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Social Scene: Bienvenue and Joyeux Noël with Ateliers Jacob
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Embassy Presents Dec. 7 Concert at St. John’s
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Weekend Roundup: D.C. Welcomes December with Festivities & Fun
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A Dino-Mite Holiday Blooms at the U.S. Botanic Garden
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Social Scene: Four Seasons Uncorks Wine & Dine 2025
In Staunton: Shakespeare and Austen
• July 24, 2025
Although the American Shakespeare Center’s Shenandoah Valley home is pronounced “STAN-tin,” putting the “u” in Staunton is mandatory. As for putting the “you” in Staunton, a two- or three-day getaway […]
Summer Arts Preview
• May 14, 2025
D.C. Arts: 25 Ways to Spend the Summer of ’25 Cut out this page — or bookmark it if you’re reading it online — for the perfect summer 2025 D.C. […]
The Georgetowner 2025 Spring Theater Guide
• April 9, 2025
THIS MONTH ONLY … Irish arts organization Solas Nua presents readings of “The Frederick Douglass Project” by Psalmayene 24 and Deirdre Kinahan, about Douglass’s 1847 journey to Ireland, at the […]
2024 Fall Arts Preview: Performing Arts
• September 11, 2024
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 […]
One Director, Three Very Different Plays
• September 5, 2024
Now playing at the American Shakespeare Center in Staunton, Virginia: Shakespeare’s “Macbeth” and Oscar Wilde’s “The Importance of Being Earnest.” Could two plays be less compatible? Take the subject of […]
DC Artswatch: NGA, NBM, NPG, Corcoran, ASC
• May 13, 2021
Three D.C. museums add key people, GW names a new Corcoran School director and Ethan McSweeney leaves the American Shakespeare Center in Staunton, Virginia.
Pandemic Forces Performing Arts Leaders to Rethink
• September 15, 2020
The Georgetowner asked leading figures in D.C. theater to suggest silver linings of the pandemic, even as it has stolen the livelihood of countless arts workers and threatened the very future of many performing arts organizations.
Half Virtual Arts Round Up
• August 6, 2020
You can browse used books in Georgetown, tour District Winery, view art in Del Ray and soak up Shakespeare in Staunton. But there’s still plenty to do from your keyboard.
Weekend Round Up October 24, 2019
• October 24, 2019
Plenty of macaroni will get its cheese on in Buzzard Point on Saturday. And it’s your last chance to see “Stormy Weather” at the Atlas and “Fences” at Ford’s.
Weekend Round Up August 8, 2019
• August 8, 2019
In Virginia, it’s Festival Weekend at the American Shakespeare Center in Stanton and Sir Ringo is playing two shows at Wolf Trap.
