Live in the Moment at Capital Fringe
• July 12, 2017

If you’re remotely concerned with or a part of the performing arts community — artist, donor, audience member, performer, board member — in Washington, D.C., or elsewhere, there’s a constant […]

‘Hedwig’ Comes to Washington
• June 21, 2017

The Kennedy Center’s musical summer or summer of musicals seems at once familiar — four smash musical hits — and a little dissonant. The dissonance with the four road-show musicals […]

Jazz Fest
• June 7, 2017

B ack in 2004, there was no such thing as a DC Jazz Festival, which, when you think of the rich jazz history of this city and its deep pool […]

Summer Performing Arts Preview
• May 24, 2017

In the summer, the venues change, the interests change and the sound changes. Below is a by-the-numbers guide to some of the performing arts pleasures of the coming summer season. THREE […]

JFK We Knew Him Here
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When Democrat John Fitzgerald Kennedy became President of the United States — by the thinnest of margins — I was a few months removed from high school graduation and weeks […]

Wide Winners’ Circle at Helen Hayes Awards
• May 18, 2017

When the Helen Hayes Awards expanded into two categories — Hayes for mostly Equity productions and Helen for mostly non-Equity productions — the first-time result was chaotic. Doubling the number […]

City Choir and Shafer Hit 10-Year Mark
• May 3, 2017

Seasons come and go and time flies and the cityscape changes — as do tastes in music and the arts and audiences — so that in Washington (as probably elsewhere) […]

‘In the Heights’ in Columbia Heights
• April 19, 2017

In the beginning, there was “In the Heights.” Before there was “Hamilton,” composer-lyricist-writer-performer Lin-Manuel Miranda’s hip-hop- and pop-fueled musical take on the founding father — which vaulted him to the […]

Rickles, ‘Mr. Warmth,’ Bows Out at 90
• April 13, 2017

The don (if not the inventor) of insult comedy, loved by all who knew him — including Carson and Sinatra — died last Thursday.

Band Kids From the Heartland at Russia’s Embassy
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Washington’s Embassy Series brought about an electric and hopeful meeting of cultures April 5.