50 stories by "Morgan Halvorsen"
Sarah McLachlan’s singing, remarkably, hasn’t changed much in the past 20 years. There’s a startlingly intimate quality to her voice and to her music that’s virtually…
“Other Life Forms,” now playing at the Keegan Theatre, is a profound examination of what it means to be human, as seen by someone who (probably) isn’t. The world premiere b…
As a storm loomed outside on March 20, 2018, baritone Theo Hoffman and pianist Bradley Moore braved the wintry spring weather to present a program at the Kennedy Center called Abendphantasie…
Vocal Arts DC’s Feb. 24 concert was a series of Lieder by Franz Schubert. Schubert, though he died before his 32nd birthday, left behind an impressive repertoire of music, including so…
Vocal Arts DC’s Feb. 8 concert was a Liederabend, a series of German art songs, largely from the Romantic era. Thematically, the series told the stories of four women"Mignon, the waif …
“Hamlet” is the longest Shakespeare play and certainly among the playwright’s most well-known. It tells the story of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, who returns home from univer…
If you had gone into Irish mezzo-soprano Tara Erraught's recital at the Kennedy Center on Jan. 9 expecting a series of music from her homeland, you would have been sorely mistaken — Er…
The June Rebellion of 1832 lasted all of two days, a short-lived revolution in Paris that had little lasting effect on the world of French politics. Its cultural impact has been much farther…
At this time of year, as the days end earlier and the nights get darker, it's easy for the world around us to seem a little more strange than usual. After all, it's the time of year when a m…
Vocal Arts DC's Dec. 5 offering at the Kennedy Center's Terrace Theater featured Andrei Bondarenko, a Ukrainian baritone, and Gary Matthewman, a British pianist, performing a program exclusi…
The Kennedy Center’s newly reopened Terrace Theater feels like the perfect place for a tribute to Leonard Bernstein — it’s vibrant but intimate; unique, but working within …
In 1939, the S.S. St. Louis fled Nazi Germany with nearly 1,000 Jewish refugees on board, headed for Havana, Cuba. When the ship arrived in Cuba, however, only a few passengers were allowed …
It's 1937, and Europe is on the brink of war. In the United States, the Great Depression lingers, evident even in the house of Eugene Morris Jerome (Cole Sitilides), a teenage Brooklynite dr…
It’s difficult to know what to expect with modern ballet, especially when it’s not a standard, story-driven piece like “Sleeping Beauty” or “The Nutcracker.R…
Tuesday night's Vocal Arts DC performance at University of District of Columbia’s Theatre of the Arts, featuring famed baritone Christian Gerhaher and pianist Gerold Huber, was complet…
These days, people's thoughts turn to Christmas before we even hang up our Halloween costumes. Carols fill the air, TV starts airing Charlie Brown and "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer," and t…
The UDC Theatre for the Arts is a rather unassuming, spartan building tucked into a corner of the University of the District of Columbia's campus. The actual theater inside, however, is star…
The setting of Christine Evans’s Can’t Complain, now playing at Spooky Action Theater and is part of the Women’s Voices Theater Festival, can be unnerving to anyone who has…
Carmen, now playing at the Kennedy Center, is uniquely brilliant. From the very first moment of its robust overture, echoing the now-iconic “Toreador Song” of the second act, the…
Tying the Knot, a Baltimore Playwrights Festival production now playing at Fells Point Corner Theatre’s Sokal Stage, is about a gay man who decides to marry a woman. With that single p…
Walking into Flashpoint for the production of One in the Chamber feels almost unsettlingly voyeuristic. The black box stage has been transformed into a disorganized suburban dining room, the…
Last month, 21-year-old Dylann Roof walked into a South Carolina church and killed nine people with the apparent intention of starting a “Race War.” While the dialogue in news me…
Walking into the Mead Theatre Lab for We Happy Few’s performance of The Winter’s Tale feels a little like stepping into a dream. The black box theatre is lined with gauzy white c…
The Second City is notable for its vast number of talented alumni, including John Belushi, Dan Akroyd, Stephen Colbert, Amy Poehler, Tina Fey, and countless others. These alumni are noted fo…
At just shy of three hours long, Tennessee Williams’s Cat on a Hot Tin Roof can be a difficult play to sit through–there are few moments of levity to lighten what amounts to an e…
