Smokey Robinson Wins the Gershwin Prize
Dylan confirmed this week he won’t be going to Sweden next month to pick up his Nobel Prize Literature “for having created new poetic expressions within the great American songbook.”…
Stage Review: New Dimension for ‘Tommy’
"Tommy," the groundbreaking 1969 set by the Who that it dubbed a rock opera, finds a new dimension in the Open Circle Theatre production in Silver Spring. While there's still…
Stage Review: ‘Six Degrees,’ 26 Years Later
More than 25 years after it was first staged, “Six Degrees of Separation,” John Guare’s sly tale of a young con man captivating and ultimately fooling an upper East Side…
Elvis Costello Stays Around a While
It’s not often that Elvis Costello tours without a new album to support. When he has, the super-prolific songwriter has left his setlist to fate with his always-entertaining Spinning Songbook…
Ballet: Christopher Wheeldon’s ‘Cinderella’
Before ballet stages everywhere become crowded with nutcrackers and their gala holiday accouterments, there is still time for other sturdy folk tales of enchantment set to Russian music and popular…
A Documentary Worthy of ‘Hamilton’
After a bestselling soundtrack, coffee table book, and record breaking run on Broadway, where it’s won 11 Tony Awards and the Pulitzer Prize, the much lauded “Hamilton” also now has…
Stage Review: ‘Kiss’ at Woolly Mammoth
I wish you could see “Kiss” at Woolly Mammoth Theatre the way I did: Without a lot of advance insight, no prior research and only the vague knowledge it was…
Stage Review: ‘Year of Magical Thinking’
One of the failings of human beings is the hesitance to visit those who have lost loved ones. We wonder about the right thing to say when the actual requirement…
Issa Rae’s Sure-Footed ‘Insecure’
Two of HBO’s best new shows came up through lowly web series. There, an artist with complete control, unfettered by network notes can form a singular creative vision. As it…
Stage Review: ‘An Iliad’ at Taffety Punk
By now the world is used to inhumane aberrations like ten-year wars. But back when Homer wrote his epic poem, it was still something to rage about, as he did…