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All posts tagged "wolf trap"

  • Wolf Trap presents Don Giovanni

    Mozart’s celebrated dramatic comedy Don Giovanni tells the story of a famous womanizer who is given one last chance to repent. Wolf Trap presents a...

  • Carlile's Cause

    Of the perks that come with increasing fame, lesbian folk rocker Brandi Carlile is most honored by the aspiring musicians who seek out her counsel....

  • Rain: A Tribute to the Beatles at Wolf Trap

    Wolf Trap welcomes back the national tour of the Broadway hit production RAIN, featuring Beatlesmania performers re-creating live every note, song, gesture and nuance of...

  • k.d. lang brings her siss boom bang to Wolf Trap

    Stalwart lesbian folk-popper k.d. lang, credited with helping to establish the alt-country genre, brings her big band Siss Boom Bang to a show at Wolf...

  • 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...

  • Musical Theater Band

    ''She was certain that I was gay, because I was in New York to study musical theater and I was playing piano [at a gay...

  • John Eaton, tonight at Wolf Trap

    The music of Cole Porter and Hoagy Carmichael kicks off this year’s three-part series on American pop and jazz standards at Wolf Trap, ably led...

  • Gays and Dolls

    ''It's one of the great gay musicals of all time,'' Gordon Greenberg asserts of Guys and Dolls. No, there's nothing gay per se about Frank...

  • Dolly Parton comes to Wolf Trap

    Some people refer to her as the Queen of Country, and that’s all well and good. In fact, Dolly Parton is one of the savviest...

  • Brian Stokes Mitchell performs with the NSO at Wolf Trap

    Marvin Hamlisch leads Broadway star Brian Stokes Mitchell and the NSO at Wolf Trap in a performance of classic showtunes, including South Pacific, Carousel and...

  • Hey, it’s tradition! Fiddler on the Roof at Wolf Trap

    A Jewish Sound of Music of sorts and one of Broadway’s cash cows, Fiddler on the Roof was first staged in 1964, as directed and...

  • Wedding Singer

    ''I put together this program before ,'' says Steven Blier, ''but now that it has, the program has a different meaning...

  • Mamma Mia at Wolf Trap

    The popular ABBA jukebox musical Mamma Mia reportedly has more productions playing internationally than any other musical. Catherine Johnson’s sunny tale set on a Greek...

  • A Prairie Home Companion at Wolf Trap

    Public radio star Garrison Keillor comes to Wolf Trap to offer D.C. another live trip to his fictional-but-oh-so-real Lake Wobegon, which will be broadcast over...

  • Big Bad Bass

    Matt Boehler photographed at Wolf Trap by Todd Franson ''There's nothing more gay than opera!'' exclaims opera singer Matt Boehler. ''We have fabulous divas wearing...