Sometime this summer—ahh, summer—I passed by the Howard Theatre and literally remarked aloud "Oh good, they finally started work."
Well here, I present the video proof of that progress:

The footage basically shows workers chipping away at the stucco facade, which has been covered since the 1940s, according to the Howard Theatre nonprofit's website.

Save America’s Treasures, a program under the National Park Service, has just awarded the Howard Theatre Restoration Inc. $350,000, according to the Washington Business Journal.
Built in 1910, Shaw's Howard Theatre is America's first full-size theater made for African-American audiences. Exactly a century after its birth, the structure—located at 7th and T streets NW—is expected to [...]