A new exhibit at the Smithsonian National Museum of Asian Art is taking guests to the devastated sites of Mosul, Aleppo and Palmyra — highlighting the destruction, but also offering hope for reconstruction and rehabilitation. Age Old Cities: A Virtual Journey from Palmyra to Mosul… Read More
From January 22–February 2, 2020, the Kennedy Center presents its fifth annual Lunar New Year Celebration, honoring the traditional holiday that is observed in countries and territories around the world. This coming year’s festivities include the debut of a Winter Lanterns display in the recently-opened REACH campus,… Read More
Wake Up Little Susie! The Simon and Garfunkel Story is the latest staged biopic — this time of folk rock royalty — that uses the performers’ own songs to tell their story. The flash spectacle details the lives of Art Garfunkel and Paul Simon from… Read More
The latest exhibit at DC’s Artechouse, Future Sketches, asks guests to imagine different possible futures — for the intersection of computation and design, for the interaction between humans and computers, and for an expressive augmented reality. Then it puts guests right into that future. “What… Read More
Jersey Boys makes its much anticipated return to National Theatre this holiday season. The Tony award-winning hit musical has “Work[ed] its Way Back” to Washington, still turning audiences into jukebox song singing fanatics… and the tale between those tunes commands their attention, too. Jersey Boys,… Read More
Georgetown is aglow this season with eleven commissioned light art works from local, regional, and international artists. Juxtaposed against the backdrop of Georgetown’s historic row homes and former factory buildings, this 6th edition of GLOW in Georgetown is a winter tradition that makes art accessible to… Read More
As Director Alan Paul explains, Peter Pan and Wendy has always been a story of generational change. But while this classic tale previously was known to have centered around themes of the changing of time, age, and maturity, the world premiere of Lauren Gunderson’s new… Read More
“What would Christmas be without Christmas music? Most of us would have probably ignored it by now,” joked singer/songwriter Jason Mraz Tuesday evening at the the Recording Academy’s annual holiday party at their downtown DC headquarters. The two-time GRAMMY winner was in town to advocate… Read More
You might scratch your head and wonder what inspired someone to wake one morning and think, “I’m going to write a show about Jewish life in 1905 Tsarist Russia . . . and make it a musical!” But after seeing The National Theatre’s boisterous, heartwarming… Read More
Want to see the Northern Lights, but can’t travel thousands of miles North to see them? ARTECHOUSE is beaming in the Aurora Borealis as its final exhibit of the 2019 season, which is actually festive for the holidays as well. AURORA: The Spirit of Northern… Read More
