Painful Memories of School Shootings Will Remain
• March 20, 2018

Years from now, when Americans once again analyze and try to account for yet another school shooting, the events at Great Mills High School in Maryland on March 20 about […]

March Madness on the Basketball Court, and in Trump’s
• March 19, 2018

The term applies as well to the most recent week or so of the further, chaotic adventures of President Donald Trump as to the NCAA College Basketball Tournament.

Stephen Hawking: A Disembodied Traveler
• March 15, 2018

The renowned physicist, whose mind lived in the universe, succumbed March 14 to his long-time nemesis.

WNO’s Princess Eboli: Jamie Barton
• March 12, 2018

In Verdi’s “Don Carlo,” which runs through March 17 at the Kennedy Center, Barton holds her own with a high-powered cast and high-profile characters.

Wilson’s ‘Two Trains’ at Arena Stage
• March 8, 2018

With the coming of “Two Trains Running,,” starring Carlton Byrd, Washington theatergoers will see why August Wilson’s “Pittsburgh Cycle” is so fluid and appealing to all sorts of audiences.

Wilson’s ‘Two Trains’ at Arena
• March 7, 2018

Carlton Byrd is back. And so is August Wilson. Actor Carlton Byrd is returning to Washington, where he was last seen in a production of cutting-edge playwright Robert O’Hara’s “Antebellum.” […]

A Very Different Hollywood?
• March 5, 2018

All the pre-publicity, stories, predictions and gossip leading up to the March 4 event seemed full of not a little anxiety about how the #MeToo and #TimesUp movement would affect the proceedings.

Recent Passings of Note
• February 26, 2018

Georgetown lost Joan Burgess Shorey on Feb. 20. Also among the recently departed are a number of singers, dancers, actors, writers and such.

Billy Graham’s Crusades, Among Others
• February 22, 2018

Gobsmacked by news of political scandal and sexual abuse, we try to process the recent deaths of “America’s Pastor” and 17 innocents at a Florida high school.

Michael Urie: Michael Kahn’s Last Prince?
• February 21, 2018

Over the phone, Michael Urie sounds young, an enthusiast in his 20s perhaps. There is something both excited and exciting in his voice. In photographs, he looks about that age, eyes […]