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  • Review: Kinsey Sicks in ''Electile Dysfunction''

    By on February 16, 2012

      {Kinsey Sicks (Photo by Erez Ben Or)} Have you tired of the Republican presidential circus? If not, then here's to the Santorum surge --...

  • Fundamentally Flawed

    By on February 16, 2012

    For all the suffering that's been heaped upon gays onstage over the years -- from the alcoholic angst of The Boys in the Band to...

  • Review: Josephine Tonight

    By on February 15, 2012

    There aren't a lot of musicals to see around town over the next month. But even if every theater in town easily accessible by Metro...

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    Fabulous Baker Boy

    By on February 9, 2012

    ''My grandmother was a Cotton Club showgirl and knew Josephine Baker,'' Maurice Hines says, referring to the famous Prohibition-era Harlem nightclub. ''My brother Gregory and...

  • Mother Complex

    By on February 9, 2012

    Michael Lluberes's mother refuses to see his new show. ''She heard the title,'' he laughs, ''and she is not making an appearance.'' Technically, the show's...

  • Review: The Two Gentlemen of Verona

    By on February 3, 2012

    Two Gentleman from Verona at Shakespeare Theatre Matters of the heart take a rather bloody turn in director P.J. Paparelli's vision of Shakespeare's comedy The...

  • Review: The Elephant Room

    By on February 2, 2012

    Part magic show, part witty performance piece, part hilarious guy-silliness, The Elephant Room is the theatrical equivalent of 3 a.m. in the basement ''rec room'' with your...

  • Review: Red

    By on February 2, 2012

    Paint splatters and spills like blood in Red, soaking skin and canvas alike as an aging artist and his young assistant toil in a Manhattan...

  • Riffing on Republicans

    By on February 2, 2012

    How could anyone be funnier than Michele Bachmann or Herman Cain? ''I kid you not,'' says Ben Schatz of the Kinsey Sicks, ''there were jokes...

  • Review: Wit

    By on February 1, 2012

    Cynthia Nixon laughs and laughs and laughs in one late scene in Wit. The actress even seems genuinely tickled, too. (Maybe she's reveling in the...

  • Drag Race

    By on January 26, 2012

    Ooh la La Cage. It's holding up remarkably well for a nearly 30-year-old musical, especially one that reflects an era of gay life often written...

  • Rising Star

    By on January 26, 2012

    ''I can't even straighten my hair,'' the unforgettable Afro-headed character Michael Flores joked in Todd Graff's endearing indie film Camp from 2003. ''That's kind of...

  • Channeling a Legend

    By on January 19, 2012

    ''Growing up I wasn't a big fan of Ethel Merman,'' says Rita McKenzie. ''It wasn't that I didn't like her. I just thought, 'Wow, she's...

  • Review: Little Murders

    By on January 19, 2012

    A small company with an intrepid spirit, The American Century Theater taps another piquant time and mood in America's 20th century with Jules Feiffer's Little...

  • Review: Time Stands Still

    By on January 12, 2012

    ''Happy trails.'' ''Be careful!'' Two ways to say goodbye to someone – one playful and lighthearted, the other cautionary and concerned. Those are also the...