Metro Weekly

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  • Prime Real Estate

    By on March 24, 2010

    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

    By on March 17, 2010

    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

    By on March 17, 2010

    ''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

    By on March 17, 2010

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

  • Lube Job

    By on March 10, 2010

    ''Grease has something to say about the family we choose,'' says Jeff Buhrman. ''GLBT people understand that concept about choosing our family, defending each other....

  • Son Dance

    By on March 10, 2010

    Sometimes things don't turn out the way you expect. Sometimes the high school quarterback grows up and transitions into a woman. Sometimes an orphan discovers...

  • Small Wonder

    By on March 4, 2010

    Once upon a time there was a young director named Tim Burton, and he created wonderfully bizarre and macabre worlds populated by a boy with...

  • Easy Pickings

    By on March 4, 2010

    Most of the Oscar winners this year are sure-things. There, I did it. All of my Oscar picks for the year are cursed and I'm...

  • Jewish Soupçon

    By on March 4, 2010

    ''I think if one were to ask Andy Warhol about the impact he's had on Josh Kornbluth in finding his Jewish identity, he would be...

  • Soap Opera Expressionism

    By on February 27, 2010

    ''Sometimes the resentment still comes up,'' says Thom Bierdz. ''But I believe in life after death, so I believe that mom's okay, just somewhere else.''...

  • Mystery Man

    By on February 24, 2010

    There are so many mysteries on the island that it feels like you're never going to get any answers. Is there a safe way off?...

  • Tattooed Troubadour

    By on February 24, 2010

    Egos were checked at the January ''Hope for Haiti'' concert telethon, with none of the performers identified by name. It was a small gesture of...

  • Crowning Achivement

    By on February 24, 2010

    There are a litany of reasons to see both Richard II and Henry V, currently in rep at the Shakespeare Theatre. Among them, the joy...

  • Nirvana

    By on February 24, 2010

    Here are the top five reasons to make your way to the DC Arts Center in Adams Morgan to check out Landless Theatre Co.'s production...

  • Latino Flair

    By on February 17, 2010

    There is an undeniable excitement that comes from talking to playwright Nilo Cruz. It's not a kind of idol worship. Not the realization that one...