Metro Weekly

Arts + Entertainment

  • Killer Jobs

    By on July 8, 2011

    If Horrible Bosses is to be believed, times must be hard for middle-aged white men. They don't have many career options, they're stuck with jerk...

  • Editor’s Pick: Gun Hill Road plays tonight as part of Reel Affirmations Xtra

    By on July 7, 2011

    For its monthly film series, Reel Affirmations presents Gun Hill Road, starring Esai Morales (NYPD Blues) and Judy Reyes (Scrubs) as parents whose already troubled...

  • Dave Foley comes to Arlington

    By on July 7, 2011

    Best known for his work in the sketch comedy group Kids In The Hall and for his turn on the NBC series NewsRadio, the irreverent...

  • Wedding Singer

    By on July 7, 2011

    ''I put together this program before ,'' says Steven Blier, ''but now that it has, the program has a different meaning...

  • Queer as Folk

    By on July 6, 2011

    Guitarist Anne McCue's first live performance was at a pool party in her native Sydney, Australia. ''We were so shy,'' she says of her first...

  • Normalcy

    By on July 6, 2011

    Next to Wicked right now at the Kennedy Center is Next to Normal. But the two musicals could hardly be further apart on the spectrum...

  • Dakshina Dance Company – Win Tickets!

    By on July 6, 2011

    Daniel Patrick Singh’s company presents the U.S. premiere of Anna Sokolow’s Homenaje a David Alfaro Siquieros, an interdisciplinary piece incorporating slides from Siqueiros’ paintings, poems...

  • Bela Fleck and the Carolina Chocolate Drops

    By on July 6, 2011

    The Grammy-winning, genre-busting bluegrass/folk ensemble Bela Fleck and the Flecktones is the headline act here, but we’re even more excited by one of two opening...

  • The Merchant of Venice at The Shakespeare

    By on July 3, 2011

    Ethan McSweeney directs The Merchant of Venice, Shakespeare’s compelling look at human nature and the insidious nature of power, justice and revenge. The Shakespeare Theatre...

  • Editor’s Pick: Next to Normal

    By on July 2, 2011

    The 2009 Tony-winning musical and winner of the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Next to Normal is a tour de force examination of contemporary life....

  • Source of the arts

    By on July 2, 2011

    Source Theatre’s annual theater festival presents both theater and dance as well as music, visual art, film and spoken word. The 2011 festival includes 18...

  • Getting personal at the Smithsonian

    By on July 2, 2011

    Close to Home: Photographers and Their Families presents photographs made during the past three decades by both established and emerging artists turning the lenses on...

  • Passione: A Musical Adventure

    By on July 2, 2011

    In addition to his role in the latest Transformers blockbuster opening this week, actor-director John Turturro offers Passione: A Musical Adventure, a documentary celebrating the...

  • Scena theatre presents Purge

    By on July 2, 2011

    Scena Theatre presents the regional premiere of Finnish rising star Sofi Oksanen’s latest play, Purge, an emotionally powerful fable of war, passion and a woman’s...

  • Mamma Mia at Wolf Trap

    By on July 1, 2011

    The popular ABBA jukebox musical Mamma Mia reportedly has more productions playing internationally than any other musical. Catherine Johnson’s sunny tale set on a Greek...