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Ain’t Too Proud The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts By: Jordan Wright January 1, 2022
National Touring Company of Ain’t Too Proud – © 2021 Emilio Madrid
(left to right) – Elijah Ahmad Lewis, Marcus Paul James, Jalen Harris, Harrell Holmes Jr., James T. Lane from the National Touring Company […]
Jordan Wright October 10, 2019
Parrot Heads know where paradise is – on a beach with a tequila-laced cocktail in hand – and that’s exactly where this bio-musical will transport them. Last night an audience filled with Jimmy Buffett fans were jazzed to hear a mix of his best-loved hits coupled with Broadway-style tunes […]
Jordan Wright July 1, 2018
Ephraim Sykes, Jawan M. Jackson, Jeremy Pope, Derrick Baskin, and James Harkness in Ain’t Too Proud: The Life and Times of The Temptations, now playing at The Kennedy Center. Photo by Doug Hamilton.
Jam-packed with hits from America’s number one R&B/Soul/Funk/Pop group of the 50’s, 60’s and […]
Jordan Wright June 15, 2018
So… Hamilton…Yes! It’s beyond everything you’ve heard it is – and so much more – a ground breaking revolution in musical theater based on one of America’s most accomplished and influential American Revolutionary heroes. Told in the poetry of hip-hop and rap and made emotional through bluesy ballads, this […]
Jordan Wright November 18, 2014 Special to The Alexandria Times
Jonathan Hadary as Tevye and the company of Fiddler on the Roof. Photo by Margot Schulman.
Fiddler on the Roof is a tender and uplifting tale inspired by the Yiddish stories of Sholem Aleichem who wrote them at the turn of the […]
Jordan Wright June 20, 2014 Special to The Alexandria Times
(l-r) Ryan Silverman as Terry Connor, Emily Padgett as Daisy, Erin Davie as Violet, Matthew Hydzik as Buddy Foster. Photo by Joan Marcus.
In the late 19th and up to the mid-20th century, before The Age of Political Correctness, the public’s fascination […]
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