World Premiere of ‘Grounded’ Opens WNO Season  
• November 2, 2023

It made sense for “Grounded,” a Metropolitan Opera commission, to have its world premiere in Pentagon-adjacent Washington, D.C. Opening in the Kennedy Center Opera House on Oct. 28, the show […]

Fall Visual Arts Preview
• September 13, 2023

Cushner   American University Museum   Through Dec. 10   One of six fall exhibitions at the American University Museum at the Katzen Center, “Cushner” displays 34 examples of current work — from […]

Fall Performing Arts Preview
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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 […]

Artswatch: Arena Stage’s New Director, Atlantic Festival Returns, Latest on Folger
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Hana Sharif Follows Molly Smith at Arena Stage   As successor to Molly Smith, who retired last summer after 25 years as Arena Stage artistic director, Arena’s board appointed Hana S. […]

New Phillips Collection Head Is June 22 Breakfast Speaker 
• May 30, 2023

Dr. Jonathan P. Binstock, who became Vradenburg Director and CEO of the Phillips Collection on March 1, succeeding Dr. Dorothy Kosinski, will be the next speaker in The Georgetowner’s monthly […]

Cafritz Young Artists to Sing Russian Arias, May 25 
• May 18, 2023

On Thursday, May 25, the Russian Chamber Art Society will conclude its 2022-23 season of concerts with “Voices of Spring,” a program of arias and art songs sung in Russian […]

Cultural Power Breakfast, April 20: Tudor Place Executive Director
• April 13, 2023

Mark Hudson, executive director of Tudor Place Historic House & Garden, the former home of six generations of Martha Washington’s descendants, will be the April 20 speaker in The Georgetowner’s […]

‘Angels in America, Part One’ at Arena 
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The subtitle of part one of “Angels in America,” at Arena Stage through April 23, is “Millennium Approaches.” Set in the fall of 1985, the first half of Tony Kushner’s […]

Celebrating Sergei Rachmaninov in Song: April 4 at French Embassy
• March 30, 2023

On Tuesday, April 4, the Russian Chamber Art Society will mark the 150th anniversary of Sergei Rachmaninov’s birth with a performance of his vocal and chamber music at the Embassy […]

Cultural Power Breakfast: GWU’s Corcoran: ‘A Very Different School’ 
• March 27, 2023

Of the storied institution that was the Corcoran Gallery of Art and College of Art and Design, Dr. Lauren Onkey, director since 2021 of George Washington University’s Corcoran School of […]