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 […]

April 21 Cultural Leadership Breakfast Speaker: Timothy Nelson 

March 31, 2022

On Thursday, April 21, from 8 to 9:30 a.m., The Georgetowner’s Cultural Leadership Breakfast Series will welcome Timothy Nelson, artistic director of In Series, to talk about the innovative D.C.-based […]

Weekly Arts Round Up, April 29, 2021

April 29, 2021

Woolly Mammoth’s free virtual gala will take place on Monday and the National Air and Space Museum’s Udvar-Hazy Center will reopen on Wednesday with timed-entry ticketing.