Metro Weekly

Arts + Entertainment

  • Ram Tough

    By on September 13, 2012

    Craig Ramsay is not just a pretty face. He's also a pretty body. And a song-and-dance man, former hockey player, health a fitness superstar –...

  • Broadway's Future

    By on September 13, 2012

    ''If there's one thing that drives me crazy,'' says Michael Kerker, ''it's when people say there really aren't any great young musical theater writers ....

  • Wrestling Demons

    By on September 13, 2012

    A semi-satirical distillation of the mercenary world of professional wrestling as recounted by a particularly ambivalent member of its fraternity, Kristoffer Diaz's The Elaborate Entrance...

  • Sleeper Film

    By on September 7, 2012

    This much is obvious about comedian Mike Birbiglia: The guy knows how to brush off trauma. After taking a leap through a second-story window of...

  • Heaven's End

    By on September 6, 2012

    Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe are ready for The Love Boat. As the Pet Shop Boys, the two have even written a song for the...

  • Dragonette Fire

    By on September 6, 2012

    ''We get to do a lot of gay parties or gay events,'' beams Martina Sorbara, singer for the electro-pop band Dragonette. ''I don't know why,...

  • Fully Exposed

    By on September 6, 2012

    ''Here I am, look at me,'' says local actor MaryBeth Wise. ''I'm proud to be who I am.'' Technically, Wise is speaking for the many...

  • Midlife Melody

    By on September 6, 2012

    ''I would certainly welcome a midlife crisis,'' deadpans Bob Mould, ''because that would probably get me a shiny car and a couple new tricks.'' Instead,...

  • Bob Mould Strikes Letterman Gold

    By on September 4, 2012

    “Never too old to contain my rage,” Bob Mould sings on the title track to his blistering, bewitching new album Silver Age, out today. He’s...

  • Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris

    By on September 2, 2012

    Alexandria’s MetroStage opens its new season with a bang, recruiting one of the best singing actresses around, Natascia Diaz, to reprise the role she played...

  • All About Eve

    By on September 1, 2012

    The American Film Institute’s Silver Theatre takes advantage of a “Marilyn Monroe Retrospective” film series to screen this 1950 Bette Davis classic, which has had...

  • Maryland Renaissance Festival

    By on September 1, 2012

    As summer winds down, thoughts naturally turn to jousting, feasting, crafts, theater, music and merriment. Ah yes, the annual Maryland Renaissance Festival, now in its...

  • Bootleg Beauty

    By on August 30, 2012

    Eight years ago, director John Hillcoat and artist Nick Cave made a brilliant movie called The Proposition. Set amid a battle between a gang of...

  • Hollywood ''Bra-mance''

    By on August 30, 2012

    What's a gay man doing directing the female equivalent of a bromance? ''I don't speak for all gay men when I say this,'' says For...

  • Temperamental Movement

    By on August 30, 2012

    ''When it ran Off-Broadway, to attempt to sell tickets, they started saying Mad Men meets Milk,'' Michael Stebbins of Rep Stage says about The...