Metro Weekly

Arts + Entertainment

  • Mars Barred

    By on March 8, 2012

    Based on an Edgar Rice Burroughs story that debuted in a pulp magazine 100 years ago, John Carter is a very expensive movie. If there's...

  • Athletic Supporters

    By on March 7, 2012

      {2011 Team DC Fashion Show (Photo by Julian Vankim)} Years ago, a model passed out onstage at Team DC's Fashion Show. ''He hadn't eaten...

  • Sampson’s Intimate Evening of Comedy

    By on March 7, 2012

    Local standup comedian Sampson performs “Live Love Laugh” along with special guests for a performance at the DC Center to benefit the local theater arts...

  • Civilization at Woolly Mammoth

    By on March 6, 2012

    Six hungry city-dwellers scramble for sustenance in Civilization (All You Can Eat), a scathing satire — or “provocative vaudeville,” to quote the press release —...

  • Just announced: Radiohead at DC’s Verizon Center

    By on March 5, 2012

    Radiohead is coming to D.C.’s Verizon Center on Sunday, June 3. The ongoing world tour is in support of their new album, The King of...

  • Lights at the 9:30 Club

    By on March 5, 2012

    Canadian electro-rock singer Valerie Anne Poxleitner has actually changed her legal name to Lights. A child of missionary parents who grew up in remote places...

  • The Hamilton’s Perpetual Groove

    By on March 4, 2012

    Variously described as a band playing “improv rock” and “trance arena rock,” the Athens, Ga.-based Perpetual Groove has become popular on the rock festival circuit...

  • SMYAL Youth Arts Ensemble at Intersections

    By on March 4, 2012

    The Sexual Minority Youth Assistance League’s Youth Arts Ensemble offers a work-in-progress this weekend at Intersections: A New America Arts Festival at the Atlas. Dance...

  • First Look: GMCW’s Frank-N-Furter

    By on March 4, 2012

    It’s not conventional by any means — then again, Rocky Horror never is — but the Gay Men’s Chorus has gone in a somewhat different...

  • Bobcat Goldthwait tonight at Riot Act Comey

    By on March 3, 2012

    Yes, he’s like that all the time — or at least, the high-pitched comedian Bobcat Goldthwait has been doing standup since he was still in...

  • 12th Annual Flamenco Festival

    By on March 3, 2012

    For 12 years, the Flamenco Festival USA and Lisner Auditorium have showcased the best of flamenco music and dance from Spain. This year’s highlights center...

  • Shakespeare in Klingon II: The Wrath of (Michael) Kahn

    By on March 2, 2012

    Victor Shargai of theatreWashington and local broadcast news celebrity couple Joe Palka and Sue Palka join the Shakespeare Theatre Company’s Michael Kahn in a fundraising...

  • From Shuffle to Show Boat

    By on March 2, 2012

    From Shuffle to Show Boat: Prelude to the American Musical explores how the musical came to be, drawing from vaudeville, operetta, blues and Tin Pan...

  • Review: Imperial Teen

    By on March 1, 2012

    ''Pumped up pecs and sticky skin, floors unswept and walls are thin,'' the four members of Imperial Teen sing in unison on a jaunty new...

  • Sunday Arias

    By on March 1, 2012

    ''By nature, cabaret is an evening of song, of stories, of fun in an intimate space, where there's a direct connection with the audience,'' says...