Here’s your weekly entertainment calendar!
Through simple, clever, and charming humor, Tape Face creates an accessible and enjoyable show for audiences of all ages at the Sixth and I Synagogue Tuesday, May 23rd at 8:00 pm. The New Zealand-based prop comic and mime has an unconventional, wry, and multi-layered approach to comedic performance. Tickets are $29.50. For more information, go to sixthandi.org.
World-renowned cellist and Kennedy Center Artistic Advisor at Large Yo-Yo Ma joins the NSO for a celebration of JFK’s monumental legacy that also features a new commission from Kennedy Center Composer-in-Residence Mason Bates. The concert will take place at 8:00 pm on Wednesday, May 24 in the Concert Hall. Tickets range from $79 – $199. For more information – go to KennedyCenter.org.
Grammy Award-winner Mary J. Blige, known for her soulful tunes like “Family Affair,” “Real Love,” and “Thick of It” (from her upcoming album, Strength of a Woman) takes the Wolf Trap’s Filene Stage for a heartfelt and forceful performance Thursday, May 25th at 8:00 pm. Tickets start at $45 and can be purchased at wolftrap.org.
And finally, winner of a record 6 Tony Awards, 2 Grammy Awards, an Emmy, and many more prestigious accolades, actress and singer Audra McDonald will thrill the audience this Friday at the Music Center at Strathmore. Tickets range from $45 – $105. They can be purchased at Strathmore.org.
Are you planning on going to any of these events? Let us know in the comments!
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She may be a traffic engineer by day (hence the ‘stopsigngirl’ alias), but do not let her technical skills or multiple calculators fool you. Stephanie Taylor has a way with words. She will destroy any opponent in Scrabble, and get 50 points for using all 7 of her letters in the word “destroy.” She can a-n-n-i-h-i-l-a-t-e you in a spelling bee, having competed in no less than ten as a child. She uses correct punctuation in her text messages. It’s no wonder that copy editing comes naturally to her, and she is happy to fine tune the work of other writers before it reaches TRR readers.
Proofreading is not all that Stephanie loves to do. Regular reading without the proof is just fine, and she also loves to write. In fact, Steph has been writing since the tender age of 6 when she penned her would-be bestseller Mouse in Jail. It “would be” if all literary critics were in Kindergarten. Since elementary school, Stephanie has helped publish newsletters, yearbooks, and the Arts & Entertainment section of The Rice Thresher, Rice University’s student newspaper.
Stephanie’s other gigs have included singing her heart out in the chorus of My Fair Lady in Houston, doing improv comedy in front of hundreds of people in Atlanta, and teaching A.P. English in Los Angeles. She loves to travel and have cultural adventures like tubing down a river in Ecuador, dancing in a South Asian festival, or riding a ferry from Italy for 19 hours just to get real Greek food. Cooking and Yoga are also among Stephanie’s list of favorite things to do, but she cannot do them at the same time.
This native Texan genuinely adores reporting on entertainment as much as she loves to entertain, and is looking forward to learning more about what the D.C. area has to offer and sharing that news with you.
Stephanie Taylor also likes to write about herself in the third person.
