Metro Weekly

All posts by Randy Shulman

  • 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...

  • Disney in Concert at the NSO

    Michael Krajewski conducts the NSO Pops in Disney in Concert, an evening of musical selections from Beauty and the Beast, The Little Mermaid, Mary Poppins,...

  • Alfred Hitchcock Early Films Retrospective

    The American Film Institute’s Silver Theatre presents the first in a three-part series this year exploring the works of Alfred Hitchcock. “Part I: The British...