Wednesday, October 24, 2018
Helgi Tomasson, Artistic Director and Principal Choreographer for the San Francisco Ballet, deserves a Kennedy Center Honor. Yep, the Icelandic native (with a lifelong devotion to ballet) no…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 07:02PMSaturday, October 20, 2018
If the powerful performance of “Dog without Feathers” at the Eisenhower Theater last night is any indication of what the Kennedy Center’s Ballet & Dance Season has to…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:30PMFriday, October 12, 2018
Move over Stephen Sondheim. There’s a new kid on the block. And, he’s coming to Broadway with some musical ideas to shake up The Great White Way. Eddie Perfect (yes that’s …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 01:10PMTuesday, October 9, 2018
Fans of both dance and ice skating – especially those who value figure skating as art, not just sport – should take note of the special program being prepared by Nathan Birch and Tim…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 11:40AMSaturday, September 22, 2018
Just about the time you’re thinking there’s nothing new in the land of the lively arts, along comes something unexpected and wholly different. Celebrating its 70th touring season kick-of…
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 07:15PMWednesday, May 30, 2018
With apologies to T.S. Elliot, Ballet Nacional de Cuba ends the Kennedy Center Ballet 2017-2018 season not with a whimper but a bang. A big bang! An explosive Don Quixote opened last night a…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:58PMThursday, April 12, 2018
We were promised surprises – guest artists and other treats – at the Kennedy Center’s 2018-2019 Theater Season announcement Tuesday in the Center’s cozy Terrace Theater. And, as …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:44PMSunday, April 8, 2018
There’s a certain fresh, uninhibited and politically inspired way of dancing that only Europeans manage to pull off. It came into being in the 1960s and continues to crop up now and then, …
SOURCE: mdtheatreguide.com at 09:44PMThe opening night performance of Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike by the Vagabond Players in America’s oldest continuously operating theater in historic Fells Point turned out to be a f…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:35PMSunday, February 4, 2018
Long Day’s Journey Into Night chills to the bone. The wind was howling as the cold air clipper passed through downtown Baltimore last Friday evening. Inside Everyman Theatre, an even more…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:09PMMonday, January 8, 2018
On a cold winter’s night, nothing heats up faster than a fiery debate. And when it comes to political grandiloquence – as timely today as 100 years ago – the Vagabond Players opening n…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:42AMWednesday, January 3, 2018
There wasn’t a dry eye when Margaret “Maggie” Kudirka ripped off her headscarf and fell to the floor during her poignant Loss and Survival solo, set to the familiar Edith Piaf song of …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:10PMFriday, December 8, 2017
It was bittersweet last evening when the Suzanne Farrell Ballet performed the Forever Balanchine Farewell at the Kennedy Center’s Opera House. Sweet because the muse of dance master Geor…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:58PMThursday, October 19, 2017
If you’ve never seen the Mariinsky Ballet dance a full-length classic (or missed its previous 2008 production of La Bayadère,) rush to buy tickets for this current engagement at The Kenne…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:51PMFriday, September 29, 2017
It’s often difficult to shake off the pre-conceived notions and expectations of what a particular dance concert is going to be like. I am not exactly clear on what I expected with from Ero…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:16PMSaturday, September 2, 2017
As a teenager growing up in the 1950s in a small New Jersey town just across the river from Philadelphia, I was hooked on R&B music, my transistor radio tuned to WDAS-AM, 1480 on the ups…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:01PMWednesday, June 7, 2017
Last evening’s ballet concert at The Kennedy Center was one of those magical evenings of dance. Sipping champagne and not talking politics, balletomanes gathered on the sprawling deck that…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:23PMSaturday, May 20, 2017
Dance Preview: L’Etoile Dances a Ballet Gem Pretty, pastel costumes, new ribbons on the toe shoes, tiaras that sparkle bright as a shiny new penny – these are signs of spring recitals wh…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:04AMTuesday, May 16, 2017
Mother’s Day afternoon was spent in a Baltimore church basement where we gathered for the musical adaptation of Louisa May Alcott’s classic tale, Little Women. Truth be told, I wouldn�…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:47PMTuesday, April 18, 2017
Since its debut in 2008, The Kennedy Center’s Ballet Across America series continues to showcase the best of ballet from regional companies across the nation. This fourth time around, ther…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:37PMFriday, February 17, 2017
Dance Pros Will Chase Away the Winter Blahs For local aficionados who cherish those rare professional dance appearances in Columbia, note two unique concerts this weekend. Misako Ballet Comp…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:59PMWednesday, February 1, 2017
Movement and merriment abound in Mariinsky’s The Little Humpbacked Horse Restraint and sutlety are generally not traits associated with Russian comedy ballet, and that proved true last ev…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:40PMThursday, January 26, 2017
American Ballet Theatre Offers Magical Moments of Escapism The grey cloud of uncertainty that hovers over all, especially dance, lifted last evening at The Kennedy Center Opera House, if onl…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:00PMSunday, December 11, 2016
We all could use a bit of good tidings during this winter of our discontent. Fortunately for Howard County theatergoers, this weekend is filled with holiday cheer with four productions of Th…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:15AMSaturday, December 3, 2016
Madeleine George asks a lot of questions in her award-winning 2011 play, The Zero Hour at The Baltimore’s Theatre Project through the weekend. How do you tell the truth about yourself when…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:00AMFriday, October 21, 2016
The Bald Ballerina stages a dance in the name of Love Her many Howard County supporters would probably be pleased if Maggie Kurdirka, The Bald Ballerina, merely walked on stage and posed in …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:49PMThursday, October 13, 2016
The New York City Ballet’s “main man” for 25 years, Damian Woetzel is a hero to many, certainly one of my favorite dancers. Dressed in stylish jeans and midnight blue t-shirt, his dark…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:14PMThursday, July 21, 2016
It’s very quiet – quite lovely, in fact – in the upstairs studio where visiting guest artist Fumihito Shimizu is rehearsing the Misako Ballet Company and guest dancers from Tokyo for a…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:45AMThursday, June 2, 2016
The Swedes take on an old classic and make it relevant. Mats Ek’s Juliet and Romeo for the Royal Swedish Ballet, at The Kennedy Center for only four more shows, is a bold retelling of Shak…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:44PMWednesday, March 2, 2016
The Yankees of ballet are in top-notch form after a successful winter season in Manhattan. Someone recently asked me why I favored the New York City Ballet above all other American ballet co…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:39PMFriday, January 29, 2016
Classical ballet director Misako Aoki began her dance training in her native Japan where she later received a scholarship to study at the Royal Ballet School in London. From there she joined…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:27PM 
