Spotlight
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The 9:30 Club wins the Top Club prize at 2011 Billboard Touring Awards
Congratulations to our hometown’s iconic 9:30 Club, which won the Top Club honor at the 2011 Billboard Touring Awards. The award is attendance-based, so clearly...
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The Mistorical Hystery of Henry (I)V
WSC Avant Bard — the new, edgier, fitting name for the old Washington Shakespeare Company — presents a one-evening adaptation of Shakespeare’s history plays Henry...
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Final performances: The Great Gatsby
Two years after its debut, the Washington Ballet revives The Great Gatsby, set in the roaring ’20s and based on the F. Scott Fitzgerald novel,...
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Anthony Dortch at Touchstone
“The Privileged Series” features Anthony Dortch’s mixed media images in which he paints directly on top of photos to change the skin tones of people...
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Arms and the Man at Constellation
Director Allison Arkell Stockman instructs her Constellation Theater cast to accentuate the satire by acting in exaggerated fashion in its production of George Bernard Shaw’s...
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Singin’ in the Rain at the E Street
The E Street Cinema continues its first-ever “Capital Classics” series this weekend with two very different films. There’s what many consider to be the greatest...
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Nina Ananiashvili at Lisner
One of the world’s most beloved ballerinas, having danced with the Kirov Theatre, the Royal Danish Ballet, the London Royal Ballet and the New York...
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American Youth Philharmonic Orchestra at NOVA
Daniel Spalding leads an orchestra consisting of students aspiring to become classical professionals, along with guest artist pianist Jeffrey Jacob in an “Orchestral Brilliance” program...
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The Boys from Syracuse at The Shakespeare
Why would the Shakespeare Theatre Company offer a musical concert version of the Rodgers and Hart musical The Boys From Syracuse? Because it’s based on...
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V V Brown at DC9
The British chanteuse V V Brown — like a poppier Estelle — returns to DC9 a year and a half after touring in support of...
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Septime Webre’s The Great Gatsby
The Washington Ballet revives The Great Gatsby choreographed by its artistic director Septime Webre. Local actors E. Faye Butler and Will Gartshore, plus tap dancer...
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We Were Here at the West End
David Weissman and Bill Weber’s powerful, captivating and carefully crafted We Were Here — having just screened at Reel Affirmations — is so much more...
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Rachael Yamagata at The Birchmere
Born in Alexandria and educated in Bethesda, alternative-rocker Yamagata is touring in support of her third long-player with a title nodding to her roots here...
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Harry Belafonte at Politics and Prose
Harry Belafonte’s Sing Your Song recounts the life of the entertainer and outspoken activist for global civil rights, from his early years of poverty in...
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Marsha Ambrosius
Former Floetry member Marsha Ambrosius tours in support of her solo debut, Late Nights and Early Evenings, which includes the title song and the single...
