The Kennedy Center

Ever since Debbie Allen parleyed a killer look in the 1980 movie Fame into a featured role on the popular television series, this triple...

There are no pumpkins to be found in this Cinderella. The San Francisco Ballet’s version, created by Choreographer Christopher Wheeldon and librettist Craig Lucas,...

Original works of George Balanchine drift onto The John F. Kennedy Center’s Eisenhower stage by The Suzanne Farrell Ballet. Under the direction of Suzanne...

The choreographic universe Tim Rushton created for his evening-length contemporary ballet Black Diamond is made up of an engaging accretion of enticing, quirky, and oddball...

It was a packed house for Peter Frampton Raw: An Acoustic Tour last night at The Kennedy Center’s Eisenhower Theater. With excitement in the...

Billed as “The Second City’s Completely Unbiased Political Revue,” Unelectable You—now in the middle of a four month pre-election national tour—paused in Washington, DC...

There is nothing quite like "a vast morsel." When Jane Ira Bloom plays her soprano saxophone, her wiry body jutting and jagging to the notes...

Like The Nutcracker at Christmastime, Cirque Spooktacular, the NSO Pops’ Cirque de la Symphonie Halloween Extravaganza, is bound to become a seasonal tradition at...

It is Hispanic Heritage Month at The Kennedy Center; as soon as you enter you can feel there is something different in the air....

The New York City Ballet’s “main man” for 25 years, Damian Woetzel is a hero to many, certainly one of my favorite dancers. Dressed...

Now and then there comes a production of a play that is so spectacularly original it confounds one’s every expectation of what can be...

The national tour of the critically-acclaimed, five-time Tony Award-winning production of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time made its sojourn to...

The KC Jazz Club opened its 14th season last Friday with a soul-tossing river of jazz. Gary Bartz starts the evening with a prayer: "Sadness...

If you want to know how America dances, don’t tune in to those kitschy television competition shows So You Think You Can Dance? and Dancing...

It may be a little known, but hardly surprising, fact that the works of William Shakespeare have inspired more music than any other work...

Cat Stevens (as he was known then) last performed at The Kennedy Center back in November 1971 just months after it opened. Much has...

“Perdono no merita chi agli altri non da.” So say the words carved into the wall above the stage in the Washington National Opera’s...

The Kennedy Center’s 15th Annual Page-to-Stage Festival took place on Labor Day weekend, with over 50 D.C. area theaters participating. Through free readings and open rehearsals,...

Mosaic Theater Company of DC Unveils Hooded, or Being Black for Dummies. Full Production Set for World Premiere in January 2017 One of the most highly...

As the National Tour of The Phantom of the Opera is about to end its run at The Kennedy Center, I had the pleasure of catching...