Arts
Kreeger Director Helen Chason’s View From Foxhall Road
Dean of CU’s Music, Drama, and Art School to Speak at Sept. 21 Breakfast
• August 21, 2023
Dr. Jacqueline J. Leary-Warsaw, founding dean of the Catholic University of America’s Benjamin T. Rome School of Music, Drama, and Art, where she is a professor of music, will be […]
Chamber Dance Project’s ‘Slam!’ Festival
• June 29, 2023
On June 22-25, Diane Coburn Bruning’s Chamber Dance Project presented “Slam! A Festival of Ballets” at American University’s 300-seat Greenberg Theatre on Wisconsin Avenue in Tenleytown. In the corridor, 10 […]
New Phillips Director Inspired by Duncan
• June 26, 2023
A guiding principle of art critic Duncan Phillips, founder of the Phillips Collection, was to acquire a “unit” of work by important late 19th– and 20th-century painters, notably Paul Cézanne, […]
Dinosaur Expert Lindsay Zanno to Speak at Lincoln Theatre, June 13
• June 8, 2023
“When I first stumbled upon fossils and evolution” — at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City as a child — “it sort of blew my mind […]
GALA Hispanic Theatre Co-Founder Hugo Medrano, 80
• May 25, 2023
Hugo Medrano, who with his wife Rebecca opened a Buenos Aires-style “café teatro” that became one of the nation’s most ambitious Spanish-language theaters and a beloved Washington institution, died on […]
On the Cutting Edge: Woolly Mammoth’s Maria Goyanes
• May 22, 2023
Why in the world would Maria Goyanes leave New York’s Public Theater, birthplace of “Hair,” “A Chorus Line” and “Hamilton” (which she helped produce), for a relatively small company in […]
PostClassical Ensemble Fills Stage With Falla
• May 1, 2023
Though he is probably the best-known Spanish composer, in this country Manuel de Falla isn’t a marquee name. Many of his compositions are piano pieces, chamber music works or zarzuelas […]
Hudson Shares New Mission, Preservation Plans at Tudor Place
• April 24, 2023
Three invitations were extended by The Georgetowner’s April 20 cultural power breakfast speaker, Mark Hudson, executive director of Tudor Place, the National Historic Landmark on five and a half acres […]
May 18 Cultural Power Breakfast: Woolly Mammoth’s Maria Goyanes
• April 20, 2023
Maria Manuela Goyanes, artistic director of D.C.’s Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company since 2018, will be the featured speaker at The Georgetowner’s next Cultural Power Breakfast, on Thursday, May 18. Admission […]
The Georgetowner’s Spring Theater Guide
• April 12, 2023
ONGOING … The National Capital New Play Festival at Bethesda’s Round House Theatre is featuring two world premieres: “On the Far End,” Mary Kathryn Nagle’s one-woman show about Muscogee leader […]
