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  • Victorian Nightmare

    By on November 16, 2011

    A stylized Victorian nightmare with lashes of Sam Peckinpah realism and the odd sporran, David Alden's rendering of Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor isn't for everyone....

  • The People Sing

    By on October 19, 2011

    ''Oh, I don't know if this is something my parents would want to come see me in,'' Eric Van Tielen remembers thinking when he auditioned...

  • French Twist

    By on October 6, 2011

    Mon Dieu! If Les Misérables is 25 and I've been a fan since the beginning, then I must be -- well, I guess I'm no...

  • Marriage Singer

    By on September 29, 2011

    ''I want my child to be able to marry whoever she wants to marry when she grows up, and have the same rights as everyone...

  • Triumphant Tosca

    By on September 14, 2011

    A perfect balance between elegant austerity and a swiftly-rendered, passionate tale of hearts, pure and not so pure, the Washington National Opera's Tosca is everything...

  • Weaving's World

    By on August 17, 2011

    Hugo Weaving has portrayed a robot bent on world destruction, a neurotic drag queen, an evil computer program and a benevolent elf. Which was his...

  • Soviet Disunion

    By on August 11, 2011

    Love hurts. Work is pointless. Authority is a joke. Life in Uncle Vanya may not be grand, but Chekhov certainly is -- particularly in the...

  • Normalcy

    By on July 6, 2011

    Next to Wicked right now at the Kennedy Center is Next to Normal. But the two musicals could hardly be further apart on the spectrum...

  • Editor’s Pick: Next to Normal

    By on July 2, 2011

    The 2009 Tony-winning musical and winner of the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Next to Normal is a tour de force examination of contemporary life....

  • We’ll take a Royal Danish with that jete, please

    By on June 7, 2011

    Led by artistic director Nikolaj Hübbe, the world-renowned Royal Danish Ballet returns to the Kennedy Center for the first time since 2004 to offer new...

  • 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,...