OnStage, Georgetown: November
• October 23, 2024

By Mark Edelman November welcomes rich fall colors: the ones that stage lighting, scenery and costumes bring to theaters in and around Washington. Don’t miss all of the vibrant theater […]

Onstage, Georgetown: October
• September 26, 2024

By Mark Edelman October leaves a few more weeks (now through Oct. 13) to enjoy Washington area Theater Week with tickets as low as $20 for a number of these […]

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 […]

Onstage, Georgetown: September
• August 29, 2024

By Mark Edelman September marks the beginning of Theatre Week — an even better reason to get out there and save on more than 30 productions scattered in and around […]

Onstage, Georgetown: Getting Hot for Plays, Musicals
• April 24, 2024

By Mark Edelman Summer is on its way. Before it gets too hot in Washington, buy your tickets (and air-conditioned comfort) to these plays and musicals around town. AMM(I)GONE    […]

The Georgetowner’s Spring 2024 Theater Guide 
• April 10, 2024

 ONGOING …  At Arena Stage, Trip Cullman directs “Unknown Soldier,” the last musical by “Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson” composer Michael Friedman, with lyrics by Friedman and Daniel Goldstein, who wrote […]

Tasty ‘Little Shop of Horrors’ at Ford’s
• April 4, 2024

The main human characters in the current Ford’s Theatre production of the musical “Little Shop of Horrors” — the real star being a flesh-and-blood-eating plant — are not the four-eyed […]

Onstage, Georgetown: Plays Are Blooming
• March 27, 2024

By Mark Edelman April showers may come your way, along with the tail end of those lovely cherry blossoms. Meanwhile, these plays are blooming in the coming months at theaters […]

Onstage, Georgetown: March Into These Shows
• February 21, 2024

Onstage, Georgetown by Mark Edelman Maybe it comes in like a lion, maybe it doesn’t. Either way, it’s the perfect time to check out these plays and musical in and […]

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 […]