Arts & Society
Ricky Skaggs at the Birchmere
Arts
Onstage Georgetown, January/February 2025
Arts & Society
All that Jazz, Georgetown, January 2025
Arts
Weekend Roundup, Dec. 26-29
Arts & Society
Washington Playwright Ken Ludwig Reawakens ‘Death on the Nile’
Weekly Arts Round Up, October 8, 2020
October 8, 2020
•“Girlhood (It’s Complicated)” opens tomorrow at the National Museum of American History and tickets for the Phillips Collection’s reopening weekend go on sale on Monday.
Weekly Arts Round Up, October 1, 2020
October 1, 2020
•Taste and Shop Georgetown kicks off on Oct. 5. Also coming up in the nabe: the Blessing of the Animals at St. John’s and fall classes at Hinckley Pottery.
A Path for Theaters to Open Safely
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Olney Theatre Center’s artistic director asks: Is live entertainment going to be the only industry that is not put on a path to safely reopen?
Weekly Arts Round Up, September 24, 2020
September 24, 2020
•Joining the list of reopened Smithsonian museums tomorrow: the National Museum of American History and the National Museum of the American Indian.
Weekly Arts Round Up, September 17, 2020
September 17, 2020
•More Smithsonian museums reopen tomorrow. From the comfort of your couch, stream Japanese films, hear from Helen Hunt and view treasures from sunken cities of ancient Egypt.
Pandemic Forces Performing Arts Leaders to Rethink
September 15, 2020
•The Georgetowner asked leading figures in D.C. theater to suggest silver linings of the pandemic, even as it has stolen the livelihood of countless arts workers and threatened the very future of many performing arts organizations.
DC Artswatch
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This month’s DC Artswatch column includes items about the Helen Hayes Awards, Twins Jazz, Planet Word and Shakespeare Theatre Company.
Weekly Arts Round Up, September 10, 2020
September 10, 2020
•Upcoming topics for online learning: Japanese textiles, Russian opera (and tea drinking), naturalist Alexander von Humboldt and painter Miki Hayakawa.
Half Virtual Arts Round Up, September 3, 2020
September 3, 2020
•Closing soon: a botanical art exhibition at the Athenaeum in Alexandria. Now open: the grounds and pavilions at Glenstone and the sculpture garden at the Kreeger Museum.
Half Virtual Arts Round Up, August 27, 2020
August 27, 2020
•Tomorrow is the last day to view the Ida B. Wells mural. Live and in person: a Haggadah program at the Museum of the Bible, storytelling and cemetery tours at Lincoln’s Cottage and comedy at the Birchmere.