Review: ‘The Gabriels’ at the Kennedy Center
For those who are familiar with Richard Nelson's 4-play cycle, The Apple Family Plays, his The Gabriels: Election Year in the Life of One...
Review: The Choral Arts Society of Washington’s ‘A Choral Arts Christmas’...
I love choral music. I love the Kennedy Center Concert Hall. I’ve been looking forward to this performance. Everything musical was wonderful during the...
Review: Handel’s ‘Messiah’ by NSO at The Kennedy Center
Messiah is perhaps the best known of the German-born but London-settled composer George Frideric Handel. Profoundly religious, the three-part Oratorio moves from the prophecy of...
Review: ‘Wicked’ at The Kennedy Center
Green seems to be the everlasting black for the blockbuster Broadway musical Wicked, as its national tour returns to The Kennedy Center’s Opera House...
Review: Second City’s ‘Twist Your Dickens’ at The Kennedy Center
If you’re looking for something to laugh at in this wintry political season, then you’d better move fast. That’s because tickets for Twist Your...
Review: The Washington Chorus’ ‘A Candlelight Christmas’ at The Kennedy Center
Once the energized crowd was seated and ready, Guest Conductor Andrew Clark, (Director of coral activities at Harvard), had us all stand up for...
Magic Time! ‘Into the Woods’ at The Kennedy Center
The acclaimed Fiasco Theater production of Into the Woods has come to the Eisenhower Theater at Kennedy Center for the holidays—I am tempted to...
Review: NPR’s ‘A Jazz Piano Christmas’ at The Kennedy Center
It was a family affair last night at The Kennedy Center’s Family Theater for the annual NPR’s A Jazz Piano Christmas. With performances by...
Review: ‘A Holiday Pops!/Home for the Holidays’ with the NSO Pops
‘Tis the season for holiday cheer, laughter and heart-warming music, and there is no better place to find it all wrapped up together than...
Review: The Fiasco Theater’s ‘Into the Woods’ at The Kennedy Center
I did not listen to my much-loved soundtrack of Stephen Sondheim’s and James Lapine’s classic fairy tale mash-up before heading off to the John...
Review: ‘A Merry Little Christmas with Megan Hilty’ at The Kennedy...
If the slightly warmer weather than normal for this time of year is making it hard for you to get into the holiday mood,...
Review: ‘Diana Ross – All the Best of Times’ with the...
Singer extraordinaire Diana Ross is a musical legend and she proved it last night in a concert at The Kennedy Center’s Concert Hall. Presenting...
Review: The NSO Pops: ‘E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial’: Film with Live Music...
The most significant difference between entering your neighborhood cinema to catch the latest PG film offering and traversing the Hall of Nations to enter...
Review: ‘The Nutcracker’ by the Cincinnati Ballet at The Kennedy Center
We know the holiday season is upon us when theaters around the country begin to put on Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s classic The Nutcracker. The...
In the Moment: ‘A View From the Bridge’ at The Kennedy...
Even having inklings of what to expect, there was no protecting myself from the shattering production of Arthur Miller’s A View From the Bridge...
Review: The Washington Chorus Presents Philip Glass’ Symphony No. 5
On Sunday, November 13, 2016, the pulsating, transcendent and visionary music of the modern musical giant of minimalist music, Philip Glass ---came to vivid...
Review #2: The Washington National Opera’s ‘The Daughter of the Regiment’...
Sometimes a relationship between a child and a parent is truly uplifting. Multiply those emotions times twenty, and you experience the heartwarming plot of...
Review: ‘Where Words Once Were’ at The Kennedy Center
This past weekend, The Kennedy Center opened a newly commissioned show for young audiences from Playwright, Finegan Kruckemeyer. The piece titled, Where Words Once Were,...
Review: Sheila Jordan at the KC Jazz Club
Sheila Jordan loves jazz. Sheila Jordan loves singing. Sheila Jordan really loves jazz singing.
And we feel truly blessed to have spent an evening in...
Review: Prokofiev’s ‘Romeo and Juliet’ with the National Symphony Orchestra at...
Something of a high-stakes atmosphere pervades this week’s concerts by the National Symphony Orchestra. It’s performing an all-Russian program, always a touchstone harking back...