Metro Weekly

Arts + Entertainment

  • The 9:30 Club’s beneficial raffle

    By on November 29, 2011

    The 9:30 Club is raffling off 2 tickets to every one of its shows in 2012. All you have to do to enter is donate...

  • Alexandra Silber at the Kennedy Center

    By on November 28, 2011

    Alexandra Silber is Barbara Cook’s latest performer in the Spotlight cabaret series, highlighting those singers Cook considers among Broadway’s best today. Silber, with her sweet...

  • The Infection Monologues

    By on November 28, 2011

    On World AIDS Day, Thursday, Dec. 1, the DC Center HIV Working Group and Us Helping Us will present a reading of The Infection Monologues,...

  • Two local World AIDS Day Benefits from Kimpton Hotels

    By on November 28, 2011

    Two area Kimpton properties offer events benefiting local AIDS organizations this Wednesday, Nov. 30, on the eve of World AIDS Day. The Urbana Restaurant at...

  • Pride and Prejudice, now at Round House

    By on November 27, 2011

    Jane Austen’s world of desperate spinsters, determined bachelors, nosy neighbors, embarrassing relatives and a smarmy cad or two is brought to life in this adaptation...

  • A Second Chance at Signature

    By on November 27, 2011

    Shirlington’s Signature Theatre offers yet another world premiere musical this season — A Second Chance, with book, music and lyrics by Ted Shen (director of...

  • John Eaton, tonight at Wolf Trap

    By on November 26, 2011

    The music of Cole Porter and Hoagy Carmichael kicks off this year’s three-part series on American pop and jazz standards at Wolf Trap, ably led...

  • Ford’s Theatre tradition: A Christmas Carol

    By on November 26, 2011

    Ford’s Theatre remounts its music-filled production of the Dickens classic, A Christmas Carol, adapted by Michael Wilson and directed by Michael Baron. Edward Gero returns...

  • They Might Be Giants at 9:30

    By on November 25, 2011

    Patrons interested in this weekend’s They Might Be Giants concert at the 9:30 Club are informed by the club that they “must be 14+.” For...

  • Jersey Boys Benefit for Broadway Cares

    By on November 25, 2011

    The cast of Jersey Boys performs a one-night-only concert at the DC Improv called “Rock Like A Man 50’s-60’s Edition,” a benefit for the national...

  • Cannibal! The Musical at DCAC

    By on November 25, 2011

    Before The Book of Mormon, before South Park: Bigger, Longer, Uncut, actually before even South Park, Trey Parker created the Broadway-spoofing Cannibal! The Musical while...

  • Good Bad Girl

    By on November 23, 2011

    Rihanna is a bad, bad girl. At least that's what she has noted on several occasions since her 2007 album Good Girl Gone Bad, released...

  • Jersey Score

    By on November 23, 2011

    Am I in the right theater? That's what you might wonder as Jersey Boys opens when an African-American performer launches into a hip-hop number. In...

  • Broadway Carols

    By on November 23, 2011

    ''I was the first gay Scrooge they ever had,'' says Michael Sharp, who starred in Kathy Feininger's A Broadway Christmas Carol when it was originally...

  • Puppet Masters

    By on November 23, 2011

    Nostalgia's a funny thing. It nags us when we least expect it, triggered by a smell or a phrase or some odd sensation that's burrowed...