Metro Weekly

Arts + Entertainment

  • Night at the Museum

    By on July 21, 2010

    “I’ve been dreaming of this day since the very first time I saw Crack,” says Kevin Hull, manager of special programs at the Hirshhorn Museum....

  • Drive-By Truckers at the 9:30 Club

    By on July 20, 2010

    Patterson Hood creates rock albums with friends under the band name Drive-By Truckers. The albums are fashioned like low-budget films, filled with carefully told, fiercely...

  • Level 42 at The Birchmere

    By on July 20, 2010

    The British pop band Level 42, who scored hits in the ’80s with “Something About You,” “Lessons in Love” and “Running in the Family” are...

  • Yves Klein at The Hirshhorn

    By on July 19, 2010

    This is the first American retrospective of the influential French artist Yves Klein, whose talents span from composing to photo-conceptualizing to performance art to judo...

  • Art by the Yard at The Textile Museum

    By on July 19, 2010

    Art by the Yard: Women Design Mid-Century Britain focuses on three women designers pivotal in transforming Britain from a country devastated by World War II...

  • Melissa Etheridge at Strathmore

    By on July 18, 2010

    Melissa Etheridge is touring in support of her 10th studio album, Fearless Love. The newly separated famous lesbian mother of four and cancer survivor told...

  • Paul Taylor Dance Company at Wolf Trap

    By on July 18, 2010

    The Paul Taylor Dance Company celebrates its namesake’s 80th birthday with a D.C. premiere of a new Wolf Trap co-commissioned work. Taylor’s choreography, once deemed...

  • The Complete Metropolis at the Avalon

    By on July 18, 2010

    The Avalon Theatre and Kino International present the Washington-area release of the new restoration of Fritz Lang’s remarkable 1927 science fiction epic Metropolis, now with...

  • New Jerusalem: The Interrogation at Theater J

    By on July 18, 2010

    A mix of fact and fiction, theology and philosophy, David Ives’s New Jerusalem: The Interrogation of Baruch De Spinoza at Talmud Torah Congregation: Amsterdam, July...

  • Screen on the Green: The Goodbye Girl

    By on July 18, 2010

    The annual Screen on the Green series has returned to the National Mall for a four-week run. Next up, The Goodbye Girl, the 1977 original,...

  • Informed Design at the Long View Gallery

    By on July 18, 2010

    Informed Design expounds on the role of art objects within the context of interior design and architecture. The exhibition features a sampling of the gallery’s...

  • Forever Plaid at Olney

    By on July 18, 2010

    The National Players, America’s longest-running touring theater company, presents Forever Plaid for its annual summer musical, a deliciously goofy story of a classic ’50s all-male...

  • Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work

    By on July 18, 2010

    To make the cleverly titled documentary Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work, filmmakers Ricki Stern and Annie Sundberg followed the pioneering female comedian Joan Rivers...

  • Comedy Central’s The Daily Show and Friends

    By on July 17, 2010

    If you can get to New York on Wednesday, July 21, you’ll be rewarded with much laughter. Correspondents and friends of The Daily Show perform...

  • His Girl Friday at The National Theatre

    By on July 17, 2010

    The National Theatre focuses its Summer Cinema 2010 on the films of Cary Grant, including the 1940 screwball romantic comedy His Girl Friday, by the...