Metro Weekly

Arts + Entertainment

  • Ford’s Theatre brings together two historical icons

    By on January 29, 2012

    In a work commissioned by Ford’s Theatre, playwright Richard Hellesen explores the two documented encounters between Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln during a period of...

  • Simone Dinnerstein, tonight at Strathmore

    By on January 29, 2012

    The Washington Performing Arts Society presents a concert with celebrated pianist Simone Dinnerstein. The program includes Schumann, Bach, Brahms and Chopin. Tonight, Sunday, Jan. 29,...

  • Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band

    By on January 27, 2012

    The rock legend and his band return in March with the act’s 17th studio album, Wrecking Ball, and it’s said to live up the title,...

  • Special Agent Galactica

    By on January 27, 2012

    Local drag phenom Special Agent Galactica, a.k.a. the “pink-haired diva,” performs with her live band, the Escape Pods, led by musical director Captain Satellite, and...

  • GLOE’s LGBT Jewish Speed Dating – Registration Closing!

    By on January 27, 2012

    The DCJCC’s GLBT Outreach and Engagement entity wants to play matchmaker with its special speed-dating fundraising event next weekend. But this isn’t your speed-dating of...

  • Soul Salvation

    By on January 26, 2012

    ''I listened to amazing singers when I grew up,'' Jamie Scott says, citing Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye and Donny Hathaway. In fact, listening to such...

  • Man Power

    By on January 26, 2012

      Albert Nobbs should work. Hell, it already did work on stage thirty years ago when Glenn Close raked in off-Broadway acclaim and first aspired...

  • Drag Race

    By on January 26, 2012

    Ooh la La Cage. It's holding up remarkably well for a nearly 30-year-old musical, especially one that reflects an era of gay life often written...

  • Rising Star

    By on January 26, 2012

    ''I can't even straighten my hair,'' the unforgettable Afro-headed character Michael Flores joked in Todd Graff's endearing indie film Camp from 2003. ''That's kind of...

  • Colorful Soul

    By on January 26, 2012

    Jamie Scott killed his lover. ''I hear the sirens blaze in the distance, her blood still on my hands,'' Scott sings on the moody, lilting...

  • Aimee Mann at The Birchmere

    By on January 24, 2012

    The former lead singer of 1980s new-wave band ‘Til Tuesday (“Voices Carry”), Aimee Mann gained further recognition as a solo artist for her work on...

  • Close, Mara Among Best Actress Oscar Nominees; Plummer, McTeer Get Supporting Nods

    By on January 24, 2012

    Among the nominees for Academy Awards announced this morning are several who were nominated for playing characters from across the spectrum of LGBT identity, including...

  • Time Stands Still at the Studio

    By on January 21, 2012

    After seeing Donald Margulies’s stunning Time Stands Still, now at Studio Theatre, you just might walk away contemplating changes in your own life. Chiefly about...

  • The Brad Linde Sextet at Hamilton Live

    By on January 21, 2012

    A co-founder of the Bohemian Caverns Jazz Orchestra among other jazz ensembles, saxophonist Brad Linde brings his eponymous sextet to Hamilton Live, the new performance...

  • Joshua Bell at the Kennedy Center

    By on January 21, 2012

    After helping kick off the National Symphony Orchestra’s season last fall, the classical music superstar Joshua Bell returns to the Kennedy Center for a Washington...