''When I do events or concerts, most of the fans that stay afterwards are female,'' says Anthony Rapp. ''It's not like it's a secret.'' Nope,...
“What if God was one of us?” Joan Osborne asked in her 1995 hit. Since then, she’s gone on to tour with the Motown band...
Named after ’60s jazz saxophonist Rahsaan Roland Kirk, the openly gay Rahsaan Patterson is probably best known for portraying The Kid on the popular ’80s...
''I've felt so much love and acceptance, it's overwhelming,'' Estelle says. '' gay people, it's a whole different level.'' In fact, the Grammy-winning British soul...
Suzanne Westenhoefer may not have been the first openly gay comic — her friend Kate Clinton beat her to that punch — but she did...
The former lead singer of 1980s new-wave band ‘Til Tuesday (“Voices Carry”), Aimee Mann gained further recognition as a solo artist for her work on...
A natural storyteller with a fantastic sense of humor and spontaneity, Cheryl Wheeler performs many songs in concert that haven’t even been recorded on one...
In what’s now become an annual event, legendary Baltimore filmmaker John Waters returns to the Birchmere with a one-man show motivated by a genuine love...
Why have all the lesbians gone to Alexandria? That may be the question on many minds next weekend, when the Birchmere hosts a couple shows...
A random shirtless guy ran right through a video shoot for smooth jazz artist Dave Koz's new single, ''This Guy's In Love With You.'' ''He...
Just two months ago, the Philadelphia-area singer-songwriter Eric Roberson performed on a double-bill with Vivian Green at the Birchmere under the title “Soul Survivors.” Now...
Duncan Sheik is once again working with Steven Sater, with whom he created the Tony-winning 2006 sensation Spring Awakening, this time on an adaptation of...
''I thought that I hadn't really lived that much,'' says the 48-year-old legendary punk-rocker Bob Mould about being approached by a publisher in 2001 to...
He may now call San Francisco home, but Bob Mould still stops in his former D.C. stomping grounds regularly, for the dance party Blowoff and...
''Musical theater -- it just wasn't my cup of tea,'' says Duncan Sheik. The Tony Award-winning composer of Spring Awakening performed in Oliver! and Annie...