Michael Kahn Muses on Shakespeare and Power
• March 13, 2017

The American theater legend was the featured guest at this morning’s Cultural Leadership Breakfast at the George Town Club.

This Thursday: Shakespeare Theatre’s Michael Kahn at the George Town Club
• March 9, 2017

Last chance to RSVP for Georgetown Media Group’s next Cultural Leadership Breakfast, March 9 at 8 a.m.

DC Artswatch
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“Belize 35,” an exhibition marking the 35th anniversary of Belize independence, will run from Feb. 11 through March 13 at the Art Museum of the Americas at the Organization of American States, 201 18th Street NW. The featured artists are sculptor Santiago Cal, with two installations, and photojournalist Karl Villanueva, with color images made Sept. 21, 1981, Belize’s day of independence.

The 2016 Nancy Hanks Lecture on Arts and Public Policy will be given by John Maeda, partner at Silicon Valley venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and former president of Rhode Island School of Design, on Monday, March 7, at the Kennedy Center. Named for the second chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, the lecture takes place the evening before Arts Advocacy Day. To reserve a free ticket, and for Advocacy Day details, visit americansforthearts.org.

The DC Independent Film Festival will take place March 4 to 13 at the Naval Heritage Center, E Street Cinema, the Carnegie Institution for Science, BloomBars and Miracle Theater Church. The festival will screen 16 documentaries — including “Mind/Game,” about former Washington Mystic Chamique Holdsclaw — and 11 features, along with documentaries, shorts, animated films and high school film competition finalists. For details, visit dciff-indie.org.

Septime Webre, artistic director of the Washington Ballet since 1999, will step down from the position in June. Named for his French great-grandfather, also a seventh son, he took the company to Cuba (which his parents left in 1959) in 2000. Webre has continued to raise the D.C. and national profile of the company and school ever since, through his bold choreography and, among other accomplishments, the launch of programming in Southeast at THEARC and the creation of a “Nutcracker” set in Georgetown.

Compiled by Richard Selden.

From Dulles to Dublin
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Most Americans travel to Ireland to experience the bucolic green quilt and timeless stony coast familiar from films such as “How Green Was My Valley,” “The Quiet Man,” “Ryan’s Daughter,” […]

Final Chapter for ‘Exorcist’ Author, 89
• March 2, 2017

Author and noted Georgetown University alumnus William Peter Blatty died Jan. 12 at the age of 89. “The Exorcist,” on the other hand, will live forever — which means that […]

Georgetown’s Mirror Image: Old Town Alexandria
• February 24, 2017

Alexandria’s Winter Restaurant Week runs through Feb. 26 and its St. Patrick’s Day Parade is March 4.

Architect David Adjaye: Beyond the Monumental
• February 10, 2017

The latest version of Adjaye’s design for the Levy Group’s West Heating Plant project will be unveiled at a March 9 meeting at the Four Seasons.

New Director at American Art Museum
• February 6, 2017

Effective April 3, Stephanie Stebich succeeds Elizabeth Broun, who retired last fall after 27 years.

Dumbarton House Offers Hard-Hat Tour, Talk
• February 2, 2017

Closed for a construction project, the Federal-period museum in Georgetown will reopen in April.

Designer Lela Rose Speaks at Antiques Show
• January 19, 2017

More than 430 attendees were at the Jan. 13 luncheon at American University’s Katzen Center.