Metro Weekly

Arts + Entertainment

  • DC Different Drummers 30th Anniversary Concert

    “My passion for the group grows every time I’m with them,” says Joe Bello of D.C.’s Different Drummers. Bello is not the only one. Tonight...

  • Tammy Grimes at the Kennedy Center

    Two-time Tony Award winner Tammy Grimes is the latest Broadway star to get Barbara Cook’s Spotlight treatment. In honor of her 75th birthday, Grimes will...

  • House of Gold at Woolly Mammoth

    Sarah Benson directs a first-rate cast including Mitchell Hebert and Michael Russotto in House of Gold, a darkly funny story, written by young playwright Gregory...

  • Romeo+Juliet at The Washington Ballet

    For his adaptation of the classic Prokofiev ballet Romeo + Juliet, the Washington Ballet’s Septime Webre has Mercutio taunt Tybalt sexually — even kissing “the...

  • Ameriville

    The performance troupe UNIVERSES is raising its brilliantly woven voices on social issues, from basic civil rights to access to healthcare to earning a living...

  • Pirates of Penzance at Atlas Performing Arts

    The Washington Savoyards offer their lively and fast-paced take on one of Gilbert & Sullivan’s most famous operettas, Pirates of Penzance. “I Am The Very...

  • Women Beware Women at Constellation Theatre

    Kitted out like the slightly mad mix of a children’s theater production of a tale by the Brothers Grimm and a fantasy conjured by Tim...

  • Citydance at Strathmore

    CityDance presents its only fall evening-length stateside engagement. Returning home to the newly enhanced CityDance black box, Studio 405, the company presents Paul Taylor’s masterpiece,...

  • Fag Life: A Conversation with Fred Phelps

    A celebration of gay culture, Fag Life: A Conversation with Fred Phelps mixes thoughts from “gay — but not gay” comedian Brent Sullivan about his...

  • Worldleaf Cinema Festival

    A first-of-its-kind event, the Worldleaf Cinema Festival showcases the highest caliber of deaf film from around the world. Among the festival’s 17 films, organized into...

  • Gil Shaham with the NSO

    Xian Zhang conducts the NSO and violinist Gil Shaham, whom the New York Times calls “a highly physical player,” in a program that includes Prokofiev’s...

  • GNP’s Don’t Tea on Me at Atlas Performing Arts

    Gross National Product, whose aim is “making headlines hilarious,” offers a parody of the mid-term elections, highlighting the lowlifes and issues of the Tea Party....

  • All in the Family

    As one contemplates the Washington Shakespeare Company's move from Clark Street to Rosslyn, it's easy to imagine a magical creature emerging from its dark cave...

  • Close Encounters

    ''Can two divorced men share an apartment, without driving each other crazy?'' That was the question left hanging at the start of every episode of...

  • Shear Brilliance

    kennedy-center.org Of the many egregious acts perpetrated on the American public by the advertising and marketing industry the worst may be this: ''Let the Sun...