Metro Weekly

Arts + Entertainment

  • The Congressional Chorus at the Church of the Epiphany

    By on November 13, 2010

    Organized in 1987 by a group of Capitol Hill staffers and featuring about 80 members from all over the region, The Congressional Congress performs works...

  • RA Xtra: Different from Whom?

    By on November 12, 2010

    Reel Affirmations presents the Italian film Different From Whom? as the first of five RA Xtra films this season. The farcical comedy focuses on a...

  • Chely Wright at Rams Head On Stage

    By on November 12, 2010

    Chely Wright’s first area performance since she came out and energized this year’s Capital Pride — which happened right after she became the first major...

  • Kate Clinton at the Birchmere

    By on November 12, 2010

    A professional — and always out — standup comedian for going on 30 years, Kate Clinton never seems to have a shortage of jokes about...

  • Rock Solid

    By on November 10, 2010

    To quote the 1984 Deniece Williams song from the Footloose soundtrack, let's give the boy a hand, because James Franco's performance in 127 Hours is...

  • Soul Stirring

    By on November 10, 2010

    Darius Nichols as Hud, photographed by Todd Franson in the Kennedy Center's Africa Room, Friday, Nov. 5, 2010 Darius Nichols almost passed on auditioning for...

  • Home on the Range

    By on November 10, 2010

    Arena Stage artistic director Molly Smith is hoping there's a little Ado Annie in all of us. Annie is, of course, the gal from the...

  • Angels Heart

    By on November 10, 2010

    A production of Angels In America -- in the mountains of Virginia? ''There's always been a hesitation because the traditional audience is fairly conservative,'' says...

  • Jonathan Butler at Blues Alley

    By on November 10, 2010

    After signing his first record deal as a teenager with British record producer Clive Caulder’s Jive Records, Jonathan Butler‘s premiere single became the first by...

  • Furious Dancing at Busboys & Poets

    By on November 10, 2010

    Furious Dancing: The Art Exhibit is a group exhibit featuring 18 artists curated by Simone Jacobson and Sonja Kubota Johansson celebrating Alice Walker’s new book,...

  • John Heilemann and Mark Halperin at Politics and Prose

    By on November 9, 2010

    Politics and Prose brings back John Heilemann and Mark Halperin, authors of the riveting best-seller Game Change, about the 2008 presidential campaign. The book has...

  • Oklahoma at Arena Stage

    By on November 9, 2010

    Arena Stage’s Molly Smith sets her production of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s great American musical Oklahoma!in the robust world of territory life filled with a dynamic...

  • Now Playing: Fair Game

    By on November 9, 2010

    If there’s one consolation for Valerie Plame being exposed as a CIA operative, it’s that Naomi Watts was cast to play her in Fair Game....

  • Jonsi at the 9:30 Club

    By on November 8, 2010

    The 35-year-old Jonsi launched his solo debut Go with the same giddy sense of joy and wonder you may remember from your first carnival —...

  • Our weekly contest roundup.

    By on November 7, 2010

    Here’s our weekly contest roundup. We have four currently active with more on the way this week. To win a pair of tickets to Signature...