We’ll probably never see “Iraq War: The Musical!” (thank goodness). The lives of soldiers can be expressed in song and dance, though, as proved by “Black Watch,” now...

Amanda Palmer makes social media seem punk-rock. The former frontwoman of the Dresden Dolls, who now works solo, spends a lot of time talking to fans online. She funded her l...

When Atlantic Monthly writer Hanna Rosin published an article in the magazine called “The End of Men,” she didn’t choose the headline. But once the article led to a book...

In the never-ending quest to say something new about the plays of William Shakespeare, scholars have categorized and recategorized the 38 works: You’ve got your comedies an...

On Valentine’s Day, author Cheryl Strayed walked out onto a stage in San Francisco and admitted she was the author of the (until-then) anonymous advice column “Dear Sugar,...

Gina Gershon specializes in adult films. Not that kind! Well, not quite that kind. Granted, two of her most iconic roles were as bisexual Vegas dancer Cristal Conners in direc...

It’s hard out there for a regional theater. You score an original nonfiction show that goes on to worldwide fame; then it turns out the show was more than a little bit ficti...

While in the White House, Andrew Jackson briefly possessed a block of cheese that weighed nearly 1,400 pounds. It was sent to him in the 1830s as a gift from a dairy farmer in...

In political Washington, discourse about religion doesn’t often delve into personal relationships with God. Instead, it’s about control — whether it’s funding for reli...

Though the Internet gets a bad rap for advancing the careers of people who don’t deserve it — Antoine Dodson, Rebecca Black, et al — it’s also the best artistic merito...

The 2012 Capital Fringe Festival kicks off Thursday, with all its theatrical insanity running through July 29. Fringe brings together dozens of small theater groups from all o...

The Addams Family came to life as characters in cartoons in the New Yorker magazine, penned by macabre genius Charles Addams. The kooky clan, immortalized on TV and in movies,...

“The Merry Wives of Windsor,” Shakespeare’s play about two smart, funny women, boasts what is possibly (oh, the speculation) one of the only original plots the Bard ever...

In the beginning, there was GRID. It was the early 1980s, and gay men were dying from a disease that doctors had labeled Gay-Related Immune Deficiency. No one understood much ...

When the world ends, the people who survive the plague/nuclear winter/supervolcano will still be telling stories. But which stories? “The Simpsons” seemed like a good cand...