Metro Weekly

Arts + Entertainment

  • 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...

  • Editor’s Pick: Special Agent Galactica’s Rapture

    Local drag phenom Galactica, a.k.a. the “pink-haired diva,” will sing — not lip-synch — at her latest cabaret-style show “Rapture!” A live band, the Escape...

  • I Want Candy: Beautiful Darling

    An early transsexual celebrity, Candy Darling (nee James Slattery) became a downtown New York fixture in the ’60s and went on to become part of...

  • High Art vs. Hard Cash

    Let's call it... The One With the Ross-like Nebbish Who Didn't Actually Marry the Lesbian Who Left Him for Another Woman. Oh sure, The Moscows...

  • Flights of Fancy

    The Green Bird features statues that talk, apples that sing and waters that dance. Even more unbelievable, the play humorously explores philosophical notions about love,...