Metro Weekly

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  • Hazy Memories

    Those were the days: Ice cream cones cost 12 cents, going to the movies was the time to neck with your girlfriend, and an older...

  • To Be or Not To Be

    It says so much about Tom Stoppard that he can write such a fun, irreverent and wit-packed play as Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead and...

  • Inhuman Conditions

    In recent weeks, those who ride the Metro have invariably come across the large posters advertising an exhibition of human bodies that have been variously...

  • Ich bin Transvestit

    This is the root of Charlotte von Mahlsdorf's story: ''I am a transvestite.'' Brave words, even now. Imagine saying them in Germany during the rise...

  • Dressing Up

    Called an exploration of the will to survive, it's no wonder that performing I Am My Own Wife at Olney Theatre Center leaves Arnie Burton...

  • Past Perfect

    We have been spoiled by the multiplex, lulled into a sense of security and confidence by the men and women behind the curtains who make...

  • Theater Alchemy

    When you live in a city like Washington, D.C., whose primary commerce is fact, or as is sometimes the case, the manufacture of truth, it...

  • Fractured Nest

    There's something intriguing about the intimate, something about limited scale that gives rise to daring creativity. Think of the rise of the hip boutique hotel....

  • Roman Meal

    Knobbly English knees, homoerotic grappling and an awful lot of heavy breathing filled the Eisenhower Theater's stage for opening night of the Royal Shakespeare Company's...

  • Current Events

    What a difference a week makes. Round House Theatre's production of Crime and Punishment concludes its run in an environment much different from the one...

  • Unburied Treasure

    Escobar, right, with Russotto.|Stan Barouh In 1994, Washington theater lost a treasure. In 2007, that treasure has been reclaimed, albeit briefly. For those who don't...

  • Geek Love

    First of all, it's okay if your first reaction to hearing about a show that parodies Andrew Lloyd Webber musicals is, ''How will I know...

  • More Is Less

    If you stayed awake in 10th-grade history, then correctly answering, ''What was the fate of Sir Thomas More?'' is a no-brainer: He crossed the King,...

  • Chronic Heidi

    Well, the pressure is on. With Arena Stage reviving The Heidi Chronicles, the seminal and much lauded play of cultural icon Wendy Wasserstein, ''in loving...

  • Serving Up Evil

    A headline catches your eye. Or maybe its America's Most Wanted and suddenly you are immersed in the graphic details of an unspeakable crime. It...