Arts
For Ryan Brown’s ‘Swan Song’: An Opera Lafayette Highlight Reel
At Shakespeare: A ‘Garden’ Blooming With Hope
December 19, 2016
•The STC co-production of the musical version of Frances Hodgson Burnett’s classic children’s book runs through Jan. 8.
An Amusing, Then Moving, ‘Into the Woods’
December 15, 2016
•Fiasco Theater Company’s at first seemingly casual production of the Sondheim musical is at the Kennedy Center through Jan. 8.
An Airborne ‘Moby Dick’ at Arena
December 12, 2016
•The play comes brilliantly alive when it and its actors are in the air, in motion, at sea, pitching and floundering.
Florence Henderson (1934-2016): America’s ’70s Mom
November 29, 2016
•Every now and then, we’re reminded that television wasn’t always a world of edgy serial shows on HBO or Netflix, a world of live streaming and binge watching. Usually, it’s […]
This Week: A ‘Nutcracker’ with Poodles
November 28, 2016
•Cincinnati Ballet, under Artistic Director and CEO Victoria Morgan, brings its acrobatic version to the Kennedy Center Opera House.
Why We Go to the Theater: Miller’s ‘A View From the Bridge’
November 23, 2016
•Watching Belgian director Ivo van Hove’s clean-as-a-stripped-bone production of Arthur Miller’s 1955 play, “A View from the Bridge,” at the Kennedy Center’s Eisenhower Theater was to experience a fulfillment of […]
‘Carousel’: Honest Pain and Hard-Won Joy
November 21, 2016
•The Rodgers and Hammerstein classic continues at Arena Stage through Dec. 24.
Brownlee, Oropesa and Ginsburg in WNO’s ‘Regiment’
November 17, 2016
•Donizetti’s operetta-like opera continues at the Kennedy Center through Nov. 20.
Nicholas Rodriguez Is Arena’s Billy Bigelow
November 14, 2016
•The Texas native, who won a Helen Hayes Award playing Curly in “Oklahoma,” is appearing in “Carousel” through Dec. 24.
Actor Frederick Weller Takes on Eddie Carbone
November 11, 2016
•If you ran into the actor Frederick Weller in the street, you might get the notion, that feeling, “I know this guy.” You’d probably be right, in the sense that […]