Metro Weekly

Arts + Entertainment

  • Lady in the Limelight

    By on October 3, 2013

    ''I would torture my family with made-up arias and stuff, and sing around the house,'' Sutton Foster says of her childhood days in Georgia and...

  • Chamber Soul

    By on October 3, 2013

    Marques Toliver got his start in the music business by busking, playing violin on the streets in St. Augustine, Fla. These days you're more likely...

  • Disappointing Dive

    By on October 3, 2013

    Sir Elton John has nothing left to prove. His status in the top tier of rock-and-roll royalty is unquestioned. His 31st studio album, The Diving...

  • Tempters and the Tempted

    By on October 3, 2013

    Offered through the lens of a debauched 1930s Vienna, the Shakespeare Theatre Company's Measure for Measure is thinking well outside the box. Using a cabaret...

  • Actors Delight

    By on October 3, 2013

    Sometimes it's the sheer audacity of an actor that draws you to a particular play. In Eric Coble's new work The Velocity of Autumn, now...

  • GTA Online launches — swap your real social life for a virtual one

    By on October 1, 2013

    Already exhausted everything GTA V has to offer? Seriously? Wow. I’m impressed. Anyway, now, Rockstar is giving you even more ways to interact with the...

  • Flashback: Top 10 singles this week in 1985

    By on September 30, 2013

    This week we look back at the Top 10 on the Billboard Hot 100 this week 28 years ago, in the September 28, 1985 edition...

  • Tickets on Sale Tomorrow for Justin Timberlake at Verizon Center

    By on September 29, 2013

    This is shaping up to be the biggest week yet for Justin Timberlake, whose turn as a Hollywood leading man comes Friday, Oct. 4, with...

  • NSO Launches Season with Grandeur of Saint-Saens

    By on September 29, 2013

    Tonight Christoph Eschenbach kicks off the new season of the National Symphony Orchestra with a bang, bringing in superstar cellist Yo-Yo Ma and gay rising...

  • E Street Cinema to Spice up Your Life Tonight

    By on September 27, 2013

    Every weekend, Landmark’s E Street Cinema screens a cult classic as part of its Midnight Madness screening series — most famously The Rocky Horror Picture...

  • Hillwood’s 12th Annual Gay Day Set for Tomorrow

    By on September 27, 2013

    Any day can be a good gay day to take in the riches of upper Northwest D.C.’s Hillwood Estate and Museums, the well-preserved mansion and...

  • Fast Track

    By on September 26, 2013

    There's no such thing as an unpredictable sports movie. Once in a while, a surprising one might pop up, but the rhythms of the story...

  • Pop Art

    By on September 26, 2013

    Jose Ortiz never forgot an experience he had over a decade ago at New York's Queens Museum of Art. ''You follow all the rules and...

  • A View of Rome

    By on September 26, 2013

    Remember John Waters's A Dirty Shame? ''I was the 'splosher,''' says Susan Rome, who played Messy Melinda. ''I was the person who derived sexual satisfaction...

  • Spotlight on Spinella

    By on September 26, 2013

    Stephen Spinella boldly thanked his male lover in 1993 when he won a Tony Award for Best Actor. ''There was a little squeaky-squeaky about that,...