Gorey 100 at the Library of Congress
• January 13, 2025

Edward Gorey’s work, distinctly Edwardian, was never gory. True, he populated his curious tales with stoic victims of misfortune — among the childhood fatalities alphabetized in 1963’s “The Gashlycrumb Tinies,” […]

Philly in January
• December 23, 2024

Philadelphia’s Mummers Parade, the city’s New Year’s Day version of Mardi Gras, will step off at 17th and Market Streets at 9 a.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 1, looping to the […]

Mickalene Thomas in Philadelphia
• December 19, 2024

Is Philadelphia’s Barnes Foundation an unlikely venue for an exhibition of paintings, photographs, installations and video by queer, Black, Brooklyn-based artist Mickalene Thomas? Two reasons why not: Because the Barnes’s […]

New Folger Director: ‘Theater Is Political’
• December 16, 2024

In 2015, Sunny Sumter of the DC Jazz Festival sang “Better Than Anything” for Cultural Leadership Breakfast attendees. Three years later, Chamber Dance Project’s Diane Coburn Bruning demonstrated choreography on […]

William Gropper at the Phillips Collection
• December 5, 2024

Only two visual artists were blacklisted for their alleged Communist sympathies during the Red Scare of the 1950s: Rockwell Kent (1882-1971) and William Gropper (1897-1977). Subpoenaed by Republican Sen. Joseph […]

New Folger Library Director Will Speak at Dupont Underground, Dec. 12
• November 26, 2024

Dr. Farah Karim-Cooper, who became the eighth director of the Folger Shakespeare Library in October, will be the featured speaker at The Georgetowner’s next Cultural Leadership Breakfast, on Thursday, Dec. […]

On the Move: Choreographer Diana Movius
• November 25, 2024

“It’s just a matter of having two loves,” explained Diana Movius, speaking at The Georgetowner’s Nov. 21 Cultural Leadership Breakfast at the President Woodrow Wilson House in Kalorama. The two: […]

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 […]