Metro Weekly

Arts + Entertainment

  • Culture Club

    By on April 11, 2007

    A voice-over narration that condescends to the audience isn't the most auspicious start for a film, particularly for Boy Culture, the story of a Seattle...

  • Stumbling 'Regiment'

    By on April 4, 2007

    As soon as Placido Domingo, wearing his Washington National Opera General Director hat, stepped on stage to tell us that former Domingo-Cafritz Young Artist JiYoung...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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....

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...