Metro Weekly

Arts + Entertainment

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

    By on May 26, 2011

    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…

    By on May 26, 2011

    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

    By on May 26, 2011

    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

    By on May 26, 2011

    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

    By on May 26, 2011

    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

    By on May 26, 2011

    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

    By on May 26, 2011

    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

    By on May 20, 2011

    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

    By on May 20, 2011

    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

    By on May 20, 2011

    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

    By on May 18, 2011

    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

    By on May 18, 2011

    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,...

  • Just Announced: Lil Wayne at Jiffy Lube Live

    By on May 17, 2011

    Lil Wayne brings his “I’m Still Music Tour” to Jiffy Lube Live on Saturday, July 16. The artist will be joined by Rick Ross, Keri...

  • Editor’s Pick: Ruined at Arena Stage

    By on May 15, 2011

    In Ruined, playwright Lynn Nottage and director Charles Randolph-Wright manage to confront head-on the mass-rape of civilian women by combatants during the Second Congo War...

  • Far From Heaven

    By on May 15, 2011

    As part of a month-long retrospective of the work of queer filmmaker Todd Haynes, known for I’m Not There and most recently the HBO miniseries...