Arts
Works by Chekhov, Medtner and Other Russians
Chamber Dance Project Dives Deeper into Dance on Film
March 2, 2023
•When the pandemic shut down live performance in 2020, choreographer Diane Coburn Bruning, founder and artistic director of Chamber Dance Project, whipped up a virtual season for her D.C.-based contemporary […]
2023 Spring Performing Arts Preview
February 8, 2023
•OPERA The Kennedy Center Opera House curtain will rise next month on Jeanine Tesori and Tazewell Thompson’s “Blue,” about a police officer — a “Black man in blue” — whose […]
Last Chance: Matisse and Modigliani in Philadelphia
January 12, 2023
•Sunday, Jan. 29, is the last day to see “Matisse in the 1930s” at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and “Modigliani Up Close,” a few blocks away at the Barnes […]
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 […]