OUT ON THE TOWN

WEEK OF JANUARY 21-28

BY DAN AVERY AND RANDY SHULMAN

GET THEE TO A NUNNERY... What do you do with an highly successful musical about a convent raising money to bury 52 nuns felled by food poisoning? You revive it with all-male cast, of course. In Dan Goggin's hilarious NUNSENSE A-MEN!, Mother Mary Regina (Steven Haber) and her fellow brides of MW HOT PICK! Christ, including Marys Amnesia and Immaculata, stage a variety show to cover funeral costs and help replenish their

Nunsense A-Men!

A Musical Comedy Book, Music and Lyrics by

DAN GOGGIN

ranks. The production is a coproduction of the Gay Men's Chorus. At the Church Street Theatre, 1742 Church Street NW. Tickets are $15, but this weekend's performances are already sold out. There are still some seats left for performances on the weekend of January 28 through 31 and plenty of seats for two just-added performances on February 5 and 6. Act fast, call 202.338.SING or 800.494-8197 now....

STANDING TALL... Performance artist/poet Quique Aviles has just unveiled his latest multimedia project, CHAOS STANDING, at DCAC. Using interviews, dialogue, photographs, and music, Aviles's show illustrates the experiences of a Latino immigrant in the ethnically diverse neighborhoods of Adams Morgan and Mount Pleasant. Director B. Stanley promises more than "your usual feel good mutli-culti affair." Chaos reigns through February 13, with post-performance discussions every Thursday. The District of Columbia Arts Center is located at 2438 18th Street NW in Adams Morgan. Tickets are $10 to $12, $8 to 10 for DCAC members. Call 202.462.7833....

UNFORGETTABLE... NATALIE COLE, who's won enough Grammy Awards to start a baseball team, is coming to Baltimore on Sunday,

January 24. Providing backup for this one-off performance is the equally celebrated Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, as part of their "Meet Us at the Meyerhoff Series." Expect to hear old standards, as well as music from her most recent release, Stardust. No word yet on whether she'll do "Pink Cadillac." The Meyerhoff Symphony Hall is at 1212 Cathedral Street. Tickets for the show, which begins at 7:30 p.m., range from $35 to $60. Contact 410.783.8131....

PETTICOAT JUNCTION... Where can you see the great Washington-based actresses Ellen Karas, Sarah Marshall, Nancy Robinette, Naomi Jacobson, Kim Schraf, Dana Krueger, and Mary Fortuna (to name but a few) on stage, all at once? In Arena Stage's sure-tobe-swell production of THE WOMEN by Clare Boothe Luce. The gifted Kyle Donnelly directs. Through February 21 in the Fichandler, 6th & Maine Avenue SW. Tickets are $24 to $45. Call 202.488.3300. Tonight's performance-January 21-is a special benefit for Moody Mustafa's Metropolis Fund. Tickets are $50, $75 and $150. Call 202.331.3888, ext. 112 for details....GHOST STORY... The prose of Henry James comes to life in the Round House Theatre's presentation of THE TURN OF THE SCREW. It's a suspense-filled and controversial tale about a governess, played by the always-sensational Jane Beard, who's haunted by phantoms both real and imagined, while caring for a pair of strange children in the English countryside. All other roles are played by the equally always-sensational Marty Lodge, Ms. Beard's fre-

quent collaborator. MW-HOT PICK!

Taking playwright Jeffrey Hatcher's adaptation to the stage is Kathy Feininger, who most recently directed the playhouse's A

Broadway

Christmas Carol. Screw runs

New and improved...now with

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through February 14. Round House is located at 12210 Bushey Drive in Silver Spring. Tickets are $20 to $27. Call 202.933.1664....

MAKING A GOOD IMPRESSION... The National Gallery of Art presents AMERICAN IMPRESSIONISM AND REALISM: THE MARGARET AND RAYMOND HOROWITZ COLLECTION starting January 24. The free exhibition encompasses oil paintings, drawings and watercolors by American artists who dominated the last fin de cecil, such as John Singer Sargent, George Bellows, and William Merritt Chase. The museum will also host a conversation with the collectors on Sunday at 2 p.m. This is the first public display of this renowned collection in a quarter century. The NGA is located on the National Mall at Fourth Street and Constitution Avenue NW. Call 202.842.6353....

SIMON SAYS... The Dominion Stage is staging BILOXI BLUES, Neil Simon's autobiographical comedy about his experiences in a Mississippi boot camp. Set long before President Clinton's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy, the play does include a poignant gay subplot. Shows run at the Gunston Arts Center on Fridays and Saturdays from January 22 to February 6, with an additional performance on Thursday, February 4. The Center is located at 2700 South Lang Street in Alexandria. For tickets, call 703.553-8782....

SUNDAY AFTERNOON MATINEES... The cinemaphile group Cinema Bethesda presents BEYOND HOLLYWOOD, a collection of five foreign films sure to rouse the imagination and stir the fires of passion. (Or at least they're a good way to spend a Sunday afternoon.) The series, which includes post-film discussion, bows this Sunday, January 24, with Erik Skjoldbjaerg's Insomnia, a Norwegian noir psychological thriller in which a homicide detective becomes involved in a murder. Deepa Mehta's Fire, an emotionally charged lesbian romance set in India, plays on February 21. A Taste of Cherry by Iranian director Abba Kiarostami (March 14), the

French drama La Promesse (April 18) and Tony Gatlif's Gadjo Dilo (May 16) round out the series. Showtime is at 5:30 p.m. At the Bethesda Theatre Cafe, 7719 Wisconsin. Avenue in Bethesda. You must be at least 21-years-old to attend. The cost of the entire series is $50. Call 301.365.3679 for more information...

NO RELATION TO BILL... She calls herself a fumerista cross between a feminist and a humorist-and she's one of the funniest gay ladies we know. Now you can get a chance to see her up close and personal, as KATE CLINTON

brings her new offBroadway onewoman show Correct Me If I Am Right to The Birchmere on Friday, January 22, at 7:30 p.m. Clinton's sharply funny rants. include everything from politics (of course) to

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the Internet to virtually anything that's in that morning's paper. Tickets are $20 and are on sale at all Ticketmaster outlets or by calling 202.432.SEAT....

ORBITAL RELATIONSHIPS... In THE LAST ORBIT OF BILLY MARS, the handsome title character and his elusive lover Rita Mae share an unbalanced love/hate relationship with Rita Mae's unbalanced musician/brother Wendell. The show, written by Woolly Mammoth playwright-in-residence Robert Alexander, contains violence and nudity and is intended for mature audiences, so if you're under 21, you'd better ask your mom and dad. The cast includes Doug Brown, Craig Wallace, Taunya Martin and, one of our personal favorites, Beverly Cosham. At Woolly Mammoth, 1401 Church Street NW, through February 14. Tickets range from $15 to $28. Call Protix at 703.218.6500....

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