The Arts and Culture Connection

Introducing . . .The Arts and Culture Connection!

Join Har Shalom friends — both new and familiar— for exciting creative arts and cultural events around town; plays, concerts, exhibits, culinary events and more! We aim to provide an inside track to Jewish events happening in the DMV and create an opportunity to take in the best of it as a group!

It’s a two-part initiative: Join us as we offer creatively inspired outings that connect us not only to great art and culture but also help us forge greater connections to one another!

To contribute suggestions for upcoming events, please contact Mikki Ashin (mikkiashin@aol.com) or Nancy Light (nlightr@gmail.com).

Register & Join Us!

Eureka Day, Sunday, April 5, 2pm, Theater J (1529 16th Street, NW - Dupont Circle); Show is 1 hour 45 mins with no intermission - Get your $60 tickets through Har Shalom HERE!
When a mumps outbreak threatens The Eureka Day School in Berkeley, Calif., a bastion of progressive ideals, its school board members develop policy intended to preserve an inclusive environment. But facts become subjective and every solution divisive, leaving the school’s leadership to wrestle with a central question of our time: How do you build consensus when no one can agree on what is true and what is not? Written by Jonathan Spector and recently staged on Broadway.

Questions? Contact Nancy Light or Mikki Ashin (email addresses above).

What To Do Around Town:

Art Exhibition on Jewish Identity, at Adas Israel, 2850 Quebec St NW, May 2026, date to be announced 
A major multimedia art show representing artists from around the country, curated by Ori Zoltes, professor of Jewish Civilization at Georgetown University and author of several books about Jewish art and architecture.

Performance: Little Miss Perfect, Olney Theatre Center, 2001 Olney-Sandy Spring Rd, Olney. Opens Feb 8—March 8. A new musical that explores high school kids, the pressures they face and young aspirations. Includes a mix of hip-hop, show tunes, and pop sounds. Tickets: www.olneytheatre.org/LMP

Special Exhibition: Blacklisted: An American Story, Capital Jewish Museum. Opens March 6 - September 6. An Exploraion of the Hollywood blacklist and the federal government's loyalty investigations that upended thousands of lives during the Red Scare. Tickets: www.CapitalJewishMuseum.org.

Performance: Young Americans. First Stage (1524 Spring Hill Road Tysons, VA - access requires 2 flights of stairs). Opens April 9-26. A young immigrant couple travel cross-country to their new home and bond over landmarks, motels and stops at IHOP. 20 years pass and a similar trip is taken by father and daughter that underscores their family portrait, their past, and the lengths people go for the people they love. Tickets: www.1ststage.org

Performance: Indecent. First Stage, 1524 Spring Hill Road, Tysons, Va. (no accessible entrance other than stairs). Opens June 4-21, 2026. This work, from Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Paula Vogel, was inspired by true events surrounding the 1923 debut of Sholem Asch’s “God of Vengeance” on Broadway in 1923, seen by some as a seminal work of Jewish culture and by others as an act of traitorous libel. The play tells the story of the incendiary drama and the path of the artists who risked their careers and lives to perform it. Tickets: www.1ststage.org