Something Rotten! Lunar New Year Celebration at the Kennedy Center Feb 15-17, Virginia Opera: A Midsummer Night s Dream

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7:30 pm National Theatre Washington, DC Set in the 90s the 1590s this hilarious smash tells the story of Nick and Nigel Bottom, two brothers who are desperate to write their own hit play while the

1 Was this forwarded to you? Subscribe to the CultureCapital.com Insider Hot Hits & Hidden Jewels Openings Last Chance Limited Engagement One-Nite-Only Free Something Rotten! Wednesday, February 7:30 pm Thursday, February 7:30 pm Friday, February 8 pm Saturday, February 2 pm Saturday, February 8 pm Sunday, February 2 pm Sunday, February 7:30 pm National Theatre Washington, DC Set in the 90s the 1590s this hilarious smash tells the story of Nick and Nigel Bottom, two brothers who are desperate to write their own hit play while the rock star Shakespeare keeps getting all the hits. When a local soothsayer foretells that the future of theatre involves singing, dancing and acting at the same time, Nick and Nigel set out to write the world s very first MUSICAL! With its heart on its ruffled sleeve and sequins in its soul, Something Rotten! is The Producers + Spamalot + The Book of Mormon. Squared! (New York Magazine). Lunar New Year Celebration at the Kennedy Center Feb 15-17, 2018 The Kennedy Center presents its third annual celebration of the Lunar New Year, honoring the traditional holiday as commemorated in countries and territories around the world. The popular free Family Day returns to celebrate the Year of the Dog with more live demonstrations and hands-on craft activities throughout the building. The festival also includes performances of the China National Symphony Orchestra, Chengdu Puppets, and the Sichuan Opera. Virginia Opera: A Midsummer Night s Dream Saturday, February 8 pm Sunday, February 2 pm George Mason University's Center for the Arts Fairfax, VA William Shakespeare s iconic 15th century language meets Benjamin Britten s 20th

century inventive and enchanting music in this delightful opera about love, forgiveness, and the power of dreams.

Nothing is what it seems as fairies, rude mechanicals, and moonstruck young lovers spend a single, magical night in the forest.

.. who can speak for what he truly meant to the American music scene? asked the Philadelphia Inquirer.

2 century inventive and enchanting music in this delightful opera about love, forgiveness, and the power of dreams. A domestic dispute between the king and queen of fairies spills into the human realm, creating chaos as the stories of three couples and a troupe of amateur actors collide with hilarious results. Nothing is what it seems as fairies, rude mechanicals, and moonstruck young lovers spend a single, magical night in the forest. The Bernstein Story Presented by Washington Performing Arts Sunday, February 4 pm Strathmore North Bethesda, MD Now that Leonard Bernstein has been lionized... who can speak for what he truly meant to the American music scene? asked the Philadelphia Inquirer. The answer: Jamie Bernstein, acclaimed narrator, broadcaster, writer, and daughter of the late Leonard Bernstein and actress Felicia Montealegre. Featuring arrangements recently made for the Philadelphia Orchestra, the U.S. Air Force Band and Bernstein partner to take us on a romp through music including West Side Story, Candide, On the Town, Age of Anxiety, and more. Crossover: East and West Works by Four Korean American Artists Thru Wed, February 28 Korean Cultural Center DC Washington, DC This group exhibition features ceramic, installation, painting, and video art that question and inform the Asian immigrant experience in America through the works of four accomplished Korean American artists: Victoria Jang, Christina Ko, Jang Soon Im, and Eun Kyung Suh.

3 Wed Feb 14 Capital Laughs, U Don't Know Jack w/ Jack (Stand-Up Comedy) District Architecture Center, Hoachlander Davis: Photographing Spaces Strathmore, AIR: Uasuf Gueye Zenith Gallery, Light Up Your HeART Thu Feb 15 Women's Voices Theater Festival, The Veils Nu Sass Productions Women's Voices Theater Festival, The Lathe of Heaven Spooky Action Theater Company Fri Feb 16 Encore Stage, Disney's The Lion King Jr. The Puppet Co., Beauty and the Beast Quotidian Theatre Company, Harold Brighouse's Hobson's Choice National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian, Open Studio Fridays The Puppet Co., Tiny Tots - Dragon Babies Washington Jewish Music Festival, Klezmer Brunch Thu Feb 15 Old Greenbelt Theatre, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri The Clarice, Eurydice Glen Echo Park, Mary Belcher: Good People, Good Places Metro Micro Gallery, Akemi Maegawa: Give Me Sun, Water, Soil, and Seed With a Little Bit of Hope Glen Echo Park, Wearables Glen Echo Park, Cathy Abramson: Cityscapes Kennedy Center, Digging Up Dessa Kennedy Center National Theatre, Something Rotten! Signature Theatre, 4,380 Nights Signature Theatre Synetic Theater, The Trial Women's Voices Theater Festival, Sovereignty Arena Stage Feb 14 - Feb 17 Feb 14 - Feb 18 Feb 15 - Feb 17 NSO, NSO Pops: West Side Story in Concert Kennedy Center, Broadway Center Stage: Chess National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian, Portrait InSight Women's Voices Theater Festival, Love is a Blue Tick Hound Rapid Lemon Productions Feb 17 - Feb 18 Dance Place, Project ChArma GMU Center for the Arts, Virginia Opera: A Midsummer Night s Dream Wed Feb 14 BlackRock, Valentine's Day BLove: Loston Harris Hill Center, Street Scenes: Valentine s Day Concert with Imani-Grace Cooper, Vocalist Thu Feb 15 Kennedy Center, Lunar New Year 2018: China National Symphony Orchestra / Tan Dun, conductor Kennedy Center, 2017 Marian Anderson Vocal Award Winner: John Holiday in Recital

4 National Geographic, National Geographic Nights: Bird Nerds Old Greenbelt Theatre, Stranger Origins: Pretty in Pink + Vinyl Raffle! Publick Playhouse, Lesole s Dance Project: Dancing through South Africa Strathmore, Edgar Allan Poe's Nevermore Fri Feb 16 Alliance Française, Club de Lecture : Édition cuisine AMP, Pat Martino Trio Capital Laughs, General Shaw's Chicken Comedy Showcase The Clarice, wild Up Washington Performing Arts, Emmanuel Pahud, flute Wolf Trap, The Seamus Egan Project Woodrow Wilson House, The Nation s Capital Brewmaster College Park Aviation Museum, Engineering 101- African-American Inventors Hill Center, Exploring Burgundy with Chef Gérard Pangaud Hylton, Ten Strings And A Goatskin National Geographic, Adventures in Exploration: Birds of a Feather National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian, Presidential Family Fun Day Wolf Trap, American Rhapsody:The Gershwin Songbook WIFV, Directing Homeland: Meet Lesli Linka Glatter Workhouse Arts Center, Cabaret Series: Broadway The Art League, The 50th Anniversary Patrons' Show DC Arts Center (DCAC), In Your Ear Goethe, The Astronauts Bodies At The Dc Independent Film Festival (dciff) National Philharmonic, National Philharmonic Chamber Players - Story Time NSO, NSO Family Concert: Let's Remix the Classix! Pan American Symphony Orchestra, Fusion of the Americas- Jazz Meets Tango with Chaise Lounge Potter Violins, National Philharmonic Chamber Players: Story Time Reston Community Center, Mark Brutsché is Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs Washington Metropolitan Philharmonic Association, Concert: Wilson and Pandolfi, Still, and More! (Alexandria) Washington Performing Arts, The Bernstein Story Tue Feb 20 National Geographic, The Seabird's Cry Strathmore, Afternoon Tea Washington Jewish Film Festival, WJFF: Naples '44 Thru Feb 14 Wed Feb 14 Bender JCC, Na aseh V nishma: We Will Do and We Will Hear A Group Show College Park Aviation Museum, Brown Bag Lunch: One Man s Flight Plan Film Screening Library of Congress, Gallery Talk Love is Here to Stay Millennium Stage, Ida Campbell and her Bluesz Nation Band National Archives, Story Time in the ReSource Room for Pre-Schoolers and Adults National Museum of Women in the Arts, Gallery Talk: Collection Sampler

5 Thu Feb 15 Friday Morning Music Club, Friday Morning Music Club--Old Town Hall Concert Series Goethe, German Conversation Group: Apprenticeship Kennedy Center, Target Family Night: Chengdu Puppets Library of Congress, Film: Beetlejuice (1988) Fri Feb 16 The Alden, Film: Bridesmaids (R) Anderson House, Patriot printer Robert Aitken Friday Morning Music Club, Friday Morning Music Club--Calvary Baptist Church Concert Series Kennedy Center, Chengdu's Traditional Folk Music Library of Congress, Doric Quartet National Archives, Chocolate City: A History of Race and Democracy in the Nation s Capital Thru Feb 17 Metro Micro Gallery, Akemi Maegawa: Give Me Sun, Water, Soil, and Seed With a Little Bit of Hope Glen Echo Park, Mary Belcher: Good People, Good Places Feb 15 - Feb 17 National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian, Portrait InSight Goethe, Creative Workshop - Language Learning In The Future Kennedy Center, KC Chinese New Year Family Day: "Panda Chengdu" Kennedy Center, Sichuan Opera, Folk Dance, and Acrobatics Kreeger Museum, Gallery Talk: Kandinsky in The Kreeger: Works by the 'Father of Abstraction' Library of Congress, Film: The Neverending Story (1984) National Archives, Emancipation Proclamation Family Activities Washington Revels, Jubilee Voices at Frederick Douglass Bicentennial Thru Feb 18 Glen Echo Park, Cathy Abramson: Cityscapes Glen Echo Park, Wearables National Gallery of Art, Film: The Informer National Gallery of Art, Trio con Brio Copenhagen: To Travel Is to Live National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian, Portrait Story Days-- Wilma Rudolph Waverly Street Gallery, Artist Talks: Invitational Exhibit, 40+ Local Artists Women's Voices Theater Festival, The Mid-Atlantic Collegiate Jazz Orchestra Mon Feb 19 College Park Aviation Museum, Discovery Cart- The Mailbox and it's African American Inventor Millennium Stage, Make Time for Love Tue Feb 20 Thru Feb 23 Millennium Stage, Strathmore Artist in Residence: ellen cherry Goethe, German Jazz Publick Playhouse, Janelle Washington: a Special Exhibition in honor of Black History Month Arlington Artists Alliance, Go with the Flow Solo Show by Anya Getter Feb 16 - Feb 23 National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian, Conversation Circle National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian, Open Studio Fridays Thru Feb 24 BlackRock, Rhonda J. Smith: Travel as Talisman BlackRock, Handcrafted: Fiber Art & Turned Wood Thru Feb 25 Hill Center, Capitol Hill Art League Juried Invitational 2018 Hill Center, Stitched: Stories told in Clay, Fiber, Textiles and Paints Hill Center, Charlie Visconage: Cool Guy Alert! Montpelier Arts Center, Steven Silberg: In Care of the White House

6 Montpelier Arts Center, Black History Month Relics and Prospects Montpelier Arts Center, Leah Taylor National Gallery of Art, Creative Writing Workshops: Poetry: The Rhythm of Color National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian, Portrait Discovery Kits Thru Feb 28 Thru Mar 1 Thru Mar 3 Korean Cultural Center DC, Crossover: East and West Works by Four Korean American Artists Reston Community Center, From the Heart gallery neptune & brown, Michael Craig-Martin: Quotidian: Recent Editions Waverly Street Gallery, Invitational Exhibit, 40+ Local Artists Thru Mar 4 Workhouse Arts Center, The Director s Collection Strathmore, Infinite Glitter: Jordann Wine Strathmore, Poe & Puck: The 27th Annual Strathmore Juried Exhibition DC Arts Center (DCAC), It s About That Time: Prints from Lily Press Thru Mar 5 Reston Community Center, Landscapes Tied to the Mind, 2 Thru Mar 7 Thru Mar 9 Thru Mar 17 Dupont Underground, Tim McLoraine Hindsight: stories and loops Harmony Hall, Black History Month We Return Fighting: World War I and the African American Experience Brentwood Arts Exchange, Front Window Featured Artist: Rozart Brentwood Arts Exchange, A Curator Collects: Highlights from the collection of H. Elaine Jackson Feb 14 - Mar 23 Feb 14 - Mar 24 Thru Mar 31 District Architecture Center, Hoachlander Davis: Photographing Spaces Zenith Gallery, Light Up Your HeART Dumbarton Oaks, Ancient Textiles Dumbarton Oaks, Collecting in Paris and London, Arlington Arts Center, You, if no one else Thru Apr 1 Thru Apr 15 Thru Apr 22 National Gallery of Art, In the Tower: Anne Truitt National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian, Marlene Dietrich: Dressed for the Image DC Arts Center (DCAC), Another Dimension Thru Apr 28 Zenith Gallery, In the Beginning: The Rhode Island Years, Thru May 13 National Gallery of Art, Outliers and American Vanguard Art National Gallery of Art, Michel Sittow: Estonian Painter at the Courts of Renaissance Europe Thru May 20 Thru Jun 3 Thru Jun 4 Thru Jun 5 Feb 14 - Jun 6 Thru Jun 29 National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian, One Life: Sylvia Plath National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian, Antebellum Portraits by Mathew Brady Capital Laughs, Mundane Aight Comedy w/ Adelle and Kevin (Stand-Up Comedy) Capital Laughs, Phil & a Mic with Phil Mike (Stand-Up Comedy) Capital Laughs, U Don't Know Jack w/ Jack (Stand-Up Comedy) National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian, Open Studio Fridays National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian, Conversation Circle Thru Sep 3 Thru Oct 20 Thru Oct 28 Thru Nov 4 Thru Nov 12 Thru Dec 1 Thru Dec 9 National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian, The Sweat of Their Face: Portraying American Workers Library of Congress, Drawn to Purpose National Gallery of Art, Jackson Pollock s "Mural" National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian, National Portrait Gallery - Recent Acquisitions National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian, Portraits of the World: Switzerland Strathmore, Jennifer Kahn Barlow Surratt House, The Full Story: Maryland, The Surratts, and The Crime of the Century An

7 Exhibition Thru Dec 31 Thru Jan 1 Anderson House, Tour: Anderson House Library of Congress, Echoes of the Great War: American Experiences of World War I Library of Congress, Tour: Library of Congress - Thomas Jefferson Building Thru Jan 6 National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian, Celebrating Fifty Years National Archives, Remembering Vietnam Thru May 19 Thru Dec 31 National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian, Lincoln's Contemporaries Kreeger Museum, Reinstallation of the Permanent Collection CultureCapital.com is a program of HumanitesDC 925 U Street NW Washington, DC Was this forwarded to you? Subscribe to the CultureCapital.com Insider

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