Arts
DC Jazz Festival Founder Charlie Fishman, 1942-2024
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 […]
‘Shout Sister Shout!’ at Ford’s Theatre Brings Audiences on a Rollercoaster of Successes, Sorrows
April 6, 2023
•Settling into a seat for “Shout Sister Shout!” at Ford’s Theatre, one expects to hear a voice capable of raising the historic rafters: that of Carrie Compere as “Godmother of […]