Metro Weekly

Arts + Entertainment

  • Perfect Storm

    By on March 14, 2013

    It's no surprise that Synetic would turn its hand (and bodies) to The Tempest as one of its Silent Shakespeare series. The dreamy, island-bound narrative,...

  • Sky Ferreira at U Street Music Hall

    By on March 12, 2013

    Okay people, don’t sleep on this. Sky Ferreira was touted by various influential New York music critics as the artist-most-likely-to-breakout from the thousands who performed...

  • British farce in Kensington

    By on March 10, 2013

    The British Players offers a racy farce about a man planning a rendezvous with his mistress behind his wife’s back. Chrish Kresge directs Robin Hawdon’s...

  • EA Conference Was One Small Step for Gay Gaming, One Giant Leap Still Waiting to be Taken

    By on March 8, 2013

    When Electronic Arts pulled together a roomful of journalists, bloggers and gaming industry types, it didn’t look like an historic event. But while it can...

  • Punk-Funk D.C.

    By on March 7, 2013

    Did you know? Washington, D.C., circa the 1980s was a hotbed of pop music, helping germinate two very distinct strands of sound. There was hardcore...

  • Heart of Bling

    By on March 7, 2013

    Feeling a tad lackluster in the set department, director/designer and costumer John Pascoe's interpretation of Puccini's Manon Lescaut seems to have lost some burnish since...

  • Pushing Forward

    By on March 7, 2013

    ''This time we're really excited because we get to be in an actual theater,'' Mara Levi says. The past two years at the Atlas Intersections...

  • Woes of Oz

    By on March 7, 2013

    There's something rotten in the state of Oz. It reeks of the billable hour, the legal retainer, the foul stench of litigation. Yes, that fiend...

  • Electronic Arts, HRC and Brendon Ayanbadejo to tackle anti-LGBT hate speech in gaming

    By on March 6, 2013

    Tomorrow in New York, video game giant Electronic Arts and the Human Rights Campaign are hosting a discussion on LGBT issues in gaming, including the...

  • Tonight at L’Enfant Cafe! Lady Bunny kicks off the new season of SpeakEasy!

    By on March 3, 2013

    L’Enfant Cafe reprises SpeakEasy, its popular, select Sundays social dining and cabaret shows tonight, Sunday, March 3, with two singing drag queens from New York:...

  • Coming Around Again

    By on February 28, 2013

    ''I'm, out of my mind. It's taking me over,'' Rich Morel sings in the bridge of ''Low Lying Dreams.'' And the song might have the...

  • Paige Turns

    By on February 28, 2013

    Ask Elaine Paige to reflect on her legacy, and she responds expressing awe. ''Well, it's fantastic really, isn't it?'' she says. ''When I look back...

  • Haunted House

    By on February 28, 2013

    IT'S ALMOST AS hard to describe why The House of the Spirits at GALA Theatre is so satisfying as it is to document the presence...

  • Magical Metamorphoses

    By on February 21, 2013

    Mary Zimmerman is a professor at Northwestern University, and her show Metamorphoses had its genesis as an academic exercise there nearly two decades ago. But...

  • Going Weill

    By on February 21, 2013

    ''I'm not sure the new generation really knows who he is, or his place in musical theater history,'' Abel Lopez says of Kurt Weill. The...