Artswatch: KenCen Upheaval, Air & Space Museum Marks 50 Years
• February 25, 2026

 Kennedy Center to Close for 2-Year Overhaul  In the wake of a subscriber, donor and artist boycott, President Donald Trump — who reconstituted the Kennedy Center board, which named him chairman and voted to insert his name (in defiance […]

DC Artswatch
• November 10, 2025

    Studio Theatre’s Muse to Step Down After nearly 20 years in the role, Studio Theatre Artistic Director David Muse will leave the position in late 2027. The search for […]

D.C. ArtsWatch
• June 10, 2025

Georgetown’s Tudor Place Gets Public History Award  Tudor Place Historic House & Garden received the National Council on Public History’s Outstanding Public History Project Award for the Georgetown historic site’s […]

Kennedy Center’s Rutter to Step Down
• January 27, 2025

Kennedy Center’s president since 2014, Deborah Rutter, will step down from her role at the end of the year amidst uncertainty in a new (returning?) administration. Rutter’s contract is up […]

D.C. ArtsWatch
• June 12, 2024

New Artistic Leadership at Imagination Stage Joanne Seelig Lamparter is the new chief artistic programming officer for Imagination Stage, succeeding Janet Stanford, the venue’s founding artistic director, who retired on May […]

April 2023 ArtsWatch
• April 12, 2023

The latest ArtsWatch includes a generous gift to the Spy Museum, repatriated objects to the National Museum of Asian Arts, the World Culture Festival and a new Studio Theatre associate […]

December ArtsWatch
• December 7, 2022

The December ArtsWatch includes Theater J awards, new Olney Theatre hires, a big donation to a Smithsonian Museum in development and finally, our last Cultural Leadership Breakfast of 2022—you won’t […]

September ArtsWatch
• September 14, 2022

Our latest ArtsWatch includes plans for Theatre Week’s return, cast and new managing director announcements.    Theatre Washington Announces Plans for Theatre Week 2022   The return of “Theatre Week” is September […]