Spotlight
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AFI’s Scary Cinema
The American Film Institute’s annual scary cinema series at the Silver Theatre includes screenings this weekend of the “rom-zom-com” Shaun of the Dead, Dawn of...
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Will Calhoun at National Geographic Live!
Will Calhoun — most recognized as the drummer for the rock band Living Colour — has earned repeated praise for his fearless explorations of jazz,...
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Arena Stage Homecoming
The President and First Lady help open Arena Stage’s sparkling new Southwest complex with a gala ceremony on Monday, Oct. 25, but first comes a...
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Color Splash’s David Bromstad at Strosniders
Gay HGTV hunk David Bromstad — last week's Metro Weekly cover profile — gives an interactive, 90-minute presentation on color and decorating at three Strosniders...
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Purple Rain at Landmark’s E Street CInema
Through early November, Landmark’s E Street Cinema is hosting weekend midnight screenings of camp and cult classics. This weekend brings Albert Magnoli’s 1984 Purple Rain...
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Reel Affirmations Night of DADT on Screen
Reel Affirmations presents two military-themed films on Friday, Oct. 22 — A Marine Story, a drama starring Dreya Weber and Alex Everett, at 7 p.m.,...
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The Flying Karamazov Brothers at Wolf Trap
Fyodor Dostoyevsky's The Brothers Karamazov inspired this legendary American group's name and each performer has taken on a Russian persona. The Flying Karamazov Brothers offer...
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Belly Horror at The Birchmere
Now in its fifth year, the cabaret Belly Horror features performance artists in what is billed as "a sinisterly sensual smorgasbord of belly dance, inspired...
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Songs of the Dragons at Studio 2ndstage
Young Jean Lee's show is more jagged kinetic poem than traditional narrative, and it plays with stereotypes at a pace that is at once furious...
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Catie Curtis at Jammin Java
The New Yorker calls the energetic Catie Curtis, part of Massachusetts’ thriving lesbian folk scene, a “folk-rock goddess.” She puts on a lovely show, and...
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Henry VIII at the Folger
Robert Richmond directs Henry VIII, Shakespeare’s final history play that reverberates with power struggles — both political and personal — as Henry’s advisors, paramour Anne...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
