Metro Weekly

All posts by Randy Shulman

  • Pianist Radu Lupu with the NSO

    Gianandrea Noseda makes his NSO debut conducting renowned pianist Radu Lupu in a performance of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 3. Also on the program is...

  • Lauryn Hill at Ram’s Head Live

    Given recent shows elsewhere, she might start this show late. But that Lauryn Hill — that’s Ms. Lauryn Hill now, she insists — is set...

  • Linkin Park

    Linkin Park, the tuneful nu-metal/rap rock band, stops in D.C. on its world tour supporting last year’s A Thousand Suns, a middling concept album about...

  • Gang of Four at the 9:30 Club

    Gang of Four, the definitive punk-funk/post-punk band, has returned 30 years after storming the airwaves and inspiring everyone from R.E.M. to Red Hot Chili Peppers...

  • Out in the Silence at Artisphere

    D.C.-based filmmakers Joe Wilson and Dean Hamer’s 2010 documentary Out In The Silence focuses on a popular young jock brutally bullied at his small-town high...

  • The Alexandria Kleztet

    Exciting and innovative, the Alexandria Kleztet has been combining traditional Eastern European Jewish music with diverse influences for more than a decade. The free concert...

  • Tynan at the Studio Theatre

    Philip Goodwin stars in Tynan, a one-man show, from Richard Nelson and Colin Chambers, about the great theater critic Kenneth Tynan, based on his diaries...

  • Evil Cat

    The Washington Psychotronic Film Society, dedicated to independent, experimental, low-budget, off-the-beaten-path filmmaking, presents a weekly Tuesday night screening series. This Tuesday offers the 1986 film...

  • Unevenlane at Dance Place

    Under the artistic direction of founder Mary Lane, Unevenlane offers stories connecting with emotions to create richly layered dances full of curious intersections, angles, and...

  • An Almost Holy Picture

    Maryland-based playwright Heather McDonald’s Pulitzer Prize-nominated An Almost Holy Picture follows one man’s odyssey from Massachusetts to New Mexico, from despair to triumph, heeding a...

  • The Illusionist

    Originally written by French comic genius and cinema legend Jacques Tati as a love letter from father to daughter, The Illusionist has been adapted by...

  • Radio Macbeth

    The SITI Company presents Radio Macbeth, which tells the story of Orson Welles and his company of actors (Mercury Theatre on the Air) rehearsing for...

  • The Housemaid, opening at Landmark E Street

    A deliriously stylish, searingly erotic thriller from Korea, The Housemaid explores what happens to an innocent girl in the employ of a rich and powerful...

  • Ra Ra Rasputin at Strathmore

    A D.C.-based dance/electronica band, Ra Ra Rasputin makes its debut at Strathmore as part of the venue’s Friday Night Eclectic party, where you can take...

  • Todd Wright and Cal Everett at Jammin’ Java

    D.C.-based Todd Wright has been the touring guitarist for such national acts as the Pat McGee Band, Better Than Ezra and Lucy Woodward, and his...