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Weekend Roundup, Oct. 31-Nov. 3
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Last Chance: Throwback ‘Babbitt’ Has Lessons for Today
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Founder Prepares to Bid Opera Lafayette ‘Adieu’
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Choreographer Diana Movius Is Nov. 21 Breakfast Speaker
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All That Jazz, Georgetown: November
Weekly Arts Round Up, October 29, 2020
October 29, 2020
•On Halloween night, the Choral Arts Society and Dumbarton Oaks will stream music performances. Head to Martin’s Tavern on Tuesday for an election-night watch party.
DC Artswatch: GALA, NMAAHC, Stable, NGA
October 22, 2020
•A theater welcomes an in-person audience, a history museum names a new director, the founders of a studio community step down and a major art exhibition is postponed.
Weekly Arts Round Up, October 22, 2020
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Opening soon: a new Addison/Ripley show and half the main floor of the National Gallery’s West Building. Next Thursday, go on a high-def encounter with the Barnes Foundation Matisses.
Chamber Dance to Hold Open Rehearsal, Oct. 21
October 19, 2020
•Grace-Anne Powers and Austin Powers will rehearse a duet, part of a larger work by Christian Denice that will be presented by Chamber Dance Project later this season.
Weekly Arts Round Up, October 15, 2020
October 15, 2020
•The 2020 Smithsonian Food History Weekend and a panel tomorrow on the legacy of John Lewis will take place online. In person, you can visit the Kreeger Museum and, soon, Planet Word.
Dana Tai Soon Burgess: Dancing in the Time of COVID (photos)
October 13, 2020
•The Oct. 9 performance by the Dana Tai Soon Burgess Dance Company, outdoors at the Arts Club of Washington, was noteworthy for being danced in front of a live audience.
Weekly Arts Round Up, October 8, 2020
October 8, 2020
•“Girlhood (It’s Complicated)” opens tomorrow at the National Museum of American History and tickets for the Phillips Collection’s reopening weekend go on sale on Monday.
Weekly Arts Round Up, October 1, 2020
October 1, 2020
•Taste and Shop Georgetown kicks off on Oct. 5. Also coming up in the nabe: the Blessing of the Animals at St. John’s and fall classes at Hinckley Pottery.
A Path for Theaters to Open Safely
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Olney Theatre Center’s artistic director asks: Is live entertainment going to be the only industry that is not put on a path to safely reopen?
Weekly Arts Round Up, September 24, 2020
September 24, 2020
•Joining the list of reopened Smithsonian museums tomorrow: the National Museum of American History and the National Museum of the American Indian.