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Arts & Culture Guide St. Gregory Hotel & Beacon Hotel
The St. Gregory Hotel and Beacon Hotel have teamed up with CultureCapital to provide our visiting web and hotel guests a useful and up-to-date Guide to Arts & Culture for the Washington, DC area. We encourage you to find this week's Hot Hits & Hidden Jewels or plan your search for an arts experience by category, by date, or by location. 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
 | 2013 Source Festival CulturalDC's Source Festival, now celebrating its sixth year, will debut 24 original works for the stage from June 7 to 30, 2013. Each year the Festival presents three Full-Length Plays, 18 10-Minute Plays and three Artistic Blind Dates. |
 | DC Jazz Festival June 5-16 The 2013 DC Jazz Festival kicks off summer in DC with more than 125 dazzling performances in nearly 60 venues across the city. The festival will feature world-renowned artists such as National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Masters Paquito D'Rivera, Ron Carter and Roy Haynes; Cyrus Chestnut; Roy Hargrove, Nicholas Payton, Terri Lyne Carrington, Poncho Sanchez, the Arturo O'Farrill Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra (ALJO), the Roots, and many more. |
 | 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. |
 | Washington National Opera: Show Boat John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Through Sun, May 26 Featuring legendary songs like "Ol' Man River" and "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man," in a spectacular new production, "this joyous, beautifully mounted entertainment should keep rolling along for a long while to come" (Chicago Tribune). |
 | Twelfth Night Folger Theatre Through Sun, June 9 Cast away on the shores of a distant land, lost lovers and their unruly servants converge and conspire in this romance-filled comedy. |
 | The Legacy of Bob Marley John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Sun, June 23 The Kennedy Center, in collaboration with the Grammy Museum, celebrates the international artistic and social influence of legendary reggae singer Bob Marley. Part of Songs of Conscience. |
 | Reinventing Radio: An Evening with Ira Glass Strathmore Sat, June 29 Go behind the scenes of the parallel universe that is public radio's This American Life. In the style that has won millions of radio fans, Ira Glass talks about how it all comes together each week, mixing stories from the show, live onstage, with taped selections of stories, recreating the sound of the show as the audience watches. |
 | Smithsonian Folklife Festival June 26-30, 2013 National Mall Wed, June 26 through Sun, June 30 This year's festival has three themes: Hungarian Heritage: Roots to Revival, One World, Many Voices: Endangered Languages and Cultural Heritage, and The Will to Adorn: African American Diversity, Style, and Identity. The festival runs in two parts-June 26-30, and then again July 3-7. The Festival is held outdoors on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., between the Smithsonian museums. There is no admission charge. |
 | Anything Goes John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Tue, June 11 through Sun, July 7 Buy tickets now at anythinggoes.kennedy-center.org and SAVE 55% -- ORCHESTRA SEATS only $49! |
 | Exhibition: 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. |
 | Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes, 1909 - 1929: When Art Danced with Music National Gallery of Art Through Mon, September 2 The Ballets Russes--the most innovative dance company of the 20th century--propelled the performing arts to new heights through groundbreaking collaboration between artists, composers, choreographers, dancers, and fashion designers, with such familiar names as Pablo Picasso, Igor Stravinsky, George Balachine, Vaslaw Nijinsky, and Coco Chanel. Washington is the sole US venue for 150 original costumes, set designs, paintings, sculptures, prints, drawings, photographs, posters, and film clips in a theatrical multimedia installation. |
 | Bice Lazzari: Signature Line National Museum of Women in the Arts Through Sun, September 22 As part of 2013 - Year of Italian Culture in the United States, an initiative organized by Italy's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Embassy of Italy, Washington, D.C., this exhibition showcases a selection of 25 paintings and drawings from the Archivio Bice Lazzari in Rome. One of Italy's most revered modern artists, Lazzari (1900-1981) created poetic abstract compositions, resembling graphs, maps, and musical staffs and notes. |
 | WAR/PHOTOGRAPHY: Images of Armed Conflict and Its Aftermath Corcoran Gallery of Art and College of Art + Design Sat, June 29 through Sun, September 29 This landmark exhibition revolutionizes our understanding of this momentous subject, immersing viewers in the experience of soldiers and civilians during wartime. |
 | Shear Madness John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Through Friday, January 31, 2014 Set today in the Shear Madness hairstyling salon, this record-breaking comedy is Washington's hilarious whodunit. After more than 11,000 performances, the show has stayed in great shape, keeping all the bounce, body, and shine of opening night. |
Highlights
| Shen Wei Dance Arts Sat, May 25 John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts |
| Color, Line, Light: French Drawings, Watercolors, and Pastels from Delacroix to Signac Through Sun, May 26 National Gallery of Art |
| Meerkats 3D Through Fri, May 31 National Geographic |
| Window on Weimar Through Sat, June 1 Robert Brown Gallery |
| The Full Monty Through Sat, June 8 Church Street Theater |
| Ballet Across America III Tue, June 4 through Sun, June 9 John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts |
| NSO Kinderkonzert: Peter & the Wolf Sat, June 22 John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts |
| Cynthia Connolly: Letters on Top of Buildings Through Sun, June 23 Corcoran Gallery of Art and College of Art + Design |
| The Guardsman Through Sun, June 23 John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts |
| Stupid F*cking Bird Wed, May 29 through Sun, June 23 Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company |
| Lucky Diaz and the Family Jam Band. Tot Rock: Jammin' at the Smithsonian. Fri, June 28 Smithsonian S. Dillon Ripley Center |
| The Real Thing Through Sun, June 30 Studio Theatre |
| The Hampton Years Wed, June 5 through Sun, June 30 Theater J |
| Baby Universe: A Puppet Odyssey Wed, June 26 through Sun, July 21 Studio Theatre |
| Rabbit Hole Fri, June 28 through Sun, July 21 Church Street Theater |
| History on Foot: Detective McDevitt Through Sat, August 31 Ford's Theatre |
| Ellsworth Kelly: Colored Paper Images Through Sun, December 1 National Gallery of Art |
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