Books in a Noisy World
• November 26, 2018

Bookish thoughts triggered by the recent passing of James Billington, Todd Boll and William Goldman, along with an upcoming event on Emily Dickinson’s birthday.

Weekend Round Up November 23, 2018
• November 23, 2018

This weekend, the National Symphony Orchestra will play along with clips from “Frozen” and other Disney Animation favorites.

Holiday Performing Arts Preview
• November 21, 2018

Not just a listing of holiday performances, this preview highlights holiday-time cultural events of all types, plus a couple picks as far away as February.

Woolly’s New Artistic Director: Maria Goyanes
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Goyanes is drawn to specific, original, diverse writers, like Sarah Ruhl and, of course, Lin-Manuel Miranda, for whose megahit “Hamilton” she was associate producer at the Public.   

‘She Sings’: A Cathartic Journey
• November 19, 2018

Well known in Georgetown, Washington, D.C., and Nashville, Rebecca Magnuson premiered her musical “She Sings” at the Atlas on Nov 16, singing with depth and height and fire and ice.

In ‘Anastasia,’ Veteran Joy Franz Steels the Show
• November 15, 2018

There’s a lot going on the new national tour company of “Anastasia.” It’s quite the busy, magical musical for young and younger people (especially princess wannabes) and adults put together […]

Kate Lindsey Is WCO’s Sapho
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Washington Concert Opera will present French composer Charles Gounod’s 1851 opera “Sapho” on Sunday, Nov. 18, in Lisner Auditorium.

PostClassical Celebrates Walt Whitman
• November 12, 2018

The musical portion of the program reinforced the evening’s topics — all seeming to converge on the eve of the midterm elections — of immigration, voting, war and America’s essential nature.

A Timely Opening for ‘Silent Night’
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The Pulitzer-winning opera has been repeatedly staged, but the timing injected something into the evening that took on the nature of an event.

Kevin Puts on His Pulitzer-Winning Opera: ‘Silent Night’
• November 8, 2018

In the opera, at the Kennedy Center from Nov. 10 to 25, the war-weary soldiers on the front declare an unofficial Christmas cease-fire to greet and mingle with their counterparts.