Metro Weekly

Arts + Entertainment

  • Josephine Tonight at Metro Stage

    By on March 14, 2012

    Even if every theater in town easily accessible by Metro were staging high-quality, first-rate musicals, it’s unlikely any of them would be quite as satisfying...

  • Arena venture’s into O’Neill’s Wilderness

    By on March 14, 2012

    Kyle Donnelly directs Eugene O’Neill’s sweet-tempered, romantic comedy Ah, Wilderness!. The show stars Rick Foucheux, Nancy Robinette and June Schreiner as the Connecticut-based Miller clan....

  • Review: The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess

    By on March 14, 2012

    Last August, Stephen Sondheim took to the New York Times to attack Diane Paulus, Suzan-Lori Parks and Audra McDonald for being arrogant and disrespectful in...

  • The Vanishing

    By on March 14, 2012

    There are three things you should know about Theater Alliance's How to Disappear Completely And Never Be Found: It's too long, too manic and, ultimately,...

  • The Soprano

    By on March 14, 2012

    ''When I first joined I was too shy to look up at the conductor,'' says Michele Kennedy of her early days in the San Francisco...

  • Life as Cabaret

    By on March 14, 2012

    Early last year, Will Gartshore broke his wrist curling. ''A freak curling accident,'' he concedes. ''Very Canadian.'' Didn't know Gartshore was Canadian, eh? Since the...

  • Fixer Uppers

    By on March 14, 2012

    Jeff, Who Lives At Home is a funny sort of movie. Not funny ha-ha, as its trailer so deceptively suggests, but funny like a warm...

  • Generating Sparks

    By on March 14, 2012

    Last weekend, Hal Sparks helped Chely Wright launch an LGBT center in Kansas City, Mo. Of course, Fred Phelps and his nearby Westboro Baptist Church...

  • The Chieftains with Paddy Moloney

    By on March 14, 2012

    Paddy Moloney founded The Chieftains 50 years and six Grammys ago, aiming to bring traditional Irish music to the world. A concert at the Kennedy...

  • Ford’s turns back the clocks to 1776

    By on March 14, 2012

    A buoyant musical that fits Ford’s Theatre to a T, 1776 dramatizes the impassioned debates that forged America’s democracy. Sherman Edwards wrote the music and...

  • Tasty Monster’s Personals

    By on March 14, 2012

    The new Tasty Monster Productions presents its inaugural production, Personals — A Love Story for the Rest of Us, a comedic musical romp through the...

  • The Fighting Jamesons at The State

    By on March 13, 2012

    The State Theatre celebrates St. Patrick’s Day’s Eve with a show from “the finest Irish band aside from the ones around John Jameson’s barrels of...

  • Garbage on sale Thursday for Garbage at the 9:30 Club

    By on March 13, 2012

    Garbage will hit the 9:30 Club in May only one week after the alt-rock band releases its fifth studio album â€" with the barbed title...

  • Theater Alliance’s reappears with How to Disappear

    By on March 13, 2012

    After a two-year hiatus, Theater Alliance relaunches itself with the area premiere of Fin Kennedy’s award-winning darkly comic drama chronicling one man’s journey down the...

  • Daniel Oppenheimer at Barnes and Noble

    By on March 12, 2012

    Democracy Despite Itself: Why a System That Shouldn’t Work at All Works So Well, which also explores political psychology, is the latest book by Daniel...