Metro Weekly

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  • Men Uplifting

    By on September 17, 2008

    Resurrection, Daniel Beaty's ode to the lives, hearts and souls of five African-American men and a son, is both everything you would expect it to...

  • Visiting Hours

    By on September 17, 2008

    In David Mamet's play Squirrels, the character Arthur describes the act of storytelling as going ''From nothing to nothing.... 'Nothing.' Rising action. Climax. Falling action....

  • Flying High

    By on September 17, 2008

    Oh, the drama. A would be king takes to a stage dressed in the pageantry of ancient Rome to greet his throngs of loyal followers....

  • Blurred Visages

    By on September 3, 2008

    If you think being a gay Republican is a tough dichotomy to reconcile, try being a gay Muslim. In concept, the idea of being gay...

  • Torture Garden

    By on September 3, 2008

    The first thing to note about The Catalyst Theater Company's production of George Orwell's 1984 is that it does not feel like high school. I...

  • Soundwaves

    By on September 3, 2008

    Rihanna WHAT'S SUMMER WITHOUT RIHANNA?... Another summer has come and gone, and Rihanna once again showed her strength as a summer songstress. But for the...

  • Witty Repartee

    By on September 3, 2008

    The trick of improvisational theater is taking a few ideas and stitching them together on the fly before an audience. Success can be measured in...

  • Soundwaves

    By on August 27, 2008

    YOKO ONO'S PEACE DANCE... In a world coming increasingly unmoored, pleas for peace may seem naïve, but they're also very necessary. Just as she did...

  • Sticky Fingers

    By on August 27, 2008

    Contemplation of the Post-Industrial Family surely ranks as one of the most indispensable themes of the modern playwright. What writer worth their salt can resist...

  • Offending the Masses

    By on August 27, 2008

    Hamlet 2 is blasphemy, pure and simple. And it's not just the musical number ''Rock Me Sexy Jesus'' that's going to have people apoplectic; Shakespeare...

  • Jazz Singer

    By on August 27, 2008

    Robin McKelle Remember ''Abracadabra''? The Steve Miller Band's '80s hit was good cheesy pop, but it was less magic trick than novelty act. If you...

  • Teen Tunes

    By on August 20, 2008

    As if high school wasn't hard enough. Imagine a private, Catholic boarding school where two teenage boys fall in love in that familiar ''opposites attract''...

  • Getting a Woody

    By on August 20, 2008

    Imagine a summer of love and romance in Barcelona. There would be late nights filled with good wine, soft music and a sexy artist who...

  • New Classic

    By on August 13, 2008

    ''I feel like there's a lot of ways in which being a composer now is almost more weird than being gay,'' says Nico...

  • Faraway Lands

    By on August 13, 2008

    ''I'm from a land called secret Estonia, nobody knows where it's at,'' Kerli Koiv raps repeatedly on ''Creepshow,'' a blistering track off her new debut...