Metro Weekly

Arts + Entertainment

  • BSO’s Broadway Melodies

    By on July 24, 2010

    Randall Craig Fleischer leads the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and Broadway performers Doug LaBrecque (Show Boat) and Patricia Phillips (The Phantom of the Opera) in a...

  • Salt Deficiency

    By on July 23, 2010

    There is a type of book that only seems appropriate to buy in airports. Typically it's filled with action scenes, very little character development, writing...

  • Reading Silk at The Torpedo Factory

    By on July 22, 2010

    Reading Silk: A Living Sculpture features an installation with hundreds of small, silk leaf-shaped forms by live silkworms with the collaborative efforts of local students...

  • Robert Ryman at The Phillips Collection

    By on July 22, 2010

    Coinciding with the artist’s 80th birthday, Robert Ryman: Variations & Improvisations presents Ryman’s ongoing examination of painting, including the effects of light and shadow and...

  • American Idols Live!

    By on July 21, 2010

    The top 10 finalists from the ninth season of the hit reality show American Idolcelebrate their fame while it lasts, led by winner Lee DeWyze...

  • Sing Out Loud

    By on July 21, 2010

    Despite the time that's passed since Robert Lopez, Jeff Marx and Jeff Whitty first sent their profanity-spewing puppets on stage to deliver such toe-tappers as...

  • Mother's Milkshake

    By on July 21, 2010

    On the song ''Scream'' from her new album, Kelis verbally prances out her lyrics just like a ''Vogue''-ing Madonna. ''So lets get to it, now...

  • Night at the Museum

    By on July 21, 2010

    “I’ve been dreaming of this day since the very first time I saw Crack,” says Kevin Hull, manager of special programs at the Hirshhorn Museum....

  • Drive-By Truckers at the 9:30 Club

    By on July 20, 2010

    Patterson Hood creates rock albums with friends under the band name Drive-By Truckers. The albums are fashioned like low-budget films, filled with carefully told, fiercely...

  • Level 42 at The Birchmere

    By on July 20, 2010

    The British pop band Level 42, who scored hits in the ’80s with “Something About You,” “Lessons in Love” and “Running in the Family” are...

  • Yves Klein at The Hirshhorn

    By on July 19, 2010

    This is the first American retrospective of the influential French artist Yves Klein, whose talents span from composing to photo-conceptualizing to performance art to judo...

  • Art by the Yard at The Textile Museum

    By on July 19, 2010

    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...

  • Melissa Etheridge at Strathmore

    By on July 18, 2010

    Melissa Etheridge is touring in support of her 10th studio album, Fearless Love. The newly separated famous lesbian mother of four and cancer survivor told...

  • Paul Taylor Dance Company at Wolf Trap

    By on July 18, 2010

    The Paul Taylor Dance Company celebrates its namesake’s 80th birthday with a D.C. premiere of a new Wolf Trap co-commissioned work. Taylor’s choreography, once deemed...

  • The Complete Metropolis at the Avalon

    By on July 18, 2010

    The Avalon Theatre and Kino International present the Washington-area release of the new restoration of Fritz Lang’s remarkable 1927 science fiction epic Metropolis, now with...