Weekend Roundup, September 12-15
• September 11, 2024

Another lovely fall weekend is upon us! This time, don’t miss James Taylor at Wolf Trap, a Colonial Market and Fair at Mount Vernon, Georgetown’s Catbird celebrating 20 years. And […]

2024 Fall Arts Preview: Performing Arts
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CLASSICAL  This Saturday, two weeks before the National Symphony Orchestra’s gala — featuring pianist Yunchan Lim playing Rachmaninoff (Sept. 28) — the NSO presents “Echoes of America” in the Kennedy […]

‘Ain’t No Back to a Merry-Go-Round’
• September 5, 2024

By Dina Gold “I really wanted to ride on the carousel. Why couldn’t we have fun like everybody else?” said Tina Clarke in Ain’t No Back to a Merry-Go-Round the […]

One Director, Three Very Different Plays
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Now playing at the American Shakespeare Center in Staunton, Virginia: Shakespeare’s “Macbeth” and Oscar Wilde’s “The Importance of Being Earnest.” Could two plays be less compatible? Take the subject of […]

Onstage, Georgetown: September
• August 29, 2024

By Mark Edelman September marks the beginning of Theatre Week — an even better reason to get out there and save on more than 30 productions scattered in and around […]

JazzFest Underway; Meet the Artists at Arena Stage
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The DC Jazz Festival, DC JazzFest for short, has been a District-wide happening from the get-go. Musicians performed at 18 venues during the inaugural five-day festival (then called the Duke […]

Sept. 19 Cultural Breakfast to Feature Signature’s Matthew Gardiner
• August 15, 2024

Signature Theatre Artistic Director Matthew Gardiner will be the featured speaker at The Georgetowner’s Sept. 19 Cultural Leadership Breakfast. Admission to the event, at the President Woodrow Wilson House, 2340 […]

‘Star Wars: A New Hope’ in Concert: A Galactic Performance at Wolf Trap
• July 25, 2024

By Forbes Dudley As a part of Wolf Trap’s movies in concert series, The National Symphony Orchestra (NSO) showcased the iconic soundtrack to Star Wars: A New Hope on Saturday […]

Olivia Rodrigo Spills Her Guts in DC
• July 24, 2024

By Julia Key Last Saturday, grammy-winning singer and songwriter Olivia Rodrigo performed a sold-out show in Capital One Arena as part of her “GUTS World Tour.” As Rodrigo took the […]

Wolf Trap Opera: Something Old, Something New(ish)
• July 18, 2024

Attention: Lovers of “La bohème”! Tomorrow, Friday, July 19, is your sole chance to catch Wolf Trap Opera’s production of Puccini’s heartstring-puller, in which impoverished bohemians in 19th-century Paris sing […]