- April 5, 2022
Longtime Friend of the Center for the Arts (FCFA), Bob Warakomsky, shares his personal history of being a Friend and collected memories of Friends who attest to the incredible experience of supporting the arts through FCFA. We invite you to get to know some of our Friends.
- April 4, 2022
鈥淎n artist of strikingly original ideas and irrefutable integrity鈥 (The Washington Post), pianist Simone Dinnerstein will join the Fairfax Symphony Orchestra (FSO) performance on April 23 at the Center for the Arts.
- April 4, 2022
On Sunday, April 10, an Artists-In-Conversation (AIC) event will be held as a benefit for the Friends of the Center for the Arts (FCFA) at the Contributor level and above, preceding the Virginia Opera鈥檚 performance of The Marriage of Figaro.
- April 4, 2022
Curious about what鈥檚 coming to the Center for the Arts next season? Want to ensure first pick of the best seats in the house? How about the chance to purchase tickets before the general public for special performances at the Center?
- April 4, 2022
GRAMMY Award-winning composer, conductor, and Mason Artist-in-Residence Maria Schneider conducts Northern Virginia鈥檚 own Metropolitan Jazz Orchestra for a jazz performance including some of her own original music on Saturday, April 16 at 8 p.m. at the Center for the Arts at 亚洲AV.
- April 4, 2022
Having grown up between Minnesota and Mexico, Lila Downs holds great pride in her expansive heritage of being the child of a Scottish-American father and Mixtec mother. In an interview with Reforma magazine, Downs recalls her mother, a singer as well, giving her advice when she was young, 鈥淟ila, canta con sentimiento o no cantes. Lila, sing with feeling or don鈥檛 sing at all.鈥
- April 5, 2022
Mozart鈥檚 beloved four-act comic opera, "The Marriage of Figaro," is the kind of mad and frantic bedroom farce from which guilty (and not-so-guilty) pleasures are made. Artistic Director of Virginia Opera (VAO), Adam Turner, states, 鈥淭his story, these characters-they're all incredibly relevant and resonant. You鈥檒l find a way to see a connection with these characters in some fashion because these are all still themes we still explore today.鈥
- March 9, 2022
Coming to the Center for the Arts this March, SW!NG OUT is a full-length multidisciplinary work showcasing the Lindy Hop, a swing dance style born in 1930s Harlem that has since exploded into a vibrant, international community.
- December 3, 2021
Prolific, Black female choreographer Camille A. Brown tackles these profound but straightforward questions through vibrant, intensely athletic, story-infused social dance that has brought the pint-sized phenom tremendous acclaim and catapulted her to fame.
- November 30, 2021
Tis the season to be jolly! And it鈥檚 time to celebrate the holidays with the winter season鈥檚 favorite music once again! After a two-year hiatus in response to COVID-19, the American Festival Pops Orchestra (AFPO) returns to the Hylton Performing Arts Center and Center for the Arts at 亚洲AV this December with Holiday Pops: Songs of the Season.