Hopper at the Whitney, Katz at the Guggenheim 
• January 5, 2023

Now on view in Manhattan are major exhibitions of the work of two influential American artists, Edward Hopper (1882-1967) and Alex Katz (b. 1927). “Edward Hopper’s New York” is at […]

A Multicultural Voice at Choral Arts 
• December 19, 2022

“I’d like to start off with a song, if that’s okay,” said Jace Kaholokula Saplan. Delighted by the idea, the attendees at The Georgetowner’s Dec. 15 Cultural Leadership Breakfast were […]

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 […]