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by Mary Lincer - March 07, 2025

Edith Wharton's novel The Age of Innocence was published about a week before she was able to vote for the first time in 1920.  The following year, she became the first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize.  Now, playwright Karen Zacarías has adapted Wharton's complex tragedy of manners into Arena's elegant...

by David Friscic - March 05, 2025

The play The Scenarios successfully proves the fact that it is impossible to fit the messiness and vagaries of life into the role-playing scenarios (that are well-intentioned) that society often employs to help with remediation and beneficial effects. This World Premiere that is being presented by S...

by Audrey Cahak - March 07, 2025

Contemporary dance choreographer and company founder Dana Tai Soon Burgess produced the dance concert “An Asian American Dance Journey” for a three-day run at the Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company. While it is the company’s 32nd year in production, it was their first year collaborating with and dancing...

by Michela Dwyer - March 01, 2025

What did our critic think of PAUL TAYLOR DANCE COMPANY at Kennedy Center?...

by Andrew White - March 01, 2025

Working from a series of oral history recordings, playwright Psalmayene 24 has assembled a truly moving piece of theatre that brings the many voices of Prince Georges’ past and present to bear witness, and bring to light struggles that we (or I, at least) knew nothing about. Director Tony Thomas ha...

by Tavish Young - February 27, 2025

A real treat, and going soon, Shucked is a conventional but still fresh musical riding into town from Broadway on a tractor....

by Elliot Lanes - February 27, 2025

I first came to know the talents of Ellie Holcomb when my wife and I were on vacation in Nashville and saw her blow a hole in the roof at Ryman Auditorium. Her pixie like quality, superb vocals and true musicianship introduced me to a true talent in contemporary Christian music and beyond. Her singe...

by Tavish Young - February 24, 2025

Just weeks after Trump deposed much of The Kennedy Center's board of trustees and replaced them with his supporters (who subsequently elected him as the board's chair) and off the heels of the White House's statement that 'The Kennedy Center learned the hard way that if you go woke,' The Other Child...

by Rachael F. Goldberg - February 24, 2025

'Kunene and the King' is a captivating and moving examination of character and society. It also feels particularly timely for American audiences to explore, while helping us all connect a bit better by urging us to truly see each other....

by Emily Berger - February 22, 2025

What did our critic think of THE WASHINGTON BALLET'S TRANSCENDANCE at Kennedy Center?...