Arts & Entertainment
B-Boy Blues
Gay romantic storyline plays Black Theatre Festival at Howard University, Wednesday
Jas Anderson as Raheim in ‘B-Boy Blues.’ (Photo courtesy James Earl Hardy)
B-Boy Blues: The Play, directed by Stanley Bennett Clay, will be performed on Wednesday night at 7 p.m. at Howard University’s Ira Aldridge Theater (2455 6 St., N.W.) as part of the D.C. Black Theatre Festival.
The show is adapted from the best-selling novel of the same name by James Earl Hardy and features a gay romantic storyline. Hardy is excited that it will be shown at Howard, given the university’s tense history with LGBT students and faculty.
The debut performance of B-Boy Blues: The Play last March at the Downtown Urban Theater in New York was a sold-out success. Admission for the D.C. show is $15. For more information and to purchase tickets, visit dcblacktheatrefestival.com.
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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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