Anton Chekhov's classic play Three Sisters is being given a superb rendering by the Maly Drama Theatre (from St Petersburg, Russia) at the Kennedy Center's Eisenhower Theater. Director Lev D…
In the fascinating contemporary opera Champion, the external world of the often-violent sport of boxing and the inner turmoil of the self-loathing and self-denial of the lead character colli…
One of the natural vocal wonders of the world, the legendary entertainer and vocal artist Dionne Warwick beguiled the audience at the Bethesda Blues & Jazz Supper Club. The occasion to c…
It is certainly a "Dark Night of the Soul" (St. John of the Cross) for Sister Helen Prejean in the contemporary opera Dead Man Walking. A meditative, spiritually resonant study of our common…
I recently had the privilege to interview the music legend, Dionne Warwick. The occasion for the interview is to celebrate Ms. Warwick's illustrious career, ask some related questions, an…
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. M…
The 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 al…
Caroline, 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 personal …
There 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 Cook…
I 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…
A 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…
Singer 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 so…
The 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 delinea…
On 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…
If 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 sentimenta…
In 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 inte…
The 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 tho…
The 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 ear…
Prophetic 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 the Ro…
Tonight 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 a…
Social, political, and historical forces collide and converge to mirror the conflicted inner worlds of the fascinating characters in Playwright Tony Kushner's audacious, insightfully subvers…
On 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 …
A 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 instrume…
The 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 Beauty Qu…
The 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 S…