Metro Weekly

Arts + Entertainment

  • Review: The Innkeepers

    By on February 3, 2012

      The Innkeepers, like all of Ti West's horror, is an exercise in slow-burning scares. He short-circuits nerves with anxiety, using sober creeps to ratchet...

  • Fly Guys

    By on February 3, 2012

    There's not much depth to Chronicle. In spite of a unique take on the traditional superhero origin story, rookie director Josh Trank and screenwriter Max...

  • Suzanne Westenhoefer returns to The Birchmere

    By on February 2, 2012

    Suzanne Westenhoefer may not have been the first openly gay comic — her friend Kate Clinton beat her to that punch — but she did...

  • Review: The Elephant Room

    By on February 2, 2012

    Part magic show, part witty performance piece, part hilarious guy-silliness, The Elephant Room is the theatrical equivalent of 3 a.m. in the basement ''rec room'' with your...

  • Review: Red

    By on February 2, 2012

    Paint splatters and spills like blood in Red, soaking skin and canvas alike as an aging artist and his young assistant toil in a Manhattan...

  • Riffing on Republicans

    By on February 2, 2012

    How could anyone be funnier than Michele Bachmann or Herman Cain? ''I kid you not,'' says Ben Schatz of the Kinsey Sicks, ''there were jokes...

  • Review: Aiden James

    By on February 2, 2012

    Aiden James is not just a pretty face, writing and singing pretty tunes. In fact, James could get by as your standard singer-songwriter, nothing more....

  • The Margaret Jenkins Dance Company at Smith Center

    By on February 1, 2012

    “Light Moves” is a collaborative piece, co-commissioned by the Clarice Smith Center, from choreographer Margaret Jenkins working with media artist Naomie Kremer, composer Paul Dresher...

  • Review: Wit

    By on February 1, 2012

    Cynthia Nixon laughs and laughs and laughs in one late scene in Wit. The actress even seems genuinely tickled, too. (Maybe she's reveling in the...

  • The Natty Beaux at The Hamilton

    By on January 31, 2012

    A multi-genre but roots-centered supergroup featuring D.C.-area musicians from the Billy Coulter Band, the Junkyard Saints, Alexandria Kleztet and Western Bob, The Natty Beaux will...

  • With 3 You Get Amazing Opera

    By on January 29, 2012

    Landmark’s E Street Cinema presents a screening of Opera on Film: 3 Superstars in Berlin, a taped performance at Berlin’s massive Waldbuhne amphitheater featuring three...

  • Ford’s Theatre brings together two historical icons

    By on January 29, 2012

    In a work commissioned by Ford’s Theatre, playwright Richard Hellesen explores the two documented encounters between Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln during a period of...

  • Simone Dinnerstein, tonight at Strathmore

    By on January 29, 2012

    The Washington Performing Arts Society presents a concert with celebrated pianist Simone Dinnerstein. The program includes Schumann, Bach, Brahms and Chopin. Tonight, Sunday, Jan. 29,...

  • Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band

    By on January 27, 2012

    The rock legend and his band return in March with the act’s 17th studio album, Wrecking Ball, and it’s said to live up the title,...

  • Special Agent Galactica

    By on January 27, 2012

    Local drag phenom Special Agent Galactica, a.k.a. the “pink-haired diva,” performs with her live band, the Escape Pods, led by musical director Captain Satellite, and...