Out and About...

On this page, you'll find reviews of arts-related events that I attended as well as tributes to some of my favorite people. More items will be added whenever I have something new to share. Enjoy!

Fun Around Town and Beyond... 

• 2012 Rainforest Fund Benefit (Carnegie Hall, New York, April 3, 2012)

• Singin' in the Rain screening (Smithsonian Institution, Museum of American History, D.C., July 13, 2012) 

• Fred Astaire: Dancing with Genius (Smithsonian Institution, Hirshhorn Museum, D.C., July 19, 2012)

• Jazz in D.C. (Westminster Presbyterian Church, Blues Alley, and Twins Jazz, D.C., August 24-26, 2012)

• Museum Exhibits in D.C. (The Art of Video Games at the American Art Museum, and Women Who Rock at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, D.C., September 2012)

• Lucy Wainwright Roche and Rufus Wainwright (930 Club, D.C., February 12, 2013)

• The Incomparable Ella (Lecture on Ella Fitzgerald, Smithsonian Institution, February 20, 2014)

• Lucy Wainwright Roche (The Kennedy Center, D.C., March 24, 2013)

• The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Presents Charlie Chaplin's The Idle Class and The Kid (Strathmore, Maryland, February 1, 2014) 

• Plays in D.C. (Peter and the Starcatcher at The Kennedy Center and The Tallest Tree in The Forest at Arena Stage, D.C., February 2014)  

• The Last Ship (Sting CD release, September 2014)

• All That Jazz... (2014 in review: Kris Funn, Ron Carter, Sharon Clarke, Ginger Baker, Ellis and Delfeayo Marsalis, Terence Blanchard, and Harry Connick, Jr.) 

• Twice the Sting (The Performance Series of Legends for the Duke Ellington School of the Arts: Sting with very special guest Paul Simon, Strathmore, Maryland; Paul Simon and Sting On Stage Together, Verizon Center, D.C., March 12-13, 2014) 

• Leaders in American Song: George Gershwin and Cole Porter (Gershwin, By George! and Cole Porter: Sophisticate of American Song lectures, Smithsonian Institution, March 27 and July 22, 2014)

• Lucy Wainwright Roche and Rufus Wainwright (Lincoln Theatre, D.C., April 16, 2014)

• 2014 Rainforest Fund Benefit Concert (Carnegie Hall, New York, April 17, 2014)

• New Moves: Symphony + Dance Festival (Kennedy Center, D.C., May 8-16, 2014)

• Savion Glover (Howard Theatre, D.C., August 23, 2014, and Strathmore, Maryland, February 6, 2015)

• Finding Neverland and The Real Thing (Finding Neverland, Cambridge, Massachusetts, September 12, 2014, and The Real Thing, New York, October 17, 2014)

• The Dynamic Duo: Danny Elfman and Tim Burton (Kennedy Center, D.C., October 22, 2014) 

• Broadway Extravaganza 2014 (The River, Cabaret, The Last Ship, and On the Town, New York, October 31-November 2, 2014)

• 2015 in Review: See You at the Theatre! (Choir Boy, Blithe Spirit, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, The Tale of the Allergist's Wife, Once, Oliver!, and Bright Star)

• 2015 in Review: That's Dancing! (Savion Glover, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre, and Twyla Tharp) 

• Mysterious Thelonious (Thelonious Monk Listening Party and Jason Moran's In my Mind: Monk at Town Hall, 1959, Kennedy Center, March 2015)

• 2015 in Review: Let the Music Play! (Roy Ayers, Jason Marsalis, Bobby McFerrin, Ginger Baker, Terence Blanchard, Justin Kauflin Trio, Roy Hargrove, Ming Xiao-Fen, Kendrick Lamar, Christian McBride and Edgar Meyer, and Jody Watley and Shalamar Reloaded)

• 2016 in Review: The Shows Must Go On! (Matilda the Musical, Kinky Boots, Urinetown, the Musical, Shuffle Along, Jelly's Last Jam, Constellations, Moment,  and The Object Lesson) 

• 2016 in Review: Dance, Dance, Dance (The Washington Ballet's Bowie & Queen, Damian Woetzel's DEMO: Places and DEMO: Heroes, and The Blues Project with Dorrance Dance and Toshi Reagon and BIGlovely)

• 2016 in Review: Turn it up! (Belly, David Bowie tribute, Go-Go's, Sting and Peter Gabriel, Esperanza Spalding, Jason Moran and Charles Lloyd, Buster Williams, Patty Larkin and Suzzy Roche & Lucy Wainwright Roche, Yasiin Bey, Forever Gershwin, and House of Cards in Concert) 

• 2017 in Review: A Musical Journey (Yasiin Bey, Q-Tip, Jeff "Tain" Watts, Gary Burton and Makato Ozone, Jason Moran, Kenny Barron, Ron Carter, Aimee Mann, Gillan Welch and David Rawlings, Meshell Ndegeocello and Toshi Reagon, Lisa Fischer and Grand Baton, Sting, and Seu George)

• Theatre Trips: An American in Paris and Meteor Shower (An American in Paris, Kennedy Center, Washington, DC; Meteor Shower, Booth Theatre, New York, January 2018)

• 2018 in Review: Tap Happy! (Savion Glover's All FuNKD' Up and Dorrance Dance: ETM: Double Down)

• 2018 in Review: State of the Art (The National Portrait Gallery and Smithsonian American Art Museum, The Renwick Gallery, American University Museum at the Katzan Arts Center)

For Some of my Favorite People....

Lauren Bacall
David Bowie

Cyd Charisse
Chuck Jones
Martin Luther King, Jr.'s March on Washington
Nelson Mandela
George Michael                                                        

Paul Newman
Prince                                                                                   

Lou Reed

Robin Williams