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Weekly Arts Round Up, March 25, 2021
March 25, 2021
•Smithsonian Associates and the National Portrait Gallery will offer full-day programs online this Saturday to close out Women’s History Month.
Weekly Arts Round Up, March 4, 2021
March 4, 2021
•Open or soon to open: the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Glenstone (outdoors only) and the Phillips Collection, which will stream a performance of violin sonatas on Sunday.
Weekly Arts Round Up, November 5, 2020
November 5, 2020
•Want to draw dinosaurs or make street art? Have we got a stream for you! Among other options: string duets at the Kennedy Center’s Reach campus and a Beltway-themed audio play.
Pandemic Forces Performing Arts Leaders to Rethink
September 15, 2020
•The Georgetowner asked leading figures in D.C. theater to suggest silver linings of the pandemic, even as it has stolen the livelihood of countless arts workers and threatened the very future of many performing arts organizations.
Mostly Virtual Arts Round Up, August 13, 2020
August 13, 2020
•Starting a two-week run on Monday: Metropolitan Washington Restaurant “Week.” Also on Monday, works of art 12 and 24 feet tall go on view at the reopened Hirshhorn Sculpture Garden.
Spring Arts Preview: Performance
February 25, 2020
•Noteworthy theater, music and dance happenings in D.C. this spring, assembled by Georgetowner performing arts writer Gary Tischler and cultural editor Richard Selden.
The Irreplaceable Victor Shargai
December 26, 2019
•The New York-born founding chairman of TheatreWashington, which started out as the Helen Hayes Awards, passed away on Dec. 24.
The Actress at the Center of ‘Doubt’
October 8, 2019
•A Georgetown resident, Sarah Marshall, who plays Sister Aloysius, teaches acting at Georgetown University and at Duke Ellington School of the Arts.
Solstice-Timed Season for Chamber Dance Project
June 17, 2019
•Featuring two world premieres, the four-performance season, the company’s sixth in Washington, D.C., will take place June 20 to 22 at Sidney Harman Hall.
Spring Arts Preview: Performance
March 7, 2019
•Our writer on the performing arts points to spring shows of special interest, covering opera, choral, classical, jazz, rock, pop and country, as well as theater.