For the sixth consecutive year, the Kennedy Center renewed its February tradition of hosting a gala evening of dance to raise funds for gifted young dancers in the DMV. The Alvin Ailey Ameri…
The NSO Pops presented its first-ever collaboration with superstar Kenny "Babyface" Edmonds on Friday night for a two-night run in the Concert Hall of the Kennedy Center. Under the musical d…
If any singer from the hippie era could take a little piece of your heart, it was the legendary Janis Joplin. In A Night with Janis Joplin, the story of the iconic rock star emblazoned the s…
The Word, in spiritual parlance, is the creative power of God made audible and visible through His Son. It is the energy of the divine dynamic made manifest through Self-revelation. True to …
Lynn Nottage's Fabulation or the Re-education of Undine is an outrageously hilarious romp into the fabulated life of Undine Barnes Callas, a feisty, successful African American woman whose c…
August Wilson was a high school dropout who went on to receive two Pulitzer Prizes for Drama and he's regarded as one of the five most celebrated playwrights in the history of American theat…
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (The Kennedy Center) paid elegant tribute to the legacy of its namesake in A JFK Centennial Celebration on May 29, 2017, the 100th birthday…
At a time when we can only imagine a world without walls of division and exclusion, the Annual Kennedy Center's Spring Gala concert, Come Together:Â A Celebration of John Lennon, reached …
The music of Abbey Lincoln was The Kennedy Center's choice for its 22nd Annual Mary Lou Williams Jazz Festival. Showcasing the best in old and new jazz artistry, this year's tribute presente…
Scottie Templeton is dying. And with that deadly diagnosis, Tribute, by Bernard Slade, now playing at the Greenbelt Arts Center, poignantly considers what's really important in life an…
Acclaimed vocalists Capathia Jenkins, Sy Smith and Montego Glover joyously hopped the A train to Harlem along with the NSO Pops in tribute to the Queen of Jazz in Sophisticated Ladies:Â 1…
One of the wonders of children is their capacity to take the simplest object and create a whole new world filled with curiosity and excitement. Paper Dreams, a new children's dance theatre p…
"Peaches" was in the house. Inspired by the spirit of Nina Simone, acclaimed American R&B and jazz recording artist, songwriter and actress, Ledisi performed an eclectic program of bl…
The velvet voice and beautiful love ballads of one of the greatest R &B crooners of all time, Luther Vandross, lives on through the magnetic stage presence of William "Smooth" Wardlaw's …
Round House Theatre continues to shine a spotlight on the works of Tony Kushner (Angels in America) as it explores life's complexity through its seeming simplicity in Kushner's autobiographi…
Images of the people of Buenos Aires, estampas porteñas, created nostalgic dreams of longing and desire in distant lands and rich cultures as the Estampas Porteñas Tango Company presen…
There ain't nothin' wrong with a little bump and grind and Chocolate City's Burlesque & Cabaret (CCBC) had a whole lotta shakin' going on. G strings and pasties and a skin show with feat…
Life happens. Rodgers and Hammerstein's, Carousel, is a timeless interlude that explores the human spirit's indomitable will to go forward no matter life's circumstances. Director Molly Smit…
The Summit: The Manhattan Tranfer Meets Take 6Â was an explosion, in gale wind proportions, of musical enjoyment, creative genius, vocal excellence and a boatload of fun as these two renow…
Annie and Peter, a white married couple, haven't been able to conceive a child of their own so they decide to adopt a child from Africa. Rebecca and Drea, a newly married African America…
In a political season where talk of building walls sometimes trumps the optimism of building bridges, The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, named in honor of a President whose …
The early days of American jazz come fully back to life in Signature Theatre's Jelly's Last Jam. But if the notion of spending two hours in the dark watching something historical sounds b…
Mike Daisey knew full well why we came out to see The Trump Card. We were out for "red meat." We wanted to hear Mike Daisey tear Donald Trump to shreds. We wanted to see Mike kick his ass! A…
If Shakespeare is your bag, Timon 2016 will be just what you are looking for, but with a modern air. Directed and adapted by Katie Wanshura, this play is an adaptation of William Shakespeare…
Family can be boon or bane for most of us. BeBe Winans' bio musical, Born for This, raises common themes about family to extraordinary heights as it joyfully praises the power of kinship and…