Metro Weekly

All posts by Doug Rule

  • REVIEW: Disclosure Proves Revealing at 9:30 Club

    This past Monday night’s show at the 9:30 Club sold out well in advance, and the crowd was far more responsive and enthusiastic than usual,...

  • Beefed-Up Ballet

    {Giselle (Photo by Steve Vaccariello)} ''Men in tights.'' Septime Webre laughs after he says that, the first thing that springs to mind when asked what's...

  • Broadway Baby

    The New York Times once referred to soprano Melissa Errico as ''one of the most valuable assets of the musical theater.'' Yet New York-native Errico...

  • Reckoning Ball

    Heather McEntire has a sweet, pristine voice that recalls country antecedents, from Alison Krauss to Dolly Parton. Yet McEntire was essentially an adult before anyone...

  • Michael Cavanaugh Channels Elton John with NSO Pops

    A few years ago Michael Cavanaugh, star of the Billy Joel-focused Broadway musical Movin’ Out, performed a Joel-inspired concert with his rock band and the...

  • ‘God Loves Uganda’ Opens Today

    First screened locally earlier this year during the DC Black Pride Film Festival, the documentary God Loves Uganda from Oscar-winning director Roger Ross Williams (pictured, right) opens...

  • Victorian-Flavored Frights

    '' I spent a lot of time working on tall ships and traveling,'' Sabrina Mandell says. No, Mandell, founder of Happenstance Theater Company, isn't...

  • 3 Gay-Related Plays to See This Weekend

    This weekend is your last chance to see two of the biggest — and best — gay-themed plays staged in D.C. in a long time....

  • Russian Riot

    ''Without your fear, you can do anything,'' Russian singer Louisine Gevorkian shouts on her rock band Louna's blistering punk jam ''Fight Club.'' Gevorkian also urges...

  • Couples, Killed and Comedic

    Surely no one needs a spoiler alert about Romeo and Juliet. After all, what is probably William Shakespeare's most popular and most accessible play is...

  • Boo Binge

    Halloween isn't until next Thursday, Oct. 31, but around these parts this will be a Halloweek -- with a full week's worth of entertainment, from...

  • John Legend Brings His ‘Love’ to D.C. Tonight

    One of the best among today’s bright class of R&B crooners, and one who also isn’t afraid to sound old-fashioned, the 34-year-old man born John...

  • It’s a Mid City Artists Weekend

    Twice a year, a diverse group of professional visual artists working in mid-city neighborhoods, centered on 14th Street NW and including Dupont and Logan Circles...

  • Emeli Sande at Baltimore’s Meyerhoff Hall Tomorrow Night

    Tomorrow, Saturday, Oct. 19, I.M.P. Productions presents another area show for Emeli Sandé, the incredible Scottish soul singer/songwriter who dazzled as one of this year’s...

  • Getting to the Bottom of ‘Gay Art’

    Tomorrow, Saturday, Oct. 19, the director of New York’s Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay & Lesbian Art comes to town to answer the question that most...