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  • Some Enchanted Story

    The precursor to today's fight for marriage equality was, of course, the fight for interracial marriage. And that didn't reach its biggest milestone, the Supreme...

  • Superstars

    A little bit country, a little bit rock and roll, WSC Avant Bard's spring rep of Euripides's The Bacchae and Sam Shepard's The Tooth of...

  • Vice Squad

    It's worth knowing that Bachelorette has made playwright Leslye Headland a very, very popular woman. This was the play, after all, that attracted Hollywood goofballs...

  • Double Serving

    At one point in the middle of the complicated hijinks of the Shakespeare Theatre Company's The Servant of Two Masters, Truffaldino, the servant in question,...

  • Maps and Mythology

    The specter of AIDS haunts Steven Dietz's Lonely Planet – and yet the disease is never mentioned by name. But it is AIDS causing the...

  • Gay Skate: Xanadu

    ''It appeals to more than just the gay audience, but for some reason it appeals to our sensibility the most,'' says Matthew Gardiner. In fact,...

  • All Skate

    Leg warmers, roller disco, an Aussie pop star cavorting on the big screen as a muse from Greek mythology…. Gee, the '80s got off to...

  • A Little Bloated

    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...

  • Golden Tribute

    Maybe you don't love Judy Garland. Maybe you don't understand or – gasp! – respect her ties to the gay community, or why she still...

  • Gershwin Jukebox

    They're no Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire, but Kelli O'Hara and Matthew Broderick make quite the dancing pair in the new Broadway musical Nice Work...

  • Pool Party

    ''Some of the front rows of the audience ,'' says Constellation Theatre Company's managing director A.J. Guban. ''Just a little splash, just a little...

  • Westward, Shrew!

    The West is more mild than wild in Folger Theatre's new production of The Taming of the Shrew, William Shakespeare's so-called comedy that revels in...

  • Bad Faith

    Every night right now at Broadway's St. James Theatre, officials are taking donations, passing around collection plates as if the audience were a congregation at...

  • Soul-Stirring

    Most actors don't make their stage debut at the Kennedy Center. But then the 15 women in the Theater Lab's My Soul, Look Back and...

  • Crossed Lines

    As a piece arriving in the midst of a chattering class that has not only discovered the joy and angst of parenthood but also the...