Metro Weekly

Arts + Entertainment

  • Two modern dance companies this weekend at DancePlace

    By on January 11, 2013

    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

    By on January 10, 2013

    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

    By on January 10, 2013

    ''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

    By on January 10, 2013

    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

    By on January 10, 2013

    ''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

    By on January 10, 2013

    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

    By on January 10, 2013

    ''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

    By on January 3, 2013

    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?

    By on January 3, 2013

    *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

    By on January 3, 2013

    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...

  • Mazel Tov

    By on January 3, 2013

    Celebrated Spanish actress Carmen Maura plays a ditzy mom in Mikael Buch's new gay romantic comedy Let My People Go! Maura, you may recall, was...

  • Chain Male

    By on January 3, 2013

    Here comes Quentin Tarantino, galloping into the terrible history of American slavery with a shotgun in his hands and a bundle of dynamite slung across...

  • Gomez, Darling

    By on January 3, 2013

    When Marga Gomez dances, people think she's just trying to be funny. ''I dance really terribly,'' admits Gomez, whose own mother was a professional dancer....

  • DJ lil’e Divas Dance Party at the 9:30 Club

    By on January 2, 2013

    DJ lil’e (nee Erin Myers) continues to tweak her popular divas dance party. For its latest iteration at the 9:30 Club, it’s a “battle” between...

  • Million Dollar Quartet

    By on January 2, 2013

    Co-directed by Signature Theatre’s Eric Schaeffer, Floyd Mutrux and Colin Escott’s hit Broadway musical Million Dollar Quartet was inspired by the true story of the...