Metro Weekly

Arts + Entertainment

  • Everyman Theatre opens major expansion with August: Osage County

    The Charm City’s once-scrappy, small Everyman Theatre has officially become a venerable institution, with the acquisition and multi-million-dollar refurbishment of a grand one hundred-year-old theater...

  • Progressive Pop

    Did you know Rachel Maddow wrote a song? ''I asked her if she wanted to sing it,'' says Erin McKeown. ''She refused. She describes her...

  • Family Ties

    For those who squirm at the mere mention of the word ''vaudeville,'' a quick glance at the The American Century Theater's ad for The Show...

  • Sexually Speaking

    ''I would get up and tell a story that might take place in an orgy or something … and I could see the NPR crowd...

  • Get your Adventures in Wonderland on

    It was just last year that the Washington Ballet premiered Septime Webre’s magical, inventive production of Alice in Wonderland at the Kennedy Center. Now, Lewis...

  • Two modern dance companies this weekend at DancePlace

    Two modern dance companies team up for an eclectic performance. Deep Vision debuts “heady collectables,” a lighthearted, candid and witty work focused on movements of...

  • Delilah, the ultimate hair-stylist

    The Washington Savoyards presents a staged concert, the D.C. premiere of ArtsCentric’s new musical Delilah featuring music by Cedric D. Lyles and book and lyrics...

  • Art as Politics

    ''When do I get to vote on YOUR marriage?'' That's the question posed on a rainbow-bedecked T-shirt worn by one older, presumably gay, white man,...

  • Social Contractions

    If you've heard of British playwright Mike Bartlett, it's no doubt because of his provocative play Cock, which last season created a sensation off-Broadway –...

  • Homeless

    ''We're in a bit of flux trying to figure out how best to accomplish everything that we'd planned,'' says WSC Avant Bard's Christopher Henley. That...

  • Hunting Bin Laden

    Zero Dark Thirty is not a ''pro-torture'' film. It's also not much of an ''anti-torture'' film, either, in so far as it isn't simply interested...

  • Songs of Sandé

    ''I understand how it feels to feel different, and to feel like you want to find others, you want to find a community and be...

  • Minecraft achieves 5 million XBox 360 downloads, 17.5 million overall

    For those of you totally obsessed with the extraordinary Minecraft (“one more block, one more block”), here’s a bit of trivia you’ll explode like a...

  • Is Microsoft counting the days till the next Xbox console?

    *Name subject to change. It seems fairly likely that the E3 countdown clock just posted by Microsoft’s Larry Hryb on his blog is evidence that...

  • War Torn

    War is a drug on which human society appears to be hopelessly addicted. That, at least, is the sad essence of An Iliad, Lisa Peterson...