Upcoming Southwest Chamber Players Concert to Feature World-Renowned Cellist

Sophie Shao. Courtesy of Sophie Shao By Southwester Staff The Southwest Chamber Players announced their 194th free program, Masterpieces and Adaptations, at Saint Augustine’s Episcopal Church on Sunday afternoon, November 26, at 5:00 p.m.    Featured will be Sophie Shao, cello; Luke Wedge, violin; and Danielle Hahn and David Ehrlich, piano. […]

Enchant Christmas Returns to Nats Park

Enchant village. Courtesy of Enchant By Mike Goodman The world’s largest Christmas light maze and village, Enchant, is returning to DC for a fourth year, filling Nationals Park with millions of lights from November 24 through December 31. The holiday spectacular returns with an all-new maze adventure, Reindeer Games. Tickets are […]

ARTECHOUSE Exhibit Brings NASA’s Space Images to Life

Courtesy of Fredo Vasquez “Beyond the Light,” now on view at ARTECHOUSE in Southwest DC, integrates technology, cinematic visuals and an original music score to illuminate NASA’s remarkable discoveries.  Developed in collaboration with NASA, the exhibit is a science-based artistic exploration of images from the Hubble Space Telescope and James […]

Arena Stage Announces Cast for Shipwreck Musical Scored by Grammy-nominated Avett Brothers

By Southwester Staff Arena Stage will wrap up the calendar year 2023 with a production of Swept Away, a musical about a quartet of shipwreck survivors set in the whaling community of New England in the late 1800’s. Music and lyrics for the show were written by the Grammy-nominated roots […]

Opera In the Outfield Returns to Nats Park with Classic Tale of Love and Tragedy

Soprano Jacqueline Echols (center, right) plays Musetta; bass Peter Rose (center, left) plays Alcindoro. Courtesy of Washington National Opera By Sheila Wickouski La Boheme, the treasure in the opera repertoire, will be screened in the  Washington National Opera  (WNO) production for the  #OperaInTheOutfield  broadcast at Nationals Park on Saturday, September […]

Arena Stage’s Cambodian Rock Band Layers Humor, Heart on Dark History

Joe Ngo, Abraham Kim, Brooke Ishibashi, Jane Lui and Tim Liu in Cambodian Rock Band. Courtesy of Margot Schulman By Southwester Staff A rollicking rock musical about a genocide might seem like a contradiction in terms, but over its two-and-a-half hour run time, Arena Stage’s Cambodian Rock Band reveals itself to […]