Metro Weekly

Arts + Entertainment

  • Anais Mitchell at The Hamilton

    After opening for Bon Iver at Merriweather Post Pavilion a couple months ago, swoon-worthy indie-folk artist Anais Mitchell stops by downtown’s Hamilton Live on a...

  • The Santaland Diaries at Fort Fringe

    City Artistic Partnerships offers this year’s local production of the popular stage show Joe Mantello adapted from David Sedaris’s writings. Joe Brack returns as the...

  • The Santaland Diaries

    City Artistic Partnerships offers this year’s local production of the popular stage show Joe Mantello adapted from David Sedaris’s writings. Joe Brack returns as the...

  • Six Characters in Search of an Author at Avant Bard

    WSC Avant Bard presents a production of Luigi Pirandello’s Six Characters in Search of an Author, translated by Carl R. Mueller and directed by Tom...

  • Mobster Capitalism

    If you're looking for a mediocre night at the movie theater, look no further than Andrew Dominik's Killing Them Softly. It has everything: a retread...

  • Awkward 'Aliens'

    A theatergoer just might get lost daydreaming during The Aliens, plotting an escape out of the Studio Theatre's intimate, second-floor Milton Theatre. That is, of...

  • My Fair Musical

    Funny, joyful and generally festive, Arena Stage's My Fair Lady is a pleaser. Grey heads will bob nostalgically, children will delight, and lovers of the...

  • Scotland’s The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart

    The National Theatre of Scotland presents an international tour of its 2011 Edinburgh Festival Fringe hit play, performed in an actual pub. For the D.C....

  • Organ Transplant

    ''An organ in a concert hall has to have balls,'' says organ consultant Jeff Weiler. ''And the old organ was just whistling Dixie.'' The Kennedy...

  • North Pole Longing

    {GMCW: Born This Way (Photo by Ward Morrison)} ''Mrs. Claus is going to be very classy, with maybe just a hint of Karen Walker,'' says...

  • Folksy Feeling

    If your idea of a fun Saturday night is popping a cold one and tuning the radio to A Prairie Home Companion, then you should...

  • Lingering Accents

    ''I think it's a universal story that's quite specific to this moment in time in America,'' says Arena Stage's artistic director Molly Smith, who directed...

  • Cox Appeal

    For the record, Deborah Cox does not think she's a gay man trapped in a straight woman's body. ''I've never looked at myself like that,''...

  • Bombs Away

    All My Sons opens with a terrible thunderstorm – made more ominous by incorporating the sounds of fighter jets and bombs bursting in air. It's...

  • Pop Symphony

    Will Madonna one day turn her hits into three-chord punk-rock blasts? Might Katy Perry relaunch ''Firework'' – or ''I Kissed A Girl'' – as a...