Metro Weekly

Arts + Entertainment

  • Beatle Mania

    Like space, Across the Universe has supernovas shining bright, and black holes that suck all matter into oblivion. In between, there are a lot of...

  • Heartbreak Hotel

    It's awfully hard not to smile when presented with director Mariusz Trelinski's modern take on Giacomo Puccini's highly revered classic, La Boheme. There is something...

  • Soundwaves

    HIT ONE MORE TIME... Oops, she did it again. But Britney Spears didn't just goof again. Though clearly she did that, with her sloppy and...

  • Plum Roll

    First of all, the answer is yes. This is the one that goes backwards. Which means that Stephen Sondheim's Merrily We Roll Along is not...

  • All My Children

    www.studiotheatre.org Black vs. white. Man vs. woman. Teacher vs. pupil. Self defense vs. murder. Rock vs. dictionary. These dichotomies and others cleave fissures through Athol...

  • Happy Accident

    Imagine this: you're shaving your legs in a bathtub. You slip and fall. Somehow, during the slip, the razor meets your wrists. There's blood everywhere,...

  • Diva Dude

    What happens when a dedicated scene idolizes female vocal pyrotechnics a tad too much? In today's gay club scene, you could say Jason Walker is...

  • American Values

    If you polled the typical Woolly Mammoth audience you'd be hard-pressed to find anyone who doesn't agree that: 1) American Christian missionaries who go to...

  • Compulsive Obsession

    When is an obsession a good thing? When it's in the hands of a genius like Beethoven. Or, in the case of 33 Variations, when...

  • Living Testament

    Talking to Bruce Ward about his play, Lazarus Syndrome, is like navigating a minefield -- albeit one in which you long to step on the...

  • Barbed Wire

    All's fair in love and war. And for playwright Noel Coward, that extends to marriage and laughter. Verbal warfare abounds in Coward's classic, Private Lives,...

  • Super Duper

    Since the early '80s, the high school male coming-of-age comedy has become almost as much a rite of passage as the actual event itself. Each...

  • Hey Hey So So

    It's a corny enough album title, but you'll certainly be laughing within seconds as Hey Hey My My Yo Yo opens. After two measures of...

  • Silent Weapon

    Some shows are almost impossible to review. This isn't because they are bad plays. In fact, those are actually the easiest to work with. There...

  • Soundwaves

    From YouTubeAnnie Lennox: Little Bird ANNIE LENNOX'S 'MASS' APPEAL... Annie Lennox will finally return this fall after a four-year absence. This time out, Lennox has...