Metro Weekly

Arts + Entertainment

  • Play in a Day

    By on March 11, 2011

    Teams representing six D.C.-area professional theater companies will write, direct, rehearse and perform six original plays in a 24-hour period in this seventh annual event...

  • Billy Strayhorn: Lush Life

    By on March 11, 2011

    Originally broadcast on PBS, Billy Strayhorn: Lush Life focuses on the composer, arranger and pianist who was Washington-native Duke Ellington’s right hand man for decades,...

  • Team DC Fashion Show

    By on March 11, 2011

    The popular annual Team DC Fashion Show and Model Search raises funds for the LGBT sports association’s College Scholarship Program benefiting LGBT student athletes. The...

  • You Should Meet My Son

    By on March 10, 2011

    First-time feature film director Keith Hartman’s You Should Meet My Son is rife with cliche, most of which are pretty funny — because they’re true....

  • What’s up at Gallery Plan B

    By on March 10, 2011

    Works by three painters comprise the Gallery Plan B‘s latest exhibition: Kathy Beynette, offering fun, whimsical narrative paintings, Patrick Campbell, with complex, color-saturated paintings, and...

  • Tom Goss CD Release Party!

    By on March 10, 2011

    Though it won’t get official release until next month, Tom Goss will give his hometown crowd a sneak peek (and advance sales) of his third...

  • Howling good comedy: The Second City stops at Wolf Trap

    By on March 10, 2011

    Chicago’s infamous comedy improv troupe, known for introducing a slew of celebrity talent, from Mike Myers and Amy Poehler to John Belushi and Tina Fey...

  • Sade to play Verizon Center on June 22

    By on March 10, 2011

    LiveNation just announced that Sade is coming to the Verizon Center, Wednesday, June 22. She’ll be appearing with special guest John Legend. Writing about her...

  • Adult Swim

    By on March 10, 2011

    ''I will never wear a dress,'' says Eboné Bell. The 29-year-old, who describes herself as ''more masculine or butch'' than your typical woman, gave up...

  • Party Games

    By on March 9, 2011

    There are, at times, movie adaptations of a play so potent, they threaten every live performance that follows. Take, for example, Richard Brooks's Cat on...

  • Minor Adjustments

    By on March 9, 2011

    With just a few small adjustments, The Adjustment Bureau could have been great. As it stands, it's just good. To say that it's based on...

  • Close-Out Concert

    By on March 9, 2011

    Jeffrey Johnson recalls Noi Chudnoff shopping at thrift stores for bras and panties -- for him to wear. ''It's so funny,'' he laughs. ''What other...

  • Pamala Stanley with the Hampton Roads Men’s Chorus

    By on March 9, 2011

    The gay Hampton Roads Men’s Chorus kicks off its first annual “One-Night Only” concert series with “A Night of Broadway and Dance,” featuring Norfolk-native, Rehoboth...

  • Diana Ross at the Leukemia Ball

    By on March 8, 2011

    The National Capital Area Chapter of Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s annual Leukemia Ball is already considered the largest non-political, black-tie gala in D.C. And with...

  • Kennedy Center’s jaw-dropping theater season: La Cage, Memphis, Les Miz, Uncle Vanya, Addams Family and more…

    By on March 8, 2011

    The Kennedy Center announced its new season today — and the theater season alone is gasp-worthy. Of course, the question is what to gasp over...