Weekend Round Up October 10, 2019
• October 10, 2019

Two much-admired musical acts — Over the Rhine and India.Arie — will perform on Friday night. And two classic, 400-year-old dramas — by Shakespeare and Calderón — are closing this weekend.

LAST CHANCE: Atlas Executive Director Is This Thursday’s Breakfast Speaker
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Douglas Yeuell will describe how the Atlas Performing Arts Center, in a landmark movie theater, has been a key player in the rebirth of the H Street NE neighborhood. RSVP to richard@georgetowner.com.

The Actress at the Center of ‘Doubt’
• October 8, 2019

A Georgetown resident, Sarah Marshall, who plays Sister Aloysius, teaches acting at Georgetown University and at Duke Ellington School of the Arts.

Carroll and Norman, Losses to the World at Large
• October 7, 2019

Diahann Carroll and Jessye Norman were both gifted African American women and star performers, different in style and genres perhaps, but wholly original in the effect and affect of their gifts. 

Weekend Round Up October 3, 2019
• October 3, 2019

The Kennedy Center is celebrating the centennial of modern choreographer Merce Cunningham. Dancer or not, you can get moving early on Friday morning at the Smithsonian Arts and Industries Building.

Weekend Round Up September 26, 2019
• September 26, 2019

Sunday’s offerings include the annual Turkish Festival on Pennsylvania Avenue, District Winery’s fall harvest party and a fall farm dinner at Arcadia Farm in Alexandria.

Singing, Dancing Cats at the Kennedy Center
• September 23, 2019

“Cats” is a show so popular and so familiar that it readily attracts derision for its familiar tropes, characters, anthropomorphisms, circus-like aspects and doses of sentimentality. 

Weekend Round Up September 19, 2019
• September 19, 2019

Senate Beer is in season on Saturday at the Heurich House Museum’s Oktoberfest. And on Sunday, things will get outlandishly appetizing on K Street at this year’s Taste of Georgetown.

Arena Stage’s Season of Wilson
• September 13, 2019

Running from Sept. 13 to Oct. 26, “Jitney,” technically the first of the 10 plays in August Wilson’s monumental cycle, focuses on the lives and world of black cab drivers confronted with change and gentrification. 

Weekend Round Up September 12, 2019
• September 12, 2019

On Friday at noon, cartoonist Lynn Johnston will illustrate a presentation in real time. Up Wisconsin Avenue from Georgetown, 19 Tenleytown venues are participating in Art All Night on Saturday.