Metro Weekly

All posts tagged "signature theatre"

  • Game Boys

    When unhindered by such things as a degree in history or political science or more than passing knowledge of the works of, well, any of...

  • [title of interview]

    If you're a straight actor playing gay, who better to instruct you than your own gay twin brother? Perhaps no one, though don't expect him...

  • The Director's Wife

    When tasked with directing Signature Theatre's I Am My Own Wife, Alan Paul literally threw out the script. ''I wanted to free myself completely from...

  • Show Time

    At a time when the heavy bass of shows like Passing Strange and In the Heights and Rock of Ages are setting Converse-shod feet to...

  • More than a Cabaret

    A musical revue featuring songs from the creators of Chicago and Cabaret? Including standards such as ''New York, New York,'' ''Ring Them Bells'' and ''All...

  • Golden Girl

    Has there ever been a creature more mythic than “The Blonde''? From Monroe to Evita to Harlow to that most ambitious of blondes who borrowed...

  • Signature Moment

    Earlier this year, Arlington’s Signature Theatre won the Tony Award as the country’s best regional theater. This Saturday, at its annual open house, the theater...

  • Big Country

    Everything about the world-premiere musical Giant at Signature Theatre is as big as the title suggests. The ''Texas-sized'' musical features an ambitiously scaled concept, a...

  • Nuts

    Sometimes you should absolutely judge a book by its cover. 'One Flew Over the Cukoo's Nest' The moment you take your seat for Round House...

  • Comic Relief

    When the phrase ''Breakfast at Tiffany's'' is uttered it is almost assured that most will leap to an image of Audrey Hepburn peering into the...

  • Happy Endings

    When Douglas Carter Beane had the idea to write a play about the struggles of a closeted movie star, he initially dismissed it as old-fashioned...

  • Epic Intimacy

    It's been some 20 years since Victor Hugo's novel of students and street hustlers took to the stage in a spectacle about poverty, true love...

  • Bloodbath

    Contrary to what the old wives tale would want you to believe, cats do not actually have nine lives. A visit to Google quickly reveals...

  • Flying High

    Oh, the drama. A would be king takes to a stage dressed in the pageantry of ancient Rome to greet his throngs of loyal followers....

  • Stand-up Guy

    There's no doubting Eddie Sarfaty is a funny man. Maybe you've heard his unique style of connecting the dots that, for example, begins with gays...