Metro Weekly

Arts + Entertainment

  • God Knows

    By on May 9, 2007

    Recounting her initial fears about launching a transgender choir, founder Ashley Moore says, ''Are people going to be able to stop laughing long enough to...

  • Still Cooking

    By on May 9, 2007

    It's hard to pinpoint exactly when and where Barbara Cook kicked off her long and varied career. The Broadway legend, who lives in New York...

  • Time Misspent

    By on May 9, 2007

    Is there anything more dreadful than running into that ex-boyfriend or ex-girlfriend you just can't stand? Now there is. At least the unexpected ex sighting...

  • Web Head

    By on May 2, 2007

    The giddy anticipation of a movie is sometimes better than the movie itself. You enter more excited than you ultimately exit. Such is frequently the...

  • Moviegoing Maryland

    By on May 2, 2007

    The Maryland Film Festival kicks off a stunning four-day event today, Thursday, May 3, and runs through Sunday, May 6, with most of the screenings...

  • Fractured Nest

    By on May 2, 2007

    There's something intriguing about the intimate, something about limited scale that gives rise to daring creativity. Think of the rise of the hip boutique hotel....

  • Hot Stuff

    By on April 25, 2007

    Hot Fuzz is a cross between Die Hard and The Full Monty. No, that's not quite right. Maybe it's more like Point Break meets Four...

  • Unburied Treasure

    By on April 25, 2007

    Escobar, right, with Russotto.|Stan Barouh In 1994, Washington theater lost a treasure. In 2007, that treasure has been reclaimed, albeit briefly. For those who don't...

  • Current Events

    By on April 25, 2007

    What a difference a week makes. Round House Theatre's production of Crime and Punishment concludes its run in an environment much different from the one...

  • Roman Meal

    By on April 25, 2007

    Knobbly English knees, homoerotic grappling and an awful lot of heavy breathing filled the Eisenhower Theater's stage for opening night of the Royal Shakespeare Company's...

  • Sissy Fuss

    By on April 18, 2007

    A freak and a sissy. Not to mention an orphan and, most challenging, a Southerner. Such was the childhood of Kevin Sessums, best known for...

  • Chronic Heidi

    By on April 18, 2007

    Well, the pressure is on. With Arena Stage reviving The Heidi Chronicles, the seminal and much lauded play of cultural icon Wendy Wasserstein, ''in loving...

  • More Is Less

    By on April 18, 2007

    If you stayed awake in 10th-grade history, then correctly answering, ''What was the fate of Sir Thomas More?'' is a no-brainer: He crossed the King,...

  • Geek Love

    By on April 18, 2007

    First of all, it's okay if your first reaction to hearing about a show that parodies Andrew Lloyd Webber musicals is, ''How will I know...

  • Serving Up Evil

    By on April 11, 2007

    A headline catches your eye. Or maybe its America's Most Wanted and suddenly you are immersed in the graphic details of an unspeakable crime. It...