Review: DIXIE'S TUPPERWARE PARTY at Kennedy Center
What did our critic think of DIXIE'S TUPPERWARE PARTY at Kennedy Center?
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Review: HOMELESS GARDEN at Avant Bard
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Review: HERE IT IS: A TRIBUTE TO LEONARD COHEN at Kennedy Center
The producer Larry Klein honored the memory of Leonard Cohen with a 2022 tribute album that had a hushed sensibility and taste, as well as an impressive array of vocalists.
Review: AN UNBUILT LIFE at Washington Stage Guild
It’s the painting Girl with a Flute, long attributed to Vermeer, that adorns the program cover of the Washington Stage Guild’s world premiere production of “An Unbuilt Life.
Review: DISTILLATION at Solas Nua
You meet in the hotel lobby and go up the elevator in two groups of 10 to the fourth floor.
Review: SUPER FREAK: THE RICK JAMES STORY at National Theatre
Somewhere between touring tribute acts and high-gloss Broadway jukebox musical bios are the more modest regional musicals created to nominally perform the hits of a legacy pop act, in costume, adding biographical details as a story arc.
Review: SYMPHONY SWING! AN EVENING OF DUKE ELLINGTON at Kennedy Center
The American musical giant Duke Ellington wrote more than 1,000 compositions in his long career, and to mark the 125th anniversary of his birth in his native city, The Kennedy Center is determined to celebrate a lot of them.
Review: SONGBIRD at Kennedy Center
There’s an awful lot of death in opera, Timothy O’Leary, the general director of Washington National Opera, lamented on a recent opening night.
Review: CORIOLANUS at Avant Bard
The historical Coriolanus, if he existed at all, was Rome’s most fearsome fighter, trained as a child, excelling as a warrior-leader and able to conquer whole other cities sometimes single-handedly.
Review: PEQUEÑAS INFIDELIDADES (LITTLE INFIDELITIES) at Teatro De La Luna
“Pequeñas Infidelidades (Little Infidelidades),” the latest production at the tiny Teatro de La Luna on Georgia Avenue, is a nifty two-hander in which a couple seems to accidentally meet after years apart.
Review: THE WASHINGTON BALLET: JAZZ ICONS - A FINE ROMANCE at Kennedy Center
The dance school choices for students, I recall, were ballet and jazz tap.
Review: LAS HERMANAS PALACIOS (THE PALACIOS SISTERS) at GALA Hispanic Theatre
The biggest drama at the GALA Hispanic Theatre this year didn’t happen on stage; it was the $250,000 that was stolen when its bank account was hacked and drained, threatening the long-serving Spanish-language performance space as its 50th anniversary approached.
Review: A COMMEDIA ROMEO AND JULIET at Faction Of Fools Theatre Company
Commedia dell’Arte was a theatrical style that developed in Italy more than 450 years ago.
Review: AMERICAN OPERA INITIATIVE: Three 20-Minute Operas at Kennedy Center
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Review: LOVE LOVE LOVE at Studio Theatre
British playwright Mike Bartlett, born in 1980, takes up the legacy of London’s swinging 60s in his play Love Love Love currently running in a sharp, well-acted production at Studio Theatre.
Review: HOW TO BE A KOREAN WOMAN at Theater J
Like many adoptees when they reach adulthood, Sun Mee Chomet had a desire to find her biological parent.
Review: FROZEN at Kennedy Center
The nationally traveling version of the Broadway musical has made its Washington premiere at the Kennedy Center and is already attracting large crowds of adults and many children, some of which are attired in the costumes of its lead characters Elsa and Anna (though mostly Elsa).
Review: BALLET WEST: THE NUTCRACKER at Kennedy Center
The first Nutcracker appear at the Kennedy Center this year is from Ballet West, based in Salt Lake City.
Review: A CHRISTMAS CAROL: A GHOST STORY FOR CHRISTMAS at Ford's Theatre
Michael Wilson’s adaptation of “A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story of Christmas,” first staged in Houston but run for many years at Hartford Stage (where it has returned this season), has been a mainstay at the historic Fords since 2004.
Review: HOW SWEET IT IS: THE MEN OF SOUL at Signature Theatre
Signature Theatre is helping expand the American Songbook to include rock and pop classics of a half century ago in cabaret shows this winter that will celebrate Leonard Cohen, Joni Mitchell and Burt Bacharach.
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