Metro Weekly

Arts + Entertainment

  • A Broadway Christmas Carol at MetroStage

    By on November 19, 2011

    “Deck the halls with lots of showtunes,” goes the opening number of Kathy Feininger’s A Broadway Christmas Carol. And that, the show, now in its...

  • Catie Curtis at the Barns

    By on November 17, 2011

    Pure musical yum. The New Yorker calls the energetic Catie Curtis, part of Massachusetts’ thriving lesbian folk scene, a “folk-rock goddess.” She puts on a...

  • Trance nation: Armin Van Buuren comes to D.C.

    By on November 17, 2011

    Trance is still kicking, even if it has gone totally corporate. Dutch producer Armin Van Buuren is the keeper of the flame and glowsticks, and...

  • Midlife Aloha

    By on November 16, 2011

    Alexander Payne had made quite a name for himself on the backs of middle-aged discontents. In Election, it was the stagnant, scheming sort. In Sideways,...

  • Bucking Tradition

    By on November 16, 2011

    Every city needs an alternative theater scene. Why? The official answer is that alternative theater speaks to and informs the norm, challenges tradition, broadens ideas...

  • Victorian Nightmare

    By on November 16, 2011

    A stylized Victorian nightmare with lashes of Sam Peckinpah realism and the odd sporran, David Alden's rendering of Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor isn't for everyone....

  • Transcendent Disco

    By on November 16, 2011

    ''The great irony is the fact that we're so associated with the gay dance world and the queer scene -- we're actually pretty much...

  • Lasting Value

    By on November 16, 2011

    ''Sometimes I'll look into the audience and I'll see people crying,'' says Suzanne Vega. ''Or I'll talk to someone after the show and they tell...

  • The Normal Heart national tour will launch at Arena Stage in June 2012

    By on November 16, 2011

    Arena Stage will launch the national tour of the 2011 Tony Award-winning production of Larry Kramer’s The Normal Heart, to coincide with AIDS 2012, the...

  • A Lady Gaga Tease: You and I

    By on November 14, 2011

    Lady Gaga just released a clip of her performance of “You and I,” from Lady Gaga Presents The Monster Ball Tour at Madison Square Garden....

  • The 9:30 Club wins the Top Club prize at 2011 Billboard Touring Awards

    By on November 11, 2011

    Congratulations to our hometown’s iconic 9:30 Club, which won the Top Club honor at the 2011 Billboard Touring Awards. The award is attendance-based, so clearly...

  • Desert Oasis

    By on November 11, 2011

    ''And there you have it, a preview of coming attractions,'' Polly Wyeth (Stockard Channing) says, roughly 30 minutes into Other Desert Cities. The line is...

  • Bloody Business

    By on November 10, 2011

    Can you handle the tooth? Seriously -- as in an Asian restaurant worker's rotted black tooth that's yanked out in the kitchen and finds its...

  • Thunder Clap

    By on November 10, 2011

    Get comfortable. Maybe in your couch or favorite chair. I'd recommend organic snacks. A beer, if you're so inclined. And only once you're truly settled...

  • Insecurity

    By on November 10, 2011

    Clint Eastwood deserves a whole lot of credit. As a director, he's pushed away the man's man archetype that made him famous -- you know,...