Arts
Stunning ‘Metamorphoses’ Uses Vignettes of Change for Potent Storytelling
Arts
Now Playing: JxJ Festival of Jewish Film and Music
Performance
Last Chance: ‘Unknown Soldier’ at Arena Stage
Arts & Society
PostClassical Ensemble’s Sophisticated Ellington
Arts & Society
On Broadway, Georgetown: What’s New and What’s Hot
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 […]
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 […]
Last Chance: ‘Unknown Soldier’ at Arena Stage
May 2, 2024
•“As children, we may only know our parents and other relations through the slim lens of their roles in raising and caring for us,” writes Arena Stage Literary Manager Otis […]
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 […]