Embassy Presents Dec. 7 Concert at St. John’s

December 4, 2025

Due to the overwhelming response, the event will be livestreamed on YouTube HERE, allowing wider audiences to enjoy this meaningful seasonal celebration. Born in Santo Domingo, capital of the Dominican […]

Susan Rhea on ‘Small and Mighty’ Keegan Theatre

December 1, 2025

“It’s really easy to forget how far you’ve come,” Keegan Theatre Artistic Director Susan Marie Rhea told attendees at The Georgetowner’s Nov. 20 Cultural Leadership Breakfast, held at 1310 Kitchen […]

PostClassical Ensemble Goes All-Natural

November 25, 2025

Since the blue in “the pale blue dot” — Carl Sagan’s cosmic pinpointing of our home planet — is Earth’s global ocean, Claude Debussy’s “La mer” was a natural choice […]

Kreeger Museum’s Helen Chason Is Dec. 18 Breakfast Speaker

November 24, 2025

On Thursday, Dec. 18, The Georgetowner’s Cultural Leadership Breakfast Series will present a talk by Helen Chason, director of the Kreeger Museum. Admission to the event, at 1310 Kitchen & […]

Next Month at the Hirshhorn: New (and New-ish) Music

November 13, 2025

“The 20th Century Consort probably needs to consider changing its name to something like the 21st Century Consort,” wrote Joan Reinthaler in 2004 in the Washington Post. With a single […]

The Georgetowner’s 2025 Holiday Theater Guide 

November 10, 2025

THIS MONTH ONLY …  “Vildanden!”    That’s no greeting, it’s the original Dano-Norwegian title of Henrik Ibsen’s “The Wild Duck,” folding its wings this weekend in Shakespeare Theatre Company’s Klein Theatre. […]

Spotlight Artist: Duke Ellington School of the Arts’ Reginald Cyntje


By LaMarr Funn Reginald Cyntje — Educator, Creator, and Director of Jazz Studies at the Duke Ellington School of the Arts For the past nine years, award-winning trombonist and recording […]

GALA Presents Fuego Flamenco Festival, Nov. 6-22

November 6, 2025

GALA Hispanic Theatre first presented a flamenco festival in 1988, 12 years after Rebecca Read Medrano and her late husband Hugo founded the company. Hugo, she recalled, “wanted GALA’s audience […]

Opera Lafayette’s ‘Dido’; November’s Early Music

October 23, 2025

An acclaimed presenter of French baroque repertoire, Opera Lafayette under founder Ryan Brown was known to cross musical borders, performing works of adjacent nations and periods. Now led by Brown’s […]

Culture Capital 

October 7, 2025

 67 Arts Leaders and Counting: The Georgetowner’s Cultural Leadership Breakfast Series  “To me, this is the most challenging time to be making theater in the country. It’s the absolutely best […]