Metro Weekly

Arts + Entertainment

  • Blue Velvet at Artisphere

    By on April 26, 2011

    Arlington’s Artisphere wraps up its month-long mini-fest of David Lynch films with Blue Velvet, the influential 1986 surreal mystery starring Kyle MacLachlan, Dennis Hopper and...

  • Strathmore: Long live Queen!

    By on April 26, 2011

    In One Night of Queen, a tribute show to Queen and its flamboyant, bisexual front man Freddie Mercury, vocalist Gary Mullen and The Works offer...

  • Cyrano opens at the Folger

    By on April 25, 2011

    In Edmund Rostand’s classic, Cyrano, the titular character secretly adores Roxanne but fears she could never share the sentiment because of his extraordinarily huge nose....

  • Federico Aubele at the Rock and Roll Hotel

    By on April 25, 2011

    An Argentinean-born singer and guitarist on the D.C.-based ESL Music label — named after the Eighteenth Street Lounge and home to Thievery Corporation — Aubele...

  • Editor’s Pick: Femi Kuti and the Positive Force

    By on April 23, 2011

    Femi Kuti carries the torch for his late father, Nigerian Afro-beat pioneer and superstar Fela Kuti, the subject of the exhilarating recent Broadway musical sensation...

  • Todd Haynes retrospective launches with Poison

    By on April 23, 2011

    The American Film Institute’s Silver Theatre launches a retrospective of gay filmmaker Todd Haynes with a new 35mm print celebrating the 20th anniversary of Poison,...

  • Now Playing: Making the Boys

    By on April 22, 2011

    Before Prop 8, Milk or Will & Grace, before the AIDS epidemic, gay pride parades or the Stonewall uprising, there was Mort Crowley’s brilliant, bitter...

  • The Helen Hayes Awards: Honoring the Thespians

    By on April 22, 2011

    The Washington theater community has grown in the past quarter century to the point where it is arguably one of the largest, strongest thriving regional...

  • The American College Theater Festival

    By on April 21, 2011

    The Kennedy Center takes something of a spring break and shines a national light on several college theater productions. Remaining highlights include: Minnesota State University,...

  • Girl's Night In

    By on April 20, 2011

    Shining like a small but powerful beacon from its quiet corner in Arlington, The American Century Theater continues its extraordinary mission to seek out and...

  • Big Bad Bass

    By on April 20, 2011

    Matt Boehler photographed at Wolf Trap by Todd Franson ''There's nothing more gay than opera!'' exclaims opera singer Matt Boehler. ''We have fabulous divas wearing...

  • Iron & Wine at Rams Head Live

    By on April 19, 2011

    Sam Beam is Iron & Wine, a dazzling folk-pop act whose latest album, Kiss Each Other Clean is a rich, idiosyncratic collage of sounds and...

  • Rags at The Theatre Lab

    By on April 19, 2011

    The Theatre Lab School of the Dramatic Arts offers a production of the little-known 1986 musical Rags, by Stephen Schwartz (Pippin, Wicked), Charles Strouse (Annie)...

  • Gentlemen Prefer Blondes… well, some do anyway.

    By on April 16, 2011

    Jane Russell and Marilyn Monroe star in Howard Hawks' wicked musical romp Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. You may have heard the showstopper before — a little...

  • Lord of the Rings Marathon

    By on April 16, 2011

    The Arlington Cinema N' Drafthouse will return all films in the Lord of the Rings trilogy to the big screen for a one-day marathon, Sunday,...