I.M.P. - Washingtonian https://www.washingtonian.com The website that Washington lives by. Thu, 14 Sep 2023 20:46:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 https://www.washingtonian.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/cropped-washingtonian-favicon-gigantic-138x138.png I.M.P. - Washingtonian https://www.washingtonian.com 32 32 How the Atlantis Cleverly Recreates ’80s and ’90s DC https://www.washingtonian.com/2023/07/14/how-the-atlantis-cleverly-recreates-80s-and-90s-dc/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=how-the-atlantis-cleverly-recreates-80s-and-90s-dc Fri, 14 Jul 2023 15:58:41 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=1644025 DC’s newest music venue, the Atlantis, opened May 30 with a concert by Foo Fighters—a major event for a space that holds only 450 people. But music fans were buzzing about more than just the huge band in a small room: The venue turned out to be full of fun design touches that hark back […]

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Live Music Is Fully Back in DC. Here’s How It Survived the Pandemic. https://www.washingtonian.com/2023/02/08/live-music-is-fully-back-in-dc-heres-how-it-survived-the-pandemic/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=live-music-is-fully-back-in-dc-heres-how-it-survived-the-pandemic Wed, 08 Feb 2023 20:45:33 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=1623042 Almost three full years after the start of the coronavirus pandemic, live music has fully returned to the Washington area. So how did the scene survive and bounce back? For answers, we talked to Audrey Fix Schaefer, head of Communications for I.M.P., an independent concert company whose venues are 9:30 Club, The Anthem, Merriweather Post Pavilion, […]

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DC’s Biggest Venues: Please Let Us Fully Reopen on July 1 https://www.washingtonian.com/2021/05/10/dcs-biggest-venues-please-let-us-fully-reopen-on-july-1/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=dcs-biggest-venues-please-let-us-fully-reopen-on-july-1 Mon, 10 May 2021 14:23:35 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=1518533 Update: After this post was published, Mayor Bowser announced that sports and entertainment venues can reopen without capacity limits on June 11. I.M.P. and Monumental Sports and Entertainment want DC Mayor Muriel Bowser to set July 1 as the day when they can reopen their venues at full capacity. In a letter to Bowser sent […]

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Help Struggling Music Venues by Buying One of These Retro Concert Posters https://www.washingtonian.com/2020/10/16/help-struggling-music-venues-by-buying-one-of-these-retro-concert-posters/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=help-struggling-music-venues-by-buying-one-of-these-retro-concert-posters Fri, 16 Oct 2020 19:04:28 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=1304735 The Save Our Stages virtual music festival happening on YouTube this weekend may not include any musical performances at DC venues, but its series of very cool posters does have local origins. Jordan Grobe, a communications coordinator with I.M.P.—the company behind 9:30 Club and The Anthem—commissioned the 35 designs, highlighting performers such as the Foo […]

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The Anthem and 9:30 Club Aren’t Coming Back Anytime Soon https://www.washingtonian.com/2020/09/28/the-anthem-and-930-club-arent-coming-back-anytime-soon/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-anthem-and-930-club-arent-coming-back-anytime-soon Mon, 28 Sep 2020 19:21:30 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=1285604 Live-music fans were heartened to learn that DC venues are taking part in a pilot program that allows small-scale concerts under certain conditions. Six venues are included in the pilot: the Kennedy Center, GALA Hispanic Theatre, Pearl Street Warehouse, Union Stage, the Hamilton, and City Winery. So where are the Anthem and 9:30 Club, currently […]

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A Candid Conversation About the Future of Live Music https://www.washingtonian.com/2020/08/06/candid-conversation-about-the-future-of-live-music/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=candid-conversation-about-the-future-of-live-music Thu, 06 Aug 2020 12:00:58 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=1190180 The live-music industry has, for obvious reasons, been especially hard hit by the Covid-19 crisis. To find out what that’s been like and what happens next, we checked in with three key leaders in the area’s concert scene: Kennedy Center president Deborah Rutter, Washington Performing Arts president and CEO Jenny Bilfield, and IMP chief operating […]

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IMP Reveals Tentative Plans to Reopen the Anthem, Merriweather Post Pavilion https://www.washingtonian.com/2020/06/26/imp-reveals-tentative-plans-to-reopen-the-anthem-merriweather-post-pavilion/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=imp-reveals-tentative-plans-to-reopen-the-anthem-merriweather-post-pavilion Fri, 26 Jun 2020 17:27:23 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=1161620 Anyone who regularly goes to concerts in DC has probably been to an IMP event. The long-running local company’s venues include the Anthem, the 9:30 Club, and Lincoln Theatre. With the live-music industry essentially shut down, the company has been scrambling to figure out a way forward while also finding ways to address this moment, […]

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