Arena Stage’s Death on the Nile Is  Sumptuous, “Fusty” Fun
• December 12, 2024

There was some trepidation about going to see the beloved 1937 Agatha Christie classic novel turned film “Death on the Nile,” as a world-premiere stage adaptation at Arena Stage. Fans […]

Georgetown Jingle “Sleighs” with Musical Holiday Delights
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By Lucy Cullen The Georgetown BID hosted its first holiday music event—Georgetown Jingle on Dec. 7. Throughout the afternoon, there were 10 live music performances spanning across Georgetown, from Patisserie […]

Tiger, Tiger: 2 Shows at the Kennedy Center
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Last year, after Nikita could not conceive, she underwent artificial insemination. Alas, no luck. The National Zoo is still hoping for tiger cubs, but not from Nikita, who has pretty […]

Weekend Roundup, Dec. 12-15
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With Christmas, Hanukkah and Kwanzaa all about two weeks away, holiday events and performances have ramped up. There’s festive events at Tudor Place and Santa himself comes to Volta Park […]

‘Leopoldstadt’: An Immersive, Haunting Family Portrait  
• December 11, 2024

“It’s like a second death, to lose your name in a family album.”   As soon as Grandma Emilia (Phyllis Kay) verbalizes this somber truth in Shakespeare Theatre Company’s production of […]

Legends Talk at the Phillips Collection   
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As long as I’ve lived in Washington, I’ve been in love with the Phillips Collection. For as historic, influential and mighty a museum as it is, it’s a funny little […]

Kitty Kelley Book Club: ‘Ninth Street Women’ 
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Curling up with a hefty book of almost 1,000 pages — dense with footnotes, endnotes, acknowledgments, an index and a bibliography — is like cuddling a St. Bernard: a challenging […]

Notes from The Underground—Dupont, That Is
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Architects Julian Hunt and Lucrecia Laudi: The ‘Brain Meld’ That Envisioned Dupont Underground   “We are both architects,” says Lucrecia Laudi, who co-founded Dupont Underground in 2005 with her husband, Julian […]

Artful Rx: Annemarie Ryan’s ‘Shining Through’ at MedStar GUH
• December 9, 2024

Artist Annemarie Ryan has donated 16 paintings of the series entitled “Shining Through” to the Verstandig Pavillon at Medstar Georgetown University Hospital. A Dec. 5 reception for the exhibit brought together […]

Light Up the Season at Four Seasons Honors Children’s National Hospital
• December 5, 2024

The Four Seasons hosted their “Light Up the Season” event inviting hotel guests and locals to check out their holiday displays, enjoy seasonal drinks at Bourbon Steak and enjoy a […]