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


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


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 […]