Metro Weekly

Arts + Entertainment

  • Musical Realities

    By on September 29, 2011

    Among tragically themed musicals, Parade marches to the beat of a particularly bleak (and real) drummer: Leo Frank, a Northern Jewish factory manager doomed to...

  • Marriage Singer

    By on September 29, 2011

    ''I want my child to be able to marry whoever she wants to marry when she grows up, and have the same rights as everyone...

  • Fall into WIT!

    By on September 28, 2011

    If you love improv, you don’t have to wait for regular visits from Chicago’s esteemed Second City. D.C.’s own Washington Improv Theater, or WIT, may...

  • Trouble in Mind at Arena Stage

    By on September 27, 2011

    E. Faye Butler switches from Arena Stage’s hit production of Oklahoma! to star in the company’s newest production, Alice Childress’s Trouble In Mind, about a...

  • The Psychedelic Furs & Tom Tom Club at the Fillmore

    By on September 27, 2011

    English new wave “Pretty In Pink” band The Psychedelic Furs tours with The Tom Tom Club, the American “Genius In Love” husband-and-wife duo Tina Weymouth...

  • Savage in Limbo at MetroStage

    By on September 26, 2011

    Alexandria’s MetroStage opens its season with a decades-old play from John Patrick Shanley, the Oscar-winning writer of Moonstruck and the Pulitzer and Tony winner for...

  • Caroline Kennedy with Michael Beschloss

    By on September 26, 2011

    Jacqueline Kennedy: Historic Conversations On Life With John F. Kennedy collects transcripts of the former First Lady talking to historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr. Former First...

  • Two Guys…Become Interns at Black Fox Lounge

    By on September 25, 2011

    Mikey Cafarelli and Paul Scanlan play D.C. interns in this funny and touching new musical revue by Mark Walter Braswell, said to “reveal the truth...

  • Brother Tongue Poetry Workshop Series

    By on September 25, 2011

    The Center, D.C.’s LGBT community center, and Tongue in Your Ear present a four-part series led by Regie Cabico of HBO’s Def Poetry Jam and...

  • Andy Warhol: Shadows and Headlines

    By on September 25, 2011

    Not one but two local museums are offering exhibits focusing on the work of Andy Warhol. The Hirshhorn presents Andy Warhol: Shadows 1978, comprising 102...

  • Lingering Kiss

    By on September 22, 2011

    Actress Rachel Zampelli decided it was now or never to push for a new production of Stop Kiss. ''I was looking into the mirror, wondering...

  • Repertory Wonders

    By on September 22, 2011

    There may be important things missing in two mystery-laden musicals onstage now at Signature Theatre: a sleuth's youthful innocence, a kidnapped girl, a demonic horseman's...

  • Habit Forming

    By on September 22, 2011

    To make great art, you simply have to be in the habit of making art, period. The trick is, art needs an audience along the...

  • Kiss and Tell

    By on September 22, 2011

    Do you remember your first kiss with a lover? The moment you let your guard down and melt into another person can be a mind-altering,...

  • Amos's Ambition

    By on September 22, 2011

    The D.C. gay barkeep and waiters were not pleased with Tori Amos. '''What is this rock-and-roll white trash look?''' Amos recalls them asking of her...