This past weekend witnessed the Second Annual Big Band Swing Weekend at Acca Shrine Grand Ballroom in Richmond, Virginia. Dance music performed by Glen Boswick and the Sound of Swing and Joe Enroughty…
A panoramic ‘Princess Ida’
Gilbert and Sullivan’s famous comic operetta, “Princess Ida, or Castle Adamant,” is now appearing through June 16 at the F. Scott Fitzgerald Theatre in Rockville. Staged by the Victorian Lyric Opera C…
‘Jubilee’ tells the story of Singers who save their School and Introduce Negro Spirituals to the World
Twenty years ago, Playwright and Director Tazewell Thompson viewed a documentary on the famed Fisk University Jubilee Singers who toured the U.S. and Central Europe in the 1800s to save their beloved …
Science Fiction Convention Blasts Off to New Heights at National Harbor
The Museum of Science Fiction comes with the “caveat emptor” imprimatur (we use the Latin, not fully knowing the words in Klingon) as it is dedicated not only to science fiction, but also to the inter…
Senegalese Superstar Youssou N’Dour brings his Worldbeat sound to Strathmore
Senegalese superstar Youssou N’Dour performed before a delighted audience at the Strathmore Music Center on May 29, lighting up the stage with his innovative, Worldbeat sound. Backed by his dynamic ni…
Stunning and shocking performance of ‘Cabaret’
In his book “The Romantic School,” the German-Jewish poet and journalist Heinrich Heine praised Germany for cherishing “the idea of humanitarianism” and “the idea of the universal brotherhood of manki…
‘Spunk’ at Signature Theatre Lives Up to Zora Neal Hurston’s Literary Flair
“Spunk,” based on three short stories by Harlem Renaissance writer Zora Neale Hurston, is now onstage at Signature Theatre and lives up to the writer’s literary flair. Adapted by “Jelly’s Last Jam” wr…
‘Camelot’ entertains royally in Pennsylvania Dutch Country
“It’s May, it’s May, that gorgeous holiday!” It is time to consider travels as spring deepens and summer approaches. May we suggest Pennsylvania Dutch Country, for a journey to a quaint, long ago past…
Studio Theatre’s “The Children” Examines the Impact of Irresponsible and Uncontrolled Desires On Future Generations
The decisions that lead to a nuclear disaster and its impact on future generations are at the heart of “The Children,” playing at Studio Theatre through June 2, however, the decisions that lead to oth…
The mind banquets at ‘Love’s Labors Lost’ and ‘The Oresteia’
“The mind shall banquet though the body pine,” said Longaville in Shakespeare’s “Love’s Labors Lost,” referring to the King of Navarre’s program to study classics with his courtiers while isolated wit…