All posts tagged "kennedy center"
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Normalcy
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...
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Editor’s Pick: Next to Normal
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....
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We’ll take a Royal Danish with that jete, please
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...
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Overblown Buffa
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...
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Stellar Showgirls and Guys
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...
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The Glory and the Gloom
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...
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The Kennedy Center ushers in spring with a gala
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...
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Jane Franklin Dance takes the KC’s Millennium Stage
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,...
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Pianist Radu Lupu with the NSO
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...
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Disney in Concert at the NSO
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,...
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Alvin Ailey at the Kennedy Center
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....
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Sergey Khachatryan with the NSO
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...
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The Kennedy Center’s Enchanted Evening
The Lincoln Center Theater touring production of Rodger & Hammerstein’s South Pacific — now doing shore leave at the Kennedy Center — has waded waist...
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New Year’s Eve at the Kennedy Center
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...
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All-Star Christmas Day Jazz Jam
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,...
