If you walk by Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater this month between 8-10PM you might feel your soul elevate if the stirring harmony of the Fisk Jubilee Singers leaks through the doors of Kreeger Theater into the night. World-premiere musical Jubilee, written… Read More
For the first time in its 47 year history, the Smithsonian Gardens are presenting a campus-wide exhibit. “Habitat” consists of 14 distinct indoor and outdoor garden spaces, all on the theme ‘protecting habitats protects life.’ “This exhibition… challenges visitors to reflect how protecting habitats protects life,”… Read More
Now at the Freer Gallery, “Whistler in Watercolor.” A groundbreaking exhibit for many reasons, both critical to experiencing Whistler’s artistic ambitions and his understanding of the commercial art market. “Beautiful pictures, ‘portable and dainty’ as Whistler described them, they were intended to expand his market… Read More
Much like how it couldn’t have been easy to condense this epic trilogy into a single night and single cast, it won’t be easy to describe the intensity of the performance, its story and its message. Michael Kahn’s final masterpiece as Artistic Director of the… Read More
Constellation Theatre Company‘s The White Snake is a marvelous adaptation of one of China’s oldest and most beloved legends. Two snake spirits seeking Tao’s enlightenment on a faraway mountaintop are distracted by the human world below. At the pleading of the Green Snake, the more enlightened… Read More
Written and directed by Tearrance Arvelle Chisholm, Studio Theater’s production of P.Y.G., or the Mis-Edumacation of Dorian Belle at Studio Theater is a boisterous, anarchic, and quirky look at race in America through the filter of music and the lens of the lens. What you get is… Read More
The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery has on view “Votes for Women: A Portrait of Persistence,” a major exhibition examining the history of women’s suffrage in the United States opening March 29. The seven-room exhibition features more than 120 portraits and objects spanning 1832 to 1965… Read More
The theme was British Invasion at the 11th annual DC-Capital Stars, which took place on Tuesday, April 10 at The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in the Eisenhower Theater. The annual fundraiser, celebrating 20 years of DCCAP’s mission to encourage and enable… Read More
There’s a reason why people of all ages have loved STOMP since it began as a street performance in the UK over 25 years ago. For adults, it’s an audible and visual rhythmic feast. For youth, it’s proof that you can make noise music with… Read More
If Gordon Gecko took up playwriting in prison, Junk is the play he would pen (in the pen). Directed with a tireless foot on the accelerator by Jackie Maxwell, Pulitzer Prize winner Ayad Akhtar’s (Disgraced) rapid-fire script offers an unflinching post mortem on the origins of debt… Read More
