Metro Weekly

Arts + Entertainment

  • Altar Boyz at Dominion Stage

    A robust spoof about an all-boy contemporary Christian singing group, Atlar Boyz, with music and lyrics by Gary Adler and Michael Patrick Walker and book...

  • Waiting for Superman at Landmark’s E Street Cinema

    From the director of An Inconvenient Truth comes another film about America wasting a natural resource: the next generation. In Waiting for Superman, public schools...

  • The Social Network

    It’s so meta that The Social Network has a Facebook fan page. Aaron Sorkin adapts Ben Mezrich’s 2009 book, The Accidental Billionaires, about the founding...

  • Terror Tween

    Let Me In is not your average tween's vampire movie. There are no lingering shots of over-primped adolescents with rippling abs. No angst-filled scenes of...

  • Pink Flamingos at Landmark’s E Street Cinema

    Through early November, Landmark’s E Street Cinema is hosting weekend midnight screenings of camp and cult classics, including, of course, Rocky Horror Picture Show —...

  • Justin Nozuka at The State

    Born in New York, bred in Canada, the 21-year-old, part-Japanese R&B singer-songwriter Justin Nozuka writes playfully complex lyrics atypical of the norm, and he turned...

  • Beethoven’s No. 9 at the NSO

    In his first concerts of the regular season, the NSO’s new director Christoph Eschenbach conducts Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9, one of classical music’s most-heralded compositions....

  • The Saint Plays at Factory 449

    John Moletress directs this Factory 449 production of The Saint Plays, which incorporates six short plays, including two written for this cycle, by Erick Ehn....

  • Chess at Signature Theater

    Signature Theatre kicks off its fall season off with the first major production Chess in nearly 20 years and, while some elements feel just a...

  • UMD Symphony Orchestra: White Heat

    White Heat features passionate pieces from Sibelius and Tchaikovsky. James Ross conducts the University of Maryland Symphony Orchestra. Guest violinist James Stern. Tonight, Friday, Oct....

  • Casiokids at DC9

    DC9’s weekly electro-pop Liberation Dance Party presents the Norwegian troupe Casiokids Norwegian troupe, which sprung out of an idea of making electronic music more visual,...

  • Pocket Operas at The In Series

    The In Series’s “pocket opera” provocative double-bill of William Bolcom & Arnold Weinstein’s Casino Paridise and Leonard Bernstein’s Trouble In Tahiti provides an evening of...

  • Gleeful Melodies

    American Idol helped propel Sara Bareilles's career into the mainstream. Now, the California singer-songwriter is hoping Glee will sustain her fame. Those are exaggerated claims,...

  • Oh, Henry

    ''It's amazing how accessible and fun it is. It's not a dry, dusty, old, antique museum of an occasion,'' says the Folger Consort's Robert Eisenstein....

  • Retro Run

    With so many playwrights cramming a circus's worth of plot and issues into their pages, it can seem they are writing for an audience with...