Arts
Happy Birthday, Rabbie Burns!
Living
Gong Xi Fa Cai! Celebrating Lunar New Year
Arts
Panel on Earliest Opera by a Black American, Jan. 16
Arts & Society
Ricky Skaggs at the Birchmere
Living
A Winter Holiday Hotel: The St. Gregory
Weekend Round Up December 28, 2017
December 28, 2017
•Playing through Sunday: “A Christmas Carol” at Ford’s, “An Irish Carol” at the Keegan and “Twist Your Dickens” at the Kennedy Center.
Weekend Round Up December 21, 2017
December 21, 2017
•In addition to Christmas music, shows and meals, there are jazz, beer and comedy options this weekend — not to mention a Falafel Frenzy and a Matzo Ball on Christmas Eve.
Weekend Round Up December 14, 2017
December 14, 2017
•Among the musical holiday celebrations this weekend: Signature Theatre’s “Holiday Follies,” Washington National Opera’s “The Little Prince,” Washington Revels’ “The Christmas Revels” and the Cathedral Choral Society’s “Joy of Christmas.”
Curtain Falls on Suzanne Farrell Ballet
December 11, 2017
•Farrell, 72, will continue to teach her summer intensive program for dancers aged 14 to 18 at the center and is expected to oversee classes in the dance studios currently under construction.
Weekend Round Up December 7, 2017
December 7, 2017
•Presented by the Georgetown Business Improvement District, “Glow,” Georgetown’s exhibition of light art, will feature nine installations by local and international artists, with works lit from 5 to 10 p.m. nightly.
Breakfast With Woolly Mammoth’s Howard Shalwitz
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Among the last of the generation that founded D.C. companies in the late 1970s and 1980s, Shalwitz announced last June that he would retire at the end of the 2017-18 season.
Brother and Sister: 50 Years of Performing
December 6, 2017
•A Dec. 8 Russian Chamber Art Society concert will celebrate both Vera Danchenko-Stern’s 75th birthday and her 50 years of performing with her brother, violinist Victor Danchenko.
DC Artswatch Dec. 6, 2017
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Compiled by Richard Selden European Union Film Showcase The European Union Film Showcase, now in its 30th year, continues through Dec. 20 at the AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center […]
Weekend Round Up November 30, 2017
November 30, 2017
•In Georgetown, check out the Swedish Christmas Bazaar at House of Sweden on Saturday and Breakfast with Santa in Volta Park on Sunday.
Weekend Round Up November 24, 2017
November 24, 2017
•There are two shows to catch this weekend at the Kennedy Center: a Harry Potter film with live orchestral accompaniment and 2017’s last performances of “Shear Madness.”