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.
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.
WHO:
Jo Giese presents her upcoming memoir, Never Sit If You Can Dance: Lessons from My Mother (She Writes Press/April 23, 2019). Giese is an award-winning radio journalist, author, teacher, community activist, and former TV reporter. As a special correspondent, she was part of the Peabody Award winning team at Marketplace, the popular public radio business show. At Marketplace she won an EMMA (Exceptional Merit in Media Award) for an Exceptional Radio Story from the National Women’s Political Caucus and a Gracie Award from the Alliance for Women in Media Foundation. She has contributed to Ira Glass’s “This American Life” radio show, and is the author of “A Woman’s Path” ( St. Martin’s Press) and “The Good Food Compendium” (Doubleday). Giese has written for scores of publications, including The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Vogue, LA Weekly, European Travel & Life, and The Malibu Times.
WHAT:
Giese sits down for an honest conversation with Sally Quinn, author and journalist, to discuss Jo’s new memoir, “Never Sit If You Can Dance: Lessons from My Mother.
Jo Giese’s mother Babe was a 50s trailblazer who celebrated life to its fullest.
This Mother’s Day, her book invites us to remember the lessons we learned from our mothers that we perhaps only came to appreciate later and say “Thank you.” With lessons ranging from “flowers never go out of style’ to ‘don’t be drab’ and ‘we all need someone waiting for us in the parking lot’” Never Sit If You Can Dance is a light-filled and universal tribute to love that will ring true with mothers, daughters, and their families in a time when we all need some old-fashioned civility in our lives.
Talking points:
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The coarsening of our culture and lack of civility
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What would women in the 50s have thought of the #metoo movement?
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Sharing real world connections vs. online social media connections
Public event highlights include:
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Public lecture and book reading
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Conversations with Jo Giese and Sally Quinn
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Books for sale
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Book signing and opportunities to meet the author
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Complimentary cocktails and appetizers
WHEN:
Saturday May 11, 2019
1 PM ET
WHERE:
Politics and Prose Bookstore
5015 Connecticut Ave NW
Washington, DC 20008
Public launch event, book reading, complimentary cocktails and appetizers will be served.
Seating is limited. RSVP to Emanuela@WildboundPR.com or 323.644.2111
Platinum-selling country songstress Suzy Bogguss is set to return to The City Winery in downtown DC Friday, May 17 at 8:00pm. Audiences can expect an intimate night of music backed by her new trio Craig Smith (guitar) and Elio Giordano (upright bass), two of Nashville’s finest players. The show will include Suzy’s memorable radio hits such as “Outbound Plane,” “Drive South,” “Hey Cinderella,” and “Aces,” as well as songs from her latest albums Lucky, celebrating the songwriting of Merle Haggard, and American Folk Songbook. Fans can look forward to hearing new material, with Suzy debuting originals for the first time since her top 5 jazz album Sweet Danger.
Bogguss performed in DC March of 2018 and has been looking forward to returning to the East Coast on this run, “I can’t wait to play in DC! I just love performing at The City Winery; it’s such a cool venue with a really intimate space.”
What’s on the horizon? Bogguss is currently writing and preparing for her next album as well as continuing to play with her trio and Chicks with Hits – a new tour with fellow queens of country Pam Tillis and Terri Clark.
Tickets for The City Winery are on sale now with a variety of seating options for $25-$30. “My show is very spontaneous. Each one is unique. The guys in my band say that my set list is just a suggestion,” she laughs. “It’s very fluid. If I feel like the audience wants to hear a particular song or if there’s a request I am happy to shift gears. I’m just loving these intimate rooms and interacting with the crowd.”
To purchase tickets, please visit: www.CityWinery.com/
