Washington Performing Arts Gala Raises $700,000
• April 1, 2025

The Washington Performing Arts’ 2025 “Make IT Happen Gala” raised nearly $700,000 for the organization’s artistic, arts education, gospel music and community engagement programs. There were performances by Imani-Grace, trumpeters, […]

‘The Bedwetter’ a Humorous, Relatable Time
• March 6, 2025

Comedian Sarah Silverman’s musical “The Bedwetter” currently playing at the Arena Stage takes one back in time to when Silverman was 10 years old, and a bedwetter! One never knew […]

A Harvard Art Historian at Politics and Prose
• February 6, 2025

“Girl With a Pearl Earring,” Tracy Chevalier’s novel about a 17th-century portrait by Johannes Vermeer, dropped into bookstores in 1999, four years later becoming a film starring Scarlett Johansson. Donna […]

Kennedy Center’s Rutter to Step Down
• January 27, 2025

Kennedy Center’s president since 2014, Deborah Rutter, will step down from her role at the end of the year amidst uncertainty in a new (returning?) administration. Rutter’s contract is up […]

Gorey 100 at the Library of Congress
• January 13, 2025

Edward Gorey’s work, distinctly Edwardian, was never gory. True, he populated his curious tales with stoic victims of misfortune — among the childhood fatalities alphabetized in 1963’s “The Gashlycrumb Tinies,” […]

Panel on Earliest Opera by a Black American, Jan. 16
• January 9, 2025

Sometimes it takes a while for a rare treasure to be uncovered. In 2000, Harvard University’s Houghton Library acquired a group of opera scores from a Paris collection. A remarkable […]

Arena Stage’s Death on the Nile Is Sumptuous, ‘Fusty’ Fun
• December 12, 2024

There was some trepidation about going to see the beloved 1937 Agatha Christie classic novel turned film “Death on the Nile,” as a world-premiere stage adaptation at Arena Stage. Fans […]

Notes from The Underground—Dupont, That Is
• December 11, 2024

“We are both architects,” says Lucrecia Laudi, who co-founded Dupont Underground in 2005 with her husband, Julian Hunt. “But we come from different worlds.”  Laudi grew up in the Argentine […]

PostClassical Ensemble’s Brazilian Sampler
• December 2, 2024

For this listener, the most transcendent moment in PostClassical Ensemble’s “Legends of Brazil” program, presented on Nov. 19 and 20 in the Kennedy Center Terrace Theater, arrived about five-sixths of […]

Raymond O. Caldwell Reimagines ‘Romeo and Juliet’ at Folger Theatre
• October 17, 2024

For the first show in Folger Theatre’s ‘Whose Democracy?’ season, director Raymond O. Caldwell refreshes “Romeo and Juliet” for a D.C. audience by transposing the Montague-Capulet feud onto our country’s […]