Metro Weekly

Arts + Entertainment

  • Arlen Blues and Berlin Ballads at the InSeries

    By on December 3, 2011

    The songs of Irving Berlin and Harold Arlen defined what America played and sang and danced to for much of the 20th century. Abel Lopez...

  • Krapp’s Last Tape starring John Hurt

    By on December 3, 2011

    Oscar-nominated actor John Hurt stars in a Shakespeare Theatre Company production of Samuel Beckett’s 1958 masterpiece, Krapp’s Last Tape. The story focuses on a man...

  • The world’s biggest jackass: Steve-O at the DC Improv

    By on December 3, 2011

    The Jack-Ass prankster and ridiculous stuntman — known for stapling his balls to his leg — stops in town on his “entirely too much information...

  • Jeffrey Johnson revives Edie Beale

    By on December 2, 2011

    Jeffrey Johnson has teamed up with the Black Fox Lounge to offer a reprise of his popular one-woman cabaret Edie Beale Live at Reno Sweeney....

  • GALA offers a one-day-only $20 Flamenco special!

    By on December 2, 2011

    GALA is presenting Edwin Aparicio’s Flamenco Men tonight and tomorrow and they’re offering special $20 tickets today only, Dec 2. Call 202-234-7174 to reserve and...

  • A shop hop on 14th Street!

    By on December 2, 2011

    The Capital Area Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce and Metro Weekly present an afternoon of savings and celebrations on 14th Street in the Mid...

  • Midori plays with the NSO

    By on December 2, 2011

    The National Symphony Orchestra conductor Christoph Eschenbach reunites with renowned violinist Midori for Britten’s Violin Concerto in D Minor. Also on the program is is...

  • Bonfire Night

    By on December 1, 2011

    He must be tickled: Just as Bill Cain's latest play, Equivocation, opens here in Washington, another Mr. Cain, this one a presidential hopeful, is ''attempting...

  • A Carol Christmas

    By on December 1, 2011

    ''There are more choirs here per capita than any other city,'' says Amy Stahmer, executive director of the City Choir of Washington (301-572-6865, thecitychoirofwashington.org). In...

  • Love Shots

    By on December 1, 2011

    It's tough to say what director Tomer Heymann wanted out of I Shot My Love, an hour-long documentary about identity, family and desire. He opens...

  • Over Sexed

    By on December 1, 2011

    In Shame, everything starts with a look. All sorts of possibilities exist in each one -- this time, maybe they'll do it pinned up against...

  • Flamenco Male Call

    By on December 1, 2011

    Edwin Aparicio is testing the waters, trying to shift perceptions about flamenco. ''American audiences are used to seeing the typical company with lots of...

  • The 9:30 Club’s beneficial raffle

    By on November 29, 2011

    The 9:30 Club is raffling off 2 tickets to every one of its shows in 2012. All you have to do to enter is donate...

  • Alexandra Silber at the Kennedy Center

    By on November 28, 2011

    Alexandra Silber is Barbara Cook’s latest performer in the Spotlight cabaret series, highlighting those singers Cook considers among Broadway’s best today. Silber, with her sweet...

  • The Infection Monologues

    By on November 28, 2011

    On World AIDS Day, Thursday, Dec. 1, the DC Center HIV Working Group and Us Helping Us will present a reading of The Infection Monologues,...