Metro Weekly

All posts by Metro Weekly Contributor

Home / Articles posted by Metro Weekly Contributor (Page 331)

  • Renegades Rugby

    By on July 24, 2002

    Washington Renegades (Photo by Michael Wichita) Just watching a Washington Renegades rugby practice from the sidelines, one starts to feel gripped by the passion on...

  • Jailhouse Rock

    By on July 24, 2002

    Martha, Martha, Martha: Stewart Goes Quiet I remember compiling my first collection of melodies like it was yesterday. Since there were no cassette tapes back...

  • Stirring Passion

    By on July 24, 2002

    The 1994 musical Passion is an exquisite examination of romantic desire turned into destructive obsession, and it's replete with some of composer Stephen Sondheim's most...

  • Powerful Project

    By on July 24, 2002

    Multiple personalities: The Laramie Project cast. (Photo by Stan Barouh)      Theatre as documentary. As investigation. As memorial. As catharsis. As condemnation. As redemption.     ...

  • Gay Whirled

    By on July 17, 2002

    Thousands of fun-loving, thrill-seeking gays and lesbians came out last Saturday, July 13, 2002, for the annual Brother Help Thyself-sponsored Gay and Lesbian Day at...

  • Abstract Arto

    By on July 17, 2002

    Arto Lindsay Hey Jill, tell me if you've ever experienced this problem. You want to be an edgy, artsy hipster, but no matter how you...

  • Less Filling

    By on July 17, 2002

    I have to wonder if the praise the Broadway musical adaptation of the British film The Full Monty has earned is really about critics and...

  • Royal Disapointment

    By on July 17, 2002

    Elton John is no Andrew Lloyd Webber. Now, that can be taken as criticism or compliment, but it's an unavoidable comparison when composer John's name...

  • Great Timing

    By on July 17, 2002

    Three's Company: Esparza, Hayden and Shor (photo Joan Marcus)      A story with a happy ending, but it has to be told in reverse chronological...

  • Soundwaves

    By on July 10, 2002

    DIRTY VEGAS Dirty Vegas Capitol Records JAZZANOVA In Between Ropeadope Records PLAYGROUP DJ Kicks !K7 Records While some beat heads get all George Wallace when...

  • Truly Yours

    By on July 10, 2002

    Dear Lena, My friend set me up on a blind date with a guy who works in her office. Now, I'm not usually one to...

  • Soul Salvation

    By on July 10, 2002

    Meshell Ndegeocello On Meshell Ndegeocello's new offering, Cookie: The Anthropological Mixtape (Maverick), the African-American lesbian artist digs deep into her soul to showcase more intimate...

  • Well-Trod Path

    By on July 10, 2002

    Chad Kimball as Milky-White & Adam Wylie as Jack There's nothing inherently wrong with the new Broadway cast recording of Sondheim and Lapine's Into the...

  • Get Real

    By on July 10, 2002

    This is the semi-true story of seven models picked to live in a mansion and have their lives improved through editing to find out what...

  • Mundane Musical

    By on July 10, 2002

         Elsewhere across the Potomac, American Century Theater is also represented with a revival of Danny and Sylvia, the musical it premiered earlier this season...