Metro Weekly

Arts + Entertainment

  • Heart of Bling

    By on March 7, 2013

    Feeling a tad lackluster in the set department, director/designer and costumer John Pascoe's interpretation of Puccini's Manon Lescaut seems to have lost some burnish since...

  • Pushing Forward

    By on March 7, 2013

    ''This time we're really excited because we get to be in an actual theater,'' Mara Levi says. The past two years at the Atlas Intersections...

  • Woes of Oz

    By on March 7, 2013

    There's something rotten in the state of Oz. It reeks of the billable hour, the legal retainer, the foul stench of litigation. Yes, that fiend...

  • Electronic Arts, HRC and Brendon Ayanbadejo to tackle anti-LGBT hate speech in gaming

    By on March 6, 2013

    Tomorrow in New York, video game giant Electronic Arts and the Human Rights Campaign are hosting a discussion on LGBT issues in gaming, including the...

  • Tonight at L’Enfant Cafe! Lady Bunny kicks off the new season of SpeakEasy!

    By on March 3, 2013

    L’Enfant Cafe reprises SpeakEasy, its popular, select Sundays social dining and cabaret shows tonight, Sunday, March 3, with two singing drag queens from New York:...

  • Coming Around Again

    By on February 28, 2013

    ''I'm, out of my mind. It's taking me over,'' Rich Morel sings in the bridge of ''Low Lying Dreams.'' And the song might have the...

  • Paige Turns

    By on February 28, 2013

    Ask Elaine Paige to reflect on her legacy, and she responds expressing awe. ''Well, it's fantastic really, isn't it?'' she says. ''When I look back...

  • Haunted House

    By on February 28, 2013

    IT'S ALMOST AS hard to describe why The House of the Spirits at GALA Theatre is so satisfying as it is to document the presence...

  • Magical Metamorphoses

    By on February 21, 2013

    Mary Zimmerman is a professor at Northwestern University, and her show Metamorphoses had its genesis as an academic exercise there nearly two decades ago. But...

  • Going Weill

    By on February 21, 2013

    ''I'm not sure the new generation really knows who he is, or his place in musical theater history,'' Abel Lopez says of Kurt Weill. The...

  • And the Oscar Goes To…

    By on February 21, 2013

    There are only three things certain in life: death, taxes and petty arguments about the Oscars. (Well, four if you count Joan Rivers. She will...

  • By Design

    By on February 21, 2013

    Douglas Burton has spent well more than a decade focused on showcasing and celebrating the latest designs and designers. ''I'm passionate about design, and I...

  • Sony Announces PlayStation 4

    By on February 20, 2013

    Sony did it. They managed what Nintendo failed to do last year — make next generation gaming something to be genuinely excited about. In a...

  • Misanthropic Mamet

    By on February 14, 2013

    Round House Theatre does very well by playwright David Mamet with its new production of Glengarry Glen Ross, which many consider to be Mamet's best...

  • The One Who Got Away

    By on February 14, 2013

    If there is a way to think of Margaret, the indefatigable protagonist of David Lindsay-Abaire's Good People, it might be with the words of columnist...