Metro Weekly

Arts + Entertainment

  • NSO’s The Planets

    This spacey program revolves around Gustave Holst’s masterpiece The Planets with HD images from a suite of seven short films, with images from NASA, intended...

  • Funny Noises

    If you're familiar with Washington's Church Street Theater, tucked away as it is on an unassuming, tree-lined residential street less than a block from neighborhood...

  • Puppet Masters

    Brent Michael DiRoma is standing in the middle of the lobby of the Shakespeare Theatre Company's Lansburgh Theatre as a small crew of Metro Weekly...

  • Musical Illusion

    ''I'm alive and I'm on fire,'' Sarah McLachlan sings on ''Loving You Is Easy,'' the first single from her new album. ''Shot like a starburst...

  • Aretha Franklin at Wolf Trap

    The Queen of Soul Aretha Franklinreturns to Wolf Trap to perform from her rich repertoire and the first time since she performed at the inauguration...

  • David Kirkpatrick’s The Facebook Effect at Politics and Prose

    In The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company That Is Connecting the World, David Kirkpatrick, a senior tech writer at Fortune magazine, presents...

  • Screen on the Green: 12 Angry Men

    The annual Screen on the Green series has returned to the National Mall for a four-week run. Next up is 12 Angry Men, the 1957...

  • Hitch at Stead Park

    Lindsay Reishman Real Estate is hosting several monthly free moving viewings in Stead Park. Up next is Hitch, a 2005 rom-com starring Will Smith as...

  • Atlas’s Gay 101 Film Series: Where the Boys Are

    This series celebrates (mostly) camp classics. Thursday, July 29, brings 1960’s Where The Boys Are, about sex and spring break in Ft. Lauderdale. All films...

  • Crowded House at Wolf Trap

    The Crowded House that Neil Finn built is responsible for several indelible pop hits in the ’80s (“Don’t Dream It’s Over,” “Distant Sun,” “Weather With...

  • Chromeo at the 9:30 Club

    Loftily touted as “the only successful Arab/Jew partnership since the dawn of human culture,” Chromeo, the Montreal-based duo of P-Thugg and Dave 1 is fresh...

  • Deadmau5 at the 9:30 Club

    One of dance/electronica’s fastest-rising stars — and also one of its most baffling — Canada’s Joel Zimmerman only started spinning and recording as DeadMau5 (“dead...

  • 18th & U Duplex Diner Turns 12 Years Old

    Perched on the border of the Adams Morgan and Dupont Circle neighborhoods, Eric Hirshfield’s 18th & U Duplex Diner has long served as a lively...

  • Baltimore Aerial Festival

    In-Flight Theater presents the second annual Baltimore Aerial Festival in “Graffiti Alley,” which is dedicated to the vibrant art of urban graffiti. Twenty aerial artists...

  • The Next Reflex Dance Collective at Dance Place

    “Electro Shutdown & The Pea” is a dance piece set within a nightclub and begins upon your arrival. Entering the theater, you will find the...