Four pieces showcased ten dancers’ drive, indomitable spirit, and unassailable technical abilities.
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:31AMThe highlight of the production is Parker Esse's choreography, executed with sassy precision by a terrific chorus.
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:53AMBallet lovers would likely call it respectable, if uneven.
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:38AMA tribute at Kennedy Center to his tenth anniversary as artistic director of the company and a collection of his dances on a single program.
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:50AMAn exquisite performance shows us that two people sharing space create a universe of possibilities.
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:15AMA rumination on identity, memory, death, life, and regeneration — a portrait of humanity captive to demons.
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:19AMAt Kennedy Center, a rich triptych of works with historical underpinnings of the African American experience.
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:19PMCan a bakery favorite repair the world?
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:57AMTwo familiar works ease us back into the theater on a high note.
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:00AMSaving the world from its grim humorless political maneuverings through comedy feels right at this moment.
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:04AMAn evening of choreography titled 'Tear the Edge,' featuring four world premieres, comes to National Cathedral Sunday, July 18.
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:00AMAs the dance world eases back to stages, Bowen McCauley Dance was among the first to dip a toe in to test the waters, dancing together on the Kennedy Center’s Terrace Theater stage before …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:38PMThere couldn’t be a more perfect setting for Irish playwright Deirdre Kinahan’s In the Middle of the Fields than the grassy, clovered slope of P Street Beach, a sliver of Rock Creek Park…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:30AM“For never was there a tale of more woe, than this of Juliet and her Romeo.” Who doesn’t know the tragic ending of star-crossed lovers Romeo and Juliet? Yet we continue to be besotted …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:53AMHot tea is the recommended beverage for viewing Chicago-based playwright Rohnia Malik’s Unveiled, available online through January 2021 from Baltimore Theatre Project. The one-woman show i…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:50AMUrgent times call for urgent theater. And urgent theater has been Mosaic Theater Company’s calling card since its founding — rather unexpectedly — five years ago, by artistic director/…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:22AMOn the eve of the day we learned that we still can’t elect a woman as qualified as Elizabeth Warren president, the Martha Graham Dance Company returned to the Kennedy Center’s Eisenhower…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:52AMWith her green roots and sneakers that spout “fuck you,” Billie Eilish, who swept Sunday night’s pop Grammys, sings a new song for a new generation. Her 2020 teen angst recalls hardcor…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:54AMMark Morris dances are emphatically watchable, easily digestible, eccentric, and smartly witty. He so proficiently pairs music and dance, costume and set – with a cadre of collaborators �…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:10AMWhat a pleasure to celebrate the centenary of modern dance master Merce Cunningham with a pair of works that demonstrates his formidable vision for dance, imbued with clarity of form and gen…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:25AMGerry is mad. Furious even. And who can blame him? He’s all set for the wedding of the … well … summer. He’s driven out the I10 from Los Angeles to Palm Springs and the expensively t…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:30PMIt’s been a challenging few years for New York City Ballet, the nation’s preeminent ballet company. What with the misconduct and resignation of its ballet master in chief, subsequent mis…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:32PMIt’s too simplistic to call Bill T. Jones a choreographer, although that’s been his stock and trade for more than 40 years. This past week his Analogy unfolded as a trilogy, over three n…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:11PMDon’t think you’re going to sit back and observe if you show up at Urban Bush Women’s latest, Hair & Other Stories, which made its Washington, DC premiere this past weekend at Danc…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:42PMA cough, a gasp, the sound of a heartbeat. A sudden flash in the darkness. These sounds and images begin “Lazarus,” the brand-new work from hip hop master Rennie Harris, which opened a g…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:45PMDon’t walk into the Kennedy Center Opera House expecting a Disney-esque, happily-ever-after retelling of the evergreen fairytale Cinderella. British director/choreographer Matthew Bourne h…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:15PMDistrict-based solo performer Holly Bass creates in so many media and art forms I can’t keep up with her—and I’ve been covering her for nearly a decade. Her latest devised work, a danc…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:57AMComedy. It isn’t always pretty. And sometimes it isn’t even funny. In the case of Elan Zafir’s biographical one-man show The Unaccompanied Minor, although it’s billed as a comedy, it…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:52PMChurch basements have a long and surprisingly illustrious history in the evolution of modern dance, particularly in the mid-20th-century when they were creative strongholds for iconoclastic …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:49AMAin’t too many surprises in Ain’t Too Proud, the new jukebox musical about the supergroup The Temptations and their rise to meteoric heights. Their music defined a generation and gave vo…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:42PM“No diving. No running. Absolutely no cannonballs,” the pre-show announcement at Joe’s Movement Emporium orders. But get ready to dive deep for the world premiere of #poolparty as it u…
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