Metro Weekly

Arts + Entertainment

  • Community Theatre

    By on April 26, 2006

    Joel Markowitz likes to tell the story about the night he repeatedly shushed a stranger in a darkened theater. When the lights came up, the...

  • Couples Therapy

    By on April 19, 2006

    So much unexpected joy is created by Richard Clifford's fresh, frilly production of The Game of Love and Chance at the Folger Theatre that you...

  • Soundwaves

    By on April 19, 2006

    JANET'S NOT ''CRAZY IN LOVE''... We should hear a new single from Janet Jackson within the next month, or months in advance of Jackson's next...

  • Hard Satire

    By on April 19, 2006

    Satire in the movies. On the one hand, it can be sharp, biting, memorably dark. On the other hand, it can be crass, base, instantly...

  • Bourne Different

    By on April 19, 2006

    ''It's known wrongly as the all-male Swan Lake,'' says British choreographer Matthew Bourne of his inventive reinvention of a classical dance staple that, a decade...

  • Lucky Boy

    By on April 12, 2006

    One of Alfred Hitchcock's favorite recurring themes was that of the wrong man, an acute case of mistaken identity that often took the hero on...

  • Sturm and Twang

    By on April 12, 2006

    Andy Bell has one of the most underappreciated voices in pop music, and Erasure is one of pop's most underappreciated bands. Bell's big, theatrical, multi-octave...

  • Overboard

    By on April 12, 2006

    Like a bottle of premium champagne that's lost all its fizz, Olney Theatre Center's flat and flimsy Anything Goes manages to somehow relay all of...

  • Soundwaves

    By on April 12, 2006

    ''PRECIOUS'' DANCE TRACKS... Every year in March dance music's leading movers and shakers go to party after party in Miami as part of the Winter...

  • The Perfect Tonic

    By on April 5, 2006

    Like many of life's little luxuries, from a great glass of wine or a beautifully made suit, the Washington National Opera's production of Donizetti's L'Eisir...

  • Happy at Last

    By on April 5, 2006

    When you hear that Morrissey has just released a new album, your first thought is that it will sound just like his old albums --...

  • To Tell the Truth

    By on April 5, 2006

    So let's be brutally honest. If I were any kind of critic I would immediately launch into a long list of reasons why you should...

  • Bliss Free

    By on April 5, 2006

    Is there anything Will Gartshore can't do? After spectacular turns in last year's Urinetown and A Year with Frog and Toad, the local superhero manages...

  • Crime Solvers

    By on March 29, 2006

    As detective Keith Frazier (Denzel Washington) trudges home after a long day, he quietly enters his bedroom, and from the right side of the room...

  • Brass Ring

    By on March 29, 2006

    If you haven't yet tired of the rampant pandering to the American myth present in every daily experience from the selling of cars to the...