Metro Weekly

Arts + Entertainment

  • Cab Calloway’s Minnie the Moocher — with puppets!

    By on April 14, 2012

    Puppets, dancers and a seven-piece jazz band weave together Cab Calloway’s most famous songs to tell the story of a “frail” named Minnie the Moocher...

  • Monty Python at the Movies

    By on April 14, 2012

    This weekend into next week the American Film Institute’s Silver Theatre screens the legendary British comedy troupe Monty Python‘s popular movies, which took smart absurdity...

  • The City Choir presents Bach: Magnificat

    By on April 14, 2012

    The City Choir of Washington presents Johann Sebastian Bach’s powerful, exciting “Magnificat.” The evening will include variants by Mozart, Stanford and Berio. Sunday, April 15,...

  • Concert Review: At the 9:30 Club the Ting Tings say shut up, go

    By on April 13, 2012

    Last night, April 12, Katie White unceremoniously took to the 9:30 Club stage after the house lights had dimmed. Wearing a ball cap low on...

  • Arias with a Twist at Woolly Mammoth

    By on April 13, 2012

    Man, if we had a dollar for every time we’ve seen a drag queen onstage simulating a three-way with satanic puppets, we’d have… a dollar...

  • Amy Ray at Iota Cafe

    By on April 13, 2012

    In the past dozen years, Amy Ray has released several solo albums in between Indigo Girls records and tours, all informed more by her punk...

  • Cabin Fever

    By on April 13, 2012

    Don't watch the trailer, don't ask your friends, and above all else, don't read about it online. (Except, um, here.) The Cabin in the Woods...

  • Comic Culture

    By on April 13, 2012

    Fandom has reached something akin to a roaring pitch on the fringes of today's pop culture. For every hit television show or movie, dozens of...

  • Untamed: Review of 'Taming of the Shrew'

    By on April 12, 2012

    Strip the art from Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew and you are left, more or less, with a rather bitter, violence-prone woman who, married against...

  • Occupational Art

    By on April 12, 2012

    ''It's a real mix, and a real attempt to bring our local artists together,'' says Quique Aviles. The actor and performer has essentially created a...

  • Paying Homage

    By on April 12, 2012

    Every night just before performing his one-man show, Jorge ''Jay'' Alvarez has a moment of panic. ''Oh my God, do I have this in me...

  • Muscle Opera

    By on April 12, 2012

    ''I think this may be the first time that anyone has dealt theatrically with gay physique magazines,'' says Michael Korie. Before there were official gay...

  • Rapp Star

    By on April 12, 2012

    ''When I do events or concerts, most of the fans that stay afterwards are female,'' says Anthony Rapp. ''It's not like it's a secret.'' Nope,...

  • Adventure Theatre celebrates 60 years of cute-themed theater

    By on April 12, 2012

    Last year, the Adventure Theatre won its first-ever Helen Hayes Award for the show If You Give a Pig a Pancake. This summer, the children's...

  • Wiping out with OFF!

    By on April 11, 2012

    If you’re into this kind of ear-punishing hardcore, then you’re going to love this freshly-released video from OFF! The song is called Wipe Out and...