Metro Weekly

Arts + Entertainment

  • Jay Brannan Could Be a True Folk/Pop Star

    By on November 21, 2011

    Why isn't Jay Brannan more of a true folk/pop star? Certainly the gay community could use more of the sort. There does seem to be...

  • The Ibis Chamber Music Society at IOTA

    By on November 21, 2011

    Founded by a violinist and a harpist, both associated with the Boston POPS Esplanade Orchestra, the Ibis Chamber Music Society includes members from various local...

  • Review: The Golden Dragon at Studio

    By on November 20, 2011

    German playwright Roland Schimmelpfennig uses the 80 minutes of The Golden Dragon to reflect on globalization and remind us that there are human beings who...

  • Now Playing: The Conquest

    By on November 20, 2011

    Xavier Durringer’s documentary The Conquest chronicles the rise of right-leaning Nicolas Sarkozy as President of France, whose wife left him for another man the very...

  • Dog & Pony DC presents Beertown

    By on November 20, 2011

    The radical theater company Dog & Pony DC, responsible for the popular Fringe Festival twisted vaudeville show Bare Breasted Women Sword Fighting, now offers a...

  • Vitruvian Gallery’s Rob Vander Zee Closes today with a concert

    By on November 19, 2011

    The gay-owned Vitruvian Gallery, located near Eastern Market and focused on male figurative art, offers its first official exhibit with over 20 male figurative paintings...

  • Scotland’s Puppet State Theatre at the Alden

    By on November 19, 2011

    Virginia’s Alden Theatre presents one performance of The Man Who Planted Trees from the Puppet State Theatre Company of Scotland. Based on Jean Giono’s classic...

  • A Broadway Christmas Carol at MetroStage

    By on November 19, 2011

    “Deck the halls with lots of showtunes,” goes the opening number of Kathy Feininger’s A Broadway Christmas Carol. And that, the show, now in its...

  • Catie Curtis at the Barns

    By on November 17, 2011

    Pure musical yum. The New Yorker calls the energetic Catie Curtis, part of Massachusetts’ thriving lesbian folk scene, a “folk-rock goddess.” She puts on a...

  • Trance nation: Armin Van Buuren comes to D.C.

    By on November 17, 2011

    Trance is still kicking, even if it has gone totally corporate. Dutch producer Armin Van Buuren is the keeper of the flame and glowsticks, and...

  • Midlife Aloha

    By on November 16, 2011

    Alexander Payne had made quite a name for himself on the backs of middle-aged discontents. In Election, it was the stagnant, scheming sort. In Sideways,...

  • Bucking Tradition

    By on November 16, 2011

    Every city needs an alternative theater scene. Why? The official answer is that alternative theater speaks to and informs the norm, challenges tradition, broadens ideas...

  • Victorian Nightmare

    By on November 16, 2011

    A stylized Victorian nightmare with lashes of Sam Peckinpah realism and the odd sporran, David Alden's rendering of Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor isn't for everyone....

  • Transcendent Disco

    By on November 16, 2011

    ''The great irony is the fact that we're so associated with the gay dance world and the queer scene -- we're actually pretty much...

  • Lasting Value

    By on November 16, 2011

    ''Sometimes I'll look into the audience and I'll see people crying,'' says Suzanne Vega. ''Or I'll talk to someone after the show and they tell...