Last Chance: ‘Akira Kurosawa Explains…’ at Woolly Mammoth
• May 27, 2025

As one waits, seated, for Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company’s world-premiere production of “Akira Kurosawa Explains His Movies and Yogurt (With Live & Active Cultures!)” to begin, stills from Kurosawa films […]

Recapping the 41st Helen Hayes Awards
• May 22, 2025

On May 19, more than 1,600 theater-makers flocked to The Anthem to attend Theatre Washington’s 41st annual Helen Hayes Awards—the premiere awards ceremony recognizing theatrical excellence in the greater Washington […]

Weekend Roundup: May 22-26
• May 21, 2025

This long Memorial Day weekend, there are lots of things to do, including the last Washington National Opera show of the season, Jazz in the Garden starting up again at […]

Constellation Theatre Company’s ‘Head Over Heels’
• May 19, 2025

Do you need to be a Go-Go’s fan to fall head over heels for Constellation Theatre’s Company’s “Head Over Heels,” at Source Theatre through June 1? Forced to choose between […]

Season Finale at Dance Loft on 14: ‘Muse’
• May 15, 2025

As the National Portrait Gallery’s second choreographer-in-residence — Dana Tai Soon Burgess was the first — Diana Movius creates dance pieces inspired by the works on view at the gallery, […]

Weekend Roundup: May 15-18
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Another weekend awaits with plenty to do. Isaac Mizrahi will be at Sixth and I, Folger closes its season, and a new exhibit opens at the Capital Jewish Museum and […]

May All That Jazz, Georgetown
• May 14, 2025

By Mark Edelman  Sinatra intoned the Maxwell Anderson lyric “it’s a long, long while from May to December,” (music by Kurt Weill) but with this great weather, who’s counting winter? […]

Summer Arts Preview   
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D.C. Arts: 25 Ways to Spend the Summer of ’25 Cut out this page — or bookmark it if you’re reading it online — for the perfect summer 2025 D.C. […]

For Ryan Brown’s ‘Swan Song’: An Opera Lafayette Highlight Reel
• May 8, 2025

Wrapping up a 30-year run, Ryan Brown, founder and artistic director of Opera Lafayette, conducted his “swan song” on April 30 in the magnificent sanctuary of St. Bartholomew’s Church on […]

Weekend Roundup: May 8-11
• May 7, 2025

Another weekend awaits! There are lots of fun things to do, including the first of the Nats Post-Game Concerts, a Language Science Fair at Planet Word and a concert at […]