Metro Weekly

Arts + Entertainment

  • Astro Boy and the God of Comics

    By on February 24, 2012

    Astro Boy and the God of Comics is a highly visual, retro-sci-fi show about the 1960s animation series Astro Boy, focused on a crime-fighting robot,...

  • Bad Company

    By on February 23, 2012

    In the words of Mahatma Gandhi, ''There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supersedes all...

  • Hooray for Hollywood

    By on February 23, 2012

    Why watch the Oscars alone at home when you could do it with hundreds of your best gay friends? That at least is part of...

  • Oscar Fix

    By on February 23, 2012

    Well, it's Oscar time again! Somewhere out West, at this very moment, starlets are shrieking at their personal assistants about ill-fitting Dior, Billy Crystal is...

  • Reagon's Rites

    By on February 23, 2012

    Our community's progress with marriage equality has been impressive, but it's not enough for Toshi Reagon. ''What about the gay people that still don't want...

  • Arts Hub

    By on February 23, 2012

    Over the past few years the once-derelict H Street Corridor near Union Station has become one of the city's buzziest. And it has the arts...

  • Bare: A Pop Opera at AU

    By on February 22, 2012

    American University’s theater program offers a production of Bare: A Pop Opera, a musical about two closeted gay roommates at a Catholic boarding school who...

  • SpeakeasyDC’s Born This Way at Atlas Intersections

    By on February 22, 2012

    Speakeasy DC’s “Born This Way: Stories About Queer Culture in America” features gay and straight storytellers speaking out on the impact of “Queer Culture” on...

  • Cree-ative Calling

    By on February 21, 2012

    This Friday, Feb. 24, the National Museum of the American Indian will open its doors after hours for a special treat ''recommended for mature audiences.''...

  • Concert Review: Zola Jesus

    By on February 21, 2012

    ''We're having technical issues,'' singer Nika Roza Danilova, who performs as Zola Jesus, told the packed crowd at U Street Music Hall toward the beginning...

  • The Washington Ballet presents TwylaTharp: AllAmerican

    By on February 20, 2012

    TwylaTharp: AllAmerican pays homage to the high priestess of contemporary dance by showcasing works from two decades of Tharp’s prodigious career, including “Nine Sinatra Songs”...

  • Oscar-nominated Short Films 2012

    By on February 20, 2012

    Landmark’s E Street Cinema, in partnership with ShortsHD, offers two feature-length programs of the short films nominated at the upcoming Academy Awards this Sunday, Feb....

  • Review: Blood Wedding

    By on February 16, 2012

    Over the past few years Constellation Theatre Company has made its name staging ambitious productions of old plays, and stunning you with a terrific acting...

  • Review: Peter Pan: The Boy Who Hated Mothers

    By on February 16, 2012

    In No Rules Theatre Company's adaptation of Peter Pan, the actors don't actually fly -- not even in suspended fashion. There's no physical Tinker Bell,...

  • Estelle Shines Anew

    By on February 16, 2012

    ''I've felt so much love and acceptance, it's overwhelming,'' Estelle says. '' gay people, it's a whole different level.'' In fact, the Grammy-winning British soul...