Tall Ships in Richmond, Alexandria and Especially Baltimore
A scattershot fleet of tall ships from Europe and the Americas — plus one, the Sudarshini, from India — is heading up the North Atlantic coast to arrive in New […]
View ArticleGlenstone at 20
This month is peak bloom for “Split-Rocker,” a 37-foot-tall rocking-horse head, embedded with over 24,000 flowers, atop a grassy hill in Potomac, Maryland. (Why “split”? Because the head’s left half […]
View ArticleFrom In Series: Cross-Cultural Opera at the Atlas
In the 1960s, thanks to Ravi Shankar and George Harrison, many Americans not of South Asian descent were exposed to the sitar. A couple decades later, even without personally experiencing […]
View ArticleConcert Opera Season-Closer: Mozart’s ‘Idomeneo’
Amid a ferocious storm, a monster, risen from the deep, is ravaging the citizens of Crete. (The sea was angry that day, my friends.) Shunned by his father, without hope […]
View Article‘Orpheus’ Concert, Embassy Art at Bloomberg Center
Orfeo, Orphée, Orpheus. The mythical musician, poet and prophet who descends into Hades to rescue his beloved Eurydice has long inspired writers, painters, sculptors, composers and choreographers,...
View ArticleMartin’s Tavern Goes Viral After SNL Cold Open
A three-letter acronym has all of Georgetown abuzz. Is it ROP (resident-only parking)? RCV (ranked-choice voting), perhaps? Nope, it’s SNL, which set last Saturday’s “cold open” in what Variety called […]
View ArticleWashington National Opera’s ‘West Side Story’
When you head out to Strathmore this Thursday or Friday night for one of the two remaining performances of Washington National Opera’s production of “West Side Story” — and if […]
View ArticleThis Weekend at the Folger: ‘An English Garden’
The Georgetown Garden Tour is Saturday, Mother’s Day is Sunday and have we got a gift idea for you: Thomas Hyll’s “The Profitable Arte of Gardening,” the first English book on […]
View ArticleLast Chance: Approve ‘The Minutes,’ Catch a ‘Streetcar’
“Don’t you just love these long rainy afternoons in New Orleans when an hour isn’t just an hour — but a little piece of eternity dropped into your hands — […]
View ArticleMay 9 at Strathmore: ‘The Blue Hour’
When the National Philharmonic presents “The Blue Hour” at Strathmore on Saturday, May 9, the guest vocalist will be one of the work’s five composers: soprano Shara Nova. The other […]
View ArticleMiró at the Phillips Collection
Just one of the Phillips Collection’s third-floor galleries, where “Miró and the United States” is on view through July 5, is entirely devoted to Picasso’s sole Spanish-born rival (unless you […]
View ArticleTennessee Williams’s ‘Streetcar’ Pulls Into Dupont, April 20
On March 31, the candy-apple streetcars that stopped and started along H Street and Benning Road NE stopped for good. It was the second time that Washington, D.C., lost its streetcars. A citywide...
View ArticleThe Georgetowner’s 2026 Spring Theater Guide
THIS MONTH ONLY … “O, how full of briers is this working-day world!” Timothy Douglas directs an envisioning by Artistic Director Karen Ann Daniels of “As You Like It” at Folger Theatre (through April...
View ArticleHirshhorn Museum Head Leaving for Guggenheim
After 12 years leading the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Director Melissa Chiu has been named director of another cylindrical landmark, the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Guggenheim Museum in...
View ArticleAt the Textile Museum: ‘Adorning the Horse’
In February, one of our local institutions of higher learning hung up a bunch of horse blankets. And not just blankets — saddle covers, under-saddle cloths and other horsey garb. […]
View ArticleChoral Works by Vaughan Williams, Holst on April 18
Not counting an appearance in late May at Carnegie Hall, the Choral Arts Society of Washington will close out its 2025-26 season with a mid-April performance of two works by […]
View ArticleIn Baltimore: ‘Amy Sherald: American Sublime’
Two high-profile District of Columbia losses have benefitted the city’s red-brick stepsister, 40 miles up the road. No longer the Kennedy Center’s resident opera company, Washington National Opera will...
View ArticleContemporary Ballet at the Portrait Gallery
This Saturday, March 14, at 3:30 p.m., 16 ballet dancers — in dark costumes at first, then in increasingly vibrant colors — will perform in the National Portrait Gallery’s glass-roofed, […]
View ArticleBill Irwin’s ‘On Beckett’ at Shakespeare Theatre Company
“These two threads of work — baggy-pants comedy and Samuel Beckett’s writing — they just seem to connect.” In an interview in the Shakespeare Theatre Company program, Bill Irwin explains […]
View ArticleFrom U Street to Dupont Underground
With apologies to the late Bruce Lee: Enter the Dupont! Dupont Underground has hosted performances by, among others, Counterpoint Concerts, Chamber Dance Project, the Washington Ballet, the Picnic...
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