Metro Weekly

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  • Time Warp

    Whatever happened to Fay Wray? The legendary Queen of Scream gains life eternal through tribute from a very different queen of the night in another...

  • Tour de Forceful

    Nathan Lane he is not. But Lewis J. Stadlen does manage a fair impersonation of the loveable smart-ass as down-on-his luck theatre mogul Max Bialystock...

  • Stand-Up Man

    Earlier this year several very straight comics at Nanny O'Brien's in Cleveland Park made gay jokes during their open-mike routine. So Zach Toczynski began his...

  • Catatonic

    Yes, it's a play about many things -- many people, many ideas, many themes. Big Daddy is dying of cancer on his 65th birthday and...

  • Read His Lips

    John Epperson has a revelation to share. ''I'm ready to shed the character of Lypsinka,'' he says of the drag alter-ego he's been portraying since...

  • Masterpiece Theatre

    One of the most memorable, exquisite moments in post-classical theater is the bittersweet serenading of Roxane by her witty wordsmith cousin, Cyrano de Bergerac. The...

  • Circle Jerks

    According to The Politician, there are only two kinds of women: the kind you sleep with, and the kind you marry. Deborah Hazlett has the...

  • Heat Wave

    Make no mistake about it, Orpheus Descending is hot. Molly Smith's triumphant, glorious resurrection of Tennessee Williams' lesser-known drama can only be described as sizzling,...

  • Piercing Wit

    The Catalyst Theater's opening of Nicky Silver's The Altruists took place on stormy night -- a perfect backdrop since Silver's ferocious wit comes fast and...

  • Undesirable

    For better or for worse, Tennessee Williams penned characters who give such credit to stereotype and light caricature that they have become a part of...

  • Brotherly Love

    No matter how you look at it, Passing the Love of Women is not, at heart, a gay play. Sure, the two central characters are...

  • 2004 Helen Hayes Awards

    ''Good evening ladies and gentlemen, I'm Joy Zinoman. '' Oh, but it wasn't. For the second year in a row, Rick Hammerly crashed the 20th...

  • Basic Instinct

    They aren't called ''blind '' dates for nothing. The multiple glimpses in every available mirror and window reflection, the clumsy, awkward exchanges, the uncomfortable silences...

  • ''Porcelain''

    It's hard to believe that Porcelain is Chay Yew's first play. The 1992 London Fringe Award winner for Best Production, Porcelain marks a brave, startling...

  • A Perfect Tenn

    Michael Kahn and Tennessee Williams: what a pair. The two theatre magnates converge in holy matrimony in Five by Tenn, the Shakespeare Theatre production of...