For the record, classical ballet dancers do let loose once in a while. They enjoy tossing off those stiff upper body movements and tapping their toe shoes to a syncopated beat rather than fo…
Balletomanes gather each fall, winter, and spring season to catch the Washington Ballet at the Kennedy Center or Sidney Harman Hall, depending on the production. However, the man usually sit…
Rebecca "Becca" Friedman has walked the steps of so many visionary dancers before her. From her childhood gracing the Howard County stages as the Sugarplum Fairy to her contemporary dancing …
Once again, Olney Theatre Center (OTC) has put on a tap-happy show. This time it's Singin' in the Rain, where the audience hums the familiar tunes as they ratta-ta-tap back to their cars. Th…
These are heady times for Toby Orenstein. This weekend she commemorates 47 years as founding artistic director of the Columbia Center for Theatrical Arts (CCTA) and four decades at the helm …
Sometime in the early 21st century, the dance planners at the Kennedy Center came up with a terrific idea: Invite nine regional ballet companies to perform one special work in three separ…
It was a tony crowd that gathered at the Cured, a cool restaurant that celebrates the history of Merriweather Post Pavilion with posters throughout the bar and dining area. These folks " a f…
Whoever said "Timing Is Everything" must appreciate Shakespeare and should value the skills of contemporary playwright Ken Ludwig whose "A Comedy of Tenors" opened without a hitch last Satur…
More than any other major dance company, the world-famous Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater attracts an audience looking for a fun night on the town. These fans " who will no doubt be out i…
That grey cloud that has been hovering over the New York City Ballet for quite a while has lifted " at least it did last night at the Kennedy Center where everything was beautiful at the bal…
Marius Petipa must have been smiling from his grave last night when the American Ballet Theatre presented another brilliant Russian choreographer's staging of Petipa's Harlequinade. This swe…
Helgi Tomasson, Artistic Director and Principal Choreographer for the San Francisco Ballet, deserves a Kennedy Center Honor. Yep, the Icelandic native (with a lifelong devotion to ballet) no…
If the powerful performance of “Dog without Feathers” at the Eisenhower Theater last night is any indication of what the Kennedy Center’s Ballet & Dance Season has …
Move over Stephen Sondheim. There’s a new kid on the block. And, he’s coming to Broadway with some musical ideas to shake up The Great White Way. Eddie Perfect (yes that’s …
Fans of both dance and ice skating " especially those who value figure skating as art, not just sport – should take note of the special program being prepared by Nathan Birch and Tim M…
Just about the time you're thinking there's nothing new in the land of the lively arts, along comes something unexpected and wholly different. Celebrating its 70th touring season kick-off la…
With apologies to T.S. Elliot, Ballet Nacional de Cuba ends the Kennedy Center Ballet 2017-2018 season not with a whimper but a bang. A big bang! An explosive Don Quixote opened last night a…
We were promised surprises " guest artists and other treats – at the Kennedy Center's 2018-2019 Theater Season announcement Tuesday in the Center's cozy Terrace Theater. And, as expect…
There's a certain fresh, uninhibited and politically inspired way of dancing that only Europeans manage to pull off. It came into being in the 1960s and continues to crop up now and then, es…
The opening night performance of Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike by the Vagabond Players in America's oldest continuously operating theater in historic Fells Point turned out to be a fes…
Long Day's Journey Into Night chills to the bone. The wind was howling as the cold air clipper passed through downtown Baltimore last Friday evening. Inside Everyman Theatre, an even more…
On a cold winter's night, nothing heats up faster than a fiery debate. And when it comes to political grandiloquence " as timely today as 100 years ago " the Vagabond Players opening night p…
There wasn't a dry eye when Margaret "Maggie" Kudirka ripped off her headscarf and fell to the floor during her poignant Loss and Survival solo, set to the familiar Edith Piaf song of no reg…
It was bittersweet last evening when the Suzanne Farrell Ballet performed the Forever Balanchine Farewell at the Kennedy Center's Opera House. Sweet because the muse of dance master Ge…
If you've never seen the Mariinsky Ballet dance a full-length classic (or missed its previous 2008 production of La Bayadère,) rush to buy tickets for this current engagement at The Kennedy…