Stunning ‘Metamorphoses’ Uses Vignettes of Change for Potent Storytelling
• May 16, 2024

By Hailey Wharram Everything begins with a sound like maracas. A masked figure shakes her bracelets, while gliding wordlessly through the audience’s central aisle. Adorned in a magnificent straw skirt […]

Weekend Roundup: May 16 through 19
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Happy (almost) Friday! Spring is winding down and summer is almost here. Don’t miss Mount Vernon’s annual Spring Wine Festival and Sunset Tour, the Citizens Association of Georgetown’s Concert in […]

Now Playing: JxJ Festival of Jewish Film and Music
• May 13, 2024

“The power of storytelling is the soul of our culture,” asserts filmmaker Yael Luttwak, who became JxJ’s artistic director in 2022. JxJ stands for the Edlavitch DC Jewish Community Center’s […]

CEO Ana Harvey’s Notes From Underground
• April 29, 2024

Last September, The Washington Ballet presented a pre-season showcase underground. Dupont Underground, that is, the eight-year-old contemporary arts venue in Dupont Circle’s subterranean streetcar station, shuttered in 1962. Though the […]

Filmmaker Gets Foot in the Door With ‘Step Back, Doors Closing’  
• April 10, 2024

This article has been updated. By Hailey Wharram “Step Back, Doors Closing,” the first project from Arden Pictures, the production company founded by Carter Ward in 2021, follows Julisa (Carmen […]

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 […]

Weekend Roundup: April 4 through April 7
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Another spring weekend is upon us! Enjoy an Architects’ Walk Through Georgetown with the Citizens Association of Georgetown, performances by Washington Performing Arts and Washington Concert Opera and more. Don’t […]

Remembering Esther Coopersmith
• March 28, 2024

Esther Coopersmith lived well into her 90s, and during her eight-plus decades of life, she collected an impressive group of friends and memorabilia too. Her home was full of treasures, […]