Dana Tai Soon Burgess Debut at Portrait Gallery (photos)
• December 21, 2017

A new work of contemporary dance based on the National Portrait Gallery’s “One Life: Sylvia Plath” exhibition had its premiere in the museum’s Kogod Courtyard on Dec. 7 and Dec. 10.

Weekend Round Up December 14, 2017
• December 14, 2017

Among the musical holiday celebrations this weekend: Signature Theatre’s “Holiday Follies,” Washington National Opera’s “The Little Prince,” Washington Revels’ “The Christmas Revels” and the Cathedral Choral Society’s “Joy of Christmas.”

Curtain Falls on Suzanne Farrell Ballet
• December 11, 2017

Farrell, 72, will continue to teach her summer intensive program for dancers aged 14 to 18 at the center and is expected to oversee classes in the dance studios currently under construction.

Weekend Round Up December 7, 2017
• December 7, 2017

Presented by the Georgetown Business Improvement District, “Glow,” Georgetown’s exhibition of light art, will feature nine installations by local and international artists, with works lit from 5 to 10 p.m. nightly.

Breakfast With Woolly Mammoth’s Howard Shalwitz
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Among the last of the generation that founded D.C. companies in the late 1970s and 1980s, Shalwitz announced last June that he would retire at the end of the 2017-18 season.

Brother and Sister: 50 Years of Performing
• December 6, 2017

A Dec. 8 Russian Chamber Art Society concert will celebrate both Vera Danchenko-Stern’s 75th birthday and her 50 years of performing with her brother, violinist Victor Danchenko.

‘Mean Girls’ Heading to Broadway
• December 4, 2017

The show finished its D.C. run Dec. 3, receiving mostly positive reviews. Fans of the movie will be pleased to learn that the stage version has kept many of the signature lines.

Weekend Round Up November 30, 2017
• November 30, 2017

In Georgetown, check out the Swedish Christmas Bazaar at House of Sweden on Saturday and Breakfast with Santa in Volta Park on Sunday.

The Passing of 4 Musical Luminaries
• November 24, 2017

Think: Mel Tellis, David Cassidy, Della Reese, Jon Hendricks and listen to what sounds or lyrics, what lament or blues riffs emerge in your head, like road stops for a musical pony express.  

A Chat With Maestro Noseda
• November 21, 2017

Of the interplay between orchestral and opera conducting, he remarked: “As a performer, I feed myself with opera and I try to bring the vocal element — even in symphonic repertoire, where the singer is not there — to make the instruments sing.