The Washington Chorus’ ‘A Candlelight Christmas’ at The Kennedy Center
No stranger to world-class performances, the Concert Hall of The John F. Kennedy Center of the Performing Arts makes itself home to an annual...
China National Traditional Orchestra’s ‘Rediscover Chinese Music’ at The Kennedy Center...
Having just returned from China—where one of the highlights of the trip was hearing traditional music performed casually in teahouses and parks—I was curious...
NSO Pops: ‘The von Trapps and Stephanie J. Block Family Holiday’...
With their annual holiday concert at The Kennedy Center on Thursday, December 10, 2016, the NSO Pops, joined by special guests Stephanie J. Block and...
‘Declassified: In Motion featuring Ben Folds’ by The National Symphony Orchestra...
The National Symphony Orchestra/The Kennedy Center Declassified series, launched on Saturday with its performance of In Motion featuring Ben Folds, is a bold initiative...
Washington National Opera: American Opera Initiative: Three 20-Minute Operas
The fourth annual American Opera Initiative launched this month to sold out performances of three new works. It was a heartening look at the...
‘Elephant & Piggies We Are in A Play!’ at The Kennedy...
I could not say for sure whether my 6 year-old son or I had the most fun watching The Kennedy Center’s production of Elephant...
Cellist Amit Peled and Pianist Noreen Polera with Washington Performing Arts...
Cellist Amit Peled is one of those practitioners of “serious” music who brings a kind of pizzazz that’s probably needed in the 21st century world...
Barbara Cook’s Spotlight: John Lloyd Young
John Lloyd Young, Tony-Award winner and musical wonder of the Broadway never-ending (and well-deserved to be!) musical hit Jersey Boys, enthralled the crowd at...
The National Symphony Orchestra with Guest Conductor Jiri Belohlavek and Pianist...
The National Symphony Orchestra is doing one of its best guest conductors, Jiri Belohlavek, mostly proud this week with music from his Czech homeland.
In...
Spine: ‘Appomattox’ Cracks the Color Line at The Kennedy Center
Appomattox, the world premiere opera now playing at The Kennedy Center Opera House in a new production by the Washington National Opera, tackles that...
‘Appomattox’ at Washington National Opera by David Friscic (Review #1)
Oh, the tears, trauma and travail of the issues brought to the fore in the revised World Premiere of the opera Appomattox at the...
Dorado Schmitt and the Django Festival All-Stars at The Kennedy Center
Dorado Schmitt and the Django Festival All-Stars came to The Kennedy Center's Terrace Theater last night.
And for a beautiful 80 minutes, the terror of...
Spine: JOY and Twyla Tharp’s 50th Anniversary Tour
Twyla Tharp's 50th Anniversary Tour came to the Kennedy Center's Eisenhower Theatre last night. Four pieces: two short "Fanfares," a Preludes and Fugues, and...
Barbara Cook’s Spotlight: Michele Lee: ‘Nobody Does It Like Me, The...
Broadway, Television, Film and Concert artist Michele Lee beguiled at the Kennedy Center’s Terrace Theater with a disarming and engaging set of songs written...
Barbara Cook’s Spotlight: Randy Graff at The Kennedy Center
Tony Award-winning (City of Angels) Broadway, concert, and cabaret artist Randy Graff dazzled the crowd Friday night at the Kennedy Center’s intimate Terrace Theater. Graff...
Magic Time! The Women’s Voices Theater Festival: Darius & Twig’ at...
I cannot help but think that if W.E.B. DuBois were alive, he would absolutely love Darius & Twig, the passionately purposeful play by Caleen Sinnette...
The Suzanne Farrell Ballet: ‘Balanchine, Béjart, and the Bard’ at The...
Suzanne Farrell – still fairest of them all
From the early 1960s until the late 1980s (except for a five-year escape to Belgium), Suzanne Farrell...
NSO Pops: ‘Steve Martin and the Steep Canyon Rangers’ at The...
It was an evening of American classics – from the pops program the National Symphony Orchestra played under the sure baton of Steve Reineke...
‘Antigone’ at The Kennedy Center
Renowned Belgian director Ivo van Hove is famous for his radical re-imagining of classical works, and his rendition Sophocles’ Antigone is no different. Academy...
Barbara Cook’s Spotlight: Terri White’s Farewell Performance at The Kennedy Center
The ebullient, sassy, brassy and joyously life-affirming Broadway and cabaret star Terri White (resplendent in a stylish, sharply-edged purple pantsuit) launched into her ninety...