‘My Fair Lady’ at the Kennedy Center
• December 23, 2019

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. 

Fall Arts Preview: The Reach – The Kennedy Center’s Expansion
• September 11, 2019

When Deborah Rutter took up the reins as the new president of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, things sounded a little chaotic in the middle of […]

Weekend Round Up September 5, 2019
• September 5, 2019

The Reach Opening Festival, celebrating the Kennedy Center’s dramatic new pavilions, runs from Saturday, Sept. 7, to Sunday, Sept. 22.

Argus Quartet
• August 1, 2019

“The Argus Quartet is finding fresh, thrillingly expressive possibilities and adding bold new colors to a canvas that has their clear signature on it.” – David Harrington, Kronos Quartet One […]

Weekend Round Up June 20, 2019
• June 20, 2019

The Smithsonian museums will be open until midnight on Saturday as part of the By The People festival. Check out the Bolivian dancing at the National Museum of the American Indian, followed by a dance party.

‘Hello, Dolly!’ Kicks Off Summer of Kennedy Center Musicals
• June 12, 2019

As embodied — and that’s the right word — by Broadway legend Betty Buckley, Dolly (Gallagher) Levi has settled in at the Kennedy Center Opera House through July 7 in a new production of “Hello, Dolly!”