Virginia Film Festival Announces 2023 Lineup 
• October 13, 2023

By Trish Foxwell   Entering its 36th year and scheduled for October 25-29, one of the nation’s most prestigious movie showcases, the Virginia Film Festival, associated with the University of Virginia, […]

Bernstein’s ‘Candide’ Is a Glorious Mess
• May 7, 2018

The genre-defying show — at turns defined as an American opera, an operetta and a musical — is now, as part of the Bernstein centennial, in the Kennedy Center Opera House through May 26.

Weekend Round Up April 19, 2018
• April 19, 2018

Filmfest DC gets rolling Thursday, April 19, screening 80 films from 45 countries through Sunday, April 29. And it’s a big weekend at the Folger, which will bring “The Winter’s Tale” to a close and celebrate the Bard’s birthday Sunday.

Weekend Round Up January 18, 2018
• January 18, 2018

This weekend, the ’20s will roar again at the Woodrow Wilson House, the National Gallery will showcase a Renaissance band and the convention center will turn into Vacation Central.

New York Festival of Song Bernstein Celebration
• November 3, 2017

Vocal Arts DC presents New York Festival of Song in Take Care of This House: A Bernstein Celebration. A concert with narration of vocal music from all corners of Leonard […]

Weekend Round Up October 19, 2017
• October 19, 2017

It is a weekend of legendary names: Jerome Robbins, Frank Lloyd Wright, Annie Proulx, Dizzy Gillespie and Leonard Bernstein — not to mention Johannes Vermeer.

Bernstein at 100: One Night on Broadway
• September 22, 2017

Leonard Bernstein was America’s pre-eminent composer and conductor. In truth, he was the world’s composer. His genius and passions spread the whole world over—from “Mass: A Theater Piece for Singers, […]

Weekend Round Up September 21, 2017
• September 21, 2017

After a public symposium on Degas at the National Gallery of Art on Friday, there is music, theater, advice for writers, historical shopping and, on Sunday, the Taste of Georgetown.