Metro Weekly

All posts by Randy Shulman

  • John Heilemann and Mark Halperin at Politics and Prose

    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

    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

    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....

  • Oh, My: A Conversation with George Takei [video]

    On Saturday, Sept. 25, the Washington Shakespeare Company held its annual benefit with an evening entitled ''Shakespeare in Klingon.'' The evening's special guest was Star...

  • Jonsi at the 9:30 Club

    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.

    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...

  • Cafe Green’s vegan fare

    “Organic” and “vegan” may not be phrases that fire up the appetite like “deep fried” or “golden brown.” But they might once you’ve tried Cafe...

  • Don McLean at The Birchmere

    A 2004 inductee into the Songwriter’s Hall of Fame, Don McLean is still singing about that “American Pie,” so the levy’s clearly not dry. Sunday,...

  • Gil Shaham this afternoon at the Kennedy Center

    Xian Zhang conducts the NSO and violinist Gil Shaham, whom the New York Times calls “a highly physical player,” in a program that includes Prokofiev’s...

  • The Lost Ones at Spooky Action Theater

    With special permission from Samuel Beckett’s estate, Spooky Action Theater presents a re-imagined staging of The Lost Ones, a Dantesque story first staged in the...

  • DC Different Drummers 30th Anniversary Concert

    “My passion for the group grows every time I’m with them,” says Joe Bello of D.C.’s Different Drummers. Bello is not the only one. Tonight...

  • Tammy Grimes at the Kennedy Center

    Two-time Tony Award winner Tammy Grimes is the latest Broadway star to get Barbara Cook’s Spotlight treatment. In honor of her 75th birthday, Grimes will...

  • House of Gold at Woolly Mammoth

    Sarah Benson directs a first-rate cast including Mitchell Hebert and Michael Russotto in House of Gold, a darkly funny story, written by young playwright Gregory...

  • Romeo+Juliet at The Washington Ballet

    For his adaptation of the classic Prokofiev ballet Romeo + Juliet, the Washington Ballet’s Septime Webre has Mercutio taunt Tybalt sexually — even kissing “the...

  • Ameriville

    The performance troupe UNIVERSES is raising its brilliantly woven voices on social issues, from basic civil rights to access to healthcare to earning a living...