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WASHINGTON 2016

Washington D.C. is history; it’s politics; it’s arts. Welcome to the Guide for the Arts and thank you for making Washington your artistic home.

As a theater artist, I was struck recently by what a funny business we’re in: telling stories. We’re always surrounded by new ideas, new forms, and people trying to do their best in the search

for some kind of truth about being alive. You will find this everywhere in the Washington arts scene.

City-wide collaborations, like the Women’s Voices Theater Festival, have made Washington D.C. a big player on the national scene. One of my personal favorite places in the city is the Kogod Courtyard at the National Portrait Gallery – truly an inspirational place. From the ballet to the opera to the Fringe Festival to Wolf Trap, Washington bursts at the seams. And yet there is always something hidden, something more.

I am a happy participant in a vibrant and exciting moment in history. After sampling the Washington arts scene, I hope you feel the same.

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Molly Smith

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WASHINGTON2 guide for the arts 2016

Contents

Ambassador’s Note

6 Sponsors

8 Publisher’s Note

10 Arena Stage

16 Corcoran Gallery of Art

18 John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

46 National Philharmonic

50 National Symphony Orchestra

58 Olney Theatre

64 Phillips Collection

70 Shakespeare Theatre Company

76 Signature Theatre

82 Strathmore

92 United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

98 The Washington Ballet

102 The Washington Chorus

104 Washington National Opera

110 Washington Performing Arts Society

116 Smithsonian Institute Museums

144 Contact Information

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Arena Stage

FOUNDED AUGUST 16, 1950 in Washington by Zelda Fichandler, Tom Fichandler, and Edward Mangum, Arena Stage is a flagship American theater. It is one of the first nonprofit theaters in the U.S. and a pioneer of the regional theater movement. Arena Stage was the first regional theater to transfer a production to Broadway, the first invited by the U.S. State Department to tour behind the Iron Curtain, and the first to receive the Regional Theater Tony Award. Arena Stage is alive as a center for American theater in the nation’s capital with diverse and innovative works from around the country. Its focus is on American artists, produc-ing and presenting all that is passionate, exuberant, profound, deep, and dangerous in the American spirit. Arena Stage explores issues from the past, present, and future that reflect America’s diversity and challenges.

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JANUARY 15 – FEBRUARY 21, 2016Kreeger TheaterSWEATBy LYNN NOTTAGEDirected by KATE WHORISKEY

A GROUP OF CLOSE friends shares everything: drinks, secrets, and laughs. But when rumors of layoffs shake up the local steel mill, the fragile bonds of their community begin to fray and a horrific crime sends shock waves across two generations. This gripping world premiere by acclaimed Pulitzer Prize winner Lynn Nottage (Ruined) explores America’s industrial decline at the turn of the millen-nium by examining the inhabitants of one Pennsylvania town who still struggle to reclaim what’s lost, find redemption, and redefine themselves in a new century.

JANUARY 29 – MARCH 6, 2016Fichandler StageTHE CITY OF CONVERSATIONBy ANTHONY GIARDINA

GEORGETOWN HOSTESS Hester Ferris runs in an elite circle, opening her home for political foes to lay down arms and raise a glass. When her son’s formidable, conservative wife comes on the scene, the parlor pleasantries of D.C.’s past descend into entrenched posturing and an ultimatum that could implode the family. Follow the Ferris clan from the end of Carter’s presiden-cy through the Reagan era and into Obama’s game-changing inauguration in this “smart, literate and funny” (The New York Times) inside look at the theater of politics and the politics of conversation.

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Lynn Nottage, writer of Sweat. Photo: Jesse Dittmar/The Washington Post

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FEBRUARY 26 – APRIL 10, 2016Arlene and Robert Kogod CradleTHE LIONWritten and Performed by BENJAMIN SCHEUERDirected by SEAN DANIELS

SOME STORIES HAVE to be sung. Writer/performer Benjamin Scheuer uses his guitar – actually, six guitars – in this wholly original musical experience that tells a coming-of-age story that “lifts the spirit” (Time Out New York). The award-winning songwriter inspires and disarms with his raw wit and emotional depth as he leads you on a rock ‘n’ roll journey from boyhood to manhood, through pain and healing, to discover the redemptive power of music. Don’t miss the show New York Dai-ly News calls “an irresistible winner.” Much like its hero, The Lion roars.

APRIL 1 – MAY 8, 2016Fichandler StageALL THE WAYBy ROBERT SCHENKKANDirected by KYLE DONNELLY

IT’S NOT PERSONAL, it’s politics in this 2014 Tony Award-win-ning drama. President Lyndon Baines Johnson had a way about him. He could massage a victory with one hand and sell you down the river with the other, but brokering a deal is like playing with dynamite. With the country still reeling from President Ken-nedy’s assassination, and a rising tide of bitterness over Civil Rights, it’ll take more than politicking to hold America together – it’ll take red, white, and blue-blooded leadership. Go all the way with LBJ, Martin Luther King, J. Edgar Hoover, and more

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Benjamin Scheuer in The Lion. Photo: Sara Krulwich/The New York Times


Ayad Akhtar.Photo: Nina Subin

in this “beautifully built dramatic piece” (Variety) where the line between compromise and compromising your principles is as sharp as a knife.

APRIL 22 – MAY 29, 2016Kreeger TheaterDISGRACEDBy AYAD AKHTARDirected by TIMOTHY DOUGLAS

FROM AYAD AKHTAR comes this “breathtaking, raw and blistering” (AP), Pulitzer Prize-winning play about the clash between modern culture and ancient faiths. The son of South Asian immigrants, Amir has worked hard to achieve the Ameri-can Dream – complete with a successful career, a beautiful wife, and $600 custom-tailored shirts. But has he removed himself too far from his roots? And when a friendly dinner party conversation rockets out of control, will the internal battle between his culture and his identity raze all that he’s worked so hard to achieve? Hailed as “terrific, turbulent, with fresh currents of dramatic electricity” (The New York Times), this incendiary examination of one’s self and one’s beliefs will leave you breathless.

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IN THE WORDS of its founder, the Corcoran is “dedicated to art.” Its museum presents, interprets, and preserves the art of our times and of times past; its college of art nurtures and helps shape new generations of artists and designers. Though American art is the collection’s emphasis, the art of other nations and cultures is, when appropriate, acquired and exhibited. The Corcoran is committed to making the historic art in its collec-tions, and the emerging art of our time, accessible and under-standable to the broadest possible audience through innovative exhibitions and educational programming, systematic research, and rigorous scholarship.

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TICKETS & CONTACTCorcoran Gallery of Art500 17th Street, NWWashington, DC 20006(202) 639-1700www.corcoran.org

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THE CENTER, WHICH opened on September 8, 1971, contin-ues its efforts to fulfill President Kennedy’s vision by producing and presenting an unmatched variety of theater and musicals, dance and ballet, orchestral, chamber, jazz, popular, world, and folk music, and multime-dia performances for all ages. Each year, the institution that bears President Kennedy’s name brings his dream to fruition, touching the lives of millions of people through thousands of performances by the greatest artists from across America and around the world. The Center also nurtures new works and young artists, creating performances, broadcasts, and touring productions while serving the nation as a leader in arts and arts management education.

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JANUARY 1 – 10, 2016Opera HouseMATILDA THE MUSICAL

JANUARY 1 – 10, 2016Eisenhower TheaterBRIGHT STAR

JANUARY 2 & 3, 2016Family TheaterELEPHANT & PIGGIE’S WE ARE IN A PLAY

JANUARY 8 & 9, 2016Terrace TheaterWASHINGTON NATIONAL OPERA – AMERICAN OPERA INITIATIVE: NEW HOUR-LONG OPERA BETTER GODS

JANUARY 9, 2016Family TheaterNSO KINDERCLASSICS: BREAK IT DOWN!

Elephant and Piggie’s We Are in a Play! Photo: Teresa Wood



JANUARY 13 – 30, 2016Eisenhower TheaterA GENTLEMAN’S GUIDE TO LOVE & MURDER

JANUARY 14, 2016Terrace TheaterTHE ETHICS PROJECT PRESENTS: THE NATIONAL YOUTH SUMMIT ON EDUCATION, JUSTICE, AND THE U.S. ECONOMY

JANUARY 14 – 16, 2016Concert HallNATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: PROKOFIEV, ELLER, AND SIBELIUSNEEME JÄRVI, ConductorBAIBA SKRIDE, Violin

JANUARY 16, 2016, 3:00 P.M.AtriumBALLET 360°: BALLET AND THE BARD

JANUARY 17, 2016, 2:00 P.M.Terrace Theater


Neeme Järvi. Photo: Simon Van Boxtel


THE KENNEDY CENTER CHAMBER PLAYERS: WORKS BY R. STRAUSS, MOZART, J. S. BACH, AND MENDELSSOHN

JANUARY 18, 2016, 7:00 P.M.Rehearsal Room – Hall of NationsMASTER CLASS: THE NATIONAL BALLET OF CANADA

JANUARY 19 – 24, 2016Opera HouseTHE NATIONAL BALLET OF CANADA: WHEELDON’S THE WINTER’S TALE

JANUARY 20, 2016, 7:00 P.M.Terrace TheaterWASHINGTON PERFORMING ARTS PRESENTS – ALYSON CAM-BRIDGE, SOPRANO: IN HER VOICE

JANUARY 21 – 23, 2016Concert HallNATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: DVORÁK, ROUSE, AND BRAHMSCHRISTOPH ESCHENBACH, ConductorDANIEL MÜLLER-SCHOTT, Cello


Alyson Cambridge. Photo: Enrique Vega


JANUARY 21, 2016, 7:00 P.M.Terrace GalleryOPERA MASTER CLASS: JOHN DEMAIN AND TAZEWELL THOMP-SON

JANUARY 22, 2016Terrace GalleryDISCOVERY ARTIST IN THE KC JAZZ CLUB: MARQUIS HILL BLACK-TET

JANUARY 23, 2016, 3:00 P.M.AtriumBALLET 360°: SLEEPING BEAUTY REAWAKENED

JANUARY 25, 2016, 7:00 P.M.Terrace TheaterFORTAS CHAMBER MUSIC CONCERTS: THYMOS QUARTET WITH CHRISTOPH ESCHENBACH, PIANO & YANN DUBOST, BASS

JANUARY 26, 2016, 7:00 P.M.Terrace TheaterYOUNG CONCERT ARTISTS SERIES PRESENTS: EDGAR MOREAU, CELLO & JESSICA OSBORNE, PIANO

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Edgar Moreau.Photo: Matt Dine


JANUARY 27, 2016, 7:00 P.M.Terrace TheaterAN EVENING OF JAZZ STANDARDS WITH ERIC OWENS FEATURING THE MUSIC OF ECKSTINE AND HARTMAN

JANUARY 27 – 31, 2016Opera HouseAMERICAN BALLET THEATRE: RATMANSKY’S THE SLEEPING BEAUTY

JANUARY 28 – 30, 2016Concert HallNATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: BEETHOVEN, BRAHMS, AND SCHUBERTCHRISTOPH ESCHENBACH, Conductor

JANUARY 28, 2016, 7:00 P.M.Terrace TheaterWASHINGTON PERFORMING ARTS PRESENTS: CHAD HOOPES, VIOLIN & DAVID FUNG, PIANO


Chad Hoopes. Photo: Marco Borggreve


JANUARY 29, 2016Terrace GalleryKC JAZZ CLUB – RENÉ MARIE: I WANNA BE EVIL, A TRIBUTE TO EARTHA KITT

JANUARY 30 – FEBRUARY 21, 2016Family TheaterOLIVÉRIO: A BRAZILIAN TWIST

JANUARY 30, 2016Terrace Theater, 2:00 P.M.WASHINGTON PERFORMING ARTS PRESENTS: BEHZOD ABDURAIMOV, PIANO

Terrace GalleryKC JAZZ CLUB: FRANK WESS TRIBUTE

JANUARY 31, 2016Terrace Theater, 2:00 P.M.VOCAL ARTS DC PRESENTS: ALEXANDER TSYMBALYUK, BASS

Concert Hall, 4:00 P.M.WASHINGTON PERFORMING ARTS PRESENTS: ORCHESTRE NATIONAL DE FRANCEDANIELE GATTI, ConductorJULIAN RACHLIN, Violin

FEBRUARY 1, 2016, 7:00 P.M.Rehearsal Room – Hall of NationsMASTER CLASS: ALVIN AILEY AMERICAN DANCE THEATER

FEBRUARY 2 – 7, 2016Opera HouseALVIN AILEY AMERICAN DANCE THEATER

FEBRUARY 2 & 3, 2016Terrace TheaterOPERA LAFAYETTE PRESENTS: CHABRIER’S UNE ÉDUCATION MANQUÉE (AN INCOMPLETE EDUCATION)



FEBRUARY 5, 2016, 6:00 P.M.Millennium StageCHINESE NEW YEAR: SHENZHEN POP MUSIC SHOW

FEBRUARY 5, 2016Terrace TheaterMACK AVENUE SUPERBAND FEATURING GARY BURTON AND CHRISTIAN MCBRIDE

FEBRUARY 6, 2016Atrium, 11:00 A.M.CHINESE NEW YEAR: FAMILY DAY ACTIVITIES

Terrace Theater, 2:00 P.M.WASHINGTON PERFORMING ARTS PRESENTS: PEDJA MUZIJEVIC, PIANO

FEBRUARY 7, 2016Terrace Theater, 2:00 P.M.THE METROPOLITAN OPERA NATIONAL COUNCIL: MIDDLE ATLAN-TIC REGION AUDITIONS 2016

Millennium Stage, 6:00 P.M.CHINESE NEW YEAR: SHENZHEN LILY GIRLS’ CHOIR


Christian McBride. Photo: Anna Webber


FEBRUARY 8, 2016Millennium Stage, 6:00 P.M.CHINESE NEW YEAR: BEIJING OPERA, ACROBATS, AND CHINESE TRADITIONAL MUSIC BY HENAN ARTS TROUPE

Concert Hall, 8:00 P.M.CHINESE NEW YEAR: SHENZHEN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

FEBRUARY 10, 2016, 7:00 P.M.Rehearsal Room – Hall of NationsMASTER CLASS: CLOUD GATE DANCE THEATRE OF TAIWAN

FEBRUARY 11, 2016, 7:00 P.M.Terrace TheaterWASHINGTON PERFORMING ARTS PRESENTS: MARIA PICCININI, FLUTE & ANDREAS HAEFLIGER, PIANO

FEBRUARY 12 & 13, 2016Opera HouseCLOUD GATE DANCE THEATRE OF TAIWAN

Boca Museum of ArtThe John F. Kennedy Center for the

Performing Arts

Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan. Photo: Liu Chen-Hsiang


FEBRUARY 12, 2016Terrace GalleryDISCOVERY ARTIST IN THE KC JAZZ CLUB: MATTHEW WHITAKER

FEBRUARY 12 – 20, 2016Eisenhower TheaterWASHINGTON NATIONAL OPERA: LOST IN THE STARS

FEBRUARY 13, 2016Terrace Theater, 2:00 P.M.WASHINGTON PERFORMING ARTS PRESENTS PIANO MASTER CLASS WITH LEON FLEISCHER

Terrace GalleryA FAMILY AFFAIR: THE WHITFIELD FAMILY BAND

FEBRUARY 15, 2016, 8:00 P.M.Concert HallWASHINGTON PERFORMING ARTS PRESENTS: BUDAPEST FESTI-VAL ORCHESTRA

FEBRUARY 16 – 21, 2016Opera HouseSHEN YUN PERFORMING ARTS 2016: EXPERIENCE A DIVINE CULTURE

FEBRUARY 19 & 20, 2016Terrace GalleryKC JAZZ CLUB: JOE LOVANO VILLAGE RHYTHMS BAND FEATURING LIBERTY ELLMAN, MICHAEL OLATUJA, ABDOU MBOUP, AND OTIS BROWN III

FEBRUARY 19, 2016, 8:00 P.M.Concert HallIL VOLO



FEBRUARY 20, 2016Atrium, 3:00 P.M.BALLET 360°: THE CROWN OF CLASSICAL DANCING/HEROES FROM THE MIDDLE AGES

Concert Hall, 8:00 P.M.WASHINGTON PERFORMING ARTS PRESENTS: CHRIS BOTTI

FEBRUARY 21, 2016, 7:00 P.M.Concert HallWASHINGTON PERFORMING ARTS PRESENTS: LIVING THE DREAM… SINGING THE DREAM

FEBRUARY 22, 2016, 8:00 P.M.Theater LabMASON BATES’S KC JUKEBOX: OF LAND & SEA

FEBRUARY 23, 2016Opera House, 12:30 P.M.OPEN REHEARSAL: MARIINSKY BALLET

Terrace Theater, 7:00 P.M.YOUNG CONCERT ART-ISTS SERIES PRESENTS: DANIEL LEBHARDT, PIANO

FEBRUARY 23 – 28, 2016Opera HouseMARIINSKY BALLET: PETIPA’S RAYMONDA


Daniel Lebhardt. Photo: Kaupo Kikkas


FEBRUARY 24 – 28, 2016Eisenhower TheaterTHE WASHINGTON BALLET PRESENTS: DIRECTOR’S CUT

FEBRUARY 26, 2016, 7:00 P.M.Terrace TheaterWASHINGTON NATIONAL OPERA: LEAH CROCETTO IN RECITAL

FEBRUARY 26 & 27, 2016Concert HallNSO POPS: BROADWAY TODAY WITH JEREMY JORDAN & BETSY WOLFE

FEBRUARY 27, 2016, 3:00 P.M.Terrace GalleryBALLET 360° – CITY BALLET AND THE SYLPH: A RESILIENT ROMANCE

FEBRUARY 28, 2016Concert HallNSO FAMILY CONCERT: LET’S REMIX THE CLASSIX!

Terrace TheaterWASHINGTON PERFORMING ARTS PRESENTS: CALDER QUARTET

FEBRUARY 29, 2016, 7:00 P.M.Rehearsal Room – Hall of NationsMASTER CLASS: NEW YORK CITY BALLET

MARCH 1 – 6, 2016Opera HouseNEW YORK CITY BALLET: WORKS BY BALANCHINE, MARTINS, PECK & WHEEL-DON; BOURNONVILLE’S LA SYLPHIDE

New York City Ballet performs Bournonville’s La Sylphide.

Photo: Andrea Mohin/The New York Times



MARCH 3 – 5, 2016Concert HallNATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: BRUCH AND PROKOFIEVCHRISTOPH ESCHENBACH, ConductorRAY CHEN, ViolinADRIANA HORNE, Harp

MARCH 4 – 6, 2016Terrace TheaterLAURIE ANDERSON: THE LANGUAGE OF THE FUTURE

MARCH 5, 2016Rehearsal Room – Hall of Nations, 10:30 A.M.CREATIVE MOVEMENT WITH NEW YORK CITY BALLET

AtriumTHE CROSSROADS CLUB: JASON MORAN AND MASON BATES

MARCH 7, 2016, 7:00 P.M.Terrace TheaterFORTAS CHAMBER MUSIC CONCERTS: EIGHTH BLACKBIRD

MARCH 10 – 12, 2016Concert HallNATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: LISZT, BRAHMS, AND PICKERCHRISTOPH ESCHENBACH, ConductorJEAN-YVES THIBAUDET, Piano

MARCH 10 & 11, 2016Terrace GalleryMONICA BILL BARNES & COMPANY: HAPPY HOUR


Monica Bill Barnes & Company. Photo: Grant Halverson


MARCH 11 & 12, 2016Terrace TheaterTHE ODYSSEY: FROM VIETNAM TO AMERICA

MARCH 11, 2016, 8:00 P.M.Concert HallBALDWIN WALLACE UNIVERSITY PRESENTS – ADVANCE ALWAYS: A CELEBRATION OF FRANK BATTISTI AND GARWOOD WHALEY

MARCH 12 & 13, 2016Family TheaterNSO TEDDY BEAR CONCERT: THE STRING THING

MARCH 14, 2016, 7:00 P.M.Concert HallWASHINGTON PERFORMING ARTS PRESENTS: MONTREAL SYMPHONY

MARCH 16, 2016, 8:00 P.M.Concert HallORGAN RECITAL: PAUL JACOBS

MARCH 17 – 19, 2016Concert HallNATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHES-TRA: BRAHMS AND BEETHOVEN’S SYMPHONY NO. 6OSMO VÄNSKÄ, ConductorNIKOLAI LUGANSKY, Piano

MARCH 20, 2016, 4:00 P.M.Concert HallWASHINGTON PERFORMING ARTS PRESENTS: SIR JAMES GALWAY, FLUTE & LADY JEANNE GALWAY, FLUTE


Sir James Galway.Photo: Paul Cox


MARCH 22, 2016, 7:00 P.M.Terrace TheaterFORTAS CHAMBER MUSIC CONCERTS – SHARON ROBINSON & BENJAMIN HOCHMAN: COMPLETE WORKS OF BEETHOVEN FOR CELLO & PIANO, PART I

MARCH 23, 2016, 7:00 P.M.Terrace TheaterFORTAS CHAMBER MUSIC CONCERTS – SHARON ROBINSON & BENJAMIN HOCHMAN: COMPLETE WORKS OF BEETHOVEN FOR CELLO & PIANO, PART II

MARCH 23 – APRIL 3, 2016Eisenhower TheaterTHE WASHINGTON BALLET PRESENTS: HAMLET

MARCH 24, 2016, 7:00 P.M.Terrace TheaterVOCAL ARTS DC PRESENTS: JAVIER CAMARENA, TENOR & ANGEL RODRIGUEZ, PIANO

MARCH 25, 2016, 7:00 P.M.Terrace TheaterBARBARA COOK’S SPOTLIGHT: FRANCES RUFFELL

MARCH 26, 2016, 2:00 P.M.Terrace TheaterWASHINGTON PERFORMING ARTS PRESENTS: JOSEPH MOOG, PIANO

MARCH 28, 2016, 7:00 P.M.Terrace TheaterPRO MUSICA HEBRAICA PRESENTS – WANDERING STARS: THREE GENERATIONS OF EUROPEAN JEWISH SONG


Frances Ruffelle.Photo: Pamela Raith


MARCH 31 – APRIL 2, 2016Concert HallNATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: BRAHMS, FAURÉ, JALBERT, AND DEBUSSY

APRIL 1 – 3, 2016Family TheaterSUPERMAN 2050

APRIL 1, 2016Terrace GalleryKC JAZZ CLUB: HELEN SUNG QUINTET

APRIL 2, 2016, 5:00 P.M.Terrace GalleryTHE MAKING OF THE RING

APRIL 7 – 9, 2016Concert HallNATIONAL SYMPHO-NY ORCHESTRA: MO-ZART AND MAHLER’S SYMPHONY NO. 1NIKOLAJ ZNAIDER, ConductorBENJAMIN GROSVE-NOR, Piano

APRIL 8, 2016Terrace GalleryDISCOVERY ARTIST IN THE KC JAZZ CLUB: NEW WASHING-TONIANS WITH GUEST INTEGRITI REEVES

APRIL 9, 2016, 7:00 P.M.Family TheaterSTEFON HARRIS AND SONIC CREED


Nikolaj Znaider. Photo: Lars Gundersen


APRIL 12, 2016, 8:00 P.M.Concert HallWASHINGTON PERFORMING ARTS PRESENTS: BAVARIAN RADIO SYMPHONY

APRIL 13 – 17, 2016Eisenhower TheaterTHE WASHINGTON BALLET PRESENTS: ORFF’S CARMINA BURANA & BALANCHINE’S THEME AND VARIATIONS

APRIL 13, 2016Concert HallWASHINGTON PERFORMING ARTS PRESENTS: YO-YO MA, CELLO & EMANUEL AX, PIANO

APRIL 14 – 16, 2016Concert HallNATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: BATES, BARBER, AND IVESHUGH WOLFF, ConductorANNE AKIKO MEYERS, Violin

APRIL 15, 2016AtriumTHE CROSSROADS CLUB: THE BAD PLUS JOSHUA REDMAN

Concert Hall, 9:00 P.M.DECLASSIFIED: THE B-SIDES FEATURING MASON BATES AND ANNE AKIKO MEYERS WITH THE NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA


The Bad plus Joshua Redman. Photo: David Jacobs


APRIL 16, 2016Rehearsal Room – Hall of NationsEXPLORING BALLET WITH SUZANNE FARRELL FOR ADULTS! 201

Concert Hall, 4:00 P.M.WASHINGTON PERFORMING ARTS PRESENTS: SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY

APRIL 17, 2016, 1:00 P.M.Concert HallWASHINGTON PERFORMING ARTS PRESENTS: ZAKIR HUSSAIN & MASTERS OF PERCUSSION

APRIL 18, 2016Terrace Theater, 7:00 P.M.VOCAL ARTS DC PRESENTS: JULIA BULLOCK, SOPRANO & RENATE ROHLFING, PIANO

Atrium, 8:00 P.M.MASON BATES’S KC JUKEBOX: NEW VOICES, OLD MUSES

APRIL 19, 2016, 7:00 P.M.Terrace TheaterYOUNG CONCERT ARTISTS SERIES PRESENTS: ZIYU SHEN, VIOLA & JESSICA OSBORNE, PIANO

APRIL 20, 2016, 7:00 P.M.Terrace TheaterFORTAS CHAMBER MUSIC CONCERTS: TAKÁCS QUARTET


Takács Quartet. Photo: Keith Saunders


APRIL 22, 2016Terrace GalleryA FAMILY AFFAIR: PETER AND WILL ANDERSON QUINTET Concert Hall, 8:00 P.M.TRACY MORGAN: PICKING UP THE PIECES

APRIL 23 & 24, 2016Family TheaterMOBY DICK

APRIL 24, 2016Concert HallNSO FAMILY CONCERT: LIGHTS! CANVAS! MUSIC!

Theater Lab, 7:00 P.M.WASHINGTON PERFORMING ARTS PRESENTS: ANTOINE TAMES-TIT, VIOLA

APRIL 26, 2016, 7:00 P.M.Terrace TheaterFORTAS CHAMBER MUSIC CONCERTS: JOSEF SPACEK, VIOLIN & MIROSLAV SEKERA, PIANO

APRIL 28 – 30, 2016Concert HallNATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: WEILL, RODGERS, DVORÁK, AND RAVELJAMES GAFFIGAN, ConductorSTORM LARGE, Vocal

APRIL 29, 2016Terrace TheaterCHARLES LLOYD AND JASON MORAN

North Atrium FoyerLECTURE SERIES I: INTRODUCTION TO THE RING



Concert Hall, 9:00 P.M.DECLASSIFIED: CABARET OF SINS FEATURING STORM LARGE WITH THE NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

APRIL 30 – MAY 17, 2016Opera HouseWASHINGTON NATIONAL OPERA – RING CYCLE: THE RHINEGOLD

MAY 1, 2016Terrace Theater, 2:00 P.M.VOCAL ARTS DC PRESENTS: MICHELLE DEYOUNG, MEZZO-SOPRA-NO & KEVIN MURPHY, PIANO

Concert Hall, 5:00 P.M.THE WASHINGTON CHORUS PRESENTS – PARISIAN SPRING: DURUFLÉ, FAURÉ, AND MORE...

MAY 3, 2016, 10:30 A.M.Theater LabRING CYCLE SYMPOSIUM: CYCLE I

MAY 4 – 20, 2016Opera HouseWASHINGTON NATIONAL OPERA – RING CYCLE: SIEGFRIED

MAY 4, 2016Terrace Theater, 7:00 P.M.FORTAS CHAMBER MUSIC CONCERTS: ENSO STRING QUAR-TET & AVI AVITAL

Concert HallORGAN RECITAL: CHRISTO-PHER HOULIHAN

Christopher Houlihan.Photo: Lawrence K. Ho/The Los Angeles Times



MAY 4 – 15, 2016Eisenhower TheaterTHE WASHINGTON BALLET PRESENTS: BOWIE & QUEEN

MAY 5 – 7, 2016Concert HallNATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: TCHAIKOVSKY AND SHOSTAKOVICH’S SYMPHONY NO. 11ANDREW LITTON, ConductorVADIM GLUZMAN, Violin

MAY 6 – 22, 2016Opera HouseWASHINGTON NATIONAL OPERA – RING CYCLE: TWILIGHT OF THE GODS

MAY 6, 2016Terrace TheaterAMBROSE AKINMUSIRE

Millennium Stage, 10:15 P.M.POST RING CYCLE TALK-BACK DISCUSSION: CYCLE I

MAY 7, 2016, 2:00 P.M.Terrace TheaterWASHINGTON PERFORMING ARTS PRES-ENTS: YURY SHADRIN & TIAN LU, PIANOS

MAY 9, 2016, 7:00 P.M.North Atrium FoyerLECTURE SERIES II – INTRODUCTION TO THE RING: EXPOSITION AND LYRICAL EXPANSION

MAY 10, 2016, 7:00 P.M.Concert HallWASHINGTON PERFORMING ARTS PRESENTS: ITZHAK PERLMAN, VIOLIN & EMANUEL AX, PIANO


Itzhak Perlman. Photo: Lisa-Marie Mazzucco


MAY 12, 2016, 10:30 A.M.Theater LabRING CYCLE SYMPOSIUM: CYCLE II

MAY 12 – 14, 2016Concert HallNATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: BARBER, MACMILLAN, AND VAUGHAN WILLIAMSJAMES MACMILLAN, ConductorALISA WEILERSTEIN, Cello

MAY 13 & 14, 2016Terrace Theater21ST ANNUAL MARY LOU WILLIAMS JAZZ FESTIVAL

MAY 14, 2016Family TheaterNSO KINDERCLASSICS: FANCY THAT!

Terrace GalleryFILM SCREENING – MARY LOU WILLIAMS: THE LADY WHO SWINGS THE BAND

MAY 15, 2016Millennium Stage, 6:30 P.M.POST RING CYCLE TALK-BACK DISCUSSION: CYCLE II

Concert Hall, 8:00 P.M.THE CHORAL ARTS SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON PRESENTS – SOME ENCHANTED EVENING: THE MUSIC OF RODGERS AND HAMMERSTEIN AND THE AMERICAN SONGBOOK WITH RENÉE FLEMING AND NORM LEWIS


Renée Fleming. Photo: Andrew Eccles


MAY 18 & 19, 2016Eisenhower TheaterIRELAND 100: THE PLOUGH AND THE STARS (ABBEY THEATRE)

MAY 19, 2016Theater Lab, 10:30 A.M.RING CYCLE SYMPOSIUM: CYCLE III

North Atrium Foyer, 7:00 P.M.LECTURE SERIES III – INTRODUCTION TO THE RING: SIEGFRIED AND TWILIGHT OF THE GODS

MAY 19 – 21, 2016Terrace GalleryIRELAND 100: ALL THAT FALL (PAN PAN THEATRE)

MAY 20 – 22, 2016Family TheaterIRELAND 100: THE GIRL WHO FORGOT TO SING BADLY (THEATRE LOVETT)

MAY 20 & 21, 2016Terrace TheaterIRELAND 100: OUT OF TIME BY COLIN DUNNE

Concert HallNSO POPS: BOYZ II MEN

MAY 21, 2016Opera House, 7:00 P.M.WASHINGTON NATIONAL OPERA – STARS OF TOMORROW: THE DOMINGO-CAFRITZ YOUNG ARTISTS IN CONCERT

Eisenhower Theater, 7:30 P.M.IRELAND 100: CAMERATA IRELAND WITH THE HARMONY NORTH CHOIR


Colin Dunne. Photo: Julieta Cervantes


MAY 22, 2016, 7:00 P.M.Terrace TheaterIRELAND 100: CAMILLE O’SULLIVAN

MAY 23, 2016Rehearsal Room – Hall of States, 7:00 P.M.MASTER CLASS: PAUL TAYLOR DANCE COM-PANY

Terrace Theater, 7:00 P.M.IRELAND 100: TARA ER-RAUGHT AND ANTHONY KEARNS IN CONCERT

MAY 24 & 25, 2016Terrace GalleryIRELAND 100: TINY PLAYS FOR IRELAND AND AMERICA (FISH-AMBLE: THE NEW PLAY COMPANY)

MAY 25 & 26, 2016Family TheaterIRELAND 100: OLWEN FOUÉRÉ’S RIVERRUN

MAY 25 – 28, 2016Eisenhower TheaterPAUL TAYLOR DANCE COMPANY

MAY 26 & 27, 2016Terrace TheaterIRELAND 100: THIS IS AN IRISH DANCE BY JEAN BUTLER & NEIL MARTIN

MAY 31, 2016, 7:00 P.M.Rehearsal Room – Hall of NationsMASTER CLASS: ROYAL SWEDISH BALLET


Tara Erraught. Photo: Christian Kaufmann


JUNE 1 – 4, 2016Opera HouseROYAL SWEDISH BALLET: EK’S JULIET AND ROMEO

JUNE 1, 2016, 7:00 P.M.Terrace TheaterIRELAND 100 – ALARM WILL SOUND ENSEMBLE: THE HUNGER

JUNE 2 – 4, 2016Concert HallNATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: SHEPHERD, HAYDN, AND SCHUMANNCHRISTOPH ESCHENBACH, ConductorLEILA JOSEFOWICZ, Violin

JUNE 4, 2016, 7:30 P.M.Eisenhower TheaterIRELAND 100: THE GLOAMING

JUNE 5, 2016, 7:30 P.M.Eisenhower TheaterIRELAND 100: WILLIAM CLOSE AND THE EARTH HARP COLLEC-TIVE


Alarm Will Sound Ensemble.Photo: Richard Perry/The New York Times


JUNE 9 – 11, 2016Concert HallNATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: MAHLER AND BRUCKNER’S SYMPHONY NO. 4CHRISTOPH ESCHENBACH, ConductorNATHALIE STUTZMANN, Contralto

JUNE 14 – JULY 10, 2016Opera HouseKINKY BOOTS

JUNE 17 & 18, 2016Concert HallNSO POPS: FOREVER GERSHWIN

JUNE 24, 2016, 7:00 P.M.Eisenhower TheaterJANE LYNCH IN SEE JANE SING

JUNE 28 – JULY 17, 2016Eisenhower TheaterTHE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY

JULY 13 – AUGUST 20, 2016Opera HouseTHE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA


Jane Lynch.Photo: Jake Bailey


TICKETS & CONTACTThe John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts2700 F Street, NWWashington, DC 20566(202) 467-4600 www.kennedy-center.org



A JUDICIOUS MERGING of the National Chamber Orchestra and Masterworks Chorus on July 1, 2003 created the National Phil-harmonic, an ensemble with a 55-year combined history of high caliber musical performances in the local area. The National Philharmonic performed at the F. Scott Fitzgerald Theatre in Rockville, Maryland until Feb. 2005, when it became the Music Center at Strathmore’s ensemble-in-residence. Since then, the Philharmonic has performed more than 100 concerts in the Concert Hall at Strathmore, showcas-ing world-renowned guest artists in time-honored symphonic masterpieces conducted by Maestro Piotr Gajewski and monumental choral masterworks under National Philharmonic Chorale Artistic Director Stan Engebretson. In addition to its commitment to critically acclaimed concert presentations, the National Philharmonic continuously strives to create remarkable and significant educational opportunities in the community.

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Piotr Gajewski conducting the National Philharmonic.

Photo: Michael Ventura

JANUARY 9, 2016, 8:00 P.M.BRIAN GANZ PLAYS CHOPIN: BEL CANTO OF THE PIANOBRIAN GANZ, PianoIWONA SOBOTKA, SopranoCHOPIN, Cantabile in B-flat Major, Impromptu No. 1 in A-flat Major, Nocturne in C minor, Sonata No. 3 in B Minor

JANUARY 16, 2016, 8:00 P.M.BACH VIOLIN CONCERTO NO. 2PIOTR GAJEWSKI, ConductorCOLIN SORGI, ViolinMOZART, Divertimento in D MajorBACH, Violin Concerto No. 2GRIEG, Holberg SuiteBRITTEN, Simple Symphony, Op. 4


Brian Ganz. Photo: Michael Ventura



FEBRUARY 6, 2016, 8:00 P.M.FEBRUARY 7, 2016, 3:00 P.M.MOZART’S HAFFNER SYMPHONYPIOTR GAJEWSKI, ConductorBRIAN GANZ, PianoROSSINI, L’Italiana in Algeri OvertureMOZART, Piano Concerto No. 20 in D MinorCHOPIN, Variations on “La ci darem la mano”MOZART, Symphony No. 35, “Haffner”

FEBRUARY 20, 2016, 8:00 P.M.FEBRUARY 21, 2016, 3:00 P.M.VIVALDI’S GLORIAPIOTR GAJEWSKI, ConductorZUILL BAILEY, CelloJULIE KEIM, SopranoMAGDALENA WÓR, Mezzo-sopranoNATIONAL PHILHARMONIC CHORALEVIVALDI, Cello Concertos RV 417 in G Minor and RV 413 in G MajorPIATIGORSKY, Variations on a Paganini ThemeBEETHOVEN, Elegiac SongVIVALDI, Gloria

APRIL 2, 2016, 8:00 P.M.APRIL 3, 2016, 3:00 P.M.HAYDN’S LORD NELSON MASSSTAN ENGEBRETSON, ConductorDANIELLE TALAMANTES, SopranoMAGDALENA WÓR, Mezzo-sopranoROBERT BAKER, TenorKEVIN DEAS, BaritoneNATIONAL PHILHARMONIC CHORALEHAYDN, Lord Nelson MassDURUFLÉ, Requiem

Zuill Bailey.Photo: Lisa-Marie Mazzucco



JUNE 4, 2016, 8:00 P.M.TCHAIKOVSKY’S PATHÉTIQUE SYMPHONYPIOTR GAJEWSKI, ConductorNATIONAL PHILHARMONIC CHORALEBRAHMS, Song of the FatesTCHAIKOVSKY, Symphony No. 6, “Pathétique”

TICKETS & CONTACTNational PhilharmonicThe Music Center at Strathmore5301 Tuckerman LaneNorth Bethesda, MD 20852(301) 493-9283 (General)(301) 581-5100 (Tickets)www.nationalphilharmonic.org


THE NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA’S 85th season is its sixth under the leadership of Music Director Christoph Eschenbach, who also serves as the Music Director of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Founded in 1931 and an affiliate company of the Kennedy Center since 1986, the Orchestra has maintained its commitment to artistic excellence and music education. The Orchestra numbers 96 musicians, presenting a year-long season of approximately 150 concerts each year. These include classical subscription series, pops concerts, summer performances at Wolf Trap and on the lawn of the U.S. Capitol, chamber music performances in the Terrace Theater and on the Millennium Stage, and an extensive educational program.

National Symphony Orchestra with Music Director Christoph Eschenbach.

Photo: Scott Suchman

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JANUARY 9, 2016NSO KINDERCLASSICS: BREAK IT DOWN!

JANUARY 14 – 16, 2016PROKOFIEV, ELLER, AND SIBELIUSNEEME JÄRVI, ConductorBAIBA SKRIDE, ViolinHEINO ELLER, 5 Pieces for String OrchestraPROKOFIEV, Violin Concerto No. 1 in D Major, Op. 19SIBELIUS, Symphony No. 2 in D Major, Op. 43

JANUARY 21 – 23, 2016DVORÁK, ROUSE, AND BRAHMSCHRISTOPH ESCHENBACH, ConductorDANIEL MÜLLER-SCHOTT, CelloCHRISTOPHER ROUSE, PhaethonDVORÁK, Cello Concerto in B Minor, Op. 104

BRAHMS (ORCH. SCHOENBERG), Piano Quartet No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 25

JANUARY 28 – 30, 2016BEETHOVEN (THU./FRI.), BRAHMS (FRI./SAT.), AND SCHUBERT (THU./SAT.)CHRISTOPH ESCHENBACH, ConductorWEBER, Overture to Der FreischützSCHUBERT, Symphony No. 8 in B Minor, D759 “Unfinished”BEETHOVEN, Symphony No. 7 in A Major, Op. 92

FEBRUARY 26 & 27, 2016NSO POPS: BROADWAY TODAY WITH JEREMY JORDAN & BETSY WOLFESTEVEN REINEKE, Conductor


Daniel Müller-Schott.Photo: Uwe Arens


FEBRUARY 28, 2016NSO FAMILY CONCERT: LET’S REMIX THE CLASSIX!STEVEN REINEKE, Conductor

MARCH 3 – 5, 2016BRUCH AND PROKOFIEVCHRISTOPH ESCHENBACH, ConductorRAY CHEN, ViolinADRIANA HORNE, HarpPROKOFIEV, Symphony No. 1 in D Major, Op. 25 “ Classical”BRUCH, Scottish Fantasy for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 46PROKOFIEV, Symphony No. 5 in B-flat Major, Op. 100

MARCH 10 – 12, 2016LISZT, BRAHMS, AND PICKERCHRISTOPH ESCHENBACH, ConductorJEAN-YVES THIBAUDET, PianoTOBIAS PICKER, Opera Without Words (World Premiere)LISZT, Piano Concerto No. 2 in A MajorBRAHMS, Symphony No. 3 in F Major, Op. 90BRAHMS, Three Hungarian Dances

MARCH 12 & 13, 2016NSO TEDDY BEAR CONCERT: THE STRING THING

MARCH 16, 2016ORGAN RECITAL: PAUL JACOBS


Adriana Horne.Photo: Scott Suchman


MARCH 17 – 19, 2016BRAHMS AND BEETHOVEN’S SYMPHONY NO. 6OSMO VÄNSKÄ, ConductorNIKOLAI LUGANSKY, PianoBRAHMS, Piano Concerto No. 1 in D Minor, Op. 15BEETHOVEN, Symphony No. 6 in F Major, Op. 68 “Pastoral”

MARCH 31 – APRIL 2, 2016BRAHMS, FAURÉ, JALBERT, AND DEBUSSYCRISTIAN MACELARU, ConductorNIKOLAJ ZNAIDER, ViolinFAURÉ, Pavane, Op. 50BRAHMS, Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 77PIERRE JALBERT, In AeternamDEBUSSY, La Mer

APRIL 7 – 9, 2016MOZART AND MAHLER’S SYMPHONY NO. 1NIKOLAJ ZNAIDER, ConductorBENJAMIN GROSVENOR, PianoMOZART, Piano Concerto No. 27 in B-flat Major, K. 595MAHLER, Symphony No. 1 in D Major, “Titan”


Cristian Macelaru.Photo: Sorin Popa


APRIL 14 – 16, 2016BATES, BARBER, AND IVESHUGH WOLFF, ConductorANNE AKIKO MEYERS, ViolinBARBER, Overture to The School for ScandalMASON BATES, Concerto for ViolinCHARLES IVES, Symphony No. 2

APRIL 15, 2016THE B-SIDES FEATURING MASON BATES AND ANNE AKIKO MEY-ERS WITH THE NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

APRIL 24, 2016NSO FAMILY CONCERT: LIGHTS! CANVAS! MUSIC!

APRIL 28 – 30, 2016WEILL’S THE SEVEN DEADLY SINS & WORKS BY RODGERS, DVORÁK, AND RAVELJAMES GAFFIGAN, ConductorSTORM LARGE, VocalsRICHARD RODGERS, Carousel WaltzKURT WEILL, The Seven Deadly SinsDVORÁK, American SuiteRAVEL, La Valse


James Gaffigan.Photo: Mat Hennek


APRIL 29, 2016CABARET OF SINS FEATURING STORM LARGE WITH THE NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

MAY 4, 2016ORGAN RECITAL: CHRISTOPHER HOULIHAN

MAY 5 – 7, 2016TCHAIKOVSKY AND SHOSTAKOVICH’S SYMPHONY NO. 11ANDREW LITTON, ConductorVADIM GLUZMAN, ViolinTCHAIKOVSKY, Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 35SHOSTAKOVICH, Symphony No. 11 in G Minor, Op. 103 “The Year 1905”

MAY 12 – 14, 2016BARBER, MACMILLAN, AND VAUGHAN WILLIAMSJAMES MACMILLAN, ConductorALISA WEILERSTEIN, CelloJAMES MACMILLAN, The Sacrifice, Three InterludesBARBER, Cello Concerto, Op. 22VAUGHAN WILLIAMS, Symphony No. 4 in F Minor


Alisa Weilerstein.Photo: Decca/Robin Thomson


MAY 14, 2016NSO KINDERCLASSICS: FANCY THAT!

MAY 20 – 21, 2016NSO POPS: BOYZ II MENSTEVEN REINEKE, Conductor

JUNE 2 – 4, 2016SHEPHERD, HAYDN, AND SCHUMANNCHRISTOPH ESCHENBACH, ConductorLEILA JOSEFOWICZ, ViolinHAYDN, Symphony No. 104 in D Major, “London”SEAN SHEPHERD, Violin Concerto (World Premiere)SCHUMANN, Symphony No. 4 in D Minor, Op. 120

JUNE 9 – 11, 2016BRUCKNER’S SYMPHONY NO. 4 AND MAHLERCHRISTOPH ESCHENBACH, ConductorNATHALIE STUTZMANN, ContraltoMAHLER, Rückert LiederBRUCKNER, Symphony No. 4 in E-flat Major, “Romantic”

JUNE 17 & 18, 2016NSO POPS: FOREVER GERSHWINSTEVEN REINEKE, ConductorJASON MORAN, PianoALICIA HALL MORAN, VocalsNORM LEWIS, Vocals

TICKETS & CONTACTNSOThe John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts2700 F Street, NWWashington, DC 20566(202) 467-4600 www.kennedy-center.org/nso



LOCATED JUST NORTH of Washington, D.C. in arts-rich Montgomery County, Mary-land, Olney Theatre Center offers a diverse array of professional productions year-round that enrich, nurture, and challenge a broad range of artists, audiences, and students. In addition to its Subscription Season, which emphasizes 20th-century American classics, new works, area premieres, reinterpretations of classics, and musical the-ater, Olney Theatre Center offers a wide range of programs and affiliations including National Players, America’s longest running classical touring company; an annual Summer Shakespeare Festival; post-show discussions; and in-school workshops.

Olney Theatre exterior. Photo courtesy of Olney Theatre

Olney Theatre

SUPERPLEXUSInteractive Sculptures

by Michael McGinnis

707-480-9971www.superplexus.com


FEBRUARY 10 – MARCH 6, 2016MainstageCARMEN: AN AFRO-CUBAN JAZZ MUSICALBased on the Opera by GEORGES BIZETWritten and Directed by MOISÉS KAUFMANOriginal and Adapted Music by ARTURO O’FARRILLChoreography by SERGIO TRUJILLO

THE MOST TALKED-ABOUT show of the season is sure to be this world premiere, written and directed by Tony Award-nominee Moisés Kaufman (The Laramie Project Cycle), with music from two-time Grammy Award-winner Arturo O’Farrill,

and choreography by Sergio Trujillo (Broadway’s Jersey Boys and Memphis). Olney’s star-studded team turns Bizet’s passion-fueled opera into a sexy, swinging Afro-Cuban Jazz musical, moving the action from 1820s Spain to Cuba in 1958, on the verge of revolution. Kaufman’s Carmen is a gun-runner for the rebels, who falls fiercely in love

with José, a Batista loyalist. When Cuba’s boxing legend Camilo returns to Havana, Carmen and José’s love falls tragically apart.

MARCH 10 – APRIL 10, 2016Mulitz-Gudelsky Theatre LabMARJORIE PRIMEBy JORDAN HARRISONDirected by JASON LOEWITH

FROM ONE OF THE country’s most adventurous young writers (Maple and Vine, Netflix’s Orange Is the New Black) comes the tender and provocative story of Marjorie, 85 years old, who’s

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Moisés Kaufman.Photo: Sara Krulwich/The New York Times


reinventing memories from the past with the help of Walter Prime – a hologram of her dead husband as he looked 50 years ago. The New York Times hailed the world premiere as “a tender, searching comedy... a thought-provoking play about memory, its corruption, and our insistence that technology can help us outwit death.” Starring Artistic Associate Julie-Ann El-liott and Lois Markle, who returns to Olney Theatre Center after a 40-year absence!

APRIL 6 – MAY 1, 2016MainstageDIAL ‘M’ FOR MURDERBy FREDERICK KNOTTDirected by JASON KING JONES

ALFRED HITCHCOCK BASED his much-loved thriller on Knott’s deliriously spine-tingling play about a former tennis star, Tony Wendice, who has married sweet and unsuspecting Margot for her money. He arranges what he thinks is the perfect mur-der, but when the plot goes wrong, Inspector Hubbard from Scotland Yard (Olney Theatre stage veteran Alan Wade) – along with her old flame, the murder mystery novelist Max Halliday – mount a hair-raising investigation that comes down to the last possible, chilling moment.

MAY 12 – JUNE 12, 2016Mulitz-Gudelsky Theatre LabBAKERSFIELD MISTBy STEPHEN SACHSDirected by JOHN VREEKE

POOR MAUDE! LIVING in a trailer park, fired from her bartend-ing job… even her best friend refused the thrift store painting she bought for her birthday. But that painting might just be… a lost Jackson Pollock! Her fate lies in the hands of world-famous curator Lionel Percy, who shows up at Maude’s trailer to determine its authenticity. What follows is a collision of class and culture, where the ‘average Joe’ might finally throw it in

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the face of those ‘east coast elites.’ Starring Artistic Associates Donna Migliaccio and Michael Russotto. “It’s exhilarating in the extreme when a world premiere play strikes rich on every conceivable level – a perfect marriage of emotion and ideas.” – Los Angeles Times.

JUNE 23 – JULY 24, 2016MainstageEVITAMusic by ANDREW LLOYD WEBBERLyrics by TIM RICEDirected by WILL DAVISChoreography by CHRISTOPHER D’AMBOISE

HERALDED FOR ITS rich score and explosive love triangle, the legendary Tony Award-winning musical Evita tells the story of Argentina’s passionate political figure Eva Perón, whose love for her country’s descamisados (‘the shirtless ones’) was surpassed only by her naked ambition. Known for its anthem, “Don’t Cry for Me Argentina,” Evita will stun and delight in this intimate version of the musical that ensures you hear every note and feel every heartbeat. Helmed by the director and choreographer of last year’s hit and Helen Hayes Award winner, Colossal.

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New Repertory Theatre’s production of Stephen Sachs’s Bakersfield Mist.Photo: Andrew Brilliant


JULY 14 – AUGUST 21, 2016Mulitz-Gudelsky Theatre LabTHE PIRATES OF PENZANCE AND THE MIKADOBy W. S. GILBERT AND ARTHUR SULLIVANDirected by SEAN GRANEY

SAIL AWAY THIS summer with scurvy pirates, star-crossed lovers, Pooh-Bah, Nanki-Poo, and of course that most manic of Modern Major Generals in Sean Graney’s “outrageously enjoyable” (Chicago Tribune) staging of two of Gilbert & Sul-livan’s best-loved comic operettas. Performed by a cast of ten in promenade style (meaning you choose fixed seats or… you can decide to sit on the stage with the actors, though you’ll have to move when they tell you to!) in rotating repertory, Graney’s band of fearless actors tackle not only some of the silliest roles ever written for musical theater, but the instruments, too!

TICKETS & CONTACTOlney Theatre2001 Olney-Sandy Spring RoadOlney, MD 20832(301) 924-4485 (General)(301) 924-2654 (Tickets)www.olneytheatre.org

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ENCOUNTER SUPERB WORKS of modern art in an intimate setting at The Phillips Collection, opened to the public in 1921 in Washington’s vibrant Dupont Circle neighborhood. Paintings by Renoir and Rothko, Bonnard and O’Keeffe, van Gogh and Diebenkorn are among the many stunning impres-sionist and modern works that fill the museum. Its distinctive building combines extensive new galleries with the former home of its founder, Duncan Phillips. The collection continues to develop with selective new acquisitions, many by contemporary artists.

JILL O’BRYAN: ONE BILLION BREATHS IN A LIFETIMEJUNE 9, 2015 – APRIL 17, 2016

IT TAKES APPROXIMATELY 97 years to breathe a billion breaths. “Our corporeal relationship to the number one billion is experienced both intimately and politically,” says artist Jill O’Bryan. “One billion breaths in a lifetime is a celebration of longevity and a life well lived, an acknowledgement of mortality, and a recognition of lives cut short. The number is a cultural signifier of excessive abundance, referring primarily to corpo-rate earnings and fiscal budgets. Fundamentally the message

The interior of a gallery in the Sant Building of the Phillips Collection.

Photo: Max Hirshfeld

Phillips Collection


is a reminder of a system that connects all life in micro and macrocosmic networks – you complete the artwork when you walk by and see your reflection.” This sculpture is based on the artist’s calculation of her own breaths through a series of draw-ings she began in 2000 to capture time.

POSTWAR GERMANIC EXPRESSIONS: GIFTS FROM MICHAEL WERNERSEPTEMBER 12, 2015 – APRIL 24, 2016

WITH GREAT EXCITEMENT, The Phillips Collection announces the acquisition of 46 gifts of German and Danish art to the museum’s permanent collection, generously given by art collector and dealer Michael Werner. With selections from the gift on view beginning September 12, this extraordinary gift of painting, sculpture, and works on paper showcases the museum’s commitment to building a carefully crafted collection that reflects museum founder Duncan Phillips’s vision and distinctive eye and advances the understanding of 20th-century European art.

SEEING NATURE: LANDSCAPE MASTERWORKS FROM THE PAUL G. ALLEN FAMILY COLLECTIONFEBRUARY 6, 2016 – TBA

FEATURING 39 MASTERPIECES spanning five centuries, this exhibition draws from the Paul G. Allen Family Collection to explore the evolution of European and American landscape art. Highlights include Jan Brueghel the Younger’s 17th-century allegorical paintings of the five senses that invite visitors to consider their own experiences of the world. Venice, one of Al-len’s favorite cities, is sumptuously represented in the exhibition

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Markus Lüpertz, Nude from Behind, 2004. Oil on canvas, 63 x 51 inches. Phillips Collection, Gift of Michael Werner, 2015


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through stunning Venetian scenes by Canaletto, Édouard Ma-net, Claude Monet, and J. M. W. Turner, among others. Other highlights include five Monet landscapes spanning 30 years, from views of the French countryside to his late immersive representations of water lilies, evocative works by Paul Cézanne and Gustav Klimt, and modern and contemporary perspectives by 20th-century artists as diverse as Georgia O’Keeffe, Edward Hopper, David Hockney, Gerhard Richter, and Ed Ruscha.

WILLIAM MERRITT CHASE: A MODERN MASTERJUNE 4 – SEPTEMBER 11, 2016

WILLIAM MERRITT CHASE (American, 1849–1916), a renowned figure in the international art circles of the late 19th and early 20th centuries,

was a brilliant observer of contemporary life, an innovative painter, and an

influential teacher. As the centennial of his death approaches, this retrospective – the first in over three decades – will explore the inter-relationships in Chase’s work across subject and media, from portraits and figurative paintings, to urban park scenes, domestic interiors, still lifes, and landscapes. Featuring more than 60 artworks, this exhibition examines the full breadth of Chase’s achievements spanning his four-decade long career to shed new light on the artist’s aesthetic philosophy, artistic practice, and working methods, while positioning his art and life within the vibrant international cultural climate at the turn of the century.

William Merritt Chase, Hide and Seek, 1888. Oil on canvas, 27 5/8 x 35 7/8 inches.The Phillips Collection, Acquired 1923


PEOPLE ON THE MOVE: BEAUTY AND STRUGGLE IN JACOB LAW-RENCE’S MIGRATION SERIESOCTOBER 8, 2016 – JANUARY 8, 2017

THE PHILLIPS COLLECTION and Museum of Modern Art re-unite Jacob Lawrence’s masterwork The Migration Series, the seminal, 60-panel work by one of the most celebrated African American artists of the 20th century. Shaped by an interdis-ciplinary team of scholars, this exhibition provides multiple perspectives on the historical, literary, socio-cultural, aesthetic, and contemporary manifestations of migration that underlie Lawrence’s visual narrative. The Phillips is a leader in the study and presentation of Lawrence’s art, organizing retrospective presentations of the artist’s work, producing national arts-integrated teaching curriculum, and recording and archiving two definitive interviews with Lawrence on his art and life before his death.

Jacob Lawrence, The Migration of the Negro, Pane 1, 1940–41. Casein tempera on hardboard, 12 x 18 inches. The Phillips Collection, Acquired 1942. © Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence, courtesy of the Jacob and Gwendolyn Lawrence Foundation

Phillips Collection


TICKETS & CONTACTThe Phillips Collection1600 21st Street, NWWashington, DC 20009(202) 387-2151 www.phillipscollection.org

Phillips Collection


OVER THE PAST quarter of a century, the Shakespeare Theatre Company has dedicated itself to becoming the nation’s premier classic theatre. By focusing on works with profound themes, complex characters, and heightened language written by Shakespeare, his contemporaries and those playwrights he influenced, STC’s artistic mission is unique among regional theatres: to bring to vibrant life groundbreaking, thought-provoking, and eminently accessible classic theatre in a uniquely American style.

JANUARY 5 – FEBRUARY 14, 2016Lansburgh TheatreTHE CRITIC / THE REAL INSPECTOR HOUNDBy RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN / TOM STOPPARDDirected by JEFFREY HATCHER / MICHAEL KAHN

EXPERIENCE A MADCAP night of life in the theatre with two classic behind-the-scenes comedies, The Critic and The Real Inspector Hound. First, playwright and adaptor Jeffrey Hatcher (The Government Inspector) returns with a fresh take on Richard Brinsley Sheridan’s 18th-century romp The Critic – a whirlwind comedy about bad theatre, worse playwrights…

Shakespeare Theatre Company at The Harman Center for the Arts.

Photo: Max Lyons

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and, worst of all, the critics. The meta-theatrical frenzy builds throughout from wacky antics and quick changes to an operatic burlesque as the company jumps from role to role. The laughs continue with Tom Stoppard’s absurdist tour-de-farce The Real Inspector Hound, an ingenious play-within-a-play in which two critics find themselves caught up as unsuspecting suspects while they watch a classic 1950s-style whodunit in the style of Agatha Christie. STC Artistic Director Michael Kahn brings together an ensemble cast to take on both shows – and multiple characters – for a night of chaos and comedy.

FEBRUARY 23 – MARCH 27, 2016Sidney Harman HallOTHELLOBy WILLIAM SHAKESPEAREDirected by RON DANIELS

INTERNATIONALLY ACCLAIMED DIRECTOR Ron Daniels joins STC to helm Othello, Shakespeare’s tale of jealousy, duplic-

ity, and destruction. Among the exotic airs and mysterious shadows of Cyprus, newly married and promoted Moorish general Othello finds himself the pawn in the manipulative games of his right-hand man, Iago. As his imagination is poisoned, Othello turns on his new bride Desdemona and his loyal lieutenant Cassio, and rapidly spirals from hero to murderer in one of Shakespeare’s

most haunting tragedies. Director Ron Daniels brings his sure hand with Shakespeare to Washington, D.C., having previously served as the associate artistic director of the American Reper-tory Theatre and as artistic director of the Royal Shakespeare

Ron Daniels.Photo courtesy of The Old Globe



Company’s The Other Place Theatre. He is an honorary associ-ate director at the RSC.

MARCH 8 – APRIL 10, 2016Lansburgh Theatre1984By GEORGE ORWELLAdapted by ROBERT ICKE AND DUNCAN MACMILLAN

APRIL, 1984. 13:00. Com-rade 6079, Winston Smith, thinks a thought, starts a diary, and falls in love. But Big Brother is watching him

– and the door to Room 101 can swing open in

the blink of an eye. George Orwell’s chilling vision of a dystopian future is brought to life in a radical multimedia production. Called “a brilliant retelling” by the Guardian, Headlong’s pro-duction of 1984 explores surveillance, identity, and the security state. See why Orwell’s 1949 novel of a totalitarian world – the definitive book of the 20th century – is as relevant now as ever, and particularly resonant in the political environment of Wash-ington, D.C.1984 joins Dunsinane as STC brings international presentations into the core mainstage season. This production was created by Headlong, an acclaimed U.K. theatre ensemble, with the support of the Nottingham Playhouse and The Almeida Theatre. Headlong’s work interrogates important cultural texts, previously tackling new productions of Faustus, King Lear, Me-dea, and Romeo and Juliet.

Headlong’s production of 1984 on London’s West End.Photo: Manuel Harlan


MAY 17 – JUNE 26, 2016Sidney Harman HallTHE TAMING OF THE SHREWBy WILLIAM SHAKESPEAREDirected by ED SYLVANUS ISKANDAR

DIRECTOR ED SYLVANUS ISKANDAR brings his unique, interactive style to D.C. with a provocative new approach to The Taming of the Shrew. This all-male, gender-blurred produc-tion explores the complex machinations of Kate and Petruchio’s relationship. Known for his epic and immersive works, Iskandar examines identity, authenticity, and gender roles within one of Shakespeare’s most notorious texts. The Founding Artistic Director of Exit, Pursued by a Bear, Iskandar creates socially immersive theatre through performance labs and salons, and plans to extend the world of The Taming of Shrew from the stage into the lobbies of Sidney Harman Hall.


Ed Sylvanus Iskandar.Photo: Chester Higgins Jr./The New York Times



TICKETS & CONTACTShakespeare Theatre CompanyLansburgh Theatre450 7th Street, NWWashington, DC 20004

Sidney Harman Hall610 F Street, NWWashington, DC 20004

(202) 547-1122 www.shakespearetheatre.org


WASHINGTON, D.C.’S THE-ATER scene was dominated by large venues that presented mostly traditional plays. Few theaters dared to take the risk of producing new work, and even fewer produced lesser known or new musicals. Today, Signature Theatre broadens and bright-ens the region’s cultural landscape with its bold productions of challenging new and established works. Musical theater is Signature’s “signature,” and the Theatre is renowned for its definitive Sondheim productions, inventive adaptations of over-looked or forgotten works, and investment in fresh new projects.

Signature Theatre exterior. Photo: Scott Suchman

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DECEMBER 8, 2015 – JANUARY 24, 2016WEST SIDE STORYBook by ARTHUR LAURENTSMusic by LEONARD BERNSTEIN Lyrics by STEPHEN SONDHEIMDirected by MATTHEW GARDINER

CONSIDERED ONE OF the greatest musicals of all time, West Side Story makes its triumphant Signature debut. In the late 1950s two rival gangs struggle for control of their West Side New York City neighborhood. Amidst the chaos, star-crossed lovers find themselves wrenched between their worlds. Beauti-ful, passionate, with shades of violence and heartache, this innovative adaptation of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet still dazzles after more than fifty years. Written by the dream creative team of Leonard Bernstein, Arthur Laurents, and Stephen Sondheim, West Side Story’s legendary jazz, Latin, and classical-inspired score features the treasured songs “Some-thing’s Coming,” “Tonight,” “I Feel Pretty” and “America.”

JANUARY 8 – FEBRUARY 7, 2016GEORGIE: THE LIFE AND DEATH OF GEORGE ROSEWritten and Performed by ED DIXON

IT’S ALL ABOUT the story, George Rose would instruct fellow actor Ed Dixon over the course of their 20-year friendship. And boy, did Georgie have quite a story. In this “giddy, humor-ous celebration” (The New York Times), Dixon (Sunset Boulevard, Cloak & Dagger) chronicles his relationship with his friend and mentor, the Tony Award-winning character actor George Rose (The Mystery of Edwin Drood, My Fair Lady, Pi-

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Ed Dixon. Photo: Danny Ghitis/The New York Times


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rates of Penzance). A bon-vivant with a flair for the dramatic and the eccentric, Rose starred on Broadway and London stages alongside luminaries like Katherine Hepburn, Noel Cow-ard, Dame Edith Evans, Richard Burton, and Laurence Olivier in a storied career that met an ignoble end. Filled with “witty reminiscences” and “tantalizing us with anecdotes, snippets of song and dance and Dixon’s pitch perfect impersonations of the colorful and famous” (Berkshire On Stage), Georgie is a one-man, one-act play that is as hilarious as it is poignant and powerful.

FEBRUARY 9 – MARCH 12, 2016ROAD SHOWMusic and Lyrics by STEPHEN SONDHEIMBook by JOHN WEIDMANDirected by GARY GRIFFIN

THE THIRD COLLABORATION between Weidman and Sond-heim (Assassins, Pacific Overtures), Road Show is a freewheel-ing musical travelogue of the optimism and opportunism of the early twentieth century through the eyes of two ambitious, eccentric, yet playfully charming brothers. Based on the real-life Mizner siblings, Road Show follows the dreamer and the schemer’s quest for the ever elusive, shape-shifting American dream. From the Klondike gold rush to India, Hawaii, Guatema-la, New York, and finally the real-estate boon of Florida’s Boca Raton, the dazzling pace scours not only the map, but also forty years of boom-and-bust and brotherly love (or hate).

MARCH 1 – APRIL 17, 2016THE FLICKBy ANNIE BAKERDirected by JOE CALARCO

SET IN THE POPCORN-STREWN, empty aisles of a crumbling Massachusetts movie theater, this 2014 Pulitzer Prize winner exposes the surprising tenderness and comedy in the everyday. Spilled soda on the floor. Leftover food wrappers stashed in the seats. Three minimum wage employees perform the humdrum


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labor necessary to keep one of the last 35-millimeter projectors running. Through seemingly small conversations about movie actors, broom techniques, and weekend plans, the characters

divulge heartbreak, hopes, and a compelling story all their own. With her finely-tuned comic eye, Annie Baker (Circle Mir-ror Transformation, The Aliens) brings a rich humanity to three people who desperately strive

to connect, help each other move on, and accept their place in the world.

APRIL 5 – MAY 8, 2016THE MYSTERY OF LOVE & SEXBy BATHSHEBA DORAN

FROM ONE OF the writers of HBO’s Boardwalk Empire and Showtime’s Masters of Sex comes an unexpected love story of evolving friendship, finding your own path, and the value of family. Complete opposites, Charlotte and Jonny have been best friends since they were children. Now, as college students on the eve of graduation, they toy around with taking their friend-ship romantic. Or not. Why decide? After all, neither is sure they are even attracted to the other (or anyone of the opposite sex). Meanwhile, Charlotte’s parents, an unlikely couple themselves, push the kids for a definition even while their own relation-ship founders. Gradually, secrets and truths emerge as playing grown-up turns into actually growing up.

Funny, insightful, with an intense and complex core, Bathsheba Doran’s (Nest) newest play brilliantly examines intimacy, iden-tity, and, of course, the many mysteries of love and sex.

Louisa Krause and Aaron Clifton Moten in Annie Baker’s The Flick.Photo: Sara Krulwich/The New York Times


APRIL 19 – 23, 2016THE RAT PACK

THEY WERE THE coolest cats of all time. In the vein of the legendary crooners Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis, Jr. and Dean Martin, three suave Signature gentlemen take the stage for a sophisticated evening of ballads, booze, and banter. Featur-ing classic songs from the ‘50s and ‘60s such as “King of the Road,” “That’s Amore,” and “I’ve Gotta Be Me.”

MAY 31 – JULY 10, 2016LA CAGE AUX FOLLESMusic and Lyrics by JERRY HERMANBook by HARVEY FIERSTEINBased on the Play by JEAN POIRETDirected by MATTHEW GARDINER

THE BELOVED GENDER-BENDING musical comedy and win-ner of six Tony Awards including Best Musical closes out the

Signature season starring Bobby Smith. The twenty-year relationship between Georges, a club-owner, and Albin, the head drag performer, faces a test when their son announc-es his engagement to the daughter of ultra-conservative political parents. To

please their son, Georges and Albin agree to hide their lifestyle and play it straight for a dinner with the potential in-laws. However, Albin’s different definition of “normal” threatens to upend the entire supper with hilarious results. With an iconic score by Jerry Herman (Hello, Dolly!; Mame) featuring “I Am

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Bobby Smith.Photo: courtesy of Signature Theatre


What I Am” and “The Best of Times” and hilarious book by Harvey Fierstein (Newsies, Kinky Boots), La Cage Aux Folles is a fabulously fun musical about family, identity, and loving who you are.

JUNE 14 – 18, 2016MAKE ‘EM LAUGH

IN A HILARIOUS MIX of improv and song, Signature’s funni-est ladies and gents come together for a whirlwind expedition through the art of the joke. From humorous rewritings of classic songs, to comedy ditties, to some of contemporary musical the-ater’s whimsical gems, Signature has one goal for this cabaret – to make you laugh!

TICKETS & CONTACTSignature Theatre4200 Campbell AvenueArlington, VA 22206(571) 527-1880 (General)(703) 820-9771 (Tickets)www.signature-theatre.org

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The Music Center at Strathmore. Photo courtesy of BSO

Strathmore

LOCATED ONE-HALF mile outside the Capital Beltway in North Bethesda, Maryland, Strathmore provides affordable, accessible, multi-disciplinary arts programming in the Mansion at Strathmore, the Music Center at Strathmore, and on its scenic 11-acre site. Founded in 1981, the arts center presents a lively and diverse program of art exhibitions, concerts and performing arts programs, and literary lectures and events. High-quality arts programming, designed for audiences of many tastes, served with the hospitality and warmth of a family enterprise, are the hallmarks of Strathmore. Seasonal outdoor events seek to be inclusive in their program-ming appeal, reaching out to people of all ages, interests, and cultural heritage.

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JANUARY 13 & 27, 2016The MansionAIR: GRIFF KAZMIERCZAK

JANUARY 17, 2016The Music CenterSTEP AFRIKA! STEP XPLOSION

The MansionATLANTIC STRING QUARTET

JANUARY 20, 2016The MansionAIR WORKSHOP: GRIFF KAZMIERCZAK

JANUARY 21, 2016The MansionDUO DELORO

JANUARY 26, 2016The MansionHISTORIC HOME TOUR

JANUARY 29, 2016The Music CenterKRISTIN CHENOWETH

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Step Afrika! Photo: Enoch Chan


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FEBRUARY 3, 2016The Music CenterARLO GUTHRIE’S ALICE’S RESTAU-RANT 50TH ANNIVERSARY TOU

FEBRUARY 10 & 24, 2016The MansionAIR: BUMPER JACKSONS

FEBRUARY 11, 2016The MansionDÉNES VÁRJON, PIANO

FEBRUARY 14, 2016The Music CenterALAN CUMMING SINGS SAPPY SONGS

FEBRUARY 17, 2016The MansionAIR WORKSHOP: BUMPER JACKSONS

FEBRUARY 18, 2016The MansionHISTORIC HOME TOUR

The MansionDAN TEPFER’S ACOUSTIC INFORMATICS

Arlo Guthrie.Photo courtesy of Rising Son Records

Dan Tepfer.Photo: Jeremy Sailing


FEBRUARY 25, 2016The MansionNICOLAS ALTSTAEDT, CELLO

MARCH 1, 2016The Music CenterPATTY GRIFFIN, SARA WATKINS & ANAÏS MITCHELL

MARCH 3, 2016The MansionFLAMENCO WORKSHOP WITH FLAMENCO VIVO

The Music CenterNATALIE COLE

MARCH 4, 2016The Music CenterFLAMENCO VIVO: POEMA DE ANDALUCÍA

MARCH 6, 2016The Music CenterANNAPOLIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

MARCH 9 & 23, 2016The MansionAIR: CASSANDRA ALLEN

MARCH 10, 2016The MansionMISCHA BOUVIER, BARITONE

MARCH 16, 2016The MansionAIR WORKSHOP: CASSANDRA ALLEN

Strathmore

Flamenco Vivo.Photo: Angelica Escoto


MARCH 17, 2016The MansionARTS & THE BRAIN: ART THERAPY & PTSD

MARCH 18, 2016The Music CenterACADEMY OF ST. MARTIN IN THE FIELDS WITH JOSHUA BELL

MARCH 20, 2016The Music CenterMCYO OF STRATHMORE: EFFLORES-CENCE

MARCH 24, 2016The MansionHISTORIC HOME TOUR

The Music CenterTHE PEKING ACROBATS

The MansionWARD-KONG DUO

MARCH 31, 2016The MansionARTS & THE BRAIN: GEORGE GERSHWIN

APRIL 1, 2016The Music CenterMETROPOLITAN OPERA: RISING STARS CONCERT SERIES

APRIL 6, 2016The Music CenterJOHNNY MATHIS

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Joshua Bell.Photo: Marc Hom


APRIL 7, 2016The MansionARTS & THE BRAIN: DANCE & MOVEMENT

APRIL 7 & 8, 2016The Music CenterPATTI LABELLE

APRIL 13 & 27, 2016The MansionAIR: JAN KNUTSON

APRIL 14, 2016The MansionGREG SANDOW

APRIL 15 & 16, 2016The Music CenterCAROL BURNETT

APRIL 20, 2016The MansionAIR WORKSHOP: JAN KNUTSON

APRIL 21, 2016The MansionENSEMBLE SCHUMANN

Strathmore

Patti Labelle. Courtesy of artist


APRIL 22, 2016The MansionHISTORIC HOME TOUR

APRIL 23 & 24, 2016The Music CenterI AM ANNE HUTCHINSON / I AM HARVEY MILK

APRIL 27, 2016The Music CenterSFJAZZ COLLECTIVE

APRIL 28, 2016The Music CenterANA MOURA

MAY 5, 2016

The MansionARTS & BRAIN: IMPROV AS A TOOL

MAY 11 & 25, 2016The MansionAIR: KIMBERLY KONG

MAY 12, 2016The MansionHISTORIC HOME TOUR

The MansionARTS & THE BRAIN: WRITING TO HEAL

MAY 18, 2016The MansionAIR WORKSHOP: KIMBERLY KONG

Strathmore

SFJAZZ Collective. Photo: Jay Blakesberg


MAY 19, 2016The MansionTODD MARCUS QUINTET

MAY 25, 2016The Music CenterMCYO OF STRATHMORE’S PLATINUM CELEBRATION

JUNE 8, 2016The MansionSTRATHMORE CHILDREN’S CHORUS MEETS THE BEATLES

JUNE 15, 2016The MansionAIR: BE STEADWELL

JUNE 16, 2016The MansionHISTORIC HOME TOUR

JUNE 22 & 29, 2016The MansionAIR WORKSHOP: BE STEADWELL

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Strathmore Children’s Chorus. Photo courtesy of the Strathmore


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TICKETS & CONTACTThe Music Center at Strathmore5301 Tuckerman LaneNorth Bethesda, MD 20852

The Mansion at Strathmore10701 Rockville PikeNorth Bethesda, MD 20852

(301) 581-5100 www.strathmore.org


A LIVING MEMORIAL to the Holocaust, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum inspires citizens and leaders worldwide to confront hatred, prevent genocide, and pro-mote human dignity. Located among our national monuments to freedom on the National Mall, the Museum provides a power-ful lesson in the fragility of freedom, the myth of progress, and the need for vigilance in preserving democratic values. With unique power and authenticity, the Museum teaches millions of people each year about the dangers of unchecked hatred and the need to prevent genocide. And we encourage them to act, cultivating a sense of moral responsibility among our citizens so that they will respond to the monumental challenges that confront our world.

THE HOLOCAUSTPERMANENT EXHIBITION

THIS NARRATIVE HISTORY of the Holocaust features histori-cal artifacts, video footage, and personal stories. Passes are required March through August.

Visitors to the Museum pass under this gate, a cast taken from the original entrance to the Auschwitz death camp, inscribed with the ironic phrase Arbeit

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SOME WERE NEIGHBORS: COLLABORATION & COMPLICITY IN THE HOLOCAUSTONGOING

THIS SPECIAL EXHIBITION explores how countless ordinary people, from all walks of life and influenced by a spectrum of motives and pressures, acted in ways that directly or indirectly aided the persecution and murder of Jews and other groups within Nazi Germany and across Europe.

CAMBODIA 1975–1979ONGOING

FOLLOWING YEARS OF civil war, the fanatical communist Khmer Rouge forces captured Cambodia’s capital city, Phnom Penh, on April 17, 1975, and seized control of the govern-ment. During the next three years, eight months, and 20 days, the regime instituted policies that led to the deaths of nearly two million Cambodians – at least a quarter of the country’s population – as it sought to radically restructure the nation. Cambodia 1975–1979 examines the murderous actions taken by the Khmer Rouge to establish their new state, “Democratic Kampuchea,” as a self-sustaining farm-based society, free from outside influence. With historical photographs, film, and con-temporary artworks depicting the terror, this exhibition surveys one of the worst human tragedies of the second half of the 20th century.

Exhibition view of Cambodia 1975–1979. US Holocaust Memorial Museum



“I WANT JUSTICE!”ONGOING

SINCE THE HOLOCAUST, national and international organi-zations have struggled to build a foundation of laws, courts, and legal procedures to hold accountable perpetrators of the world’s worst crimes. In bringing Nazi leaders to trial, the postwar military tribunals in Nuremberg helped to identify crimes perpetrated in the Holocaust era, define charges against individual suspects, judge the accused, and punish the guilty. These precedents continue to shape our understanding of such crimes and how the world seeks to hold perpetrators of mass atrocities accountable. “I Want Justice!” explores the history of efforts to hold perpetrators of genocide and mass atrocities ac-countable through court proceedings, from the Nuremberg tri-als to the ongoing trials in Cambodia of surviving Khmer Rouge leaders most responsible for the crimes against the Cambodian populace between 1975 and 1979. It also looks at ways Cam-bodian survivors are seeking other forms of “justice” – personal, cultural, historical – as they continue to struggle with the legacy of the murderous Khmer Rouge era.

FROM MEMORY TO ACTION: MEETING THE CHALLENGE OF GENOCIDEONGOING

THIS PRESENTATION EXPLORES three genocides that have occurred since the Holocaust: in Rwanda (1994), in Bosnia-Herzegovina (1995), and in the Darfur region of Sudan (2003 to its peak in 2005). Visitors are encouraged to leave a pledge of personal action against genocide and join the Museum’s e-community engaged in its efforts to prevent genocide.

REMEMBER THE CHILDREN: DANIEL’S STORYONGOING

REPRESENTING THE EXPERIENCES of many Jewish children during the Nazi era, “Daniel” narrates through his diary the history of the Holocaust in ways that children can understand.


Recreated environments present life in a middle-class German home, in a Jewish ghetto in occupied Poland, and finally at the Auschwitz concentration camp. The exhibition is explicit without being graphic. Recommended for ages 8 and above.

GENOCIDE: THE THREAT CONTINUESONGOING

VIEW THE EFFORTS of the Museum’s Center for the Prevention of Genocide to bring attention to the people and places at risk today for genocide and other mass atrocities. The exhibit cur-rently focuses on the deadly conflict in Syria, which has created one of the worst humanitarian crises of our time.

A DANGEROUS LIE: THE PROTOCOLS OF THE ELDERS OF ZIONONGOING

A DANGEROUS LIE explores the continuing impact of the most widely distributed antisemitic publication of modern times, The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. Despite countless exposures of the Protocols as a hoax, its fraudulent allegations of a Jewish conspiracy to dominate the world have retained incredible pow-er for both individuals and groups who seek to spread hatred of Jews. Accompanying the exhibition is a 13-minute film that chronicles antisemitism in Europe before the Holocaust.

Exhibition view of Remember the Children: Daniel’s Story. US Holocaust Memorial Museum



TICKETS & CONTACTUnited States Holocaust Memorial Museum100 Raoul Wallenberg Place, SWWashington, DC 20024(202) 488-0400www.ushmm.org



Members of the Washington Ballet perform.

Photo: Brianne Bland

The Washington Ballet

ORIGINALLY FOUNDED AS The Washington School of Ballet in 1944 by legendary ballet pioneer Mary Day, The Washington Ballet (TWB) was incorporated as a professional company in 1976 and is one of the pre-eminent ballet organizations in the United States. TWB has built an in-ternational reputation presenting bold works by choreographers from around the world, and with its first artist-in-residence, Choo-San Goh, set the tone for the company’s emergence as a powerhouse among national ballet companies. Contemporary pieces by Christopher Wheeldon, Mark Morris, Twyla Tharp, William Forsythe, and Nacho Duato expanded the repertoire, as did Neoclassical masterworks and fresh interpretations of 19th century classics.

FEBRUARY 24 – 28, 2016John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing ArtsDIRECTOR’S CUT

DARING WORKS BY William Forsythe, Annabelle Lopez Ochoa, and Septime Webre that redefine the boundaries of classical ballet. The program includes a collection of short dance films. Also, a site-specific work in collaboration with Transformer, one of D.C.’s emerging artist catalysts.

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Ballet Austin performing Stephen Mills’s Hamlet. Photo: Tony Spielberg

MARCH 23 – APRIL 3, 2016John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing ArtsSTEPHEN MILLS’S HAMLET

SLEEK AND ELEGANT with contemporary staging and performed to the spellbind-ing music of Philip Glass, Stephen Mills’s Hamlet redefines this tragic master-work and the limits of dance in a modern production that presents Hamlet’s internal struggle over avenging his father’s murder in an inno-vative and riveting reinven-tion of this literary classic.

APRIL 13 – 17, 2016John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing ArtsCARMINA BURANA & BALANCHINE’S THEME AND VARIATIONS

THIS THRILLING TWB work returns to the TWB repertoire after an absence of ten years. A powerful and exciting interpretation of Carl Orff’s raucous retelling of 24 medieval poems praising springtime, love, lust, and fortune. This hymn to the pleasures of life, youth, and beauty under the watchful eye of the powerful goddess of fate is an iconic work: nothing equals the power of this sacred and profane work performed live in its entirety. A visual and auditory celebration of strong rhythmic and stylistic musical variation beautifully reinterpreted as a contemporary dance classic.



MAY 4 – 15, 2016John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing ArtsBOWIE & QUEEN

DANCE AT ITS most glam-o-rock-ous! A full-throttle evening of entertainment that combines the artistry and beauty of dance with the power of the world’s most innovative popular rock icons who defined an epoch and became fixtures in American pop culture. Bowie is Ziggy Stardust. Queen is killer.

MAY 21 & 22, 2016THEARC TheaterCOPPÉLIA

A CHARMING AND amusing ballet about an eccentric dollmak-er, Dr. Coppelius, and his yearning to create a doll with a soul.

JUNE 25 & 26, 2016Imagination StageTHE LITTLE MERMAID

WINNER OF A Helen Hayes Award, TWB and Imagination Stage recreate the Hans Christian Andersen classic in this enduring tale of the power of love. A production that will warm the hearts of all ages.

TICKETS & CONTACTThe Washington Ballet3515 Wisconsin AvenueWashington, DC 20016(202) 362-3606 (General)(202) 362-3606 ext. 605 (Tickets)www.washingtonballet.org


The Washington Chorus performs at the Kennedy Center.

Photo: Margot Schulman

The Washington Chorus

THE WASHINGTON CHORUS (TWC) is noted for its critically acclaimed performances and recordings of the entire range of the choral repertoire. A Grammy Award winner and a cultural leader in the Washington area, The Washington Chorus is concluding its 54th season. The Chorus presents an annual subscription series at the Kennedy Center, the Music Center at Strathmore, and other major venues throughout the Washing-ton, D.C. area. In addition the Chorus has sung for national and international audiences and appeared at the invitation of leading orchestras including the National Symphony Orchestra and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra.


The Washington Chorus

FEBRUARY 28, 2016, 5:00 P.M.NEW MUSIC FOR A NEW AGEMATT HAIMOVITZ, CelloLUNA PEARL WOOLF, Various works

MAY 1, 2016, 5:00 P.M.Kennedy Center Concert HallPARISIAN SPRINGTHIERRY ESCAICH, OrganDURUFLÉ, RequiemVIERNE, “Kyrie” from Messe SolennelleFAURÉ, Cantique de Jean RacineWACHNER, At the Lighting of the LampsFAURÉ, Messe des pêcheurs de Villerville

TICKETS & CONTACTThe Washington Chorus2801 Upton Street, NWWashington, DC 20008(202) 342-6221 www.thewashingtonchorus.org

Thierry Escaich. Photo: Guy Vivien


The Washington National Orchestra performs Nabucco.

Photo: Scott Suchman

Washington National Opera

IN 1956, THE sound of opera rang out in D.C., heralding the birth of a new company. Four decades and countless artistic leaps later, Washington National Opera continues to move boldly forward on the great adventure that began years ago in a university auditorium. Washington National Opera is now one of the nation’s leading opera com-panies and plays to standing room audiences in the Kennedy Center. Recent seasons have continued the traditions set by the founders of WNO, offering performances by the greatest talents the opera world has to offer, in works beloved and unfamiliar. WNO’s commitment to nurturing the future of the art form manifests itself in the celebrated Domingo-Cafritz Young Artist Program and the annual Opera in the Outfield event, in which a production is simulcast for free to Nationals Park. These programs, along with the considerable work and outreach of the Education Department continue to broaden the public’s awareness and understanding of opera, and cultivate the next generation of opera stars and supporters of the arts.


JANUARY 8 & 9, 2016AMERICAN OPERA INITIATIVE – NEW HOUR-LONG OPERA: BETTER GODSMusic by LUNA PEARL WOOLFLibretto by CAITLIN VINCENTDirected by ETHAN MCSWEENYConducted by TIMOTHY MYERS

TOLD THROUGH THE eyes of an American journalist, Bet-ter Gods is the story of Queen Lili’uokalani, the last reigning monarch of Hawaii, who refused to renounce her faith and fought to preserve her people’s native culture when the island was annexed to the U.S. more than a century ago. Exploring a dark chapter of American history, this emotional and moving opera leads us to question the morality of our actions taken in the name of progress.

FEBRUARY 12 – 20, 2016LOST IN THE STARSBy KURT WEILLDirected by TAZEWELL THOMPSONConducted by JOHN DEMAINFeaturing ERIC OWENS

FOLLOWING HIS TURN as WNO’s The Flying Dutch-man, renowned bass-baritone Eric Owens stars in Kurt Weill’s final work for the stage, a gripping musical trag-edy based on Alan Paton’s classic 1948 novel Cry, the Beloved Country. Owens returns to the role of Stephen Kumalo, a minister in apartheid-era South Africa who travels from his small village to Johan-


Eric Owens. Photo: Dario Acosta



nesburg to find his troubled son. When his own flesh and blood accidentally kills the son of a white neighbor, the reverend is suddenly faced with a crisis of faith. Amidst growing racial tensions, he fights to keep his family together, lead his alarmed congregation, and reconcile his own shaken notions of mercy and hope. Merging influences from Broadway, gospel, African spirituals, jazz, and blues, Lost in the Stars soars with thrilling operatic passages, including the haunting title number.

FEBRUARY 26, 2016, 7:00 P.M.LEAH CROCETTO IN RECITAL

FOLLOWING HER WNO debut in Dialogues of the Carmel-ites, Leah Crocetto returns for an intimate evening of stories and song. The rising star soprano “has revealed herself as a major operatic star” (The San Francisco Chronicle).

APRIL 30 – MAY 17, 2016RING CYCLE: THE RHINEGOLDBy RICHARD WAGNERDirected by FRANCESCA ZAMBELLOConducted by PHILIPPE AUGUIN

THE EPIC STORY of the Ring begins on the banks of the Rhine, where three maidens guard the river’s magical gold. If forged into a ring, this sacred treasure gives its bearer unimaginable abilities – but at the cost of renouncing love forever. Alberich, a cunning dwarf, futilely tries to seduce the Rhinemaidens. An-gered by their scorn, he steals the precious metal and retreats to the underworld, commanding his slaves to begin molding his means to world domination. Meanwhile, Wotan, the king of the gods, must repay the giants Fasolt and Fafner for their construction of Valhalla, an opulent new fortress for his fellow immortals, among them his long-suffering wife Fricka. Working with the fire spirit Loge and Alberich’s sly brother Mime, Wotan conspires to seize the ring and settle his debt. But beware the dwarf’s curse: if the ring is taken from him, jealousy, despair, and even death will befall all who possess it.


MAY 2 – 18, 2016RING CYCLE: THE VALKYRIEBy RICHARD WAGNERDirected by FRANCESCA ZAMBELLOConducted by PHILIPPE AUGUIN

IN THE RING’S exhilarating second chapter, Wotan realizes the limits of his authority, as his offspring boldly test his will. He strives to undo the ring’s curse by fathering children with a mortal woman. On the run and weaponless, his pure-of-heart son Siegmund finds himself attracted to Sieglinde – not only the wife of his sworn enemy Hunding, but also his unrecognized twin sister, from whom he was separated at birth. If Siegmund can wrest a fabled sword from a giant tree, the duo will know they are meant to be together. But their forbidden love outrages Fricka, who demands that Wotan’s daughter Brünnhilde – a Valkyrie warrior maiden – let Siegmund die in battle against Hunding. A compassionate Brünnhilde is torn between obeying orders and preventing Siegmund’s demise. While Sieglinde’s unborn child awaits a grander destiny, Brünnhilde is faced with a chilling fate: an enchanted sleep encircled by fire, broken only by the kiss of a great hero.

MAY 4 – 20, 2016RING CYCLE: SIEGFRIEDBy RICHARD WAGNERDirected by FRANCESCA ZAMBELLOConducted by PHILIPPE AUGUIN

THE THIRD BREATHTAKING opera in the Ring Cycle is a coming-of-age story at heart. Wotan’s hope for recovery of the ring now rests with his grandson Siegfried. A generation has passed, and Siegmund and Sieglinde’s son has been raised in the wilderness by the conniving Mime. Hoping to gain the ring from the giant Fafner, now a fearsome dragon, Mime plots to enlist valiant Siegfried for the cause, but then poison the young man once victorious. Siegfried re-forges the fragments of his father’s magical sword and sets out to slay the beast. But what




of this mysterious sleeping woman, foretold to him by a forest bird’s song? His courage to find her and escape his wicked caretaker is tested by Wotan, now the fallen Wanderer. Siegfried must brave the circle of flames to try and wake the beautiful Brünnhilde. Their star-crossed love could bring them a life of bliss – but with irrevocable mortal consequences.

MAY 6 – 22, 2016RING CYCLE: TWILIGHT OF THE GODSBy RICHARD WAGNERDirected by FRANCESCA ZAMBELLOConducted by PHILIPPE AUGUIN

THE RING REACHES its supreme climax in this final saga of valor and sacrifice, greed and betrayal, destruction and renew-al. As a token of their sacred union, Siegfried gives Brünnhilde the ring and sets off for new adventures. Along his journey, he meets self-serving siblings Gunther and Gutrune along with Hagen, Alberich’s son. Scheming to secure the ring, Hagen employs a magic potion to trick Siegfried into marrying another woman and abandoning a heartbroken Brünnhilde. Siegfried realizes the catastrophic deception, but is he too late? Torn between revenge and despair, and with the ring in hand, Brünnhilde makes one final, shocking choice to reclaim her true love. As she sets the night ablaze and lets the flames begin to surround her, she prays her plan will return their cursed treasure back to the Rhinemaidens, restore the universe to its natural order, and put an end to the era of the gods forever.

TICKETS & CONTACTThe John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts2700 F Street, NWWashington, DC 20566(202) 467-4600www.kennedy-center.org/wno


Washington Performing Arts Society presents the Dresden Staatskapelle at

the Kennedy Center. Photo: Philip Kennicott

Washington Performing Arts Society

FOR MORE THAN four decades, Washington Performing Arts Society has created profound opportunities for connecting the community to artists, in both education and performance. Through live events in venues that criss-cross the landscape of the D.C. metropolitan area, the careers of emerging artists are guided, and established artists who have a close relationship with local audiences are invited to return. In this way, the space between artists and audiences is eliminated, so that all may share life-long opportunities to deepen their cultural knowledge, enrich their lives, and expand their understanding and compassion for the world through the universal language of the arts. Washington Performing Arts is one of the leading presenters in the nation. The organization’s inherent belief in the complete spectrum of the arts is revealed in performances of the highest quality, including classical mu-sic, jazz, gospel, contemporary dance, international music and art forms, and works that bend genres in provocative ways.


JANUARY 9, 2016, 8:00 P.M.Sixth and I Historic SynagogueAMERICAN SPIRITUAL ENSEMBLE

JANUARY 20, 2016, 7:00 P.M.Kennedy Center Terrace TheaterALYSON CAMBRIDGE, SOPRANO

JANUARY 24, 2016, 6:00 P.M.Church of the EpiphanyBEETHOVEN: STRING QUARTET NO. 1

JANUARY 28, 2016, 7:00 P.M.Kennedy Center Terrace TheaterCHAD HOOPES, VIOLIN

JANUARY 30, 2016Kennedy Center Terrace Theater, 2:00 P.M.BEHZOD ABDURAIMOV, PIANO

Sidney Harman Hall, 8:00 P.M.SPECTRUM DANCE

JANUARY 31, 2016, 4:00 P.M.Kennedy Center Concert HallORCHESTRE NATIONAL DE FRANCE

American Spiritual Ensemble. Photo: Jonathan Palmer



FEBRUARY 6, 2016Kennedy Center Ter-race Theater, 2:00 P.M.PEDJA MUZIJEVIC, PIANO

Sixth and I Historic Synagogue, 8:00 P.M.BROOKLYN RIDER

FEBRUARY 11, 2016, 7:00 P.M.Kennedy Center Terrace TheaterMARINA PICCININI, FLUTE

FEBRUARY 13, 2016Kennedy Center Terrace Theater, 2:00 P.M.LEON FLEISHER: MASTER CLASS

Sixth and I Historic Synagogue, 8:00 P.M.ROOMFUL OF TEETH/ACME

FEBRUARY 15, 2016, 8:00 P.M.Kennedy Center Concert HallBUDAPEST FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA

FEBRUARY 20, 2016, 8:00 P.M.Kennedy Center Concert HallCHRIS BOTTI

FEBRUARY 21, 2016Church of the Epiphany, 6:00 P.M.HAYDN: SYMPHONY NO. 104, “LONDON”

Kennedy Center Concert Hall, 7:00 P.M.MLK TRIBUTE CONCERT


Brooklyn Rider. Photo: Sarah Small


FEBRUARY 24, 2016, 8:00 P.M.The Music Center at StrathmoreANDRÁS SCHIFF, PIANO

FEBRUARY 28, 2016, 2:00 P.M.Kennedy Center TerraceTheaterCALDER QUARTET

MARCH 13, 2016, 6:00 P.M.Church of the EpiphanyCOLE PORTER SONGBOOK

MARCH 14, 2016, 7:00 P.M.Kennedy Center Concert HallMONTREAL SYMPHONY

MARCH 20, 2016, 4:00 P.M.Kennedy Center Concert HallSIR JAMES GALWAY, FLUTE

MARCH 26, 2016, 2:00 P.M.Kennedy Center Terrace TheaterJOSEPH MOOG, PIANO

MARCH 31, 2016, 8:00 P.M.Washington ConservatoryFEDER COMPETITION AWARDSAPRIL 1, 2016, 8:00 P.M.GWU Lisner AuditoriumANOUSHKA SHANKAR,

SITARAPRIL 12, 2016, 8:00 P.M.Kennedy Center Concert

Hall BAVARIAN RADIO SYMPHONY


András Schiff. Photo: Nadia F. Romanini/ECM Records

Anoushka Shankar. Photo: Fadil Berisha


APRIL 13, 2016, 8:00 P.M.Kennedy Center Concert HallYO-YO MA AND EMANUEL AX

APRIL 16, 2016Kennedy Center Concert Hall, 4:00 P.M.SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY

Sidney Harman Hall, 8:00 P.M.NEXT: ISRAEL 2.0

APRIL 17, 2016, 1:00 P.M.Kennedy Center Concert HallZAKIR HUSSAIN

APRIL 19, 2016, 8:00 P.M.The Music Center at StrathmoreHILARY HAHN, VIOLIN

APRIL 20, 2016, 8:00 P.M.Sixth and I Historic SynagogueBRAD MEHLDAU TRIO

APRIL 24, 2016, 7:00 P.M.Kennedy Center Terrace TheaterANTOINE TAMESTIT, VIOLA

MAY 1, 2016The Music Center at Strathmore, 4:00 P.M.MURRAY PERAHIA, PIANOThe Lincoln Theatre, 5:00 P.M.CHILDREN OF THE GOSPEL


Brad Mehldau. Photo: Michael Wilson


MAY 7, 2016, 2:00 P.M.Kennedy Center Terrace TheaterYURY SHADRIN & TIAN LU, PIANOS

MAY 10, 2016, 7:00 P.M.Kennedy Center Concert HallITZHAK PERLMAN & EMANUEL AX

MAY 22, 2016, 4:00 P.M.The Music Center at StrathmoreSIMONE DINNERSTEIN, PIANO

TICKETS & CONTACTWPAS2000 L Street, NW, Suite 510Washington, DC 20036(202) 785-9727www.wpas.org


Simone Dinnerstein. Photo: Lisa-Marie Mazzucco


FOUNDED IN 1846, the Smithsonian is the world’s largest museum and re-search complex, consisting of 19 museums and galleries, the National Zoological Park, and nine research facilities. Termed “the nation’s attic” for its eclectic holdings of 137 million items, the Institution’s Washing-ton, D.C., nucleus is the largest such complex in the world. The Institution’s thirty million annual visitors are admitted without charge; funding comes from the Institution’s own endowment, pri-vate and corporate contributions, membership dues, government support, and retail, concession, and licensing revenues.

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AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY AND CULTURE MUSEUM

THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY and Culture was established in 2003 by an Act of Congress, making it the 19th Smithsonian Institution museum. It is the only national museum devoted exclusively to the docu-mentation of African American life, art, history, and culture. It is expected to open in fall 2016.

OPENING IN FALL 2016

CONTACTNational Museum of African American History and CultureSecond Floor, East Wing14th Street and Constitution Avenue, NWWashington, DC 20001(202) 633-1000

AFRICAN ART MUSEUM

EXHIBITS THE FINEST EXAMPLES of traditional and contem-porary art from the entire continent of Africa.

ARTISTS’ BOOKS AND AFRICASEPTEMBER 16, 2015 – SEPTEMBER 11, 2016

AFRICAN ARTISTS ARE experimenting with the genre of artists’ books, while international artists are exploring African themes in theirs. Artists’ Books and Africa is the first exhibition to focus on African artists books from the Smithsonian Libraries’ Warren M. Robbins Library and the National Museum of African Art.




CONVERSATIONS: AFRICAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN ARTWORKS IN DIALOGUENOVEMBER 9, 2014 – JANUARY 24, 2016

IN CELEBRATION OF the 50th anniversary of the museum in 2014, this exhibition recognizes the museum’s unique history and its contributions towards furthering meaningful dialogue between Africa and the African diaspora.

AFRICAN MOSAIC: BUILDING A COLLECTIONONGOING

THE DIVERSITY AND outstanding quality of Africa’s arts are reflected in some 112 objects collected by the museum during the past 10 years.

THE WALT DISNEY-TISHMAN AFRICAN ART COLLECTION HIGH-LIGHTSONGOING

ON VIEW ARE OBJECTS from this comprehensive 525-piece collection of African art representing 20 African countries and 75 peoples and covers 5 centuries of African art.

CONTACTNational Museum of African Art950 Independence Avenue, SWWashington, DC 20560(202) 633-1000http://africa.si.edu

Art objects from Conversations: African and African American Artworks in Dialogue. Photo: Smithsonian Institution


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AIR AND SPACE MUSEUM

TWENTY-THREE GALLERIES exhibiting hundreds of aircraft, spacecraft, missiles, rockets, and other flight-related artifacts.

ART OF THE AIRPORT TOWERNOVEMBER 11, 2015 – NOVEMBER 2016

ART OF THE AIRPORT TOWER ex-plores contemporary and historic air traffic control towers in the United States and around the world. Smithson-ian photographer Carolyn Russo el-evates airport towers to beautiful objects of art, and symbols of technological change and cultural expression within the airport landscape.

TIME AND NAVIGATION: THE UNTOLD STORY OF GETTING FROM HERE TO THEREONGOING

THIS EXHIBITION REVEALS why a good clock is crucial to navi-gation – for 18th-century mariners to current-day GPS users – and how increasingly accurate timekeeping has influenced how we find our way.

CONTACTNational Air and Space MuseumIndependence Avenue at 6th Street, SWWashington, DC 20560(202) 633-2214http://airandspace.si.edu

Carolyn Russo. Dubai International Airport. Courtesy of Smithsonian Institution


AMERICAN ART MUSEUM

ARTWORKS – INCLUDING PAINTINGS, sculpture, photo-graphs, folk art, and decorative arts from the colonial period to today – offer an unparalleled record of the American experience.

IRVING PENN: BEYOND BEAUTYOCTOBER 23, 2015 – MARCH 20, 2016

SOME 160 PHOTOGRAPHS by Irving Penn demonstrate his legacy as a modern master and place him in the context of the contemporary moment.

THE MODERN PUEBLO PAINTINGS OF AWA TSIREHSEPTEMBER 4, 2015 – JANUARY 31, 2016

THE PAINTINGS OF Awa Tsireh (1898–1955), also known by his Spanish name, Alfonso Roybal, represent an encounter be-tween the art traditions of native Pueblo peoples in the South-western United States and the American modernist art style begun in New York, which spread quickly across the country.

MEASURED PERFECTION: HIRAM POWERS’ GREEK SLAVEJULY 3, 2015 – FEBRUARY 19, 2017

THIS ONE-GALLERY EXHIBITION reveals the inner workings of the studio of Hiram Powers (1805–1873), who was among the most innovative sculptors of the nineteenth century, eagerly adapting long-standing sculpture traditions to new technologies of his age.


Irving Penn, Salvador Dali, 1947. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the artist. Copyright © The Irving Penn Foundation


MARTIN PURYEAR: MULTIPLE DIMENSIONSMAY 27 – SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

MARTIN PURYEAR (B. 1945) is one of the leading sculptors of his generation, whose work is recognized internationally for its evocative forms and exquisite craftsmanship. The exhibition ex-plores reoccurring forms across time and medium in Puryear’s sculptures, drawings, and prints.

CROSSCURRENTS: MODERN ART FROM THE SAM ROSE AND JULIE WALTERS COLLECTIONOCTOBER 30, 2015 – APRIL 10, 2016

CROSSCURRENTS FEATURES STELLAR paintings and sculpture by major American artists Alexan-der Calder, David Hockney, Roy Lichtenstein, Georgia O’Keeffe,

Wayne Thiebaud and others alongside Euro-pean giants such as Pablo Picasso and Joan Miró.

CONTACTAmerican Art Museum8th and F Streets, NWWashington, DC 20004(202) 633-7970http://americanart.si.edu

AMERICAN HISTORY MUSEUM

DEVOTED TO THE SCIENTIFIC, cultural, social, technological, and political development of the United States.

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Georgia O’Keeffe, Hibiscus with Plumeria, 1939. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Partial and promised gift of Sam Rose and Julie Walters


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HART-CELLER ACTOCTOBER 2, 2015 – JANUARY 20, 2016

THE DISPLAY MARKS the 50th anniversary of the Act and among the selection of Latino-related artifacts are a child’s purse brought from Cuba in the early 1960s and a child’s shirt worn by a Cuban boy who was part of the Operation Pedro Pan that brought minors to the U.S. after Fidel Castro came to power; a United Farm Workers pin; and a 1960s record album by the first meringue band to release a U.S. record marketed to immigrants from the Dominican Republic.

ART POTTERY AND GLASS IN AMERICA, 1880S–1920SSEPTEMBER 25, 2015 – MARCH 2017

THE ARTS AND CRAFTS movement in America took hold just as the rising middle class began to realize its potential to purchase more con-sumer goods. Among the manufacturers

featured are the Steuben Glass Works, Phoenix Glass Company, Rook-

wood Pottery, Tiffany Glass and Decorating Company, Biloxi Art Pottery, Paul Revere Pottery, and Matt Morgan Art Pottery.

SCIENCE UNDER GLASSSEPTEMBER 11, 2015 – SEPTEMBER 2016

AN EXAMINATION OF our collection of scientific glassware, from the 1770s to the 1970s, reveals the underlying story of the growth of laboratory science in America.

Samples of American pottery, 1880–1920. Image courtesy of Smithsonian Institution


FANTASTIC WORLDS: SCIENCE FICTION, 1780–1910JULY 1, 2015 – FEBRUARY 26, 2017

TRAVEL WITH US to the surface of the moon, the center of the earth, and the depths of the ocean – to the fantastic worlds of fiction inspired by 19th-century discovery and invention.

THROUGH THE AFRICAN AMERICAN LENS: A PREVIEW OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY AND CULTUREMAY 8, 2015 – TBA

THESE ARTIFACTS DEMONSTRATE the richness and diversity of the African American experience and provide a preview of the themes and collections to be on view at the National Mu-seum of African American History and Culture.

THE NORIE MARINE ATLAS AND THE GUANO TRADELATE JANUARY – AUGUST 20, 2016

THIS DISPLAY WILL highlight John Norie’s unique Marine Atlas, a large bound book of sea charts dating to the early 19th century, within the historical context of the guano and nitrate trades, in which many of the swiftest and strongest American square-rigged sailing ships were employed.

FRANK SINATRA AT 100NOVEMBER 20, 2015 – APRIL 1, 2016

THE NATIONAL MUSEUM of American History will mark the centennial of one of the giants of the entertainment world, Frank Sinatra (1915–98), with a display focused on his popular music, jazz and motion picture career. This display will show-case Sinatra’s contributions to America’s songbook and film history through photographic portraits by Herman Leonard and archival photos from Director George Sidney’ s collection, sheet music, album covers and posters. The key artifacts illustrat-ing Sinatra’s career include the trench coat worn by him in the 1957 movie Pal Joey and bow ties made by his first wife,



Nancy, to throw to fans at concerts. A boom microphone of the type used by Sinatra will help visitors understand how he combined the “crooner” techniques of the band singer with the improvisational approach of the jazz musician, to produce

a unique sound that took him to the top of the charts and inspired and in-formed generations of singers.

GRAND PIANO MADE BY BLÜTHNER, LEIPZIG, GERMANY, 1900ONGOING

THIS PIANO HAS a version of the ornate Jubilee cast-iron plates Blüthner produced from 1898 to 1907.

CONTINUITY AND CHANGE: FIFTY YEARS OF MUSEUM HISTORYONGOING

EXPLORE THE MUSEUM’S TRANSFORMATION from a history and technology museum to one devoted to American history through images of key exhibitions and activities.

PLACES OF INVENTIONONGOING

WHAT IS IT ABOUT a particular place that excites a creative mind and sparks invention and innovation? Discover what can happen when the right mix of inventive people, ready resourc-es, and inspiring surroundings come together.

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Frank Sinatra. Image courtesy of Smithsonian Institution



SPARK!LABONGOING

SPARK!LAB REVEALS the real story behind inventors’ work through hands-on activities that help kids and families learn about the history and process of invention.

OBJECT PROJECTONGOING

OBJECT PROJECT FEATURES more than 300 objects, a “magic” scrapbook, an opportunity to virtually try on cloth-ing from the collection, and a special version of “The Price is Right.”

CONTACTAmerican History Museum1400 Constitution Avenue, NWWashington, DC 20001(202) 633-1000http://americanhistory.si.edu

AMERICAN INDIAN MUSEUM

HOME TO ONE of the largest and most diverse collections of Native art and historical and cultural objects; exhibitions are designed in collaboration with Native communities from across the hemisphere.

NATION TO NATION: TREATIES BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND AMERICAN INDIAN NATIONSSEPTEMBER 21, 2014 – FALL 2018

LEARN ABOUT THE treaties that lie at the heart of the relation-ship between Indian nations and the United States.

THE GREAT INKA ROAD: ENGINEERING AN EMPIREJUNE 26, 2015 – JUNE 1, 2018


THIS EXHIBITION ILLUSTRATES the remarkable engineering prowess of the people of the Inka (Inca) Empire. Some 600 years ago the Inka, without wheeled vehicles, iron tools, or draft animals, built a road system that stretched more than 20,000 miles over the Andes Mountains from present-day Quito, Ecuador, to Santiago, Chile, and from the Pacific coast to upper Amazonia. These roads and the accompanying agricultural ter-races and structures that have survived through the centuries are a testament to the skills of the Inka engineers and a symbol of the Andean peoples’ strength and adaptability.

KAY WALKINGSTICK: AN AMERICAN ARTISTNOVEMBER 7, 2015 – SEPTEMBER 18, 2016

THIS MAJOR RETROSPEC-TIVE of the Cherokee artist Kay WalkingStick, includes 75 of her most notable works, primarily paintings on board and canvas as well as a selection of works on paper and small sculpture.

UA MAU KE EA: THE SOVEREIGN HAWAIIAN NATIONJANUARY 17, 2016 – JANUARY 2017

THIS EXHIBITION TAKES visitors through the history of the Hawaiian Nation, from the consolidation of the islands by King Kamehameha I, through annexation, to the rise of the Hawai-ian rights movement in the late 1960s and the resurgence of Hawaiian nationalism today.

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Kay WalkingStick, A Sensual Suggestion, 1974. Acrylic on canvas, 42 x 48 inches. Collection of the artist. Photo by Lee Stalsworth



AS WE GROW: TRADITIONS, TOYS, GAMESONGOING

SEE NATIVE AMERICAN toys from all over North, Central, and South America, and find out what life lessons and traditions they teach.

CONTACTNational Museum of the American IndianFourth Street & Independence Avenue, SWWashington, DC 20560(202) 633-1000http://nmai.si.edu

ANACOSTIA COMMUNITY MUSEUM

EXAMINES, DOCUMENTS, AND interprets the impact of his-torical and contemporary social issues on urban communities.

BRIDGING THE AMERICAS: COMMU-NITY AND BELONGING FROM PANAMA TO WASHINGTON D.C.APRIL 13, 2015 – TBA

THIS EXHIBITION HIGHLIGHTS major themes that link the U.S. and Panama and the makings of community.

CONTACTThe Anacostia Community Museum1901 Fort Place, SEWashington, DC 20020(202) 633-4820http://anacostia.si.edu

A woman in a pollera and tembleques at a Latin American Festival in Washington, D.C. Black Mosaic Collection, Smithsonian Anacostia Community Museum Archives, Smithsonian Institution. Photo: Harold Dorwin


ARTHUR M. SACKLER GALLERY

THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION has two museums of Asian art: the Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery. The Sackler Gallery features both permanent and temporary exhibitions of Asian art from ancient times to contemporary.

SOTATSU: MAKING WAVESOCTOBER 24, 2015 – JANUARY 31, 2016

DISCOVER TAWARAYA SOTATSU, one of the most influential yet elusive figures in the history of Japanese visual culture. Sotatsu: Making Waves is the first exhibition outside Japan to tell his story – a once-in-a lifetime experience in which two of the artist’s most important paintings, the Freer’s Waves at Matsu-shima and Dragons and Clouds, will be on public view.

PERSPECTIVES: LARA BALADIAUGUST 29, 2015 – JUNE 5, 2016

EGYPTIAN-LEBANESE ARTIST Lara Baladi (b. 1969) experi-ments with the photographic medium, investigating its history and its role in shaping perceptions of the Middle East – particu-larly Egypt, where she is based.

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Lara Baladi, Oum el Dounia, 2000–2007. Wool and cotton. Courtesy of the artist


PEACOCK ROOM REMIX: DARREN WATERSON’S FILTHY LUCREMAY 16, 2015 – JANUARY 2, 2017

FILTHY LUCRE, AN immersive interior by painter Darren Water-ston, reinterprets the James McNeill Whistler’s famed Peacock Room as a resplendent ruin.

VIETNAM’S CERAMICS: DEPTH AND DIVERSITYJULY 11, 2015 – TBA

THE TWENTY-THREE WORKS in this exhibition reflect the wide variety of form and decoration in vessels for cooking, dining, storage, transport, and ritual. Vietnamese ceramics have been traded across Southeast Asia and to West Asia and Japan since the fourteenth century.

JARSMARCH 15, 2014 – TBA

TEN UTILITARIAN STORAGE jars on view include variations from China, Japan, Vietnam, Thailand, and Burma.

CONTACTArthur M. Sackler Gallery1050 Independence Avenue, SWWashington, DC 20013(202) 633-4880http://asia.si.edu

ARTS AND INDUSTRIES BUILDING

THE ARTS AND INDUSTRIES BUILDING has a special role among Smithsonian buildings – as the original home of the National Museum.

CLOSED IN 2016 FOR RENOVATIONS

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CONTACTArts and Industries Building900 Jefferson Drive, SWWashington, DC 20560(202) 633-1000www.si.edu/museums/arts-and-industries-building

FREER GALLERY OF ART

THE FREER GALLERY houses one of the premier collections of Asian art, with objects dating from Neolithic times to the early 20th century, as well as the world’s most important collection of works by James McNeill Whistler.

CLOSED IN 2016 FOR RENOVATIONS

CONTACTFreer GalleryJefferson Drive and 12th Street, SWWashington, DC 20560(202) 633-4880http://asia.si.edu

HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN

DISPLAYS THE ART of our time in a cylindrical building, and adjoining plaza and sunken sculpture garden.

AT THE HUB OF THINGS: NEW VIEWS OF THE COLLECTIONOCTOBER 16, 2014 – APRIL 17, 2016

A DRAMATIC NEW installation of postwar masterworks from the Hirshhorn’s permanent collection, rehung in the museum’s newly renovated 3rd-level collection galleries.

SPECULATIVE FORMSJUNE 16, 2014 – APRIL 17, 2016


DRAWING UPON THE Hirshhorn’s expansive sculpture collec-tion, this exhibition collapses such conventional art historical divisions as figuration vs. abstraction; volumetric vs. stereomet-ric sculpture; still vs. kinetic forms; and illusionary vs. unitary objects.

ROBERT IRWIN: ALL THE RULES WILL CHANGEAPRIL 7 – SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

ROBERT IRWIN: ALL THE RULES WILL Change is a major exhibi-tion by one of the leading postwar American artists. It is the first museum survey devoted to Irwin’s work in the piv-otal decade of the 1960s.

MARVELOUS OBJECTS: SURREALIST SCULPTURE FROM PARIS TO NEW YORKOCTOBER 29, 2015 – FEBRUARY 15, 2016

THE FIRST MAJOR museum exhibition devoted to a compre-hensive view of the movement’s three-dimensional works brings together more than 100 works created by more than 20 artists from France, Spain, Belgium, Switzerland, Germany, Great Britain, and the United States from the 1920s to the 1950s.

DIRECTIONS – SHANA LUTKER: LE ‘NEW’ MONOCLE, CHAPTERS 1–3OCTOBER 29, 2015 – FEBRUARY 15, 2016

NEW SCULPTURAL WORK by contemporary American artist Shana Lutker based on historic fistfights involving surrealist artists.


Robert Irwin, Untitled, 1969.Image courtesy of Smithsonian Institution


SUSPENDED ANIMATIONFEBRUARY 10, 2016 – TBA

THE EXHIBITION BRINGS together six artists who use com-puter animation in their work: Ed Atkins, Antoine Catala, Ian Cheng, Josh Kline, Helen Marten and Agnieszka Polska.

BARBARA KRUGER: BELIEF + DOUBTAUGUST 20, 2012 – TBA

FAMOUS FOR HER incisive photomontages, Barbara Kruger (American, b. Newark, NJ, 1945) creates this immersive site-specific piece that explores themes of democracy, doubt, and belief.

CONTACTHirshhorn Museum and Sculpture GardenIndependence Avenue and 7th Street, SWWashington, DC 20560(202) 633-1000http://hirshhorn.si.edu

NATIONAL ZOOLOGICAL PARK

ONE OF THE world’s best zoos and home to approximately 2,000 animals representing nearly 400 species, of which about a quarter are endangered, provides leadership in animal care, science, education, and sustainability.

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Agnieszka Polska, Still from I Am the Mouth, 2014. Courtesy of ZAK / BRANICKA Gallery, Berlin


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JEWELS OF AP-PALACHIAOCTOBER 17, 2015 – TBA

VISITORS CAN PEER into the un-derground world of salamanders and learn why the tiny creatures

are critical to the Appalachian ecosystem – home to more salamander species than any other region on the planet – as well as what Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute (SCBI) scientists are doing to save them.

AMERICAN TRAILONGOING

VISIT THE AMERICAN TRAIL, the Zoo’s new home for seals, sea lions, and brown pelicans, which is modeled on the central California coast. Also located here are bald eagles, gray wolves, North American river otters, beavers, and ravens.

ELEPHANT TRAILSONGOING

AS PART OF the Zoo’s campaign to save Asian elephants, this expanded and transformed home for the Zoo’s Asian elephants provides new indoor and outdoor space, and features a variety of habitats that support the natural behavior of the multi-generational herd.

CONTACTNational Zoo3001 Connecticut Avenue, NWWashington, DC 20008(202) 633-4888http://nationalzoo.si.edu

Image from Jewels of Appalachia.Courtesy of Smithsonian Institution


NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM

EXHIBITIONS ON EARLIEST human origins; development of world cultures; ancient and modern mammals, birds, amphib-ians, reptiles, insects, and sea creatures.

NATURE’S BEST PHOTOGRAPHY – WINDLAND SMITH RICE INTER-NATIONAL AWARDS PRESENTS: THE BEST OF THE BESTOCTOBER 24, 2015 – FALL 2016

ENJOY 20 YEARS of nature’s finest moments in the “Best of the Best” photo exhibition. This collection brings dramatic landscapes, exciting wildlife behavior, and surprising glimpses of Earth’s icy peaks to mysterious ocean depths.

PRIMORDIAL LANDSCAPES: ICELAND REVEALEDJULY 2, 2015 – APRIL 2017

PHOTOGRAPHER FEODOR PITCAIRN and poet Ari Trausti Guðmundsson reveal a land of fire, ice, hardy life, and natural beauty. Experience the remote beauty of Iceland, a land sculpted by the elements and forged by active geologic activity.

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC INTO AFRICA: THE PHO-TOGRAPHY OF FRANS LANTINGJUNE 4, 2015 – SUMMER 2016

TAKE A PERSONAL journey into the wonders of wild Africa as seen through the lens of National Geographic photographer Frans Lanting.

A new landscape of lakes, scree (broken rock) slopes, hills, and large boulders is revealed after a

glacier retreats.Photo: Feo Pitcaim Fine Art

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THE LAST AMERICAN DINOSAURS: DISCOVERING A LOST WORLDNOVEMBER 25, 2014 – 2018

HOW DO WE learn about dinosaurs and their ecosystems? Come see some of their fossils and find out!

FRAGILE BEAUTY: THE ART & SCIENCE OF SEA BUTTERFLIESSEPTEMBER 17, 2013 – TBA

THROUGH LARGER-THAN-LIFE sculptures, learn how some of the smallest creatures in the ocean, ocean pteropods (“sea but-terflies”), are faring in the face of increasing ocean acidification.

BIOCUBESMARCH 2016 – TBA

WHAT CAN WE discover in just a cubic foot of Earth? As it turns out, a whole lot! Biocubes– the life in a cubic foot of soil or water over one day – capture enough variation

to explore the complexity of entire ecosystems. Through this interactive exhibition, enter the small worlds of biocubes with Smithsonian researchers and other scientists as they investigate a range of marine biocubes to uncover amazingly complex rela-tionships and important lessons for the future of our planet.

CONTACTNational Museum of Natural History10th Street and Constitution Avenue, NWWashington, DC 20560(202) 633-1000http://mnh.si.edu

Biocube. Photo: David Liittschwager


PORTRAIT GALLERY

TELLS THE STORIES of America through the individuals who have shaped our nation, from pre-colonial times to today, including poets and presidents, visionaries and villains, actors and activists.

ONE LIFE: DOLORES HUERTAJULY 3, 2015 – MAY 15, 2016

ONE LIFE: DOLORES HUER-TA highlights the significant role of this Latina leader in the California farm workers move-ment of the 1960s and 70s. It illuminates Huerta as the co-founder, with Cesar Chavez,

of the United Farm Work-ers (UFW), and highlights her position as the union’s lobbyist and contract negotiator.

FROM TOKEN TO ORNAMENT: INDIAN PEACE MEDALS AND THE MCKENNEY-HALL PORTRAITSJUNE 19, 2015 – JUNE 5, 2016

BEGINNING WITH GEORGE WASHINGTON’S administration, presidential portrait medals were created to promote peace and friendship between Euro-Americans and Native Americans. This exhibition features 21 objects, including photographs, prints, and peace medals.

EYE POP: THE CELEBRITY GAZEMAY 22, 2015 – JULY 10, 2016

CELEBRITY FACES ARE everywhere. This exhibition questions the separate roles of subject, artist, and viewer in creating and experiencing the celebrity gaze.

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Dolores Huerta holds a sign that says “Strike” in Spanish, at the beginning of the Delano, CA, grape strike in 1965. Photo: Harvey Richards Media Archive. © Paul Richards


MATHEW BRADY’S PHOTOGRAPHS OF UNION GENERALSMARCH 30, 2012 – MAY 8, 2016

STUDIO PORTRAITS OF Union mili-tary leaders from George McClellan and Ambrose Burnside to William Tecumseh Sherman and Ulysses Grant by photographer Mathew Brady are on view.

OUTWIN BOOCHEVER PORTRAIT COMPETITION 2016MARCH 12, 2016 – JANUARY 8, 2017

EVERY THREE YEARS the National Portrait Gallery invites artists from across the nation to submit their best works of portrayal. Jurors select the finest works that showcase mastery and in-novation in the form. The juried exhibition’s 43 pieces include sculptures, mixed-media pieces, photographs, paintings and drawings. The exhibition reveals that in this media age – where the “selfie” is part of the visual landscape – the art of portraiture is not only universal, it is thriving and evolving. The dazzling variety of media and diverse approaches to the exploration of “self” and “other” challenge the preconceived notions of por-traiture and expand the limits of the imagination.

CONTACTNational Portrait Gallery8th and F Street, NWWashington, DC 20001(202) 633-8300http://npg.si.edu


Mathew Brady, Ulysses S. Grant, 1864. Modern albumen silver print from wet-collodion negative. Courtesy of Smithsonian Institution


POSTAL MUSEUM

DEVOTED TO THE history of America’s mail service and the hobby of stamp collecting.

POSTSECRET: THE POWER OF A POSTCARDAUGUST 3, 2015 – SEP-TEMBER 2016

MORE THAN 500 art-fully decorated postcards mailed anonymously from around the world reveal regret, fear, be-trayal, desire, confession, childhood humiliation, and other compelling confessions.

1856 BRITISH GUIANA ONE-CENT MAGENTAJUNE 4, 2015 – NOVEMBER 2017

THE WORLD’S RAREST postage stamp, the 1856 British Guiana One-Cent Magenta, will be prominently displayed in the museum’s William H. Gross Stamp Gallery for a two and one-half year period.

FREEDOM JUST AROUND THE CORNER: BLACK AMERICA FROM CIVIL WAR TO CIVIL RIGHTSFEBRUARY 12, 2015 – FEBRUARY 15, 2016

A CHRONICLE OF the African American experience told from the perspective of stamps and mail. Includes letters carried by enslaved Americans, mail to and from famous leaders of the civil rights movement, and a significant selection of original artwork for the USPS Black Heritage stamp series from the Postmaster General’s Collection.


Image from PostSecret: The Power of a Postcard. Courtesy of Smithsonian Institution



NEW YORK CITY: A PORTRAIT THROUGH STAMP ARTDECEMBER 10, 2015 – MARCH 13, 2017

THIS EXHIBITION OF original artwork explores the diversity of topics highlighting the cultural heritage of New York City. The exhibition provides

an opportunity to raise aware-ness of the Postmaster Gen-eral’s Art Collection, which the museum has acquired through

a long-term agreement with the United States Postal Service. Thirty pieces of original artwork divided into six categories – Baseball, Broadway, City Life, Icons, Politics and Government, and Music – depict a variety of art styles and mediums used to create some of America’s most beautiful stamps. The artwork celebrates important citizens, events, and iconic buildings that have defined New York City as one of the greatest cities in the world.

BEHIND THE BADGEJUNE 27, 2014 – ONGOING

LEARN HOW THE U.S. Postal Inspection Service, the law enforcement arm of the Postal Service, helps protect you and discover tips to guard against scams and fraud.

CONTACTNational Postal Museum2 Massachussets Avenue, NEWashington, DC 20002(202) 633-5555http://postalmuseum.si.edu

Image from New York City: A Portrait Through Stamp Art. Courtesy of Smithsonian Institution



RENWICK GALLERY OF THE SMITHSONIAN AMERICAN ART MUSEUM

THE RENWICK GALLERY is the home of the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s craft and decorative art program. The museum recently underwent its first comprehensive renova-tion to the building in 40 years and reopened on November 13, 2015.

WONDERNOVEMBER 13, 2015 – JULY 10, 2016

WON-DER, THE OPENING exhibition at the newly renovated

Renwick Gallery, features site-specific installations that transform the galleries into a

contemporary “cabinet of wonders.” Nine major contemporary artists, Jennifer Angus, Chakaia Booker, Gabriel Dawe, Tara Donovan, Patrick Dougherty, Janet Echelman, John Grade, Maya Lin, and Leo Villareal, are installing work that responds to the architectural spaces of this national historic landmark. Each artist “takes over” one gallery in the building so that the museum as a whole becomes one immersive artwork. Eight of these works are new, inspired by and crafted exclusively for the Renwick. The featured artists were selected for their ability to transform spaces through installation, for their focus on how visitors experience that space, and especially for their abiding interest in process and materials, aligning them with the Ren-wick’s mission to showcase the best in American craft.

Detail of Jennifer Angus’s installation, In the Midnight Garden, 2015. Photo: Ron Blunt



CONTACTRenwick Gallery1661 Pennsylvania Avenue, NWWashington, DC 20006(202) 633-7970http://americanart.si.edu

SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION BUILDING, THE CASTLE

HOME TO THE SMITHSONIAN Information Center as well as the Institution’s administrative headquarters.

THE EARLIEST KNOWN PHOTOGRAPH OF THE CASTLEAUGUST 10, 2015 – TBA

THE EARLIEST KNOWN photograph of the Castle, taken in 1850 during the building’s contruc-tion, is on view.

William Langenheim and Frederick Langenheim, Lantern slide photograph on glass in wood mount of Smithsonian Institution Building under construction, Philadelphia, 1850. Smithsonian Castle Collection, gift of Tom Rall, Arlington, Virginia



WELCOME TO YOUR SMITHSONIANMARCH 20, 2015 – TBA

THIS EXHIBITION LOOKS at the history of the Smithsonian, focusing on its research; museums; and public programs in art, culture, history, and science, and the role of the Ameri-can public in the Smithsonian’s museums and research. The Smithsonian is a partnership between its specialist staff and the American people.

CONTACTThe Smithsonian Institute1000 Jefferson Drive, SWWashington, DC 20560(202) 633-1000www.si.edu


Contact Information

ARENA STAGE: (202) 554-9066

CORCORAN GALLERY OF ART: (202) 639-1700

THE JOHN F. KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: (202) 467-4600

NATIONAL PHILHARMONIC: (301) 493-9283

NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: (202) 467-4600

OLNEY THEATRE: (301) 924-2654

PHILLIPS COLLECTION: (202) 387-2151

SHAKESPEARE THEATRE COMPANY: (202) 547-1122

SIGNATURE THEATRE: (703) 820-9771

SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTE MUSEUMS: (202) 633-1000

STRATHMORE: (301) 581-5100

UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM(202) 488-0400

THE WASHINGTON BALLET: (202) 362-3606

THE WASHINGTON CHORUS: (202) 342-6221

WASHINGTON NATIONAL OPERA: (202) 467-4600

WASHINGTON PERFORMING ARTS SOCIETY:(202) 785-9727

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