Metro Weekly

Arts + Entertainment

  • International Flair

    By on June 4, 2008

    If you are in the mood for a cozy evening of subtle, intelligent, and thoroughly amusing theater, then Anne Washburn's The Internationalist is just the...

  • Whiplash

    By on May 28, 2008

    Recently, I happened to catch Raiders of the Lost Ark on the Sci Fi channel, which, in the weeks leading up to the highly anticipated...

  • Pretty In Punk

    By on May 28, 2008

    The Dresden Dolls emerged like a lightning bolt in 2003, fulfilling demand for a rock band merging the gay-popular counter-culture musical genres of cabaret and...

  • Piano Gal

    By on May 28, 2008

    By the time she was only 11, Rachael Sage decided she wanted to be a singer-songwriter. Namely, a female Billy Joel. ''Why not? He was...

  • Slain David

    By on May 21, 2008

    The title of Theater J's world premiere musical, David in Shadow and Light, refers to the process by which motion pictures work. As described in...

  • Summer's Day

    By on May 21, 2008

    No matter that it's been 20 years since her last major pop hit, 17 years since her last album, and she's only had a few...

  • School's Out

    By on May 21, 2008

    All one can really say about the Folger production of The School for Scandal is that it should have been good. A British director such...

  • Soundwaves

    By on May 21, 2008

    W'S MAGIC MOREL... Right now, there's a new track credited to a Morel with a D.C. pedigree that is generating buzz. No, not Rich Morel's...

  • Princely Return

    By on May 21, 2008

    ''You may find Narnia a more savage place than you remember.'' Truer words were never spoken by a dwarf in Narnia. It's time to go...

  • Elektrafying

    By on May 14, 2008

    As anyone with a pulse knows, Hollywood -- both the A and the B list -- continues to outrage the arbiters of good taste with...

  • Sweet Love

    By on May 14, 2008

    A decade ago, Swedish producer Max Martin took Robyn to the top of the charts with ''Show Me Love.'' Then he did it again with...

  • Jordan Airs

    By on May 14, 2008

    In the early 1990s, long before taking on the role of Karen's sassy rival, Beverley Leslie, on Will & Grace, or Brother Boy in Sordid...

  • Cold Wheels

    By on May 14, 2008

    It's been almost a week since I saw Speed Racer and already I can't remember a thing about it. I vaguely recall it being comprised...

  • Toga Party

    By on May 14, 2008

    If you fall into that demographic of individuals who love reading The Onion and seeing the works of William Shakespeare (we'll not mention your Public...

  • High Note

    By on May 7, 2008

    If you are a giggler or not immersed to the point of humorlessness in the traditions, quirky and otherwise, of opera, be strongly advised to...