Metro Weekly

Arts + Entertainment

  • Girl's Night In

    By on April 20, 2011

    Shining like a small but powerful beacon from its quiet corner in Arlington, The American Century Theater continues its extraordinary mission to seek out and...

  • Big Bad Bass

    By on April 20, 2011

    Matt Boehler photographed at Wolf Trap by Todd Franson ''There's nothing more gay than opera!'' exclaims opera singer Matt Boehler. ''We have fabulous divas wearing...

  • Iron & Wine at Rams Head Live

    By on April 19, 2011

    Sam Beam is Iron & Wine, a dazzling folk-pop act whose latest album, Kiss Each Other Clean is a rich, idiosyncratic collage of sounds and...

  • Rags at The Theatre Lab

    By on April 19, 2011

    The Theatre Lab School of the Dramatic Arts offers a production of the little-known 1986 musical Rags, by Stephen Schwartz (Pippin, Wicked), Charles Strouse (Annie)...

  • Gentlemen Prefer Blondes… well, some do anyway.

    By on April 16, 2011

    Jane Russell and Marilyn Monroe star in Howard Hawks' wicked musical romp Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. You may have heard the showstopper before — a little...

  • Lord of the Rings Marathon

    By on April 16, 2011

    The Arlington Cinema N' Drafthouse will return all films in the Lord of the Rings trilogy to the big screen for a one-day marathon, Sunday,...

  • Michael Feinstein at the Kennedy Center Concert Hall

    By on April 15, 2011

    More than 25 years since his professional recording debut, Michael Feinstein has become something of a gay activist. But he remains best known as a...

  • The Who’s Tommy at AFI

    By on April 15, 2011

    The Who's 1975 film adaptation of their rock opera Tommy starred the band's Roger Daltrey in the title role as a "deaf, dumb and blind...

  • Express Yourself

    By on April 14, 2011

    The three characters in Gustavo Ott's Divorcees, Evangelists and Vegetarians, now at GALA Theatre, are not played by drag queens, though it's easy to imagine...

  • For Art's Sake

    By on April 14, 2011

    Just as a piece of modern art can at first seem deceptively simple, so the premise of Yasmina Reza's Art, at first blush, appears remarkably...

  • Preacher of Love

    By on April 14, 2011

    It must be nice to be Tom Goss's husband. After all, the good-looking Goss, with his sweet tenor voice, is hopelessly devoted to the man....

  • Scream Machine

    By on April 14, 2011

    What's your favorite scary movie? Odds are it won't be Scream 4. It might be your favorite funny movie, but not your favorite scary one....

  • Knock on Wood

    By on April 14, 2011

    You might call Michelle Peterson-Albandoz a dumpster diver for art. The Chicago resident trolls for wood in ''dumpsters and back alleys and stuff'' to create...

  • A Live Sneak Peek at the making of Rise of the Planet of the Apes

    By on April 13, 2011

    Watch live streaming video from apeswillrise at livestream.com

  • Spindrift’s trippy new video

    By on April 13, 2011

    Check out this new video by Spindrift’s Western-tinged song, “When I Was Free.” Directed by Rob Bray, the video is an homage to enigmatic photographer...