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Weekend Roundup: Jan. 16-20
Weekend Roundup, January 9-12
January 9, 2025
•Moving into mid-January, we welcome activities like a new show at Imagination Stage, 10 days left in The National Gallery of Art’s Paris 1874 exhibit and of course, cheering on […]
OnStage, Georgetown: December
November 26, 2024
•By Mark Edelman Joy and laughter suffuse the season with holiday cheer at your favorite area theaters. Don’t miss the fun as we bring in the new year, live! onstage […]
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 […]