Recently, Instagram unveiled a colorful #KindComments mural at Union Market. Designed by renowned artist Dallas Clayton, the mural is part of Instagram’s global #KindComments initiative intended to promote and foster positive engagement on and offline. Clayton invited KIPP High School students and Union Market District neighbors as well as local artists to paint along the 6th Street mural.… Read More
With wildfires currently ravaging California, this movie couldn’t be more timely. DC screened Columbia Pictures’ new movie Only The Brave this week. Only the Brave is a 2017 American biographical action drama film directed by Joseph Kosinski and screenwritten by Ken Nolan and Eric Warren Singer, based on an article in GQ, ‘No Exit’, written by… Read More
It’s safe to say that Nobel Prize winning playwright Harold Pinter takes a dimmer view of human nature. The double bill of The Lover and The Collection currently playing The Shakespeare Theater Company showcases Pinter’s bedrock belief in the impossibility of communication between human beings. The New York Times said of Pinter: “He uses… Read More
Interior designers showcased some serious creativity using the materials of their trade at the 8th Annual Cosmo Couture Fashion & Design late last month. The annual event, produced by the Washington Metro City Center (WMCC) of the International Interior Design Association Mid-Atlantic Chapter (IIDA-MAC), paid… Read More
There are plenty of shows about life in Washington, DC, but they primarily revolve around the White House, Congress, the spy-type agencies, and all the intrigues therein. The occasional scene of Olivia Pope drinking red wine on a white couch wearing white cashmere does not… Read More
The 2017 DC Design House is 35 Days, 23 Designers, four Boutiques, and one Great Cause. To celebrate the 10th anniversary of The DC Design House — a unique design show house event in which top area designers showcase their talents — this year’s event goes… Read More
As we wrote the first time it played in Washington, playwright John Strand’s “The Originalist,” is theater unequivocally of Washington, by Washington, for Washington… to borrow President Lincoln’s famous expression. But to be sure, it will be fascinating to watch this one under a dramatically… Read More
Forty lawmakers and notable Washington influencers joined professional actors Ian Kahn, Santino Fontana, Emily Swallow and Maulik Pancholy to perform in Will on the Hill at the Shakespeare Theatre Company. Now in its fifteenth year, the much-loved bipartisan event for theatre and political fans alike… Read More
Two decades after the Tony Award-winning musical RENT premiered on Broadway, the show has kicked off a year-long anniversary tour — and that tour brings it right here to Washington at the National Theatre! Based on the traveling performance of the show, the “RENT-head” community stands strong… Read More
With a few script tweaks and pop culture references, The Shakespeare Theater Company’s production of The School For Lies humorously illustrates the relevance of 350-year old satire at The Lansburgh Theater this month. Tony Award-nominated writer David Ives has retranslated Moliere’s 1666 classic French farce… Read More
