Metro Weekly

Arts + Entertainment

  • Yuri’s Night: Space Holiday at the Artisphere!

    By on April 9, 2011

    Intended as a “holiday for space,” the annual event Yuri’s Night celebrates the world’s first manned space flight by Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin in the...

  • Le Corsaire at The Washington Ballet

    By on April 8, 2011

    The Washington Ballet performs Anna-Marie Holmes’s production of Marius Petipa’s 19th century Le Corsaire, a swashbuckling adventure of pirates, pashas and the slave girls who...

  • Mighty Kylie

    By on April 8, 2011

    Kylie Minogue is coming back for more. The international superstar only properly toured North America for the first time two years ago, more than two...

  • Tim McGraw gets Emotional

    By on April 8, 2011

    For all you country fans out there (D.C. Cowboys, you know who you are), Live Nation just announced that Tim McGraw’s Emotional Traffic Tour will...

  • Teddy Thompson at the 9:30 Club

    By on April 8, 2011

    One of our personal favorites, with a tenor as sweet and transfixing as they come, Teddy Thompson is the folk-rock son of Richard and Linda...

  • Arthur: remade, refashioned, rebranded

    By on April 8, 2011

    Playing a rich, spoiled brat doesn’t seem to be much of a stretch for Russell Brand, but who cares? We know he can be funny...

  • Taking Liberty

    By on April 6, 2011

    It's a small world, after all. No, there are no animated dolls serenading you about global peace and world unity in a trip around Ford's...

  • Pop Seduction

    By on April 6, 2011

    Britney Spears just wants to fuck. Is that so wrong? All throughout Femme Fatale, her new seventh studio set, Spears talks about getting it on...

  • Queer Ear

    By on April 6, 2011

    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

    By on April 5, 2011

    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

    By on April 3, 2011

    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

    By on April 3, 2011

    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

    By on April 2, 2011

    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

    By on April 2, 2011

    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

    By on April 2, 2011

    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...