Randy Shulman

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Floyd CollinsDirector Tina Landau had Idina Menzel climbing a tree earlier this season in the original Broadway musical Redwood. Now, she has hurled Jeremy Jordan down a cave for over two and a half hours in a revival of Floyd Collins and she’s taken the audience with him in a slog of production that goes nowhere and takes a lot of time to get there. Floyd Collins opened Off Broadway in 1996 and although it had a short run, the show quickly amassed a loyal, cult-like following.

2 weeks ago | metroweekly.com | Randy Shulman

DC Black Pride Party at Echostage – Photo: Ward Morrison / Metro Weekly“It’s time to get back to the roots of pride being a protest,” says DC Black Pride’s Kenya Hutton.

3 weeks ago | metroweekly.com | Randy Shulman

It’s no secret among those who work alongside me that I have a strange, love-hate relationship with anniversary issues. Almost to the point of stifling. I can’t explain it other than to say that, while I am in awe of Metro Weekly‘s past, in constant amazement of its present, and always looking forward to its future, the idea of growing older along with the magazine psychologically weighs on me. Still, anniversaries happen. They are unstoppable, inevitable, undeniable.

1 month ago | metroweekly.com | Randy Shulman

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1 month ago | metroweekly.com | Randy Shulman

The Surfer: Nicolas CageEver since Nicolas Cage revitalized his career with a disarmingly moving performance in 2021’s Pig, critics have found it irresistible to psychoanalyze his roles and their applicability to his own arc. In his late career, the actor seems drawn to once-great characters down on their luck, their glory days behind them. Coincidence? Maybe not.