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Emily Cary is an award-winning writer, teacher, and genealogical researcher.

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  • The Mikado on 'The Mikado'

    By Emily Cary | 05/30/13 03:40 PM

    David Wannen grew up in Washington hooked on Gilbert & Sullivan musicals after seeing the 1983 "Pirates of Penzance" movie starring Kevin Kline. Today he is the managing director of the New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players, the company that this week marks 19 years of performances in Wolf...

  • Signature Theatre's ultimate Sondheim

    By Emily Cary | 05/24/13 06:40 PM

    Signature Theatre and its artistic director, Eric Schaeffer, have a long history of championing Stephen Sondheim, so it's only fitting that the season's climax is a production of the composer's "Company." The stars could not be in better alignment. Schaeffer is back at the helm after directing...

  • Christopher O'Riley partners with Franz Liszt

    By Emily Cary | 05/24/13 03:00 PM

    Virtuoso pianist Christopher O'Riley has just released "O'Riley's Liszt," his latest recording inspired by Franz Liszt, the 19th-century keyboard genius with whom he has been compared both technically and personality-wise. On Monday, the Iota Club and Cafe in Arlington will host O'Riley...

  • Shuler Hensley, versatile actor and singer

    By Emily Cary | 05/23/13 05:15 PM

    Actor Shuler Hensley, who plays the Critic in "The Guardsman" in its run at the Eisenhower Theater for the next month, is one of those rare actors who is never idle. He arrives at the Kennedy Center fresh from a successful Off-Broadway run in "The Whale," for which he won the Lucille Lortel...

  • The Attacca Quartet plays John Adams

    By Emily Cary | 05/21/13 03:40 PM

    When violinist Amy Schroeder and cellist Andrew Yee began thinking about a name for the quartet they founded at the Juilliard School of Music, they started with "a" in the musical dictionary. They did not search far before deciding on Attacca, which refers to the direction at the end of a...

  • Garrison Keillor brings the latest news from Lake Wobegon

    By Emily Cary | 05/20/13 03:25 PM

    The salesman pitching aluminum siding on the phone sounded strangely familiar, like a ripple echoing across storied waters. He was, in truth, the humorist, writer and radio personality Garrison Keillor best known for his monologues about a Brigadoon-like village that emerges from his mind when...

  • Remembering the Monkees: Peter Tork on nostalgic tour

    By Emily Cary | 05/20/13 03:10 PM

    Whenever "Hey, hey, we're the Monkees" reverberated from TV sets throughout American neighborhoods in 1966, excited youngsters settled themselves before the screen awaiting a half-hour of madcap episodes about four hopeful rock 'n' roll singers who lived in a Malibu beach house. Until it ended...

  • Ute Lemper, chanteuse extraordinaire

    By Emily Cary | 05/16/13 02:25 PM

    Each time Ute Lemper commands the stage, she unleashes ghosts of the past. Her distinctive contralto voice resurrects an era long past as her poetic repertoire recounts tales of lost loves, survival and passionate dreams. Her concert, titled "Last Tango in Berlin," revisits the German cabaret...

  • A 'Wicked'-ly wonderful evening with the NSO Pops

    By Emily Cary | 05/14/13 08:20 PM

    American composer Stephen Schwartz is one of those multitalented individuals who dips his fingers into many streams and stirs up a flood of successes. As a composer and lyricist, he has created projects for Broadway, film, television and the opera house, and accumulated six Tony Award...

  • The Apollo Ensemble performs Jewish musical gems

    By Emily Cary | 05/12/13 03:30 PM

    Pro Musica Hebraica welcomes back the Apollo Ensemble for an evening of rare Jewish classical music from Amsterdam's Ets-Chaim Library. Since their highly praised American debut in 2009, the musicians have been in great demand internationally for their performances of Jewish baroque music on...


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