Metro Weekly

All posts by Randy Shulman

  • The National Chamber Ensemble at The Artispshere

    The National Chamber Ensemble’s Home for the Holidays celebrates the holiday season with selections from Tchaikovsky, Vivaldi and more, including a sing-along, with special guests...

  • Eureka Dance Festival at Dance Place

    The Eureka Dance Festival is an innovative collection of premieres by DC-area choreographers and international guests, including Nathan Andary, Glade Dance Collective, Keira Hart-Mendoza, Kate...

  • DCDD’s Annual Holiday Concert

    “A lot of D.C. people are transplants and may not get to go home for Christmas, so is our way of...

  • Sunset Boulevard at Signature Theatre

    Sunset Boulevard, starring Florence Lacey (Broadway’s Evita) as faded screen star Norma Desmond, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s lush noir musical is one of the greatest Hollywood...

  • The Joy of Christmas Concert

    J. Reilly Lewis leads the Washington National Cathedral Choral Society, along with the Maret School Concert Choir and the Washington Symphonic Brass, in The Joy...

  • The Apartment at the AFI Silver

    Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine gave career-making performances in the Oscar-winning classic, The Apartment, from Billy Wilder, about a workplace romance of uncommon sophistication. It...

  • Reel Affirmations Xtra presents Undertow

    In Undertow, a Spanish man carries on a clandestine affair with a handsome drifter. Meanwhile, his wife prepares to deliver their firstborn. You just know...

  • Cirque Dreams Holidaze at The Kennedy Center

    Neil Goldberg, creator of Broadway’s Cirque Dreams Jungle Fantasy, presents Cirque Dreams Holidaze, an extravaganza with over 30 artists pulling stunts — from gingerbread men...

  • NSO Pops: Happy Holidays

    Marvin Hamlisch conducts the NSO Pops along with special guests, including sopranos Christiane Noll and Mikaela Schneider, cellist Kristina Winiawski, flutist Niles Watson and the...

  • Paula Crawford at Long View Gallery

    “New Work” features paintings by Paula Crawford of colorful, spherical forms. She started painting these just before she was diagnosed with Hepatitis C, a disease...

  • Moscow Ballet performs The Nutcracker

    ‘Tis the season for ballet companies to perform their own version of Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker. The Moscow Ballet’s Great Russian Nutcracker pays tribute to Marius Petipa,...

  • Oliver Sacks at Sixth & I Synagogue

    In The Mind’s Eye, Oliver Sacks offers case studies of people who have lost certain cognitive abilities yet who nonetheless lead fairly normal lives as...

  • Tragedy offers all-metal Bee Gees

    If you can stomach the Bee Gees’ signature falsettos, maybe you can stomach anything, including heavy metal’s signature screeching guitars courtesy Tragedy: An All-Metal Tribute...

  • Emotional Release

    ''We've had a successful same-sex relationship for 23 years,'' says John Requa of his partner, Glenn Ficarra. Perhaps some clarification is needed -- his screenwriting...

  • Dave Koz and Friends at Strathmore

    The 2010 Smooth Jazz Christmas — the 13th edition of the tour — features gay saxophonist Dave Koz alongside South African singer/guitarist Jonathan Butler, keyboardist...