PostClassical Ensemble’s Sophisticated Ellington
• April 29, 2024

“What on earth would I want with strings?” That quote from Duke Ellington, which appeared in a 1951 issue of “Down Beat,” gives a sense of the deeply rooted, inimitable […]

On Broadway, Georgetown: What’s New and What’s Hot
• April 24, 2024

By Mark Edelman Headed to the Big Apple in the next few weeks? Here’s a rundown of the season’s new shows on Broadway. These titles stood out for me on […]

Onstage, Georgetown: Getting Hot for Plays, Musicals
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By Mark Edelman Summer is on its way. Before it gets too hot in Washington, buy your tickets (and air-conditioned comfort) to these plays and musicals around town. AMM(I)GONE    […]

Review: ‘The Tortured Poets Department’ Is Swift at Her Most Grown Up, Mature Sound
• April 22, 2024

Taylor Swift has done it again. “The Tortured Poets Department,” was originally supposed to be one album and in typical Swift fashion, she dropped a double “anthology” with 31 songs. […]

Previewed at Mount Zion: ‘DC Emancipation & The Right to Vote’  
• April 10, 2024

A preview of an original work-in-development, the opera “DC Emancipation & The Right to Vote,” was staged in Georgetown at Mount Zion United Methodist Church on March 14. “DC Emancipation […]

The Georgetowner’s Spring 2024 Theater Guide 
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 ONGOING …  At Arena Stage, Trip Cullman directs “Unknown Soldier,” the last musical by “Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson” composer Michael Friedman, with lyrics by Friedman and Daniel Goldstein, who wrote […]

Richie Moriarty of CBS’s ‘Ghosts’ Previews Appearance at Library of Congress
• April 7, 2024

On Tuesday, April 9, the Library of Congress is hosting a panel and episode screening featuring cast members from the CBS show “Ghosts.” From 5 to 6 p.m., the library […]

Tasty ‘Little Shop of Horrors’ at Ford’s
• April 4, 2024

The main human characters in the current Ford’s Theatre production of the musical “Little Shop of Horrors” — the real star being a flesh-and-blood-eating plant — are not the four-eyed […]

Onstage, Georgetown: Plays Are Blooming
• March 27, 2024

By Mark Edelman April showers may come your way, along with the tail end of those lovely cherry blossoms. Meanwhile, these plays are blooming in the coming months at theaters […]

Operatic ‘Renaissance Romances’ in McLean
• March 7, 2024

The Washington Opera Society premiered a memorable operatic evening recently at the charming Carderock Falls Manor in McLean, Virginia. Robin Phillips served as the evening’s narrator, dressed in a grand costume […]