Metro Weekly

Arts + Entertainment

  • 18th Annual World Team Tennis Smash Hits AIDS Benefit

    At the 18th Annual World Team Tennis Smash Hits AIDS Benefit, you get the likes of Anna Kournikova, Stefanie Graf, Andre Agassi and Martina Navratilova...

  • Kris Kristofferson

    Kristofferson plays solo with no backing band in this intimate Evening with Kris Kristofferson in which he sings the songs that made him famous, from...

  • The Congressional Chorus at the Church of the Epiphany

    Organized in 1987 by a group of Capitol Hill staffers and featuring about 80 members from all over the region, The Congressional Congress performs works...

  • RA Xtra: Different from Whom?

    Reel Affirmations presents the Italian film Different From Whom? as the first of five RA Xtra films this season. The farcical comedy focuses on a...

  • Chely Wright at Rams Head On Stage

    Chely Wright’s first area performance since she came out and energized this year’s Capital Pride — which happened right after she became the first major...

  • Kate Clinton at the Birchmere

    A professional — and always out — standup comedian for going on 30 years, Kate Clinton never seems to have a shortage of jokes about...

  • Rock Solid

    To quote the 1984 Deniece Williams song from the Footloose soundtrack, let's give the boy a hand, because James Franco's performance in 127 Hours is...

  • Soul Stirring

    Darius Nichols as Hud, photographed by Todd Franson in the Kennedy Center's Africa Room, Friday, Nov. 5, 2010 Darius Nichols almost passed on auditioning for...

  • Home on the Range

    Arena Stage artistic director Molly Smith is hoping there's a little Ado Annie in all of us. Annie is, of course, the gal from the...

  • Angels Heart

    A production of Angels In America -- in the mountains of Virginia? ''There's always been a hesitation because the traditional audience is fairly conservative,'' says...

  • Jonathan Butler at Blues Alley

    After signing his first record deal as a teenager with British record producer Clive Caulder’s Jive Records, Jonathan Butler‘s premiere single became the first by...

  • Furious Dancing at Busboys & Poets

    Furious Dancing: The Art Exhibit is a group exhibit featuring 18 artists curated by Simone Jacobson and Sonja Kubota Johansson celebrating Alice Walker’s new book,...

  • John Heilemann and Mark Halperin at Politics and Prose

    Politics and Prose brings back John Heilemann and Mark Halperin, authors of the riveting best-seller Game Change, about the 2008 presidential campaign. The book has...

  • Oklahoma at Arena Stage

    Arena Stage’s Molly Smith sets her production of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s great American musical Oklahoma!in the robust world of territory life filled with a dynamic...

  • Now Playing: Fair Game

    If there’s one consolation for Valerie Plame being exposed as a CIA operative, it’s that Naomi Watts was cast to play her in Fair Game....