André Hereford

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Mario Calvani – Photo: Gerson LopesFor much of his career, Marco Calvani has tread a dual path as an actor in his native Italy, and as a writer and director of his own plays, short films, and his first feature, the P-town-set gay romance High Tide, released earlier this year. Ready to capitalize on that success, Calvani, based in L.A. was prepping his next film, thinking he might have narrowed his dual path down to one.

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The Mystery of Irma Vep: Zack Powell and Bruce Nelson – Photo: Teresa CastracaneReturning to the scene of an uproarious crime, Everyman Theatre revives Charles Ludlam’s cross-dressing farce The Mystery of Irma Vep: A Penny Dreadful, with several key players from the company’s hit 2009 production back in all their glory. First, Ludlam’s spoof of Victorian manor mysteries and melodramas absolutely holds up as a well-built laugh machine powered by an indomitable cast of two.

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We Are Gathered: Kyle Beltran and Nic Ashe – Photo: T Charles EricksonNot every couple has a fairy-tale beginning, or meet-cute origin story to share in “Awww”-inducing social media posts. Romance, for some, blossoms under less decorous circumstances. That’s the case for W. Tre and Free, the Black queer couple at a crossroads in Tarell Alvin McCraney‘s brilliantly observed, and deliciously frank and funny love story We Are Gathered.

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Tarell Alvin McCraney – Photo: Erik CarterIn a rehearsal room deep inside the Mead Center, Arena Stage’s home in Southwest D.C., the cast and company of We Are Gathered are running through the new play by Tarell Alvin McCraney. Tape on the floor marks the dimensions of Arena’s in-the-round Fichandler Stage, reimagined for the moment as a late-night gay cruising area in a park, where the play’s two lovers, W. Tre and Free, first meet.

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Kae EcstaticIt might go unobserved by many, but May is International Masturbation Month, a glorious time set aside worldwide for commemorating the joys and benefits of pleasing oneself. While each self-lover is free to celebrate however they desire, over at BateWorld.com, the world’s largest online masturbation community for gay, bisexual, and straight men, Masturbation May means another season of the site’s signature reality-style competition, The Great BateWorld BateOff.