A joyful, high-energy musical comedy packed with unforgettable songs, humor, and heart. It’s a celebration of youth, fame, and the delightful chaos that happens when pop culture collides with small-town life.
An eclectic group of six mid-pubescents vie for the spelling championship of a lifetime. While candidly disclosing hilarious and touching stories from their home lives, the tweens spell their way through a series of (potentially made-up) words, hoping never to hear the soul-crushing, pout-inducing, life un-affirming "ding" of the bell that signals a spelling mistake.
Set in late 1940s Brooklyn and told through a montage of memories, dreams, and arguments of the protagonist traveling salesman Willy Loman who is despondent with his life and appears to be slipping into senility. Several tragic, soul-searching revelations – concerning his wife, his sons and his business associates – underscore how his quest for the “American Dream” kept him blind to the people who truly loved him.
At the MacGregor Plantation, the antebellum South collides with the present in a provocative fever dream where race, desire, gender, and power intertwine. Nothing is quite as it seems—and yet everything is.
Harmonica player, singer, songwriter and bandleader Joel Astley has collected 18 Washington Blues Society's "Best of the Blues" Awards since he started his career in 2014.
Spafford is known for their astonishing improvisational ability and off-the-cuff extended jams, Spafford paints a picture in real-time each night with a musical palette known only to each other. It’s a private language comprised of both their talent as musicians as well as their formidable catalog of influences, spanning 90’s alt-rock radio hits to Steely Dan and The Crystal Method.
Guitar master Bill Frisell is among the most versatile and prolific musicians of the modern age, and he returns to the Raven with Harmony Five, featuring Bill, cellist Hank Roberts, vocalist Petra Haden, multi-string specialist Luke Bergman, and drummer/composer Timothy Angulo.
In a pop culture world defined by its perpetual changes, the partnership of singer songwriter Pat Benatar and producer-musician Neil Giraldo has been a potent, steadfast union that has soared to the top of the charts and into fans’ hearts on their own terms.
Chronicling his remarkable chart-topping time with Genesis to his multi-Grammy winning solo career to his Academy Award-winning work for Disney, The Phil Collins Story brings the artist’s distinctive music to life in a way that resonates with audiences both visually and emotionally—up close and personal.
Join beloved PBS host Rick Steves for an evening that ventures beyond the guidebook.