There’s something way-cool seeing a full classical orchestra accompany a cornrowed, ponytailed R&B crooner in a bow-tied tux on the stage of the hallowed Concert Hall of the Kennedy Ce…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:24PMAmélie is a whimsy of a musical with a big cast of characters and an equally big heart. An ensemble-driven rom-com that transports you into a world of imagination and prankish intrigue, Am�…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:37AMThe National Black Theatre Festival was over-the-top for the 65,000 ticketholders who descended upon Winston-Salem, North Carolina, the City of the Arts and Innovation, July 29 through Augus…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:18PMA foreboding, wide-open hotel window overlooking the Manhattan night skyline beckons you to enter the tender interior space of ’70s soul singer, composer and recording artist, Donny Hathaw…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:07PMThe reviews are in: Jubilee is being praised for honoring and preserving the impact of the Negro Spiritual upon the American Songbook. In the Arena Stage production, Director Tazewell Thomps…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:12PMThe airy-fairy world of contemporary ballet takes a turn toward the macabre in Nancy Flores-Tirado’s darkly romantic NOC-tURNE, performed by NFT Dance & Company in follow-up to Atlas�…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:07PMThe Kennedy Center’s annual party with a purpose on Wednesday night, the Celebrating the Human Spirit Awards Gala, honored Distinguished Philanthropists Patrick G. Ryan and Shirley W. Ryan…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:50PMSpring is in the air with not only the blooming cherry blossoms but also the bursting energy of the New York City Ballet’s exciting spring concert at the Kennedy Center. Something old and …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:28PMWe usually think of a rat as a detestable lowlife animal that we dread. It slinks in dark corners of the floor, hiding itself from being seen. It nervously darts and runs when spotted and ca…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:47PMChazz Palminteri is one cool dude. Imagine having your own life story play to sold-out houses on and off Broadway, and be made into a classic film directed by none other than Robert De Niro.…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:15PMWomen are on the move today. A US Congress reflects the voices of women as never before. #MeToo movements everywhere are fighting the forces that would stifle those voices. So, on the surfac…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:59PM“Who will tell our grandmothers’ stories?” The phenomenal Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater soulfully responds in memory of its iconic founder with dignity, power and enough creative …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:36PMIn Lincolnesque, a play written by John Strand and directed by Colin Smith, the art of lying for one’s country succeeds in fusing a deceptively light touch and inside-the-Beltway political…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:12PMBack in the ’60s, Bob Dylan wrote “The Times They Are a-Changing,” an ode to protest, social change and the country’s mood moment. Dance Place’s New Releases Choreographers Sho…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:37PMImagine yourself sitting on a creaky ship as a passenger en route to the Emerald Isle of Ireland. Frederick Douglass, the great abolitionist, is on board with you. The year is 1845. The ship…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:51PMMake no mistake about it, there were no missteps in the lusciously agile performance of the Malpaso Dance Company at the Kennedy Center on Friday night. The company has been growing strong s…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:46PMThe School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies of the University of Maryland hosted its fourth Black Theatre & Dance Symposium at the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center on Satur…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:57PMThere’s simplicity in truth. Arena Stage’s Two Trains Running is August Wilson’s simple truth about the African American experience during the 1960s urban renewal of inner-city Pittsbu…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:31PMThe unsettling sight of a young man in shackles sitting on a bare, plank-wood floor; a glimmer of night sky piercing the darkness through the barred window of a simple jail cell; and the ten…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:30PMWhen is art an intentional expression of respectful cultural appreciation and when is it an unconscious foray into cultural misappropriation? These were some of the deep questions raised in …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:45PMFor the sixth consecutive year, the Kennedy Center renewed its February tradition of hosting a gala evening of dance to raise funds for gifted young dancers in the DMV. The Alvin Ailey Ameri…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:26AMThe NSO Pops presented its first-ever collaboration with superstar Kenny “Babyface” Edmonds on Friday night for a two-night run in the Concert Hall of the Kennedy Center. Under the music…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:10PMIf any singer from the hippie era could take a little piece of your heart, it was the legendary Janis Joplin. In A Night with Janis Joplin, the story of the iconic rock star emblazoned the s…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:08PMThe Word, in spiritual parlance, is the creative power of God made audible and visible through His Son. It is the energy of the divine dynamic made manifest through Self-revelation. True to …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:54PMLynn Nottage’s Fabulation or the Re-education of Undine is an outrageously hilarious romp into the fabulated life of Undine Barnes Callas, a feisty, successful African American woman whose…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:43PMAugust Wilson was a high school dropout who went on to receive two Pulitzer Prizes for Drama and he’s regarded as one of the five most celebrated playwrights in the history of American the…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:02PMThe John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (The Kennedy Center) paid elegant tribute to the legacy of its namesake in A JFK Centennial Celebration on May 29, 2017, the 100th birthday…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:30AMAt a time when we can only imagine a world without walls of division and exclusion, the Annual Kennedy Center’s Spring Gala concert, Come Together: A Celebration of John Lennon, reached …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:52PMThe music of Abbey Lincoln was The Kennedy Center’s choice for its 22nd Annual Mary Lou Williams Jazz Festival. Showcasing the best in old and new jazz artistry, this year’s tribute pres…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:07PMScottie Templeton is dying. And with that deadly diagnosis, Tribute, by Bernard Slade, now playing at the Greenbelt Arts Center, poignantly considers what’s really important in life and …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:00PMAcclaimed vocalists Capathia Jenkins, Sy Smith and Montego Glover joyously hopped the A train to Harlem along with the NSO Pops in tribute to the Queen of Jazz in Sophisticated Ladies: 100…
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