160 stories by "David Friscic"
John Lloyd Young, Tony-Award winner and musical wonder of the Broadway never-ending (and well-deserved to be!) musical hit Jersey Boys, enthralled the crowd at The Kennedy Center's Terrace T…
Oh, the tears, trauma and travail of the issues brought to the fore in the revised World Premiere of the opera Appomattox at the Kennedy Center Opera House Friday night. This challenging …
Broadway, Television, Film and Concert artist Michele Lee beguiled at the Kennedy Center's Terrace Theater with a disarming and engaging set of songs written by the prolific Broadway compose…
Tony Award-winning (City of Angels) Broadway, concert, and cabaret artist Randy Graff dazzled the crowd Friday night at the Kennedy Center's intimate Terrace Theater. Graff is utterly uni…
The ebullient, sassy, brassy and joyously life-affirming Broadway and cabaret  star Terri White (resplendent in a stylish, sharply-edged purple pantsuit) launched into her ninety minute s…
A trip to the Keegan Theatre is a must for they are now presenting the first collaboration of the dynamic songwriting team of Benj Pasek and Justin Paul—namely, the musical Dogfight (b…
At the Strathmore’s new AMP venue last night, musical theater star and singer extraordinaire Emily Skinner, dazzled the crowd-with her always winning combination of a soaring purity of…
An eclectic mix of disparate stylistic elements that conspire to surprise us at every turn and akin to an all-out jam session of improvisation, nothing in the immediacy of the Landless Theat…
Silence! The Musical is very easy to digest (pun intended), as presented in the tightly directed current production now playing at the creatively configured 2nd Stage space of The Studio …
The audacious and groundbreaking Landless Theatre Company at the ATLAS Performing Arts Center in NE Washington, DC, performed an exciting "prog-metal "version of Stephen Sondheim's classi…
The "hothouse," loquacious and "southern-fried" appeal of Tennessee Williams' classic Cat On A Hot Tin Roof is very evident in the scorching, white-hot production now inaugurating the new se…
At the atmospheric Strathmore complex in North Bethesda on a hot Thursday evening, Â on May 28, 2015, the musical presentation entitled The Music of John Williams was a modest delight with…
Like a torrential, cleansing rain washing away intolerance and hate, the Gay Men's Chorus of Washington (GMCW) immersed the audience in flowing torrents of song in their current production B…
Freda Payne, singer "extraordinaire" who was especially prolific during the 1970s, delivered a powerhouse performance Thursday night at the Bethesda Blues and Jazz Supper Club. Embodying a s…
The legacy of the brilliant and iconic jazz legend, Billie Holiday, coupled with the cool, classic styling of the very contemporary and experimentally-inclined jazz artistry of Cassandra Wil…
The seeming "spontaneity," humor, and freshness of the Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington, DC‘s (GMCW) repertoire and their current concert When You Wish, which is being presented at…
A cascade of frothy, kitschy, verbally intricate, and highly theatrical songs pervaded the intimate atmosphere of the Bier Baron Tavern in Washington, DC as the innovative Rainbow Theatre Pr…
A penetrating and extremely lucid psychological austerity permeates the current production of the Washington National Opera's (WNO) Dialogues of the Carmelites by composer and librettist Fra…
The lithe and dynamic Tony Award -winning (The Color Purple) Broadway musical star (Once on This Island, IF/Then), LaChanze, proved herself to be almost a volcanic, spontaneous force of natu…
The Gay Men's Chorus of Washington‘s (GMCW) swinging, rhythmic, acapella-oriented Potomac Fever Musical Group and the stellar more traditionally chorale group, the Rock Creek Singer…
With a vigorous veneer of Broadway polish and a subtle touch of "down-home" country warm "heartedness, acclaimed singer/actor (Broadway, television's Smash and Nashville) Will Chase captivat…
Rockin' the Holidays, the current Christmas holiday offering from the Gay Men's Chorus of Washington, DC (GMCW), is a winner on all levels: vocally, technically and artistically. The j…
The original star of the Broadway smash hit Annie, Andrea McArdle, has grown into a mature and super-talented singer who can belt with the best of them. At The Kennedy Center's Barbara Cook'…
A hilarious, unique and a "no-holds barred" approach to satire was offered to an appreciative audience in the creative and subversive comedy WTF Happened to Baby Sister?. Presented by the…
Tony Award winner and Broadway virtuoso and Tony Award winner Faith Prince beguiled and dazzled the audience at her concert entitled Have a Little Faith at the Kennedy Center's Terrace Theat…
