Monday, May 15, 2023
Seen at Keegan Theatre, the dance communicated choreographer Robert J. Priore's experience of personal loss alongside a promising tomorrow.
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 05:27PMFriday, October 29, 2021
Climate change, human choices, and the desire to find understanding color this compelling and unique narrative.
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:55PMSunday, October 10, 2021
It's the summer of 1965 and these Teaneck club kids really dig the rock band.
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:46PMTuesday, June 1, 2021
Company | E put out a bold call for choreographers early this spring. In the era of COVID cancellations and livestream programming this announcement provided a bright spot, a hint that chang…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:51PMTuesday, April 20, 2021
Dael Orlandersmith’s Until the Flood, now an on-demand production from Studio Theatre, brings the viewer into the conversation. You couldn’t be more active as a listener in this simple, …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:32PMWednesday, December 23, 2020
Directed and conceived by Matthew Gardiner, Signature Vinyl delivers a filmed concert of songs performed by an excellent cast of singers and musicians, captured live at several DC-area outdo…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:20PMFriday, January 24, 2020
As you enter The Kennedy Center Opera House, a muted image of a swan, wings spread, neck extended, warms the curtains. The theater darkens, the performance begins, and the movement of flight…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:02PMSaturday, December 7, 2019
Ropes hang, partitioning off a raised platform that is a ramp. Curiosity rises in dimension with the angle of the ramp, a shiny black surface, and in scale with vertical ropes that provide c…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:29PMTuesday, October 8, 2019
Shadow puppets, sock puppets, masked performances, large scale festival puppets, and marionettes appear in cultures around the world. Enduring over the centuries, puppetry is an art, in mult…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:09PMMonday, September 23, 2019
Elephant and Piggie, two delightful characters based on the Elephant & Piggie books by Mo Willems, come to life in Adventure Theatre’s musical theatre production, Elephant & Piggie…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:56PMMonday, July 15, 2019
Four performers appear from unexpected places in the waiting area of the Peacock venue of St. Matthew’s Lutheran Church. Emerging from hallways, stairways and around corners with a ripplin…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:26PMThursday, July 11, 2019
There is reason for concern or apprehension as you scroll the morning headlines or track developing news moment by moment. Closer to home, the cause for unease might be a decision as simple …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:07PMWednesday, June 19, 2019
The cute little old ladies are up to something at the sunny nursing home. They share the same room and enough wit to fight over the turf like two college roommates. If only we all could grow…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:33PMWednesday, May 29, 2019
I had the pleasure to speak with saxophonist Trey Sorrells about his participation in the residency program at the Mansion at Strathmore and about his unique blend of jazz, gospel, and R&…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:00AMMonday, May 27, 2019
A play is ephemeral. The written words momentarily dance off the page as they are given body and voice, transformed into experience, and witnessed by an audience. The conclusion arrives, the…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:36AMSunday, March 31, 2019
As Director and Curator of DEMO: Now, Damian Woetzel brings together artists of different disciplines. The idea is simple: put artists together in a room and see what develops, what is creat…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:35PMSaturday, March 30, 2019
Director and playwright Leslie Jacobson concludes her final year as a full-time professor at George Washington University with excerpts from plays she has written, directed or adapted. The w…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:55PMSunday, January 13, 2019
“The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree” implies that a child has similar qualities or characteristics as his or her parents. A particular talent may be handed down through the g…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:15PMFriday, January 11, 2019
Signature Theatre’s Cabaret Series is a relaxed affair. Pull up a chair and put your elbows on the table because Awa Sal Secka and Katie Mariko Murray are going to make you feel right at h…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:46PMFriday, October 19, 2018
In San Francisco, the Unbound Festival included twelve choreographers and was a massive undertaking filled with phenomenal risks, tremendous creative freedom and the excitement of new territ…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:18PMIn San Francisco, the Unbound Festival included 12 choreographers and was a massive undertaking filled with phenomenal risks, tremendous creative freedom and the excitement of new territory.…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:02PMMonday, October 8, 2018
Creative Cauldron’s production of the musical Nevermore places the work of 19th-century writer, poet and literary critic Edgar Allan Poe at your feet. With music by Matt Connor, and Book b…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:10AMSunday, September 16, 2018
Imagine a pram catapulting down the stairs and the sweet instant of satisfaction that the kick initiates. A fragment of a second later, the realization of the tumble hits home. The kick is, …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:51PMFriday, September 14, 2018
Figures emerge into the light. They are remarkably similar and without guise, and as the bodies accumulate in number; it is as if one has been multiplied by ten. The variations are obvious b…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:01PMMonday, April 23, 2018
The imaginary friend is a staple of childhood play. In Harvey, currently playing at The Little Theatre of Alexandria, the adult version of the childhood friend emerges when the “oh so plea…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:54PMFriday, March 30, 2018
Nederlands Dans Theater makes its Kennedy Center debut April 4-6. Artistic director Paul Lightfoot brings a program of distinctive works: “Shoot the Moon” (Glass/León & Lightfoot), …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:50PMSaturday, February 24, 2018
A lone dancer steps forward. Framed in silver metal rectangles, others stand behind her. As her gestures accumulate, others step forward, emerging to take her place. As the number of bodies …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:24PMFriday, February 2, 2018
Take a step away from the mundane. Shrug off your office separates, buff hose, and business professional thoughts, and riggle into a world more like a pop-up children’s book than the s…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:04PMSunday, December 3, 2017
I had the pleasure to sit down with Natalia Magnicaballi, principal dancer with the Suzanne Farrell Ballet, to talk about her work with the company and the upcoming concert series: The Suzan…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:03PMSaturday, December 2, 2017
A lone bass guitar player, Electric Bassist Tracy Wormworth, is highlighted in a stream of light. He is seen at a distance and the sound is like a fluttering thought, familiar but quickly di…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:22PMTuesday, October 3, 2017
Based on the film by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger and the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale, The Red Shoes comes to The Kennedy Center October 10 – 15, 2017. The Red Shoes rece…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:04PM 
