Metro Weekly

Arts + Entertainment

  • Shelby Lynne and Allison Moorer at The Birchmere

    By on November 29, 2010

    Sisters Shelby Lynne and Allison Moorer perform together in only five cities on this fall’s Side by Side Tour. Area alt-country fans, consider yourselves lucky....

  • Jimmy Carter at Politics and Prose

    By on November 29, 2010

    White House Diary is based on the 5,000 pages of notes Jimmy Carter kept while in office, enhanced by his current reflections on the past...

  • Levi Kreis and Eric Himan tonight at Jammin Java

    By on November 29, 2010

    Levi Kreis and Eric Himan are joined by a third, Jason Antone, for a special unplugged “SideXSide Tour” concert. Kreis won a Tony this year...

  • Works by Arcimboldo at the National Gallery of Art

    By on November 28, 2010

    Arcimboldo, 1526-1593: Nature and Fantasy features 16 examples of the fantastic composite heads painted by Arcimboldo in their first appearance in the United States. Through...

  • Folding Unfolding: Collider at Artisphere

    By on November 28, 2010

    Folding Unfolding: Collider is an interactive exhibition/installation, featuring 3D replications of basic seed crystals, such as borax, gypsum and quartz, from the collaborative team of...

  • The Seldom Scene at The Birchmere

    By on November 27, 2010

    Formed nearly 40 years ago in Bethesda, the progressive bluegrass band Seldom Scene remains especially popular in its hometown region. They appear tonight in a...

  • Cyndi Lauper at the 9:30 Club

    By on November 27, 2010

    The feisty and fun Cyndi Lauper? She’s got the blues? Well, yes, of sorts. On the all-covers Memphis Blues, her 11th studio set released earlier...

  • AFI celebrates Hitchcock’s Psycho

    By on November 26, 2010

    For one week only, the American Film Institute’s Silver Theatre screens a new 35mm print of Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho in honor of its 50th anniversary....

  • Jennifer Holliday in concert with the NSO Pops

    By on November 26, 2010

    Marvin Hamlisch conducts the pops in a concert with Jennifer Holliday, the mammoth-voiced Tony Award winner performing hits from Dreamgirls — yes, including that song,...

  • Candide at The Shakespeare Theatre

    By on November 25, 2010

    The Shakespeare Theatre Company’s first musical theater performance at Sidney Harman Hall comes with this magnificent comic operetta, boasting music by Leonard Bernstein (West Side...

  • I Love the 80s at Jammin Java

    By on November 25, 2010

    Under the banner I Love the ’80s, local songwriters Todd Wright, Anthony Fiacco, Shane Hines and Luke Brindley play hits and share stories of the...

  • Bold Confession

    By on November 25, 2010

    The surest way for any theater critic to cover his ass is to say that a certain play or musical ''will mean different things to...

  • The Elf Word

    By on November 25, 2010

    ''I'm not the happy elf,'' says Michael Rupert. ''I'm the grouchy elf.'' He's talking about his role in Adventure Theatre's The Happy Elf. ''I play...

  • Blues Alley

    By on November 25, 2010

    Cyndi Lauper calls for greater LGBT activism as her cure for the blues. ''Everybody should be active right now. Everybody should be helping in any...

  • Indestructible Pop

    By on November 25, 2010

    “I got a little girl singing on repeat in my head, oh-oh,” Robyn sings, on the wicked tune “None of Dem.” For much of 2010,...