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Offenbach Operetta Songbird Gets a New and Snappy 1920’s New Orleans Jazz Treatment with Superstar Isabel Leonard

Offenbach Operetta Songbird Gets a New and Snappy 1920’s New Orleans Jazz Treatment with Superstar Isabel Leonard

Songbird The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Jordan Wright March 15, 2024 Special to The Zebra

A scene from Songbird (Photo/Scott Suchman)

If you tell me Isabel […]

Blue is a Must See All Black Cast Opera at the Kennedy Center

Blue is a Must See All Black Cast Opera at the Kennedy Center

Blue The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Jordan Wright March 15, 2023 Special to The Zebra

Left to right: tenor Jonathan Pierce Rhodes (Police Officer Buddy 2/Male Congregant 2); bass-baritone Christian Simmons (Police Officer Buddy […]

Seven Guitars

Seven Guitars Arena Stage By: Jordan Wright December 14, 2021

Joy Jones and Roderick Lawrence in August Wilson’s Seven Guitars at Arena Stage running November 26 – December 26, 2021. Photo by Ryan Maxwell Photography.

Dane Figueroa Edidi in August Wilson’s Seven Guitars at Arena Stage running November 26 – December […]

A Thousand Splendid Suns ~ Arena Stage

Jordan Wright January 25, 2020

Making its DC premiere at Arena Stage under Carey Perloff’s astute direction, A Thousand Splendid Suns brings to life Khaled Hosseini’s poignant and powerful novel of Afghanistan in 1992. After years of bombings by Russian and Taliban forces, creating a crisis of unimaginable destitution and deprivation, Laila’s family is […]

Jubilee ~ Arena Stage

Jordan Wright May 21, 2019

Jubilee harkens back to the American Reconstruction era when White audiences were beginning to listen to Negro spirituals in concert settings. Songs sung on plantations, in Black churches and on chain gangs – spiritual songs, work songs, songs of the underground railroad and traditional folk tunes – became more […]

Silent Night ~ At The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

Jordan Wright November 12, 2018

Guns fell silent on Christmas Eve 1914 on the Belgian Front during World War I. Due to a peculiar string of events, this cease fire is one of the strangest tales to ever occur during this war – or any war for that matter. It’s a story that was […]