Arts & Entertainment
Gartshore plans cabaret performance at Signature
Local gay crooner Peter Fox also set for concert series
Actor Will Gartshore (Photo courtesy of Signature Theater)
Local gay actor/singer Will Gartshore is among the performers slated for Signature Theatre’s “Sizzlin’ Summer Cabaret” series which begins this weekend “I Capture the Castle” with 8 p.m. performances Saturday and Sunday.
Gartshore’s show, “All the King’s Men” is July 21 at 8 p.m. and July 22 and 7:30. Local gay singer Peter Fox also performs on the 22nd with a 9:30 show called “Be Yourself (Everyone Else is Taken).”
Gartshore, a two-time Helen Hayes Award winner, was inspired to create a show around a real-life incident that happened in January when he shattered his left wrist ice skating.
“I ended up with a titanium plate and 10 screws in my hand so this theme of breaking things and putting them back together sort of emerged,” he says. “I like to pick the title and then sort of riff on it and see where it takes me.”
The performance will feature pop and show tune standards from acts as diverse as Coldplay and Stevie Nicks to Steven Sondheim.
Tickets are $25. Performances are at Signature (4200 Campbell Ave.) in Arlington. Call 703-820-9771 or visit www.signature-theatre.org for details.
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This John Waters interview has been edited for readability — but perhaps not human decency
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By WESLEY CASE | At 80 years old, John Waters is still the ideal dinner guest — incisively sharp, quick-witted and funny as hell.
The chic Baltimore native proved it again and again in a recent Zoom interview, calling from his summer home in Provincetown, Mass.
The occasion was the Blu-ray releases of two of his movies — the 1977 dark comedy “Desperate Living” and his enduring 1988 musical “Hairspray” — on June 23 by the Criterion Collection, which publishes restorations of films it deems culturally important. The Criterion stamp of approval has become the gold standard among cinephiles.
“It’s like getting an award,” said Waters, who wrote and directed both films.
The rest of this article can be read on the Baltimore Banner’s website.
The Washington Blade held the seventh annual Pride on the Pier at The Wharf DC on Saturday, June 13.
(Washington Blade photos by Landon Shackelford)
The 2026 Lost River Pride Festival was held on the scenic grounds of the Lost River Farmers Market in Lost City, W.Va. on Saturday, June 13. Headliner Tom Goss performed at the festival and gave a second performance at the nearby Guesthouse Lost River.
(Washington Blade photos by Michael Key)
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