Metro Weekly

Arts + Entertainment

  • Law and Order

    Last year it was The Blind Side. This year it’s Conviction. That feel-good, based-on-a-true-story film that allows established stars to flex their acting muscles by...

  • Honky Cat

    ''I know you could be just like you should,'' Elton John sings at the top of his new set The Union. ''If it wasn't for...

  • Sweet Harmony

    ''Throughout the '70s,'' says Carol Maillard, ''there were a lot of pop and R&B singers putting out songs that had something to do with people's...

  • Truth and Consequences

    Trying to draw a conclusion about Constellation Theatre Company is not unlike looking up into the night sky, trying to discern the actual figures of...

  • Frock On

    ''It was getting a little tedious, frankly,'' says Bette Bourne. ''All these men kind of waving their dicks around, telling us what they'd read and...

  • Three Sisters at the Kennedy Center

    Kennedy Center presents the exclusive North American engagement of the Chekhov International Theatre Festival’s productions of Three Sisters and Twelfth Night, the first the classic...

  • Jill Sobule at Jammin Java

    Jill Sobule is the original “I Kissed A Girl” pop singer — which was, apparently, the first song with an overtly gay topic aired on...

  • Nick Hornby and Ben Folds

    The Folger Shakespeare Library presents an exclusive evening with English novelist Nick Hornby and singer/musician Ben Folds, featuring a reading from Hornby’s novel Juliet, Naked...

  • Jewish Literary Festival at the DCJCC

    Festival highlights of this year’s Jewish Literary Festival include Ruth Franklin, Senior Editor at The New Republic, discussing her book A Thousand Darknesses: Lies and...

  • BearCity at the Harman Center

    In lieu of a full festival — that will wait until the spring — Reel Affirmations presents a few film screenings this month, kicking off...

  • Paula Poundstone at The Birchmere

    Longtime standup comic Paula Poundstone, self-proclaimed “virginish” and “asexual,” is these days usually the funniest person on NPR’s amusing weekend news quiz show Wait Wait"¦Don’t...

  • Cinematic Titanic at Lisner

    Creator Joel Hodgson and members of the original cast of the award-winning cult television show Mystery Science Theater 3000 return for more movie riffing, this...

  • Enchanted April at Clarice Smith Center

    In an Italian villa in the 1920s, four Englishwomen — formerly strangers — open themselves to new possibilities and find unexpected pathways to self-discovery. Matthew...

  • Ibex Puppetry at Clarice Smith Center

    In Panther and Crane, Ibex Puppetry’s Heather Henson carries forward the legacy of her father Jim Henson through her own vision, with a story of...

  • Angella Foster at the Kennedy Center

    Angella Foster’s commissioned piece “Speechless” uses movement, text, live music and video projections to tell the stories of families who care for special needs children...