Weekend Roundup: Holiday Cheer Is Coming
• November 19, 2025

With Thanksgiving just one week away, holiday events are revving up. There are lots of options for things to do this weekend, including taking the family to see a new […]

Weekend Roundup: D.C. Lights Up with Art All Night
• September 11, 2025

Now that we’re well into September, lots of events are happening all around the city. Art All Night is this weekend, and WalkingTown DC starts Saturday, just to name a […]

Weekend Roundup, Feb. 27-March 2
• February 26, 2025

As we round out winter, there are plenty of things to do this weekend including Mardi Gras at The Wharf, a new show at Imagination Stage, an exhibit to kick […]

Spring Arts Preview: Performing Arts
• February 12, 2025

JAZZ, POP, COUNTRY, ROCK AND HIP HOP  Performers of note coming to Blues Alley include the Vijay Iyer Trio (March 13 and 14), Stanley Jordan (April 10 to 13) and […]

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 […]

A D.C. Premiere by Washington Concert Opera: Rossini’s ‘Ermione’ 
• December 14, 2023

The first event in Washington Concert Opera’s 37th season, on Dec. 2, was the D.C. premiere of Gioachino Rossini’s “Ermione,” an opera that “immediately sank into oblivion” in 1819, according […]

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 […]

Washington Concert Opera’s ‘Nabucco’ 
• March 8, 2023

After a standing ovation, Washington Concert Opera’s 2022-23 season ended on March 4 with a sing-along in Lisner Auditorium: Artistic Director and Conductor Antony Walker led the orchestra, chorus and […]

Weekend Roundup, March 2 – 5
• March 2, 2023

Here we are “March”ing in “2” another weekend! Lots of great things to do including the HerStory 5K with Mayor Bowser, a new art exhibit at Dupont Underground and performances […]

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 […]