Metro Weekly

All posts by Doug Rule

  • School Dances

    ''Do you know that I performed at the national festival 20 years ago?'' Diane DeFries of the American College Dance Festival Association says she hears...

  • Golden Tribute

    Maybe you don't love Judy Garland. Maybe you don't understand or – gasp! – respect her ties to the gay community, or why she still...

  • Gershwin Jukebox

    They're no Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire, but Kelli O'Hara and Matthew Broderick make quite the dancing pair in the new Broadway musical Nice Work...

  • Pool Party

    ''Some of the front rows of the audience ,'' says Constellation Theatre Company's managing director A.J. Guban. ''Just a little splash, just a little...

  • Swing Time

    This summer, Steven Reineke will perform with Idina Menzel at Wolf Trap, supporting the Broadway and TV star with the National Symphony Orchestra Pops. But...

  • The Hole Truth

    You often hear about pop artists and bands partying hard, being reckless with life and drugs. But you rarely see it. ''I didn't really want...

  • Bad Faith

    Every night right now at Broadway's St. James Theatre, officials are taking donations, passing around collection plates as if the audience were a congregation at...

  • Reflective Rufus

    Rufus Wainwright is 38 going on 60. His new album Out Of The Game starts with an older man's jokey lament about his wilder days...

  • Dancing to Memories

    ''It started out as kind of a stutter,'' says Kyle Abraham, about his father's aphasia, a type of brain damage. ''Two years later, it started...

  • Black Bluegrass

    The black string music tradition predates the blues. It even influenced and echoes what is today commonly known as traditional folk and bluegrass. But don't...

  • Uplifted: Pilobolus

    Nile Russell was all ready to give up dancing. ''In modern dance, there were people freaking out the audience just for the sake of freaking...

  • Iimay Ho

    Iimay Ho remembers one of the first times direct activism paid off for her. While a junior in high school, one of her classmates drew...

  • The 2012 Next Generation Awards

    As a community, it is vital that we understand our past so our history can be told. But if we hope to see change come...

  • Think Pink

    The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force produces the famed Winter Party Festival in Miami, with the tagline ''party with a purpose.'' But why should...

  • Soul-Stirring

    Most actors don't make their stage debut at the Kennedy Center. But then the 15 women in the Theater Lab's My Soul, Look Back and...