Metro Weekly

Arts + Entertainment

  • Crazy Good

    Last year, British star Lily Allen caused a stir with an impossibly sweet-sounding song called ''Fuck You.'' The title alone was an attention-grabber, of course....

  • Mr. Wizard

    You're a tease, Harry Potter. That's right, you heard me. A great big wizard tease. Just when things really get rolling in Harry Potter and...

  • Crystal City

    ''The question we've had all week long,'' says Lia Halloran of the large ''crystals'' currently on display at Arlington's Artisphere, '' what are these made...

  • Angels in America Part I at Shenandoah Conservatory

    This weekend, Shenandoah Conservatory, part of Shenandoah University in conservative Winchester, Va., mounts a production of the first part of Tony Kushner’s award-winning 1993 masterpiece,...

  • Special Agent Galactica lands tonight at ACKC

    Special Agent Galactica, DC’s “Chanteuse of Sync,” presents an intimate cabaret performance at ACKC tonight for two half-hour sets of “Galactica and the Chocolate Factory.”...

  • Hair at the Kennedy Center

    Equal parts revival and outright rave, there is something slightly bizarre about mounting Hair in the red velvet box that is the Kennedy Center’s Opera...

  • Girlyman at the Barns at Wolf Trap

    Girlyman, a sweet and sensitive queer quartet of three girls and a boy creates its own soaring three-part harmony in the acoustic-leaning folk-pop manner of...

  • Laramie Project at Arena Stage

    New York theater troupe Tectonic Theater stops at the brand new Arena Stage as part of the national tour of both the original Laramie Project...

  • GALA’s 6th Annual Flamenco Festival

    Part of GALA Theatre’s ArteAmericA series in collaboration with the Washington Performing Arts Society, the Flamenco Festival explores the diversity and depth of flamenco and...

  • Annie at Olney Theatre

    Yep, the sun’ll come out tomorrow — in a manner of speaking — as Olney christens its new main stage with Annie, the popular musical...

  • The Suzanne Farrell Ballet at The Kennedy Center

    The Suzanne Farrell Ballet returns to The Kennedy Center with two mixed-repertory programs featuring works of Balanchine, Robbins and Bejart. Plus, the company performs its...

  • Salman Rushdie at the Sixth & I Synagogue

    Luka and the Fire of Life revisits the magic-infused, intricate world Salman Rushdie first brought to life in the modern classic Haroun and the Sea...

  • Superior Donuts at the Studio Theatre

    Superior Donuts is a delicious new comedy from Tracy Letts, the Pulitzer- and Tony-winning playwright of August: Osage County. Donuts focuses on an offbeat friendship...

  • Win Tickets to The Odd Couple at Theater J

    Still more a buddy show than a romantic comedy, Neil Simon’s The Odd Couple explores issues far more complex and ultimately satisfying than the weekly...

  • Opera Lafayette at the Kennedy Center

    Dutch soprano Judith van Wanroij sings with the D.C.-based company Opera Lafayette, which is focused on performing French operas from the 17th and 18th Centuries....