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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 […]
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 […]
Onstage, Georgetown: March Into These Shows
February 21, 2024
•Onstage, Georgetown by Mark Edelman Maybe it comes in like a lion, maybe it doesn’t. Either way, it’s the perfect time to check out these plays and musical in and […]
Artswatch : Rubenstein Leaves KenCen; NGA’s Cornell Trove; Helen Hayes Nominations
February 14, 2024
•Rubenstein to Conclude Kennedy Center Chairmanship Chair of the Kennedy Center’s board of trustees since 2010, philanthropist David M. Rubenstein, co-founder of the Carlyle Group global investment firm, will step […]
Spring Performing Arts Preview
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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 […]
World Premiere of ‘Grounded’ Opens WNO Season
November 2, 2023
•It made sense for “Grounded,” a Metropolitan Opera commission, to have its world premiere in Pentagon-adjacent Washington, D.C. Opening in the Kennedy Center Opera House on Oct. 28, the show […]
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 […]
On the Cutting Edge: Woolly Mammoth’s Maria Goyanes
May 22, 2023
•Why in the world would Maria Goyanes leave New York’s Public Theater, birthplace of “Hair,” “A Chorus Line” and “Hamilton” (which she helped produce), for a relatively small company in […]
Weekend Roundup, March 30 – April 2
March 30, 2023
•As March is “going out like a lamb,” the busy spring season has officially begun. So much to do this weekend, including seeing “The Jungle” at Woolly Mammoth, checking out […]
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). […]