Metro Weekly

All posts by Randy Shulman

  • The Next Reflex Dance Collective at Dance Place

    “Electro Shutdown & The Pea” is a dance piece set within a nightclub and begins upon your arrival. Entering the theater, you will find the...

  • BSO’s Broadway Melodies

    Randall Craig Fleischer leads the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and Broadway performers Doug LaBrecque (Show Boat) and Patricia Phillips (The Phantom of the Opera) in a...

  • Reading Silk at The Torpedo Factory

    Reading Silk: A Living Sculpture features an installation with hundreds of small, silk leaf-shaped forms by live silkworms with the collaborative efforts of local students...

  • Robert Ryman at The Phillips Collection

    Coinciding with the artist’s 80th birthday, Robert Ryman: Variations & Improvisations presents Ryman’s ongoing examination of painting, including the effects of light and shadow and...

  • American Idols Live!

    The top 10 finalists from the ninth season of the hit reality show American Idolcelebrate their fame while it lasts, led by winner Lee DeWyze...

  • Coverboy Q [video]

      Last Friday, July 16, in the lobby of the Shakespeare Theatre Company's Lansburgh Theatre, Yusef Najafi sat down with Nicky and Rod, two of...

  • Drive-By Truckers at the 9:30 Club

    Patterson Hood creates rock albums with friends under the band name Drive-By Truckers. The albums are fashioned like low-budget films, filled with carefully told, fiercely...

  • Level 42 at The Birchmere

    The British pop band Level 42, who scored hits in the ’80s with “Something About You,” “Lessons in Love” and “Running in the Family” are...

  • Yves Klein at The Hirshhorn

    This is the first American retrospective of the influential French artist Yves Klein, whose talents span from composing to photo-conceptualizing to performance art to judo...

  • Art by the Yard at The Textile Museum

    Art by the Yard: Women Design Mid-Century Britain focuses on three women designers pivotal in transforming Britain from a country devastated by World War II...

  • Melissa Etheridge at Strathmore

    Melissa Etheridge is touring in support of her 10th studio album, Fearless Love. The newly separated famous lesbian mother of four and cancer survivor told...

  • Paul Taylor Dance Company at Wolf Trap

    The Paul Taylor Dance Company celebrates its namesake’s 80th birthday with a D.C. premiere of a new Wolf Trap co-commissioned work. Taylor’s choreography, once deemed...

  • The Complete Metropolis at the Avalon

    The Avalon Theatre and Kino International present the Washington-area release of the new restoration of Fritz Lang’s remarkable 1927 science fiction epic Metropolis, now with...

  • New Jerusalem: The Interrogation at Theater J

    A mix of fact and fiction, theology and philosophy, David Ives’s New Jerusalem: The Interrogation of Baruch De Spinoza at Talmud Torah Congregation: Amsterdam, July...

  • Screen on the Green: The Goodbye Girl

    The annual Screen on the Green series has returned to the National Mall for a four-week run. Next up, The Goodbye Girl, the 1977 original,...