Weekend Roundup, Dec. 5-8
• December 5, 2024

We’re in full-on, Buddy the Elf level holiday fun this weekend. Celebrate the season with Georgetown Jingle on Saturday, The Wharf is hosting its annual holiday boat parade, Folger introduces […]

The Georgetowner’s 2024 Holiday Theater Guide  
• November 13, 2024

 LAST CHANCE THIS MONTH …  It’s still Spooky Season at The Keegan Theatre, where “The Woman in Black” haunts Eel Marsh House on Nine Lives Causeway in Stephen Mallatratt’s adaptation […]

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 […]

Fall Performing Arts Preview
• September 13, 2023

DANCE   Partnering with Dupont Underground, The Washington Ballet will pop down for four pop-up performances (Sept. 28, 29 and 30). TWB’s main fall event, “Such Sweet Thunder: An Evening Inspired […]

InSeries Gala: International Bel Canto Star Brownlee Celebrated
• June 8, 2023

IN Series — the operatic theater company at 1835 14th St. NW with the slogan “Opera that Speaks. Theater that Sings.” — celebrated in great style at its recent black-tie […]

2023 Spring Performing Arts Preview
• February 8, 2023

OPERA   The Kennedy Center Opera House curtain will rise next month on Jeanine Tesori and Tazewell Thompson’s “Blue,” about a police officer — a “Black man in blue” — whose […]

The Ordering of Moses
• January 24, 2023

IN Series and Heritage Signature Chorale join forces in a first ever staging of Nathaniel Dett’s epic masterpiece, in which music and theater, chorus and soloists, surround and immerse audiences […]

Last Chance to See ‘Till’ and ‘Requiem’
• November 14, 2022

Two powerfully moving productions by risk-taking companies based in Washington, D.C. — Mosaic Theater Company and In Series — are due to close this Sunday, Nov. 20. Mosaic’s “The Till […]

Fall Arts Preview: Performing Arts
• September 14, 2022

OPERA   The D.C. United stadium will become a square in Seville when Washington National Opera brings “Carmen” to Audi Field for this fall’s free Opera on the Field (Sept. 25). […]

Over Breakfast, Tim Nelson Talks In Series and Opera
• April 25, 2022

How did In Series, D.C.’s 40-year-old presenter of small-scale, opera-related productions, get its name? From all the “in” words — intimate, independent, innovative, inexpensive — used to describe it, according […]