Friday, January 22, 2016
It was clear when I walked into the intimate theatre that the party had already started at this 2014 Capital Fringe Festival ‘Best Comedy and Best Overall Show.’ Music was blasti…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:41PMSaturday, December 20, 2014
If you saw a drawing of a lumpy hat, would you assume it was just that? As an adult, you might. In the Kennedy Center’s Washington National Opera: Holiday Family Opera production of The Li…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:15PMSaturday, December 13, 2014
There are many types of applause one hears in a concert hall—polite clapping, raucous applause, the awkward slow clap. Felix Contreras, the host of last night’s cheerful NPR’s A Ja…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:59AMWednesday, August 20, 2014
Last night, Grammy-nominated, Billboard chart-topper, and actor Josh Groban dazzled a sold out audience with selections from his newest album, All That Echoes, and oldies but goodies from ea…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:07AMSaturday, July 26, 2014
Wolf Trap Opera’s production of George Bizet’s Carmen started as a flurry of lightning bugs and lit up phones last evening. Wolf Trap revealed new, cutting-edge supertitle technology by …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:44PMSaturday, May 17, 2014
Last night was the first performance of the final program of The Kennedy Center’s NEW MOVES: symphony + dance festival, a two-week celebration of dance, music, community, and passion. Maes…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:31PMSunday, March 16, 2014
The lobby of the George Mason University’s Center for the Arts was a sea of emerald green yesterday, with enthusiastic fans of all ages in more tweed than at an academic convention. T…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:18PMSaturday, February 22, 2014
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 Her…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:15AMSaturday, February 8, 2014
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,…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:32AMSaturday, July 6, 2013
Grammy Award winner, Emmy Award winner, Tony Award nominee, Hollywood heartthrob, and all around dreamboat Harry Connick, Jr. took over Wolf Trap’s Filene Center last night. The tal…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:39AMTuesday, July 2, 2013
When I listen to Pink Martini, I often feel that I should either be sipping a martini in a dark and cool lounge, or else drinking delicious, hot cAdd Mediaoffee outside a café in Paris on …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:14PMTuesday, June 25, 2013
Steve Martin, actor, comedian, author, playwright, producer, and musician (take your pick of his many skills), has been strumming, plucking, and picking the banjo for over 45 years.The now 6…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:24PMMonday, August 27, 2012
Bond likes his a cappella shaken, not stirred, Santa likes his cold and with warm cookies, and a few presidents in South Dakota like theirs (and their faces) on the rocks. Me? None of the ab…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:23AMWednesday, July 25, 2012
Before this evening, I had never been to Wolf Trap for a performance, but it reminds me of the greatest tree house I never had, with stellar acoustics and lights to boot. Tonight, Ingrid Mic…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:00AMSunday, May 13, 2012
On the surface, Werther is a simple “boy meet girls, boy falls in love with girl three hours later, girl marries someone else, boy dies” story. Like many operas, Werther follows the typi…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:51PM 
