Metro Weekly

Arts + Entertainment

  • Pool Days

    By on February 7, 2013

    A decade after Mary Zimmerman won a Tony Award for her direction of Metamorphoses, her dramatic interpretation of the Ovid classic is still giving her...

  • Shock and Blah

    By on February 7, 2013

    How does one justify a play with the English language's most vulgar word in its title? Well, that's not my bailiwick here. The best I...

  • Wedding Party

    By on February 7, 2013

    ''About four years ago I took a stab at writing a song,'' says J.T. Hatfield Charles, ''which is by no means anything more than something...

  • Swan Song

    By on February 7, 2013

    This is the end for director Steven Soderbergh. He says he's packing up, retiring from film, moving on to other artistic projects. If he is...

  • Homoerotic Tendencies

    By on January 31, 2013

    ''It's time for the Corcoran to reach out more consciously to LGBT audiences,'' says Bernard Welt, a professor of art and humanities at the Corcoran...

  • Zom Rom Com

    By on January 31, 2013

    A geeky-looking boy is mired in existential despair. He worries about his pale skin, his poor diet, his bad posture. He wants to meet people....

  • Unscripted

    By on January 31, 2013

    When he performs at the 9:30 Club on Feb. 12, Rufus Wainwright says his show ''will have a certain freshness to it.'' It won't be...

  • Lost Order

    By on January 31, 2013

    Oh, the fun one could have reciting choice New Order lyrics back to the band led by Bernard Sumner, while listening to what passes for...

  • 'Zorro' Strikes Again

    By on January 23, 2013

    Despite billing as ''the first modern superhero,'' Zorro isn't strictly a superhero in Constellation Theatre Company's Zorro. In fact, in this entertaining stage adaptation of...

  • Mighty Sylvester

    By on January 23, 2013

    Anthony Wayne didn't grow up with Sylvester. In fact, the Norfolk, Va., native was only a kid when the flamboyant and openly gay disco legend...

  • Up Close and Monumental

    By on January 23, 2013

    ''When this opportunity started to develop, to really get great access at the Cathedral, and make some new images, I just sort of...

  • Country roads lead to Jiffy Lube Live…

    By on January 22, 2013

    Tickets go on sale this Friday, Jan. 25, for eight concerts this spring and summer with country’s biggest stars, starting with the WMZQFest starring Luke...

  • Elder Scrolls Online taking beta applications

    By on January 22, 2013

    Bethesda Softworks is taking beta applications for its new MMO, Elder Scrolls Online, based on the popular single-player RPG series. “Completing the optional sections will...

  • Is Sony ditching the DualShock in favor of controllers boasting biometrics and touchscreens?

    By on January 21, 2013

    Along with all the other rumormongers out there, Technocrat feels in its gut that both Microsoft and Sony will be announcing new game consoles at...

  • Everyman Theatre opens major expansion with August: Osage County

    By on January 20, 2013

    The Charm City’s once-scrappy, small Everyman Theatre has officially become a venerable institution, with the acquisition and multi-million-dollar refurbishment of a grand one hundred-year-old theater...