Metro Weekly

Arts + Entertainment

  • Degas exhibit opens at the Phillips Collection

    By on October 2, 2011

    The Phillips Collection’s new exhibition Degas’s Dancers at the Barre: Point and Counterpoint traces impressionist master Edgar Degas’s devotion to ballet as represented in his...

  • A fortunate symphony

    By on September 30, 2011

    Almost anytime a particular scene calls for dramatic, downright scary music, Hollywood instinctively turns to the opening number, “O fortuna,” in Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana....

  • Good Chance

    By on September 30, 2011

    Walking the line between comedy and tragedy is tricky. How can filmmakers draw out the appropriate emotions from their audiences? When do those triggers inspire...

  • The works of Tom Price at Industry Gallery

    By on September 29, 2011

    The gay-owned Industry Gallery presents the first U.S. solo exhibition work by innovative British artist and designer Tom Price, who specializes in modern furniture products,...

  • Tea Time

    By on September 29, 2011

    Intimate one-man shows are like that friend who's just been on a cooking course. You know, the one who's frantic to make you dinner? On...

  • Shows of Shows

    By on September 29, 2011

    There's something truly troubling about Trouble in Mind. A half-century ago, Alice Childress was set to become the first African-American female playwright on Broadway. But...

  • Musical Realities

    By on September 29, 2011

    Among tragically themed musicals, Parade marches to the beat of a particularly bleak (and real) drummer: Leo Frank, a Northern Jewish factory manager doomed to...

  • Marriage Singer

    By on September 29, 2011

    ''I want my child to be able to marry whoever she wants to marry when she grows up, and have the same rights as everyone...

  • Fall into WIT!

    By on September 28, 2011

    If you love improv, you don’t have to wait for regular visits from Chicago’s esteemed Second City. D.C.’s own Washington Improv Theater, or WIT, may...

  • Trouble in Mind at Arena Stage

    By on September 27, 2011

    E. Faye Butler switches from Arena Stage’s hit production of Oklahoma! to star in the company’s newest production, Alice Childress’s Trouble In Mind, about a...

  • The Psychedelic Furs & Tom Tom Club at the Fillmore

    By on September 27, 2011

    English new wave “Pretty In Pink” band The Psychedelic Furs tours with The Tom Tom Club, the American “Genius In Love” husband-and-wife duo Tina Weymouth...

  • Savage in Limbo at MetroStage

    By on September 26, 2011

    Alexandria’s MetroStage opens its season with a decades-old play from John Patrick Shanley, the Oscar-winning writer of Moonstruck and the Pulitzer and Tony winner for...

  • Caroline Kennedy with Michael Beschloss

    By on September 26, 2011

    Jacqueline Kennedy: Historic Conversations On Life With John F. Kennedy collects transcripts of the former First Lady talking to historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr. Former First...

  • Two Guys…Become Interns at Black Fox Lounge

    By on September 25, 2011

    Mikey Cafarelli and Paul Scanlan play D.C. interns in this funny and touching new musical revue by Mark Walter Braswell, said to “reveal the truth...

  • Brother Tongue Poetry Workshop Series

    By on September 25, 2011

    The Center, D.C.’s LGBT community center, and Tongue in Your Ear present a four-part series led by Regie Cabico of HBO’s Def Poetry Jam and...