Washington Concert Opera: One Down, One to Go 
• December 8, 2022

Opera without lavish sets and costumes? With the singers lined up facing music stands and the orchestra behind them, not in a pit?  If that strikes you as no way […]

Our Next Cultural Leadership Breakfast Speaker: Artistic Director, Choral Arts Society
• November 23, 2022

On Thursday, Dec. 15, from 8 to 9:30 a.m., The Georgetowner’s Cultural Leadership Breakfast Series will welcome Jace Kaholokula Saplan, artistic director of the Choral Arts Society of Washington. Admission […]

Dumbarton Oaks, According to Dr. Batsaki  
• November 21, 2022

“What is this place?” pondered Dr. Yota Batsaki when she first encountered Dumbarton Oaks, the Harvard University-owned research institute, museum and garden on 32nd Street in Georgetown. Did anything tie […]

Last Chance to See ‘Till’ and ‘Requiem’
• November 14, 2022

Two powerfully moving productions by risk-taking companies based in Washington, D.C. — Mosaic Theater Company and In Series — are due to close this Sunday, Nov. 20. Mosaic’s “The Till […]

The Georgetowner’s Holiday Season Theater Guide  
• November 9, 2022

LAST CHANCE THIS MONTH…   This weekend, Theater J will sew up its production of Lynn Nottage’s “Intimate Apparel,” about an African American seamstress on New York’s Lower East Side in […]

Mosaic’s Douglas: ‘For Us, History Is Alive’  
• October 24, 2022

When he was named Mosaic Theater Company’s artistic director last November, Reginald L. Douglas was in Pittsburgh at City Theatre, a former employer, directing a work he had helped hatch, […]

Next Breakfast Speaker: Executive Director of Dumbarton Oaks 
• October 20, 2022

On Thursday, Nov. 17, from 8 to 9:30 a.m., The Georgetowner’s Cultural Leadership Breakfast Series will welcome Yota Batsaki, executive director of Dumbarton Oaks, the Harvard University-owned research institute, library, […]

‘Beyond King Tut’ at National Geographic  
• October 12, 2022

The world’s largest archaeological museum is due to open next month a mile from the Egyptian Pyramids — possibly on Nov. 4, the day in 1922 that a 12-year-old water […]

Mosaic Theater’s Reginald Douglas Is October Breakfast Speaker
• October 3, 2022

On Thursday, Oct. 20, from 8 to 9:30 a.m., The Georgetowner’s Cultural Leadership Breakfast Series will welcome Reginald L. Douglas, artistic director of Mosaic Theater Company, to share his philosophy […]

Transformer at 20: Co-Founder of Visual Arts Nonprofit Tells All 
• September 26, 2022

Speaking at The Georgetowner’s Sept. 22 Cultural Leadership Breakfast, Victoria Reis said being at the Tabard Inn felt like coming “full circle.” Reis recalled meeting in the very same room […]