Embassy Presents Dec. 7 Concert at St. John’s
• December 4, 2025

Due to the overwhelming response, the event will be livestreamed on YouTube HERE, allowing wider audiences to enjoy this meaningful seasonal celebration. Born in Santo Domingo, capital of the Dominican […]

Kreeger Museum’s Helen Chason Is Dec. 18 Breakfast Speaker
• November 24, 2025

On Thursday, Dec. 18, The Georgetowner’s Cultural Leadership Breakfast Series will present a talk by Helen Chason, director of the Kreeger Museum. Admission to the event, at 1310 Kitchen & […]

Next Month at the Hirshhorn: New (and New-ish) Music
• November 13, 2025

“The 20th Century Consort probably needs to consider changing its name to something like the 21st Century Consort,” wrote Joan Reinthaler in 2004 in the Washington Post. With a single […]

The Georgetowner’s 2025 Holiday Theater Guide 
• November 10, 2025

THIS MONTH ONLY …  “Vildanden!”    That’s no greeting, it’s the original Dano-Norwegian title of Henrik Ibsen’s “The Wild Duck,” folding its wings this weekend in Shakespeare Theatre Company’s Klein Theatre. […]

Culture Capital 
• October 7, 2025

 67 Arts Leaders and Counting: The Georgetowner’s Cultural Leadership Breakfast Series  “To me, this is the most challenging time to be making theater in the country. It’s the absolutely best […]

In Richmond: Shows, Festivals, Last Call for Kahlo
• September 24, 2025

Slightly more than 100 miles from Washington, D.C., Richmond, Virginia, is the self-evident choice for a southbound, arts-focused getaway. Are you free this weekend? This Sunday, Sept. 28, is the […]

In the NGA’s Gallery 22: Corcoran Watercolors
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Along with the National Gallery of Art’s two feature presentations this fall — “Photography and the Black Arts Movement, 1955-1985,” which opened on Sept. 21, and “The Stars We Do Not See: […]

In Baltimore: Latin American Art at the Walters
• September 4, 2025

Beginning in his teens, Henry Walters, born in 1848 in Baltimore, spent his life elsewhere: in Paris during the Civil War; at Georgetown College, then Harvard; in Wilmington, North Carolina, […]

September Events, November Exhibition at Woodrow Wilson House
• August 14, 2025

A half-dozen miles apart in distance — but worlds apart in other ways — the Washington, D.C., neighborhoods of Kalorama and Deanwood have a presidential connection. When, in March of […]

Smithsonian Preps Teachers for 2026 
• August 7, 2025

Can you say semiquincentennial? In 2026, the United States will be halfway to 500 years old. When a British chemist and mineralogist named James Smithson passed away in his 60s […]