Metro Weekly

All posts by Randy Shulman

  • Marlena Shaw at Blues Alley

    Marlena Shaw’s range, class and swing is often compared to eternal jazz lights like Sarah Vaughn, Dinah Washington and Nancy Wilson, but Shaw is also...

  • Circle Mirror Transformation at Studio

    A series of beautifully drawn vignettes, Circle Mirror Transformation is a clever and smart season opener for Studio Theatre and provides an excellent opportunity for...

  • Sheryl Crow at Strathmore

    After honing her brand of rock-pop over the past 20 years, Sheryl Crow has shifted gears for her latest album, 100 Miles From Memphis, an...

  • What We Leave Behind at Evolve

    What We Leave Behind features works by encaustic collage artist Marty Ittner and painter Michele Cormier — visually dense works referencing the discarded physical and...

  • Vivat Rex!

    Vivat Rex! Commemorating the 500th Anniversary of the Accession of Henry VIII features rare books, manuscripts, handwritten letters and prints offering an in-depth look at...

  • Breathe Owl Breathe at Iota

    Pitchfork has swooned that Breathe Owl Breathe , a Michigan harmonizing dreamy folk trio of Micah Middaugh, Andrea Moreno-Beals and Trevor Hobbs sounds “as intimately...

  • Now at the Gay Community Center of Richmond

    On loan from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, “Nazi Persecution of Homosexuals 1933 – 1945” tells the story of homosexuals in Nazi Germany, when...

  • Angele Dubeau & La Pieta at Lisner

    La Pieta is an all-female string ensemble performing gyspy, klezmer and other “music of the wanderers,” led by one of Canada’s most prominent virtuoso violinists,...

  • Tim Gunn guests bartends at MOVA

    Out for Work, which is holding its national conference this weekend in Washington, hosts a special reception tonight, Sept. 25, with the fabulously stylish Tim...

  • Eric Himan’s Trevor Project Benefit

    Gay Tulsa, Okla.-based tattooed hunk Eric Himan performs a live acoustic rock set to benefit The Trevor Project, the nation’s leading organization focused on crisis...

  • Pocket Operas at The In Series

    Always adventurous, always classy, The In Series presents a provocative “pocket opera” double-bill of William Bolcom & Arnold Weinstein’s Casino Paradise and Leonard Bernstein’s Trouble...

  • Shakespeare in Klingon featuring George Takei

    George Takei joins the Washington Shakespeare Company in celebrating 20 years of cutting-edge classical theater by turning Shakespeare on its ear, literally. By Any Other...

  • Jonathan Franzen at Lisner Auditorium

    Jonathan Franzen frenzy is back, this time over Freedom, which Oprah just selected for her book club. As a result, a discussion and signing originally...

  • BSO Season Opens tonight

    Marin Alsop opens the new season of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, celebrating the life and music of Gustav Mahler with the legendary conductor/composer’s arrangement of...

  • Now Playing: You Again

    Finally, something that makes the trauma, humiliation, and embarrassment of high school seem lesser by comparison. Directed by Andy Fickman, You Again is a clichéd...