Photo: David A. BeloffA daring artistic move, stunning production moves to Richmond this weekend. Published 4:37 p.m. February 12, 2012 - Comments
Photo: Paul KolnikGeorge Hamilton, Christopher Sieber star in colorful classic musical laugh-fest. Published 2:43 p.m. February 5, 2012 - Comments
Photo: Mason SummersNew Friel adaptation of Ibsen classic now at H St. Playhouse. Published 1:45 p.m. January 18, 2012 - Comments
Photo: Paul AebersoldDC troupe's mini-operas are getting better and better. Published 5:42 p.m. January 13, 2012 - Comments

Suspended project to be rebooted in 2016. And there's more. Published 1:01 p.m. January 13, 2012 - Comments

Musician lockout latest round in budget battle, death spiral. Published 7:57 p.m. January 9, 2012 - Comments

America's only impressionist composer is well worth revisiting. Published 11:18 p.m. January 1, 2012 - Comments

Video clip from 1978 Montreal Christmas Special reminds us all of the reason for the season. Published 2:19 p.m. December 24, 2011 - Comments
Photo: David PolstonInventive new production convincingly demonstrates that this company is back on track. Published 6:02 p.m. December 12, 2011 - Comments
Photo: Paul Aebersold'Arlen Blues & Berlin Ballads' at the Atlas: a poignant comment on our current hard times. Published 4:01 p.m. December 10, 2011 - Comments

Terry Ponick has served as the Washington Times’ classical music and culture critic since 1994. Previously, he was performing arts critic for the suburban “Connection” and “Fairfax Times” community newspaper chains. With his wife Fran, he penned a well-received series ...
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Terry Ponick has served as the Washington Times’ classical music and culture critic since 1994. Previously, he was performing arts critic for the suburban “Connection” and “Fairfax Times” community newspaper chains. With his wife Fran, he penned a well-received series of theater and festival reviews that helped the pair cop a 1993 Washington Dateline Award for excellence in criticism. During his varied career, Terry has been a classical music deejay and general manager at Georgetown’s old WGTB-FM (“90.1 FM on your radio dial”); an English professor at the University of South Carolina; a retail stock and bond broker; and a contract science writer for the National Science Foundation and the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy’s (OSTP’s) National Coordination Office for Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NCO/NITRD) under two administrations.