Arts
Filmmaker Gets Foot in the Door With ‘Step Back, Doors Closing’
A Very Different Hollywood?
March 5, 2018
•All the pre-publicity, stories, predictions and gossip leading up to the March 4 event seemed full of not a little anxiety about how the #MeToo and #TimesUp movement would affect the proceedings.
Statue of Former Mayor Marion Barry Unveiled (photos)
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One of three African Americans with a full-body statue erected and standing in Washington, D.C., Barry is the first local elected official to be honored with a statue.
Dr. Ruth Unpacks at Theater J
March 1, 2018
•Always onstage, answering her 1990s-era cell phone, opening and climbing on boxes, breaking into dance, Naomi Jacobson, portraying the 4-foot-7 dynamo, has a lot to do.
Weekend Round Up March 1, 2018
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Dorrance Dance is at Strathmore and Bowen McCauley Dance is at the Kennedy Center. Also this weekend: a showcase of Oscar-nominated short films at the National Archives.
Recent Passings of Note
February 26, 2018
•Georgetown lost Joan Burgess Shorey on Feb. 20. Also among the recently departed are a number of singers, dancers, actors, writers and such.
Weekend Round Up February 22, 2018
February 22, 2018
•The Atlas Intersections Festival starts intersecting tonight on H Street NE. This weekend only: the Progressive International Motorcycle Show at the Washington Convention Center and the American Craft Show at the Baltimore Convention Center.
LAST CALL: Georgetown Night at ‘Hamlet’
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Use the GEORGETOWNER55 code to order your tickets for the Thursday, March 1, performance of this attention-getting Shakespeare Theatre Company production, including a special pre-show reception.
Spring Arts Preview
February 21, 2018
•By Ari Post and Richard Selden VISUAL ARTS SMITHSONIAN AMERICAN ART MUSEUM Do Ho Suh: Almost Home March 16 – August 5 Internationally renowned for his “fabric architecture,” which explores […]
This Thursday: Breakfast with Air and Space’s Jakab
February 20, 2018
•Peter L. Jakab, chief curator of the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, will speak at the next Cultural Leadership Breakfast at the George Town Club.
Celebrating the Year of the Dog in D.C. (photos)
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The parade through Chinatown on Sunday, Feb. 18, featured Chinese lion and dragon dances, musical performances, youth groups, marching bands and beauty queens.