Metro Weekly

Arts + Entertainment

  • Classic Failings

    By on April 4, 2007

    How is it that two strong leads, a romantic love story and a few catchy musical numbers combine to make such a mediocre production? However...

  • Conquering Comedy

    By on April 4, 2007

    Only see Woolly Mammoth's production of She Stoops to Comedy if you want to laugh. Only see this show if you enjoy intelligent humor. Only...

  • Scene Stealer

    By on April 4, 2007

    I don't want to be premature about this, but it seems Joseph Gordon-Levitt has completely conquered the ''Curse of the T.V. Sitcom Child Actor.'' Many...

  • No Secrets

    By on April 4, 2007

    After opening night of Sherry Glaser's one-person hit Family Secrets in New York, in 1993, her father bought out the entire theater for the next...

  • Switch Blades

    By on March 28, 2007

    To steal the tagline from another skating film, Blades of Glory is a movie about a love/skate relationship. What makes this one unique is that...

  • Lost in Translation

    By on March 28, 2007

    How's this for irony? In The Pillowman, Irish playwright Martin McDonagh creates a fascinating, multi-layered drama/fantasy that brilliantly navigates all manner of socially dangerous topics....

  • Soul Provider

    By on March 28, 2007

    It's hard to believe that Amy Winehouse, a 23-year-old white girl from London, is the voice behind the 11 soulful tracks that comprise her second...

  • Taking Flight

    By on March 28, 2007

    This is a drop everything moment. If you live for opera, if you occasionally go, if you have even a fledgling interest in it, you...

  • Cherry Smash

    By on March 21, 2007

    ''Ten minutes into the play, the audience leans forward and they never lean back. In 30 years of doing theater, I've never seen a play...

  • Return to Oz

    By on March 21, 2007

    For the past dozen or so Sundays, Steven Scott Mazzola has journeyed into the Land of Oz. It's a trip that has evolved, deepened and...

  • Long Life Journey

    By on March 21, 2007

    Five and a half years. Is it still too soon for a 9/11 themed movie? And, in the case of Reign Over Me, is this...

  • Secret Stories

    By on March 21, 2007

    ''Life should be sweet.'' So says Rose, mother of Mort, mother-in-law to Bev, grandmother of Fern and Sandra. It's that simple. As elderly Rose slowly...

  • Erley Light

    By on March 21, 2007

    Since March 10, the tone at Long View Gallery (1302 Ninth St. NW; 202-232-4788) has been set by painter Gerard Erley, whose show Poetic Landscape...

  • Night in the City

    By on March 14, 2007

    When Diana Ross crooned her immortal ''Love Hangover,'' she probably didn't have a waitress and short-order cook in mind. But who hasn't felt that dreamy...

  • Harmonic Convergence

    By on March 14, 2007

    You might be a girly man if... you spent a recent morning at work listening to the Dixie Chicks. ''We were just listening to them...