Metro Weekly

Arts + Entertainment

  • Beefed-Up Ballet

    By on October 31, 2013

    {Giselle (Photo by Steve Vaccariello)} ''Men in tights.'' Septime Webre laughs after he says that, the first thing that springs to mind when asked what's...

  • Battle Tested

    By on October 31, 2013

    After 15 years and five installments, Game Freak has released a sixth edition to the Pokémon canon of games that originated with Red/Blue and finds itself present...

  • Broadway Baby

    By on October 31, 2013

    The New York Times once referred to soprano Melissa Errico as ''one of the most valuable assets of the musical theater.'' Yet New York-native Errico...

  • Reckoning Ball

    By on October 31, 2013

    Heather McEntire has a sweet, pristine voice that recalls country antecedents, from Alison Krauss to Dolly Parton. Yet McEntire was essentially an adult before anyone...

  • 9 Amazing Same-Sex Marriage Adverts

    By on October 28, 2013

    In light of recent anti same-sex marriage commercials — we’re looking at you, NOM — and the wealth of states that still oppose same-sex marriage,...

  • Lou Reed dies at 71 – a look back at his incredible musical legacy

    By on October 28, 2013

    Lou Reed, one of the most important and influential songwriters and artists in rock and roll history, died yesterday at age 71 following a long...

  • Michael Cavanaugh Channels Elton John with NSO Pops

    By on October 25, 2013

    A few years ago Michael Cavanaugh, star of the Billy Joel-focused Broadway musical Movin’ Out, performed a Joel-inspired concert with his rock band and the...

  • Bloodworth-Thomason’s Bridegroom premieres Sunday on OWN

    By on October 25, 2013

    When it comes to Linda Bloodworth-Thomason, an automatic association is comedy – granted, often socially aware comedy – like her hit show Designing Women. The...

  • ‘God Loves Uganda’ Opens Today

    By on October 25, 2013

    First screened locally earlier this year during the DC Black Pride Film Festival, the documentary God Loves Uganda from Oscar-winning director Roger Ross Williams (pictured, right) opens...

  • Flashback: Top 10 singles this week in 1982

    By on October 25, 2013

    1982 was a transition year for pop music. ’70s style soft-rock artists were still hanging around on the charts, but MTV was already starting to...

  • Victorian-Flavored Frights

    By on October 24, 2013

    '' I spent a lot of time working on tall ships and traveling,'' Sabrina Mandell says. No, Mandell, founder of Happenstance Theater Company, isn't...

  • 3 Gay-Related Plays to See This Weekend

    By on October 24, 2013

    This weekend is your last chance to see two of the biggest — and best — gay-themed plays staged in D.C. in a long time....

  • Russian Riot

    By on October 24, 2013

    ''Without your fear, you can do anything,'' Russian singer Louisine Gevorkian shouts on her rock band Louna's blistering punk jam ''Fight Club.'' Gevorkian also urges...

  • Couples, Killed and Comedic

    By on October 24, 2013

    Surely no one needs a spoiler alert about Romeo and Juliet. After all, what is probably William Shakespeare's most popular and most accessible play is...

  • Hope Floats

    By on October 24, 2013

    When you sit in a movie theater, you sit inside a contradiction. The theater creates a wall between your mind and body -- the lights...