Metro Weekly

Arts + Entertainment

  • Singin’ in the Rain at the E Street

    By on November 5, 2011

    The E Street Cinema continues its first-ever “Capital Classics” series this weekend with two very different films. There’s what many consider to be the greatest...

  • Building Violation

    By on November 4, 2011

    Tower Heist is loud, stuffed with famous people, insistent to the point of shamelessness, and oh-so-very obvious. There's no common denominator it can't lower and...

  • Nina Ananiashvili at Lisner

    By on November 3, 2011

    One of the world’s most beloved ballerinas, having danced with the Kirov Theatre, the Royal Danish Ballet, the London Royal Ballet and the New York...

  • Photo Quality

    By on November 3, 2011

    Things have a way of serendipitously knocking Scott Pasfield off course. Or, perhaps, back on course. In 1994, it was the avalanche out West that...

  • Male Men

    By on November 3, 2011

    If you head out to the opening exhibit at Vitruvian Gallery, on display through Nov. 19, you're sure to run into Edmund. Certainly you'll pass...

  • Soap Box

    By on November 3, 2011

    Growing up in a small town in central Florida, Kalup Linzy was obsessed with soap operas. ''In high school, I ran track and watched the...

  • Band Camp

    By on November 3, 2011

    DC's Different Drummers: Symphonic Band (Photo by Rob Mesite) Have you ever seen classical musicians lip-synch to pop songs – in drag? ''You're seeing members...

  • Country Rose

    By on November 3, 2011

    Forget death and taxes -- the two biggest constants in our world are heartache and the classic sound of Nashville. Luckily for us -- though...

  • Inspiring Betrayal

    By on November 3, 2011

    Stephen Pevner is a busy guy. After jetting off to Europe last week, where he attended a film festival in England, took a short trip...

  • American Youth Philharmonic Orchestra at NOVA

    By on November 2, 2011

    Daniel Spalding leads an orchestra consisting of students aspiring to become classical professionals, along with guest artist pianist Jeffrey Jacob in an “Orchestral Brilliance” program...

  • The Boys from Syracuse at The Shakespeare

    By on November 1, 2011

    Why would the Shakespeare Theatre Company offer a musical concert version of the Rodgers and Hart musical The Boys From Syracuse? Because it’s based on...

  • V V Brown at DC9

    By on November 1, 2011

    The British chanteuse V V Brown — like a poppier Estelle — returns to DC9 a year and a half after touring in support of...

  • Septime Webre’s The Great Gatsby

    By on October 31, 2011

    The Washington Ballet revives The Great Gatsby choreographed by its artistic director Septime Webre. Local actors E. Faye Butler and Will Gartshore, plus tap dancer...

  • We Were Here at the West End

    By on October 31, 2011

    David Weissman and Bill Weber’s powerful, captivating and carefully crafted We Were Here — having just screened at Reel Affirmations — is so much more...

  • Rachael Yamagata at The Birchmere

    By on October 30, 2011

    Born in Alexandria and educated in Bethesda, alternative-rocker Yamagata is touring in support of her third long-player with a title nodding to her roots here...