Metro Weekly

Arts + Entertainment

  • Return of the King featuring a Live Orchestra

    A live orchestra and soloists perform Howard Shore’s Oscar-winning score to Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, the final installment of Peter...

  • Fairfax Symphony Orchestra’s season opener

    Christopher Zimmerman leads the Fairfax Symphony Orchestra and pianist Phillipe Bianconi in a performance of Tchaikovsky's The Tempest Overture-Fantasy and Rachmaninoff's Symphony No. 3, which...

  • DC Shorts Film Festival

    Washington's only festival solely devoted to films with run times 20 minutes or less returns for a seventh year with 97 films screening in nine...

  • Demetri Martin at the Hippodrome

    A former staff writer for Late Night with Conan O’Brien and also a former writer/performer on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Demetri Martin is...

  • Glimpses of the Moon at Metro Stage

    MetroStage kicks off its season with this jazz age musical based on the novel by Edith Wharton, with book and lyrics by Tajlei Levis and...

  • The Whole Plate Project at Art Reactor

    Art Reactor Gallery, new artist-run photo-focused space in Hyattsville presents its first curated exhibit. “The Whole Plate Project” focuses on photographs made using a variety...

  • High Notes

    Falsettos is about a gay man – a father – who divorces his wife but vows to keep the family together. In 1992, during the...

  • Anti-Climax

    Over-hyped, overlong and ultimately under-sexed, Sarah Ruhl's In the Next Room, or The Vibrator Play leaves much to be desired. Trying for the ever bigger...

  • Revolutions

    We all have that negative thing that lurks in the back of our head with surprising ferocity. Maybe it was a moment of humiliation so...

  • Liz Lerman Dance Exchange at the Clarice Smith Center

    With "The Matter of Origins,” the Liz Lerman Dance Exchange combines a performance and an informal salon, offering dance, video, soundscapes, tea, cake and conversation...

  • Something You Did at Theatre J

    Theater J launches its 2010-2011 season with Willy Holtzman’s political drama Something You Did, about an anti-war activist’s attempt to win early release from prison,...

  • Blondie at The State Theatre

    Several years after a lackluster solo release, pop icon Debbie Harry returns to the area in a sure-to-be high-energy performance with her original band, the...

  • Art by the Yard at The Textile Museum

    Art by the Yard: Women Design Mid-Century Britain focuses on three women designers pivotal in transforming Britain from a country devastated by World War II...

  • Dinner with Friends at Olney Theatre

    The Pulitzer Prize-winning play Dinner with Friends, by Donald Marguilies, explores what happens to decades of friendship between two married couples when one couple is...

  • Lori Anne Boocks at Studio Gallery

    “Small boxes…some on fire” features Lori Anne Boocks’ “textscapes,” or works on canvas with layers and washes of colors meant to evoke the passage of...