Articles Tagged With: The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

Review: Kinky Boots at The Kennedy Center

Reviews June 18, 2016 Amanda N. Gunther

Do you know what the most beautiful thing in the world is? Why, it’s a shoe! And the world at The John F. Kennedy Center is brighter because it’s six inches off the ground right now as Kinky Boots settles into the Opera House stage for the first half of the 2016 summer. Preaching a powerful message, this Tony Award-winning musical— with Book by Harvey Fierstein and Music & Lyrics by Cyndi Lauper— is a sizzling sensation of a show that will blind you with how brilliantly it shines.

Review: A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder at The Kennedy Center

Reviews January 16, 2016 Amanda N. Gunther

Blood may spill and spines may chill but that’s not a good enough excuse to skip town during the run of A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder now appearing live— until poisoned, pushed, dispatched or otherwise— in the Eisenhower Theatre of The John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts. Based on the novel by Roy Horniman, with Book and Lyrics by Robert L. Freedman and Music and Lyrics by Steven Lutvak,

Review: Bright Star at The Kennedy Center

Reviews December 21, 2015 Amanda N. Gunther

Trouble and happiness tend to walk hand in hand because liars sometimes make good story tellers. Making its pre-Broadway debut with a whole lot of trouble, happiness, and one hell of a good story, Bright Star, premieres in the Eisenhower Theatre of The John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts this holiday season and sets the soul ablaze with a backwoods tale of love and truth in a time the world has nearly forgotten.

Review: Matilda at The Kennedy Center

Reviews December 20, 2015 Amanda N. Gunther

Just because life isn’t fair it doesn’t mean that you just have to grin and bear it, and nobody but you is going to change your story. Make sure you be a little bit naughty this holiday season and get yourself a ticket, no matter how you do it, to Matilda as it appears itself on the Opera House Stage of The John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts. Directed by Matthew Warchus with Musical Direction by Matthew Smedal,

Review: Beautiful: The Carole King Musical at The Kennedy Center

Reviews October 9, 2015 Amanda N. Gunther

Sometimes life goes the way you want it to. And sometimes it doesn’t. But when it doesn’t, sometimes you find something beautiful. And Beautiful: The Carole King Musical is what can be found on the Opera House Stage of The John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts this October. Living up to its title, with Words and Music by the infamous Carole King, as well as Gerry Goffin, Barry Mann, and Cynthia Weil,

The touring company of Once now performing at The Kennedy Center

Once at The Kennedy Center

Reviews July 10, 2015 Amanda N. Gunther

To live you have to love. And you will love the musical odyssey that takes to the stage of The John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts this summer as Once lands in the Opera House starting July 7th. Based on the motion picture Written and Directed by John Carney with Book by Enda Walsh and Music & Lyrics by Glen Hansard and Markèta Irglovà, this strikingly beautiful performance captures the heart and soul of what it is to be a human being alive and in love.

Review: Gigi at The Kennedy Center

Reviews January 30, 2015 Amanda N. Gunther

The night The John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts welcomed Gigi, the stars came out to shine! Thank heaven Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe, the clever masters of Book & Lyrics and Music respectively, have found their way to a stage adaptation through Heidi Thomas and the iconic film classic known as Gigi has made its pre-Broadway engagement in Washington DC! Directed by Eric Schaeffer with Musical Direction by James Moore,

Review: The Illusionists at The Kennedy Center

Reviews January 9, 2015 Amanda N. Gunther

Are you ready to witness the impossible? Theatrical magic at its utmost spectacular, The Illusionists: Witness the Impossible have arrived in a puff of glorious smoke and are ready to impress theatergoers across Washington DC as they take their illusions to the stage of The John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts. Directed and Choreographed by Neil Dorward, this high-octane, riveting magical show defies description with its flashy and edgy new approach to magic— bringing big tricks an uncanny intimacy from the even bigger stage.