Weekend Round Up December 27, 2018

December 27, 2018

After a weekend of “Christmas Carols” and other theater and comedy offerings, New Year’s Eve falls on a Monday. Our roundup includes a few ways to ring in 2019.

Holiday Performing Arts Preview

November 21, 2018

Not just a listing of holiday performances, this preview highlights holiday-time cultural events of all types, plus a couple picks as far away as February.

Woolly’s New Artistic Director: Maria Goyanes


Goyanes is drawn to specific, original, diverse writers, like Sarah Ruhl and, of course, Lin-Manuel Miranda, for whose megahit “Hamilton” she was associate producer at the Public.   

Weekend Round Up November 1, 2018

November 1, 2018

Fall Days of Design in Georgetown kicks off tonight with a cocktail crawl and the Washington Ballet presents “Contemporary Masters” at Sidney Harman Hall tonight through Sunday.

Weekend Round Up June 21, 2018

June 21, 2018

Metropolitan Washington BBQ & Grilling Week ends Friday. Then, on Saturday and Sunday, four blocks of Pennsylvania Avenue will be smokin’ for the National Capital BBQ Battle.

DCArtswatch April 4, 2018

April 4, 2018

Compiled by Richard Selden FILMFESTDC RETURNS The 32ndannual international film festival known as FilmFestDC will take place April 19 to 29, presenting 80 films from 45 countries. Tickets for the […]

Women’s Voices Theater Festival Returns to D.C.

January 8, 2018

A citywide collaboration that launched the 2015-16 season, the 2018 edition comprises 13 world premieres and 10 American or regional premieres.

Breakfast With Woolly Mammoth’s Howard Shalwitz

December 7, 2017

Among the last of the generation that founded D.C. companies in the late 1970s and 1980s, Shalwitz announced last June that he would retire at the end of the 2017-18 season.

Woolly’s Founder: On the Brink of Second Act

July 26, 2017

Back in early June, the announcement came that Howard Shalwitz would be stepping down as artistic director of Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, which has given Washington consistently fresh, ahead-of-the-curve, cutting-edge […]