Metro Weekly

Arts + Entertainment

  • Chicago City Limits at Wolf Trap

    Hailed by the New York Times as “perfect masters of improvisation,” Chicago City Limits relies on the audience for inspiration in America Idles, a new...

  • Chely Wright at The Birchmere

    Country star Chely Wright returns for a second area performance since she came out and energized last year’s Capital Pride — which happened right after...

  • The B-52s at the 9:30 Club

    The B-52s, the frolicking foursome from Athens, Ga., with three gay members — Keith Strickland, Fred Schneider and Kate Pierson — are as festive and...

  • ABT at the Kennedy Center

    The American Ballet Theatre performs a premiere by Alexei Ratmansky, “The Bright Stream,” as well as a mixed-repertory program part of a Center-wide celebration of...

  • Lost Horizon

    Being credited as a seminal contemporary American play doesn’t make Eugene O’Neill’s Beyond the Horizon easy to watch. In fact, the best approach to this...

  • On the Wright Track

    Life after coming out may be liberating, but that doesn't mean there won't be some speed bumps along the way. When Chely Wright came out...

  • A Good Year

    Have you ever had one of those years that seems to fly by and it's only at the end that you realize just how much...

  • Bully for That

    ''It just broke my heart, and I felt a little helpless,'' says Eboné Bell of last fall's spate of news stories surrounding gay teen suicides....

  • Stung

    After a path to the big screen that bounced around more than one of Billy's trips in a Family Circus cartoon, The Green Hornet has...

  • The Bach Sinfonia presents Gut, Wind and Wire

    The Sinfonia’s annual chamber concert features Gut, Wind and Wire, a trio made up of three founding and current members of the Baltimore Consort, in...

  • Chee-Yun with the Fairfax Symphony Orchestra

    Violinist Chee-Yun returns to perform Walton’s Violin Concerto, in a program with Bernstein’s Overture to Candide and Dvorak’s Symphony No. 9. Saturday, Jan. 15, at...

  • Magic at the Washington Stage Guild

    The Washington Stage Guild presents the first U.S. production in decades of Magic, British essayist and mystery writer G.K. Chesterton’s witty fairy-tale of a comedy....

  • Bobcat Goldthwait at the Arlington Drafthouse

    Yes, he’s like that all the time — or at least, the high-pitched comedian Goldthwait has been doing standup since he was still in high...

  • Suede comes to the Ram’s Head

    A Cape Cod-based lesbian singer who got her start in D.C. and Baltimore, Suede has spent decades wowing crowds with her rich contralto voice and...

  • Eddie from Ohio at The Birchmere

    Despite its name, the celebrated American folk band has no connection to the Buckeye State. Instead, all members are natives of Northern Virginia, and its...