Features
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Film: Fall Arts Preview 2025
The fall arts slate spans highbrow to high camp, with queer comedies, historical epics, and cinematic heavyweights vying for your attention.
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Stage: Fall Arts Preview 2025
A fearless fall on D.C. stages -- classics reimagined, new voices amplified, and bold premieres that insist live theater matters now.
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Popular Music: Fall Arts Preview 2025
Pop, rock, folk, blues, and jazz converge as national tours and local favorites turn the region into a nightly choose-your-own concert.
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Classical & Choral Music: Fall Arts Preview 2025
From Poe-tinged tone poems to Handel and carols, a season of range and ritual with bold new works and film-with-orchestra spectacles.
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Dance: Fall Arts Preview 2025
‘Tis a season for celebrating significant milestones in dance, including an amazing honor for one of the most revered names ever to be associated with...
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Above & Beyond: Fall Arts Preview 2025
Washington’s fall arts season bursts with comedy, readings, exhibits, lectures, and more.
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Mehro Makes Music That Is Haunting, Hypnotic, and Heartfelt
Unlocking the carefully guarded secrets of one of pop's brightest and most enigmatic new artists.
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Carol Channing, Legendary: The Full 1995 Metro Weekly Interview
In 1995, we spoke with Carol Channing about Hello, Dolly!, female impersonators, and Broadway's response to AIDS.
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David Archuleta on Earthly Delights, Mormonism, and Gay Identity
With dazzling new music and a bold tour, the pop idol celebrates joy, queerness, and freedom after leaving the Mormon church
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The Bulwark’s Tim Miller Sounds Off on Trump and the GOP
Gay ex-GOP strategist and The Bulwark host Tim Miller on leaving the GOP, LGBTQ rights, America’s hard-right shift, and the Epstein scandal.
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Inside Tyler Hack’s Plan to Transform Trans Rights in America
Tyler Hack and the Christopher Street Project bring urgency and strategy to the fight for transgender rights.
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Malcolm Kenyatta Is Ready to Rebuild the Democratic Party
Malcolm Kenyatta, the DNC's gay vice chair, has a message for his party: Stop waiting for a hero and get to work.
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The First Homosexuals: How Art Revealed a New Queer Identity
A groundbreaking exhibit at Chicago’s Wrightwood 659 uncovers how visual art helped shape global queer identity between 1869 and 1939.
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Noah’s Arc: Patrik-Ian Polk on Its Return and Legacy
Creator Patrik-Ian Polk celebrates Noah’s Arc’s legacy -- and shares why Black queer stories still deserve more space in Hollywood.
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Michael Urie Puts Queer Stories Center Stage with Pride Plays
As Pride Plays takes over Woolly Mammoth for WorldPride, the "Shrinking" star talks representation and radical joy in queer theater.
