Metro Weekly

Arts + Entertainment

  • Usher at the Verizon Center

    One of the best dancer/singer dynamos performing today, R&B/pop sensation Usher Raymond IV is sure to have the whole crowd moving and grooving and sweating...

  • Gay Men’s Chorus presents A Pink Nutcraker

    Originally staged six years ago, Men In Tights: A Pink Nutcracker has been revived and re-imagined. The first half of the show features over 200...

  • The Kinsey SIcks at Theater J

    They’re back! The “dragapella beautyshop quartet” comes to Theater J for what’s sure to be a must-see romp of a holiday show, intended as a...

  • Gallery 10 closes with Last Picture Show

    After 36 years in operation, this Gallery 10 closes with the “Last Picture Show,” an exhibition of some 40 works in all media by gallery...

  • The Roches at The Birchmere

    “ is so steeped in the history of The Roches, it’s just a natural extension ,” Suzzy Roche told Metro Weekly...

  • WIT’s Seasonal Disorder

    Washington Improv Theater’s annual holiday extravaganza features shows based on audience suggestions, showing you the good, the bad and the ugly of the season —...

  • Central Michel Richard’s New Menu Taste Tests

    On 15 consecutive nights at the bar, Central Michel Richard‘s chef de cuisine Arthur Cavaliere gives away free samples of a different new dish each...

  • Sicks Appeal

    ''As the culture is changing,'' says Irwin Keller of the drag a cappella group the Kinsey Sicks, ''we become sort of the daring-but-doable entertainment in...

  • Good Cheer

    Despite the valiant attempts being made in some corners, the bright bauble of reality television has eclipsed what was once television's most reliable version of...

  • Gift of Hits

    What is this, another ABBA greatest-hits set? (All together now: ''Money, money, money; must be funny; in a rich man's world.'') Every year record labels...

  • Knock Out

    The Fighter hits you with a one-two punch. First, the astonishing performances help you bob and weave around a topic that's not for everyone. And...

  • A Christmas Carol at Ford’s

    Ford’s Theatre remounts its music-filled production of the Dickens classic, A Christmas Carol, adapted by Michael Wilson and directed by Michael Baron. Edward Gero returns...

  • Candide at The Shakespeare Theatre

    Candide is the Shakespeare Theatre Company’s first musical theater performance at Sidney Harman Hall. The comic operetta boasts music by Leonard Bernstein (West Side Story)...

  • Liz Phair at the 9:30 Club

    Best known for her 1993 album Exile in Guyville, Liz Phair fused lo-fi indie rock production techniques with the sensibility and structure of classic singer/songwriters....

  • A John Waters Christmas at The Birchmere

    An encore performance after last year’s sellout success, legendary Baltimore filmmaker John Waters returns to the Birchmere in his one-man show motivated by a genuine...