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All That Jazz, Georgetown: November
Weekend Round Up November 8, 2018
November 8, 2018
•This weekend’s musical options include Duke Ellington School vocal ensembles, John Lloyd Young, Chris Botti, the City Choir and Trio Karénine.
LAST CHANCE: Thursday’s Breakfast With Revels Heads
November 6, 2018
•Washington Revels Artistic Director Roberta Gasbarre and Executive Director Greg Lewis will speak at the George Town Club on Nov. 8. RSVP to richard@georgetowner.com.
‘Anastasia’ Is a Romanov Roller Coaster
November 5, 2018
•This production, which runs through Nov. 25 in the Kennedy Center Opera House, is the musical very loosely based on the 1997 Disney animated cartoon.
Dancers Brings NPG’s ‘Silhouettes’ to Life (photos)
November 4, 2018
•Inspired by the exhibition “Black Out: Silhouettes Then and Now,” the dance company of Dana Tai Soon Burgess premiered a modern dance work called “Silhouettes” on Oct. 27 and 30.
At Atlas: Rebecca Magnuson’s ‘She Sings’
October 24, 2018
•The one-woman show by the singer-songwriter and former Georgetown resident will be performed Friday, Nov. 16, at the Atlas Performing Arts Center. Ten percent of the proceeds will go to Knock Out Abuse.
Weekend Round Up October 18, 2018
October 18, 2018
•Sunday is performance-packed, with appearances by the Handel and Haydn Society, the Cathedral Choral Society under Leonard Slatkin, “Sholom Aleichem” and Eve Ensler and Anne Lamott.
3 Sopranos, 3 Paths to Violetta of ‘La Traviata’
October 15, 2018
•Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi’s 1853 classic opera “La Traviata” goes way back in time. It’s one of the great operas in the repertoire, showing up repeatedly on the lists of […]
Weekend Round Up October 11, 2018
October 11, 2018
•This Saturday is Capitol Hill Day, Water Discovery Day, Girls in Aviation Day, Randolph Street Blocktoberfest and, at Georgetown Waterfront Park, Parachutes for the Planet.
Washington National Opera’s ‘Traviata’
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As directed by WNO Artistic Director Francesca Zambello, and conducted at a sometimes frenetic pace by Renato Palumbo, this “Traviata,” running through Oct. 21, delivered the opera’s large store of riches.
Politics Onstage at Ford’s, Keegan
October 8, 2018
•The current state of our political discourse is echoed in productions of “Born Yesterday,” running through Oct. 21, and “Lincolnesque,” running through Oct. 14.