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‘Underground Railroad: An Evening with Kathleen Battle’ at Strathmore by Lauren Katz

Last night, soprano Kathleen Battle performed a concert of spirituals that rang throughout the rafters at The Music Center at Strathmore with the help of pianist Cyrus Chestnut, the Heritage Signature...

‘DC Shorts Laughs’ by Erica Laxson

Last night and for just two more shows tonight, the hilarious DC Shorts Laughs is being held in the stunning US Navy Memorial Heritage Center. This short film comedy extravaganza features a side...

‘The Little Dog Laughed’ at Silver Spring Stage by David Friscic

The Little Dog Laughed will make you smile with recognition at the hypocrisy and contradictions inherent in this game of day-to-day survival we call life. This acid-like portrait of the compromises...

Damascus Theatre Company Presents ‘Guys and Dolls JR.’ Today @ 2 and 7:30 PM & Tomorrow @ 2

TODAY May 18th at 2 pm and 7:30 pm TOMORROW May 19th at 2:00 pm Damascus United Methodist Church 9700 New Church Road, in Damascus, MD $14 General Admission, $12 DTC Members $10 Seniors, Students...

18th Annual Mary Lou Williams Women in Jazz Festival at The Kennedy Center by Francine Schwartz

Dee Dee Bridgewater, the host of NPR’s award winning weekly syndicated show, JazzSet, was the celebrant of the 18th Annual Mary Lou Williams Women in Jazz Festival at the Kennedy Center Terrace...

‘Hair’ at Laurel Mill Playhouse by Amanda Gunther

Beads! Flowers! Freedom! Happiness! Get in line to burn your draft card at the “be-in” so you can make love not war! It’s an all out love festival as the Laurel Mill Playhouse presents the iconic...

‘NSO Pops: ‘The Wizard and I: The Musical Journey of Stephen Schwartz’ at The Kennedy Center by Tiffany Draut

Thursday, May 16, 2013 was the opening performance of the NSO’s concert The Wizard and I: The Musical Journey of Stephen Schwartz, with four of Broadway’s best singers performing some of Schwartz’s...

“Richard Campbell’s Frankenstein: Landless Making a Monster Rock Opera”: Part 1: Robert Bradley by Ally Jenkins

After a brief hiatus from producing theatre in DC, Landless Theatre Company is back to the grindstone with their most ambitious project to date: Richard Campbell’s Frankenstein, a World Premiere...

‘Inside the Music’: An Interview with National Chamber Ensemble Artistic Director Leo Sushansky by Jane Coyne

One of the things I love the most about living in the Washington, D.C. area is that the music never ends, nor does the opportunity to meet the wonderful musical artists who perform here. Among them is...

‘The Playwright’s Playground Series’: Jacqueline E. Lawton Part 1 by Sydney-Chanele Dawkins

Welcome to the new in-depth interview series The Playwright’s Playground Series, highlighting local female playwrights in the D.C. Theatre community. Female theatre artists make up over fifty percent...

Arena Stage Holds ‘Voices of Now Festival’ Today Through Sunday

ARENA STAGE HOLDS VOICES OF NOW FESTIVAL MAY 15-19, 2013 The Voices of Now Festival begins today, Wednesday, May 15 through Sunday, May 19 at Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater in the...

‘The Winter’s Tale’ at Shakespeare Theatre Company by Jessica Vaughan

Shakespeare Theatre Company returns with the Bard to finish the season in a lovely, polished, and powerful production of The Winter’s Tale. This play is filed with his comedies, but some have called...

Free Simulcast of WNO’s ‘SHOWBOAT” at Nationals Park This Saturday at 7 PM

Join Washington National Opera for M&M’S® Opera in the Outfield at Nationals Park! Celebrate the fifth year of free live opera broadcasts at the ballpark with Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II’s...

‘Bobby McFerrin: spirityouall’ at The Kennedy Center by Audrey Thornton

Anyone fortunate enough to be within range of Bobby McFerrin’s rich voice in his final U.S. performance before embarking on a full summer international tour, in The Kennedy Center for the Performing...

‘Legally Blonde The Musical’ at Riverside Center Dinner Theater by Julia L. Exline

Riverside Center Dinner Theater presents Legally Blonde The Musical, an infectiously peppy show with Music and Lyrics by Laurence O’Keefe and Nell Benjamin, and Book by Heather Hach. Brian J. Swasey...

University of Maryland Design Exhibition Today at The Studio Theatre From 1-5 PM

Stop by The Studio Theatre’s 3rd Floor Atrium – 1501 14th Street NW, in Washington DC TODAY between 1 and 5 PM for University of Maryland’s MFA 2013 Design Exhibition.

‘Chaplin’s Masterpiece: Modern Times’ at The Baltimore Symphony at Strathmore by Keith Tittermary

In 1936, Charlie Chaplin wrote, directed, and starred in his final silent movie, Modern Times. His trademark character, The Little Tramp, with his toothbrush mustache and bowler hat would make his...

‘Lilly’s Purple Plastic Purse’ at Pumpkin Theatre by Amanda Gunther

Are you ready for a really great adventure with Lilly, Queen of the World? Well, if so, grab your sunglasses and don’t forget your purse as you head out to Pumpkin Theatre to see Lilly’s Purple...

‘Requiem’ at Young Artists of America Today at 4 PM

Young Artists of America is thrilled to announce that tickets are now on sale for our final concert of the season: TODAY AT 4 PM Running Time: One hour. The Lutheran Church of Saint Andrew 15300 New...

Adam Pascal at The Barbara Cook Spotlight Series at The Kennedy Center by David Friscic

Adam Pascal, Broadway singing and acting sensation of such past hits as Rent, Aida, and Cabaret, walked out on to the stage of The Kennedy Center’s Terrace Theater and held the audience in the palm of...

‘Cabaret’ at St. Mark’s Players at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church by Justin Schneider

“It’s so tawdry and terrible and everyone’s having such a great time.” It must be a cliché at this point to use Clifford Bradshaw’s summary of 1930s Berlin as a summary of Cabaret, but it’s just about...

YOUNG ARTISTS OF AMERICA’S ‘REQUIEM’ TONIGHT AT 7:30 PM AND TOMORROW AT 4 PM

Young Artists of America is thrilled toannounce that tickets are now on sale for our final concert of the season: REQUIEM TONIGHT SATURDAY MAY 11TH AT 7:30 PM and TOMORROW MAY 12TH AT 4 PM The...

‘Hemingway: The Sun Also Rises’ at The Washington Ballet at The Kennedy Center by Carolyn Kelemen

Whisk mom to the Washington Ballet for a heady trip of Hemingway Forget flowers. Candy is passé. What most mothers want on their special day is to be taken someplace special. This weekend you couldn’t...

Theater Alliance Offers Monday Night Reading Series ‘Hothouse on the Hill’

Theater Alliance is offering a Monday night reading series called Hothouse on the Hill. The free reading series are on begins on Monday, May 13th, 20th, June 3rd, and June 10, 2013. It features works...

‘DC Shorts Laughs’ on Friday and Saturday, May 17th and 18th by Laura Gross

DC Shorts Brings You Short Comedy Films and Stand-Up Comedy All in One Night with “DC Shorts Laughs” DC Shorts Laughs – May 17- 18, 2013 Next Friday and Saturday – get ready to laugh out loud and...

‘The Three Musketeers’ at Synetic Theater by Natalie McCabe

In his Director’s Notes, Paata Tsikurishvili quotes a line from Hamlet: “Suit the action to the word, the word to the action.” In its latest show, The Three Musketeers, written by brothers Ben Cunis...

‘Monica Bill Barnes and Company’ at The Kennedy Center by Mike Spain

Monica Bill Barnes and company know how to make the audience laugh. Sometimes the comedy is at the dancers’ expense. Other times it is through an array of tricks. They pull material from vaudeville,...

TONIGHT AT 8 PM: $10 Tickets for ‘Thunder Knocking on the Door’ at Creative Cauldron

Creative Cauldron’s Thunder Knocking on the Door has critics raving! “A powerhouse fable full of mythical, magic, intense vocals,and very real emotion..make this production a real knockout!” Julia L....

‘The Three Musketeers’ Opens Tonight at Synetic Theater

Synetic Theater opens a new adaptation of the Alexandre Dumas’ novel, The Three Musketeers in Crystal City. Brothers Ben and Peter Cunis have worked on the new adaptation for over 10 months. The...

Flying V Presents ‘PWYC Staged Reading of ‘UNPLUGGED’ This Sunday at 7 PM

FLYING V PRESENTS SPECIAL PAY-WHAT-YOU-CAN STAGED READING OF ONE HALF OF THE UPCOMING NEW PLAY UNPLUGGED BY SEAMUS SULLIVAN & HUNTER STYLES The 27 Club – a group of brilliant, troubled musicians all...

‘Twelfth Night’ at Folger Theatre by Mark Dewey

Folger’s Twelfth Night is Beautifully Conceived It’s a disk, or a lens, or giant kaleidoscope, thirty feet high and thirty feet wide. Or a big round stained-glass window, maybe, slanted like the...

‘The Full Monty’ at The Keegan Theatre by Derek Mong

Leave your inhibitions at the door as you step foot into The Keegan Theatre for its scintillating run of The Full Monty, written by Terrence McNally with music and lyrics by David Yazbek. Set in a...

Buy Your Tickets to ‘REQUIEM’ at Young Artists of America in Silver Spring This Saturday @7:30 & Sun @4

Young Artists of America is thrilled toannounce that tickets are now on sale for our final concert of the season: REQUIEM This Saturday, May 11 at 7:30pm and This Sunday, May 12 at 4:00pm at The...

Anne Kanengeiser on Playing Janna in ‘The Personal(s)’ at No Rules Theatre Company by Joel Markowitz

There are some performances that you just never forget and Anne Kanengeiser’s performance as Fosca in Signature Theatre’s Passion in 1996 is one I will always remember and cherish, so I was thrilled...

‘In The Next Room or The Vibrator Play’ at Colonial Players by Amanda Gunther

It’s a kind of religious ecstasy to feel half blind, do you not think? The discovery of intimacy, sexual excitement and above all love; all of that wrapped up in a Victorian era comedy of scandalous...

‘The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby’ at Lumina Studio Theatre by Max Johnson

First and foremost: The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens is a very, very long novel and play, and is filled with some difficult Dickensian language, numerous plot twists,...

‘Big Nate, The Musical’ at Adventure Theatre MTC by Julia L. Exline

Adventure Theatre MTC presents the world premiere of Big Nate, The Musical, based on the comic strip and books by Lincoln Peirce, with Book by Jason Loewith, Lyrics by Christopher Youstra and Jason...

Dr. Ralph Stanley and the Clinch Mountain Boys at Hylton Performing Arts Center by Francine Schwartz

On Saturday, May 4, 2013 the Hylton Performing Arts Center of Manassas 3rd Anniversary Gala once again welcomed one of American music’s greatest Bluegrass legends, Dr. Ralph Stanley and the Clinch...

‘My Fair Lady in Concert’ at The Kennedy Center by Jessica Vaughan

The stars were out in force for the Kennedy Center’s 21st Annual Spring Gala. On the program was My Fair Lady In Concert sung by some of Broadway and the West End’s biggest names like Jonathan Pryce,...

‘Gilgamesh’ at Constellation Theatre Company at Source by Justin Schneider

It’s not often that a company can so completely remake a piece of history and claim it as their own. Gilgamesh is an amazing display of storytelling, and the production is a fantastic example of...

‘You Never Know’ at Prince George’s Little Theatre by Amanda Gunther

The charming musical style of Cole Porter comes to life on the stage of Prince George’s Little Theatre as they close out their 53rd season with You Never Know. Directed by Roy Hammond with Musical...

Allison Miller at The Mansion at Strathmore by Keith Tittermary

Montgomery County native and drummer extraordinaire, Allison Miller played at the Mansion at Strathmore on Friday night to a Standing Room Only crowd. Miller, who grew up in Olney and is a graduate of...

‘Thunder Knocking on the Door’ at Creative Cauldron at ArtSpace by Julia L. Exline

The Creative Cauldron at ArtSpace presents Thunder Knocking on the Door, a rhythm and blues musical written by Keith Glover, with music and lyrics by three-time Grammy Award winner Keb’ Mo’ and...

Meredith Monk at Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center by Carolyn Kelemen

Meredith Monk: shaking off the old notions It’s often difficult to shake off the pre-conceived notions and expectations of what a particular dance concert is going to be like. I am not exactly clear...

‘The Tempest’ at We Happy Few Productions at Fort Fringe by Rick Westerkamp

As I entered The Shop at Fort Fringe for We Happy Few Productions’ production of William Shakespeare’s The Tempest, I was intrigued by the ambiance. Prospero watched as the audience filed in, from a...

‘Show Boat’ at Washington National Opera by Jessica Vaughan

Once in a lifetime you get the opportunity to see four opera companies, 100 performers, and 50 musicians put on America’s first, most iconic musical, Show Boat. Washington National Opera has partnered...

‘Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo’ at George Mason University’s Center for the Arts by Eric Denver

I have attended in the past year an American Ballet Theatre Production at The Kennedy Center, Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake in the Big Apple, a Boshoi Ballet HD Production at a local movie theater, and...

‘Other Desert Cities’ at Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater by Mark Dewey

Unhappy Family Fights It Out at Arena Stage Other Desert Cities, the last play in the 2012-2013 season at Arena Stage, takes place on wall-to-wall white carpet in a living room furnished with circles...

‘Prelude to a Kiss’ at Arts Collective @ HCC by Amanda Gunther

Howard Community College’s Arts Collective closes its 18th season with their production of Craig Lucas’ Prelude to a Kiss. Directed by Darius K. McKeiver, this odd romantic comedy takes the audience...

Tickets On Sale For Young Artists of America’s ‘REQUIEM’ on May 11 and 12th

Young Artists of America is thrilled toannounce that tickets are now on sale for our final concert of the season: REQUIEM Saturday, May 11 at 7:30pm Sunday, May 12 at 4:00pm The Lutheran Church of...