Capital Fringe Festival has begun! The 14th annual Cap Fringe Fest brings over 500 individual performances, 87 productions and 13 stages to Southwest DC. The exciting month (yes, it’s a 20 day festival) of theatre, dance, music and art is large and unfiltered, with headlining performances… Read More
As part of the National Museum for Women in the Arts‘ July Free Community Day, exhibits to the collection and galleries were free, as well as admission to the museum’s 3rd annual DC Art Book Fair. The curated, family-friendly event held in the Great Hall… Read More
“I had never visited the space, but that one seems made for it,” said Jorges Caceres, speaking specifically of one of his four giant painted works, its colors perfectly match the tiling in the floor. His quartet was set apart in its own gallery of… Read More
Spanning the length of four football fields, thousands of stories were shared as a massive installation of crowd-sourced quilt squares came together to blanket the National Mall last weekend (May 31 – June 1, 2019). Spelling out NOT ALONE and (in Spanish) NO ESTAS SOLX,… Read More
If you walk by Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater this month between 8-10PM you might feel your soul elevate if the stirring harmony of the Fisk Jubilee Singers leaks through the doors of Kreeger Theater into the night. World-premiere musical Jubilee, written… Read More
For the first time in its 47 year history, the Smithsonian Gardens are presenting a campus-wide exhibit. “Habitat” consists of 14 distinct indoor and outdoor garden spaces, all on the theme ‘protecting habitats protects life.’ “This exhibition… challenges visitors to reflect how protecting habitats protects life,”… Read More
Now at the Freer Gallery, “Whistler in Watercolor.” A groundbreaking exhibit for many reasons, both critical to experiencing Whistler’s artistic ambitions and his understanding of the commercial art market. “Beautiful pictures, ‘portable and dainty’ as Whistler described them, they were intended to expand his market… Read More
Much like how it couldn’t have been easy to condense this epic trilogy into a single night and single cast, it won’t be easy to describe the intensity of the performance, its story and its message. Michael Kahn’s final masterpiece as Artistic Director of the… Read More
Constellation Theatre Company‘s The White Snake is a marvelous adaptation of one of China’s oldest and most beloved legends. Two snake spirits seeking Tao’s enlightenment on a faraway mountaintop are distracted by the human world below. At the pleading of the Green Snake, the more enlightened… Read More
Written and directed by Tearrance Arvelle Chisholm, Studio Theater’s production of P.Y.G., or the Mis-Edumacation of Dorian Belle at Studio Theater is a boisterous, anarchic, and quirky look at race in America through the filter of music and the lens of the lens. What you get is… Read More
