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‘Peter Pan’ at The Washington Ballet at The Kennedy Center
If you have a child or grandchild you’d like to introduce to ballet, does The Washington Ballet have a show for you. Artistic Director Septime Webre’s Peter Pan is a cherry lollipop of a production...
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American Ballet Theatre at The Kennedy Center
A trio of new and old works prove American Ballet Theatre (ABT) is A-ok and it felt like William Shakespeare was smiling in the dark when the American Ballet Theatre presented Frederick Ashton’s The...
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We Are Giving Away 2 Pairs of Tickets to Washington Ballet’s Peter Pan-Choose 4/18, 4/19, or 4/20;Enter by Thursday at Noon
WE HAVE 2 PAIRS OF TICKETS TO GIVE AWAY TO THE WASHINGTON BALLET’S PRODUCTION OF SEPTIME WEBRE’S PETER PAN CHOOSE FROM THESE THREE PERFORMANCES: Friday, April 18 at 7:30 pm, Saturday, April 19 at 1:30...
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‘One Mic: Marc Bamuthi Joseph: red, black, and GREEN: a blues (rbGb)’ at The Kennedy Center
Marc Bamuthi Joseph, best known as a spoken word artist, and his collaborators, raised questions and gave many ideas for discussion through a multi-layered, multi-sensory performance at The Kennedy...
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New York City Ballet’s ‘Jewels’ at The Kennedy Center
NYCB shows its ballet gems at the Kennedy Center Be still my heart. The New York City Ballet is back at the Kennedy Center, and best of all, dancing Jewels, George Balanchine’s full-length classic...
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World Stages: International Theater Festival – The Five Star Weekend Wrap in Review: ‘Fallujah’ and ‘The Adventures of Robin Hood’ at The Kennedy Center
The World Stages: International Theater Festival took center stage at The Kennedy Center, March 10-30, 2014 bringing together some of today’s most exciting theatrical visionaries presenting an...
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World Stages: International Theater Festival-‘Les Souffleurs Commandos Poetiques’ at the Kennedy Center
The World Stages: International Theater Festival took the center stage at The Kennedy Center, March 10-30, 2014 bringing together some of today’s most exciting theatrical visionaries presenting an...
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World Stages: International Theater Festival ‘Solomon and Marion’ at The Kennedy Center
The World Stages: International Theater Festival takes the center stage at The Kennedy Center, March 10-30, 2014 bringing together some of today’s most exciting theatrical visionaries presenting an...
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World Stages: International Theater Festival- The National Theatre of China’s ‘Green Snake’ at The Kennedy Center
The World Stages: International Theater Festival takes the center stage at The Kennedy Center, March 10-30, 2014 bringing together some of today’s most exciting theatrical visionaries presenting an...
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World Stages: International Theater Festival: ‘The Adventures of Robin Hood’ at The Kennedy Center’s Family Theater
The Adventures of Robin Hood Offers Cheeky, Intelligent Fun How much fun can you have with a stage full of cardboard boxes, a shopping cart, bags of crisps, a reinvented legend, and two incredibly...
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The Energy and Commitment of the Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington, DC
I was very pleased to attend the recent musical offering of the esteemed Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington, DC, (GMCW), Von Trapped, which was presented on March 14-16, 2014 at The George Washington...
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World Stages: International Theater Festival -‘Penny Plain’ at The Kennedy Center
World Stages: International Theater Festival takes the center stage at The Kennedy Center, March 10-30, 2014 bringing together some of today’s most exciting theatrical visionaries presenting an...
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‘The Elixir of Love’ (L’elisir D’amore) at Washington National Opera
Washington National Opera harvests the laughs with its production of The Elixir of Love (L’elisir D’amore). After a risk-taking season of world premieres and new American works like The Lion, The...
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World Stages: International Theatre Festival- ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ at The Kennedy Center
The World Stages: International Theater Festival takes the center stage at The Kennedy Center, March 10-30, 2014 bringing together some of today’s most exciting theatrical visionaries presenting an...
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‘You Can’t Take it With You’ at Laurel Mill Playhouse
What’s new in the world of plays, snakes, ballet, and fireworks? You’ll have to head over to the Laurel Mill Playhouse and see their production of You Can’t Take it With You to find out! Directed by...
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World Stages: International Theater Festival ‘Savannah Bay’ at The Kennedy Center
The World Stages: International Theater Festival takes the center stage at The Kennedy Center, March 10-30, 2014 bringing together some of today’s most exciting theatrical visionaries presenting an...
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Behind the Scenes at Molotov’s “Normal”: Part 4: The Sounds of Horror: The Music of ‘Normal’ By Gregory Thomas Woolford Martin
Many audience members are not aware of how significant music can be in the experience of horror. Imagine, for instance, Jaws or Psycho without their iconic musical scores. This is particularly true...
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World Stages: International Theatre Festival – ‘La Muerte y La Doncella’ at The Kennedy Center
The World Stages: International Theater Festival takes the center stage at The Kennedy Center, March 10-30, 2014 bringing together some of today’s most exciting theatrical visionaries presenting an...
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World Stages: International Theatre Festival- ‘Harmsaga’ at The Kennedy Center
The World Stages: International Theater Festival takes the center stage at The Kennedy Center, March 10-30, 2014 bringing together some of today’s most exciting theatrical visionaries presenting an...
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World Stages: International Theatre Festival – ‘Incendios’ at The Kennedy Center
The World Stages: International Theater Festival takes the center stage at The Kennedy Center, March 10-30, 2014 bringing together some of today’s most exciting theatrical visionaries presenting an...
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TONIGHT @7:30 PM & TOMORROW at 3 PM: Jason Robert Brown Conducts & Performs ‘Songs for a New World’ With Young Artists of America, Nova Y. Payton, Tracy Lynn Olivera, Michael J. Mainwaring, Rachelle Fleming, & Adam Michael Kaufman
TOMORROW – SATURDAY, MARCH 15TH AT 7:30 PM AND SUNDAY, MARCH 16TH AT 3:00 PM JASON ROBERT BROWN’S SONGS FOR A NEW WORLD Featuring the Young Artists of America Youth Orchestra and Vocal Ensemble and...
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World Stages: International Theatre Festival – ‘Rupert’ at The Kennedy Center by Sydney-Chanele Dawkins
The World Stages: International Theater Festival takes the center stage at the Kennedy Center, March 10-30, 2014 bringing together some of today’s most exciting theatrical visionaries presenting an...
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World Stages: International Theatre Festival -‘The Suit’ at The Kennedy Center
The World Stages: International Theater Festival takes the center stage at The Kennedy Center, March 10-30, 2014 bringing together some of today’s most exciting theatrical visionaries presenting an...
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A Report on ‘Richard Strauss at 150, with Saul Lilienstein’ at The Kennedy Center
In his third and final Explore the Arts lecture at The Kennedy Center’s Terrace Gallery on great composers serendipitously born in years lending themselves to anniversary celebrations in the last...
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Barbara Cook’s Spotlight: Brian d’Arcy James at The Kennedy Center
With precise control and an air of cosmopolitan confidence, the prolific Brian d’Arcy James captivated The Kennedy Center’s Terrace Theater in his unique concert Friday night. Careening through a set...
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The Washington Chorus: ‘The Essential Verdi’ at The Kennedy Center
The Washington Chorus, marking the 200th anniversary of Giuseppe Verdi’s birth with a series of concerts, offered the sixth on Sunday evening, with a program of arias, scenes and choruses from his...
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The Kennedy Center Announces Over 2,000 Performances in 2014-2015
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts announces its 2014–2015 Season 2014 with More Than 2,000 Performances of Theater, Dance, and Music of All Kinds Highlights include: Iberian Suite:...
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Washington Performing Arts Society/Young Concert Artists: Julia Bullock, Soprano, With Renate Rohlfing, Piano by Leslie Weisman
Sunday afternoon’s recital at The Kennedy Center’s Terrace Theater, the Alexander Kasza-Kasser Concert in the Young Concert Series, was a musically and intellectually adventurous expedition that...
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The Kennedy Center and Pro Musica Hebraica Present: An Evening of Jewish Music and Poetry: Evgeny Kissin at The Kennedy Center by Bev Fleisher
Pro Musica Hebraica ended its seventh season in the packed Kennedy Center Concert Hall with a moving evening of music and poetry, both rendered exquisite by pianist and lover of Yiddish poetry, Evgeny...
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‘Moby-Dick’ at Washington National Opera by Jessica Vaughan
Board the Pequod for the East coast premier of Moby-Dick, a new, dynamic opera from composer Jackie Heggie and his frequent collaborator, librettist Gene Scheer. Herman Melville’s classic novel makes...
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‘Godspell’ at The Catholic University of America by Jessica Vaughan
Long before Stephen Schwartz wrote about a wicked witch, he took on the Book of Matthew in the controversial and revolutionary musical Godspell. The musical was updated for a 2012 Broadway revival...
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An Interview with Eric Greene, Talise Trevigne, and Matthew Worth on The Opera ‘Moby-Dick’ at Washington National Opera by Teal Ruland
Jake Heggie’s whale of an opera, Moby-Dick, makes its east coast premiere at The Kennedy Center this evening at the Washington National Opera. Based on the famous 19th-century novel by Herman Melville...
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‘An Evening with Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin’ at The Kennedy Center by David Friscic
If you were going to create a time capsule to preserve a glorious musical theatre partnership, you need look no further than Mandy and Patti in Concert now playing at The Kennedy Center’s Eisenhower...
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‘Let’s Fall in Love: Ann Hampton Callaway Sings Streisand, Songbook Classics, & More’ at The Kennedy Center by David Friscic
A Valentine’s Day treat was offered to all those who were lucky enough to attend celebrated jazz and cabaret artist Ann Hampton Callaway’s concert Let’s Fall in Love: Ann Hampton Callaway Sings...
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Stage Dad: “Life in the ‘Dead Zone’ by Glenn Cook
My son and I seem to be in a “dead zone” career wise, and neither of us is too happy about it. The difference, of course, is that Ben turned 16 in December and, as of mid-January, I’m one year shy of...
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A Video Tribute to Shirley Temple Black: “Shirley Temple – America’s Little Darling Narrated by Tommy Tune”; Her Kennedy Center Honors Tribute & More by Joel Markowitz
Shirley Temple Black passed away today at age 85. I spent countless hours as a kid watching this optimistic and cute, curly-haired and dimpled dynamo’s movies. I came across this wonderful tribute to...
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‘Orphie and the Book of Heroes’ at The Kennedy Center by Joel Markowitz
It’s so rare when I leave a show and just can’t stop smiling, and that happened after I attended the ‘new’ commissioned musical called Orphie and the Book of Heroes at The Kennedy Center’s Family...
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Interview with H-B Woodlawn Secondary Program’s Bill Podolski on ‘Les Miserables’ by Eric Denver
I was so impressed by the quality of H-B Woodlawn Secondary Program‘s production of Les Misérables School Edition that I asked Director/Producer/Musical Director Bill Podolski to take us...
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Oscar Peñas at The Kennedy Center by Teal Ruland
Spanish jazz guitarist and composer Oscar Peñas made his Kennedy Center KC Jazz Club debut last evening, exhibiting his awesome fusion of classical guitar laced with smooth, jazzy, Spanish, and South...
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Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater ‘Program A’ at The Kennedy Center by Carolyn Kelemen
Alvin Ailey American Dance Celebrates Rich Heritage at the Kennedy Center Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater “came home” to the Kennedy Center last night, dancing a program of familiar works, a true...
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Time for Three at the Kennedy Center by Emily Cao
Time for Three took to the Terrace Theater stage at The Kennedy Center on Monday night as part of the Fortas Chamber Music Concerts series. The internationally acclaimed, self-dubbed...
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‘Peter and the Starcatcher’ at The Kennedy Center by John Stoltenberg
If you’re willing to let your inner child stay up after bedtime and go out and play at The Kennedy Center’s Eisenhower Theater instead, you’re in for an evening of theatrical wonderment and...
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‘Peter and the Starcatcher’ at The Kennedy Center by Tiffany Draut
Rick Elise’s Peter and the Starcatcher, based on the book by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson, played to a most appreciative crowd last night at The Kennedy Center. The play tells the story of how Peter...
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Mariinsky Ballet’s ‘Swan Lake’ at The Kennedy Center by Carolyn Kelemen
Swooning over the first “Swan” Like those fabled swallows renowned for returning to Capistrano each spring, swans settle regularly in our area this time of year. Back in the heyday of classical ballet...
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An Interview with Director Sherrionne Brown on Directing ‘Harvey’ at Vagabond Players by Amanda Gunther
A Pooka is coming! And a Pooka is here! The Vagabond Players production of Harvey is going strong; an incredibly fascinating look at the people in our lives and how we respond to them, whether they’re...
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‘GOLD’ by Cas Public of Canada at The Kennedy Center Family Theater by Yvonne French
I knew this was going to be a good performance when I saw the on the Web that it was choreographed by Hélène Blackburn and Pierre Lecours, “with the invaluable collaboration of dancers.” Blackburn and...
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‘Wedding of Ordos’ at The Kennedy Center by Jessica Vaughan
Visit outer Mongolia at The Kennedy Center just in time for the Chinese New Year next Friday for the Wedding of Ordos, which is billed as a dance spectacle by the Ordos Song and Dance Theater, based...
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Baltimore Symphony at Strathmore: Marvin Hamlisch: One Singular Sensation by Jane Coyne
It was an honor and privilege to be at the Music Center at Strathmore on Thursday evening as Jack Everly led the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra in a loving and moving tribute to the one, singular and...
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Meet the Children in Reston Players’ Upcoming ‘Les Misérables’ by Diane Schnoor
This fall, many talented children from the Washington, D.C. area auditioned for the three children’s roles in Les Miserables. Meet Ella Schnoor, Ethan Van Slyke, and Maggie Slivka, who play Little...
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The Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington, DC presents ‘Passion’ on Sat 2/15@3 & 8 PM by Craig Cipollini
The Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington, DC (GMCW) continues its 33rd season with a special concert entitled Passion to be presented on February 15, 2014 at 3:00 pm and 8:00 pm at Church of the Epiphany...
