Acclaimed 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…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:27PMOne of the wonders of children is their capacity to take the simplest object and create a whole new world filled with curiosity and excitement. Paper Dreams, a new children’s dance theatre…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:18AM“Peaches” was in the house. Inspired by the spirit of Nina Simone, acclaimed American R&B and jazz recording artist, songwriter and actress, Ledisi performed an eclectic program of …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:05PMThe velvet voice and beautiful love ballads of one of the greatest R &B crooners of all time, Luther Vandross, lives on through the magnetic stage presence of William “Smooth” Wardla…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:40AMRound House Theatre continues to shine a spotlight on the works of Tony Kushner (Angels in America) as it explores life’s complexity through its seeming simplicity in Kushner’s autobiogr…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:46PMImages of the people of Buenos Aires, estampas porteñas, created nostalgic dreams of longing and desire in distant lands and rich cultures as the Estampas Porteñas Tango Company presented …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:32PMThere ain’t nothin’ wrong with a little bump and grind and Chocolate City’s Burlesque & Cabaret (CCBC) had a whole lotta shakin’ going on. G strings and pasties and a skin show w…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:54PMLife happens. Rodgers and Hammerstein’s, Carousel, is a timeless interlude that explores the human spirit’s indomitable will to go forward no matter life’s circumstances. Director Moll…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:46PMThe Summit: The Manhattan Tranfer Meets Take 6 was an explosion, in gale wind proportions, of musical enjoyment, creative genius, vocal excellence and a boatload of fun as these two renowne…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:45PMAnnie and Peter, a white married couple, haven’t been able to conceive a child of their own so they decide to adopt a child from Africa. Rebecca and Drea, a newly married African America…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:41AMIn a political season where talk of building walls sometimes trumps the optimism of building bridges, The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, named in honor of a President whose …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:50PMThe early days of American jazz come fully back to life in Signature Theatre’s Jelly’s Last Jam. But if the notion of spending two hours in the dark watching something historical sounds…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:30PMMike Daisey knew full well why we came out to see The Trump Card. We were out for “red meat.” We wanted to hear Mike Daisey tear Donald Trump to shreds. We wanted to see Mike kick his as…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:09PMIf Shakespeare is your bag, Timon 2016 will be just what you are looking for, but with a modern air. Directed and adapted by Katie Wanshura, this play is an adaptation of William Shakespeare…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:11AMFamily can be boon or bane for most of us. BeBe Winans’ bio musical, Born for This, raises common themes about family to extraordinary heights as it joyfully praises the power of kinship a…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:13AMAfter more than 50 years in the music business, Patti LaBelle can still pack a house. The fans came out full force to enjoy an evening of old R&B favorites sung by a funky diva who sin…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:19PMInternationally known comedian and civil rights activist, Dick Gregory, closed out the last of a series of five District of Comedy Festival performances along with a young all white jazz tri…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:27AMJ Weeks Entertainment’s What Men Don’t Say, starring and directed by J the Actor and written by Mone’t Bradley, is a mini-tour de force that puts a new twist on an old theme about men …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:00PMMotown Philly came to DC full blast as the best-selling R&B group of all time, Boys II Men graced the Concert Hall stage of The Kennedy Center on Friday, May 20, 2016, accompanied by t…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:22PMPatina Miller’s luminous stage presence added snap, sizzle and pop from the best of American musical theater to Strathmore’s annual spring gala, now in its eleventh year. With “Magic …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:32PMRecipes for the Good Life. That’s actually the title of a cookbook written by the legendary Godmother of Soul, Patti LaBelle. It’s also a metaphor for a music career spanning more than h…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:39PMIt’s always fun to peer into the lives of the rich and famous. As a native Philadelphian, I found Christopher Overly’s revival of Phillip Barry’s 1939 Broadway hit a delightful throwba…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:38PMQueen of Rock Soul and American Idol winner, Fantasia brought the house down at An Elegant Evening of Giving benefit concert presented by Talking Hands Incorporated at the Music Center at St…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:00AMSheaves of music start flying and the upper octaves get higher and louder during an open opera audition. Vanity and rivalry turn into a feline fight-fest when two sopranos vie to get the bes…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:11AMDarkness can be a guilty pleasure. Bruce Graham’s Any Given Monday, currently onstage at the Greenbelt Arts Center, is a dark comedy-drama that makes you laugh in all the wrong places. U…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:41PMNothing is off limits to the irascible, irreverently funny Whoopi Goldberg. She warned us from the start, however, that she loves the use of language– very colorful language– a…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:34PMThe tragicomedy of Theater of the Absurd scrambled together with the zaniness of Vaudevillian physical comedy is an apt description for Michael Burgos’s delightfully wacko The Eulogy. De…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:36AMThere’s an earthy, primal kind of beat that pulsates through every song at a Maysa concert. It’s a sound akin to a heartbeat, a panting breath, or a sonic boom that touches the emotional…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:22PMThe Harlem Renaissance was magically rebirthed through Vanessa Bell Calloway’s phenomenal one-woman performance of Letters from Zora: In Her Own Words at the gala opening for the 6th An…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:12PMOh what a night – there’s a party goin’ on! Chaka Khan, Queen of Funk Soul, and the funkedelic Kool and the Gang were a red-hot double-hitter that rocked a sold-out house and p…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:44AM“This is the nicest reception I’ve had in 600,000 years!” And with that telling introduction, Shirley MacLaine charmed a crowded house of adoring fans on a personal journey filled with…
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