Metro Weekly

Arts + Entertainment

  • Fall into WIT!

    If you love improv, you don’t have to wait for regular visits from Chicago’s esteemed Second City. D.C.’s own Washington Improv Theater, or WIT, may...

  • Trouble in Mind at Arena Stage

    E. Faye Butler switches from Arena Stage’s hit production of Oklahoma! to star in the company’s newest production, Alice Childress’s Trouble In Mind, about a...

  • The Psychedelic Furs & Tom Tom Club at the Fillmore

    English new wave “Pretty In Pink” band The Psychedelic Furs tours with The Tom Tom Club, the American “Genius In Love” husband-and-wife duo Tina Weymouth...

  • Savage in Limbo at MetroStage

    Alexandria’s MetroStage opens its season with a decades-old play from John Patrick Shanley, the Oscar-winning writer of Moonstruck and the Pulitzer and Tony winner for...

  • Caroline Kennedy with Michael Beschloss

    Jacqueline Kennedy: Historic Conversations On Life With John F. Kennedy collects transcripts of the former First Lady talking to historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr. Former First...

  • Two Guys…Become Interns at Black Fox Lounge

    Mikey Cafarelli and Paul Scanlan play D.C. interns in this funny and touching new musical revue by Mark Walter Braswell, said to “reveal the truth...

  • Brother Tongue Poetry Workshop Series

    The Center, D.C.’s LGBT community center, and Tongue in Your Ear present a four-part series led by Regie Cabico of HBO’s Def Poetry Jam and...

  • Andy Warhol: Shadows and Headlines

    Not one but two local museums are offering exhibits focusing on the work of Andy Warhol. The Hirshhorn presents Andy Warhol: Shadows 1978, comprising 102...

  • Lingering Kiss

    Actress Rachel Zampelli decided it was now or never to push for a new production of Stop Kiss. ''I was looking into the mirror, wondering...

  • Repertory Wonders

    There may be important things missing in two mystery-laden musicals onstage now at Signature Theatre: a sleuth's youthful innocence, a kidnapped girl, a demonic horseman's...

  • Habit Forming

    To make great art, you simply have to be in the habit of making art, period. The trick is, art needs an audience along the...

  • Kiss and Tell

    Do you remember your first kiss with a lover? The moment you let your guard down and melt into another person can be a mind-altering,...

  • Amos's Ambition

    The D.C. gay barkeep and waiters were not pleased with Tori Amos. '''What is this rock-and-roll white trash look?''' Amos recalls them asking of her...

  • Sweet Tea: Black Gay Men of the South

    Author, scholar and performer E. Patrick Johnson stars in Sweet Tea: Black Gay Men of the South, a one-man show about the perceptions, angst, triumphs...

  • Round House heats things up with Fahernheit 451

    Round House Theatre launches its new season with Ray Bradbury’s stage adaptation of his science-fiction masterpiece Fahrenheit 451. Directed by Sharon Ott, the multimedia production...