The theatre that pioneered American regional drama built itself a glass crown on the Potomac. Arena Stage, founded in 1950 by Zelda Fichandler as one of the nation's first resident theatres - the first to transfer a production to Broadway, the first integrated theatre in Washington, and the launching pad for The Great White Hope - anchors the Southwest Waterfront at 1101 6th Street SW inside the Mead Center for American Theater, the 135-million-dollar Bing Thom-designed complex that opened in Oc.....

Purpose-built for Major League Soccer, Audi Field is the home of D.C. United, opened in 2018 in the Buzzard Point area of southwest Washington. The soccer-specific stadium was a landmark project for the club and the city, giving the team a modern, dedicated home after decades of sharing the cavernous RFK Stadium, and helping spur wider redevelopment along the Anacostia waterfront. The stadium holds around twenty thousand spectators in a compact, steeply raked bowl designed to keep fans close to.....

Washington put a championship arena on the grounds of a Victorian asylum, and it worked. CareFirst Arena at 1100 Oak Drive SE opened on 22 September 2018 as the Entertainment and Sports Arena, a 69-million-dollar, 4,200-seat venue on the St. Elizabeths East Campus in Congress Heights - the historic former federal psychiatric hospital grounds east of the Anacostia River - designed by Rossetti and Marshall Moya, owned by the District and operated by Events DC as the anchor of the neighbourhood's l.....

In the historic Capitol Hill neighbourhood of Washington immediately east of the United States Capitol, the Library of Congress is the largest library in the world and one of the most architecturally extraordinary public buildings in the federal capital. The library's permanent collection contains more than 175 million individual catalogued items including 39 million books, 75 million manuscripts, 22 million photographs, 5 million maps, 8 million pieces of sheet music and 7 million sound recordi.....

On the Anacostia River waterfront in the rapidly redeveloping Navy Yard neighbourhood about a mile south-east of the United States Capitol, Nationals Park is the home stadium of the Washington Nationals of Major League Baseball and one of the most modern ballparks in the league. The 41,339-seat venue opened on 30 March 2008 at a cost of approximately 693 million dollars, replacing the Nationals' previous interim home at the historic Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium across the Anacostia River. .....

Booker T. Jones christened the stage on 12 October 2017 - a Memphis soul legend opening a brand-new room built to feel like it had always been there. Pearl Street Warehouse, at 33 Pearl Street SW on the pedestrian alley at the heart of Washington's Wharf development, is the intimate end of the waterfront's live-music ecosystem. The founders were waterfront veterans: Bruce Gates, Nicholas Fontana and Henry Gandy, the trio behind Cantina Marina - a Southwest Waterfront dock-bar fixture for 14 yea.....

In the heart of Capitol Hill in Washington immediately east of the United States Capitol and immediately north of the Library of Congress, the Supreme Court of the United States is the highest court in the American federal judiciary and one of the most architecturally distinguished government buildings in the federal capital. The dramatic neoclassical white-marble building was designed by the celebrated American architect Cass Gilbert (the designer of New York's Woolworth Building) and substanti.....

The 9:30 Club's owners spent everything they knew about concert rooms on one building, and opened it with the Foo Fighters. The Anthem at 901 Wharf Street SW opened on October 12, 2017, the anchor tenant of The Wharf, the $2 billion redevelopment of Washington's Southwest Waterfront along the Potomac. The $60 million, 57,000-square-foot hall was built by I.M.P. - Seth Hurwitz's independent promotion company that also runs the 9:30 Club, Lincoln Theatre and Merriweather Post Pavilion - to fill t.....

A lot full of shipping containers outlived a decade of demolition rumors to become a Washington institution. The Bullpen at 1201 Half Street SE opened in May 2009 on the block between the Navy Yard Metro and Nationals Park, a temporary outdoor bar that became the permanent-feeling home base of Nationals fandom. The formula has barely changed in seventeen seasons: free admission, cold beer, food trucks, live music, cornhole boards by the dozen and a crowd of thousands before, during and after ev.....

The Miracle Theatre is a performing arts venue in Washington, DC, hosting theatrical productions, concerts, film screenings, and community events. The theatre provides a professionally managed performance space within the nation's capital, contributing to one of the most culturally rich entertainment markets in the United States. Washington's theatre scene is anchored by institutions like the Kennedy Center, Arena Stage, and the National Theatre, and smaller venues like The Miracle Theatre provi.....