Sunday, September 28, 2014
Last night George Mason University’s annual Arts by George! benefit outdid itself as they had Broadway legend and TV star Patti LuPone headline their gala event. LuPone, whose credits spa…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:50AMFriday, April 4, 2014
It was a sold-out, enthusiastic crowd at Linda Eder‘s concert on Thursday, April 3, 2014 at The Barns at Wolf Trap. Between the energy of the crowd and Eder’s own humor and magnifice…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:59AMTuesday, March 4, 2014
It’s not often that you see a musical selling souvenir tissues in the lobby, but Beaches does—so be sure and pick up some! This emotionally-charged musical now having its world premiere …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:58PMFriday, January 31, 2014
Rick Elise’s Peter and the Starcatcher, based on the book by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson, played to a most appreciative crowd last night at The Kennedy Center. The play tells the story o…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:19PMSunday, November 10, 2013
Melissa Errico, star of stage and screen, brought her fantastic cabaret act Melissa Errico: A Passion for Broadway to the Barns at Wolf Trap Saturday night, November 9, 2013 to the delight …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:21AMSunday, October 13, 2013
It was to a most enthusiastic audience of diehard fans that Sutton Foster performed tonight at The Music Center at Strathmore. A short concert, clocking in at just slightly over 60 minutes, …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:31AMSaturday, October 12, 2013
University of Maryland’s School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies’ production of The Matchmaker at the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center has it all: mistaken identity, …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:47AMFriday, October 11, 2013
Jack Everly led the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra with special guest Ann Hampton Callaway in a Barbra Streisand-inspired evening in Bethesda, MD last night at Strathmore. Interspersed with an…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:22AMSunday, September 29, 2013
A true Broadway star came to George Mason University for their Arts by George! benefit last night on September 28, 2013. Laura Benanti, Broadway and TV star, performed an exceptional concer…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:39AMSaturday, September 21, 2013
A little bit of Mongolia came to College Park on Friday, September 20, 2013, as the group Anda Union performed their concert The Wind Horse at the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center at th…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:45AMTuesday, May 21, 2013
Audience members at Sidney Harman Hall at Shakespeare Theatre Company were in for quite a treat on the night of Monday, May 20, 2013. 5-time Tony Award winner Audra McDonald, one of Broadway…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:06AMFriday, May 17, 2013
Thursday, May 16, 2013 was the opening performance of the NSO’s concert The Wizard and I: The Musical Journey of Stephen Schwartz, with four of Broadway’s best singers performing som…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:00AMThursday, May 2, 2013
Most people are at least passingly familiar with the villainous Richard of York, and have at least heard of England’s War of the Roses, but Margaret of Anjou? Not nearly as familiar. Yet…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:05AMFriday, April 12, 2013
It was a full house at the Music Center at Strathmore on the evening of April 11, 2013 as the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of Michael Krajewski, prepared to pay tribute …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:00AMSunday, March 10, 2013
A concert program that consists of Benjamin Britten and Gustav Mahler could be considered just another classical concert in a town filled with classical music. Yet when that program includ…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:41AMSunday, March 3, 2013
Washington National Opera’s revival of John Pascoe’s production of Manon Lescaut, Puccini’s passionate opera, had a thrilling opening tonight at the Kennedy Center. Patricia Racette tr…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:38AMSaturday, February 16, 2013
The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center is known for its quality performances, and the audience is always more than appreciative. But the February 15, 2013 concert, An Evening with Branfor…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:00AMSaturday, February 2, 2013
Tonight’s world premiere of Laurie Anderson’s Landfall (Scenes from My New Novel) at University of Maryland with The Kronos Quartet was certainly an experience. A masterful mixed-media p…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:10AMThursday, December 6, 2012
There are certain things that always signal the holiday season: among others, candy canes, Santa Claus in the mall, and The Nutcracker. The Nutcracker is the ballet of the holiday season, an…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:54AMSaturday, November 17, 2012
Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute) is widely considered to be Mozart’s masterpiece, a label which brings with it high expectations. Fortunately, those expectations were more than amply ful…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:15AMFriday, November 9, 2012
The audience entered Strathmore on November 8, 2012, for Linda Eder’s concert Songbirds with high expectations — expectations which were more than amply fulfilled by the delightful conc…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:00AMSunday, September 9, 2012
If tonight’s performance by the Paul Taylor Dance Company is anything to go on, this year’s season at the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center at the University of Maryland College Park …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:00AMSunday, June 17, 2012
From the first notes of the violins at tonight’s concert by the National Festival Orchestra with Leonard Slatkin conducting, the audience knew they were in for a delightful night, with a f…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:15AMThursday, May 24, 2012
She’s done it again! Molly Smith has brought another slice of Americana to The Fichandler, filled with exciting dancing, stunning vocals and performances, and oozing with optimism! Fro…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:06PMSunday, May 6, 2012
In general, Pops Concerts are a refreshing change of pace from the usual classical fare of orchestras and bands, and tonight was no exception. Tonight was the University of Maryland’s Annu…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:00AMSaturday, April 28, 2012
Usually, when I am in the theatre, I’m very grateful for the fourth wall. The players interact with each other, and I am content merely to sit and watch and enjoy, or passively ponder. Yet…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:15AMSunday, April 22, 2012
There are certain characters in literature that, for whatever reason, capture the imagination, whether for good or ill. Miss Havisham, with her decaying wedding dress and moldering wedding f…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:20AMSaturday, March 10, 2012
Today all anyone ever seems to be talking about is the economy — money problems. It fills the newspapers and the speeches of the political candidates. Yet one of most effective commentarie…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:30PM 
