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Jessica Diamond: Wheel Of Life

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden 7th Street and Independence Avenue SW, Washington, DC, United States

For nearly a year, American conceptual artist Jessica Diamond's exhibit will dominate the Hirshhorn’s second-floor inner-circle galleries with 15 text-and-image-based artworks. Diamond, an artist who sprung from New York’s downtown art scene in the 1980s, she's a language artist who critiques contemporary American life, particularly commercialism, corporate culture and media. Literature plays a large role […]

Singular Views: 25 Artists

Rubell Museum 65 I Street SW, Washington, DC

One of two current exhibits at D.C.'s contemporary art gallery, taken entirely from the Rubell's collection, features more than 120 artworks across various forms of media. Artists include Jenny Holzer, Mickalene Thomas, Tesfaye Urgessa, John Waters, Patricia Ayres, Amoako Boafo, and more. The main gallery exhibit features Alexandre Diop's large scale exhibit Jooba Jubba, l’Art […]

Shaun the Sheep™: Flock This Way! Exhibit at National Children’s Museum

National Children’s Museum 1300 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington, DC, United States

Get ready for hands-on fun and antics with Shaun the Sheep and his pals at National Children’s Museum in downtown DC! Experience the thrills of life on Mossy Bottom Farm now through May 12, 2024. Recommended for ages 3 to 9, this interactive exhibit promises shear delight!

Free – $18.95

Children’s Book Art by Japanese American Illustrators

1 Fine Arts Drive, Towson, MD 21204 1 Fine Arts Drive, Towson

Delight in the imaginative worlds of award-winning children’s book illustrators, Melissa Iwai and Katie Yamasaki, while learning about courage, love and adaptation by an incarcerated Japanese American family; intercultural sharing among immigrant families; and multicultural Zen-inspired stories. Become energized to support the welfare of children, intercultural understanding, healing, and peace. Dates: February 7 – May […]

Free

The Princess and the Pea

Creative Cauldron 410 South Maple Ave., Falls Church, VA, United States

A Learning Theater Production Adapted from the Classic Story by Hans Christian Anderson The King and Queen have decided that it’s high time for their son Prince Dillon to find a wife. They task the Court Jester with finding a suitable bride, but what he unleashes is a never-ending line of young women with serious […]

$18 – $20

Unknown Soldier

Arena Stage 1101 6th St. SW, Washington, DC, United States

Cleaning out her grandmother’s home, Ellen Rabinowitz discovers the photograph of an anonymous soldier tucked away in a box of keepsakes. And so begins Unknown Soldier, a sweeping, elegiac musical from Daniel Goldstein and the late Michael Friedman on a woman’s journey to unearth the secrets of her family’s past… and which will chart her future.

$56 – $95

Sunset Baby

Anacostia Playhouse 2020 Shannon Pl. SE

Hustler Nina is confronted by her estranged father when he seeks to make amends. Together they explore father-daughter relationships and the struggle for  Black freedom in this poignant story. Tickets: $35-$50

Webster’s Bitch

The Keegan Theatre 1742 Church Street, NW, Washington, DC

A dark comedy about profanity and those who define it, this play follows Webster's Dictionary staff at the epicenter of an online revolt over gender, obscenity, and  social media after their editor uses unexpected profanity. Office politics, ambition, and morality collide, and the future of English language is at stake. Tickets: $50

Event Series Webster’s Bitch

Webster’s Bitch

Keegan Theatre 1742 Church St. NW

When their Editor-in-Chief gets caught using some unexpected profanity, the employees of Webster’s Dictionary find themselves at the center of an internet uprising over gender and obscenity in the age of social media. As office politics collide with ambition, morality, and lexicography, the future of the English language hangs in the balance. A comedy about […]

$55 – $65

Macbeth

Shakespeare Theatre Company Sidney Harman Hall 450 7th St NW, Washington, DC, United States

Tony and BAFTA Award winner Ralph Fiennes  (The English Patient) and Olivier Award winner Indira Varma (Game of Thrones) star in this megawatt production of William Shakespeare's most poetic analysis of evil is dominated by unbridled ambition, supernatural forces, and murder. After being informed by three witches that he will rule Scotland, Macbeth (Fiennes) schemes […]

A Jumping Off Point

Round House Theatre 4545 East-West Hwy., Bethesda, Bethesda, MD, United States

Promising Black writer Leslie Wallace has signed her first contract with HBO, but the celebration is cut short when Andrew, a White dude from her graduate program, accuses her of copying his screenplay. This reckoning on representation, privilege, and who gets to tell what stories comes from rising playwright and screenwriter Inda Craig-Galván. Tickets: $46-$83

Complementary Color

Calloway Fine Art & Consulting 1643 Wisconsin Ave NW, Washington, DC

Calloway Fine Art & Consulting is pleased to showcase the recent works of Matt Langley and Karen Sharer. Color is the thread that connects these two abstract artists. The styles differ but the color sensibility in their work is equally stunning. Together, Langley and Scharer's exhibition will be a beautiful complement of color.

Free

Hair

Signature Theatre 4200 Campbell Ave., Arlington, VA, United States

The avant-garde rock musical erupts with the joy, disobedience, and surreal hues of the 1960s when a group of free-spirited hippies face an uncertain amid the draft and the Vietnam […]

AMM(I)GONE

Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company 641 D St. NW, United States

When creator and performer Adil Mansoor invites his Pakistani mother to translate Antigone into Urdu as means of exploring the tensions between family and faith he's forces to consider whether […]

LEGOLAND® New York Partners With Local Washington DC LEGO® Discovery Center for Ticket Giveaway

LEGO Discovery Center DC 6563 Springfield Mall Suite 12004, Springfield, VA

LEGOLAND New York is encouraging families to take a new kind of PTO…play time off…so they’re giving families a chance to visit the park on them. Starting this week, visitors to the following LEGO Discovery Centers can compete in an in-store hunt for a LEGO-made football and scan a secret QR code for the chance […]

Dave Barnes

The Hamilton Live 600 14th Street NW, Washington DC

Although born in South Carolina, singer/songwriter DaveBarnes spent most of his childhood in Mississippi, where he formed an early attachment to hip-hop but was also exposed to classic soul, blues, and R&B by his parents. He later enrolled at Middle Tennessee State University and began writing songs for other artists. Barnes also played solo shows […]

$25.00

Deceptor

Pie Shop 1339 H St. NE, Washington, DC, United States

Nothing beats the Sunday Scaries like a little—or a lot of—death thrash.  This Raleigh-based band promises to "bring the death thrash attack to your city" on this tour with Philly's Bastard Cross. Blitz opens.

In-Store Book Signing Event: AMERICAN MOTHER

International Spy Museum Store 700 L'Enfant Plaza SW, Washington

National Book Award-winning author Colum McCann channels Diane Foley’s voice as she tells her story, as the mother of American journalist Jim Foley – in search of answers, beyond justice, found through dogged, empathetic, spiritual enquiry. In late 2021, Diane Foley sat at a table across from her son's killer, Alexanda Kotey, a member of […]

Free
Event Series The Dundunba Experience For Women*

The Dundunba Experience For Women*

Joe’s Movement Emporium 3309 Bunker Hill Rd., Mount Rainier, MD, United States

This class will focus on West African Dundunba Drumming for women*, instructed by seasoned drummer Malari Moore - he will teach primarily dundun, sangba and possibly kenkene drums. This series is part of our Women's History Month celebration at Joe's. Class is geared towards adults but youth 16 years of age and older can participate.

$18

Alien 45th Anniversary Re-Release

Alamo Drafthouse Bryant Street 630 Rhode Island Ave. NE, Washington, DC, United States

This Oscar-winner was released in June 1979 and quickly became one of the most influential sci-fi/horror films of all time. Starting April 26, theaters across the country are hosting Alien Day. Before the film, catch Fede Alvarez, director of this year's forthcoming sequel, sitting down with the OG director Ridley Scott to discuss the film […]