Metro Weekly

Arts + Entertainment

  • Stuck

    By on July 5, 2012

    Myths are a special kind of story. They're always changing, adding new colors and flavors to time-tested formulas. No two versions need be the same,...

  • The Keegan gets a Spring Awakening

    By on July 4, 2012

    Inspired by Frank Wedekind’s controversial 1891 play about teenage sexuality and society’s efforts to control it, Spring Awakening was the toast of Broadway in 2006,...

  • Wolf Trap presents Don Giovanni

    By on July 4, 2012

    Mozart’s celebrated dramatic comedy Don Giovanni tells the story of a famous womanizer who is given one last chance to repent. Wolf Trap presents a...

  • Pink streams her newest single, Blow Me (One More Kiss)

    By on July 3, 2012

    Pink has made her newest single, the playfully titled “Blow Me (One Last Kiss)” available for streaming. Listen to it here. Follow @metroweekly Get Soundwaves...

  • Hurry! Bachelorette at The Studio Theatre closes Sunday!

    By on July 3, 2012

    It’s worth knowing that Bachelorette has made playwright Leslye Headland a very, very popular woman. This was the play, after all, that attracted Hollywood goofballs...

  • Montgomery College’s LGBT Portraits of Life

    By on July 3, 2012

    Portraits of Life: LGBT Stories of Being focuses on gay residents of Maryland’s Montgomery County who have contributed to its success, including Montgomery College President...

  • Sarah McLachlan with the National Philharmonic

    By on July 1, 2012

    The mostly genteel Canadian balladeer Sarah McLachlan comes to town on a national tour featuring local symphony orchestras reinterpreting her hits in classical style. For...

  • Can’t Stop the Music at Atlas

    By on June 30, 2012

    Atlas’s third annual Gay 101 film series has been more than cut in half, with only four films screening as opposed to last year’s eleven....

  • Magic Tricks

    By on June 28, 2012

    Possibly you've seen the tiny synopsis for Magic Mike and you have groaned. One stripper, Mike (Channing Tatum), takes newbie Adam (Alex Pettyfer) under his...

  • Making Merry

    By on June 27, 2012

    Though it is without doubt intended to please the hopeless anglophile – and slides in just in time for the post-Jubilee afterglow of the alarm...

  • Brave is not Pixar’s finest, but it’s ruddy lovely

    By on June 23, 2012

    Brave is like nothing Pixar’s made before, but not for the reasons you might expect. For starters, it’s a straightforward fairy tale, and for the...

  • Titanic: 100 Year Obsession at NatGeo

    By on June 22, 2012

    Titanic: 100 Year Obsession showcases the importance of the Titanic and its sinking on April 15, 1912, taking visitors through the history of the ship...

  • The Washington Chorus

    By on June 21, 2012

    Commissioned by Carnegie Hall, acclaimed young Italian composer Paola Prestini’s folk opera Oceanic Verses is a multimedia opera concert event with scenic installation. Julian Wachner...

  • Razzle Dazzle

    By on June 21, 2012

    Chicago. Cabaret. Liza with a ''Z.'' Certainly gays are familiar with the musical output of the showy songwriting duo John Kander and the late Fred...

  • Carlile's Cause

    By on June 20, 2012

    Of the perks that come with increasing fame, lesbian folk rocker Brandi Carlile is most honored by the aspiring musicians who seek out her counsel....