Metro Weekly

Arts + Entertainment

  • John Eaton, tonight at Wolf Trap

    By on November 26, 2011

    The music of Cole Porter and Hoagy Carmichael kicks off this year’s three-part series on American pop and jazz standards at Wolf Trap, ably led...

  • Ford’s Theatre tradition: A Christmas Carol

    By on November 26, 2011

    Ford’s Theatre remounts its music-filled production of the Dickens classic, A Christmas Carol, adapted by Michael Wilson and directed by Michael Baron. Edward Gero returns...

  • They Might Be Giants at 9:30

    By on November 25, 2011

    Patrons interested in this weekend’s They Might Be Giants concert at the 9:30 Club are informed by the club that they “must be 14+.” For...

  • Jersey Boys Benefit for Broadway Cares

    By on November 25, 2011

    The cast of Jersey Boys performs a one-night-only concert at the DC Improv called “Rock Like A Man 50’s-60’s Edition,” a benefit for the national...

  • Cannibal! The Musical at DCAC

    By on November 25, 2011

    Before The Book of Mormon, before South Park: Bigger, Longer, Uncut, actually before even South Park, Trey Parker created the Broadway-spoofing Cannibal! The Musical while...

  • Good Bad Girl

    By on November 23, 2011

    Rihanna is a bad, bad girl. At least that's what she has noted on several occasions since her 2007 album Good Girl Gone Bad, released...

  • Jersey Score

    By on November 23, 2011

    Am I in the right theater? That's what you might wonder as Jersey Boys opens when an African-American performer launches into a hip-hop number. In...

  • Broadway Carols

    By on November 23, 2011

    ''I was the first gay Scrooge they ever had,'' says Michael Sharp, who starred in Kathy Feininger's A Broadway Christmas Carol when it was originally...

  • Puppet Masters

    By on November 23, 2011

    Nostalgia's a funny thing. It nags us when we least expect it, triggered by a smell or a phrase or some odd sensation that's burrowed...

  • Review: LMFAO party rocks through town

    By on November 22, 2011

    Is LMFAO a fad? Well, if the dance-rap crew that goes by the Internet acronym doesn’t prove to have staying power, it’s at least taking...

  • A gorgeous Othello at The Folger

    By on November 21, 2011

    In the title role in Othello at Folger Theatre, gorgeous Owiso Odero — all rippling robes and rippling abs — carries himself like a man...

  • Jay Brannan Could Be a True Folk/Pop Star

    By on November 21, 2011

    Why isn't Jay Brannan more of a true folk/pop star? Certainly the gay community could use more of the sort. There does seem to be...

  • The Ibis Chamber Music Society at IOTA

    By on November 21, 2011

    Founded by a violinist and a harpist, both associated with the Boston POPS Esplanade Orchestra, the Ibis Chamber Music Society includes members from various local...

  • Review: The Golden Dragon at Studio

    By on November 20, 2011

    German playwright Roland Schimmelpfennig uses the 80 minutes of The Golden Dragon to reflect on globalization and remind us that there are human beings who...

  • Now Playing: The Conquest

    By on November 20, 2011

    Xavier Durringer’s documentary The Conquest chronicles the rise of right-leaning Nicolas Sarkozy as President of France, whose wife left him for another man the very...