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A Political Newbie Goes Rogue in Sinclair Lewis’s Babbitt at Shakespeare Theatre Company

A Political Newbie Goes Rogue in Sinclair Lewis’s Babbitt at Shakespeare Theatre Company

Babbitt Shakespeare Theatre Company Jordan Wright October 8, 2024 Special to The Zebra

Matthew Broderick (Photo/Teresa Castracane Photography)

There’s no law that says you must read or re-read the novel the play you are about to see […]

Bye Bye Birdie Knocks It Out of The Park With Broadway Headliners at the Kennedy Center

Bye Bye Birdie Knocks It Out of The Park With Broadway Headliners at the Kennedy Center

The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Broadway Center Stage Jordan Wright June 11, 2024

Christian Borle and Krysta Rodriguez (Photo/Matthew Murphy and Evan Zimmerman)

Music publisher slash songwriter, […]

The Washington National Opera’s Ending for Puccini’s Turandot Shines with a Multinational Cast at The Kennedy Center

The Washington National Opera’s Ending for Puccini’s Turandot Shines with a Multinational Cast at The Kennedy Center

Turandot The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Jordan Wright May 15, 2024

Ewa Płonka (Photo/Cory Weaver)

Turandot, the Washington National Opera’s final production for this season, opened on its […]

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 […]

Dear Jack, Dear Louise ~ Arena Stage

Jordan Wright December 6, 2019

Ken Ludwig, the prolific Olivier Award-winning and Tony Award-winning playwright, gifts us with an exquisite pentimento-inspired play drawing on his parents’ long-distance romance during the height of World War II. This charming, world premiere two-hander is constructed in such a way that the actors act out their correspondence. It’s […]

Anastasia ~ The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

Jordan Wright November 6, 2018

In Terrence McNally’s lavish musical Anastasia the luxe life of the dynasty that was the Romanovs collides head on with reality. The Russian Revolution of 1917 proved to be the downfall of the gilded empire ruled by the Romanov family. Collateral damage included the brutal murders of Tsar Nicholas, […]