The REACH Opening Festival (September 7–22, 2019) celebrates the Kennedy Center’s newly expanded campus with a festival that will feature more than 500 performances, events, and hands-on activities, from 10:00 am to 11:00 pm across the next two weeks. National headliners — including Arrested Development,… Read More
Purple Rain was in the forecast for the DC-CAPital Stars Fundraiser at The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts last Wednesday. Locally produced talent, from across all four Wards, took the stage at the Eisenhower Theater to compete for college scholarship funds and to pay… Read More
Let’s be clear. This isn’t the opera, ballet, symphony, or high-brow theatre experience you’d normally anticipate with tickets to the Kennedy Center. No, Shear Madness is a quirky murder mystery performed in the Kennedy Center’s Theatre Lab. True theatre critics love to hate it, but… Read More
The expectations are high for any Chinese dance performance given New York-based Shen Yun’s ubiquitous Metro-area advertising campaign. But China National Opera & Dance Drama Theater’s “Confucius,” staged at the Kennedy Center’s Opera House January 13, 14, and 15, did not disappoint. The show follows the… Read More
On May 17th, the Kennedy Center hosted the opening of “Ireland 100: Celebrating a Century of Irish Arts and Culture,” with Vice-President Joe Biden and Ireland’s Taoiseach Enda Kenny in attendance. The evening’s special preview to an almost three weeks of cultural celebration was a fitting… Read More
The New York City Ballet’s three act offering at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts this week delivers pretty much everything you could want from a ballet. Under the guidance of Ballet Master-in-Chief Peter Martins, precise and skilled dancers dazzle with clean,… Read More
The Kennedy Center production of Beautiful: The Carole King Musical offers what Broadway seekers crave: snazzy stagecraft and sleek production numbers, such as “1650 Broadway Medley,” a composite recording session featuring immortal pop groups performing their biggest hits. All arrayed in an eye catching two-story… Read More
If you could interview Leonardo da Vinci, what would you ask? Director Massimiliano Finazzer Flory takes a stab at the question in the performance “Being Leonardo da Vinci: an impossible interview.” For one night only, the Kennedy Center was the host of an event where… Read More
More than 1,000 of the District of Columbia’s most impressive and successful teachers, whose work has helped lead to the historic student achievement gains in the District of Columbia Public Schools, attended the annual Standing Ovation for DC Teachers, now in its fifth year, at the Kennedy… Read More
Good Gourd! Here’s your chance to star in a “show” at the Kennedy Center. Queue up for this new feature in the KenCen’s KC Café, where you have the chance to “Guess the Weight” of an enormous fall pumpkin on display. At its curtain call (Halloween Day, Friday.… Read More
