Metro Weekly

Arts + Entertainment

  • Deer Tick at the 9:30 Club

    This Rhode Island quintet blends folk, blues and country — you know, all styles of music you’d hear outdoors, where the deer and the antelope...

  • Duran Duran at D.A.R.

    Duran Duran, Brit-pop’s Fashionable Fab Four (lead guitarist Andy Taylor left the original Fab Five once and for all a few years ago) have come...

  • The Heir Apparent at the Shakespeare

    Adaptation is a funny thing. What worked so shamelessly and wonderfully for adaptor David Ives in the Shakespeare Theatre Company’s production of The Liar two...

  • An enchanted evening at the NSO

    Rebecca Luker is as corny as Kansas in August. Well, at least that’s what she’s singing at the Kennedy Center Concert Hall this weekend. What...

  • Reel Affirmations 20: Update, Day 3

    Metro Weekly’s cadre of critics awarded a whopping six Critic’s Picks on this busy day of film showings for the Reel Affirmations gay and lesbian...

  • Cyndi Lauper & Dr. John at the 9:30 Club

    True Colors LGBT champion Cyndi Lauper returns to the 9:30 Club for another roots-oriented concert after last year’s blues fest. This time, the focus is...

  • Love Potion #1 at The InSeries

    Director Nick Olcott offers an English adaptation of Donizetti’s comic opera L’Elisir d’Amore for an InSeries’ mini-opera production. Olcott sets his version in a D.C....

  • Reel Affirmations 20: Update, Day 2

    Reel Affirmations 20 is in full swing and tonight’s collection of films is particularly strong. It starts at 5 p.m. at the Globe Theatre with...

  • Rip-Off Artist

    Say, do you like John Carpenter's The Thing? Or maybe its '50s predecessor, The Thing From Another World? I bet you'd be thrilled to hear...

  • Lesbian Central

    Why have all the lesbians gone to Alexandria? That may be the question on many minds next weekend, when the Birchmere hosts a couple shows...

  • Surround Sounds

    ''In the '80s, I was a synth-pop boy,'' says Richard Chartier. ''I was very into that.'' But unlike many or even most synth-pop fans, the...

  • The Ahn Trio at Wolf Trap

    A classic chamber group, The Ahn Trio isn’t afraid to have fun or be funny. It’s most recent album was amusingly title Lullaby for My...

  • The works of Rob Vander Zee at Vitruvian Gallery

    The gay-owned Vitruvian Gallery, located near Eastern Market and focused on male figurative art, officially opens this weekend with an exhibit of over 20 male...

  • Rebecca Luker, Aaron Lazar and Rod Gilfry with the NSO Pops

    Steven Reineke conducts the NSO Pops in the program “Some Enchanted Evening: The Music of Rodgers & Hammerstein,” featuring soprano Rebecca Luker (Broadway’s Mary Poppins),...

  • Junk No More

    Mark Morgan had a rough transition in 2001. First, he underwent major surgery in May that could have left him with a colostomy bag or...