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‘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 […]
Last Chance: RSVP for This Thursday’s Breakfast
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Angel Gil-Ordóñez, music director of PostClassical Ensemble, which he cofounded with Joseph Horowitz in 2003, will be the next presenter in Georgetown Media Group’s Cultural Leadership Breakfast Series. Sponsored by […]
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 […]
Septime Webre Named to Hong Kong Post
June 6, 2017
•A year after leaving the Washington Ballet — and a few months after launching the Halcyon Stage series — Septime Webre has been named artistic director of Hong Kong Ballet, […]
Moving Through Space with the Washington Ballet
May 24, 2017
•Last fall, the intriguing final entry in the program for the Washington Ballet’s 2016-17 season — the company’s first under renowned former American Ballet Theatre principal dancer Julie Kent — […]
Summer Performing Arts Preview
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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 […]
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 […]
Band Kids From the Heartland at Russia’s Embassy
April 13, 2017
•Washington’s Embassy Series brought about an electric and hopeful meeting of cultures April 5.