Spring Arts Preview: Performance
• February 25, 2020

Noteworthy theater, music and dance happenings in D.C. this spring, assembled by Georgetowner performing arts writer Gary Tischler and cultural editor Richard Selden.

A Beethoven Tribute by Mutter and Orkis
• January 29, 2020

Violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter and pianist Lambert Orkis will perform three Beethoven sonatas on Saturday, Feb. 1, in the Kennedy Center Concert Hall.

Jazzman Jason Moran’s Bandwagon
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When they picked Texas-born Jason Moran to become the Kennedy Center’s artistic director for jazz, they picked the right guy. When it comes to jazz, Moran — a highly regarded […]

Choral Arts Holiday: ‘Songs of the Season’
• January 15, 2020

The Choral Arts Society of Washington held its 39th annual Holiday Concert and Gala at the Kennedy Center Dec. 16. With German Ambassador Emily Haber and her husband Hansjörg as […]

Choral Arts Holiday: ‘Songs of the Season’
• December 23, 2019

With German Ambassador Emily Haber and her husband Hansjörg as honorary patrons, German heritage was reflected in several of the program selections, under the baton of Artistic Director Scott Tucker.

‘My Fair Lady’ at the Kennedy Center
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The much-honored director Bartlett Sher has a gift and a flair for passing his creative wand over beloved, perhaps overly familiar gems and making them seem part of our contemporary lives.

Weekend Round Up November 21, 2019
• November 21, 2019

This weekend: John Leguizamo at the National, Sutton Foster at Wolf Trap and your last chance to catch “Shear Madness” in 2019.

The Soulful Smoothness of Nat King Cole
• October 15, 2019

Nat King Cole would have been 100 years old March 17. He died from lung cancer on Feb. 15, 1965. He was born Nathaniel Adams Coles on March 17, 1919, […]

Weekend Round Up October 10, 2019
• October 10, 2019

Two much-admired musical acts — Over the Rhine and India.Arie — will perform on Friday night. And two classic, 400-year-old dramas — by Shakespeare and Calderón — are closing this weekend.

Singing, Dancing Cats at the Kennedy Center
• September 23, 2019

“Cats” is a show so popular and so familiar that it readily attracts derision for its familiar tropes, characters, anthropomorphisms, circus-like aspects and doses of sentimentality.