Metro Weekly

Arts + Entertainment

  • Signature’s Music in the Movies

    By on October 17, 2011

    Natascia Diaz, Eleasha Gamble and Bobby Smith — three of Signature Theatre’s favorite performers, and among the very best in town — salute movie melodies,...

  • Reel Affirmations 20: Day 4

    By on October 16, 2011

    A slew of good films today, including the critic’s picked Tomboy, the documentary Vito, the always-popular shorts collection Best of the Fest (if all they...

  • Deer Tick at the 9:30 Club

    By on October 16, 2011

    This Rhode Island quintet blends folk, blues and country — you know, all styles of music you’d hear outdoors, where the deer and the antelope...

  • Duran Duran at D.A.R.

    By on October 16, 2011

    Duran Duran, Brit-pop’s Fashionable Fab Four (lead guitarist Andy Taylor left the original Fab Five once and for all a few years ago) have come...

  • The Heir Apparent at the Shakespeare

    By on October 16, 2011

    Adaptation is a funny thing. What worked so shamelessly and wonderfully for adaptor David Ives in the Shakespeare Theatre Company’s production of The Liar two...

  • An enchanted evening at the NSO

    By on October 15, 2011

    Rebecca Luker is as corny as Kansas in August. Well, at least that’s what she’s singing at the Kennedy Center Concert Hall this weekend. What...

  • Reel Affirmations 20: Update, Day 3

    By on October 15, 2011

    Metro Weekly’s cadre of critics awarded a whopping six Critic’s Picks on this busy day of film showings for the Reel Affirmations gay and lesbian...

  • Cyndi Lauper & Dr. John at the 9:30 Club

    By on October 15, 2011

    True Colors LGBT champion Cyndi Lauper returns to the 9:30 Club for another roots-oriented concert after last year’s blues fest. This time, the focus is...

  • Love Potion #1 at The InSeries

    By on October 14, 2011

    Director Nick Olcott offers an English adaptation of Donizetti’s comic opera L’Elisir d’Amore for an InSeries’ mini-opera production. Olcott sets his version in a D.C....

  • Reel Affirmations 20: Update, Day 2

    By on October 14, 2011

    Reel Affirmations 20 is in full swing and tonight’s collection of films is particularly strong. It starts at 5 p.m. at the Globe Theatre with...

  • Rip-Off Artist

    By on October 14, 2011

    Say, do you like John Carpenter's The Thing? Or maybe its '50s predecessor, The Thing From Another World? I bet you'd be thrilled to hear...

  • Lesbian Central

    By on October 13, 2011

    Why have all the lesbians gone to Alexandria? That may be the question on many minds next weekend, when the Birchmere hosts a couple shows...

  • Surround Sounds

    By on October 13, 2011

    ''In the '80s, I was a synth-pop boy,'' says Richard Chartier. ''I was very into that.'' But unlike many or even most synth-pop fans, the...

  • The Ahn Trio at Wolf Trap

    By on October 13, 2011

    A classic chamber group, The Ahn Trio isn’t afraid to have fun or be funny. It’s most recent album was amusingly title Lullaby for My...

  • The works of Rob Vander Zee at Vitruvian Gallery

    By on October 13, 2011

    The gay-owned Vitruvian Gallery, located near Eastern Market and focused on male figurative art, officially opens this weekend with an exhibit of over 20 male...