Metro Weekly

Arts + Entertainment

  • Capital Fringe Festival

    By on July 9, 2010

    Now in its fifth year, this festival of offbeat theater, music and art is bigger than ever, with 140 performing arts groups and 800 individual...

  • Sting with the Royal Philharmonic

    By on July 9, 2010

    British pop superstar Sting offers a “Symphonicity Tour,” with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, recreating many of his most popular songs, both as lead singer of...

  • Mamma Mia at Wolf Trap

    By on July 9, 2010

    The popular ABBA jukebox musical Mamma Mia! is the latest to take the stage at Wolf Trap. July 9, 10 and 11, at 8 p.m....

  • Wise Guy

    By on July 7, 2010

    ''I'm still working this out.'' If you walk away from Theater J's production of David Ives's play New Jerusalem: The Interrogation of Baruch De Spinoza...

  • Club Cutlery

    By on July 7, 2010

    ''What if music hadn't stopped dead in its tracks? What if you could pick up where that left off?'' Those were the questions that...

  • Life's a Cabaret

    By on July 7, 2010

    In a few weeks, Colleen McHugh will perform ''Friend of Dorothy: The Songs of Judy Garland'' at Signature Theatre. ''I mean, that's so stereotypical, but...

  • Babes in Arms

    By on July 6, 2010

    Virginia’s American Century Theater offers a concert presentation of the Rodgers and Hart’s musical Babes in Arms. Forget the plot — all you need to...

  • Pop Lite

    By on July 1, 2010

    ''It's all I wanna do, so won't you dance?'' Kylie Minogue asks on her new album's first single, ''All The Lovers.'' ''I'm standing here with...

  • Monster Trash

    By on June 29, 2010

    To say that the third installment in the Twilight Saga is the best one is like saying the Korean War was the best war, or...

  • Glamourpusses

    By on June 23, 2010

    If, since hearing about Studio Theatre's decision to mount a new production of Legends! starring James Lecesne and John Epperson (aka Lypsinka) in the leading...

  • True Blues

    By on June 23, 2010

    Just the thought of it makes you dubious. Cyndi Lauper producing a blues album? Oh sure, the all-covers Memphis Blues, her 11th studio set, follows...

  • Unsaintly Actions

    By on June 17, 2010

    When Proposition 8 was passed in California during the 2008 elections, not only did it put a stop to marriages for same-sex couples in the...

  • True Stories

    By on June 17, 2010

    When truth can be stranger than fiction, documentaries can eclipse feature films in their ability to enthrall, entertain and educate. Now in its eighth year,...

  • Spiritual Cinema

    By on June 17, 2010

    Lately, all the buzz about Buddha in the District of Columbia has belonged to Buddha Bar, the überhip restaurant/lounge chain of the jetseteratti, welcoming Washington...

  • Diva Duel

    By on June 17, 2010

    ''I think the fact that this ridiculous play -- in the best sense of the word -- is being done in this what I would...