Review: Jay Leno at The Kennedy Center
Iconic television host, celebrated comedian and 2014 Mark Twain recipient Jay Leno returned to the Kennedy Center’s Concert Hall Friday night amped to get...
Review: ‘Needles and Opium’ at The Kennedy Center
Sometimes the viewer of a theatrical experience can only sit in wonder at the spectacle, not because elephants dance on soccer balls or trapeze artists spiral...
Magic Time! ‘Needles and Opium’ at The Kennedy Center
When I left the Eisenhower Theater last night after witnessing this mesmerizing multimedia marvel, I had a quibble. I had just one, but it...
A Report on Smithsonian Associates ‘Are the Cards Collapsing?: A ‘House...
Wednesday night I did something very DC, I attended a talk on politics through the Smithsonian Associates. Not divisive politics, but pop culture politics...
Review #2: ‘Parade’ at The Keegan Theatre
Arguments have been made that the theater is supposed to be a “safe place” where patrons can go to be entertained, away from the...
Review: ‘Cinderella: A Magical, Musical Tale’ at The American Pops Orchestra
This is what theater is all about and it was my dream when I started DCMetroTheaterArts 5 years ago-to see a venue filled with parents...
Review: ‘Ragtime’ at Ford’s Theatre
Glorious! Dazzling! Verve! Bursting at the seams with voices and stories of America’s humanity and originating dreams.
These are the words I felt as Ragtime,...
Review #1: ‘Parade’ at The Keegan Theatre
An intriguing musical piece of consequential historical value, The Keegan Theatre’s production of the Award-winning musical Parade is unapologetically dark and honest. Based on...
Review: ‘Coolatully’ at Solas Nua
In the fictional village of Coolatully, a quartet of characters grapple with the effects of Ireland’s newest mass emigration. The brief and heady era...
Review: ‘Marx in Soho’ at Nu Sass Productions
Nu Sass’ latest Small Batch production is Howard Zinn’s one-actor Marx in Soho. It is another highly successfully, nervy production by Nu Sass with...
Review: ‘How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying’ at The...
Last night, I had the pleasure to see the the Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning musical How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying...
Review: ‘From the Mouths of Monsters’ at The Kennedy Center
From the Mouths of Monsters, a world premiere Kennedy Center commission by award-winning playwright Idris Goodwin, directed by Dougie Irvine, is a gripping, intense...
Review: Discovery Artist in The Kennedy Center Jazz Club: Elena and...
Siblings Elena and Samora Pinderhughes are young, both in their early 20s. Samora is a composer and pianist and sister Elena is a vocalist...
Magic Time! ‘Intelligence’ at Arena Stage at the Mead Center for...
Lately I’ve been thinking that there are two key questions that must be asked of every season-programming choice by every theater’s artistic director:
1) Why...
Review: ‘Intelligence’ at Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American...
Intelligence, the new play at Arena Stage about the Valerie Plame CIA scandal, comes at a very timely moment in politics. As Donald Trump...
Review: ‘Bigoudi’ at Atlas Performing Arts Center
Is it just me or do the French have a way of taking the most mundane, everyday objects and making poetry out of them? Consider...
Meet the Cast: The Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington, DC’s ‘How...
In Part Three of a series of interviews with the cast of The Gay Men's Chorus of Washington, DC's How to Succeed in Business...
Meet the Cast of The Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington, DC’s...
In Part Two of a series of interviews with the cast of the Gay Men's Chorus of Washington's How to Succeed in Business Without Really...
Review: ‘Champion’ at Washington National Opera
In the fascinating contemporary opera Champion, the external world of the often-violent sport of boxing and the inner turmoil of the self-loathing and self-denial...
Review: Beethoven’s ‘Leonore’ at Washington Concert Opera
Washington Concert Opera (WCO) concluded its 30th anniversary season with a rare performance of Ludwig van Beethoven’s Leonore on stage at the George Washington...