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CultureCapital Inside-Out Sponsored by The D.C. Inns
The Embassy Circle and Woodley Park Guest Houses have teamed up with CultureCapital to provide our visiting guests a useful and up-to-date Guide to Arts & Culture for the Washington, DC area. Find this week's Hot Hits & Hidden Jewels or plan your trip using the advance search choosing your date/s, location and type of arts experience. Each event contains descriptive information, time, cost and (where appropriate) a link to the presenters box office to purchase a ticket. You will also discover Free activities as well as exciting activities for the entire family.
Hot Hits
 | Kennedy Center's Millennium Stage District of Columbia Free Performances every day at 6pm. As part of the Kennedy Center's "Performing Arts for Everyone" initiative, visitors can enjoy local, national, and international artists as they showcase their talents in music, dance, theater, and more. |
 | TICKETPLACE District of Columbia TICKETPLACE is your source for 1/2$ TIXS to theatre & the performing arts in Metro DC. |
 | Twelfth Night Folger Theatre Through Sun, June 9 The Folger Theatre closes out the season with Shakespeare's musical and masterful comedy, Twelfth Night. Director Robert Richmond returns to direct this romantic and whimsical of tales filled with lovers, lunatics, poets, drunkards, and clowns in the quixotic land of Illyria. |
 | History on Foot: Detective McDevitt Ford's Theatre Through Sat, August 31 On the night of April 14, 1865, Detective James McDevitt was on duty at the Washington Metropolitan Police headquarters, a half-block from Ford's Theatre. Just before 10:30, frantic witnesses rushed in with horrifying news: President Lincoln had been shot at the theatre. Join Detective McDevitt as he revisits the sites and reexamines the clues from the investigation into the Lincoln Assassination Conspiracy. Investigation: |
 | Real Pirates: The Untold Story of the Whydah from Slave Ship to Pirate Ship National Geographic Through Mon, September 2 Touch real pirate treasure and marvel at gold and silver coins from all over the world, cannons, swords, and discover the advanced technology that revealed these treasures to the modern world. |
Highlights
| Washington National Opera: Show Boat Fri, May 24 through Sun, May 26 John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts |
| Window on Weimar Through Sat, June 1 Robert Brown Gallery |
| The Full Monty Through Sat, June 8 Church Street Theater |
| Works by Freya Grand Through Sun, June 16 Gallery plan b |
| Stupid F*cking Bird Wed, May 29 through Sun, June 23 Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company |
| The Real Thing Through Sun, June 30 Studio Theatre |
| David Levinthal: War Games Through Sun, September 1 Corcoran Gallery of Art and College of Art + Design |
| Bice Lazzari: Signature Line Through Sun, September 22 National Museum of Women in the Arts |
| A guided garden tour...
Historic & Growing:
The Tudor Place Landscape Tue, June 4 through Tue, October 1 Tudor Place Historic House and Garden |
| Shear Madness Through Friday, January 31, 2014 John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts |