Metro Weekly

Arts + Entertainment

  • Queen Machines

    By on June 9, 2011

    There's no ABBA turd in the Broadway version of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert. In fact, in transporting Stephan Elliott's beloved 1994 film to the...

  • Candy Land

    By on June 9, 2011

    ''The work should be work,'' admonishes playwright-director Robert O'Hara's semi-autobiographical avatar in Bootycandy, a collection of 10 short plays receiving a snazzy, saucy world-premiere production...

  • Mandy Patinkin at Strathmore

    By on June 8, 2011

    Emmy-winning TV star and Tony-winning Broadway legend Mandy Patinkin offers a powerful passionate evening of popular song, from Irving Berlin to Stephen Sondheim, from Cole...

  • Mark Braswell’s Two Guys Cabaret at Black Fox

    By on June 8, 2011

    Mark Walter Braswell, Washington lawyer by day, composer by night, has been playing the piano since the age of six, drawn early to standards by...

  • Ain’t MIsbehavin’ at the Atlas

    By on June 8, 2011

    The Washington Savoyards presents a production of this rollicking, swinging, finger-snapping revue, a tribute to the music of 1930s Harlem, where Thomas “Fats” Waller and...

  • We’ll take a Royal Danish with that jete, please

    By on June 7, 2011

    Led by artistic director Nikolaj Hübbe, the world-renowned Royal Danish Ballet returns to the Kennedy Center for the first time since 2004 to offer new...

  • Come to the Signature Cabaret, old chum

    By on June 7, 2011

    Felicia Curry, James Gardiner, Jake Odmark and Bayla Whitten unite to close out Signature’s season with an eclectic evening of the greatest duets ever written...

  • Legendary Tony Moran to join legendary Jennifer Holliday at Capital Pride!

    By on June 6, 2011

    Capital Pride announced this morning that renowned DJ Tony Moran will perform with Jennifer Holliday on the MainStage at Sunday’s Capital Pride Festival. Holliday, who...

  • Show your Glee!

    By on June 6, 2011

    Expect a lot of screaming girls — yes, really — in addition to a guaranteed gay contingent when the cast of Fox’s hit show Glee...

  • Everything’s coming up Bob Mould

    By on June 6, 2011

    He may now call San Francisco home, but Bob Mould still stops in his former D.C. stomping grounds regularly, for the dance party Blowoff and...

  • The U.S. premiere of As If It Were Tonight

    By on June 6, 2011

    Mario Marcel directs the U.S. premiere of Gracia Morales’ dramatic comedy As If It Were Tonight, starring Andrea Aranguren and Karen Morales-Chacana, focused on a...

  • The Say I Do LGBT Wedding Expo

    By on June 4, 2011

    Over 30 gay (or at least gay-friendly) wedding planners, florists, photographers, caterers and more will be on hand at the Hotel Palomar to help market...

  • Keegan’s Spelling Bee

    By on June 4, 2011

    In the 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, six young people in the throes of puberty learn that winning isn’t everything and losing doesn’t necessarily...

  • Pleasantries

    By on June 2, 2011

    Does America really need another version of ''(Somewhere) Over The Rainbow?'' And another ukulele-driven version at that? After all, it was just a few years...

  • Sheik Appeal

    By on June 2, 2011

    ''Musical theater -- it just wasn't my cup of tea,'' says Duncan Sheik. The Tony Award-winning composer of Spring Awakening performed in Oliver! and Annie...