Metro Weekly

Arts + Entertainment

  • 3 Dollar Bill

    Some of the national gay community’s most talented and dynamic writers appear for a queer reading at the 2011 Association of Writers & Writing Programs...

  • GMCW’s Open Mike/Piano Night

    The Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington hosts a monthly piano bar and open-mike night at Dupont’s Black Fox Lounge. Singers of all levels are welcome...

  • Alvin Ailey at the Kennedy Center

    The popular Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre returns to perform several mixed repertory programs, including Ailey’s signature piece Revelations, celebrating its 50th anniversary next season....

  • Robert Plant and the Band of Joy

    Before Led Zeppelin, Robert Plant had formed a short-lived group called the Band of Joy. He’s now revived the name, this time with famed singer-songwriter...

  • Dar Williams in concert with IBIS at the Artisphere

    Pop-folk musician Dar Williams, whose music has always defied gender and genre, has taken it a step further by teaming with Ibis for a “crossover...

  • The Upright Citizens Brigade at Harman Hall

    For a taste of what’s happening in improv comedy in those far funnier, far edgier coastal cities, keep an eye out for The Upright Citizens...

  • Suzanne Westenhoefer at the Birchmere

    Suzanne Westenhoefer was the first openly gay comedian to appear on television, from appearances on David Letterman, HBO and Bravo. These days she maintains a...

  • Gay/Bash! at the Black Cat

    Local DJ Joshua spins for Gay/Bash! A Queer Night of Rock and Pop Gems, a party featuring gay-popular pop throughout the years — or at...

  • Classical Treatment

    ''Until very recently, I went out of my way in all of my songs to... in the second person,'' says singer-songwriter Dar Williams. ''Because then...

  • Swinging Standards

    ''It's all right for younger people to like older music,'' says pianist John Eaton, an expert of the Great American Songbook and jazz music from...

  • Lesbian Laughs

    In the early '90s, Suzanne Westenhoefer made the rounds of that era's spate of daytime talk shows -- hosted by the likes of Sally Jesse...

  • Baked Alaska

    Is Sarah Palin the Antichrist? “That’s to be interpreted by the ,” says Gross National Product’s John Simmons, referring to his theater company’s latest comedy...

  • Put on the Gloves Fashion Show Fundraiser at Town

    Put On The Gloves Fashion Show is a benefit for the Trevor Project and its suicide prevention work. The event also benefits the Capital Queer...

  • The Tango Fire Company of Buenos Aires

    In “Tango Inferno: The Fire Within,” The Tango Fire Company of Buenos Aires, Argentina’s most acclaimed dance company, performs to traditional tango music played by...

  • Author Mark Hertsgaard at Politics and Prose

    Hot: Living Through the Next Fifty Years on Earth documents innovative responses from various regions around the world already struggling with climate change-driven problems like...