The Kennedy Center has never graced such glitz and glamour like that of the vibrant and eclectic, Parisian burlesque romance, adorned with covers of pop hits from then and now — Moulin Rouge! The Musical. The performance celebrates music and theatre design all in the name of love and runs through September 24, 2023.
Read MoreSettling in my seat waiting for the curtain to rise, I didn’t expect to not only experience, but to participate in a riveting revision of Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird.”
As the cast took their final curtain calls on the Eisenhower Theater stage at The Kennedy Center in Northwest on Thursday night, I could barely hold back the tears that flowed freely from my eyes – and I was not alone.
Read MoreStacey Abrams spoke to a packed house at Sixth & I, last week, about her new legal thriller, Rogue Justice; the follow-up to 2021’s While Justice Sleeps.
Read MoreHere There Are Blueberries, playing at The Shakespeare Theatre after its world premiere at San Diego’s La Jolla Playhouse, is compelling, thought-provoking, and tightly written.
Read MoreFew things are more thrilling than when Broadway leaves New York and lands in your city. Touring productions provide people, from all over, the opportunity to engage with high commercial theater close to home. They also encourage accessibility which can only promote further equity and diversity in theater spaces
Read MoreBorum’s book illustrates how comedy can change minds by breaking down barriers between people. When it includes more perspectives, comedy elevates marginalized voices and brings social issues to life.
Read MoreJust in time for baseball season, Sandra Marchetti has published her second full-length poetry collection, Aisle 228, about the 2016 Chicago Cubs, going to ball games with her father, and listening to baseball on the radio.
Read MoreGregory Luce reviews three poetry collections by D.C. area writers: Let’s Call It Paradise by Mike Maggio, Ordinary Time by Sarah deCorla-Souza, and Having a Baby to Save a Marriage by CL Bledsoe.
Read MoreIt’s not often that a night at the theater leaves you feeling like “you’ve been to church!” This raucous bio-musical now playing at Ford’s Theatre follows the pioneering life of Sister Rosetta Tharpe (1915-1973).
Read MoreBlue is a coming-of-age tragedy that’s as much about forgiveness, identity, and the false hopes and expectations of Black men, as it is about police brutality.
Read MoreThe House of Sweden, aka the Swedish Embassy in Washington, D.C., promised their event celebrating Sweden’s 2023 EU Presidency would be a “magical evening.” It most definitely was.
Read MoreBorn and raised in the Linthicum neighborhood, just north of the home of the storied Baltimore Cardinals, Rafael Alvarez has spent most of his life living and working in the heart of Charm City (Alvarez calls it Crabtown USA).
Read MoreFor our second annual holiday book recommendation list, we reached out to key players in the D.C.-area literary community. We wanted to find out which books, written by local authors, they loved reading in 2022, and add those to our own favorites to create this list.
Read MoreRound House Theatre’s version of William Shakespeare’s The Tempest is an outlandish, illusory, wonderful spectacle, with stage magic performed so seamlessly it appears to be real.
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