‘Hamilton’ Popping Eyes, Ears, Minds in D.C.
• June 21, 2018

Founding Father Alexander Hamilton — in the form of the Broadway smash “Hamilton” — has finally landed in Washington, D.C., ensconced until Sept. 16 in the Kennedy Center Opera House.

Making History on 2 Sides of the World
• June 14, 2018

While the events in Singapore seemed staged within an inch of having few vital signs, the events in Washington seemed authentically joyful, probably fueled a little by Budweiser. 

Capitals Redeem Washington, D.C.
• June 8, 2018

June 7 was the end of a 44-year quest by the Caps to win the big one, the Stanley Cup, that large, silvery trinket that had eluded them time after time, each time with more bitter frustration than the time before.

Imagining RFK: 50 Years Later
• June 6, 2018

We all experience history in different ways, in terms of time, place and context. For most, these past few months, the specter of 1968 has hovered as an unlearned, mislearned […]

Remembering WWI on Memorial Day
• May 24, 2018

Dubbed the Great War or — hopefully but naively — the “War to End All Wars,” World War I changed America, as it had everything and everybody else.

Death of a New Journalist
• May 17, 2018

“Bonfire of the Vanities” author Tom Wolfe, who died May 14 at age 88, changed the way we looked at writers, as we saw how they saw the world.  

Helen Hayes Awards for English, Spanish ‘In the Heights’
• May 16, 2018

There may still be some vestigial confusion resulting from the practice of bestowing Helen Hayes Awards on the basis of the ratio of Actors’ Equity contracts involved in a particular production, […]

Here’s to Happiness Royal
• May 14, 2018

Every day lately, we are inundated with facts and figures, and history, and corgis and nephews and nieces, and pound-sterling images and the faces of a couple — his ruddy lightness, her warm openness.

Bernstein’s ‘Candide’ Is a Glorious Mess
• May 7, 2018

The genre-defying show — at turns defined as an American opera, an operetta and a musical — is now, as part of the Bernstein centennial, in the Kennedy Center Opera House through May 26.

Bedlam’s ‘Saint Joan’ at the Folger
• May 2, 2018

The works of George Bernard Shaw aren’t performed that much these days. When was the last time you saw a production of “Heartbreak House” or “Arms and the Man”? “My Fair Lady,” the Lerner […]