Metro Weekly

Arts + Entertainment

  • Editor’s Pick: Ruined at Arena Stage

    In Ruined, playwright Lynn Nottage and director Charles Randolph-Wright manage to confront head-on the mass-rape of civilian women by combatants during the Second Congo War...

  • Far From Heaven

    As part of a month-long retrospective of the work of queer filmmaker Todd Haynes, known for I’m Not There and most recently the HBO miniseries...

  • A benefit for American Century Theatre

    Paul Morella performs a benefit for The American Century Theater, reprising An Encounter with Clarence Darrow: A Passion for Justice, the one-man show created by...

  • The Cathedral Choral Society unearths Russian Riches

    J. Reilly Lewis conducts the choral group, mezzo-soprano Viktoriya Bright and the National Cathedral School Girls Chorale in the return of the popular Russian Riches...

  • Spellbound and Lifeboat at the AFI

    The American Film Institute’s Silver Theatre continues exploring the works of the great filmmaker. Up this weekend: Spellbound (1945), starring Ingrid Bergman and Gregory Peck...

  • GMCW gets crazy about love

    The Gay Men’s Chorus’s select ensemble Potomac Fever presents the second of two performances of “Crazy Little Thing Called Love,” a celebration of “what makes...

  • Amadeus at Round House

    Peter Shaffer’s Tony-winning Amadeus (which became an Oscar-winning film) depicts the flamboyant genius of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart as seen through the eyes of his desperately...

  • Win tickets to Pat Benatar at the 9:30 Club

    We’re giving away a pair of tickets to the Pat Benatar concert at the 9:30 Club this July. Enter now for a chance to win....

  • The Trey McIntyre Project at Sidney Harman Hall

    The gay-led Trey McIntyre Project has become known for its efforts to broaden the appeal of dance, including by setting up its home base in...

  • NSO Pops: Jon Secada and Tito Puente Jr.

    Marvin Hamlisch conducts the NSO Pops in a concert paying tribute to Latin rhythms, courtesy of percussionist Tito Puente Jr., son of the legend, and...

  • Lynda Carter at Tyson’s Corner

    It’s been four decades since her iconic character first twirled her way across American television sets, and two years since Lynda Carter — a.k.a. Wonder...

  • Sondheim that Sates

    You love Stephen Sondheim, the gay genius behind such masterful musicals as Sweeney Todd, Sunday in the Park With George, Into the Woods, Assassins, Passion......

  • Ten-Minute Masterworks

    ''As far as we know it's probably the first time anyone in town has done something similar to this,'' says Jeff Scott, marketing and events...

  • Auntie Hero

    At first glance, the upcoming OutWrite ''Pioneers'' event at The Center, the area's LGBT community center, is already substantial, celebrating re-releases of two powerful books:...

  • The Glory and the Gloom

    With Placido Domingo singing his last role as general director of the Washington National Opera, it's hard not to take the somber – at times...