Metro Weekly

Arts + Entertainment

  • Strathmore’s Salute to Vienna

    Inspired by Vienna’s world-famous Neujahrskonzert concert, Strathmore hosts an afternoon of famous Strauss waltzes, polkas and operatta excerpts on New Year’s Day. Guido Mancusi conducts...

  • New Year’s Eve at the Kennedy Center

    Usher in the New Year with a dazzling concert at The Kennedy Center. Now in its 16th year, the concert features members of the National...

  • Monty Alexander at Blues Alley

    The legendary pianist Monty Alexander fuses American jazz and his Jamaican roots in a four decades-long career including work with everyone from Frank Sinatra to...

  • The Best Stage of 2010

    From H Street to Columbia Heights to that new vast temple to the drama gods on the waterfront, D.C.'s theater scene is bright and varied...

  • Funny Ladies

    ''You don't hear as many legitimate conversations about foreign policy in Chicago as you do ,'' says Brooke Breit of Chicago's Second City. You...

  • The Year in Music

    Twenty-ten will go down as the year of gay pop. Oh sure, at least a couple openly gay pop stars have gotten our attention most...

  • Best & Worst Films of 2010

    You take the good, you take the bad, you take them both and there you have the films of 2010. Hopefully you skipped the bad...

  • The Roots, tonight at the 9:30 Club

    What the Philadelphia hip-hop ensemble The Roots lacks in mainstream popular recognition they more than make up for in influence. Combining jazz and soul elements,...

  • Fantasia tonight at DAR Constitution Hall

    Fantasia Barrino’s Back to Me Tour returns this third-season American Idol winner to D.C. a year after she appeared at the Kennedy Center as Celie...

  • How the Grinch Stole Christmas Ice Wonderland

    Bringing to life the 1957 Dr. Seuss holiday classic tale, How the Grinch Stole Christmas Ice Wonderland features 10 colorful scenes straight out of the...

  • James Brown Death-Mas Holiday Bash

    James Brown died on Christmas Day four years ago, so the Black Cat is throwing a party — the James Brown Death-Mas Holiday Bash, helmed...

  • Satirical Song

    Next June, Doug Peck will get married in his hometown of Chicago. ”It’s not legal yet but we’re doing it anyway,” he says. The...

  • A Wrinkle in Time at Round House

    Round House Theatre greets the season with A Wrinkle in Time, a show that talks about love and family with more humor and adventure than...

  • Washington Ballet’s Nutcracker closes this Sunday

    Seven years ago, The Washington Ballet’s Septime Webre refashioned The Nutcracker to be a tribute to the nation’s capital, starring George Washington as the heroic...

  • Good for the Jews

    A musical-comedy duo from New York, Rob Tannenbaum and David Fagin are “putting the Ha! in Hanukkah” on Christmas Eve with Good for the Jews,...