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
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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 […]

DC Artswatch
• September 9, 2025

 Leaving Town: NPG Director, Sherald Show   National Portrait Gallery Director Kim Sajet, who resigned two weeks after being “fired” by President Trump in a May 30 Truth Social post, will […]

Fall Arts Preview: Visual Arts
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State Fairs: Growing American Craft  Renwick Gallery Through Sept. 7, 2026  The first exhibition of its kind, “State Fairs: Growing American Craft,” curated by Mary Savig, the Fleur and Charles […]

Fall Arts Preview: Performing Arts 
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THEATER  ¡Adelante! GALA Hispanic Theatre presents Manuel Puig’s “El beso de la mujer araña/Kiss of the Spider Woman,” directed by José Luis Arellano (through Sept. 28).   Theatre Alliance is part […]

September Events, November Exhibition at Woodrow Wilson House
• August 14, 2025

A half-dozen miles apart in distance — but worlds apart in other ways — the Washington, D.C., neighborhoods of Kalorama and Deanwood have a presidential connection. When, in March of […]

Last Chance: Osgemeos at the Hirshhorn
• July 31, 2025

Though South Jamaica, Queens, has a rival claim, the majority opinion holds that hip hop began in the Bronx. Its birthplace has even been pinpointed: the community room of an […]