An ‘Electro-Acoustic’ Opera at the Kennedy Center
• April 17, 2025

“Passion, obsession, betrayal, love, death. The story of Steve Jobs is animated by big, human thematics that resonate throughout opera history,” said composer Mason Bates. “Sometimes folks will suggest similar […]

The Georgetowner 2025 Spring Theater Guide 
• April 9, 2025

THIS MONTH ONLY …  Irish arts organization Solas Nua presents readings of “The Frederick Douglass Project” by Psalmayene 24 and Deirdre Kinahan, about Douglass’s 1847 journey to Ireland, at the […]

Capital Jewish Museum’s Gurwitz to Speak at April 24 Breakfast
• April 7, 2025

On Thursday, April 24, The Georgetowner’s Cultural Leadership Breakfast Series will present a talk by Dr. Beatrice Gurwitz, executive director of the Lillian and Albert Small Capital Jewish Museum. Admission […]

Works by Chekhov, Medtner and Other Russians
• April 3, 2025

Ivan Petrovich Voinitsky is having a moment. Steve Carell took him on last spring in a Lincoln Center Theater production directed by Lila Neugebauer. In Greenwich Village at the Lucille […]

PCE Serves Up a Nino Rota Antipasto
• March 24, 2025

A few well-known composers wrote film music, especially in the 1930s. Examples: Prokofiev’s score for “Alexander Nevsky,” Milhaud’s for “Madame Bovary,” Copland’s for “Of Mice and Men.” Conversely, film-score specialists […]

Rarely Performed Choral Masterpieces, March 16
• March 6, 2025

In WalletHub’s new ranking of the most hard-working cities in the country, Anchorage, Alaska, made a four-rung leap into the top spot, knocking out Washington, D.C. Nonetheless, second place is […]

Raise a Glass to St. Patrick and a Lost Irish Enclave
• March 3, 2025

In November of 2018, Swampoodle made a comeback of sorts. An 8,000-square-foot park featuring — according to the NoMa Business Improvement District — “a dog space with an agility structure, […]

Irish Film Festival Returns to AFI, Feb. 27-March 2
• February 20, 2025

Google “mrs robinson movie” and “The Graduate” comes up. Simon and Garfunkel’s “Mrs. Robinson” was first heard in the 58-year-old film, directed by Mike Nichols and starring Anne Bancroft as […]

Opera Lafayette Premieres Dédé’s ‘Morgiane’
• February 18, 2025

The week before Abraham Lincoln’s and Frederick Douglass’s birthdays, Opera Lafayette — best known under founder Ryan Brown for performances of French baroque works — presented the world premiere of […]

A Harvard Art Historian at Politics and Prose
• February 6, 2025

“Girl With a Pearl Earring,” Tracy Chevalier’s novel about a 17th-century portrait by Johannes Vermeer, dropped into bookstores in 1999, four years later becoming a film starring Scarlett Johansson. Donna […]