New Folger Director: ‘Theater Is Political’
• December 16, 2024

In 2015, Sunny Sumter of the DC Jazz Festival sang “Better Than Anything” for Cultural Leadership Breakfast attendees. Three years later, Chamber Dance Project’s Diane Coburn Bruning demonstrated choreography on […]

New Folger Library Director Will Speak at Dupont Underground, Dec. 12
• November 26, 2024

Dr. Farah Karim-Cooper, who became the eighth director of the Folger Shakespeare Library in October, will be the featured speaker at The Georgetowner’s next Cultural Leadership Breakfast, on Thursday, Dec. […]

Weekend Roundup, Oct. 3-6
• October 2, 2024

Happy October! This weekend promises to be full of fun events, including Oktoberfest at the Wharf, a Fall Concert in the Park and Block Captain Celebration with the Citizens Association […]

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 […]

Shaking Up the Bard: Folger Shakespeare Library’s $80.5 Million Renovation
• June 20, 2024

By Sophia Hall “Shake up your Shakespeare” is one of the many new interactive exhibits in the Folger Shakespeare Library, following a major $80.5 million renovation. On Friday, June 21, […]

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 […]

Artswatch : Rubenstein Leaves KenCen; NGA’s Cornell Trove; Helen Hayes Nominations
• February 14, 2024

Rubenstein to Conclude Kennedy Center Chairmanship   Chair of the Kennedy Center’s board of trustees since 2010, philanthropist David M. Rubenstein, co-founder of the Carlyle Group global investment firm, will step […]

Weekend Roundup, Nov. 2 – 5
• November 2, 2023

Can you believe it? We’re officially in November! Lots of activities this weekend, including the Georgetown Wine & Dine at the Four Seasons, the opening of “The Winter’s tale at […]

Artswatch: Arena Stage’s New Director, Atlantic Festival Returns, Latest on Folger
• September 13, 2023

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. […]

Our Verse in Time to Come
• April 11, 2023

Inspired by the works and words of Shakespeare, Our Verse in Time to Come bridges the past with the present through verse, song and memory, and interrogates whose stories remain […]