Metro Weekly

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  • Queer as Folk

    By on July 6, 2011

    Guitarist Anne McCue's first live performance was at a pool party in her native Sydney, Australia. ''We were so shy,'' she says of her first...

  • Normalcy

    By on July 6, 2011

    Next to Wicked right now at the Kennedy Center is Next to Normal. But the two musicals could hardly be further apart on the spectrum...

  • Dakshina Dance Company – Win Tickets!

    By on July 6, 2011

    Daniel Patrick Singh’s company presents the U.S. premiere of Anna Sokolow’s Homenaje a David Alfaro Siquieros, an interdisciplinary piece incorporating slides from Siqueiros’ paintings, poems...

  • Bela Fleck and the Carolina Chocolate Drops

    By on July 6, 2011

    The Grammy-winning, genre-busting bluegrass/folk ensemble Bela Fleck and the Flecktones is the headline act here, but we’re even more excited by one of two opening...

  • The Merchant of Venice at The Shakespeare

    By on July 3, 2011

    Ethan McSweeney directs The Merchant of Venice, Shakespeare’s compelling look at human nature and the insidious nature of power, justice and revenge. The Shakespeare Theatre...

  • Editor’s Pick: Next to Normal

    By on July 2, 2011

    The 2009 Tony-winning musical and winner of the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Next to Normal is a tour de force examination of contemporary life....

  • Source of the arts

    By on July 2, 2011

    Source Theatre’s annual theater festival presents both theater and dance as well as music, visual art, film and spoken word. The 2011 festival includes 18...

  • Getting personal at the Smithsonian

    By on July 2, 2011

    Close to Home: Photographers and Their Families presents photographs made during the past three decades by both established and emerging artists turning the lenses on...

  • Passione: A Musical Adventure

    By on July 2, 2011

    In addition to his role in the latest Transformers blockbuster opening this week, actor-director John Turturro offers Passione: A Musical Adventure, a documentary celebrating the...

  • Scena theatre presents Purge

    By on July 2, 2011

    Scena Theatre presents the regional premiere of Finnish rising star Sofi Oksanen’s latest play, Purge, an emotionally powerful fable of war, passion and a woman’s...

  • Mamma Mia at Wolf Trap

    By on July 1, 2011

    The popular ABBA jukebox musical Mamma Mia reportedly has more productions playing internationally than any other musical. Catherine Johnson’s sunny tale set on a Greek...

  • Editor’s Pick: David Cale’s History of Kisses

    By on July 1, 2011

    David Cale’s one-man show The History of Kisses focuses on seaside shanties, or work songs that sailors sing to help distract them from their arduous...

  • The Terminator Gets the Raspberry Treatment

    By on July 1, 2011

    The Raspberry Brothers, a trio of Brooklyn comedians, return to the Arlington Cinema & Drafthouse to offer commentary, Mystery Science Theater-style, during a screening of...

  • The “No Scrubs” ’90s Dance Party

    By on July 1, 2011

    D.C.’s most-visible straight-club DJ, Will Eastman, of Bliss and Blisspop dance parties fame, has teamed with Brian Billion for this popular event of “guilty pleasures...

  • Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts find love in Larry Crowe

    By on June 30, 2011

    In Larry Crowne, an aimless, unemployed man, played by Tom Hanks, goes back to college and gains more than just book smarts. He also gains...