Marie Antoinette opens Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company’s 35th season with a burst of high fashion and shaky morals. In a world of empty celebrity and economic crisis, how’s a teen queen to keep her head? Cake enthusiast and infamous one-percenter Marie Antoinette opens Woolly’s 35th season with a burst of high fashion and shaky morals….
Category: Shows
Weekend East City Event Round Up: Hyattsville Arts Festival Edition
Thursday, September 11 Gallery NK – 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. New H Street Gallery opens! For more information about the opening, click here. Gallery NK is located at 321 K Street NE in the alley between “H” and “K” Streets NE. cove – 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Artist Sarˈdär Aziz will be at cove…
Got Kids? Family Day at President Lincoln’s Cottage
Enjoy the Soldiers’ Home as the Lincoln family once did! Activities are open to the public and free this Saturday, September 13th, from 10:00am til 3:00pm. Family members of all ages will enjoy the live entertainment and activities inspired by the Lincoln family and their life at the Soldiers Home. Activities include: DIY top…
Weekend East City Event Round Up: Calm before the Festivals Edition
Thursday, September 4 Studio 21– 6 p.m. The Brookland Art Walk gallery operated by Dance Place opens Starting Over, new paintings by Tina Silverman which examine how populations from regions around the globe affect the artist on an intimate level. For more information, click here. Studio 21 is located on the Arts Walk at the…
PWYC: She Kills Monsters
She Kills Monsters runs from August 15 – September 14 and promises a break in your summer doldrums. Catch the Pay What You Can previews early, then tell your friends! Rorschach promises the unexpected and exciting, which is just what you need in the middle of August in DC. Performances to be held at the Atlas…
Cineconcert Buster Keaton
Students and alumni of all ages will enjoy this special film and concert event. Greene, Founder and Director of the Peacherine Ragtime Orchestra Society, will perform a live score for Buster Keaton’s 1927 classic, College (66 minutes). Keaton, the master of physical comedy, stars as a bookish college student who tries to win the heart…
Weekend East City Event Round Up: Last Chance ‘Till Fall Edition
Editor’s Note— this is the last Round-Up until the Fall 2014 Preview which comes out Thursday, August 28. Friday, August 1 DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities – 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. This free exhibit shows the work of local DC artists competing for the DCCAH’s FY15 Artist Fellowship Program (AFP) grant. It…
Film Screening: Red-Headed Woman
Tough Dames in Satin Slips: Films from Pre-Code Hollywood In a film and discussion series that will explore the history of sex and violence in the movies, censorship and the ratings system, movie critic Nell Minow and journalist Margaret Talbot present gems of pre-code cinema. The story of a saucy, scheming, gold-digger, Red-Headed Woman can…
STUPID F##KING BIRD: Sort of adapted from Chekhov’s The Seagull
It’s back! Woolly reunites the entire cast and creative team of Stupid F##king Bird, following its runaway success in the summer of 2013. In this irreverent, contemporary, and very funny remix of Chekhov’s The Seagull, award-winning playwright Aaron Posner wages a timeless battle between young and old, past and present, in search of the true…
DC Style Is Real 