Metro Weekly

Arts + Entertainment

  • This weekend at the DC Imrpov: Sheryl Underwood

    After getting her start on the national circuit with shows on BET, including her own show Holla, Sheryl Underwood has gone on to feature on...

  • American Century Theatre presents Little Murders

    Ellen Dempsey directs the mordant comedy Little Murders, set in the peak of ’60s violence and insanity, written by political and social satirist/cartoonist Jules Feiffer....

  • Belo comes to Artisphere

    In partnership with the Alliance Francaise, Artisphere presents Belo, a 31-year-old Haitian singer-songwriter, whose socially conscious songs document the hardships in his homeland. Belo’s music...

  • Now Playing: Pariah

    Pariah is the finest coming-of-age movie to find its way into theaters in years. The story, or at least a portion of it, is inspired...

  • Review: Time Stands Still

    ''Happy trails.'' ''Be careful!'' Two ways to say goodbye to someone – one playful and lighthearted, the other cautionary and concerned. Those are also the...

  • Review: The Religion Thing

    Theater J's The Religion Thing centers on two couples. But, as that bland title suggests, the show's primary focus is on faith. Is faith the...

  • Artful Porn

    When is porn art? When is an art gallery a back room? The answer to both questions is now – at least as conceived by...

  • Review: Corman's World

    If Jack Nicholson and Martin Scorsese trash a director's films, saying that ''nobody was trying to make them good,'' or that ''taste was out of...

  • Alexandra Tomalonis’s Ballet 360

    In “Ballet 360 — What Ballet Does Best II: Exotic Dreams,” dance critic Alexandra Tomalonis uses video of well-known ballets to explore the craft of...

  • Barber & Barberillo at the InSeries

    The In Series opens the year with an opera/zarzuela double bill: Samuel Barber’s 10-minute pocket-opera A Hand of Bridge, which features two couples playing cards...

  • Folger’s MLK Tribute

    The Folger Shakespeare Library celebrates Martin Luther King, Jr. Day with dramatic readings of speeches and poetry, all on the au courant theme of protest....

  • Hurry! The Smithsonian’s Frank Kameny exhibit closes Monday

    The Smithsonian National Museum of American History’s exhibit on the gay pioneer Frank Kameny, who died in October, includes protest signs donated by Kameny, and...

  • Violinist Leila Josefowicz at the NSO

    Hannu Lintu conducts the orchestra and violinist Leila Josefowicz, who has “exceptional technical aplomb and nuance,” according to the Baltimore Sun, in a program including...

  • The next best thing to seeing ABBA live

    Bjorn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson — the two B’s in ABBA — have given their stamp of approval to the show put on by The...

  • Chris O’Brien’s Winter Brews Tasting

    “Beer activist” Chris O’Brien, author of Fermenting Revolution: How to Drink Beer and Save the World, leads a “tutored tasting” of beers that have been...