Metro Weekly

Arts + Entertainment

  • Puppet Master

    Until just a few years ago, Joe Goode considered himself a ''puppetphobe.'' ''Puppets seemed like children's theater,'' says the innovative choreographer. ''The cuteness factor was...

  • Rock On

    Tom Stoppard junkies may scoff, but any discussion of Studio's Rock 'N' Roll must begin with the caveat that the uninitiated may wish to either...

  • Great Escape

    Ragtime is one of those musicals. It's big. It's opulent. It's filled with infectious songs that will remain firmly in your head for days after...

  • Closet Cases

    Where's the rage in Outrage? Director Kirby Dick, who last covered the Motion Picture Association of America's rating system in This Film Is Not Yet...

  • The Pitts

    Why is summer the season of change? Really, think about the number of films about transformative summers, from the iconic Summer of '42, to the...

  • Hall of Fame

    It's amazing what people will post online. Leave aside the conversations people will have, loudly, on their cell phones while walking down the street or...

  • Drinking Again

    Pulling it out yet again (sometimes literally in this case), the Washington Shakespeare Company delivers a superbly in-yer-face production of Tennessee Williams' study in disheveled...

  • Nuts

    Sometimes you should absolutely judge a book by its cover. 'One Flew Over the Cukoo's Nest' The moment you take your seat for Round House...

  • Being Boring

    Neil Tennant wants to rekindle the romance. ''I'd survive with only memories, if I could change the way I feel,'' the Pet Shop Boys frontman...

  • Life Before Wartime

    ''Berliner Kabarett is like a musical quilt,'' says the show's director Christopher Gallu. ''It's got all these songs that were never intended to be put...

  • South Rising

    Regardless of the geographic realities, there are times when one could be quite sure that the Mason-Dixon Line runs right through the center of our...

  • Strangely Enough

    Patsy Cline's is the first voice heard on the debut, solo-artist album from Sharam Tayebi, one-half of the celebrated D.C. dance duo Deep Dish. Doesn't...

  • Collision Course

    Excelente. Una maravillosa película. Fantástico. And many other superlatives that I no longer remember from high school Spanish. By all standard measures, Sin Nombre should...

  • Squaring Off

    When square-dance devotees talk about this all-American (well, sort of) art form, they're bound to get to the patterns eventually. And why not? From above,...

  • Roller Coasting

    Ah, the '80s. Who doesn't miss the hair, the fashion sense, the music, and the simpler times? James (Jesse Eisenberg) might disagree with that last...