Metro Weekly

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  • Happy at Last

    By on April 5, 2006

    When you hear that Morrissey has just released a new album, your first thought is that it will sound just like his old albums --...

  • The Perfect Tonic

    By on April 5, 2006

    Like many of life's little luxuries, from a great glass of wine or a beautifully made suit, the Washington National Opera's production of Donizetti's L'Eisir...

  • Bliss Free

    By on April 5, 2006

    Is there anything Will Gartshore can't do? After spectacular turns in last year's Urinetown and A Year with Frog and Toad, the local superhero manages...

  • Crime Solvers

    By on March 29, 2006

    As detective Keith Frazier (Denzel Washington) trudges home after a long day, he quietly enters his bedroom, and from the right side of the room...

  • Brass Ring

    By on March 29, 2006

    If you haven't yet tired of the rampant pandering to the American myth present in every daily experience from the selling of cars to the...

  • Broadway Bound

    By on March 29, 2006

    ''A choreographer is always unhappy,'' says Maurice Hines. ''We're always unhappy with our choreography.'' But during a recent dress rehearsal for Hot Feet, the lavish...

  • War Torn

    By on March 29, 2006

    Enterprising dad: Bakula and cast (Photo by T. Charles Erickson) It's hard to get excited about a musical set during the American Civil War, no...

  • Honky Tonk

    By on March 22, 2006

    ''I gotta get drunk, I just can't stay sober. There's a lot of good people in town, who like to see me holler, see me...

  • Rabble Rousing

    By on March 22, 2006

    V for Vendetta is a rich and strange little nugget of a movie. Based on a 25-year-old comic book by the famously eccentric Alan Moore,...

  • Soundwaves

    By on March 22, 2006

    SONIA BOMBS THE DANCE FLOOR... Even in remixed form, it's not often that you hear a folk song on the dance floor. And it's almost...

  • Dry Plains Drifter

    By on March 15, 2006

    The old man is snoring, all right. Not because it's raining or it's pouring, but because Lisa Peterson's revival of The Rainmaker hardly revives anything...

  • Naked Launch

    By on March 15, 2006

    How you respond to Failure to Launch depends on a number of factors: Your mood at the time of theater entry. Your general disposition toward...

  • Rebel Yell

    By on March 15, 2006

    Fiddle no more: MacIssac Ashley MacIsaac is known as a rebellious musical traditionalist, as oxymoronic as that sounds. A native of Nova Scotia, MacIsaac is...

  • Carried Away

    By on March 15, 2006

    Season five of American Idol, everyone's favorite karaoke-fest, may be well underway, but fourth season champion Carrie Underwood isn't ready to give up the limelight....

  • Soundwaves

    By on March 15, 2006

    Deep Dish DANCE AWARDS GO DEEP... Previous Grammy winner Deep Dish failed to grab a Grammy this year, but the International Dance Music Awards is...