Metro Weekly

Arts + Entertainment

  • Queer Ear

    Susan Werner trained to be an opera singer, but admits she ''was a little too much of an introvert.'' She wasn't loud enough. Instead, Werner...

  • Just announced: Signature’s new season includes Hairspray and Xanadu

    Signature Theatre, in Arlington, Va. announced its 2011-2012 season today and among the surprises: Hairspray, the Broadway musical based on the 1988 John Waters film,...

  • Hot Pick: Photograph 51

    Anna Ziegler’s new drama Photograph 51, chronicles the frenzied chase to find the DNA molecule’s structure by focusing on Jewish female scientist Rosalind Franklin, whose...

  • The Washington Chorus: Elena Ruehr

    Julian Wachner directs The Washington Chorus in its third annual New Music for a New Age concert. This year’s featured composer is Elena Ruehr, known...

  • Hot Pick: UrbanArias Festival

    UrbanArias is a new opera company dedicated to producing short, contemporary operas. Its inaugural festival launches this weekend with fifteen different events and three short...

  • Hot Pick: Dakshina at Dance Place

    For its annual Dance Place performance, the Dakshina/Daniel Phoenix Singh Dance Company presents a mixed program of dance, including Anna Sokolow’s solo pieces Kaddish and...

  • Last weekend to catch Blue Man Group

    Yes, they’re bluer than blue. And they’re just about the most engaging avant-garde theatrical experience out there. Blue Man Group offers an escape from the...

  • Arachne Aerial Arts fly into Joe’s Movement Emporium

    With “Flyaway,” Arachne Aerial Arts, showcases some of the most innovative aerial talent in the region at Joe’s Movement Emporium. It’s all part of a...

  • Metronomy’s new single: The Look

    Check out the new music video — The Look — from the UK band, Metronomy. It’s a bit minimal musically (and, to be honest, visually),...

  • Ira Glass comes to Lisner

    Ira Glass, the host of public radio’s This American Life talks about his dalliances with television — specifically what he and his staff learned and...

  • Atlas’s Tribute to Elizabeth Taylor

    The Atlas Performing Arts Center has quickly organized a screening of several of the more memorable films starring the late, great Elizabeth Taylor. The Whitman...

  • Anthony De Mare + Piano + Sondheim = Musical Bliss

    Anthony De Mare got turned on to the music of Stephen Sondheim at an early age and even now, as a contemporary classical pianist, Sondheim...

  • Lights Up

    The American musical wasn't born overnight. Like any art form, it came to be in fits and starts. Even today, some audience members -- and...

  • Send in the Clowns

    For those of us who avoid the antics of clowns at all costs, 95 minutes in their company might sound like torture. In fact, we'd...

  • Short Rounds

    Composer Ricky Ian Gordon's brief relationship with the late Jeffrey Grossi in the mid-'90s provided, if not a lifetime, then at least a few years'...