The Washington Ballet’s new production of The Sleeping Beauty, running through Sunday at the Kennedy Center’s Eisenhower Theater, is a breakthrough for D.C.’s hometown ballet company. It is also a study in high classicism. After two and a half years under the careful direction of Julie Kent and Victor Barbee, the dancers of the Washington […]
Archives for February 28, 2019
Amazon issue resolved, Synetic is safe in its Crystal City theatre through 2022
Synetic Theater, Washington’s acclaimed movement-based company, will remain in its Arlington, VA facility at least through late 2022, its landlord announced. Speculation about the fate of the troupe, a DC-area institution since 1996, had been rampant ever since the announcement came that Amazon would use the building at 1800 S. Bell Street, and that Synetic’s […]
Finding Neverland review. J.M. Barrie discovers his Peter Pan in this charming musical
Seems poetic that The Boy Who Wouldn’t Grow Up is well over 100 now and still as impish as ever in Finding Neverland. Peter Pan, the eternal boy, sprung from the mind of Scottish novelist and playwright J.M. Barrie during the Victorian era. And he has endured, from becoming a Disney stalwart to being featured in […]