Founder Prepares to Bid Opera Lafayette ‘Adieu’
• October 28, 2024

Speaking at The Georgetowner’s Oct. 24 Cultural Leadership Breakfast, Ryan Brown, artistic director of Opera Lafayette, commented on the coincidental link between the event’s venue, the President Woodrow Wilson House […]

Signature Theatre’s Hallmarks: Intimacy and Sondheim
• September 23, 2024

In 2006, his Carnegie Mellon BFA in hand, Matthew Gardiner went to work for Signature Theatre — a 150-seat space in what had been a bumper-plating factory (“The Garage”) on […]

An American Voice: James Earl Jones, 1931-2024
• September 12, 2024

Actor James Earl Jones — the phrase seems redundant — who rose to stardom when opportunities for Blacks were few and brought role after role to memorable life for half […]

One Director, Three Very Different Plays
• September 5, 2024

Now playing at the American Shakespeare Center in Staunton, Virginia: Shakespeare’s “Macbeth” and Oscar Wilde’s “The Importance of Being Earnest.” Could two plays be less compatible? Take the subject of […]

The National Gallery of Art, From a Different Angle
• August 22, 2024

The Champs-Élysées is in ruins. Though the Arc de Triomphe is intact in the distance, on each side of Paris’s grand avenue the walls of elegant apartment buildings are exposed […]

Building Museum Tackles Brutalism
• August 15, 2024

Brutalism, which flourished for about 25 years — from the early 1950s to the mid-1970s — is the architectural style that people love to hate. Labeling it Cold War architecture […]

Sept. 19 Cultural Breakfast to Feature Signature’s Matthew Gardiner
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Signature Theatre Artistic Director Matthew Gardiner will be the featured speaker at The Georgetowner’s Sept. 19 Cultural Leadership Breakfast. Admission to the event, at the President Woodrow Wilson House, 2340 […]

Zen and American History Exhibitions
• August 8, 2024

Last April, a Japanese motorcycle joined the dozen in “America on the Move,” the 26,000-square-foot exhibition in the General Motors Hall of Transportation at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American […]

Primed for Otakon
• August 1, 2024

Are you an otaku, a person obsessed with Japanese comics, animation and video games? If so, you are no doubt preparing to storm the Walter E. Washington Convention Center this […]

A Contemporary Season-Closer for the Washington Ballet
• June 20, 2024

The Washington Ballet closed out its 2023-24 season with contemporary flair. Titled “Beyond Boundaries,” the trio of ensemble pieces — presented over the last weekend in May in the Kennedy […]