175 stories by "Jessica Vaughan"
Playing what has perhaps become the four most famous chords in the western canon, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra tackled Beethoven's 5th last night at Strathmore, along with Shostakovich a…
The In Series takes on the music of our Southern neighbors in a concert full of classic hits from Mexico and Cuba, many of which made a climb up the U.S. pop charts. If the tunes feel partic…
Faction of Fools does it again with an innovative production of Thornton Wilder's revolutionary and Pulitzer Prize-winning play Our Town, which originally debuted in 1938 about a New Hampshi…
The Filene Center launched the summer season at Wolf Trap with another visit by Garrison Keillor and the news from . The United States Navy Band joined Keillor and the usual suspects onstage…
Every spring, the Washington National Opera launches a family friendly show in time for their M&M’S® Opera in the Outfield, and this year they tackle Rossini's wickedly funny Ci…
The In Series self-described salon-style concert tribute is a celebration of musical mastery " from the two composers featured to the pianists and singers " The Romantics Wagner & Liszt …
Eileen Ivers returned to the Barns at Wolf Trap for a rollicking good show filled with her unique brand of Celtic fiddle and traditional roots music like bluegrass, Cajun, French Canadian, a…
The In Series takes Mozart to a 1920s bible belt Revival in a creative and fun reimagining of Don Giovanni. Artistic Director Carla Hübner commissioned a new English language libretto by Ba…
Altan played a high-energy show of jigs and reels and American bluegrass at the Barns at Wolf Trap. They may have also invented a new genre of music called "Greengrass." For their latest alb…
The Washington National Opera takes to the seas for Richard Wagner's first major work, The Flying Dutchman (Der Fliegende Holländer). WNO Artistic Director Francesca Zambello has stag…
Altan played a high-energy show of jigs and reels and American bluegrass at the Barns at Wolf Trap. They may have also invented a new genre of music called "Greengrass." For their latest alb…
Kensington Arts Theatre mounts a fun, funny, and intense production of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. This one-act musical premiered on Broadway in 2005 with book by Rachel S…
The Mage Knights of the Eternal Light is a smart, funny play by M.F.A. playwriting candidate Amanda Zeitler. This is her senior thesis project in Catholic University's Department of Dr…
The world premier for the Washington National Opera's newest American Opera Initiative takes a new look at the power of music in the touching, engrossing drama Penny, which follows an autist…
What I Wanted to Sing When I Grew Up is pure indulgence for audience and singer Fleta Hylton, a soprano powerhouse and DC institution. Billed as a lounge-opera-cabaret, Hylton basically pick…
The Kennedy Center Hall is decked in evergreen, but The Washington Chorus brings the candles as they file into to the solemn song of "Once in Royal David's City" to begin A Candlelight Chris…
The Washington Revels takes to the sea for their 2014 production and explores the music, dance, and stories of Irish immigrants. It is a rollicking good time and a poignant exploration at…
The Little Theatre of Alexandria sticks close to Charles Dickens’ classic text in their charming production of this holiday favorite filled with opulent costumes, cute children, and re…
‘Tis the season, literally, at the Music Center at Strathmore where George Winston played his "Winter Concert" in a masterful performance of beautiful songs dedicated to fall, winter, …
Catholic University's new opera production Susannah more than does justice to this American classic with a world premier of a new chamber version of the music by CUA alum Brian Rice. He adap…
How We Got On, a brilliant new play from Forum Theatre by playwright Idris Goodwin, tells the story of three kids in 1988 who fall in love with rap and hip hop and set out to make a record t…
Young love is in the air, lifted there by a host of young performers in the Washington National Opera's new production of La bohème. Most of the cast and crew are making their WNO debut. Ma…
Have you ever seen a show and heard something you know you've heard before and thought, "That's from an opera?" So it was with La Vida Breve, the In Series charming production of this iconic…
Carousel was Rodgers and Hammerstein's favorite musical and Catholic University returns it to its glory days with a full orchestra, a big cast, and talented stars. It's one of the reasons I …
A relatively new opera company UrbanArias stages the touching, beautiful opera Three Decembers by Jake Heggie and Gene Scheer based on a play by Terrence McNally. Robert Wood founded UrbanAr…
