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. […]

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 […]

GALA Theatre’s Gustavo Ott: ‘We Are Ready’
• June 23, 2025

“I left everything in Texas and I came here,” GALA Hispanic Theatre Artistic Director Gustavo Ott told attendees at The Georgetowner’s June 19 Cultural Leadership Breakfast, held at 1310 Kitchen […]

GALA Theatre Artistic Director to Speak at June 19 Breakfast
• June 2, 2025

On Thursday, June 19, The Georgetowner’s Cultural Leadership Breakfast Series will present a talk by playwright Gustavo Ott, artistic director of GALA Hispanic Theatre. Admission to the event, at 1310 […]

Summer Arts Preview   
• May 14, 2025

D.C. Arts: 25 Ways to Spend the Summer of ’25 Cut out this page — or bookmark it if you’re reading it online — for the perfect summer 2025 D.C. […]

The Georgetowner 2025 Spring Theater Guide 
• April 9, 2025

THIS MONTH ONLY …  Irish arts organization Solas Nua presents readings of “The Frederick Douglass Project” by Psalmayene 24 and Deirdre Kinahan, about Douglass’s 1847 journey to Ireland, at the […]

One Director, Three Very Different Plays
• September 5, 2024

Now playing at the American Shakespeare Center in Staunton, Virginia: Shakespeare’s “Macbeth” and Oscar Wilde’s “The Importance of Being Earnest.” Could two plays be less compatible? Take the subject of […]

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 […]

Weekend Roundup: May 9 through May 12
• May 8, 2024

From film festivals to new productions of old favorites like Turandot, there is something for everyone this weekend. Also, don’t forget to call mom—or take her to Mount Vernon’s Mother’s […]

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 […]