Arts
DC Jazz Festival Founder Charlie Fishman, 1942-2024
DC Jazz Festival Founder Charlie Fishman, 1942-2024
November 14, 2024
•The DC Jazz Festival announced the Nov. 12 death of Charles Fishman, the annual festival’s founder and longtime executive producer, at the age of 82. “Charlie’s leadership, passion and tireless […]
The Georgetowner’s 2024 Holiday Theater Guide
November 13, 2024
•LAST CHANCE THIS MONTH … It’s still Spooky Season at The Keegan Theatre, where “The Woman in Black” haunts Eel Marsh House on Nine Lives Causeway in Stephen Mallatratt’s adaptation […]
Getting to Know 2 AKA Hotels
November 6, 2024
•Though both offer high-style luxury, two new D.C.-area hotels under the AKA banner are as different — in the words of their management — as “Night” and “Day.” “Day” refers […]
Choreographer Diana Movius Is Nov. 21 Breakfast Speaker
October 28, 2024
•On Thursday, Nov. 21, The Georgetowner’s Cultural Leadership Breakfast Series will present a talk by Diana Movius, recently appointed choreographer-in-residence at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery. Admission to the event, […]
Opera Lafayette’s Ryan Brown to Speak at Oct. 24 Breakfast
September 30, 2024
•Ryan Brown, founder and artistic director of Opera Lafayette — the highly regarded presenter of baroque and classical operas with a chamber orchestra of period instruments — will speak at […]
Curtain Up for DC Theatre Week
September 26, 2024
•Just as Metropolitan Washington Restaurant Week is a gift to your taste buds, DC Theatre Week — starting tonight, Thursday, Sept. 26 — is a gift to your eyes, ears, […]
AFI Film Festival Says ‘Bienvenidos!’ and ‘Bem-vindo!’
September 19, 2024
•Opening tonight, Thursday, Sept. 19, the AFI Latin American Film Festival — held at the AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center in Silver Spring, Maryland — “celebrates Ibero-American cultural connections” […]
The Kreeger Museum Turns 30
September 11, 2024
•In 1994, four years after David Kreeger’s death and two years after his widow Carmen moved out (she died in 2003 at the age of 94), the Kreeger Museum opened […]
2024 Fall Arts Preview: Visual Arts
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Ralph Steadman: And Another Thing American University Museum Through Dec. 8 The American University Museum is the first U.S. venue for the touring exhibition, “Ralph Steadman: And Another Thing,” featuring […]
2024 Fall Arts Preview: Performing Arts
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CLASSICAL This Saturday, two weeks before the National Symphony Orchestra’s gala — featuring pianist Yunchan Lim playing Rachmaninoff (Sept. 28) — the NSO presents “Echoes of America” in the Kennedy […]