Metro Weekly

All posts by Randy Shulman

  • The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister

    What if Mr. Darcy was just Darcy? That question is essentially answered in The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister, a pre-Victorian era lesbian love...

  • Genesis at The Warehouse

    Winner of Best Drama at the 2010 Capital Fringe Festival, Genesis returns for an eight-show engagement at the Warehouse at an opportune time, as it...

  • Symmetries at Long View Gallery

    “Symmetries” features photographs from Ernesto Santalla’s collage series, uniquely documenting Washington’s record-breaking snows of 2010. Santalla trudged through the inhibitive landscape, camera in hand, capturing...

  • Yo La Tengo at the 9:30 Club

    Based in Hoboken, N.J., Yo La Tengo, the long-lasting indie-rock band with an extensive catalogue and a devoted fan base will perform a set that...

  • Chicago City Limits at Wolf Trap

    Hailed by the New York Times as “perfect masters of improvisation,” Chicago City Limits relies on the audience for inspiration in America Idles, a new...

  • Chely Wright at The Birchmere

    Country star Chely Wright returns for a second area performance since she came out and energized last year’s Capital Pride — which happened right after...

  • The B-52s at the 9:30 Club

    The B-52s, the frolicking foursome from Athens, Ga., with three gay members — Keith Strickland, Fred Schneider and Kate Pierson — are as festive and...

  • ABT at the Kennedy Center

    The American Ballet Theatre performs a premiere by Alexei Ratmansky, “The Bright Stream,” as well as a mixed-repertory program part of a Center-wide celebration of...

  • The Bach Sinfonia presents Gut, Wind and Wire

    The Sinfonia’s annual chamber concert features Gut, Wind and Wire, a trio made up of three founding and current members of the Baltimore Consort, in...

  • Chee-Yun with the Fairfax Symphony Orchestra

    Violinist Chee-Yun returns to perform Walton’s Violin Concerto, in a program with Bernstein’s Overture to Candide and Dvorak’s Symphony No. 9. Saturday, Jan. 15, at...

  • Magic at the Washington Stage Guild

    The Washington Stage Guild presents the first U.S. production in decades of Magic, British essayist and mystery writer G.K. Chesterton’s witty fairy-tale of a comedy....

  • Bobcat Goldthwait at the Arlington Drafthouse

    Yes, he’s like that all the time — or at least, the high-pitched comedian Goldthwait has been doing standup since he was still in high...

  • Suede comes to the Ram’s Head

    A Cape Cod-based lesbian singer who got her start in D.C. and Baltimore, Suede has spent decades wowing crowds with her rich contralto voice and...

  • Eddie from Ohio at The Birchmere

    Despite its name, the celebrated American folk band has no connection to the Buckeye State. Instead, all members are natives of Northern Virginia, and its...

  • The BSO gets scientific

    Marin Alsop conducts the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra in a multi-media recreation of physicist and author Brian Greene’s book for children Icarus at the Edge of...