Metro Weekly

Arts + Entertainment

  • Comedy for a Cause

    By on August 18, 2010

    ''I had gotten into a big argument with one of the local ANCs about gay marriage, religion and politics,'' says Sampson McCormick. ''And then I...

  • Cabaret at the Atlas Performing Arts Center

    By on August 17, 2010

    On Thursday, Aug. 19, the Atlas Gay 101 Film Series presents Cabaret, Bob Fosse’s 1972 film based on Kander and Ebb’s musical and starring Liza...

  • Orlando at the Landmark E Street Cinemas

    By on August 16, 2010

    The gender-bending Orlando, based on a Virginia Woolf novel, starred the late Quentin Crisp — playing Queen Elizabeth! — as well as Billy Zane and,...

  • Chess at Signature Theatre

    By on August 16, 2010

    Signature Theatre presents the first major production of Chess, the 26-year-old rock musical with music by the men of ABBA, Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson,...

  • Attention Sports fans! Dave Zirin at Politics and Prose

    By on August 15, 2010

    Bad Sports: How Owners Are Ruining the Games We Love rails against the arrogance of team owners of professional sports leagues, who care more about...

  • Lalah Hathaway at The Birchmere

    By on August 15, 2010

    Daughter of soul singer Donny Hathaway and classically trained vocalist Eulaulah Hathaway, Lalah Hathaway is a contemporary R&B and jazz singer, now part of the...

  • Charade at The National Theatre

    By on August 15, 2010

    The National Theatre focuses its Summer Cinema 2010 on the films of Cary Grant, including Charade, Stanley Donen’s 1963 romantic thriller co-starring Audrey Hepburn and...

  • Yoso at the State Theatre

    By on August 12, 2010

    “The voice of TOTO — the magic of YES” is how this “super-group” of ’80s-era classic rock is billed. TOTO vocalist Bobby Kimball and YES’s...

  • Jellybean Benitez at the U Street Music Hall

    By on August 12, 2010

    The original Madonna producer, responsible for “Holiday” — and also notable for early dance-pop numbers from Whitney Houston — Benitez was one of the first...

  • Avenue Q at The Shakespeare Theatre

    By on August 12, 2010

    Despite the time that’s passed since Robert Lopez, Jeff Marx and Jeff Whitty first sent their profanity-spewing puppets on stage to deliver such toe-tappers as...

  • Suddenly, Last Summer at the Atlas Performing Arts Center

    By on August 12, 2010

    Tonight, Thursday, Aug. 12, brings Suddenly, Last Summer, the 1959 melodrama and mystery based on a play by Tennessee Williams, with a screenplay co-written by...

  • Summer Sounds

    By on August 11, 2010

    Has Lady Gaga already peaked? Oh sure, it was only last summer that her career as a mega-star took off. But it's been threatening overexposure...

  • Life Changing

    By on August 11, 2010

    Who should star in a movie about your life? Inspirational writer Elizabeth Gilbert now joins Erin Brockovich in getting to say Julia Roberts. Often found...

  • Campy Olympics

    By on August 11, 2010

    A wig relay. A banana-eating contest. A Crisco-covered egg toss. ''The whole concept of the event was a kind of campy, sort-of off-color field day,...

  • Jiffy Lube Live’s Special KISS Deal Day

    By on August 10, 2010

    Who doesn’t crave a little KISS? The band, not the thing you do with tongues. Well… actually, KISS the band does things with tongues, if...