Sunday, March 26, 2017
Acclaimed vocalists Capathia Jenkins, Sy Smith and Montego Glover joyously hopped the A train to Harlem along with the NSO Pops in tribute to the Queen of Jazz in Sophisticated Ladies: 100…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:27PMMonday, March 13, 2017
One of the wonders of children is their capacity to take the simplest object and create a whole new world filled with curiosity and excitement. Paper Dreams, a new children’s dance theatre…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:18AMSaturday, February 25, 2017
“Peaches” was in the house. Inspired by the spirit of Nina Simone, acclaimed American R&B and jazz recording artist, songwriter and actress, Ledisi performed an eclectic program of …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:05PMMonday, February 20, 2017
The velvet voice and beautiful love ballads of one of the greatest R &B crooners of all time, Luther Vandross, lives on through the magnetic stage presence of William “Smooth” Wardla…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:40AMFriday, February 3, 2017
Round House Theatre continues to shine a spotlight on the works of Tony Kushner (Angels in America) as it explores life’s complexity through its seeming simplicity in Kushner’s autobiogr…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:46PMTuesday, November 29, 2016
Images of the people of Buenos Aires, estampas porteñas, created nostalgic dreams of longing and desire in distant lands and rich cultures as the Estampas Porteñas Tango Company presented …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:32PMSaturday, November 26, 2016
There ain’t nothin’ wrong with a little bump and grind and Chocolate City’s Burlesque & Cabaret (CCBC) had a whole lotta shakin’ going on. G strings and pasties and a skin show w…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:54PMFriday, November 11, 2016
Life happens. Rodgers and Hammerstein’s, Carousel, is a timeless interlude that explores the human spirit’s indomitable will to go forward no matter life’s circumstances. Director Moll…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:46PMSaturday, October 15, 2016
The Summit: The Manhattan Tranfer Meets Take 6 was an explosion, in gale wind proportions, of musical enjoyment, creative genius, vocal excellence and a boatload of fun as these two renowne…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:45PMSunday, October 2, 2016
Annie and Peter, a white married couple, haven’t been able to conceive a child of their own so they decide to adopt a child from Africa. Rebecca and Drea, a newly married African America…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:41AMMonday, September 26, 2016
In a political season where talk of building walls sometimes trumps the optimism of building bridges, The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, named in honor of a President whose …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:50PMThursday, August 11, 2016
The early days of American jazz come fully back to life in Signature Theatre’s Jelly’s Last Jam. But if the notion of spending two hours in the dark watching something historical sounds…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:30PMWednesday, August 3, 2016
Mike Daisey knew full well why we came out to see The Trump Card. We were out for “red meat.” We wanted to hear Mike Daisey tear Donald Trump to shreds. We wanted to see Mike kick his as…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:09PMTuesday, July 12, 2016
If Shakespeare is your bag, Timon 2016 will be just what you are looking for, but with a modern air. Directed and adapted by Katie Wanshura, this play is an adaptation of William Shakespeare…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:11AMSunday, July 10, 2016
Family can be boon or bane for most of us. BeBe Winans’ bio musical, Born for This, raises common themes about family to extraordinary heights as it joyfully praises the power of kinship a…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:13AMSaturday, July 2, 2016
After more than 50 years in the music business, Patti LaBelle can still pack a house. The fans came out full force to enjoy an evening of old R&B favorites sung by a funky diva who sin…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:19PMMonday, June 27, 2016
Internationally known comedian and civil rights activist, Dick Gregory, closed out the last of a series of five District of Comedy Festival performances along with a young all white jazz tri…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:27AMMonday, June 20, 2016
J Weeks Entertainment’s What Men Don’t Say, starring and directed by J the Actor and written by Mone’t Bradley, is a mini-tour de force that puts a new twist on an old theme about men …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:00PMSaturday, May 21, 2016
Motown Philly came to DC full blast as the best-selling R&B group of all time, Boys II Men graced the Concert Hall stage of The Kennedy Center on Friday, May 20, 2016, accompanied by t…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:22PMSunday, May 15, 2016
Patina Miller’s luminous stage presence added snap, sizzle and pop from the best of American musical theater to Strathmore’s annual spring gala, now in its eleventh year. With “Magic …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:32PMSaturday, March 12, 2016
Recipes for the Good Life. That’s actually the title of a cookbook written by the legendary Godmother of Soul, Patti LaBelle. It’s also a metaphor for a music career spanning more than h…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:39PMSaturday, February 6, 2016
It’s always fun to peer into the lives of the rich and famous. As a native Philadelphian, I found Christopher Overly’s revival of Phillip Barry’s 1939 Broadway hit a delightful throwba…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:38PMMonday, December 7, 2015
Queen of Rock Soul and American Idol winner, Fantasia brought the house down at An Elegant Evening of Giving benefit concert presented by Talking Hands Incorporated at the Music Center at St…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:00AMSaturday, November 21, 2015
Sheaves of music start flying and the upper octaves get higher and louder during an open opera audition. Vanity and rivalry turn into a feline fight-fest when two sopranos vie to get the bes…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:11AMSunday, November 8, 2015
Darkness can be a guilty pleasure. Bruce Graham’s Any Given Monday, currently onstage at the Greenbelt Arts Center, is a dark comedy-drama that makes you laugh in all the wrong places. U…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:41PMSaturday, July 18, 2015
Nothing is off limits to the irascible, irreverently funny Whoopi Goldberg. She warned us from the start, however, that she loves the use of language– very colorful language– a…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:34PMMonday, July 13, 2015
The tragicomedy of Theater of the Absurd scrambled together with the zaniness of Vaudevillian physical comedy is an apt description for Michael Burgos’s delightfully wacko The Eulogy. De…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:36AMSaturday, June 27, 2015
There’s an earthy, primal kind of beat that pulsates through every song at a Maysa concert. It’s a sound akin to a heartbeat, a panting breath, or a sonic boom that touches the emotional…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:22PMSaturday, June 20, 2015
The Harlem Renaissance was magically rebirthed through Vanessa Bell Calloway’s phenomenal one-woman performance of Letters from Zora: In Her Own Words at the gala opening for the 6th An…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:12PMMonday, June 1, 2015
Oh what a night – there’s a party goin’ on! Chaka Khan, Queen of Funk Soul, and the funkedelic Kool and the Gang were a red-hot double-hitter that rocked a sold-out house and p…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:44AMSunday, May 10, 2015
“This is the nicest reception I’ve had in 600,000 years!” And with that telling introduction, Shirley MacLaine charmed a crowded house of adoring fans on a personal journey filled with…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:49PM 
