175 stories by "Jessica Vaughan"
Visit outer Mongolia at The Kennedy Center just in time for the Chinese New Year next Friday for the Wedding of Ordos, which is billed as a dance spectacle by the Ordos Song and Dance Theate…
The In Series travels to France for a weekend of performances of the very special La Vie En Rose, a program of French chansons, or secular, lyrical songs, sung by a cadre of talented, local …
Sunday at the George Mason University Center for the Arts saw talent from across the Atlantic in the form of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra led by guest conductor and violinist Pinchas Zuk…
The Capital City Players tackle a contemporary classic with Keith Huff's A Steady Rain " about family, love, lies, betrayal and what it means to carry a badge. Ultimately this excep…
Hallelujah's rings through The Kennedy Center’s Concert Hall for the National Symphony Orchestra's annual Messiah, written by George Frideric Handel in 1742. The orchestra is accompani…
Washington National Opera has made a small piece of history with the world premier of The Lion, The Unicorn, and Me, a work commissioned by WNO Artistic Director Francesca Zambello, who also…
The Washington Revels’ 2013 offering Echoes of Thrace is a beautiful, detailed exploration of several ancient cultures of the world that are less known in our usual Christmas celebrati…
A Family Reunion at the In Series is a world premier 20 years in the making by DC Librettist William Moses and Composer Chris Patton. Moses also directed this touching piece about the univer…
Matthew Morrison, the TV and theater star with the golden pipes makes his solo debut at the Kennedy Center with his unique take and touching renditions of Broadway standards from My Fair …
A shining ensemble carries the second offering in Richard Nelson's The Apple Family Plays: Sweet and Sad. For this piece in the series, the world event bringing the Apple clan together is th…
The In Series has launched another unique and intimate production of two very different operas, Puccini's Le Villi [The Spirits] and Heart of Madrid, which explores the zarzue…
Young Artists of America wowed the sold-out crowd with classics from Show Boat for their annual fundraising gala at the beautiful Bethesda Blues and Jazz Supper Club. The 85 h…
Young Artists of America wowed the sold-out crowd with classics from Show Boat for their annual fundraising gala at the beautiful Bethesda Blues and Jazz Supper Club. The 85 h…
The University of Maryland School of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies invokes a mastery of comedy in their new production of Molière Impromptu. Molière was a 17th century satiris…
Iranian playwright Nassim Soliemanpour breaks every expectation an audience might have for his innovative play White Rabbit, Red Rabbit. One actor comes onstage and is handed the script, whi…
Washington National Opera has mounted a provocative new production of Giuseppe Verdi’s The Force of Destiny (La Forza Del Destino) directed by WNO Artistic Director Francesca Zambello …
We have all been to Beertown. That's the feeling you walk away with from dog & pony dc's devised theater piece Beertown, which is ostensibly about a few residents gathering to vote on th…
Taffety Punk Theatre Company's all-female Riot Grrrls tackle one of Shakespeare's most challenging plays, Titus Andronicus. Director Lise Bruneau has created a streamlined production with a …
Washington National Opera opens the season with a transformative production of Richard Wagner's epic tragedy Tristan and Isolde for his bicentennial birthday. He wrote both the music and the…
The In Series, DC's own pocket opera company, has commissioned a new libretto for Mozart's famous comic opera, Abduction from the Seraglio in an impressive and truly hilarious start to the s…
Thanks to the Filene Center Orchestra and three choirs, Wolf Trap gave audiences a chance to re-experience cinema history and one of the most stunning compositions of our time in Howard Shor…
toast at dog & pony show DC dog & pony show DC is an ensemble theater company that devises shows instead of writing them and tackles a huge range of genres. They focus especial…
Lyle Lovett wowed loyal crowds at Wolf Trap with a diverse program of his genre-defying hits like "Church" and "That's Right (You're Not From Texas)." Over the years, no one's been sure what…
Three guitar greats, Peter Frampton, B.B. King, and Roger McGuinn of The Byrds wowed the Wolf Trap crowds in a light-hearted, fun concert with some of the most serious guitar playing around.…
On a perfect summer evening, the National Symphony Orchestra took on two Russians " Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninoff " during their popular NSO@Wolf Trap Summer Series for an explosive evening b…