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Flashy and Fabulous Guys and Dolls Blows the Roof Off at the Kennedy Center

Flashy And Fabulous Guys and Dolls Blows the Roof Off at The Kennedy Center The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Jordan Wright October 18, 2022 Special to The Zebra

Steven Pasquale and Company (Photo/Jeremy Daniel)

A short run of this classic has left town already, but there’s a lingering […]

Dear Evan Hansen – A Glorious and Deeply Moving Score Calls Out to Parents and Teens with Truth, Humanity and Humor

Dear Evan Hansen A Glorious and Deeply Moving Score Calls Out to Parents and Teens with Truth, Humanity and Humor

John F. Kennedy Theatre for the Performing Arts Jordan Wright September 7, 2022 Special to the Zebra

Anthony Norman, John Hemphill, Lili Thomas, Alaina Anderson (Photo by Evan Zimmerman for MurphyMade)

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Next to Normal ~ The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

Jordan Wright February 3, 2020

How do you make a story about a woman having a nervous breakdown palatable to musical theatre audiences? First, you make the characters poignantly identifiable – Dan, a loving husband and father devoted to keeping his family intact; Natalie, a teenage daughter living in the shadow of her dead […]

Dear Evan Hansen ~ The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

Jordan Wright August 11, 2019

Four years ago, Dear Evan Hansen premiered at Arena Stage under the direction and guidance of Molly Smith and Edgar Dobie. The angsty teen musical starred Ben Platt who subsequently became a huge star when the show went to Broadway where it won six Tony Awards in 2017 […]

Aladdin ~ The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

Jordan Wright July 22, 2019

For those of you who love fantasy and adventure with royalty and villains, Disney’s Aladdin sits at the pinnacle of Broadway extravaganzas. I doubt there’s ever been any production with more glitter, more sequins, more light-reflecting crystal beads, fields of chiffon, sky-high feathered turbans and all-around glitz and glamour […]

Hello, Dolly! ~ The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

Jordan Wright June 8, 2019

There’s nothing like a rip-roaring, old school, Broadway musical to get the heart pumping and the toes tapping. In Hello, Dolly! the music and lyrics of Jerry Herman, one of the greatest composers of the Great White Way, will do just that. You just have to refrain from singing […]