The 42nd Annual Pride Festival in the Nation’s Capital is tomorrow from 12-7 pm on Pennsylvania Ave NW between 3^rd and 7^th Streets NW. The festival is open to everyone, and there is no fee for entry. The Pride Festival includes three stages of national and local talent and will host 300 exhibitors including local and community groups, national sponsors, local businesses, food vendors, restaurants, and businesses looking to promote their services to the LGBTQ community. For more information, go to www.capitalpride.org.

Innovative, heartbreaking, and wickedly funny, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, the four-time Tony-winning, genre-bending sensation promises to take DC by storm at the Kennedy Center’s Eisenhower Theater starting Tuesday, Tue, Jun 13, through Sun, Jul 2. Tickets start at $59.

Also starting Tuesday, The Kennedy Center will be alive with The Sound of Music! The spirited, romantic, and beloved musical will thrill once more in this brand new production, directed by three-time Tony winner Jack O’Brien. The show will be performed at the Opera House. Tickets run from $39 – $119. For tickets & information on both shows call 202-467-4600 or 800-444-1324.

Multi-Grammy Award winning band TOTO is coming to the Maryland Hall for Creative Arts in Annapolis on June 14^th. Their performances will feature repertoire for their latest studio album XIV (14), classic hits, and both band and fan favorites from their vast catalog. The show starts at 8pm. Tickets are $80 – & 99. VIP Meet & Greet tickets are available for purchase at ramsheadonstage.com, the On Stage Box Office, Ticketfly.com or by calling 410-268-4545.

And finally, proving the “modern power of classic sound,” the soulful St. Paul & The Broken Bones will make their Wolf Trap debut at the Filene Center this Friday June 16^th at 8:00 pm. Tickets are $30 – $55 and can be purchased at www.wolftrap.org.

You can always hear this info on our live radio show Saturdays at 1:00 pm on WERA 96.7 FM: Radio Arlington. Tune in for news, reviews and interviews as well as the chance to win tickets to some of these events.

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Stephanie Taylor

Co-Editor/Entertainment Reporter

She may be a traffic engineer by day (hence the ‘stopsigngirl’ alias), but do not let her technical skills or multiple calculators fool you. Stephanie Taylor has a way with words. She will destroy any opponent in Scrabble, and get 50 points for using all 7 of her letters in the word “destroy.” She can a-n-n-i-h-i-l-a-t-e you in a spelling bee, having competed in no less than ten as a child. She uses correct punctuation in her text messages. It’s no wonder that copy editing comes naturally to her, and she is happy to fine tune the work of other writers before it reaches TRR readers.

Proofreading is not all that Stephanie loves to do. Regular reading without the proof is just fine, and she also loves to write. In fact, Steph has been writing since the tender age of 6 when she penned her would-be bestseller Mouse in Jail. It “would be” if all literary critics were in Kindergarten. Since elementary school, Stephanie has helped publish newsletters, yearbooks, and the Arts & Entertainment section of The Rice Thresher, Rice University’s student newspaper.

Stephanie’s other gigs have included singing her heart out in the chorus of My Fair Lady in Houston, doing improv comedy in front of hundreds of people in Atlanta, and teaching A.P. English in Los Angeles. She loves to travel and have cultural adventures like tubing down a river in Ecuador, dancing in a South Asian festival, or riding a ferry from Italy for 19 hours just to get real Greek food. Cooking and Yoga are also among Stephanie’s list of favorite things to do, but she cannot do them at the same time.

This native Texan genuinely adores reporting on entertainment as much as she loves to entertain, and is looking forward to learning more about what the D.C. area has to offer and sharing that news with you.

Stephanie Taylor also likes to write about herself in the third person.

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