Competitive Edge EQ is thrilled to announce the launch of the Inaugural Annual Community Legacy Awards on April 18, 2024, at The Country Club at Woodmore, a prestigious event that aims to honor and celebrate individuals who have made a significant impact on the Washington Metropolitan area. These awards recognize outstanding achievements in sports, education, […]

Spring Into Wellness: Join us for lots of fun and wellness information for the entire family. The event will have a Game Truck, Moon Bounce, Face Painting, and Giveaways.

“An exciting, boundary-defying performer – Pine displays a power and confidence that puts her in the top echelon.” – The Washington Post  
Violinist Rachel Barton Pine inspires audiences worldwide with artistic excellence, boundless energy, unforgettable interpretations, and passion for philanthropy. Through her Rachel Barton Pine Foundation, she has championed, commissioned, and created educational materials to support […]

Join the National Portrait Gallery and the Smithsonian American Art Museum and craft workshops while you learn how art and science can help protect the earth. Attendees of all ages can enjoy nature-themed activities and there will be face painting for children 12 and under. A scavenger hunt in the galleries features works from both […]

Creator and performer Adil Mansoor invites his Pakistani mother to translate Antigone into Urdu as means of exploring the tensions between family and faith. Should he keep his queerness buried from his devout Muslim mother? Through Greek tragedy, teachings from the Quran, and audio conversations with his mother, Mansoor creates this theatrical blend of lecture […]

Completed five decades after Bach’s death, Die Schöpfung (The Creation) offers a significant milestone in the development of the oratorio genre. Strongly influenced by Handel’s definitive examples of the high Baroque, Haydn’s Creation conveys Gottfried van Swieten’s German libretto in sharp musical focus, with vivid characterizations of the creation story described in the book of […]

Celebrate Earth Day at the National Portrait Gallery with our happy hour trivia night. Together with our friends from New Columbia Pub Quiz, we will test your knowledge of climate superheroes and Mother Nature. Questions will be inspired by the museum’s collection "Forces of Nature: Voices that Shaped Environmentalism.” Our free collections-themed trivia game can […]

LEGOLAND New York is encouraging families to take a new kind of PTO…play time off…so they’re giving families a chance to visit the park on them. Starting this week, visitors to the following LEGO Discovery Centers can compete in an in-store hunt for a LEGO-made football and scan a secret QR code for the chance […]

LEGOLAND New York is encouraging families to take a new kind of PTO…play time off…so they’re giving families a chance to visit the park on them. Starting this week, visitors to the following LEGO Discovery Centers can compete in an in-store hunt for a LEGO-made football and scan a secret QR code for the chance […]

In September 2021, The Metropolitan Opera reopened after being closed for over a year and kicked off its season with Terence Blanchard’s Fire Shut Up In My Bones—the first work by an African American composer in the institution’s 138 years (the work was commissioned and premiered by the Opera Theatre of St. Louis). Based on […]

Join us for a festival event in celebration of Glen Echo Park's 103-year-old Dentzel Carousel as it opens for the season! In addition to riding the carousel, families are welcome to enjoy many other FREE activities throughout the Park including live music & performances, a spring parade and maypole celebration, kids' arts & crafts, open […]

“I couldn’t help but equate Anna Geniushene’s seasoned pianism to Cliburn at his best.” - Gramophone  
Van Cliburn International Piano Competition Silver Medalist (2022) Anna Geniushene wowed audiences with everything you expect from an accomplished pianist: a powerful sound, technical precision, emotional depth, yet she had a notably carefree ease belying the immense difficulty of […]

The Gala supports the mission of The Inn to provide “A Place Like Home” to children, teens, and young adults with rare and serious diseases whose best hope for a diagnosis or treatment is an NIH clinical research study. An Evening for Hope highlights The Inn’s role as a partner in hope and discovery with […]

The Lombardi Gala is an annual event dedicated to raising funds for cancer research for Georgetown University’s Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center. This event features a cocktail reception, silent auction, awards presentation, and much more. Proceeds from the Gala directly fund world-class research leading to clinical trials and innovative new treatments that change the lives of […]

It’s Earth Month! In conjunction with the Portrait Gallery’s “Forces of Nature: Voices that Shaped Environmentalism” exhibition, Moveius Contemporary Ballet will present “Glacier: A Climate Change Ballet.” Moveius works at the intersection of policy and performance, creating a path for ballet to speak to contemporary issues and stories. In 2018, the company’s “Glacier” became the […]

The GenOUT Youth Chorus, under the direction of GMCW Associate Conductor C. Paul Heins, will present its annual Youth Invasion concert in the Lang Theatre of Atlas Performing Arts Center. This year, GenOUT will collaborate with the chorus of Jackson-Reed High School, under the direction of Ronté Pierce. The concert will include songs such as “The Rainbow […]

Composed of actual letters between renowned poets Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell, Dear Elizabeth intimately reimagines a correspondence between two of the greatest poets of the 20th century, shedding light on the vulnerability of artistic creation and the enduring power of friendship. Directed by Holly Twyford and featuring celebrated local actors and alumni of Woolly’s […]

“Here is an orchestra that is not only very brilliant – it doesn’t have any weaknesses at all. They are enormously spontaneous and emotional performers, playing every concert like it could be their last. They give everything, more than a hundred percent.” – Gramophone 
 Sir Simon Rattle makes his first visit to Washington, D.C., in […]

Now entering its 35th season, the Washington Bach Consort’s Noontime Cantata Series continues its mission of bringing the music of Johann Sebastian Bach to the Washington, DC community.  PROGRAM 
 Organ Prelude 
Liebster Jesu, wir sind hier, BWV 731, and Prelude & Fugue in G major, BWV 541  
 Cantata  
 Ihr werdet weinen und heulen, BWV […]

Now entering its 35th season, the Washington Bach Consort’s Noontime Cantata Series continues its mission of bringing the music of Johann Sebastian Bach to the Washington, DC community.  PROGRAM 
 Organ Prelude 
 Liebster Jesu, wir sind hier, BWV 731, and Prelude & Fugue in G major, BWV 541  
 Cantata  
 Ihr werdet weinen und heulen, […]

With her impeccable vocal range and unmatched artistry, Helen Hayes Award winner Roz White (Gee’s Bend) effortlessly brings to life a repertoire of show-stopping numbers and heartfelt ballads with a four-piece band. White is well-known to national audiences from her role as the mother of a young Tina Turner in the national touring company Broadway’s […]

“So compelling is Kissin’s pianism, so fresh his response to even the most familiar phrases, that one hangs on every note... mesmerized by the poetry of his reading.” - The New York Times  It is safe to say that Evgeny Kissin’s performances with Washington Performing Arts are one of the highlights and most anticipated recitals […]

IN Series’ lauded Monteverdi Trilogy continues with the second installation in the cycle. 2024 is the 60th anniversary of the signing of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution and the start of official military action by the United States in Vietnam. It was a conflict that would change the face of America forever. The young souls that […]

Together again with National Philharmonic, The Washington Chorus celebrates the sacred choral works of Lili Boulanger, Igor Stravinsky, and Ludwig van Beethoven in “l’Éternel.” Throughout Psalm 24, Symphony of Psalms, and Mass in C Major, each composer explores faith and spirituality using their unique voice, gifting us three individual representations of divinity.  Colleen Daly, soprano […]

The writers of Keegan’s hit hip-hop musical PUSH THE BUTTON present a one-night-only performance of their original two-man show! Nominated for a 2020 Helen Hayes Award for its World Premiere at Keegan and named 2019 “Best of Fringe” at the Charm City Fringe Festival in Baltimore, FROM GUMBO TO MUMBO features a New Orleanian science […]

Hyatt Regency Chesapeake Bay Golf Resort, Spa and Marina is hosting “Walk-In Wednesdays” hiring events every Wednesday between 2 p.m. and 4 p.m. At the events, interested applicants will be able to explore career opportunities in a variety of resort departments, and take part in on-the-spot interviews. Interested applicants are encouraged to fill out an […]