Stephen Sondheim’s gloriously urbane, stylistic and sophisticated musical Company was groundbreaking when it first arrived on Broadway in the Seventies and it still remains relevant today.…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:02PMThe acclaimed writer, composer, librettist, physician, performer, and director Rinde Eckert delighted and amazed the crowd on Friday evening at the Kennedy Center’s Family Theater. Eckert …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:49AMCaroline, or Change, now playing at Bethesda’s Round House Theatre, is a musical clarion call for change at all levels. Whether it is personal change and transformation at the most persona…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:17AMThere was a fabulous, swinging party on this past Sunday night and it all happened at the wonderful Bethesda Blues & Jazz Supper Club as the dynamic and talented singer Ms. Carla Cooke …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:59PMI recently had the great privilege to have an engaging interview with the dynamic artist Carla Cooke, a wondrous singer in her own right and daughter of the singing legend Sam Cooke. Ms. Coo…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:59PMA one-hour World Premiere opera is reason enough for the imagination to run rampant with artistic anticipation. So what a veritable array of riches it was to indulge the senses and challenge…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:05PMSinger extraordinaire Diana Ross is a musical legend and she proved it last night in a concert at The Kennedy Center’s Concert Hall. Presenting a showcase full of golden oldies as well as …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:00PMThe stripped-down, minimalist and auteur-driven interpretation of Arthur Miller’s A View from the Bridge delivers a tragic, elemental, and mythic dimension to this stirring play that delin…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:09PMOn Sunday, November 13, 2016, the pulsating, transcendent and visionary music of the modern musical giant of minimalist music, Philip Glass —came to vivid life in a unique and powerful…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:16PMIf your operatic desire is to hear one glorious aria after another sung by two operatic voices that would make the gods envious –set against a deliriously “light-as-air” comically sent…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:35AMIn John Guare’s wonderfully enigmatic and slightly precocious play, Six Degrees of Separation, now playing at The Keegan Theatre—the ripples of interconnection run rampant as the author …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:05AMThe dual intersections of tradition and the authenticity of the individual, autonomous human being compartmentalize, collide and—then —slowly merge in the Rainbow Theatre Project’s…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:27PMThe indefatigable legendary singer and actress, Melba Moore, dazzled the crowd at the Bethesda Blues and Jazz Club Sunday evening. With a very strong family background in music and an early…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:17PMProphetic Messages continue in the stunning second part of Tony Kushner’s masterwork, Angels in America: Perestroika –now appearing at the Round House Theatre as a joint production of th…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:08PMTonight I had the great pleasure of a brief but extremely rewarding and stimulating telephone interview with the Tony Award-winning (Purlie) and Grammy and Emmy –Award nominated singer and…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:21PMSocial, political, and historical forces collide and converge to mirror the conflicted inner worlds of the fascinating characters in Playwright Tony Kushner’s audacious, insightfully subve…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:27AMOn a hot, humid summer evening at the Wolf Trap Performing Arts Center last night, the lithe and absolutely charismatic Broadway, television, and singing sensation Kristen Chenoweth brought …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:02AMA diva in the best sense of the word, Barbra Streisand has always understood that only an artistic perfectionist could span decades inspiring generations with her God-given vocal instrument…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:53PMThe Keegan Theatre’s current and provocatively darkly comic production of Martin McDonagh’s The Lonesome West, written by the brilliant, raffish and audacious Irish playwright (The Beaut…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:27AMThe appropriately psychologically penetrating and vivid production of The Merchant of Venice (now playing at The Kennedy Center’s Eisenhower Theater) embraces all the conundrums of William…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:55PMIn his enigmatic but slight one-man show, entitled The Computer That Loved, written and performed by Erik Mueller (as part of the exciting Fringe Festival) a real-life story is presented in …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:27AMThrilling progressive history and the trajectory of societal forces colliding with basic human rights is delineated through the prism of three couples who are fighting for their dignity as L…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:25AMThe current production being produced by the theatrically provocative and cutting-edge Rainbow Theatre Project —entitled Get Used To It! A Musical Revue!–may be a bit of a mislea…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:26PMIn The Kennedy Center’s current production of the Tony Award-winning musical Kinky Boots, a cornucopia of vibrant color runs riot through this exuberant and defiant celebration of diversit…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:17PMIt was an extremely innovative and conceptually brilliant idea to celebrate 35 wonderful years of the Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington, DC (GMCW) in a sophisticated, elegant and somewhat ser…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:23AMMother Earth is crying in despair and degradation in Director Francesca Zambella’s audaciously brilliant interpretation of the final opera of Wagner’s artistically magnificent Ring Cycle…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:43AMThe epic tale continues as the Washington National Opera’s production of Siegfried –The Ring of the Nibelung-Part Two played to a very appreciative audience last night at The Kennedy Cen…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:29PMLove in all of its many manifestations runs rampant throughout the Washington National Opera’s most recent offering in the continuing tale of The Ring Cycle—-namely, The Valkyrie –…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:03PMGerman composer Richard Wagner’s much heralded and talked about (over the past many decades!) Ring Cycle opened at the Kennedy Center Opera House on Saturday evening with the first opera i…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:17PMComposer Andrew Lippa’s pulsating music shoots like a jolt of adrenaline throughout the super-charged heightened music of the World Premiere Concept Opera I Am Anne Hutchinson/I Am Harvey …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:55AMComedienne extraordinaire Carol Burnett brought her distinctive and legendary persona to the Music Center at Strathmore last night and the audience responded with glee and deserved appreciat…
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