Matt S. Siblo

Sep 10, 2024 | washingtoncitypaper.com | Matt S. Siblo

Thanks for being a member of City Paper! District hardcore and metal fans often find themselves having to traipse to our grimier sister cities to the north (Baltimore) and south (Richmond) for shows, but this fall has a diverse roster of new and old to keep most heavy music enthusiasts satisfied. Babe Haven at DC9 on Sept.

Jul 31, 2024 | washingtoncitypaper.com | Heidi Pérez-Moreno |Matt S. Siblo |Alona Wartofsky |Stephanie Rudig

Thanks for being a member of City Paper! Inside Signature Theatre, the songs of Ella Fitzgerald, Nina Simone, and Sarah Vaughan are being channeled and echoed through the voice of Awa Sal Secka. The performer and playwright, who was born in New York and raised in a Gambian household, has been performing locally since she moved to the area in 2005—her first show at Signature was roughly seven years ago, when she played an apostle in Jesus Christ Superstar.

Jan 17, 2024 | washingtoncitypaper.com | Colleen Kennedy |Mary Manning |Will Lennon |Matt S. Siblo

Thanks for being a member of City Paper! “You can do terrible things with this,” Vinny DePonto shares about his skills as a mentalist. “Or you can make people feel less alone in their own heads, a sort of collective catharsis. That’s what the show is an attempt to do.” We are discussing Mindplay, which takes Arena Stage following rave reviews from the production’s run at Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles.

Oct 19, 2023 | washingtoncitypaper.com | Pat Padua |Steve Kiviat |Stephanie Rudig |Camila Bailey |Matt S. Siblo |Dave Nyczepir

Thanks for being a member of City Paper! The manananggal belongs to a particularly horrifying subset of creatures from Filipino mythology known as aswang—shape-shifters. It was once speculated that Andrew Cunanan, the notorious spree killer whose victims included designer Gianni Versace, may have been an especially treacherous aswang.

Sep 7, 2023 | washingtoncitypaper.com | Diane Bernard |Serena Zets |Sarah Marloff |Matt S. Siblo |Louis Jacobson

Thanks for being a member of City Paper! At the September 2013 Small Press Expo, the annual D.C.-area comic arts conference, Silver Spring-based filmmaker John Kinhart first met two giants in the world of autobiographical comics: Justin Green and Carol Tyler. Now, 10 years later, it’s only fitting that Kinhart is premiering his documentary about the couple, Married to Comics, at the AFI Silver Theatre on Friday, Sept.