Tag: Kennedy Center

Fishamble: The New Play Company opened its "Tiny Plays for Ireland and America" last night as part of Ireland 100. Act I consisted of 20...

Make no mistake about it. World War I kicked the crap out of patriotic idealism. Just ask Wilfred Owen. His "Dulce et Decorum et" is...

Vân-Ánh Võ's The Odyssey: from Vietnam to America conjures, to a Western audience, images of Odysseus, returning from victory at Troy, being punished by...

Cellist Rubin Kodheli joins the legendary performance artist Laurie Anderson on stage at The Terrace Theater for a presentation of her new multimedia work,...

The staff of DCMetroTheaterArts is pleased to honor the following designers for their work in 2015: CHOREOGRAPHY Germaul Barnes for Marley at Centerstage. Michael Bobbitt for Guys and Dolls at Olney...

The staff of DCMetroTheaterArts is honored to announce that their 2015 Best Directors of Musicals in Professional Theatres honors go to: Patrick A'Hearn for The Music...

The staff of DCMetroTheaterArts is honored to announce that their 2015 Best Performances in Musicals in Professional Theatres honors go to:   Best Actor in a...

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...

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...

The staff of DCMetroTheaterArts is honored to announce that their 2015 Best Musicals at Professional Theatres honors go to: The Addams Family at Shenandoah Summer...

Once upon a time, dozens of children streamed into the elegant Terrace Theater at The Kennedy Center, all of them paragons of excitement and...

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...

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...

In Opera Lafayette's Catone in Utica, which opened last night at The Kennedy Center's Terrace Theater, the greats have come out to sing. And Antonin Vivaldi's...

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...

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...

The major joy in writing this column comes from getting to know the up and coming creative artists in the DC area, especially since...

Darius & Twig, now playing at The Kennedy Center's Family Theater, tackles issues confronted by inner city kids throughout the country. And it does so...

Even those familiar with the work of Stew and Heidi Rodewald, the duo behind Obie and Tony-award winning musical Passing Strange, might find a...

The dancers, dusted in long, white tulle, reflect—shells on a dark beach. It is an opening, a closing, a commencement, an ending. Arms raise....