Dateline for Nov. 30, 2001 — Jan. 19, 2002
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Ongoing Events
$ Theatre “Of Mice and Men” John Steinbeck’s classic
Depression-era tale at Arena Stage through Dec. 9. Visit www.arenastage.org
for more information.
$ Dance American Ballet Theatre’s “The
Nutcracker” Kevin McKenzie’s version of “The Nutcracker,”
through Dec. 16 in the Opera House at the Kennedy Center. Call 467-4600
or visit www.kennedy-center.org.
$ Theatre “Zander’s Boat” at
the Signature Theatre through Dec. 16. The American premiere of a new
play from Scottish playwright Grace Barnes. Three Shetland women become
one with the ocean as they share their lives and drift with the tides.
Call 703/218-6500.
$ Theatre “A Christmas Carol” at
Ford’s Theatre through Dec. 30. For tickets, call 703/218-6500
or visit www.tickets.com; call
347-4833 for Ford’s Theatre information.
$ Theatre “Hamlet” Australian Gale
Edwards comes to The Shakespeare Theatre to direct the Bard’s most
famous work through Jan. 6. Tickets cost $27-$50.75. Call 547-1122 or
visit www.shakespearedc.org
for more information and show times.
Exhibition “Juan Munoz” at the Hirshhorn
Gallery through Jan. 13. His cast-resin figure ensembles and installations
have helped reinvigorate contemporary figurative sculpture. Call 357-2700
for more information.
Exhibition “Best Impressions: 35 Years
of Prints and Sculpture from Gemini G.E.L.” at the National Gallery
of Art through Jan. 21. Highlighting approximately 50 of the finest
prints and works of edition sculpture produced by more than 40 foremost
contemporary artists who have collaborated with Gemini’s master
printers and artisans over the last three-and-a-half decades. For more
information call 737-4215 or visit www.nga.gov.
Exhibition “Silent Screens: The Decline
and Transformation of the American Movie Theater” On view will
be photographs by Michael Putnam of abandoned single-screen movie theaters,
once common across America. Through Jan. 31 at the Smithsonian’s
Arts and Industries Building.
Exhibition “A Century of Drawing”
at the National Gallery of Art through April 7. Presenting for the first
time the most outstanding 20th-century drawings in the National Gallery,
including promised gifts from private collections. For more information
call 737-4215 or visit www.nga.gov.
$ Exhibition “Skyscrapers: The New Millennium”
at The Octagon Museum through April 28. The exhibition examines more
than 30 high-rise buildings that have been completed in the past five
or six years. Admission is $5, $3 for students and seniors. Call 638-3105
for more information.
Exhibition “Making the Grade: African
Arts of Initiation” at the National Museum of African Art through
May 5. Displays of the diversity of arts associated with coming-of-age
rituals. Free. For more information, call 357-2700 or visit www.si.edu.
Exhibition “America Under Attack”
at the Newseum in Rosslyn, featuring news photos covering events from
The Associated Press, Reuters, and Agence France-Presse. The exhibit
is scheduled to remain on display indefinitely and will be updated as
news warrants.
Friday / Nov. 30
$ Opera “The Mikado” The Virginia Opera returns to
the Center for the Arts with this traditional production of a topsy-turvy
classic. Served up with delicious wit, clever rhyme, and interesting
characters, this production is filled with the hallmarks of a great
traditional Gilbert and Sullivan experience. 8 pm at George Mason University.
Also playing Dec. 1 at 2 pm and 8 pm. and Dec. 2 at 2pm. Admission is
$40–$76.
Saturday / Dec. 1
Today in History: In 1955, Rosa Parks was arrested for disobeying
an Alabama law requiring blacks to relinquish bus seats to whites.
GW Sports Swimming & Diving versus Old
Dominion at the Smith Center Pool beginning at 11 am.
Reading “Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa
Claus” A celebrity reading of the classic editorial at the Newseum
in Rosslyn beginning at 11:30 am. A performance by madrigal singers
and a visit from Santa Claus follow the program.
GW Concert Coolidge Quartet performs at the
Mount Vernon Campus Hand Chapel beginning at 7:30 pm. For tickets, call
994-7129.
Sunday / Dec. 2
$ Concert Sunday Gospel Series Enjoy the Corcoran
Gallery’s famous Gospel Brunch in the Cafe des Artistes from 10:30
am–2 pm every Sunday. Seating is first come, first served; reservations
accepted for groups of six or more. Corcoran members receive a 10 percent
discount. For more information call 639-1786.
Film Modernism, Postmodernism, and Godard Jean-Luc
Godard vis-à-vis the late 20th century’s dominant aesthetic
movements, is the subject of a lecture by Christian Science Monitor
film critic David Sterritt. Godard’s New Wave classic Band of Outsiders
(1964), recently re-released in a new 35mm print, follows the fifty-minute
discussion. Lecture at 2 pm, film at 3:30 pm. Show time at 2 pm at the
National Gallery of Art. For more information call 737-4215 or visit
www.nga.gov.
GW Sports Men’s Basketball versus Connecticut
at the MCI Center at 3:30 pm. Game one of the BB&T Classic.
Monday / Dec. 3
GW Event 10th Anniversary of GW’s Virginia Campus in Ashburn,
VA, beginning at 11 am. Tour the campus, including the AOL/GW Home of
the 21st Century, the Earthquake Safety Lab, and Driving Simulator Lab.
Celebration concludes with networking reception, book signings, and
entertainment. Shuttle vans leave Foggy Bottom in front of Gelman Library.
For more information, call 703/726-8300.
GW Sports Men’s Basketball versus Maryland
or Princeton at the MCI Center at 5:30 or 8 pm. Game two of the BB&T
Classic.
Tuesday / Dec. 4
Dance “Dance Theatre of Harlem” reflects African American
and other themes while retaining a tradition firmly grounded in classical
ballet training, in the Opera House at the Kennedy Center, through Dec
9. Call 467-4600 or visit www.kennedy-center.org.
Wednesday / Dec. 5
Concert Free Jazz at the Corcoran Every Wednesday from 12:30–1:30
pm Washington’s premier jazz musicians perform for free in the
Frances and Armand Hammer Auditorium at the Corcoran Gallery of Art.
For more information call 639-1700 or visit www.corcoran.org.
GW Lecture “Why Does Globalization Make
So Many People Angry” sponsored by the Elliott School of International
Affairs. New York Times writer Thomas Friedman and Atlantic Monthly
correspondent Robert Kaplan will discuss how world views may be changing
after Sept. 11. Begins at 6 pm in the Jack Morton Auditorium of the
MPA Building.
GW Sports Women’s Basketball versus Georgetown
at the Smith Center at 7 pm.
Thursday / Dec. 6
Today in History In 1884, workers placed the 3,300 pound marble
capstone on the Washington Monument, completing construction of the
555-foot Egyptian obelisk.
Film “One Day in the Life of Andrei Arsenevich”
Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky (1932–86) was the only 20th century
filmmaker about whose work critics freely used such terms as “spiritual”
and “transcendental.” Assigned the demanding topic of Tarkovsky’s
films for a French television documentary, director Chris Marker contrived
a concise biographical essay that in the end is a meditation on the
meaning of art itself (Chris Marker, 1999, 55 minutes). Show times through
Dec. 8 at 12:30 pm; and Dec. 9 at noon. At the National Gallery of Art.
For more information call 737-4215 or visit www.nga.gov.
GW Concert All Piano Recital beginning at 7:30
pm in the Academic Center, Phillips Hall B120. Sponsored by the Department
of Music.
GW Concert “Norwegian Visions” performs
at the Kennedy Center’s Terrace Theater beginning at 7:30 pm. Contemporary
Norwegian artists with the Oslo Gospel Choir. Tickets cost $25. Call
467-4600 or visit www.kennedy-center.org.
Friday / Dec. 7
Today in History In 1941, Japanese planes attacked the United
States Naval Base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Territory, killing more than
2,300 Americans.
$ Dance “The Nutcracker” presented
by the Washington Ballet at the Warner Theatre through Dec. 23. A holiday
tradition in the nation’s capital. For more information call 362-3606
$ Concert Eddie Palmieri, a five-time Grammy
Award-winner presents a Latin combination of salsa, piano, bomba, son
montumo, and jazz at the Terrace Theatre of the Kennedy Center at 7:30
pm and 9:30 pm. Tickets cost $27. Call 467-4600 or visit www.kennedy-center.org
for more information.
Saturday / Dec. 8
$ Concert “A Celtic Christmas” presented by the Barnes
and Hampton Celtic Consort at Dumbarton Concerts in Georgetown. Also
shows Dec. 9 and Dec. 13–15. Tickets cost $26, $22 for students
and senior citizens. Call 965-2000 or visit www.dumbartonconcerts.org.
Sunday / Dec. 9
Hanukkah begins at sundown
$ Concert Sunday Gospel Series Enjoy the Corcoran
Gallery’s famous Gospel Brunch in the Cafe des Artistes from 10:30
am–2 pm every Sunday. Seating is first come, first served; reservations
accepted for groups of six or more. Corcoran members receive a 10 percent
discount. For more information call 639-1786.
GW Sports Women’s Basketball versus DePaul
at the Smith Center at 2 pm.
Monday / Dec. 10
Today in History In 1946, baseball great Walter Johnson died
at the age of fifty-nine.
GW Event “The Kalb Report” at The
National Press Club beginning at 8 pm.
$ Theatre “Spain” presented by the
Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company at the Kennedy Center through Jan. 6.
A life in disarray soon becomes one full of extraordinary events where
imagination takes on a bizzare and comic existence of its own. For tickets
and showtimes call 393-3939 or visit www.woollymammoth.net.
Wednesday / Dec. 12
Concert Free Jazz at the Corcoran. Every Wednesday from 12:30–1:30
pm Washington’s premier jazz musicians perform for free in the
Frances and Armand Hammer Auditorium at the Corcoran Gallery of Art.
For more information call 639-1700 or visit www.corcoran.org.
GW Sports Women’s Basketball versus Rutgers
at the Smith Center at 7 pm.
$ Concert “Empire Brass” as part
of the Fortas Chamber Music Concerts in the Terrace Theater of the Kennedy
Center at 7:30 pm. Tickets $25. Call 467-4600 or visit www.kennedy-center.org.
Film “The Mystery of Henry Moore”
One of the last filmic portraits of Moore reviews the myriad influences
on his work. (Harry Rasky, 1986, 83 minutes). Showtimes Dec. 12–15,
at 12:30 pm at the National Gallery of Art. For more information call
737-4215 or visit www.nga.gov.
Friday / Dec. 14
Today in History In 1799, George Washington died at his Mt. Vernon
home.
$ Concert “Happy Holidays” with vocalist
Linda Eder through Dec. 15 at the Kennedy Center. Friday shows 1:30
pm and 8:30 pm.; Saturday 8:30 pm. Tickets range from $20–$72.
Call 467-4600 or visit www.kennedy-center.org
for more information.
Saturday / Dec. 15
Reading “Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus” A celebrity
reading of the classic editorial at the Newseum in Rosslyn beginning
at 11:30 am. A performance by madrigal singers and a visit from Santa
Claus follow the program.
Sunday / Dec. 16
$ Concert Sunday Gospel Series Enjoy the Corcoran Gallery’s
famous Gospel Brunch in the Cafe des Artistes from 10:30 am–2 pm
every Sunday. Seating is first come, first served; reservations accepted
for groups of six or more. Corcoran members receive a 10 percent discount.
For more information call 639-1786.
Exhibition “The Mastery of Color and Form:
Nkanu Initiation Wall Panals and Sculpture” features some of the
most spectacular and dramatic arts produced in central Africa at the
National Museum of African Art through Dec. 16. Call 357-2700.
Exhibition “Paradise Unspoiled: Paintings
and Drawings from Iran and India” in the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
at the Smithsonian, through May 5. Call 357-2700 or visit www.asia.si.org.
Tuesday / Dec. 18
GW Event Celebrating Our Community Join your faculty and staff
collegues in the annual holiday gathering in the Marvin Center Ballroom
from 2–4:30 pm. As usual food and entertainment will be provided
as well as prize drawings. The gathering also will provide GW community
members an opportunity to give back through charitable activities such
as Adopt-A-Family, Toys-for-Tots, and the Faculty/Staff DC Scholarship
Program. For more information call 994-3620.
Thursday / Dec. 20
GW Sports Women’s Basketball plays George Mason at the Patriot
Center at 7 pm.
Saturday / Dec. 22
Film Soul is Singing (Dusza Piewa). In the first of two recent
films by Krzysztof Zanussi, a young tenor on the eve of a crucial holiday
performance with the Warsaw Philharmonic — a performance that might
signify a big break for his career — is forced to face a dilemma:
should he take time to help a neighbor with a huge problem? Zanussi,
one of the leading lights of Polish cinema since the late 1960s, often
reflects on the metaphysical aspects of ordinary events, as in this
film, one of a series of Weekend Stories made for Polish television.
(Krzysztof Zanussi, 1997, 55 minutes) Showtime Dec. 22, at 2:30 pm.
At the National Gallery of Art. For more information call 737-4215 or
visit www.nga.gov.
Monday / Dec. 24
University Holiday
Tuesday / Dec. 25
Christmas Day, University Holiday
Wednesday / Dec. 26
Kwanzaa
Film Henry Moore At 82, Moore is filmed working
and talking in his studios in England and Italy and at his Berlin foundry.
(Robert Fresco, 1980, 58 minutes). Showtimes Dec. 26–30, at 12:30
pm, at the National Gallery of Art. For more information call 737-4215
or visit www.nga.gov.
Friday / Dec. 28
$ Concert “The Spirit of Kwanzaa” through Dec. 29 at
the Kennedy Center’s Concert Hall beginning at 7 pm. Tickets cost
$10–$15. Call 467-4600 or visit www.kennedy-center.org
for more information.
Saturday / Dec. 29
Today in History In 1890, the Wounded Knee Massacre occured on
the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota.
GW Sports Men’s Basketball versus Charlotte
at the Smith Center at 2 pm.
Monday / Dec. 31
University Holiday
$ Concert “Swinging New Year’s Eve”
at the Terrace Theater of the Kennedy Center. This New Year’s Eve
concert features vocalist and pianist Freddy Cole and his trio as they
play jazz from many eras. Performances at 7:30 pm and 9:30 pm; tickets
cost $60. Call 467-4600 or visit www.kennedy-center.org
for more information.
$ Concert “New Year’s Eve at the
Kennedy Center” with Murry Sidlin and members of the National Symphony
Orchestra beginning at 8:30 pm in Concert Hall. Tickets cost $55-$85.
Call 467-4600 or visit www.kennedy-center.org
for more information.
Tuesday / Jan. 1
New Year’s Day, University Holiday
Today in History In 1892, the first of the
more than 12 million immigrants who would pass through the doors of
the Ellis Island Immigration Station in its 62 years of operation arrived
on this day.
Wednesday / Jan. 2
Concert Free Jazz at the Corcoran Every Wednesday from 12:30–1:30
pm Washington’s premier jazz musicians perform for free in the
Frances and Armand Hammer Auditorium at the Corcoran Gallery of Art.
For more information call 639-1700 or visit www.corcoran.org.
$ Theatre “A New Voice: Hambone”
A rich theatrical canvas of generational conflict and spiritual renewal,
at the Studio Theatre, through Feb. 10. Ticket prices vary. Call 332-3300
or visit www.studiotheatre.org.
Thursday / Jan. 3
GW Sports Women’s Basketball versus La Salle at the Smith
Center at 5:30 pm.
GW Sports Men’s Basketball versus St.
Bonaventure at the Smith Center at 8 pm.
Sunday / Jan. 6
GW Sports Men’s Basketball versus Duquesne at the Smith
Center at 2 pm.
Monday / Jan. 7
GW Sports Women’s Basketball versus Fordham at the Smith
Center at 7 pm.
Friday / Jan. 11
$ Concert All Gershwin Program with conductor Marvin Hamlisch,
through Jan. 12, Fri. shows 1:30 pm and 8:30 pm., Sat. 8:30 pm. Tickets
range from $20–$72. Call 467-4600.
Tuesday / Jan. 15
$ Concert “Windscape” playing selections from Bach
and Mozart, as part of the Fortas Chamber Music Concerts, in the Terrace
Theater of the Kenndey Center, 7:30 pm, Tickets $25. Call 467-4600 or
visit www.kennedy-center.org.
Saturday / Jan. 19
GW Sports Swimming & Diving versus William & Mary at
the Smith Center Pool beginning at 11 am.
