Spring Arts Preview: Performing Arts
• February 12, 2025

JAZZ, POP, COUNTRY, ROCK AND HIP HOP  Performers of note coming to Blues Alley include the Vijay Iyer Trio (March 13 and 14), Stanley Jordan (April 10 to 13) and […]

Baritone Lucas Meachem & Pianist Irina Meachem
• September 19, 2024

Lucas Meachem’s vigorous baritone makes him exceptionally suited to his signature roles of Escamillo (Carmen), Il Conte di Almaviva (Le nozze di Figaro), and the title role in Don Giovanni, […]

2024 Fall Arts Preview: Performing Arts
• September 11, 2024

CLASSICAL  This Saturday, two weeks before the National Symphony Orchestra’s gala — featuring pianist Yunchan Lim playing Rachmaninoff (Sept. 28) — the NSO presents “Echoes of America” in the Kennedy […]

Weekend Roundup, April 18 – 21
• April 17, 2024

Welcome to Georgetown House Tour weekend! Don’t miss the must-see event on Saturday, and if you’re up for more events, there is plenty to do. Mount Vernon is hosting an […]

Spring Performing Arts  Preview
• February 14, 2024

Duke Ellington 125   Born and raised in Washington, D.C., orchestra leader and composer Edward Kennedy Ellington was nicknamed “Duke” early on for his sense of style. These events celebrate the […]

2023 Spring Performing Arts Preview
• February 8, 2023

OPERA   The Kennedy Center Opera House curtain will rise next month on Jeanine Tesori and Tazewell Thompson’s “Blue,” about a police officer — a “Black man in blue” — whose […]

Washington Concert Opera: One Down, One to Go 
• December 8, 2022

Opera without lavish sets and costumes? With the singers lined up facing music stands and the orchestra behind them, not in a pit?  If that strikes you as no way […]

Fall Arts Preview: Performing Arts
• September 14, 2022

OPERA   The D.C. United stadium will become a square in Seville when Washington National Opera brings “Carmen” to Audi Field for this fall’s free Opera on the Field (Sept. 25). […]