This Tony and Emmy Award-winning actress and singer delights audiences in every show and role, from film and television to voiceover and stage. The public fell in love with her as Sally in You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown, Glinda in Wicked, and in fabulous roles on West Wing, Glee, and Pushing Daisies, but it’s Chenoweth’s gorgeous jazz standards, gospel songs, and opera works that fill concert halls with her loyal fans time and again. She will perform from her latest release of American Songbook classics, The Art of Elegance, which debuted at #1 on Billboard’s Current Jazz and Traditional Jazz charts, and #1 on Amazon’s Vocal Pop chart. No stranger to the Music Center stage, Chenoweth starred in Strathmore’s groundbreaking production I am Anne Hutchinson/I am Harvey Milk in 2016.
Yoga enthusiasts are getting ready to stretch as they listen to The American Pops Orchestra perform selections of early American folk music. Instructor Michael Peterson will guide attendees on a 70-minute journey through yoga and meditation on Saturday, April 13, beginning at 6 p.m. at the Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater-Molly Smith Study, 1101 Sixth St., SW, Washington, D.C.
Tickets are available at http://bit.ly/APOyoga
OFERTÓRIO
CAETANO VELOSO
With Moreno, Zeca & Tom Veloso
For over 35 years, GRAMMY Award-winner Caetano Veloso has been a major musical, social, and cultural force in Brazil. The New York Times calls him “one of the greatest songwriters of the century.” Veloso’s latest project is a collaboration with his sons: Moreno, Zeca, and Tom. This legendary lineage performs an intimate, acoustic concert full of their favorite songs like “Um Canto de Afoxé Para o Bloco do Ilê,” and your favorite songs of Veloso’s like “Cucurrucucu Paloma,” “Sozinho,” and more. Veloso first became known for his participation in the Brazilian musical movement Tropicalismo, which encompassed theatre, poetry, and music in the 1960s, paving the way for pursuits in rock, pop, folk, and Bossa Nova.
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts announces a concert featuring three-time Tony Award® winner Jason Robert Brown (Parade, Songs for a New World, The Last Five Years, The Bridges of Madison County) and 2018 Tony Award®winner Lindsay Mendez (Carousel, Wicked, Dogfight) on April 18, 2019 in the Eisenhower Theater. The evening will also feature the nine Musical Theater Fellows of KCACTF from across the United States and Helen Hayes Award winner Tracy Lynn Olivera (the Kennedy Center’s Me…Jane and Ragtime), one of the key teaching artists of the students’ residency at the Kennedy Center. The concert celebrates the 50th Anniversary of Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival’s National Festival, which will take place at the Kennedy Center April 15–20, 2019.
The National Festival includes short play readings featuring the finalists of the John Cauble Award for Outstanding Short Play and the KCACTF Ten-Minute Play Award; the National Irene Ryan Acting Scholarship auditions; master classes, visits to Arena Stage, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, the Shakespeare Theatre Company, and the opportunity to network with peers from across the nation and the Washington, D.C. theater community. The National Festival closes with the presentation of awards for excellence in production, directing, choreography, acting, writing, design, stage management, dramaturgy, and dramatic criticism.
Gregg Henry, Artistic Director of KCACTF states, “The Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival has been offering professional development opportunities to thousands of young artists for the past 50 years. Jason has been a staple of KCACTF over the years—his students have been past recipients of the Musical Theater Award and he served as a teaching artist for several Festivals. We are thrilled that high caliber artists such as Jason and Lindsay will be performing in the 50th anniversary tribute as well as meeting with the playwriting and musical theater students while in residence.”
TICKET INFORMATION
An Evening with Jason Robert Brown and his Band, with Special Guest Lindsay Mendez will be performed Thursday, April 18, 2019, at 8:00 p.m. in the Eisenhower Theater. For more information, please visit the Kennedy Center website, in-person at the Kennedy Center Box Office, or call (202) 467-4600 or (800) 444-1324.
Music from the Suitcase + Meditations on Family with Pianist Anna Polonsky
Featuring Washington D.C. Premieres by Gity Razaz and Andreia Pinto Correia
Commissioned by Washington Performing Arts
Tuesday, April 23, 2019 at 7:30pm
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts | 2700 F Street NW | Washington, DC
Tickets: $45 at www.washingtonperformingarts.
On Tuesday, April 23, 2019 at 7:30pm, Russian-American violinist Yevgeny Kutik, known for his “dark-hued tone and razor-sharp technique” (The New York Times) makes his Kennedy Center debut presented by Washington Performing Arts at The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Terrace Theater (2700 F Street NW). Kutik and pianist Anna Polonsky, lauded for her “dazzling virtuosity” (San Francisco Chronicle) will perform selections from Kutik’s ongoing project Music from the Suitcase including Stravinsky’s Divertimento from A Fairy’s Kiss; Prokofiev’s Waltz from Cinderella (arr. Fikhtengoltz); and Rubenstein’s Romance in E-flat Major, Op. 44, No. 1 (arr. Wieniawski); plus Schnittke’s Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 1 and Prokofiev’s Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 2. Following the concert, there will be a talkback with Kutik and NPR’s Nina Totenberg, who has followed Kutik’s career since his student days under her father’s tutelage.
They will also give the first Washington D.C. performances of two new works that are part of Kutik’s new commissioning project,Meditations on Family – Gity Razaz’s Cadenza for the Once Young and Andreia Pinto Correia’s Litania, commissioned for Yevgeny Kutik by Washington Performing Arts.
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Jonathan Drori, author and environmentalist
From India’s sacred banyan to the fragrant cedar of Lebanon, trees offer us sanctuary, inspiration and companionship – not to mention sustenance and raw materials – and forests have surprising parallels with human communities. In this fascinating and beautifully illustrated talk, Jonathan Drori, author and trustee of The Eden Project in Cornwall, and former BBC documentary film-maker and board member of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, uses plant science to illuminate how trees play a role in every part of our lives, from the romantic to the regrettable, and how they are capable of the most bizarre antics. An unmissable event for tree and nature lovers. Please note: Doors open at 6:30 p.m. Program begins at 7 p.m.
DATE: Thursday, May 2
TIME: 6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
LOCATION: Conservatory Garden Court
FREE: Pre-registration required, visit www.USBG.gov/Learn
This program sponsored by the Friends of the U.S. Botanic Garden.
Party with a cause and come support one of the District’s newest non-profits, the DMP, and their mission to provide affordable music education to adults! Come as you are or dressed to the nines, but be ready for a night of all things ’80s! Themed drinks and snacks, karaoke, live music, ’80s games, and a costume contest are all on deck, plus you’ll be treated to a very special performance by the District Music Project Chorus!
WHEN: Saturday, May 4, 8-11 pm (7 pm VIP access)
WHERE: The Airedale, 3605 14th Street NW
WHY: Benefit for The District Music Project, a local non-profit supporting affordable adult education
COST: $40 advance/$45 door/$60 VIP (includes a private concert and prosecco before the party gets going!)
WHO: Open to the public and press is welcome
All proceeds benefit the District Music Project and help us continue to provide music education to adults in the District.
Washington Bach Consort will continue to offer their original Downtown Cantata Series at the Church of the Epiphany on the first Tuesday of each month during their season.
Washington Bach Consort will continue to offer their original Downtown Cantata Series at the Church of the Epiphany on the first Tuesday of each month during their season.
