Metro Weekly

Arts + Entertainment

  • The Say I Do LGBT Wedding Expo

    By on June 4, 2011

    Over 30 gay (or at least gay-friendly) wedding planners, florists, photographers, caterers and more will be on hand at the Hotel Palomar to help market...

  • Keegan’s Spelling Bee

    By on June 4, 2011

    In the 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, six young people in the throes of puberty learn that winning isn’t everything and losing doesn’t necessarily...

  • Pleasantries

    By on June 2, 2011

    Does America really need another version of ''(Somewhere) Over The Rainbow?'' And another ukulele-driven version at that? After all, it was just a few years...

  • Sheik Appeal

    By on June 2, 2011

    ''Musical theater -- it just wasn't my cup of tea,'' says Duncan Sheik. The Tony Award-winning composer of Spring Awakening performed in Oliver! and Annie...

  • Question Time

    By on June 2, 2011

    Simple of premise and yet utterly engaging, mysterious and provocative, Harold Pinter's Old Times is a beautifully crafted play, the kind of work one might...

  • How do you pronounce NKOTBSB?

    By on June 2, 2011

    When boy banders totter into middle-age, what do they do? Well, if you don’t achieve solo fame a la Bobby Brown and Justin Timberlake, then...

  • Dominion Stage’s Psycho Beach Party

    By on June 2, 2011

    Dominion Stage mounts a production of the off-the-charts Charles Busch camp classic Psycho Beach Party, a mashup of mid-20th century-era beach movies and Hitchcockian suspense...

  • Lisa Lampanelli at the New Majority Comedy Tour

    By on May 31, 2011

    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

    By on May 31, 2011

    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

    By on May 31, 2011

    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

    By on May 27, 2011

    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

    By on May 27, 2011

    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

    By on May 27, 2011

    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

    By on May 26, 2011

    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

    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...