Metro Weekly

Arts + Entertainment

  • Superior Donuts at the Studio Theatre

    Superior Donuts is a delicious new comedy from Tracy Letts, the Pulitzer- and Tony-winning playwright of August: Osage County. Donuts focuses on an offbeat friendship...

  • Win Tickets to The Odd Couple at Theater J

    Still more a buddy show than a romantic comedy, Neil Simon’s The Odd Couple explores issues far more complex and ultimately satisfying than the weekly...

  • Opera Lafayette at the Kennedy Center

    Dutch soprano Judith van Wanroij sings with the D.C.-based company Opera Lafayette, which is focused on performing French operas from the 17th and 18th Centuries....

  • Coming Attractions Trailer Night

    Local film critics Joe Barber and Bill Henry host Coming Attractions Trailer Night, a D.C. Film Society event, in which the audience gets to watch...

  • Kate Nash at the 9:30 Club

    Like Lily Allen before her, the British-bred but wholly Irish Kate Nash launched her career on MySpace (remember MySpace? It was kinda like Facebook, only...

  • 18th Annual World Team Tennis Smash Hits AIDS Benefit

    At the 18th Annual World Team Tennis Smash Hits AIDS Benefit, you get the likes of Anna Kournikova, Stefanie Graf, Andre Agassi and Martina Navratilova...

  • Kris Kristofferson

    Kristofferson plays solo with no backing band in this intimate Evening with Kris Kristofferson in which he sings the songs that made him famous, from...

  • The Congressional Chorus at the Church of the Epiphany

    Organized in 1987 by a group of Capitol Hill staffers and featuring about 80 members from all over the region, The Congressional Congress performs works...

  • RA Xtra: Different from Whom?

    Reel Affirmations presents the Italian film Different From Whom? as the first of five RA Xtra films this season. The farcical comedy focuses on a...

  • Chely Wright at Rams Head On Stage

    Chely Wright’s first area performance since she came out and energized this year’s Capital Pride — which happened right after she became the first major...

  • Kate Clinton at the Birchmere

    A professional — and always out — standup comedian for going on 30 years, Kate Clinton never seems to have a shortage of jokes about...

  • Rock Solid

    To quote the 1984 Deniece Williams song from the Footloose soundtrack, let's give the boy a hand, because James Franco's performance in 127 Hours is...

  • Soul Stirring

    Darius Nichols as Hud, photographed by Todd Franson in the Kennedy Center's Africa Room, Friday, Nov. 5, 2010 Darius Nichols almost passed on auditioning for...

  • Home on the Range

    Arena Stage artistic director Molly Smith is hoping there's a little Ado Annie in all of us. Annie is, of course, the gal from the...

  • Angels Heart

    A production of Angels In America -- in the mountains of Virginia? ''There's always been a hesitation because the traditional audience is fairly conservative,'' says...