Metro Weekly

Arts + Entertainment

  • Step Right Up!

    By on February 28, 2007

    Like a colorful circus poster come to life, the Kennedy Center's production of Bob Merrill's Carnival! leaps with song, dance, magic and an abundance of...

  • Mister Sister

    By on February 28, 2007

    You may have heard that a Scissor Sisters show is exercise in energy -- if you're not ready to dance in the aisles, why bother?...

  • Snake on a Chain

    By on February 28, 2007

    First off, an important disclaimer about Black Snake Moan. The snakes are metaphorical -- they did not follow Samuel L. Jackson off the plane. In...

  • Nonstop Assault

    By on February 21, 2007

    The short life of Sarah Kane is one of those stories that are equal parts artistic legend and unredeemable tragedy. An aspiring actress, Kane gradually...

  • Modern Makeovers

    By on February 21, 2007

    Erin McKeown's latest album launches a bit ominously, with her shouting, ''Hallelujah, all you sinners gather round...just follow me.'' It becomes easy enough to do,...

  • Law Breaking

    By on February 21, 2007

    Breaking and Entering is an adult film with adult themes, an adult pace and adult sensibilities. It's awash in a sea of adultness. And why...

  • Classical Twist

    By on February 14, 2007

    ''The first designer who started doing clothes for me was Gianni Versace,'' recalls concert pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet. ''That was the late '80s and it was...

  • Ghost Story

    By on February 14, 2007

    In theater, the ''ghost light'' is a single bare bulb on a pole left in the center of the stage between performances so that the...

  • Grand Ole Boys

    By on February 14, 2007

    If the Dixie Chicks can't get time on country radio these days, then there's no hope for Erasure. But if the Dixie Chicks can sweep...

  • People Eater

    By on February 14, 2007

    It's a pretty sure bet that if you name your kid Hannibal, he'll grow up to be a serial killer. But what kind of serial...

  • Grateful Dead

    By on February 7, 2007

    Wouldn't it be nice if we could capture the souls of our loved ones just before their ascent (or descent, as it were) to the...

  • Cutting Edge

    By on February 7, 2007

    Matthew Bourne doesn't mind if you mistake Edward Scissorhands, his dance adaptation of the 1990 Tim Burton film, for a musical. ''You can forgive people...

  • Funny Valentine

    By on February 7, 2007

    Sure, you could reserve a candlelit table at one of D.C.'s finest restaurants, or prepare your own seductively sumptuous feast at home next Wednesday. But...

  • That '70s Show

    By on January 31, 2007

    Abe Lincoln would be proud. Gazing out over the stage of Ford's Theatre, our 16th president might be pleased as punch to witness the late...

  • Soundwaves

    By on January 31, 2007

    MAMMA MIA! MERYL... Is there anything Meryl Streep can't do? Well, she's not likely to get the four members of dance-pop pioneers ABBA to perform...