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  • Overblown Buffa

    By on May 26, 2011

    It's a shame the Washington National Opera didn't end its season with the brooding intensity of the memorable Iphigénie en Tauride instead of the determined...

  • Stellar Showgirls and Guys

    By on May 26, 2011

    What isn't deteriorating in the Kennedy Center's hauntingly gorgeous revival of Stephen Sondheim and James Goldman's 1971 musical, Follies? Florenz Ziegfeld-like impresario Dimitri Weismann (David...

  • The Glory and the Gloom

    By on May 11, 2011

    With Placido Domingo singing his last role as general director of the Washington National Opera, it's hard not to take the somber – at times...

  • The Kennedy Center ushers in spring with a gala

    By on March 30, 2011

    Smokey Robinson hosts the Kennedy Center’s annual Spring Gala that this year also honors Michael Kaiser’s 10 years at the helm. The gala features such...

  • Jane Franklin Dance takes the KC’s Millennium Stage

    By on February 15, 2011

    In “Take a Deep Breath,” Jane Franklin Dance company performs pieces including “Branch,” “Same Place at the Same Time” and “Leroy,” with musical accompaniment. Wednesday,...

  • Pianist Radu Lupu with the NSO

    By on February 8, 2011

    Gianandrea Noseda makes his NSO debut conducting renowned pianist Radu Lupu in a performance of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 3. Also on the program is...

  • Disney in Concert at the NSO

    By on February 3, 2011

    Michael Krajewski conducts the NSO Pops in Disney in Concert, an evening of musical selections from Beauty and the Beast, The Little Mermaid, Mary Poppins,...

  • Alvin Ailey at the Kennedy Center

    By on February 1, 2011

    The popular Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre returns to perform several mixed repertory programs, including Ailey’s signature piece Revelations, celebrating its 50th anniversary next season....

  • Sergey Khachatryan with the NSO

    By on January 12, 2011

    Kirill Karabits conducts the NSO and violinist Sergey Khachatryan in a performance including Shostakovich’s Violin Concerto No. 2, plus Silvestrov’s Elegy for Strings and Sibelius’s...

  • The Kennedy Center’s Enchanted Evening

    By on January 11, 2011

    The Lincoln Center Theater touring production of Rodger & Hammerstein’s South Pacific — now doing shore leave at the Kennedy Center — has waded waist...

  • New Year’s Eve at the Kennedy Center

    By on December 30, 2010

    Usher in the New Year with a dazzling concert at The Kennedy Center. Now in its 16th year, the concert features members of the National...

  • All-Star Christmas Day Jazz Jam

    By on December 23, 2010

    Now in its 12th year, Kennedy Center’s Millennium Stage presents the All-Star Christmas Day Jazz Jam, a free concert with host and vibraphonist Chuck Redd,...

  • NSO Pops: Happy Holidays

    By on December 9, 2010

    Marvin Hamlisch conducts the NSO Pops along with special guests, including sopranos Christiane Noll and Mikaela Schneider, cellist Kristina Winiawski, flutist Niles Watson and the...

  • Pianist Louis Lortie with the NSO

    By on December 2, 2010

    Emmanuel Krivine conducts pianist Louis Lortie playing Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 2. Also on the program is Beethoven’s Overture to Egmont, Liszt’s Les Préludes and...

  • Soul Stirring

    By on November 10, 2010

    Darius Nichols as Hud, photographed by Todd Franson in the Kennedy Center's Africa Room, Friday, Nov. 5, 2010 Darius Nichols almost passed on auditioning for...