Metro Weekly

Arts + Entertainment

  • A Good Year

    Have you ever had one of those years that seems to fly by and it's only at the end that you realize just how much...

  • Bully for That

    ''It just broke my heart, and I felt a little helpless,'' says Eboné Bell of last fall's spate of news stories surrounding gay teen suicides....

  • Stung

    After a path to the big screen that bounced around more than one of Billy's trips in a Family Circus cartoon, The Green Hornet has...

  • The Bach Sinfonia presents Gut, Wind and Wire

    The Sinfonia’s annual chamber concert features Gut, Wind and Wire, a trio made up of three founding and current members of the Baltimore Consort, in...

  • Chee-Yun with the Fairfax Symphony Orchestra

    Violinist Chee-Yun returns to perform Walton’s Violin Concerto, in a program with Bernstein’s Overture to Candide and Dvorak’s Symphony No. 9. Saturday, Jan. 15, at...

  • Magic at the Washington Stage Guild

    The Washington Stage Guild presents the first U.S. production in decades of Magic, British essayist and mystery writer G.K. Chesterton’s witty fairy-tale of a comedy....

  • Bobcat Goldthwait at the Arlington Drafthouse

    Yes, he’s like that all the time — or at least, the high-pitched comedian Goldthwait has been doing standup since he was still in high...

  • Suede comes to the Ram’s Head

    A Cape Cod-based lesbian singer who got her start in D.C. and Baltimore, Suede has spent decades wowing crowds with her rich contralto voice and...

  • Eddie from Ohio at The Birchmere

    Despite its name, the celebrated American folk band has no connection to the Buckeye State. Instead, all members are natives of Northern Virginia, and its...

  • The BSO gets scientific

    Marin Alsop conducts the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra in a multi-media recreation of physicist and author Brian Greene’s book for children Icarus at the Edge of...

  • The Peabody Trio at Wolf Trap

    Vivid interpreters of the classics in the chamber repertoire, advocates for new music and dedicated teachers and mentors to a generation of young musicians, The...

  • American Century presents Beyond the Horizon

    Beyond the Horizon, Eugene O’Neill’s 1920 romantic tragedy and first to earn him a Pulitzer Prize is considered a turning point in the development of...

  • Sweet Secrets

    With Marcus; Or the Secret of Sweet, playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney returns Studio Theatre audiences to San Pere, La., a housing project that sits somewhere...

  • Tuck & Patti at Blues Alley

    Oklahoma born guitarist Tuck Andress met singer Patti Cathcart, a native of San Francisco, at an audition in Las Vegas in 1980. The husband-and-wife jazz...

  • Sergey Khachatryan with the NSO

    Kirill Karabits conducts the NSO and violinist Sergey Khachatryan in a performance including Shostakovich’s Violin Concerto No. 2, plus Silvestrov’s Elegy for Strings and Sibelius’s...