Metro Weekly

Arts + Entertainment

  • Citydance at Strathmore

    CityDance presents its only fall evening-length stateside engagement. Returning home to the newly enhanced CityDance black box, Studio 405, the company presents Paul Taylor’s masterpiece,...

  • Fag Life: A Conversation with Fred Phelps

    A celebration of gay culture, Fag Life: A Conversation with Fred Phelps mixes thoughts from “gay — but not gay” comedian Brent Sullivan about his...

  • Worldleaf Cinema Festival

    A first-of-its-kind event, the Worldleaf Cinema Festival showcases the highest caliber of deaf film from around the world. Among the festival’s 17 films, organized into...

  • Gil Shaham with the NSO

    Xian Zhang conducts the NSO and violinist Gil Shaham, whom the New York Times calls “a highly physical player,” in a program that includes Prokofiev’s...

  • GNP’s Don’t Tea on Me at Atlas Performing Arts

    Gross National Product, whose aim is “making headlines hilarious,” offers a parody of the mid-term elections, highlighting the lowlifes and issues of the Tea Party....

  • All in the Family

    As one contemplates the Washington Shakespeare Company's move from Clark Street to Rosslyn, it's easy to imagine a magical creature emerging from its dark cave...

  • Close Encounters

    ''Can two divorced men share an apartment, without driving each other crazy?'' That was the question left hanging at the start of every episode of...

  • Shear Brilliance

    kennedy-center.org Of the many egregious acts perpetrated on the American public by the advertising and marketing industry the worst may be this: ''Let the Sun...

  • Homecoming Tribute

    As early as 1955, Anna Sokolow refused to alter her choreography with a gay sequence for a concert. ''She was a Jewish, straight white woman....

  • Surreal Life

    Scott G. Brooks was so inspired by people's frustration with President Obama and the Democrats, he put Glenn Beck in a painting. Actually, Beck wasn't...

  • Drumming Decades

    ''My passion for the group grows every time I'm with them,'' says Joe Bello of D.C.'s Different Drummers. Bello is not the only one. This...

  • Dakshina at the Clarice Smith Center

    As early as 1955, Anna Sokolow refused to alter her choreography with a gay sequence for a concert. “She was a Jewish, straight white woman....

  • Win tickets to DC Different Drummers Anniversary Concert

    To win a pair of tickets to DC Different Drummers 30th Anniversary Gala Concert, this Saturday, Nov. 6 at 7:30 p.m., please fill out the...

  • Win tickets to A Fox on the Fairway!

    Signature Theatre presents A Fox on the Fairway, a world premiere comedy from D.C. playwright Ken Ludwig, which pays tribute to the great English farces...

  • Paul Barrere and Fred Tackett of Little Feat at Wolf Trap

    Paul Barrere and Fred Tackett make their debut as an acoustic duo at the Barns at Wolf Trap, offering stripped-down versions of Little Feat treasures...