Love Jones The Musical, a stage adaptation of the critically acclaimed 1997 Love Jones film, is scheduled to tour nationally this Fall/ Winter. The stage production will boast an all-star cast of R&B music’s biggest names including Chrisette Michelle, Musiq Soulchild, Marsha Ambrosius, MC Lyte, Raheem Devaughn and Dave Hollister whowere all carefully selected to star […]
Tag: National Theater
Dirty Dancing The Musical Brings the Fun to DC.
Washington, DC – National Theater, 9/2/14. Is Jillian Mueller trying to corner the market on Broadway shows based on ’80s musical films? She was on tour earlier this year playing the lead in the musical touring production of Flashdance. Now she returns to Washington, DC to kick off the national tour of another show based […]
West Side Story Goes Out with A Bang!
The history of DC’s National Theater amazes me sometimes. Did you know that the seminal, classic Leonard Bernstein/Stephen Sondheim Broadway musical West Side Story had its world premiere at the venerable theater August 19, 1957 – before it went on to fame and fortune on Broadway?
Review: The Blue Man Group at National Theater
They say the 3rd time is the charm and nowhere is that more evident than my experience seeing the wonderfully strange, wacky, comical, and surreal experience known as Blue Man Group. It amazes me that somehow Blue Man Group, founded by entrepreneurs Matt Goldman, Phil Stanton and Chris Wink has been around since 1991 and […]
American Idiot: Washington, DC, American Idiot Rocks DC’s National Theater!
These days it seems like Broadway is all about adapting movies, tv, or books into shows, American Idiot is the strangest of animals because it turns two popular Green Day albums – American Idiot and 21st Century Breakdown into a musical.
Porgy and Bess Returns to DC. Michelle’s Review!
Alicia Hall Moran as Bess and Nathaniel Stampley as Porgy in the The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess. Photo by Michael J. Lutch. For the first time in several decades one of the great American Operas, Porgy and Bess returns to the Washington, DC’s National Theater. The recent Broadway revival has breathed new life into this […]