121 stories by "Ramona Harper"
After more than 50 years in the music business, Patti LaBelle can still pack a house. The fans came out full force to enjoy an evening of old R&B favorites sung by a funky diva who…
Internationally known comedian and civil rights activist, Dick Gregory, closed out the last of a series of five District of Comedy Festival performances along with a young all white jazz tri…
J Weeks Entertainment's What Men Don't Say, starring and directed by J the Actor and written by Mone't Bradley, is a mini-tour de force that puts a new twist on an old theme about men and th…
Motown Philly came to DC full blast as the best-selling R&B group of all time, Boys II Men graced the Concert Hall stage of The Kennedy Center on Friday, May 20, 2016, accompanied by…
Patina Miller's luminous stage presence added snap, sizzle and pop from the best of American musical theater to Strathmore's annual spring gala, now in its eleventh year. With "Magic To D…
Recipes for the Good Life. That's actually the title of a cookbook written by the legendary Godmother of Soul, Patti LaBelle. It's also a metaphor for a music career spanning more than half …
It's always fun to peer into the lives of the rich and famous. As a native Philadelphian, I found Christopher Overly's revival of Phillip Barry's 1939 Broadway hit a delightful throwback set…
Queen of Rock Soul and American Idol winner, Fantasia brought the house down at An Elegant Evening of Giving benefit concert presented by Talking Hands Incorporated at the Music Center at St…
Sheaves of music start flying and the upper octaves get higher and louder during an open opera audition. Vanity and rivalry turn into a feline fight-fest when two sopranos vie to get the bes…
Darkness can be a guilty pleasure. Bruce Graham's Any Given Monday, currently onstage at the Greenbelt Arts Center, is a dark comedy-drama that makes you laugh in all the wrong places. U…
Nothing is off limits to the irascible, irreverently funny Whoopi Goldberg. She warned us from the start, however, that she loves the use of language– very colorful language–…
The tragicomedy of Theater of the Absurd scrambled together with the zaniness of Vaudevillian physical comedy is an apt description for Michael Burgos's delightfully wacko The Eulogy. Â De…
There's an earthy, primal kind of beat that pulsates through every song at a Maysa concert. It's a sound akin to a heartbeat, a panting breath, or a sonic boom that touches the emotional cor…
 The Harlem Renaissance was magically rebirthed through Vanessa Bell Calloway's phenomenal one-woman performance of Letters from Zora: In Her Own Words at the gala opening for the 6th …
Oh what a night – there's a party goin' on! Chaka Khan, Queen of Funk Soul, and the funkedelic Kool and the Gang were a red-hot double-hitter that rocked a sold-out house and…
"This is the nicest reception I've had in 600,000 years!" And with that telling introduction, Shirley MacLaine charmed a crowded house of adoring fans on a personal journey filled with funny…
The amazing vocal talent of Audra McDonald was a like a breath of the most enchanting spring air and perhaps the first real sign of spring in the DC area as Audra sang from the “Great …
Who knows for sure what really happened when sexual assault is the charge and impetuous youth, just out to have a good time, are exploring the possibilities? Good Kids, presented by the Univ…
On the most romantic night of the year, Grammy Award- winning jazz vocalist, Kurt Elling's Passion World concert at The Kennedy Center's Terrace Theater was a warm toddy to take the chill of…
Clybourne Park, written by Bruce Norris in 2010 as sequel to Lorraine Hansberry's 1959 A Raisin in the Sun, is a riveting play that focuses on race relations, America's covenant-based housin…
On the evening of January 24, 2015, the renowned star of stage, television, and film, Jasmine Guy will present for one-night only, "Raisin' Cane: A Harlem Renaissance Odyssey,"Â along with…
Holiday concerts just don't get any better than Colors of Christmas. In a resplendent performance of Christmas classics and R&B favorites, the Strathmore Music Center's starry-night Colo…
Make a joyful noise! The Anacostia Playhouse's Theater Alliance production of Black Nativity is a gloriously joyful noise indeed. An Afrocentric celebration of the Christmas story rooted …
Who can resist the youthful, sensuous, energy of five high-stepping, superfine dudes who can sing and dance? "Jump blues" back to the rockin' days of guys and dolls for an entertaining eveni…
On the eve of a grand jury's decision on the killing of Ferguson's Michael Brown, Collidescope: Adventures in Pre-and Post-Racial America is a boldly courageous indictment on the origins of …
