The Actress at the Center of ‘Doubt’
A Georgetown resident, Sarah Marshall, who plays Sister Aloysius, teaches acting at Georgetown University and at Duke Ellington School of the Arts.
Carroll and Norman, Losses to the World at Large
Diahann Carroll and Jessye Norman were both gifted African American women and star performers, different in style and genres perhaps, but wholly original in the effect and affect of their gifts.
Weekend Round Up October 3, 2019
The Kennedy Center is celebrating the centennial of modern choreographer Merce Cunningham. Dancer or not, you can get moving early on Friday morning at the Smithsonian Arts and Industries Building.
Weekend Round Up September 26, 2019
Sunday’s offerings include the annual Turkish Festival on Pennsylvania Avenue, District Winery’s fall harvest party and a fall farm dinner at Arcadia Farm in Alexandria.
Californian Takes Charge at American History Museum
On the job for seven months, Anthea Hartig, who spoke at Georgetown Media Group's Sept. 19 Cultural Leadership Breakfast, is the first woman to lead the museum.
At SAAM: David Levinthal’s Curious Photographs
The photographs of David Levinthal are utterly peculiar, American curiosities. For the past 40 years, he has been fastidiously arranging toy soldiers, Barbie dolls,...
Singing, Dancing Cats at the Kennedy Center
"Cats" is a show so popular and so familiar that it readily attracts derision for its familiar tropes, characters, anthropomorphisms, circus-like aspects and doses of sentimentality.
Weekend Round Up September 19, 2019
Senate Beer is in season on Saturday at the Heurich House Museum’s Oktoberfest. And on Sunday, things will get outlandishly appetizing on K Street at this year’s Taste of Georgetown.
Arena Stage’s Season of Wilson
Running from Sept. 13 to Oct. 26, “Jitney,” technically the first of the 10 plays in August Wilson's monumental cycle, focuses on the lives and world of black cab drivers confronted with change and gentrification.
Weekend Round Up September 12, 2019
On Friday at noon, cartoonist Lynn Johnston will illustrate a presentation in real time. Up Wisconsin Avenue from Georgetown, 19 Tenleytown venues are participating in Art All Night on Saturday.
