Metro Weekly

Arts + Entertainment

  • Fool's Goldfrapp

    ''Oh-oh-oh, I've gotta rocket,'' Alison Goldfrapp wispily sings on the first single of Head First, her eponymous duo's fifth album. She knows just what she...

  • Musical Roots

    ''You've got to let the story in, let the silliness wash over you until you giggle,'' says Coy Middlebrook, director of Little Shop of Horrors....

  • [show] Business

    If you don't have anything nice to say, the saying goes, come sit by me. is one of those fun but ill-mannered...

  • Lie Hard

    After Henry V and Richard II, dishes as rich as pheasant, The Shakespeare Theatre Company offers the clever 17th century confection, Corneille's The Liar. Under...

  • Greek Idol

    It is to Terrence McNally's great advantage that three of his plays are being staged simultaneously at the Kennedy Center since anyone who sees only...

  • Spacing Out

    Jared Davis is doing his part to establish a ''holiday for space.'' Now in its third year, his party Countdown to Yuri's Night celebrates the...

  • Jett Lag

    In a very odd way, it's almost as if Kristen Stewart was born to play rocker Joan Jett. The slightly stoned look of ambivalence and...

  • Gods Forsaken

    ''Just accept it.'' That's the advice given to Perseus when he discovers a sword from the gods in the forest. There's no good explanation for...

  • High Notes

    It seems that, for as long as there have been people, there have been individuals trying to map dividing lines. To determine the boundaries between...

  • War Room

    In keeping with its mission to stage vintage treasures, The American Century Theater brings us Donald Bevan's and Edmund Trzcinski's Stalag 17 in its original...

  • Fun with Flora

    What does one say about a musical whose leads include a man-eating plant? A musical that causes most people to think not of Broadway (or...

  • Prime Real Estate

    In the words of Led Zeppelin, ''Upon us all, a little rain must fall.'' And so it does, briefly, at the beginning and end of...

  • Light Fantastic

    There is nothing small about the musical The Light in the Piazza. The songbook is page after page of grand gestures, ornate flourishes and the...

  • Hitchcocked

    ''I'll never be able to watch a Hitchcock movie again without laughing,'' said one viewer of Alfred Hitchcock's The 39 Steps in a posting to...

  • Re-emergence

    Just what is Sade's problem? Some might question why it took the singer Helen Folasade Adu -- Sade for short -- a decade to return...