Metro Weekly

Arts + Entertainment

  • The Folger Consort’s Early Renaissance

    By on March 7, 2011

    To welcome spring, The Folger Consort performs music from 14th and 15th century Italy, the early Renaissance. The consort will be joined by Trefoil —...

  • Showtunes and Cocktails

    By on March 7, 2011

    Pianist Glenn Pearson and special guests from Washington theater stages perform monthly this evening of showtunes, with proceeds from specialty cocktails and featured appetizers benefiting...

  • RA Xtra: You Should Meet My Son

    By on March 6, 2011

    The latest monthly screening by Reel Affirmations is Keith Hartman’s debut feature film about a mom and aunt who go out of their way to...

  • Now Playing: Matt Damon in The Adjustment Bureau

    By on March 6, 2011

    Matt Damon and Emily Blunt play a rising congressman and a gorgeous ballerina in this improbable mix of romantic drama and science fiction from director...

  • Tom Shroder & John Konrad at Politics and Prose

    By on March 5, 2011

    Fire on the Horizon: The Untold Story of the Gulf Oil Disaster offers a detailed account of last year’s Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion, written...

  • Now Playing: Rango

    By on March 5, 2011

    Pirates of the Caribbean and The Ring director Gore Verbinski, known for his stylized visuals, makes a foray into computer-generated animation with Rango, starring Johnny...

  • Ken Ludwig book launch party and play readings

    By on March 5, 2011

    Signature Theatre hosts a book launch party for D.C. playwright and Broadway favorite Ken Ludwig’s Lend Me A Tenor and Other Plays. Local actors Holly...

  • Now Playing: Beastly

    By on March 5, 2011

    Neil Patrick Harris plays a supporting role as a blind tutor in Beastly, a fantasy that adapts the Beauty and the Beast tale to a...

  • Washington Color and Light closes Sunday

    By on March 5, 2011

    The Corcoran Gallery’s “Washington Color and Light” is a collection of major works by the artists associated with the Washington Color School — Gene Davis,...

  • Jennifer Lopez’s On the Floor Video

    By on March 4, 2011

    We have a two words for JLo’s “On the Floor” video: Sumptuous and kinetic.

  • Mixing It Up

    By on March 3, 2011

    ''It was really great. Lots of new people, younger people, and a lot of the performances sold out.'' Scott Kenison is still basking in the...

  • Matchmaking

    By on March 3, 2011

    According to Glamour magazine, a man is gay if he doesn't like sports, has a subscription to Men's Fitness, and his shower curtain is covered...

  • Avant-Garde Homos

    By on March 3, 2011

    ''What's the model for this? Is it the Village People?'' Brian Freeman's '90s-era group Pomo Afro Homos may not have been nearly as popular as...

  • Iron Butterfly

    By on March 3, 2011

    As one of the most well-known and accessible of operas, admitting a passion for Puccini's Madama Butterfly isn't likely to win you any brownie points...

  • The NSO celebrates India

    By on March 1, 2011

    Christoph Eschenbach conducts the National Symphony Orchestra in a program, part of the Kennedy Center’s maximum INDIA festival, featuring Concerto for Four Soloists, a world...