Saturday, February 15, 2020
If your ideal Valentine’s date is cheerful, charming, and looks fantastic in formal wear, then get thee to the Kennedy Center to spend an evening with Megan Hilty and Cheyenne Jackson. The…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:48AMSaturday, February 1, 2020
In 2020, isn’t all of DC just trying to get by with something “next” to normal? We’re going about our daily lives while there’s an impeachment trial going on. A foreign leader was …
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:26AMTuesday, October 29, 2019
On Sunday night Dave Chappelle experienced the most epic of homecomings as the DC native received the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Art…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:57AMFriday, September 27, 2019
Mike Birbiglia’s The New One is at The National Theatre in DC for just a few nights so let’s cut to the chase: go see it. Those not wildly familiar with Birbiglia’s work might be confu…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:25PMWednesday, July 10, 2019
When Cynthia Shaw sits down at the piano and casually busts out Bach’s Allegro from Italian Concerto, you know Velvet Determination isn’t your average Fringe show. Written and performed …
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:35PMWednesday, April 10, 2019
If you happened to see something akin to celestial beings descending on North Bethesda on Monday evening, don’t worry – that wasn’t actually Heaven coming down, it was just the sound o…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:41PMSaturday, February 9, 2019
We’ve got trouble, right here in the Capital City. That might be true – mind-numbingly true – but it’s not at the Kennedy Center where Jeffrey Finn has produced a charming, e…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:29AMSaturday, July 28, 2018
What could bring luminaries from the worlds of opera, musical theatre, a cappella, jazz, dance, choral music, and symphonic music together for one night of heavenly tunes? Perhaps nothing sh…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:25PMFriday, June 15, 2018
Legacy. It is the central theme of Hamilton. One has to ask—could Lin-Manuel Miranda have known while penning this masterpiece that Hamilton would one day become his legacy? If so, that is…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:19PMSaturday, May 12, 2018
In 2018, our list of living legends is dwindling. So to be in the same room with one of the greatest comediennes of all time– Emmy, Golden Globe, People’s Choice, Horatio Alger, Ace …
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:41PMMonday, May 7, 2018
Washington National Opera concludes its 2017-2018 season with a fresh production of Leonard Bernstein’s Candide directed by Washington National Opera’s Artistic Director Francesca Zambel…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:38AMThursday, April 5, 2018
“That which I greatly feared had at last come upon me. In the Trinity Term of 1929 I gave in, and admitted that God was God, and knelt and prayed: perhaps, that night, the most dejected an…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:56PMFriday, February 16, 2018
Who knew a game of chess could be so rock ’n roll? Or so sexy? Or set off rumblings of nuclear war? The semi-staged concert version of Chess, the 1984 rock opera playing a short run at the…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:24PMTuesday, January 23, 2018
If the Women’s Voices Theater Festival existed only to give us Sarah DeLappe’s The Wolves, it would be worth it. But we have more than 20 other new plays by female playwrights to enjoy i…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:23PMSaturday, January 13, 2018
Lights rise on The Humans and there, center stage, is Erik Blake (Richard Thomas), a fish out of water Pennsylvanian Dad in a New York apartment. What is he doing there? And why is he in an …
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:10AMSaturday, December 23, 2017
One does not simply review Les Mis—at least, not when it’s this stunning revival of the epic that took the world by storm when the novel debuted in 1862 and again when the musical premie…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:44AMWednesday, November 22, 2017
One of the best parts of the holiday season is transporting to another time and place, putting our worries on hold, and enjoying the moment with friends and family. Christmas at the Old Bull…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:37AMTuesday, July 25, 2017
It’s difficult to imagine a more lush or beautiful production to take the stage at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts than Rodgers and Hammerstein’s The King and I. The r…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:34PMThursday, July 13, 2017
Dancing Through Life…By the Way is a one-man show starring Christopher Bennett. No director is credited in the Playbill, but it appears that Mr. Bennett did the majority of the heavy lifti…
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