Metro Weekly

Arts + Entertainment

  • Great Escape

    By on April 29, 2009

    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...

  • Rock On

    By on April 29, 2009

    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...

  • Hall of Fame

    By on April 22, 2009

    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...

  • The Pitts

    By on April 22, 2009

    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...

  • Drinking Again

    By on April 22, 2009

    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...

  • Being Boring

    By on April 15, 2009

    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

    By on April 15, 2009

    ''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...

  • Nuts

    By on April 15, 2009

    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...

  • Strangely Enough

    By on April 8, 2009

    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...

  • South Rising

    By on April 8, 2009

    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...

  • Squaring Off

    By on April 8, 2009

    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,...

  • Collision Course

    By on April 8, 2009

    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...

  • Life and Love

    By on April 1, 2009

    Bob Mould (Photo by Noah Kalina) Bob Mould sounded like he had all but given up on his last album, District Line. ''It's the same...

  • Roller Coasting

    By on April 1, 2009

    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...

  • Nice Piaf

    By on March 25, 2009

    Jil Aigrot Jil Aigrot has become known for singing as Edith Piaf. So perfect is her Piaf, she was tapped to voice the singing portions...