24 stories by "Hilary Sutton"
For parents, a delight of the show is the squeals coming from the tots on our laps.
Some of it feels modern and accurate, and some of it feels cringingly out of touch.
The concert of iconic film scores by the living legend featured collaborators, celebrities, and the 93-piece National Symphony Orchestra.
The talent on stage cannot be overstated: rapping, singing, comedy, storytelling, rhyming, and all on the fly.
A triumphant 90-minute concert headlined by Renée Elise Goldsberry and Brian Stokes Mitchell.
If your ideal Valentine's date is cheerful, charming, and looks fantastic in formal wear, then get thee to the Kennedy Center to spend an evening with Megan Hilty and Cheyenne Jackson. The B…
In 2020, isn't all of DC just trying to get by with something "next" to normal? We're going about our daily lives while there's an impeachment trial going on. A foreign leader was recently a…
On Sunday night Dave Chappelle experienced the most epic of homecomings as the DC native received the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Art…
Mike Birbiglia's The New One is at The National Theatre in DC for just a few nights so let's cut to the chase: go see it. Those not wildly familiar with Birbiglia's work might be confused. A…
When Cynthia Shaw sits down at the piano and casually busts out Bach's Allegro from Italian Concerto, you know Velvet Determination isn't your average Fringe show. Written and performed by S…
If you happened to see something akin to celestial beings descending on North Bethesda on Monday evening, don't worry " that wasn't actually Heaven coming down, it was just the sound of Kris…
We've got trouble, right here in the Capital City. That might be true – mind-numbingly true – but it's not at the Kennedy Center where Jeffrey Finn has produced a charming, energ…
What could bring luminaries from the worlds of opera, musical theatre, a cappella, jazz, dance, choral music, and symphonic music together for one night of heavenly tunes? Perhaps nothing sh…
Legacy. It is the central theme of Hamilton. One has to ask"could Lin-Manuel Miranda have known while penning this masterpiece that Hamilton would one day become his legacy? If so, that is q…
In 2018, our list of living legends is dwindling. So to be in the same room with one of the greatest comediennes of all time– Emmy, Golden Globe, People's Choice, Horatio Alger, Ace Aw…
Washington National Opera concludes its 2017-2018 season with a fresh production of Leonard Bernstein's Candide directed by Washington National Opera's Artistic Director Francesca Zambello. …
"That which I greatly feared had at last come upon me. In the Trinity Term of 1929 I gave in, and admitted that God was God, and knelt and prayed: perhaps, that night, the most dejected and …
Who knew a game of chess could be so rock 'n roll? Or so sexy? Or set off rumblings of nuclear war? The semi-staged concert version of Chess, the 1984 rock opera playing a short run at the K…
If the Women's Voices Theater Festival existed only to give us Sarah DeLappe's The Wolves, it would be worth it. But we have more than 20 other new plays by female playwrights to enjoy in th…
Lights rise on The Humans and there, center stage, is Erik Blake (Richard Thomas), a fish out of water Pennsylvanian Dad in a New York apartment. What is he doing there? And why is he in an …
One does not simply review Les Mis"at least, not when it's this stunning revival of the epic that took the world by storm when the novel debuted in 1862 and again when the musical premiered …
One of the best parts of the holiday season is transporting to another time and place, putting our worries on hold, and enjoying the moment with friends and family. Christmas at the Old Bull…
It's difficult to imagine a more lush or beautiful production to take the stage at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts than Rodgers and Hammerstein's The King and I. The reviv…
Dancing Through Life…By the Way is a one-man show starring Christopher Bennett. No director is credited in the Playbill, but it appears that Mr. Bennett did the majority of the heavy lifti…
