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Lila Downs celebrates Cinco de Mayo at Hylton Center for Performing Arts
Emily Cary
Published: Sat, May 4, 2013
The dynamic Mexican-American artist Lila Downs and her band, La Misteriosa, visit the melodies and flavors from the past and present for an unforgettable evening at the Hylton Performing Arts Center. Many of the songs she has chosen to perform are from "Pecados y Milagros," her Grammy...
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Danseurs in tutus and tights
Emily Cary
Published: Thu, May 2, 2013
Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo is a troupe of male dancers who portray such legends as Jacques d'Ambrosia, Olga Supphozova and Ida Nevasayneva while hovering en pointe or executing an entrechat. For 40 years, the dancers have tickled audiences worldwide with their deft technical prowess...
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Can't help lovin' 'Show Boat'
Emily Cary
Updated: Thu, May 2, 2013
When the musical "Show Boat," with a score by Jerome Kern and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, arrived on Broadway in 1927, sheet music sales exploded. By the time the 1936 and 1951 films hit movie theaters, the songs had become embedded in American culture. Now, the Washington National Opera...
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Weilerstein and Elgar, the perfect combination
Emily Cary
Published: Wed, May 1, 2013
Cellist Alisa Weilerstein joins the National Symphony Orchestra as the guest artist in a program of two remarkable 20th-century works conducted by Christoph Eschenbach. Dmitri Shostakovich wrote his Symphony No. 5 in 1937 under Stalin's regime. Although he was, at the time, out of favor with the...
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Visionary violinist Hilary Hahn and the Philadelphia Orchestra together again
Emily Cary
Published: Tue, Apr 30, 2013
The Grammy Award-winning violinist Hilary Hahn has been wonderfully precocious since she entered the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia at age 10 in 1990. A year later, she made her orchestral debut with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, followed by the Philadelphia Orchestra....
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'Twelfth Night' at the Folger: Shakespearean castaways search for love
Emily Cary
Updated: Mon, Apr 29, 2013
Robert Richmond is fast becoming an essential cog in the wheels of the Folger Elizabethan Theatre. Earlier this season, he directed Shakespeare's "Henry V," the best-selling production in Folger's history. Now he turns his imaginative sights to "Twelfth Night," moving seamlessly from a dramatic...
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John Houseman's Acting Company at age 40
Emily Cary
Published: Thu, Apr 25, 2013
When the Oscar-winning actor/producer director John Houseman founded the Acting Company 40 years ago, he could not have imagined the influence it would have upon students, schools and potential stars of stage, screen and television. During that time, the company has toured by bus to 48 states...
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John Robin Baitz's 'Other Desert Cities' at Arena Stage
Emily Cary
Published: Thu, Apr 25, 2013
Jon Robin Baitz's knack for unearthing and reconciling family secrets was rewarded with a 2011 Pulitzer Prize nomination for "Other Desert Cities." The play merging humor and drama gets its Washington debut at Arena Stage with a cast headed by Tony Award nominees Larry Bryggman as Lyman Wyeth...
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Esperanza Spalding brings her 'Radio Music Society' to D.C.
Emily Cary
Published: Sun, Apr 21, 2013
Esperanza Spalding picked up two more Grammy Awards in 2013. "Radio Music Society," her latest CD, won for Best Jazz Vocal Album. The second Grammy was for Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist for her song "City of Roses." To hail these achievements, the Washington Performing Arts...
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Cabaret hierarchy rules at the Barns
Emily Cary
Published: Thu, Apr 18, 2013
Andrea Marcovicci is the singer's singer whose very name is synonymous with cabaret. Since 1987, she has been a fixture in the Oak Room of New York's Hotel Algonquin delivering in her silky voice the whole catalog of Cole Porter, Rodgers and Hart, Frank Loesser, Johnny Mercer and just about...
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