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Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg “Great Americans” Medal Posthumous Presentation March 30; 6:30 p.m. ET Virtual Event, Free with Registration: https://smithsoniannmah.swoogo.com/RBG The late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, recognized for her groundbreaking commitment to gender equity and human rights, will posthumously receive the National Museum […]
WHATFRESH TALK: Privacy for SaleJoin the National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA) for a conversation about the buying and selling of our private information and how that data […]
The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery announces two exhibitions of early American photography to premiere July 1 alongside the reinstallation of “Out of Many: Portraits from 1600 to 1900” in the […]
The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery will present an exhibition of portraits by the late Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Brian Lanker. “I Dream a World: Selections from Brian Lanker’s Portraits of Remarkable […]
Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery Announces Upcoming Exhibitions through Winter 2023 I Dream a World: Selections from Brian Lanker's Portraits of Remarkable Black Women Part I: July 8, 2022–Jan. 29, 2023 […]
WASHINGTON PERFORMING ARTS 2022/23 SEASONCHRONOLOGICAL SCHEDULE Hazel Scott 101st Birthday Celebration DANCE THEATRE OF HARLEM Virginia Johnson, artistic director FRI, OCT 7, 8 PM SAT, OCT 8, 2 PM & 8 […]
Productions to include: NEXTsteps/NEW WORKS THE NUTCRACKER BALANCHINE! AURORA’S WEDDING + BALANCHINE THE SLEEPING BEAUTY Pre-season activities include The Washington Ballet’s first summer residency at the Chautauqua Institute and a […]
"Nation of Speed"National Air and Space MuseumOpens Oct. 14, 2022For more information: https://www.si.edu/exhibitions/nation-speed%3Aevent-exhib-6030The new gallery "Nation of Speed" explores the deep-rooted connection between people and machines through the history they made together. This […]
Imagination Stage Announces Six Shows for 2022-2023 BETHESDA, MD (June 14, 2022). Imagination Stage™, the metro DC region’s largest professional theatre for young audiences, announces its six shows for […]
Featuring: World-premiere works by Henry Dehlinger and Adolphus Hailstork Choral-orchestral masterpieces by Hector Berlioz, George Frideric Handel,Johann Sebastian Bach, and Carl Orff Symphonies by Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges,Louise Farrenc, […]
CELEBRATING PHENOMENAL WOMEN Judy Whitney Dolly The Holiday Show – a tribute to female composers and arrangers Spring Affair – Annual Gala Youth Invasion - GenOUT (Washington DC): The Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington DC’s (GMCW) […]
Contemporary artist Anne Lindberg’s immersive installation transforms light and thread into a site for contemplation and reflection on connections with ourselves, communities and individual conceptions of the divine. A series […]
A Black soldier stands his ground atop Tulsa’s Standpipe Hill, bearing witness to the destruction and desecration of Tulsa’s Greenwood District—but other forces, both friendly and hostile, conspire to remove […]
In the Muslim faith, carpets create physically and spiritually “clean” spaces during the daily ritual of prayer. Drawn from five collections, this exhibition introduces the purpose and iconography of classical […]
Wednesdays in March at 6:00 pm Please join us this Lent as we delve into C.S. Lewis’s classic The Great Divorce, his imaginative exploration of possible responses to Christ’s invitation […]
Arlington, VA (Dec. 16, 2022)–Synetic Theater will present a magical, darkly Gothic production of Beauty and the Beast, March 3–April 2, 2023. Originally performed in 2014 to critical and popular acclaim, Beauty and the […]
Downtown DC’s Outdoor, Pop-Up Bookstore Returns to Wilson Plaza Starting March 16! Join us on Woodrow Wilson Plaza (located on the external grounds of the Ronald Reagan Building and International […]
Tony Kushner’s Pulitzer Prize- and Tony Award-winning drama Angels in America is one of the great epic American plays of this past century. We meet Louis and Prior and Harper and Joe, […]
Join us for our annual celebration of spring and the blooming trees of D.C. Enjoy a taiko drumming performance by Nen Daiko, traditional Japanese dance with Onoe Dance, and break […]
In a town beset by the sordid shenanigans of a prank-prone Villain, justice finally seems to be served when the celebrated Hero accuses Villain of the worst crime of all: […]
Our spring concert features Leonard Bernstein’s dynamic Chichester Psalms, as well as settings by Bobby McFerrin, and Herb Mahelona, composer of the first Hawai’ian-language oratorio, Kinohi. Psalms tell stories of […]
Celebrate the lively folkloric traditions of Latin America with music inspired by typical dances from Mexico, El Salvador and Argentina. With two new compositions by Salvadoran composers, El Juco, by […]
