Weekend Round Up April 12, 2018
• April 12, 2018

Today through Sunday: the Washington Ballet’s “Mixed Masters” program and the second half of the Shift Festival of American Orchestras. Also on Sunday: the Gay Men’s Chorus small ensembles at the Barns.

LAST CHANCE: Thursday’s Breakfast With Scott Tucker
• April 9, 2018

RSVP to Georgetown Media Group’s May 3 Cultural Leadership Breakfast, at which the Choral Arts Society of Washington’s artistic director will speak, by emailing richard@georgetowner.com.

Bruning Gets Breakfast Attendees Moving
• April 5, 2018

Diane Coburn Bruning, founder and artistic director of Chamber Dance Project, carried out some basic choreography on three volunteers at Georgetown Media Group’s April 5 Cultural Leadership Breakfast.

Arthur Miller’s ‘The Crucible’ at Olney
• April 4, 2018

What makes a play a classic? Most often, it’s about a quality of endurance, a kind of built-in modernity no matter what you do with the costumes or sets. Shakespeare’s plays […]

Live from Brooklyn … It’s ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’
• April 2, 2018

On Easter Sunday, April 1, the audience yelled when John Legend as Jesus himself showed off his upper range, when a roaring trio of guitars did their thing, when Brandon Victor Dixon as Judas blasted the title song out into Brooklyn and beyond. 

Weekend Round Up March 29, 2018
• March 29, 2018

On Saturday, go fly a kite on the grounds of the Washington Monument, then take a full moon/blue moon walk to see the other monuments and memorials — and, with any luck, some cherry blossoms.

‘Enough Is Enough,’ Say the Kids
• March 26, 2018

On Saturday, March 24, they all came together — 800,000, 500,000 or 250,000 strong, depending on the reports you believe — for the March for Our Lives in Washington, D.C.

Scena Returns to ‘Beckett Trio’
• March 22, 2018

Nanna Ingvarsson stars in Robert McNamara’s production of three short plays by Samuel Beckett — “Footfalls,” “Not I” and the wrenching “Rockaby” — at the Atlas Performing Arts Center through April 8.

Weekend Round Up March 22, 2018
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The National Cherry Blossom Festival’s opening ceremony is Sunday. Also this weekend: more cherry blossom doings, the tail end of the Environmental Film Festival and two cultural spectacles at the Kennedy Center.

‘Shear Madness’: 30 Years of Georgetown Onstage
• March 21, 2018

In Boston — where “Shear Madness” is the longest running play in American history — Mrs. Shubert lives in Beacon Hill. Here in Washington, D.C., she lives in John and […]