The Kennedy Center

Review: ‘NSO Pops: Broadway Today with Darren Criss & Betsy Wolfe’...

While most of the week here in Washington, DC has been dreary and rainy, the weekend is off to a bright start as Darren...

Review: The Mariinsky Ballet’s ‘Raymonda’ at The Kennedy Center

Marius Petipa’s, Raymonda, still continues in ballet for the 118th year since its world premiere on January 7th, 1898. This week, the romantic ballet,...

Review: Washington Performing Arts Presents Chris Botti at The Kennedy Center

Washington Performing Arts Produces an Eclectic and Entertaining Musical Evening with Chris Botti I went to a Chris Botti concert and Cirque du Soleil and...

Review: Il Volo at The Kennedy Center

  I’ve always known that the mix of pop music and classical singing is one of the most popular music styles in Italy. What I...

Review: ‘Lost in the Stars’ at Washington National Opera #2

One of the most powerful musical dramas of the 20th century has just opened at The Kennedy Center, home of the Washington National Opera, for...

Review: ‘OLIVÉRio: A Brazilian Twist’ at The Kennedy Center’s Theater for...

The Kennedy Center has produced yet another world premiere production for this season’s Theater for Young Audiences. This time, they have taken Charles Dickens’...

Review: ‘Une Education Manquée’ at Opera Lafayette

Opera Lafayette’s second offering of the season, Emmanuel Chabrier’s Une Education Manquée, is a far cry from the massive spectacle many people assume is...

Review: Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater at The Kennedy Center

Only Worldviews coexisted within the remembrance of spirit, while timeless historical context filled the John F. Kennedy Center Opera House on Tuesday, February 2nd,...

Review: American Ballet Theatre’s ‘The Sleeping Beauty’ at The Kennedy Center

Alexei Ratmansky’s newest staging of the great classical ballet The Sleeping Beauty feels like that moment in the classic MGM film The Wizard of...

An Interview with Composer Steven Lutvak on ‘A Gentleman’s Guide to...

Steven Lutvak’s Tony Award-winning musical A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder is bringing a lot of laughs to audiences in The Eisenhower Theater at...

Review: ‘The Winter’s Tale’ at The Kennedy Center

The Winter’s Tale: Warm Production for a Cold Winter’s Night Choreographer Christopher Wheeldon has taken a challenging late Shakespearean play – The Winter’s Tale from...

Review: ‘Let Freedom Ring! Featuring Yolanda Adams’ at The Kennedy Center

The spirit of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was present this past Monday, January 18th, in the John F. Kennedy Center’s Concert Hall for...

Review: ‘A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder’ at The Kennedy...

With a wealthy aristocratic family that refuses to acknowledge him, and a money-hungry girlfriend who refuses to marry him, what’s an impoverished young man...

Review: ‘Better Gods’ at The Washington National Opera

Friday night, the Washington National Opera ('WNO') premiered a brand new opera, based on the life of the last sovereign in Hawaii, Queen Liliʻuokalani....

DCMetroTheaterArts’ Best of 2015 #14: Dance Performances

Here is Rick Westerkamp, Lisa Traiger, Samantha Machar, Madeline Duff, and Yasmeen Enahora's Best Performances in Dance honors:  Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater performing Hofesh...

Review: ‘A Jazz New Year’s Eve: Diane Schuur and Strings’ at...

Having been a fan of Diane Schuur’s since college, I was excited to have the opportunity finally to see her in concert. In fact,...

‘Javon Jackson and Sax Appeal’ at the KC Jazz Club at...

With Sax Appeal, no other "appeal" is necessary. The soul is satisfied. What happens when you bring four world-class saxophone players, a phenomenal pianist, a...

‘Matilda the Musical’ at The Kennedy Center

Matilda the Musical, now at the Kennedy Center Opera House, is for all the disrupters and agitators out there in the world no matter what...

National Symphony Orchestra: Handel’s Messiah at The Kennedy Center

There is a reason Handel’s Messiah has been performed for hundreds of years. It’s a masterpiece and its intricacies, depth, and sheer mass make...

‘Bright Star’ at The Kennedy Center

Bright Star officially opened last night in its pre-Broadway engagement at The Kennedy Center. And there is plenty for audiences to like and enjoy. Let's start...