Bright Star at The Kennedy Center

Bright Star

The Kennedy Center
2700 F Street, NW Washington

Inspired by a true event, the wholly original new musical Bright Star tells a sweeping tale of love and redemption set against the rich backdrop of the American South in the 1920s and '40s. When successful literary editor Alice Murphy meets an ambitious young soldier just home from World War II, their connection inspires Alice to confront her past. Together they discover a stunning secret with the power to transform their lives. From Grammy and Emmy-winner Steve Martin and Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Edie Brickell comes this hopeful and heart-swelling celebration of the stories that define us. Directed by Tony-winner Walter Bobbie, Bright Star is a powerful reminder that even in the darkest sky, there's always one bright star.

Thru - Jan 10, 2016

Price: $45- $175

Box Office: 202-467-4600

www.kennedy-center.org/calendar/event/TQTSC

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MetroWeekly - Highly Recommended

"...Bright Star is a feel-good musical through and through. It’s also a love letter to the South’s musical roots and literary culture. Steeped in bluegrass and Americana, it’s quiet and understated. And the expressions of happiness and joy in Bright Star are often tempered with sorrow and pain, a bittersweet sensibility built into the music as well as the narrative."

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- Doug Rule

Talkin Broadway - Recommended

"...Director Walter Bobbie keeps the action bubbling and choreographer Josh Rhodes decorates the stage with graceful and energetic couples. (The sense of community, or alternatively the stifling nature of a small town where everyone knows everyone else's business, comes through in the presence of the townspeople as a Greek chorus.) The main piece of Eugene Lee's sparse set is a rough-hewn cabin that contains the 10 musicians led by pianist/accordionist Rob Berman."

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- Susan Berlin

The Georgetowner - Recommended

"..."Bright Star," which does indeed traffic in honest sentiment, fable-like story-telling, improbabilities, foundlings, homespun Americana-style music fueled by banjos, guitars and fiddles, attractive heroes and heroines, down-home small-town Southern types and a blissful embrace of a satisfying end to a nostalgia-doused story, seems in the old-fashioned telling and the sparkling playing and singing to be that rare bird with plumages so familiar that it seems brand new."

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- Gary Tischler

MD Theatre Guide - Somewhat Recommended

"...Overall The Kennedy Center hosted a wonderful production of a mediocre play. The only choice I didn’t like about Walter Bobbie’s direction was the decision to have actors simply standing onstage waiting to sing their harmonies. In a few numbers two characters were singing to each other as ensemble members stood in a line upstage, causing me to lose focus on the action while puzzling over the silent existence of the characters in the background."

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- Kaley Beins

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Bright Star Reviews

MetroWeekly - Highly Recommended

Talkin Broadway - Recommended

The Georgetowner - Recommended

MD Theatre Guide - Somewhat Recommended

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