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Wolf Trap Opera: Something Old, Something New(ish)
Attention: Lovers of “La bohème”! Tomorrow, Friday, July 19, is your sole chance to catch Wolf Trap Opera’s production of Puccini’s heartstring-puller, in which impoverished bohemians in 19th-century...
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James Baldwin at 100
Tonight, Thursday, July 25, at 7 p.m., the National Museum of African American History and Culture, 1400 Constitution Ave. NW, will present “Celebrating James Baldwin’s 100th Birthday: His Legacy and […]
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JazzFest Underway; Meet the Artists at Arena Stage
The DC Jazz Festival, DC JazzFest for short, has been a District-wide happening from the get-go. Musicians performed at 18 venues during the inaugural five-day festival (then called the Duke […]
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September 2024 ArtsWatch
DC Design Week to Kick Off Underground This year’s DC Design Week, themed “Stories Within,” will kick off on Sept. 27 with a party at Dupont Underground. Events (in daily […]
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2024 Fall Arts Preview: Performing Arts
CLASSICAL This Saturday, two weeks before the National Symphony Orchestra’s gala — featuring pianist Yunchan Lim playing Rachmaninoff (Sept. 28) — the NSO presents “Echoes of America” in the Kennedy […]
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2024 Fall Arts Preview: Visual Arts
Ralph Steadman: And Another Thing American University Museum Through Dec. 8 The American University Museum is the first U.S. venue for the touring exhibition, “Ralph Steadman: And Another Thing,”...
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The Kreeger Museum Turns 30
In 1994, four years after David Kreeger’s death and two years after his widow Carmen moved out (she died in 2003 at the age of 94), the Kreeger Museum opened […]
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AFI Film Festival Says ‘Bienvenidos!’ and ‘Bem-vindo!’
Opening tonight, Thursday, Sept. 19, the AFI Latin American Film Festival — held at the AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center in Silver Spring, Maryland — “celebrates Ibero-American cultural...
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Curtain Up for DC Theatre Week
Just as Metropolitan Washington Restaurant Week is a gift to your taste buds, DC Theatre Week — starting tonight, Thursday, Sept. 26 — is a gift to your eyes, ears, […]
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Opera Lafayette’s Ryan Brown to Speak at Oct. 24 Breakfast
Ryan Brown, founder and artistic director of Opera Lafayette — the highly regarded presenter of baroque and classical operas with a chamber orchestra of period instruments — will speak at […]
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Choreographer Diana Movius Is Nov. 21 Breakfast Speaker
On Thursday, Nov. 21, The Georgetowner’s Cultural Leadership Breakfast Series will present a talk by Diana Movius, recently appointed choreographer-in-residence at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait...
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Getting to Know 2 AKA Hotels
Though both offer high-style luxury, two new D.C.-area hotels under the AKA banner are as different — in the words of their management — as “Night” and “Day.” “Day” refers […]
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The Georgetowner’s 2024 Holiday Theater Guide
LAST CHANCE THIS MONTH … It’s still Spooky Season at The Keegan Theatre, where “The Woman in Black” haunts Eel Marsh House on Nine Lives Causeway in Stephen Mallatratt’s adaptation […]
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DC Jazz Festival Founder Charlie Fishman, 1942-2024
The DC Jazz Festival announced the Nov. 12 death of Charles Fishman, the annual festival’s founder and longtime executive producer, at the age of 82. “Charlie’s leadership, passion and tireless […]
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PostClassical Ensemble’s Brazilian Sampler
For this listener, the most transcendent moment in PostClassical Ensemble’s “Legends of Brazil” program, presented on Nov. 19 and 20 in the Kennedy Center Terrace Theater, arrived about five-sixths of […]
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Notes from The Underground—Dupont, That Is
“We are both architects,” says Lucrecia Laudi, who co-founded Dupont Underground in 2005 with her husband, Julian Hunt. “But we come from different worlds.” Laudi grew up in the Argentine […]
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Tiger, Tiger: 2 Shows at the Kennedy Center
Last year, after Nikita could not conceive, she underwent artificial insemination. Alas, no luck. The National Zoo is still hoping for tiger cubs, but not from Nikita, who has pretty […]
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A Winter Holiday Hotel: The St. Gregory
This winter, making the gratifying transition from frosty outdoors to toasty indoors is guaranteed at the St. Gregory Hotel. The West End property’s top-to-bottom renovation in 2018 — by Philadelphia’s...
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Ricky Skaggs at the Birchmere
At age 70, Ricky Skaggs is a spring chicken compared to Willie Nelson, who’s 91. Though Willie (pardon the first-name basis) has never played the Birchmere — he did a […]
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