Metro Weekly

Arts + Entertainment

  • Reel Affirmations Night of DADT on Screen

    By on October 21, 2010

    Reel Affirmations presents two military-themed films on Friday, Oct. 22 — A Marine Story, a drama starring Dreya Weber and Alex Everett, at 7 p.m.,...

  • The Flying Karamazov Brothers at Wolf Trap

    By on October 21, 2010

    Fyodor Dostoyevsky's The Brothers Karamazov inspired this legendary American group's name and each performer has taken on a Russian persona. The Flying Karamazov Brothers offer...

  • Belly Horror at The Birchmere

    By on October 21, 2010

    Now in its fifth year, the cabaret Belly Horror features performance artists in what is billed as "a sinisterly sensual smorgasbord of belly dance, inspired...

  • Songs of the Dragons at Studio 2ndstage

    By on October 21, 2010

    Young Jean Lee's show is more jagged kinetic poem than traditional narrative, and it plays with stereotypes at a pace that is at once furious...

  • Catie Curtis at Jammin Java

    By on October 20, 2010

    The New Yorker calls the energetic Catie Curtis, part of Massachusetts’ thriving lesbian folk scene, a “folk-rock goddess.” She puts on a lovely show, and...

  • Henry VIII at the Folger

    By on October 20, 2010

    Robert Richmond directs Henry VIII, Shakespeare’s final history play that reverberates with power struggles — both political and personal — as Henry’s advisors, paramour Anne...

  • Cho-sen One

    By on October 20, 2010

    When gay-fave Margaret Cho takes to the Warner Theatre stage Friday, Oct. 29, she won't be alone. Aside from the audience, there will be one...

  • Law and Order

    By on October 20, 2010

    Last year it was The Blind Side. This year it’s Conviction. That feel-good, based-on-a-true-story film that allows established stars to flex their acting muscles by...

  • Honky Cat

    By on October 20, 2010

    ''I know you could be just like you should,'' Elton John sings at the top of his new set The Union. ''If it wasn't for...

  • Sweet Harmony

    By on October 20, 2010

    ''Throughout the '70s,'' says Carol Maillard, ''there were a lot of pop and R&B singers putting out songs that had something to do with people's...

  • Truth and Consequences

    By on October 20, 2010

    Trying to draw a conclusion about Constellation Theatre Company is not unlike looking up into the night sky, trying to discern the actual figures of...

  • Frock On

    By on October 20, 2010

    ''It was getting a little tedious, frankly,'' says Bette Bourne. ''All these men kind of waving their dicks around, telling us what they'd read and...

  • Three Sisters at the Kennedy Center

    By on October 19, 2010

    Kennedy Center presents the exclusive North American engagement of the Chekhov International Theatre Festival’s productions of Three Sisters and Twelfth Night, the first the classic...

  • Jill Sobule at Jammin Java

    By on October 19, 2010

    Jill Sobule is the original “I Kissed A Girl” pop singer — which was, apparently, the first song with an overtly gay topic aired on...

  • Nick Hornby and Ben Folds

    By on October 19, 2010

    The Folger Shakespeare Library presents an exclusive evening with English novelist Nick Hornby and singer/musician Ben Folds, featuring a reading from Hornby’s novel Juliet, Naked...