Metro Weekly

Arts + Entertainment

  • Lisa Lampanelli at the New Majority Comedy Tour

    Comedy’s Lovable Queen of Mean, Lampanelli is just the "special guest" for the New Majority Comedy Tour with Gabriel Iglesias, a Last Comic Standing finalist...

  • Constellation’s The Green Bird

    It’s not exactly magic, but what Constellation Theatre Company is pulling off at 14th Street’s Source Theatre right now is pretty extraordinary. The fledgling nonprofit...

  • Editor’s Pick: Aisha Tyler at The Improv

    The first African-American woman to head Talk Soup on E! and a former regular on Friends, CSI and 24, Aisha Tyler is currently the voice...

  • Venus in Fur at Studio

    Inspired by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch’s notorious erotic novel, which first shocked readers in 1870, David Ives’s saucy and sensational Venus in Fur is a crackling...

  • John Oates, minus Daryl Hall

    Less than two years ago, John Oates reunited with Daryl Hall, for an “Up Close and Personal Tour” with the ’80s-era rock & soul pioneers....

  • John Grisham’s A Time to Kill

    Arena Stage presents a pre-Broadway, world premiere adaptation of A Time to Kill, John Grisham’s first novel — and his first to be adapted for...

  • A Prairie Home Companion at Wolf Trap

    Public radio star Garrison Keillor comes to Wolf Trap to offer D.C. another live trip to his fictional-but-oh-so-real Lake Wobegon, which will be broadcast over...

  • Editor’s Pick: Roseanna Vitro, tonight at Blues Alley

    With her new album The Music of Randy Newman, Roseanna Vitro stakes a claim as the first jazz vocalist to explore the richly melodic, sharply...

  • Why Torture is Wrong…

    American Ensemble Theater presents Why Torture is Wrong, and the People Who Love Them, a new black comedy from Christopher Durang (Beyond Therapy, Laughing Wild),...

  • Amadeus at Round House

    Peter Shaffer’s Tony-winning play (which became an Oscar-winning film) depicts the flamboyant genius of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart as seen through the eyes of his desperately...

  • Lady Blah Blah

    Which way was Lady Gaga born, exactly? Another album, chock-a-block full of songs that remind you of hits that came before, and another reason to...

  • Overblown Buffa

    It's a shame the Washington National Opera didn't end its season with the brooding intensity of the memorable Iphigénie en Tauride instead of the determined...

  • Stellar Showgirls and Guys

    What isn't deteriorating in the Kennedy Center's hauntingly gorgeous revival of Stephen Sondheim and James Goldman's 1971 musical, Follies? Florenz Ziegfeld-like impresario Dimitri Weismann (David...

  • Women of the House

    With its rather dated depiction of the mores, or lack thereof, of the modern wartime journalist, some aspects of Tom Stoppard's Night and Day may...

  • Editor’s Pick: Notorious

    The American Film Institute’s Silver Theatre presents the second in a three-part series this year exploring the works of the great filmmaker. Part II focuses...