91 stories by "Mike Spain"
The legendary award-winning singer Patti LaBelle is coming to The Kennedy Center for a special benefit concert tonight March 25, 2013. The concert for the Duke Ellington School of the Arts i…
Watching Danú perform was a great way to celebrate St. Patrick's Day. Danú is a highly acclaimed, award-winning Celtic band that plays traditional music with a few originals spri…
The crowd was ready for the debut of Tad Janes' world premiere of Truthpaste: A Blotto Biography – advertised as “a one man comedy based on his life experiences.” Janes …
Reston Community Players continued their season of strong women with the award winning musical Next to Normal. The multiple Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize- winning musical by Brian Yorkey and…
Arlo Guthrie brought his Here Comes the Kid Tour to the Hylton Performing Arts Center in Manassas, Virginia Saturday night. The tour celebrated Arlo's dad – Woody Guthrie's 100th birth…
Maryland Ensemble Theatre continues its tradition of producing thought-provoking theatre with their heartfelt and powerful production of Tennessee Williams’Â The Glass Menagerie. Dir…
The Monterey Jazz Festival on Tour 55th Anniversary Celebration concert at The Kennedy Center Friday night brought together six talented jazz musicians and an overabundance of pure joy and f…
To continue their season of strong female characters, Reston Community Players (RCP) presents The Savannah Disputation. What happens when two Roman Catholic sisters open the door and let…
Qingming Riverside is based on one of China's most famous paintings, Along the River during the Qingming Festival by painter Zhang Zeduan. The painting is considered a Chinese masterpiece an…
When you enter the Maryland Ensemble Theatre in Frederick, Maryland this holiday season to see It's A Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play one is instantly transported to a radio studio back in…
Olney Theatre Center’s production of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story of Christmas will appeal to those who want to see a different, original telling of the Scrooge st…
The Fun Company at the Maryland Ensemble Theatre has brought back the Commedia Troupe from last year’s wonderful production of The Commedia Pinnochio. This year it’s the ca…
Duncan Sheik performed at The Birchmere last night with Courrier – an alternative rock band out of Austin,Texas – as a fitting opening act. The concert hall – with intimate…
When you arrived at Brunswick High School on Sunday you knew you were at the right place with Rhonda Vincent's Martha White tour bus parked in the parking lot. They had food inside including…
Rhonda Vincent currently has the top album on Billboard's Bluegrass Charts. She is known as the Queen of Bluegrass and after winning more awards than any other bluegrass artists it is easy t…
The Sandy Spring Theatre Group brings their production of Beth Henley's Crimes of the Heart to the Arts Barn in Gaithersburg. Director David Fialkoff has assembled a stellar cast for this da…
Woody Sez: The Life and Music of Woody Guthrie, a critical hit from last season in The West End and the Edinburgh Fringe in 2007, has been transplanted to Theater J with the same West End…
If you love guitar driven music be it Southern Rock, blues, or something in between then the Weinberg Center for the Arts was the place to be on Friday night. The up and coming Kenny You…
Keb' Mo' looked like a vintage blues man as he walked out on The Music Center at Strathmore’s Concert Hall stage with his resonator guitar. He opened his show with the beautiful "Every…
Melissa Etheridge rocked the The Music Center at Strathmore last night for over two and a half hours. Her fans packed the venue leaving very few empty seats. Etheridge showed her musical tal…
Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson is a rock musical with a score and clever lyrics by Michael Friedman, and a book by Alex Timbers. You have to give the cast of Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson…
Landless Theatre Company’s production of the musical Xanadu at the Frederick Cultural Arts Center provides an evening of fun, and exciting, and crazy entertainment. You can upgrade …
It was fitting to watch One Night with Janis Joplin last night at The Kreeger Theater at Arena Stage, because 42 years ago to the day the legendary blues rocker died of an overdose at the ag…
The Washington area music scene was well represented at the Pat McGee Band concert at the The Music Center at Strathmore on Friday, September 29, 2012. Members from Edie from Ohio and The Po…
Big Apple Circus is not a huge arena hopping spectacular and not a multiple ring show. It is a simple, one-ring circus with a focused program. They create an intimate circus experiencing cla…