Find the best of DC, Maryland and Virginia theatres, performing arts, museums and galleries. Search here by date, range of dates, locality and interest and choose from among 300 presenters throughout Metro DC. There are even categories for Free and Family & Kids! That's why we call CultureCapital your link to the Arts in Metro DC.
Spotlights
| Owen Danoff Wed, June 19 Strathmore Alone with an acoustic guitar, an Owen Danoff performance is a showcase of thoughtful lyric and song writing. When with a band he joins the ranks of the bassist-turned-lead-singers, la Paul McCartney, and brings on the rock 'n' roll. |
| DC Jazz Festival June 5-16 With more than 100 performances in dozens of venues across the city, the DC Jazz Festival is the largest music festival in DC. In this 10-day period you can hear jazz artists from around the world and around the block performing Bebop, Blues, Swing, Soul, Latin and World music. |
| Albrecht Dürer: Master Drawings, Watercolors, and Prints from the Albertina Through Sun, June 9 National Gallery of Art The Albertina Museum in Vienna, Austria, lends to the Gallery 118 of its finest watercolors, drawings, and prints by Dürer for an unprecedented exhibition that can only be seen in Washington and that also includes 19 closely related drawings and prints from the Gallery's own collection. |
| Reinventing Radio: An Evening with Ira Glass Sat, June 29 Strathmore Go behind the scenes of the parallel universe that is public radio's This American Life. In the style that has won millions of radio fans, Ira Glass talks about how it all comes together each week, mixing stories from the show, live onstage, with taped selections of stories, recreating the sound of the show as the audience watches. |
| Twelfth Night Through Sun, June 9 Folger Theatre |
| Real Pirates: The Untold Story of the Whydah from Slave Ship to Pirate Ship Through Mon, September 2 National Geographic |
