Metro Weekly

Arts + Entertainment

  • Jewish Angst

    By on June 16, 2011

    ''For me, music has always been about the opposite of parents,'' says singer-songwriter Dan Fishback. ''I listened to music as a teenager to escape...

  • Fur Flurry

    By on June 16, 2011

    Ah, the tyranny of the audition room. If you've never been privy to the emotionally grueling ritual to which actors – if they're lucky enough...

  • Spend your Sunday at the 2011 Capital Pride Festival

    By on June 11, 2011

    Join more than 200,000 people on historic Pennsylvania Avenue, between 7th and 3rd streets and celebrate Pride 2011 in front our nation’s Capitol at the...

  • Parade Your Pride!

    By on June 11, 2011

    Today, Saturday, June 11, is the Capital Pride Parade, the annual parade that traverses Dupont Circle, down 17th Street, and across to Thomas Circle. Join...

  • The Go-Go’s at Wolf Trap

    By on June 10, 2011

    The ’80s pop hitmakers The Go-Go’s got the beat to unofficially kick off Capital Pride weekend, out at Wolf Trap, as part of a “Ladies...

  • Canto al Peru Negro at Gala

    By on June 10, 2011

    Gala Hispanic Theatre presents Canto al Peru Negro, a world premiere production from Gabriel Garcia that promises an evening of song, dance and dramatic scenes...

  • Duncan Sheik at The Birchmere

    By on June 10, 2011

    Duncan Sheik is once again working with Steven Sater, with whom he created the Tony-winning 2006 sensation Spring Awakening, this time on an adaptation of...

  • Classic Grace

    By on June 9, 2011

    Let's be clear: Dina Merrill is not a diva. ''She is extremely gracious and sophisticated,'' says Lynn Rossotti of Hillwood Estates. And yet, Merrill is...

  • Father-Son Outing

    By on June 9, 2011

    In reality, a man was raised in a nuclear family in California. He grew up with a mother and a father and two sisters. When...

  • Trail Blazer

    By on June 9, 2011

    ''I thought that I hadn't really lived that much,'' says the 48-year-old legendary punk-rocker Bob Mould about being approached by a publisher in 2001 to...

  • Psychotic Edge

    By on June 9, 2011

    ''After one of the performances, someone asked, 'You do this a lot?''' That's a typical response Christopher Gillespie is getting playing a woman in Dominion...

  • Restless Knight

    By on June 9, 2011

    There are two ways to consider Synetic's humorously sincere Don Quixote. The first is for those who have yet to sample the strange and wonderful...

  • Queen Machines

    By on June 9, 2011

    There's no ABBA turd in the Broadway version of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert. In fact, in transporting Stephan Elliott's beloved 1994 film to the...

  • Candy Land

    By on June 9, 2011

    ''The work should be work,'' admonishes playwright-director Robert O'Hara's semi-autobiographical avatar in Bootycandy, a collection of 10 short plays receiving a snazzy, saucy world-premiere production...

  • Mandy Patinkin at Strathmore

    By on June 8, 2011

    Emmy-winning TV star and Tony-winning Broadway legend Mandy Patinkin offers a powerful passionate evening of popular song, from Irving Berlin to Stephen Sondheim, from Cole...