Byline: Jon Davis Daily Herald Staff Writer

With one year under its belt, the Metropolis Performing Arts Centre is many things to many people.

It's an anchor of downtown Arlington Heights' revival. It's a venue for cultural arts that otherwise might not make it to the Northwest suburbs. It's live theater, a restaurant, a jazz club, shops, offices, loft condos.

And like one-year-olds anywhere, it's a work in progress.

While Metropolis has carved its niche in the Chicago-area theater community as a home for plays, musicals, comedy and cabaret, it must now develop the cachet that will draw people in no matter what the show.

"The 'Field of Dreams' adage works ...