Metro Weekly

Arts + Entertainment

  • Special Event on Sunday at Studio: LGBT Community Discussion following Marcus

    By on February 9, 2011

    On Sunday afternoon, Feb. 13, following the 2 p.m. matinee of Tarell Alvin McCraney‘s stunning Marcus; or the Secret of Sweet, the Studio Theatre, in...

  • RA Xtra: Children of God

    By on February 9, 2011

    Kareem J. Mortimer’s tough and touching drama, set in Brazil, Children of Godfocuses on two young men struggling to come out. The film screens as...

  • Euan Morton at Signature

    By on February 8, 2011

    After performing last year in the wonderful revival of the rock musical Chess, Euan Morton returns to Signature, this time to perform his amusingly titled...

  • Pianist Radu Lupu with the NSO

    By on February 8, 2011

    Gianandrea Noseda makes his NSO debut conducting renowned pianist Radu Lupu in a performance of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 3. Also on the program is...

  • Lauryn Hill at Ram’s Head Live

    By on February 8, 2011

    Given recent shows elsewhere, she might start this show late. But that Lauryn Hill — that’s Ms. Lauryn Hill now, she insists — is set...

  • Linkin Park

    By on February 8, 2011

    Linkin Park, the tuneful nu-metal/rap rock band, stops in D.C. on its world tour supporting last year’s A Thousand Suns, a middling concept album about...

  • Gang of Four at the 9:30 Club

    By on February 8, 2011

    Gang of Four, the definitive punk-funk/post-punk band, has returned 30 years after storming the airwaves and inspiring everyone from R.E.M. to Red Hot Chili Peppers...

  • Out in the Silence at Artisphere

    By on February 7, 2011

    D.C.-based filmmakers Joe Wilson and Dean Hamer’s 2010 documentary Out In The Silence focuses on a popular young jock brutally bullied at his small-town high...

  • The Alexandria Kleztet

    By on February 6, 2011

    Exciting and innovative, the Alexandria Kleztet has been combining traditional Eastern European Jewish music with diverse influences for more than a decade. The free concert...

  • Tynan at the Studio Theatre

    By on February 6, 2011

    Philip Goodwin stars in Tynan, a one-man show, from Richard Nelson and Colin Chambers, about the great theater critic Kenneth Tynan, based on his diaries...

  • Evil Cat

    By on February 6, 2011

    The Washington Psychotronic Film Society, dedicated to independent, experimental, low-budget, off-the-beaten-path filmmaking, presents a weekly Tuesday night screening series. This Tuesday offers the 1986 film...

  • Unevenlane at Dance Place

    By on February 5, 2011

    Under the artistic direction of founder Mary Lane, Unevenlane offers stories connecting with emotions to create richly layered dances full of curious intersections, angles, and...

  • An Almost Holy Picture

    By on February 5, 2011

    Maryland-based playwright Heather McDonald’s Pulitzer Prize-nominated An Almost Holy Picture follows one man’s odyssey from Massachusetts to New Mexico, from despair to triumph, heeding a...

  • The Illusionist

    By on February 4, 2011

    Originally written by French comic genius and cinema legend Jacques Tati as a love letter from father to daughter, The Illusionist has been adapted by...

  • Radio Macbeth

    By on February 4, 2011

    The SITI Company presents Radio Macbeth, which tells the story of Orson Welles and his company of actors (Mercury Theatre on the Air) rehearsing for...