Spring Arts Preview: Performing Arts
• February 12, 2025

JAZZ, POP, COUNTRY, ROCK AND HIP HOP  Performers of note coming to Blues Alley include the Vijay Iyer Trio (March 13 and 14), Stanley Jordan (April 10 to 13) and […]

Catching Up With Tchaikovsky
• January 30, 2025

For a non-Italian, Tchaikovsky wrote a lot of operas: 11. Wagner wrote even more: 13, the librettos as well as the music. Mozart, who died in his 30s (not from […]

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 […]

Spring Performing Arts  Preview
• February 14, 2024

Duke Ellington 125   Born and raised in Washington, D.C., orchestra leader and composer Edward Kennedy Ellington was nicknamed “Duke” early on for his sense of style. These events celebrate the […]

Fall Performing Arts Preview
• September 13, 2023

DANCE   Partnering with Dupont Underground, The Washington Ballet will pop down for four pop-up performances (Sept. 28, 29 and 30). TWB’s main fall event, “Such Sweet Thunder: An Evening Inspired […]

Artswatch: Arena Stage’s New Director, Atlantic Festival Returns, Latest on Folger
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Hana Sharif Follows Molly Smith at Arena Stage   As successor to Molly Smith, who retired last summer after 25 years as Arena Stage artistic director, Arena’s board appointed Hana S. […]

2023 Spring Performing Arts Preview
• February 8, 2023

OPERA   The Kennedy Center Opera House curtain will rise next month on Jeanine Tesori and Tazewell Thompson’s “Blue,” about a police officer — a “Black man in blue” — whose […]

Fall Arts Preview: Performing Arts
• September 14, 2022

OPERA   The D.C. United stadium will become a square in Seville when Washington National Opera brings “Carmen” to Audi Field for this fall’s free Opera on the Field (Sept. 25). […]

Weekend Round Up January 2, 2020
• January 2, 2020

Saturday is ArchaeoCon and Sunday is the Fiesta de los Reyes Magos. Other options include a winter tree walk, a cheese tasting and a magic show by the Great Zucchini.

Strathmore’s New CEO in the Spotlight
• May 13, 2019

Monica Jeffries Hazangeles spoke at Georgetown Media Group’s May 9 Cultural Leadership Breakfast, held at 1310 Kitchen & Bar by Jenn Crovato.