STAYCATION • BY JAMIE LEE If it rains on the day of your trip to Harpers Ferry or Annapolis, check out these strictly indoor staycation destinations. First, there’s plenty

EVENTS • BY DARLENE REYES Start the summer off right enjoying live performances, games and international food. Washington Revels is holding its annual summer solstice celebration, SunFest, on June 10

ARTS • BY SARAH KRAUT In 1910, the world’s largest full-stage theatre allowing African American performers opened in Washington, D.C.’s Shaw neighborhood. At the height of its majesty,

ARTS • BY ROB KOENIG He was born in a French-speaking town in West Africa and barely spoke English when he arrived as a refugee in Silver Spring

THEATRE • BY AMANDA ZIADEH Hexagon, a non-profit satirical singing, dancing and acting group, is now putting on its 57^th anniversary show, skewering Washington elites and raising money

THEATRE • BY SARAH KRAUT Cristina Garcia describes her creative process as “Jackson Pollock in the head.” She thinks abstractly, in a stream-of-consciousness manner, and she loves to

PHOTOS • BY MARK PODGER On February 19, Voice photographer Mark Podger ventured over the river to the State Theatre in Falls Church, Va., for the 26th Wammies,

KIDS' VOICE • BY MARY ELLEN KOENIG Most of us are content with a birthday cake and a few presents for our birthday. But Maryland State Senator Jamie

by Sandy Moore photos by Marcy Hairston The girls are swathed in silks the colors of a Sephardic stew: cumin, turmeric, paprika. A few boys in tunics are sprinkled into

By Brandon Green On Thursday Sept. 15 the new Fillmore music hall in Silver Springs opened to a sold out crowd. With Mary J. Blige headlining the night fans

The large, vacant storefront near the crossroads of Georgia and Colesville will finally be open for the first time in more than 18 years as none other than

In 2007, the Ravinia Festival in Chicago commissioned renowned modern dance choreographer, director and multiple Tony-award winner Bill T. Jones to create a performance to commemorate the bicentennial

Wildwood Summer Theatre presents City of Angels In the auditorium of Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School on July 21, two young men in jeans and white T-shirts scuffle,

Wanda Whiteside didn’t have to travel far to realize her dream of a brick-and-mortar, African American owned and operated theatre. She simply had to have the need for

Maria Alvarez thought men were the opposition. Growing up, she saw her mother struggle to raise her kids alone; in college, she and her friends staged demonstrations against

Twelve-year-old Ebony Ceballos steps onto the stage at Montgomery College, long brown hair obscuring her pretty face. Her fellow emcee, Agnes King, a shy fifth grader, clutches her

by Mary Ellen Koenig
special to the Voice

With bare branches silhouetted against gray skies and the temperatures dropping daily, we are deep within winter's cold beauty.  

by Sandy Moore

by Sandy Moore Former Takoma Park native and Lumina stage fighter Julianna Allen graduated from Vassar College with a degree in Psychology and Drama, along with some bruises earned