An Entertaining ‘Barber’ from WNO
• May 1, 2018

Washington National Opera’s “Barber of Seville,” at the Kennedy Center through May 19, is beautifully performed by a cast packed with terrific singers, most notably Russian tenor Andrey Zhilikhovsky, as the Barber, aka Figaro,

Correspondents’ Dinner 2018: A Tale of 2 Parties
• April 30, 2018

The president held his own party in a place called Washington, Michigan — a party that was not so much a party as it was a rally and a brag-fest, at which he roasted the media instead of the media roasting him.

A ‘Crucible’ Raw to the Ear, Eye and Heart
• April 23, 2018

The new production at Olney Theatre Center, running through May 20, remains resolutely in its time, emitting not so much a need for comparison to our present political battles as a gut-punch echo of our own frailties and easy cynicism.   

Ivo van Hove Stages 2 Bergman Works
• April 19, 2018

The Belgian theater director and his Toneelgroep Amsterdam company bring “After the Rehearsal” and “Persona” to the Kennedy Center Eisenhower Theater April 19 to 22.

Isabel Leonard: WNO’s Rosina
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Grammy Award-winning mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard will performs as Rosina, the object of affection for two different swains, in Washington National Opera’s production of Rossini’s “The Barber of Seville,” running April 28 to May 19.

Milos Forman, R. Lee Ermey: More Than Movie Originals
• April 16, 2018

The world of movies and movie-makers and making is a universal circus — even now in the age of super heroes and Marvel Comics. The movies are populated and peopled by […]

Arthur Miller’s ‘The Crucible’ at Olney
• April 4, 2018

What makes a play a classic? Most often, it’s about a quality of endurance, a kind of built-in modernity no matter what you do with the costumes or sets. Shakespeare’s plays […]

Live from Brooklyn … It’s ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’
• April 2, 2018

On Easter Sunday, April 1, the audience yelled when John Legend as Jesus himself showed off his upper range, when a roaring trio of guitars did their thing, when Brandon Victor Dixon as Judas blasted the title song out into Brooklyn and beyond. 

‘Enough Is Enough,’ Say the Kids
• March 26, 2018

On Saturday, March 24, they all came together — 800,000, 500,000 or 250,000 strong, depending on the reports you believe — for the March for Our Lives in Washington, D.C.

Scena Returns to ‘Beckett Trio’
• March 22, 2018

Nanna Ingvarsson stars in Robert McNamara’s production of three short plays by Samuel Beckett — “Footfalls,” “Not I” and the wrenching “Rockaby” — at the Atlas Performing Arts Center through April 8.