CITY GUIDE
Washington, D.C.
In the Darkroom
Helen Mirren starring in the only North
American engagement of the National
Theatre of Great Britain’s production of Jean
Racine’s Phèdre. Believing her husband to be
dead, the passionate Queen Phèdre allows her
forbidden love for her stepson to blossom.
When the king returns home from the war—
alive—all three are forced into a desperate
situation. Ted Hughes’ adaptation of this tragedy, in a limited September run directed by
Nicholas Hytner, also stars Dominic Cooper
and Margaret Tyzack.
The company’s 2009–2010 season also
features Shakespeare’s gender-bending comedy As You Like It and two of his most thrilling
history plays, Richard II and Henry V, in repertory. Sept. 17-26. shakespearetheatre.org.
Talbot to Polaroid
prints by Andy
Warhol. Also on
view are examples
of materials used
in the process,
including salted
paper, albumen,
gelatin silver and
chromogenic prints.
The exhibition
showcases how
scale, tone, cropping, enlarging and
paper selection,
along with the photographer’s talents,
shape the quality
and meaning of a
photograph. Starts
Oct. 25. nga.gov.
The Grandest
Dame
Helen Mirren and the Bard
The Shakespeare Theatre Company brings a
very special addition to its season: Dame
The National
Gallery of Art
presents a fasci-
nating exhibition
on technological
developments in
photography, trac-
ing the chronology
of everything from
the medium’s 19th-
century origins to
present-day digital
photography. Nine-
ty photographs are
on display, from
early photographic
drawings by Wil-
liam Henry Fox
ave
Date
DOWNTOWN
the
Manhunt:
Chasing
Lincoln’s
Killer
Through
February
Created in collaboration
with Edgar Award–
winning author James
L. Swanson, this exhibit
features artifacts from
the night John Wilkes
Booth shot the president.
newseum.org
DOWNTOWN
Since Darwin:
The Evolution of
Evolution
Opens Sept. 12
The Museum of Natural
History hosts this exhibition on the role of
Darwin’s theories and
how our knowledge of
evolution has evolved
over the past 150 years.
mnh.si.edu
DOWNTOWN
Cedric
Tiberghien
Sept. 26
French pianist Cedric
Tiberghien performs a
program of favorites by
Chopin and Debussy,
and Ravel’s Gaspard de
la nuit . wpas.org
ALEXANDRIA
OktoBEERfest
2009
Oct. 10
Celebrate Oktoberfest
with live music, pump-
kin decorating, cupcakes
and—of course—beer!
rusticorestaurant.com
PENN QUARTER
Operation
Undercover:
Secrets of
Disguise
Oct. 25
The Spy Museum offers
a KidSpy Workshop
special training session
on the art of disguise.
spymuseum.org
