Metro Weekly

Arts + Entertainment

  • Spoofing Hollywood

    This weekend and next, Clay Comer plays a gay porn star at the DC Arts Center. '' is 6-foot-5, a young, incredibly beautiful, incredibly...

  • Modern Approach

    Luis Alfaro got turned on to the theater when he was 15 as part of community service -- literally. ''I actually got arrested for shoplifting...

  • Soul Fire

    You want a telling sign that Adele Adkins, known by just her first name, has talent to spare, that she's the genuine article? How about...

  • Jane Franklin Dance takes the KC’s Millennium Stage

    In “Take a Deep Breath,” Jane Franklin Dance company performs pieces including “Branch,” “Same Place at the Same Time” and “Leroy,” with musical accompaniment. Wednesday,...

  • Rockin’ and Rollin’ with the Washington Ballet

    The Washington Ballet touts Rock & Roll as an edgy program featuring Christopher Bruce’s “Rooster,” set to the music of the Rolling Stones, Trey McIntyre’s...

  • Savion Glover taps into Strathmore

    The incomparable tapper Savion Glover, with his company of musicians and dancers, arrives at Strathmore with “SoLo iN TiME,” blending the sensuous, style of flamenco...

  • Charming Billy at the Round House

    Blake Robison adapts Bethesda writer Alice McDermott’s National Book Award-winning novel Charming Billy in this world premiere production, offering a masterful look at how a...

  • John Mellencamp plays DC tonight

    Inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame a few years back, Indiana rocker John Mellencamp has sold over 40 million records worldwide. He’s...

  • Let Me Down Easy — Final Weekend!

    Well known to some from NBC’s The West Wing, Anna Deavere Smith is a triple threat actress/playwright/author. But she’s also a storyteller and historian, capturing...

  • Fela! Live from London at the Harman

    The Shakespeare Theatre offers a simulcast screening of Fela!, last year’s rousing Tony Award-winning musical, which recently transferred from Broadway to London’s West End. The...

  • GMCW’s Let’s Hear it for the Boys

    The Gay Men’s Chorus will serenade Mike Almy and other LGBT servicemembers in a tribute to the long-overdue end of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell on...

  • RA Xtra’s Children of God screens tonight

    Kareem J. Mortimer’s tough and touching drama, set in Brazil, Children of Godfocuses on two young men struggling to come out. The film screens as...

  • Misstallica — All-Girl Tribute to Metallica

    What will it sound like to have a woman sing “Enter Sandman” or “One”? Misstallica — All-Girl Tribute to Metallica is your chance to find...

  • Lizz Wright at The Birchmere

    A blues-fired R&B singer with a countrified bent and a gospel and jazz background, New Yorker by way of Georgia Lizz Wright sometimes powers her...

  • Nick Galifianakis at Politics and Prose

    If You Loved Me You’d Think This Was Cute features searing black-and-white illustrations from Nick Galifianakis, best known as the cartoonist sidekick to syndicated advice...