Arts + Entertainment
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Conditional Success
The creators of the new musical If/Then have given D.C. theatergoers many reasons to be thankful this Thanksgiving. The most obvious three: a grand return...
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Personal trainer Bob Harper comes out on “The Biggest Loser”
In a move that will surprise few and delight many, Bob Harper — a personal trainer on NBC’s The Biggest Loser — came out publicly on...
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MetroStage’s Holiday Musical Spoofing Broadway, Dickens
Last week Metro Weekly offered a roundup of many of the holiday-themed shows and events on tap this season. But there are just so many...
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Landless Theatre Reprises Its ‘Prog-Metal’ Frankenstein
After a run over the summer at GALA Theatre, D.C.’s quirky Landless Theatre Company reprises for one night a concert version of Mary Shelley’s classic...
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Mayor Gray to Officially Open the DC Center Today
Almost a year after the official announcement of its new location in the Frank D. Reeves Municipal Center, The DC Center, the city’s LGBT community...
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David Crabb’s Goth and Gay Days Deep in the Heart of Texas
A two-time winner of the storytelling organization The Moth’s StorySLAM, the New York-based David Crabb offers a local presentation of his off-Broadway one-man show all...
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Maurice Hines Is Tappin Again for ‘Warm’ D.C. Audiences
“I love the D.C. audiences. They’re very, very warm,” Maurice Hines tells Metro Weekly. “Certain cities are not. You have to warm them up…I don’t...
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Jolly Holidays
It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas, and right now every arts organization and venue in the Washington area is gearing up to offer...
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Southern Man
In an extraordinary combination, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins's Appropriate is funny, unflinchingly honest, and awful in the best possible way. Somewhere in the neighborhood of Tracy Lett's...
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Magic To Do
Of all the adjectives you could use to describe Beaches, the maudlin movie from 1988 starring Bette Midler as C.C. Bloom, it's doubtful ''inspiring'' would...
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Hungering for More
The mood of a franchise film matters. Consider the effect it can have on character, story and purpose. What would Christopher Nolan's Batman trilogy be...
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An Epidemic’s Leading Ladies
Elizabeth Taylor just couldn’t take it anymore. A staggering number of people, including many friends and fellow celebrities, were falling ill and dying at a...
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Flashback: Ten 80s Classics you might not have known were covers
Just like in any decade, there were no shortage of hit cover versions in the ’80s. Most of them were obvious – like Billy Idol’s...
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Don’t You Know Molly Ringwald Sings Jazz?
Wonders never cease. Not only can the actor best known from seminal John Hughes films of the ’80s sing, but Molly Ringwald is now, improbably...
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PlayStation 4 launches, fan queues for 20 hours
It’s Friday, November 15. What does that mean to you and I, dear reader? The next generation has begun. At midnight last night, Sony launched...
