Some members of the company weren't even born when lines of dancers with arms at their sides first performed at a Eurovision competition in 1994. I'd say the rest was history but I don't thi…
The In Series ends their season with Beethoven's only opera, Fidelio, a surprisingly modern tale of faith " particularly between husband and wife. This is their biggest production ever and o…
The Ireland 100 closes this weekend with new Irish sensation Ireland 100: The Gloaming who made their Kennedy Center debut with a lovely mix of traditional music, improvisation, and new clas…
All That Fall is quite the most quite unique, powerful, and delightful experiences I've had at the theatre. Director Gavin Quinn, the Co-Artistic Director of Pan Pan Theatre, brings this…
On Queen Elizabeth's birthday, CUADrama opens one of the most iconic English-language stories in the canon, Pride and Prejudice. Darcy and Elizabeth get a brand new Pop Art twist in this ref…
Lucy Bowen McCauley celebrates 20 years as a choreographer and artistic director of her own company, with Twenty Years with Love, Bowen McCauley Dance, an evening of three pieces including o…
The In Series wows again with one of their trademark reimaginings: Carmen in Havana, which takes the essential scenes from Bizet's classic and adds the Latin rhythms of the Caribbean with ic…
Bastian & Bastiana is the In Series' answer to the usual annual holiday traditions — a charming, little opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, written when he was only 12 years-old.…
The fourth annual American Opera Initiative launched this month to sold out performances of three new works. It was a heartening look at the future of the art form " from the librettists and…
The In Series brings to life some of the funnest and iconic music of the 20th century by George Gershwin with most song lyrics by his brother Ira. They started out on Broadway before maki…
The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra has some fun as they tackle Vivaldi as part of their Off the Cuff series. The series includes a smaller gathering of strings, about 35 in all, and an informa…
It was an evening of American classics " from the pops program the National Symphony Orchestra played under the sure baton of Steve Reineke to the guest of honor himself, Steve Martin, winne…
In their Americas season, the In Series tackles the quintessentially American composer Aaron Copland and his only and almost entirely unknown opera The Tender Land. Horace Everett wrote the …
St. Mark's Players mount a hilarious production of the farce Moon Over Buffalo by local playwright Ken Ludwig. This play marked Carol Burnett's return to Broadway in the '90s, and it is two …
Princess Margaret, a world premiere by Thelma Theatre, is an intriguing new play about a Catholic school and the universal power struggle between student and teacher, teacher and administrat…
The Washington National Opera launches their 60th season with a visually gorgeous and vocally stunning Carmen. Clémentine Margaine takes on the role of the gypsy seductress " a role that…
The In Series “Made in America” season launches in Latin and South America with a special cabaret of the works Latina songwriters as a part of the DC Women’s Voices Festiva…
Iconic rocker Melissa Etheridge has been tearing up the country showcasing her new album and old favorites on her This is M.E. tour. For this leg of the tour, she ventures out solo – j…
Genre-bending artist Lyle Lovett tore up the stage at the Filene Center with his Large Band. It feels like three bands in one " a country band heavy on guitar and fiddle, a blues band with a…
The Little Theatre of Alexandria (LTA) has launched In the Heights, as part of their ‘Director's Dream Season.’ Frank D. Shutts II has wanted to put this 2008 ony Award-winning B…
DancEthos is not your average dance company – filled with identical stick thin dancers sashaying in unison behind a soloist. Company founder and director Tiffany Haughn has a gift for …
The music is pulsing; the performers are insanely flexible, and everything from set to costumes to lights is drenched in the fantastical for Synetic's latest Shakespeare A Midsummer Night's …
Ripple of Hope is Karen Sklaire's contribution to the teacher as hero genre " which can never have too many entries. This one-woman show is funnier and a lot more honest than some of the mov…
Bortle 8, a one-man show written and performed by Chris Davis is part stand-up routine, part science fair project, part sermon. The title refers to John Bortle's scale for the number of star…
The four women from Ireland who make up Celtic Woman, along with backup singers, dancers, and musicians returned to Wolf Trap for a very special performance, not least because it's th…