The Kennedy Center's 500-plus-seat Terrace Theater was filled nearly to capacity Wednesday night for soprano Hei-Kyung Hong's recital of German and Korean art songs, the latter as cherished …
We Washingtonians take pride in accomplishment, and in being duly recognized for it. And strongly dislike having our expertise challenged"particularly, publicly. Fortunately, most of us don'…
Montgomery College Communications and Performing Arts Department's production of Stephen Karam's Speech & Debate, which closed on Sunday is whip-smart, sophisticated, and incisive. Fi…
If Secretary of State John F. Kerry is willing to think way outside the box in his attempts to break the seemingly eternally intransigent deadlock in Middle East peace negotiations, he could…
A sizable crowd at Legacy and Life: A Musical and Visual Reflection greeted the Choral Arts Society of Washington's performance of the Requiem by Giuseppe Verdi and Take Him, Earth …
Steven Dietz has the dubious distinction of being one of the nation's most performed but least known playwrights. With its earnest production of Dietz's searing, cerebral and enigmatic (a…
British soprano is making her debut with the Washington National Opera in the role of Isolde in Wagner's Tristan and Isolde, sharing the role with Swedish soprano Iréne Theorin. Leslie: …
British tenor Ian Storey plays Tristan in Washington National Opera’s Tristan and Isolde Leslie: You've performed the role of Tristan in opera houses from Berlin to Glyndebourne, under…
"Thanks for sharing," most commonly considered a wry reply to one who's just told you something you really didn't need to know, is both apropos and perplexing as a title for a film whose cha…
The Catholic University of America (CUA) presented five readings of new plays on Saturday afternoon. Circulation by Robert Montenegro Language lovers who like their grammar lessons steepe…
Carol Solomon, daughter of one of the great voice-over (V.O.) artists, Sam Sotto (Fred Melamed), has been getting by as a voice coach, so overshadowed vocally and cowed psychologically by he…
The Fringe is rightly known and celebrated for giving people who may not be regular theater goers a chance to take a few bites of the performing-arts apple, with the hope and expectation tha…
What is the secret of happiness? If we took everybody who claimed to have an answer to that elusive question and laid them end to end, the line would probably stretch from DC to Armenia,…
Looking at the title of this show, you know it's a metaphor. And even without knowing anything about what the show's about, you probably feel sure you know what the metaphor's for. Which mak…
Entering the theater, we are greeted, and just this side of visually and audibly"threateningly, or unintentionally?"assaulted, by the sight and sounds of a slim, intense young man doing athl…
"So different. So alike. Who knew?" Such is the premise of this smash hit show, which has played across not only across the country but across the ocean (of all places"given the theme"…
"Standard advice for people who are planning a move into a new home is 'get to know your neighborhood' before you move in," writes Ellouise Schoettler. The widow of a Vietnam-era physician a…
No doubt about it: this is not your father's (not to mention your English teacher's) Shakespeare. Joss Whedon's Much Ado About Nothing opens with a close-up of a man's bare feet inserting th…
When Henry James wrote What Maisie Knew in 1897, little did he dream that more than a century later it would form the basis for a screenplay that would speak with equally corrosive authentic…
When HBO and Comedy Central's Lauren Weedman decided to take her comedic sensibilities to the jailhouse and teach a writing workshop, her good intentions were tinged with a sense of noblesse…
It isn't often that a production will justify a reviewer's use of the delightful word "pixilated," especially as a homonym. That said, if ever there was a time, it is now. In Michel …
Feeling a bit overwhelmed by some of the magnificent productions on DC theater boards, their elegant sets and colorful costumes either enhancing or competing with the luscious language emana…
Fairy tales and philosophy should make for strange bedfellows, and, at least in theory, even stranger bedtime stories. But in Constellation Theatre Company's wondrous production of the 18th-…
Abandon all hope, ye who enter here. While those ominous words may not hang above Flashpoint's door, Dante would recognize this place. Cautiously making our way around the darkened room " th…
Say the name Samuel Beckett, and most people think: Waiting for Godot, existentialism. Theatre of the absurd, where absurd means meaningless. As we watch Peter Brook and Marie Hélè…