. ''What about the gay people that still don't want...
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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...
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Bare: A Pop Opera at AU
American University’s theater program offers a production of Bare: A Pop Opera, a musical about two closeted gay roommates at a Catholic boarding school who...
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SpeakeasyDC’s Born This Way at Atlas Intersections
Speakeasy DC’s “Born This Way: Stories About Queer Culture in America” features gay and straight storytellers speaking out on the impact of “Queer Culture” on...
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Cree-ative Calling
This Friday, Feb. 24, the National Museum of the American Indian will open its doors after hours for a special treat ''recommended for mature audiences.''...
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Concert Review: Zola Jesus
''We're having technical issues,'' singer Nika Roza Danilova, who performs as Zola Jesus, told the packed crowd at U Street Music Hall toward the beginning...
