CONTENTS

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018 Volume 25 Issue 16

14 GETTING VOCAL
Composer Gregory Spears ambles into Thoreau
territory with his latest song-cycle commission.

By Randy Shulman

FALL ARTS PREVIEW

Film, Stage, Music, Dance, Art, Comedy, Readings,
More!

By Doug Rule, Randy Shulman, and Rhuaridh Marr

29
92 QUEER POP PRINCES
Troye Sivan and Jake Shears embrace sexuality and
self-love on a standout sophomore album
and a fantastic solo debut.

By Sean Maunier

SPOTLIGHT: THE DC WEIRDO SHOW p.7 OUT ON THE TOWN p.12

GETTING VOCAL: GREGORY SPEARS p.14 THE FEED p.21
COMMUNITY: TO OUR HEALTH p.23 SCENE: HILLWOOD LGBTQ FAMILIES DAY p.27
FALL ARTS PREVIEW 2018 p.29 FILM p.31 STAGE p.37
POP, ROCK, FOLK & JAZZ MUSIC p.51 CLASSICAL & CHORAL MUSIC p.69 DANCE p.77
MUSEUMS & GALLERIES p.81 ABOVE & BEYOND p.84 FILM: A SIMPLE FAVOR p.91
MUSIC: TROYE SIVAN & JAKE SHEARS p.92 STAGE: GLORIA & MACBETH p.95
STAGE: COMO AGUA & SWEENEY TODD p.97 NIGHTLIFE p.99 SCENE: THE FINAL MIXTAPE p.99
LISTINGS p.100 SCENE: UPROAR p.107 LAST WORD p.110

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 Spotlight
PHOTO COURTESY DC WEIRDO SHOW

The DC Weirdo Show

H
ELD THE THIRD FRIDAY OF EACH MONTH, THE
DC Weirdo Show bills itself as the longest-running vari-
ety show in the city — and also, as “Queen Weirdo and
Producer” Dr. Torcher puts it, “increasingly the D.C. go-to show
for local performers of color, queer performers, and womxn in
the circus, sideshow, and variety performance arts.”
In recognition of Suicide Prevention Month, the September
show, “Weirdos for Life,” co-hosted with drag king Phoenix
King, aims to open the conversation about the LGBTQ commu-
nity’s collective mental health, shared through personal stories
from performers in various styles of variety art, who have also
contributed to a free, take-home resource zine featuring artwork,
poetry, stories, and ready-to-use tools for suicide prevention.
The lineup includes stand-up from Leigh Crenshaw, belly-
dance from Rin Ajna, performance art from Carlita Calienté,
aerial acrobatics and spoken-word from Coryn Rose, drag from
Ricky Rosé, plus fire manipulation from co-host Dr. Torcher and
drag from co-host King. Proceeds from the show will benefit
Trans Lifeline, a peer-support hotline staffed for and by trans
people. l

The DC Weirdo Show is Friday, Sept. 21. Doors at 8 p.m. Bier Baron Tavern, 1523 22nd St. NW.
Tickets are $15 in advance, or $20 at the door. Call 202-293-1887 or visit dcweirdoshow.com.

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 Spotlight
DANCING AT LUGHNASA
Irish playwright Brian Friel’s wistful memory play
tells the story of five unmarried sisters living in a
small Irish village in 1936 and facing life’s challenges
with resolve and persistence. The show is wise, warm,
funny, and, being Irish in heritage, ultimately bathed
in sorrow. Everyman Theatre’s production is helmed
by Amber Paige McGinnis and stars Megan Anderson,
Danny Gavigan, Tim Getman, Annie Grier, Bari
Hochwald, and Labhaoise Magee. Through Oct. 7 at
Everyman Theatre, 15 W. Fayette Street in Baltimore.
Tickets are $10 to $65. Visit everymantheatre.org or
call 410-752-2208.

DIRTY MARTINI’S DC DRAG

BRUNCH SATURDAYS
On Saturdays, legendary D.C. drag diva
Monet Dupree hosts brunch in a large, con-
temporary space south of Dupont Circle that
many older D.C. gays will remember as the
second, biggest, and arguably best Lizard
Lounge venue. Dupree and her drag minions
entertain every Saturday as part of a three-
hour affair, with music by DJ India. Doors
open at 11 a.m., with brunch starting at 11:30
a.m., show at 12 p.m. 1223 Connecticut Ave.
NW. The cost is $40 for All-You-Can-Eat
buffet and complimentary mimosas, inclu-
sive of tax and gratuity. Call 202-503-2640 or
visit dcdragshowbrunch.com

pristine. Yet Krauss long ago proved her skill experi-

ALISON KRAUSS
She leads one of the best bluegrass bands in the business,
Union Station, whose style of Americana is refined, pretty, and
menting with other genres through her collaborations
with diverse artists like Willie Nelson, Cyndi Lauper,
Sting, and Robert Plant. Such wide-ranging work has
helped the Chicago-area native collect 27 Grammy
Awards to date, a haul that ranks her with veteran
producer Quincy Jones as the two most-awarded
living recipients of American music’s highest honor.
She returns to the area for a concert supporting last
year’s Windy City, an album of covers of country and
bluegrass classics. Tuesday, Sept. 18. Doors at 6:30
p.m. The Anthem, 901 Wharf St. SW. Tickets are $56
to $126. Call 202-888-0020 or visit theanthemdc.com.

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 Spotlight
MEOW MEOW
A native of Australia now based in the U.K., this singer
with the purringly playful name has also coined the term
“kamikaze cabaret” to describe her act, which blends a
wide range of music, comedy, and performance art. Meow
Meow makes her Kennedy Center debut this weekend in a
concert presented by Renée Fleming, who further describes
the experience as “a post-modern take on [a diva] identity,
often battling wildly comic mishaps, or catastrophes. Her
shows may be moving, hilarious, or even shocking, but...
she is never dull.” Saturday, Sept. 15, at 7:30 p.m. Terrace
Theater. Tickets are $29 to $39. Call 202-467-4600 or visit
kennedy-center.org.

SWEENEY TODD
Rep Stage kicks off its 26th season with one of Stephen
Sondheim’s most popular works. Subtitled The Demon
Barber of Fleet Street, the macabre musical tells the story of
a vengeful barber who slits the throats of his customers and
the provides their corpses to the neighboring Mrs. Lovett,
who fashions them into “meat pies” that become the culinary
hit of London. The lush score is famous for “Not While I’m
Around,” “Pretty Women,” and “Johanna.” Starring V. Savoy
McIlwain as Sweeney and Jade Antoinette Jones as Mrs.
Lovett. Directed by Joseph Ritsch. Through September 23 in
the Studio Theatre of the Horowitz Visual and Performing
Arts Center on the campus of Howard Community College,
10901 Little Patuxent Parkway, Columbia, Md. Tickets are
$40. Visit repstage.org or call 443-518-1500.

AMERICAN CHAOS
Give the guy some credit for prescience: Six
months before the 2016 presidential election,
Jim Stern put everything on hold in his life
to travel through red states to engage with
Donald Trump supporters. It was a quest for
insights, answers, and anything that could shed
light on the billionaire’s surging appeal despite
the myriad scandals that embroiled hin. Stern’s
documentary examines the difficult issues roil-
ing the nation and chronicles a cultural divide
— still woefully misunderstood — that is tear-
ing at the fabric of democracy. Opens Friday,
Sept. 14. Area theaters. Visit fandango.com.

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 Out On The Town

El Angel

LATIN AMERICAN FILM FESTIVAL

The AFI Silver presents a three-week festival celebrating the best in contemporary Latin American cinema, featur-
ing entries from 22 Spanish-speaking countries. The festival opens tonight, Thursday, Sept. 13, with a screening of the
Columbian 2018 Oscar contender, Birds of Passage (the film shows again on Saturday, Sept. 15, at 7:15 p.m.), and concludes
on Wednesday, Oct. 3, with Panama’s Ruben Blades is Not My Name, celebrating the man at the center of the New York
Salsa revolution in the 1970s. Other notable titles in the 43-film festival include El Angel, Luis Ortega’s stylish, true-crime
thriller about one of Argentina’s most notorious serial killers, produced by Pedro Almodovar; El Salvador’s Pablo’s World,
a noir-tinged adaptation of Shakespeare’s Othello; and Another Story of the World, a political comedy set in rural Uruguay.
Tickets are $15 general admission and $13 for AFI Members (2-star level & higher). An all-access “Pase Especial” allows
for priority access to every film in the festival, including opening and closing night and festival happy hours. $200 general,
$170 for AFI Members, $150 for students. At AFI Silver is at 8633 Colesville Road in Silver Spring. Call 301-495-6700 or
visit afi.com/silver/laff.

Compiled by Doug Rule
FILM
AN AMERICAN IN PARIS
A filmed version of the recent
Broadway stage musical, adapt-
ed from the 1951 film. Director
Christopher Wheeldon, who
snagged a Tony for Best
Choreographer for his efforts, wisely
retained much of Gene Kelly’s moves
from the movie, most notably the
17-minute ballet set to the first com-
position that George Gershwin titled
“An American in Paris.” Wheeldon
cast Robert Fairchild of the New
York City Ballet and Leanne Cope
of the British Royal Ballet. The
pair, also nominated for Tonys for
their work, returned to the show
last year for a West End debut. And
it’s a taped performance from the
London run that will grace movie
screens next week. Thursday, Sept.
20, at 7 p.m., and Sunday, Sept. 23, at
12:555 p.m. Area theaters including
Landmark’s E Street Cinema, 555
11th St. NW, Regal Majestic Stadium,
900 Ellsworth Dr., Silver Spring, and
AMC Hoffman Center, 206 Swamp
Fox Road, Alexandria. Visit anamer-
icaninpariscinema.com for tickets.
DARK VICTORY
In Edmund Goulding’s 1939 drama,
Bette Davis plays a hedonistic Long
Island socialite and hard drinking
heiress. The star is in great compa-
ny here, George Brent, Humphrey
Bogart, Geraldine Fitzgerald, and
Ronald Reagan are also part of the
heavy-hitting cast for this soapy yet
intense drama. Described by a Time
Out London critic as a “Rolls-Royce
of the weepie world,” Dark Victory
screens as the next selection in the
Capital Classics series at Landmark’s
West End Cinema. Wednesday, Sept.
19, at 1:30, 4:30, and 7:30 p.m., 2301
M St. NW. Happy hour from 4 to
6:30 p.m. Tickets are $10 to $12.50.
Call 202-534-1907 or visit landmark-
theatres.com.
PICK OF THE LITTER
Heralded as an uplifting, heart-
warming celebration of the dog-hu-
man bond, Dana Nachman and Don
Hardy’s documentary explores the
rigorous two-year journey required
of all canine candidates as they pre-
pare to work as a guide dog for the
blind. Among the many hard chal-
lenges thrown at dogs during this
process: Learning when to disobey a
direct command that might endan-
ger their person. Opens Friday,
Sept. 14. Area theaters. Visit fan-
dango.com.
STAGE
IN THE CLOSET
Rainbow Theatre Project opens its
sixth season with its first full pro-
duction of a new play — a joint
world premiere with Cleveland’s
Convergence-Continuum. A meta-
physical comedy from Siegmund
Fuchs, a native of Cleveland who
lives and works in D.C. as a lawyer
for the U.S. Department of Justice,
In The Closet follows an 18-year-old
boy guided by three older gay men
acting as his “fairy godmothers” to
help find a way out of the closet.
The company’s H. Lee Gable directs
a cast featuring Tim Caggiano,
Zachary Dittami, Christopher
Janson, and Patrick Joy. To Sept.
15. District of Columbia Arts Center
(DCAC), 2438 18th St. NW. Tickets
are $35. Call 202-462-7833 or visit
rainbowtheatreproject.org.
MARIE AND ROSETTA
Mosaic Theater Company launch-
es its fourth season with George
Brant’s empowering play with
songs highlighting the talents of
Rosetta Tharpe and Marie Knight,
two under-appreciated black music
legends. Sandra L. Holloway directs
a production starring Helen Hayes
Award-winning actress Roz White
(Studio Theatre’s Bessie’s Blues)
as Tharpe, the queer black woman
who all but invented rock ‘n’ roll,
while Ayana Reed takes on the role
of Tharpe’s young protege Knight.
Music direction comes from e’Mar-
cus Harper-Short. In previews. To
Sept. 30. The Lang Theatre in the
Atlas Performing Arts Center, 1333
H St. NE. Tickets are $50 to $68.
Call 202-399-7993 or visit mosa-
ictheater.org.

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 PASSION
Natascia Diaz ignites the fiery love
triangle at the heart of this Tony-
winning musical opening the sea-
son at Signature Theatre. Director
Matthew Gardiner has cast the
ever-dazzling Diaz (Signature’s
West Side Story) in the role of Fosca,
whose infatuation with Giorgio
(Claybourne Elder), threatens to
upend the captain’s world. Steffanie
Leigh, Will Gartshore, Rayanne
Gonzales, and Bobby Smith are
among the large cast in Signature’s
newest production of the Stephen
Sondheim and James Lapine musi-
cal, whose rich score is grandly
brought to life with a full orchestra
led by Jon Kalbfleisch. To Sept. 23.
Max Theatre, 4200 Campbell Ave.,
Arlington. Call 703-820-9771 or visit
sigtheatre.org.

THE PAINTED ROCKS

AT REVOLVER CREEK
MetroStage, which launched in 1987
with Blood Knot by Athol Fugard,
kicks off its 30th Anniversary Season
with the latest play by the South
African master. The Painted Rocks
at Revolver Creek was inspired by
the life of outsider artist Nukain
Mabuza and shows apartheid’s lin-
gering effects in the country today.

GETTING VOCAL
MetroStage Artistic Associate
Thomas W. Jones II directs Doug
Brown, Marni Penning, Jeremiah
Hasty, and Jeremy Keith Hunter. In
previews. To Sept. 30. MetroStage,
Composer Gregory Spears ambles into Thoreau territory 1201 North Royal St., Alexandria.
with his latest song-cycle commission. Tickets are $55. Call 703-548-9044

T
or visit metrostage.org.
HERE’S SOMETHING VERY ‘EVERYDAY’ ABOUT A SINGER AND A PIANO MAK-
ing a song — especially an opera singer, who actually sings very, very loudly.” It’s a cool, MUSIC
rainy Saturday, and composer Gregory Spears is deep in a discussion of the upcoming DIANA ROSS
performance of Walden, a song cycle based on the work of Henry David Thoreau, com- Even after all these years, Ross still
missioned by Vocal Arts DC. has the pipes, the power, and the
“There’s something very grounding about having instruments made out of wood accompanying stage charisma to bring an audi-
ence to its knees or to its feet. The
a person who has no microphone,” the youthful 41-year-old, who lives in New York, continues. Lady returns to the area for another
“That’s what brings me back, over and over, to classical music. Because it has that tradition of glorious opportunity to relive her
purely acoustic performance.” Motown hits and disco classics —
for her and her fans, especially those
Spears, who is a proud member of the LGBTQ community, says that composing music to of the LGBTQ variety. And there are
Thoreau’s words had its share of challenges. few places better or more acous-
“I don’t know if you’ve read Thoreau recently,” he says, “but it’s these long, complex nine- tically perfect to savor the sound.
teenth-century sentences. And yet, the ideas are all about being logical and making clear argu- Tuesday, Sept. 25, and Wednesday,
Sept. 26, at 8 p.m. Music Center at
ments about the world based on observation, often nature. So trying to set this as a song was an Strathmore, 5301 Tuckerman Lane,
interesting challenge. I liked Thoreau’s ideas about simplicity and directness and taking away all North Bethesda. Tickets are $69
the stuff of life that’s not necessary, all the sort of consumerist stuff that surrounds us. If you clear to $239. Call 301-581-5100 or visit
strathmore.org.
all that away, what can you see?”
Spears was particularly thrilled to write for baritone Brian Mulligan, who will also perform the MARYLAND LYRIC OPERA:
1974 Pulitzer Prize-winning song cycle, Dominick Argento’s From the Diary of Virginia Woolf, at LA FANCIULLA DEL WEST
this Sunday’s recital. Despite acclaim as one of opera’s
greatest scores and lushest orches-
“Vocal Arts are always engaging these incredible, world-class singers,” says Spears. “They trations, this masterwork from
didn’t tell me immediately who the singer would be, but when they mentioned Brian Mulligan, Puccini remains relatively unknown
I was excited because I actually went to college with him back in the ’90s. We didn’t ever get a and rarely performed. To the rescue
comes this young, singer-focused
chance to work together then, but I’ve been following his career. So it was exciting to be able to company via a semi-staged concert
write a piece for him.” —Randy Shulman version of the romantic Western
epic. Translated in English as The
Girl of the Golden West, the opera
Gregory Spears’ Walden will be performed by Brian Mulligan and pianist Timothy Long on Sunday, focuses on Millie, a heroine in the
Sept. 16, at 2 p.m., at the Kennedy Center Terrace Theater. Tickets are $50. Call 202-467-4600 or mold of Puccini’s far-better-known
visit kennedy-center.org. Tosca and Butterfly. Louis Salemno

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BLACK CAT’S 25TH ANNIVERSARY
This weekend ushers in two-nights’ worth of tributes to one of D.C.’s best-known venues
for indie and alternative rock bands, as well as dance parties and other eclectic program-
ming. Festivities kick off on Friday, Sept. 14, with a lineup featuring Subhumans, Ocampo
Ocampo & Watt (ft. Mike Watt, Devin Ocampo, and Renata Ocampo), Ted Leo, Des
Demonas, Dagger Moon, Scanners, Honey, and Felix & Sam, plus DJ Amanda Mackaye.
The next night brings Ex Hex, Gray Matter, Hurry Up (feat. Kathy Foster and Westin
Glass of the Thermals), Algiers, Hammered Hulls (feat. Alec MacKaye, Mary Timony,
Mark Cisneros, and Chris Wilson), Wanted Man, and Fool Swoops, with DJ Dante
Ferrando — also known as the Black Cat’s owner. Doors at 7 p.m. each night. Black Cat,
1811 14th St. NW. Tickets are $25 each night. Call 202-667-4490 or visit blackcatdc.com
leads the company’s 75-member
orchestra and chorus in two per-
formances this weekend, with two
casts led by a different internation-
ally acclaimed soprano in the role
of Millie: Susan Bullock on Friday,
Sept. 14, and Elizabeth Blancke-
Biggs on Saturday, Sept. 15, both
starting at 7:30 p.m. Music Center at
Strathmore, 5301 Tuckerman Lane,
North Bethesda. Tickets are $35
to $75. Call 301-581-5100 or visit
strathmore.org.
NATIONAL SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA: SEASON OPENING
GALA CONCERT
The NSO will be spacing out next
weekend as the company launch-
es its new season with salutes to
NASA’s recent 60th Anniversary
and the upcoming 50th Anniversary
of the moon landing. Naturally, one
of the spaciest symphonies, Gustav
Holst’s The Planets, is a prominent
part of the program, which also pres-
ents the soaring new work Voyage
by Michael Giacchino, the prolific
Oscar-winning composer behind
the recent Star Trek titles. This
year’s celebrity soloist is perennial
gala favorite and superstar violinist
Joshua Bell, joining for “Song to
the Moon” from Antonín Dvořák’s
Rusalka, as well as Manuel Ponce’s
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Estrellita, and Pablo de Sarasate’s
Carmen Fantasy. Saturday, Sept. 22,
at 7 p.m. Kennedy Center Concert
Hall. Tickets are $65 to $175. Call
202-467-4600 or visit kennedy-cen-
ter.org.
SHENANDOAH RUN
This nine-member, D.C.-based
ensemble focuses on “keeping folk
music alive and fresh” — yet also
connected to its roots in political
protest. The weekend of Trump’s
Inauguration, for example, they
put together “Songs of Protest,
Songs of Triumph,” a program of
folk standards that had galvanized
activists in earlier times of strug-
gle. Here’s to the group keeping up
that fight by maintaining their level
of quality musicianship and sig-
nature soaring harmonies, which
have been known to inspire sing-
alongs. Who could argue with that?
Saturday, Sept. 22. Doors at 5 p.m.
Jammin Java, 227 Maple Ave. E.
Vienna. Tickets are $20 in advance,
or $25 day-of. Call 703-255-3747 or
visit jamminjava.com.
Ex Hex
MUSEUMS
& GALLERIES
BASELITZ: SIX DECADES
The Hirshhorn presents the first
major U.S. retrospective since 1996
of one of Germany’s greatest liv-
ing artists, featuring more than
100 works, from iconic paintings
to wood and bronze sculptures,
highlighting every phase of Georg
Baselitz’s career. The occasion is
the 80th birthday of the figurative
artist, who came of age in post-war
East Germany and is best known for
large-scale, expressive paintings,
often with subjects painted upside
down. Through Sept. 16. Second
Floor Galleries, Independence
Avenue and Seventh Street SW.
Call 202-633-1000 or visit hirsh-
horn.si.edu.
HEAVY METAL:
WOMEN TO WATCH 2018
The fifth installment in a triennial
exhibition series presented at the
National Museum of Women in the
Arts showcases 20 contemporary
artists working in metal to create
a wide variety of objects, includ-
ing sculpture, jewelry, and concep-
tual forms. Inspired by NMWA’s
collection of silverwork crafted by
British and Irish women in the 18th
and 19th centuries, Heavy Metal,
displaying more than 50 works of
art, seeks to further disrupt the
predominantly masculine narra-
tive that surrounds metalworking
despite women’s consistent pres-
ence the field for centuries. To
Sept. 16. 1250 New York Ave NW.
Admission is $10. Call 202-783-
5000 or visit nmwa.org.
MICRO-MONUMENTS II:
UNDERGROUND
An exhibition featuring 15 local and
eight German artists, who were
brought together to focus a contem-
porary lens on topics including the
cosmos, nature, and deep time, with
the intention of serving as a catalyst
for exploration into enduring ques-
tions about our history and place
in the world. A co-presentation of
the Washington Sculptors Group
and IA&A at Hillyer, featured art-
ists include Ursula Achternkamp,
Alan Binstock, Janet Brome, Mark
Fromm, Caroline Hatfield, Linda
Hesh, Jacqueline Maggi, Alim
Pasht-Han, Judith Pratt, and Steve
Wanna. A Curator & Artist Talk is
Thursday, Sept. 20, at 7 p.m. On
display through Oct. 28 at 9 Hillyer
Court NW. Call 202-338-0325 or
visit athillyer.org.
BRUNCH
LA BOUM
Launched seven years ago at
L’Enfant Cafe, the incredibly popu-
lar boozy brunch/day party known
as La Boum has only gotten bigger
and boum-ier in recent years — even
earning a nod as one of Bravo TV’s
“Top 5 Raging Brunches in the U.S.”
The self-billed “revolutionary-style
brunch” welcomes patrons of all
genders and sexual orientations
for a multi-course dinner and four
hours of drinking, dancing to a DJ,
and doing “everything they weren’t
allowed to do under pure paren-
tal supervision as young adults.”
Yet you have to be very grown-up
and plan ahead in particular for
Saturday brunch. Abigail, 1730 M
St. NW. Tickets are $32.50 to $35
per person, plus 20-percent gratuity
and drinks. Call 240-286-4286 or
visit laboumbrunch.com.
SIR SUNDAYS AT SAX
Penn Quarter’s Moulin Rouge-
inspired restaurant Sax offers move-
ment-based spectacles, including
aerial stunts, hip-hop group rou-
tines, pole performances, and bur-
lesque, to add excitement beyond
the food. And male burlesque is
the showcase every Sunday during
brunch, as a group of male pro-
fessional dancers, aerialists, and
bodybuilders perform full-length
shows, accompanied by unlimited
mimosas delivered by by table ser-
vice studs. Sundays at 11 a.m. and 2
p.m. Sax Restaurant & Lounge, 734
 ple, old people and young people
— all just dancing and singing at the
top of their lungs.” Peach Pit is very
strictly ’90s, as Bailer only plays and
takes requests for tracks released
between Jan. 1, 1990, and Dec. 31,
1999. Saturday, Sept. 15. Doors at
10:30 p.m. DC9, 1940 9th St. NW.
Cover is $5, or $8 after midnight.
Call 202-483-5000 or visit dcnine.
com.

TRADE: GAY/BASH:
SUMMER 4 EVER
Josh Vogelsong started his month-
ly alternative drag-focused party
more than six years ago at the Black
Cat, but it wasn’t until it moved
to Trade that it became what he
had long envisioned it could be.
“People show up in looks, every-
body comes dressed up,” Vogelsong
says. “Everybody gets crazy during
COLLIN HOVDE

the show. You can just spray beer

on the crowd, and they’d cheer and
love it. It’s wild.” The next event
is a celebration of summer — both
the season now ending and Shea
Van Horn’s drag alter-ego Summer
VIVA VERDI - THE PROMISED END Camp, who will perform along with
Jane Saw, Salvadora Dali, Jaxknife
The InSeries, D.C.’s passionate and eccentric concert/cabaret production company opens Complex, and, last but not least,
its new season with an original work that blends Verdi’s Requiem with a one-woman Donna Slash, Vogelsong’s oth-
meditation on Shakespeare’s King Lear. Timothy Nelson, the company’s incoming artistic er-persona. Jams from the Barber
director, developed the show through imagining what an opera based on Lear might have Streisand. Saturday, Sept. 15. Doors
at 10 p.m., with shows at 11:30 p.m.
sounded like from Verdi had the Italian composer actually realized his dream project. and 1 a.m. 1410 14th St. NW. Call
Helen Hayes Award-winning powerhouse Nanna Ingvarsson takes on the role of Verdi/ 202-986-1094 or visit facebook.
Lear in a production featuring eight area vocal artists as “Spirits of the Future Singers” com/gaybashdc.
and music director Paul Leavitt, performing an intimate, chamber arrangement of the
Requiem for piano only. Directed by Steven Scott Mazzola. To Sept. 23. Source, 1835 14th ABOVE
St. NW. Tickets are $20 to $45. Call 202-204-7763 or visit inseries.org.
AND BEYOND
MAKING DC HISTORY AWARDS
Leon Harris of NBC4 emcees this
11th St. NW. Tickets are $50 to $65 her sassy sisters Laronica Vegas SHAW’S TAVERN:
year’s annual gala of the Historical
including appetizers and unlimited and Paula, in addition to special DINNER-N-DRAG, SERVED!
mimosas. Call 202-737-0101 or visit guests, next round Rose and Mariah Society of Washington, D.C., which
Sometimes you’re dragging and
sirmaleburlesque.com. Black. Drink specials include $18 honors D.C. developer John “Chip”
you just can’t make it to brunch.
Bottomless Mimosas, Bloody Akridge and his eponymous com-
And sometimes you want a regular,
mercial real estate company with the
DRAG
Mary’s, and Bloody Maria’s, $9 more traditional kind of meal — you
Margaritas, and $9 Irish Coffees. Distinction in Historic Preservation
know, at night, over wine. Well,
Sunday, Sept. 16, from noon to 2 Award, the Central Union Mission
these days, you can have just that
BAR ROUBAIX: p.m. 1400 Irving St. NW. Ste. 109. with one of D.C.’s leading ladies of
for Distinction in Social Service,
SASSY DRAG BRUNCH Tickets are $21 inclusive of show, drag. Every Sunday night at Shaw’s
and Brett Hitt and Hitt Contracting,
Over the past year, the local Hilton one entree, and 18-percent gratuity, Inc., for Distinction in Corporate
Tavern, Kristina Kelly hosts a show
brothers have expanded well or $10 for show with no food. Call Achievement, plus the Drew Jarvis
over supper with half-priced bot-
beyond Marvin and The Brixton 202-560-5721 or search “Sassy Drag Family will be inducted into the
tles of wine and different dinner
and their original U Street base. Brunch” on eventbrite.com. Legacy Families of Washington,
specials each week. Seating at 7
None of the additions, however, D.C. This year’s Visionary Historian
p.m., show at 8 p.m. 520 Florida
stand out as much as Bar Roubaix PRETTY BOI DRAG: Award, a lifetime achievement
Ave. NW. Reservations required via
in Columbia Heights with its racing #PRETTYBOIAFTERDARK honor, was bestowed at a sepa-
shawsdinnerdragshow@gmail.com.
bike theme, complete with chains Founded over two years ago by for- rate ceremony in May on Howard
Call 202-518-4092 or visit shaw-
dangling behind the bar and wheels mer DC King Pretty Rik E, this Gillette, the now-retired George
stavern.com.
serving as light fixtures. Named troupe performs two rounds of its Washington University profes-
after the French city sponsor- sexy show After Dark at an intimate sor and historian who established
ing one of the world’s oldest and venue in Petworth “where every NIGHTLIFE its Center for Washington Area
most iconic professional bike races seat is in the splash zone.” A VIP Studies. Thursday, Sept. 20, start-
and housed in the former Acre 121 ticket includes a Meet and Greet DC9: PEACH PIT ing with an Honoree Reception at
space, Roubaix features a menu of before the show, group photo with Named after the diner on Beverly 6:30 p.m., followed by the Awards
European-inspired bites from Chef the cast, front-row seating, and a Hills, 90210, Peach Pit was start- Presentation at 7:30 p.m. Newseum,
Rafael Nunez. And now, Roubaix Pretty Boi Drag Tee #AfterDark ed by DJ Matt Bailer more than 555 Pennsylvania Ave. NW. Tickets
stands out even more thanks to a Goodie Bag. Saturday, Sept. 22, at eight years ago at Dahlek, the for- are $300 to $350. Call 202-249-3955
drag brunch the third Sunday of 7 and 10 p.m. Ten Tigers Parlour, mer Eritrean restaurant that also or visit dchistory.org. l
each month, organized by Josael 3813 Georgia Ave. NW. Tickets are birthed Mixtape. Bailer describes
Abraham Gutierrez. Sassy Drag $25, or $50 for VIP including Meet the party as a “kind of sweaty mosh
Brunch features Desiree Dik as the & Greet Call 202-506-2080 or visit pit of guys and girls, straights and
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YOU’RE A WINNER, BABY
Drag Race and Queer Eye score multiple wins at the
Creative Arts Emmys By John Riley
L
GBTQ TELEVISION SHOWS AND ARTISTS WON
big at the Creative Arts Emmys over the weekend,
bringing home at least 12 awards.
RuPaul’s Drag Race franchise continued its awards
success, earning Emmys in four categories. Zaldy Goco,
RuPaul’s costume designer, nabbed Outstanding Costumes
for Variety, Nonfiction or Reality Programming, marking his
second win in the category. Hairstylists Hector Pocasangre
and Gabriel Villarreal — better known as Drag Race star Delta
Work — took home the award for Outstanding Hairstyling
for a Multi-Camera Series or Special, and Nick Murray won
for Outstanding Directing for a Reality Program. RuPaul,
meanwhile, took home his third consecutive award for
Outstanding Host for a Reality or Reality-Competition
Program.
“Everybody say ‘Love’!” RuPaul said in his acceptance
speech, according to Deadline, prompting the audience
to scream back “Love!” “Now drive that down to 1600
Pennsylvania Avenue! That’s what our show is about. Our
show is about love and courage and the tenacity of the
human spirit. And all the people who work on the show at
[World of Wonder] and at VH1, we are so happy to present
all of these queens to the world.... Thank you from the bot-
tom of my heart!”
Another big winner was Queer Eye, Netflix’s lauded
reboot of the Bravo reality series, which took home three
awards almost 14 years after its original iteration won the
Emmy for Best Reality Show. The show won Outstanding
Structured Reality Program, Outstanding Picture Editing
for a Structured or Competition Reality Program, and
Outstanding Casting for a Reality Program.
SCHADENFREUDE
Gay New Hampshire Democrat beats opponent who allegedly used homophobic
“dog whistle” attack in mailers By John Riley
D
EMOCRAT CHRIS PAPPAS, AN OPENLY GAY
candidate for New Hampshire’s 1st Congressional
District, has won his primary for an open seat in
Congress, adding to the ranks of openly LGBTQ candidates
seeking office.
Pappas won an 11-way race with 42% of the vote, besting
“This show is so important,” executive producer David
Collins said in his speech, “thank you for what this Fab Five
are doing to help the LGBT movement.”
Transgender filmmaker Yance Ford made history as the
first openly transgender man and first black transgender
person to win an Emmy Award, taking home an Emmy for
Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking for his doc-
umentary Strong Island. It’s the second time Ford has made
history this year, after becoming the first openly trans man
to be nominated for an Academy Award for Strong Island.
The Handmaid’s Tale’s Samira Wiley also made history,
becoming the youngest ever person to win Outstanding
Guest Actress in a Drama Series for her role in the Hulu
show. Wiley was previously nominated for Outstanding
Supporting Actress. She thanked “my higher power because
without her I wouldn’t be here,” and also thanked her wife,
Lauren Mirelli, “who every day shows me what real passion
is for your work and every hour gives me a reason to bring
it.”
The late Craig Zadan, co-producer of Jesus Christ
Superstar Live In Concert, was posthumously awarded with
five Creative Arts Emmys after the NBC television special
won for Outstanding Variety Special, Outstanding Lighting
Design/Lighting Direction for a Variety Special, Outstanding
Production Design for a Variety Special, Outstanding Sound
Mixing for a Variety Series or Special, and Outstanding
Technical Direction, Camerawork, Video Control for a
Limited Series, Movie or Special.
Zadan, who was openly gay, died at his Los Angeles home
on Aug. 20 after experiencing complications from shoulder
replacement surgery. He was 69. l
his nearest competitor and chief rival, Maura Sullivan, by 12
points. The two had sparred earlier this week over a mailer
sent out by the Sullivan campaign that some LGBTQ groups
believed was a homophobic “dog whistle,” calling into ques-
tion whether Pappas had the “backbone” to stand up against
right-wing special interest groups seeking to repeal the
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Affordable Care Act.
Both the LGBTQ Victory Fund and Equality PAC accused
Sullivan, a Marine veteran and former Obama adminis-
tration official, of crossing the line with the attack mailer,
though Sullivan maintained she had done nothing wrong.
“It would be one thing if this was unique. But this
is something we’ve seen time and again in campaigns,
particularly campaigns against gay men, in effect calling
them weak, or directly saying it, like in the case of Maura’s
attack,” Roddy Flynn, the executive director of Equality
PAC, told Metro Weekly. “For her to claim, ‘That’s not at all
what I meant. How can you possibly infer that?’ is a little bit
disingenuous. The burden is on the speaker, particularly in
a Democratic primary, who is seeking to represent a diverse
group of people, including LGBTQ people, to make sure
what they’re saying is not going to be considered offensive.
“The thing about dog whistles is they’re subtle, but if
you’ve been around long enough, you know them when you
see them,” added Flynn. “She’s now backed off from that
attack because she knows that many LGBTQ people, partic-
ularly gay men, see it as echoing the schoolyard taunts that
a lot of us faced from bullies when we were growing up.”
Should he win in November, Pappas will make history
as the first openly LGBTQ person elected to Congress from
New Hampshire. He now joins 16 LGBTQ individuals who
won their Congressional primaries and will appear on the
ballot in November — more than at any time in history.
“Chris Pappas continues to smash long-standing political
barriers for LGBTQ New Hampshirites — and his victory is
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emblematic of the pipeline of LGBTQ leaders who continue
to rise through the ranks to better serve their constitu-
ents,” Annise Parker, the president and CEO of the LGBTQ
Victory Fund, said in a statement. “Democratic primary
voters are demanding authentic, values-driven leaders who
prioritize policies over politics — and they found that leader
in Chris. He was born and raised in the district, is a fierce
advocate for fairness and equality, and will fight tirelessly
to push forward policies that advance those principles. We
need change in Washington, and a November victory for
Chris is critical to securing a pro-equality majority in the
next U.S. Congress.”
Pappas, the co-owner of a family restaurant business
and a member of the Executive Council of New Hampshire,
pulled off the victory despite being outspent 3-to-1. He has
made campaign finances reform, health care, and support
for reproductive rights major parts of his platform as he
seeks the seat being vacated by Congresswoman Carol Shea-
Porter.
In his victory speech, Pappas shared the stories of sev-
eral 1st District residents he had met on the campaign trail,
including an LGBTQ student in Manchester, saying he
hoped his victory would allow her to understand that “you,
too, are welcome here, and regardless of who you are or who
you love, the sky’s the limit.”
“At the end of the day this election is about what we
can accomplish and who we are,” Pappas said. “We need to
say loudly and clearly this fall that we don’t live in Donald
Trump’s America, this country still belongs to all of us.” l
 Community
THURSDAY, Sept. 13
Join The DC Center for its
YOUTH WORKING GROUP
AWARDS RECEPTION at
Agora. The group will present
its Youth Advocate of the Year
and Youth Champion of the
Year awards. Free appetizers
and glass of wine to early arriv-
als, happy hour drink specials,
and food available. There will
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also be a silent auction and

raffle prizes. 6-8 p.m. 1527 17th
St. NW. For more information,
visit thedccenter.org.

Weekly Events

ANDROMEDA
TRANSCULTURAL HEALTH
offers free HIV testing and HIV
Jim Graham (second from left) at a Whitman-Walker gala in 1996. services (by appointment). 9

TO OUR HEALTH
a.m.-5 p.m. Decatur Center,
1400 Decatur St. NW. To
arrange an appointment, call
202-291-4707, or visit androm-
edatransculturalhealth.org.
Whitman-Walker celebrates 40 years of service to the D.C. community
with a gala next weekend. DC AQUATICS CLUB practice

O
session at Takoma Aquatic
Center. 7:30-9 p.m. 300 Van
UR COMMUNITY REALLY COUNTS ON US,” SAYS JEWEL ADDY, EXTERNAL
Buren St. NW. For more infor-
affairs manager at Whitman-Walker Health. “Everyone who walks through our doors mation, visit swimdcac.org.
is treated with dignity, respect and love. I’ve had the pleasure and opportunity to hear
stories from clients about how Whitman-Walker has impacted their lives.” DC FRONT RUNNERS run-
ning/walking/social club
For forty years, Whitman-Walker has served members of D.C.’s LGBTQ community and welcomes runners of all ability
people living with HIV, providing high-quality health care including regular checkups, HIV levels for exercise in a fun and
and STD testing and treatment, addiction services, and mental health counseling. To com- supportive environment, with
socializing afterward. Route
memorate those achievements, Whitman-Walker will hold its 40th anniversary gala at the
distance is 3-6 miles. Meet at
Marriott Marquis Washington on Saturday, Sept. 22. 7 p.m. at 23rd & P Streets NW.
The evening’s program, emceed by Rayceen Pendarvis, NBC4 news host Chuck Bell, and For more information, visit
local actress and four-time Helen Hayes Award winner Holly Twyford, will begin with a dcfrontrunners.org.
cocktail reception and hors d’oeuvres, followed by a seated dinner and speaking program, DC LAMBDA SQUARES, D.C.’s
a silent auction, and a dance party featuring music from DJ Paddy Boom, formerly of the gay and lesbian square-dancing
Scissor Sisters. The Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington’s GenOUT Chorus and the legendary group, features mainstream
through advanced square
Washington trio Betty, who were behind the theme song for The L Word, are also slated to
dancing at the National City
perform. Christian Church. Please dress
Ahead of the gala, Whitman-Walker has launched a “40 Stories” Project, featuring inter- casually. 7-9:30 p.m. 5 Thomas
views and biographies of people who were instrumental to its history, including former Circle NW. 202-930-1058,
dclambdasquares.org.
Whitman-Walker Executive Director and D.C. Councilmember Jim Graham, national news-
caster Max Robinson, and Dr. Mary Edwards “Walker,” one of the clinic’s namesakes. The DC SCANDALS RUGBY holds
project includes interviews and testimonials from current employees and clients, who talk practice. The team is always
looking for new members.
about the services they’ve received or their work at Whitman-Walker.
All welcome. 7-9 p.m. Harry
“We offer so many different programs and services that it’s often hard to capture what we Thomas Recreation Center,
do in a single tweet or word,” says Addy. “So it’s nice to have these different voices share their 1743 Lincoln Rd. NE. For more
individual experiences with us.” information, visit scandalsrfc.
org or dcscandals@gmail.com.
While Whitman-Walker holds other fundraising events throughout the year, including the
upcoming annual Walk & 5K to End HIV on Saturday, Oct. 27, the gala serves as yet another THE DULLES TRIANGLES
vital source for the organization, as demand for services only continues to grow. “The amount Northern Virginia social
group meets for happy hour at
of lives we’ve saved and the amount of stigma we’ve helped combat is immeasurable,” says
Sheraton in Reston. All wel-
Addy. “When people give money to support Whitman-Walker and our patients’ health and come. 7-9 p.m. 11810 Sunrise
wellbeing, it really does help people thrive.” —John Riley Valley Drive, second-floor bar.
For more information, visit
dullestriangles.com.
Whitman-Walker Health’s 40th Anniversary Gala is on Saturday, Sept. 22 from 6:30 to 11 p.m.
at the Marriott Marquis Washington, 901 Massachusetts Ave. NW. Tickets are $400 per per- HIV TESTING at Whitman-
son. To purchase tickets, visit wwhgala.com. For more information on Whitman-Walker’s “40 Walker Health. 9 a.m.-12:30
p.m. and from 2-5 p.m. at 1525
Stories” Project, visit whitman-walker.org/40-stories.

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 14th St. NW, and 9 a.m-12 p.m.
and 2-5 p.m. at the Max Robinson
Center, 2301 MLK Jr. Ave. SE. For
an appointment call 202-745-7000
or visit whitman-walker.org.
IDENTITY offers free and confi-
dential HIV testing at two separate
locations. Walk-ins accepted from
2-6 p.m., by appointment for all
other hours. 414 East Diamond Ave.,
Gaithersburg, Md. or 7676 New
Hampshire Ave., Suite 411, Takoma
Park, Md. To set up an appoint-
ment or for more information, call
Gaithersburg, 301-300-9978, or
Takoma Park, 301-422-2398.
METROHEALTH CENTER
offers free, rapid HIV testing.
Appointment needed. 1012 14th
St. NW, Suite 700. To arrange an
appointment, call 202-638-0750.
SMYAL offers free HIV Testing, 3-5
p.m., by appointment and walk-in,
for youth 21 and younger. Youth
Center, 410 7th St. SE. 202-567-
3155 or testing@smyal.org.
STI TESTING at Whitman-Walker
Health. 10 a.m.-12:30 p.m. and 2-3
p.m. at both 1525 14th St. NW and
the Max Robinson Center, 2301
Martin Luther King, Jr. Ave. SE.
Testing is intended for those with-
out symptoms. For an appointment
call 202-745-7000 or visit whit-
man-walker.org.
US HELPING US hosts a Narcotics
Anonymous Meeting. The group
is independent of UHU. 6:30-7:30
p.m., 3636 Georgia Ave. NW. For
more information, call 202-446-
1100.
WOMEN’S LEADERSHIP
INSTITUTE for young LBTQ
women, 13-21, interested in lead-
ership development. 5-6:30 p.m.
SMYAL Youth Center, 410 7th St.
SE. For more information, call 202-
567-3163, or email catherine.chu@
smyal.org.
FRIDAY, Sept. 14
GAMMA is a confidential, volun-
tary, peer-support group for men
who are gay, bisexual, questioning
and who are now or who have been
in a relationship with a woman.
7:30-9:30 p.m. Luther Place
Memorial Church, 1226 Vermont
Ave NW. GAMMA meetings are
also held in Vienna, Va., and in
Frederick, Md. For more informa-
tion, visit gammaindc.org.
WOMEN IN THEIR TWENTIES
(AND THIRTIES), a social discus-
sion and activity group for queer
women, meets at The DC Center
on the second and fourth Friday of
each month. Group social activity to
follow the meeting. 8-9:30 p.m. 2000
14th St. NW, Suite 105. For more
information, visit thedccenter.org.
24 SEPTEMBER 13, 2018 • METROWEEKLY
Weekly Events
BET MISHPACHAH, founded by
members of the LGBT community,
holds Friday evening Shabbat ser-
vices in the DC Jewish Community
Center’s Community Room. 8 p.m.
1529 16th St. NW. For more infor-
mation, visit betmish.org.
DC AQUATICS CLUB holds a prac-
tice session at Howard University.
6:30-8 p.m. Burr Gymnasium, 2400
6th St. NW. For more information,
visit swimdcac.org.
HIV TESTING at Whitman-Walker
Health. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. at 1525
14th St. NW. For an appointment
call 202-745-7000 or visit whit-
man-walker.org.
PROJECT STRIPES hosts LGBT-
affirming social group for ages
11-24. 4-6 p.m. 1419 Columbia Road
NW. Contact Tamara, 202-319-
0422, layc-dc.org.
SMYAL’S REC NIGHT provides a
social atmosphere for LGBT and
questioning youth, featuring dance
parties, vogue nights, movies and
games. For more info, email cather-
ine.chu@smyal.org.
SATURDAY, Sept. 15
ADVENTURING outdoors group
hikes a moderately strenuous 8
miles on Great North Mountain to
scenic overlook on the Virginia-
West Virginia state line. Swim in
nearby Trout Pond Recreation Area
afterwards, then dinner on the way
home. Bring plenty of beverages,
lunch, sturdy boots, sunscreen, bug
spray, about $20 for fees and money
for dinner on the way home. Carpool
at 8:30 a.m. from East Falls Church
Metro Station Kiss & Ride lot. Return
after dark. Contact Joe, 202-276-5521
or visit adventuring.org.
CHRYSALIS arts & culture group
holds fall potluck social in the
party room of a Dupont Circle
establishment. Plans for fall
museum visits and excursions to
Baltimore Museum of Art and
Virginia plantations will be dis-
cussed. All welcome. Bring enough
to serve six people from one of the
following categories: appetizers,
salads, entrees, vegetable dishes, or
desserts. For food coordination and
directions, contact Kevin, 571-338-
1433 or kgiles27@gmail.com.
KHUSH DC, a support group
for LGBTQ South Asians, hosts
a monthly meeting at The DC
Center. 1:30-3 p.m. 2000 14th St.
NW, Suite 105. For more informa-
tion, visit facebook.com/khushdc.
The DC Center hosts a month-
ly LGBT ASYLEES SUPPORT
MEETING AND DINNER for LGBT
refugees and asylum seekers. 5-7
p.m. 2000 14th St. NW, Suite 105.
For more information, visit thedc-
center.org.
The DC Center holds a meeting of
its LGBTQ PEOPLE OF COLOR
SUPPORT GROUP, facilitated by
Dakia Davis. 1-3 p.m. 2000 14th St.
NW, Suite 105. For more informa-
tion, visit thedccenter.org.
Weekly Events
DC AQUATICS CLUB holds a prac-
tice session at Montgomery College
Aquatics Club. 8:30-10 a.m. 7600
Takoma Ave., Takoma, Md. For more
information, visit swimdcac.org.
DC FRONT RUNNERS running/
walking/social club welcomes run-
ners of all ability levels for exercise
in a fun and supportive environ-
ment, with socializing afterward.
Route distance will be 3-6 miles.
Walker meet at 9:30 a.m. and run-
ners at 10 a.m. at 23rd & P Streets
NW. For more information, visit
dcfrontrunners.org.
DIGNITYUSA sponsors Mass for
LGBT community, family and
friends. 6:30 p.m., Immanuel
Church-on-the-Hill, 3606 Seminary
Road, Alexandria. All welcome. For
more info, visit dignitynova.org.
SUNDAY, Sept. 16
Volunteers are needed to help
with CASA RUBY’S MONTHLY
DINNER. Held on the third Sunday
of each month, in conjunction with
The DC Center, the event provides
a hot meal to those housed at Casa
Ruby. Homemade or store bought
meals welcome. 7-8 p.m. Casa Ruby
Shelter, 1216 Kennedy St. NW. For
more information, contact lamar@
thedccenter.org, jon@thedccenter.
org, or visit casaruby.org.
Weekly Events
LGBT-inclusive ALL SOULS
MEMORIAL EPISCOPAL CHURCH
celebrates Low Mass at 8:30
a.m., High Mass at 11 a.m. 2300
Cathedral Ave. NW. 202-232-4244,
allsoulsdc.org.
DC AQUATICS CLUB holds a
practice session at Wilson Aquatic
Center. 9:30-11 a.m. 4551 Fort Dr.
NW. For more information, visit
swimdcac.org.
DC FRONT RUNNERS running/
walking/social club welcomes run-
ners of all ability levels for exercise
in a fun and supportive environ-
ment, with socializing afterward.
Route will be a distance run of 8, 10
or 12 miles. Meet at 9 a.m. at 23rd
& P Streets NW. For more informa-
tion, visit dcfrontrunners.org.
DIGNITYUSA offers Roman
Catholic Mass for the LGBT
community. All welcome. Sign
interpreted. 6 p.m. St. Margaret’s
Church, 1820 Connecticut Ave.
NW. For more info, visit dignity-
washington.org.
FIRST CONGREGATIONAL
UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST
welcomes all to 10:30 a.m. service,
945 G St. NW. firstuccdc.org or
202-628-4317.
FRIENDS MEETING OF
WASHINGTON meets for worship,
10:30 a.m., 2111 Florida Ave. NW,
Quaker House Living Room (next
to Meeting House on Decatur
Place), 2nd floor. Special welcome
to lesbians and gays. Handicapped
accessible from Phelps Place gate.
Hearing assistance. quakersdc.org.
HSV-2 SOCIAL AND SUPPORT
GROUP for gay men living in the
DC metro area. This group will be
meeting once a month. For infor-
mation on location and time, visit
H2gether.com.
Join LINCOLN
CONGREGATIONAL TEMPLE –
UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST for
an inclusive, loving and progressive
faith community every Sunday. 11
a.m. 1701 11th Street NW, near R in
Shaw/Logan neighborhood. lincol-
ntemple.org.
LUTHERAN CHURCH OF
REFORMATION invites all to
Sunday worship at 8:30 or 11 a.m.
Childcare is available at both ser-
vices. Welcoming LGBT people for
25 years. 212 East Capitol St. NE.
reformationdc.org.
METROPOLITAN COMMUNITY
CHURCH OF WASHINGTON, D.C.
services at 9 a.m. (ASL interpret-
ed) and 11 a.m. Children’s Sunday
School at 11 a.m. 474 Ridge St. NW.
202-638-7373, mccdc.com.
RIVERSIDE BAPTIST CHURCH,
a Christ-centered, interracial,
welcoming-and-affirming church,
offers service at 10 a.m. 680 I St.
SW. 202-554-4330, riversidedc.org.
UNITARIAN CHURCH OF
ARLINGTON, an LGBTQ welcom-
ing-and-affirming congregation,
offers services at 10 a.m. Virginia
Rainbow UU Ministry. 4444
Arlington Blvd. uucava.org.
UNIVERSALIST NATIONAL
MEMORIAL CHURCH, a welcom-
ing and inclusive church. GLBT
Interweave social/service group
meets monthly. Services at 11 a.m.,
Romanesque sanctuary. 1810 16th St.
NW. 202-387-3411, universalist.org.
MONDAY, August 17
The Metro D.C. chapter of PFLAG,
a support group for parents, family
members and allies of the LGBTQ
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 community, holds its monthly
meeting at The DC Center. 7-9 p.m.
2000 14th St. NW, Suite 105. For
more information, visit thedccen-
ter.org.
Weekly Events
DC AQUATICS CLUB holds a
practice session at Dunbar Aquatic
Center. 7:30-9 p.m. 101 N St. NW.
For more information, visit swim-
dcac.org.
NOVASALUD offers free HIV test-
ing. 5-7 p.m. 2049 N. 15th St., Suite
200, Arlington. Appointments: 703-
789-4467.
The DC Center hosts COFFEE
DROP-IN FOR THE SENIOR LGBT
COMMUNITY. 10 a.m.-noon. 2000
14th St. NW. For more information,
call 202-682-2245 or visit thedc-
center.org.
US HELPING US hosts a black gay
men’s evening affinity group for
GBT black men. Light refreshments
provided. 7-9 p.m. 3636 Georgia
Ave. NW. 202-446-1100.
WASHINGTON WETSKINS
WATER POLO TEAM practices 7-9
p.m. Newcomers with at least basic
swimming ability always welcome.
Takoma Aquatic Center, 300 Van
Buren St. NW. For more informa-
tion, contact Tom, 703-299-0504
or secretary@wetskins.org, or visit
wetskins.org.
WHITMAN-WALKER HEALTH
HIV/AIDS SUPPORT GROUP
for newly diagnosed individuals,
meets 7 p.m. Registration required.
202-939-7671, hivsupport@whit-
man-walker.org.
TUESDAY, Sept. 18
CENTER BI, a group of The DC
Center, hosts a monthly roundtable
discussion around issues of bisex-
uality. 7-8 p.m. 2000 14th St. NW,
Suite 105. Visit thedccenter.org.
THE HIV WORKING GROUP of
The DC Center hosts a “Packing
Party,” where volunteers assemble
safe-sex kits of condoms and lube.
7-9 p.m. 2000 14th St. NW, Suite
105. For more information, visit
thedccenter.org.
Weekly Events
DC SCANDALS RUGBY holds prac-
tice. The team is always looking
for new members. All welcome.
7-9 p.m. Harry Thomas Recreation
Center, 1743 Lincoln Rd. NE. For
more information, visit scandalsrfc.
org or dcscandals@gmail.com.
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THE GAY MEN’S HEALTH
COLLABORATIVE offers free
HIV testing and STI screening
and treatment every Tuesday.
5-6:30 p.m. Rainbow Tuesday
LGBT Clinic, Alexandria Health
Department, 4480 King St. 703-
746-4986 or text 571-214-9617.
james.leslie@inova.org.
OVEREATERS ANONYMOUS
holds an LGBT-focused meet-
ing every Tuesday, 7 p.m. at St.
George’s Episcopal Church, 915
Oakland Ave., Arlington, just steps
from Virginia Square Metro. For
more info. call Dick, 703-521-
1999. Handicapped accessible.
Newcomers welcome. liveandletli-
veoa@gmail.com.
STI TESTING at Whitman-Walker
Health. 10 a.m.-3 p.m. at both 1525
14th St. NW and the Max Robinson
Center, 2301 Martin Luther King,
Jr. Ave. SE. Testing is intended for
those without symptoms. For an
appointment call 202-745-7000 or
visit whitman-walker.org.
Support group for LGBTQ youth
ages 13-21 meets at SMYAL. 5-6:30
p.m. 410 7th St. SE. For more
information, contact Cathy Chu,
202-567-3163, or catherine.chu@
smyal.org.
US HELPING US hosts a support
group for black gay men 40 and
older. 7-9 p.m., 3636 Georgia Ave.
NW. 202-446-1100.
Whitman-Walker Health holds its
weekly GAY MEN’S HEALTH AND
WELLNESS/STD CLINIC. Patients
are seen on walk-in basis. No-cost
screening for HIV, syphilis, gon-
orrhea and chlamydia. Hepatitis
and herpes testing available for fee.
Testing starts at 6 p.m, but should
arrive early to ensure a spot. 1525
14th St. NW. For more information,
visit whitman-walker.org.
WEDNESDAY, Sept. 19
BOOKMEN DC, an informal
men’s gay literature group, dis-
cusses Lillian Faderman’s The
Gay Revolution: The Story of the
Struggle. All welcome. 7:30 p.m.
The DC Center, 2000 14th St. NW,
Suite 105. Visit bookmendc.blog-
spot.com.
Join AGLA for a HAPPY HOUR
SOCIAL at Nellie’s Sports Bar.
6:30-8:30 p.m. 900 U St. NW. For
more information, visit agla.org.
The TOM DAVOREN SOCIAL
BRIDGE CLUB meets for Social
Bridge at the Dignity Center, across
from the Marine Barracks. No
partner needed. 7:30 p.m. 721 8th
St. SE. Call 301-345-1571 for more
information. l
Scene Hillwood Museum & Garden’s LGBTQ Families Day - Sunday, September 9
Photography by Ward Morrison - See and purchase more photos from this event at www.metroweekly.com/scene

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 Film p.31
Stage p.37
Pop, Rock, Folk & Jazz Music p.51
Classical & Choral Music p.69
Dance p.77
Museums & Galleries p.81
Above & Beyond: Comedy, Readings, Tastings, Events, Etc. p.84
Compiled by Doug Rule, Randy Shulman, and Rhuaridh Marr
SEPTEMBER 13, 2018 • METROWEEKLY

Film
I
T’S SOMETHING OF AN UNUSUAL SEASON FOR FILM
this fall. Gone are the usual spate of horrors that typically
cram theaters ahead of Halloween. Instead, there’s only a
choice few — from theme park nightmare Horror Fest, to a forty
years-later sequel to Halloween, once again starring Jamie Lee
Curtis as Laurie Strode.
Instead, fall is shaping up to be a bountiful season of Oscar-
bait and indie darlings, with a number of topics popping up
throughout the coming months. There’s addiction and its
impact on families in Beautiful Boy and Ben is Back, British
royalty and the imagined goings-on behind castle walls in The
Favourite and Mary Queen of Scots, and the post-apocalypse in I
Think We’re Alone Now and Mortal Engines.
And then, in December, something supercalifragilisticexpia-
lidocious this way comes...
SEPTEMBER
LIZZIE — Lizzie Borden became something of a national celebri-
ty when, in 1892, she was accused of murdering her father and
stepmother with an axe. The lead-up to the murders and the
sensational trial that followed are the subject of Craig William
Macneill’s film, which stars Chloë Sevigny as Borden and
Kristen Stewart as the housemaid Borden allegedly engaged
in an illicit romance — and who inspired her to commit double
parricide. (9/14)
fall arts preview
Boy Erased
by Rhuaridh Marr
COLETTE — The life of Nobel Prize-winning novelist Sidonie-
Gabrielle Colette is dramatized in this period film, starring
Keira Knightley as the titular character. Forced by her domi-
neering husband (Dominic West) to publish her novels under
his name — granting him the fame and recognition she deserves
— Colette begins an affair with the gender-defying Mathilde de
Morny, Marquise de Belbeuf (Denise Gough), which inspires
her to take control of her life and career. A timely tale of female
empowerment, glowing early reviews suggest that it’s one of
Knightley’s best performances. (9/21)
FAHRENHEIT 11/9 — Michael Moore’s latest documentary tack-
les the election and presidency of Donald Trump, as well as the
how and the why of what led to his victory — or, in the film’s
own terms, “How the fuck did we get here, and how the fuck
do we get out?” While some critics have argued that it lacks
cohesion, Fahrenheit 11/9 is Moore’s most lauded film in recent
memory, and a chilling reminder that we all need to fight for our
democracy, or soon there’ll be nothing left to fight for. (9/21)
TEA WITH THE DAMES — Fancy spending 90 minutes with Dame
Eileen Atkins, Dame Judi Dench, Dame Joan Plowright, and
Dame Maggie Smith? Now you can, as Roger Mitchell’s doc-
umentary explores the lifelong friendship between four of
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Britain’s most lauded and awarded actresses. Or, as Britain’s
Times described it: “A torrent of mischief, gossip, swearing, rec-
itations, singing and reminiscence.” We’re sold. (9/21)
THE HOUSE WITH A CLOCK IN ITS WALLS — Look closely at the
poster for this fantasy adventure, based on John Bellairs’ 1973
novel, and you’ll note one curious oddity: it’s directed by Eli
Roth. Yes, Eli Roth, who helped popularize the “torture porn”
genre with films like Hostel, is in charge of a gothic children’s
film. That said, there’s a lot of potential here. Ten-year-old
Lewis (Owen Vaccaro) is sent to live with his uncle Jonathan
(Jack Black) in his creaky old house. Jonathan, it transpires, is
a mediocre warlock, his neighbor Florence (Cate Blanchett) is a
powerful good witch, and when bad things start to happen it’s
up to the trio to stop an evil power from destroying everything.
Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Entertainment is co-producing, and
has presumably reined in Roth’s horror excesses to meet the
film’s PG sticker. (9/21)
HELL FEST — Halloween-themed nights designed to spook
guests are all the rage at American theme parks, which makes
Hell Fest both a timely and terrifying concept for a horror film:
What if there was an actual serial killer picking people off, all
under the guise that it’s just an actor working for the park?
(9/28)
FREE SOLO — Acrophobics, look away now, as this is not a film
for you. For everyone else, Free Solo is a fascinating documen-
tary from National Geographic about Alex Honnold, the first
person to climb 3,200 feet up the sheer face of El Capitan in
Yosemite National Park — without any safety equipment to
stop him from falling back down. Just be thankful it’s not in 3D.
(9/28)
NIGHT SCHOOL — This is either going to be an enjoyable riot,
or an unholy mess. We’re cautiously optimistic, as it’s helmed
by Girls Trip director Malcolm D. Lee and reunites him with
Tiffany Haddish. Here, Haddish is the extremely unorthodox
teacher of a night school that aims to help adults — including
Kevin Hart (who produced and co-wrote the film), Rob Riggle,
and Mary Lynn Rajskub — obtain their GED in just one semes-
ter. (9/28)
OCTOBER
A STAR IS BORN — No one saw this coming, but the third remake
of 1937’s A Star Is Born is one of the most critically acclaimed
films of the year so far. Bradley Cooper is both behind the
camera as director and in front of it as Jackson Maine, an estab-
lished musician who stumbles across unknown singer-song-
writer Ally (Lady Gaga) and helps launch her career. Naturally,
they fall in love and her career quickly overtakes his, leading to
all the passions and jealousies we’ve seen play out three times
before. Still, there’s already Academy Awards buzz, and Gaga,
stepping into shoes worn by Janet Gaynor, Judy Garland and
Barbra Streisand before her, has successfully transformed from
hit-making diva to bona fide film star. It makes the film’s title
seem a little on the nose. (10/5)
THE HAPPY PRINCE — Rupert Everett spearheaded this film
about the last days of Oscar Wilde, a passion project that Everett
wrote, directed, and cast himself in as Wilde on his deathbed.
Critics have praised Everett’s performance, as Wilde reminisces
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on his life, his career, and the romance with a Marquess’ son
that sent him to prison for two years. Colin Firth stars as Wilde’s
close friend Reggie Turner, and Colin Morgan as Wilde’s lover,
Lord Alfred “Bosie” Douglas. (10/5)
THE HATE U GIVE — This couldn’t be timelier. Starr Carter
(Amandla Stenberg) is a black teen from a poor neighborhood
who attends a rich, predominantly white prep school. Her world
is upended after she watches a white police officer shoot her
childhood best friend, and the careful walls she’s built quickly
crumble as she’s drawn into activism. Based on Angie Thomas’
bestselling 2017 novel, which was banned by a school district in
Texas because one parent objected to the frank portrayal of its
subject matter, George Tillman Jr.’s film blends coming-of-age
drama with the Black Lives Matter movement — and critics are
loving it. (10/5)
VENOM — We last saw Venom in 2007’s Spider-Man 3, and after
ten years of rumors and development, the character finally has
his own film. Tom Hardy steps into the role as journalist Eddie
Brock, who becomes the host of an alien symbiote that trans-
forms him into the horrific Venom and grants superhuman abil-
ities. Sony intends this film to start an adjacent Marvel universe
to the MCU we all know and love, and Venom will apparently
be darker, scarier, and more violent than the usual Marvel fare.
Don’t expect to see Tom Holland’s Spider-Man, though — direc-
tor Ruben Fleischer said there’s no cameo planned. (10/5)
BEAUTIFUL BOY — Steve Carell is a father watching helpless-
ly as his teenage son (Timothée Chalamet) spirals into meth
addiction. Based on David Sheff and Nic Sheff’s dual memoirs,
Beautiful Boy chronicles the addiction, recovery, and relapses
that tore at the bond between David and Nic. Critics have been
mostly positive about the latest film from Amazon’s in-house
film studio, with Carell, Chalamet and Maura Tierney as David’s
second wife particularly praised for their performances. (10/12)
FIRST MAN — Conservative outrage reared its ugly head when
it transpired that director Damien Chazelle (La La Land) had
opted not to show the American flag being planted on the moon
in this biopic about Neil Armstrong, the first person to step
onto the surface of the moon. That hasn’t detracted from the
Oscar buzz surrounding the film, which stars Ryan Gosling as
Armstrong, Claire Foy as his wife Janet, and Corey Stoll as Buzz
Aldrin, and follows the years leading up to the historic 1969
landing. (10/12)
CAN YOU EVER FORGIVE ME? — Melissa McCarthy chases a
second Oscar nomination as Lee Israel, who turned to a life of
crime after her writing career died. Israel, who documented her
actions in her 2008 memoir, started rewriting and later forging
celebrity letters, selling on the enhanced forgeries and stolen
originals for profit, before she was eventually caught by the
FBI. Here’s hoping the strength of McCarthy’s performance is
enough to erase the memories of The Happytime Murders from
the minds of Academy voters. (10/19)
HALLOWEEN — Forty years after Laurie Strode first thought
she’d escaped masked serial killer Michael Myers, she’s about
to have a pretty terrible reunion. Jamie Lee Curtis, star of the
1978 original, returns as Strode in this, the eleventh film in the
franchise (which conveniently ignores all of them except the
first). What’s more, early reviews suggest this is one franchise
worth revisiting — dealing with post-traumatic stress disorder
and much hardier than in ’78, Laurie’s showdown with Myers
should make for tense, scary cinema. (10/19)
MID90S — Jonah Hill steps behind the camera as writer-director
for a film inspired by his childhood growing up in ’90s-era LA
skater culture. Sunny Suljic (The Killing of a Sacred Deer) stars
as 13-year-old Stevie, who escapes his abusive home life after
falling in with a crowd at the local skate shop. A coming-of-age
tale, critics suggest it’s far from original, but they’re lauding it
regardless — one even called it a “minor masterpiece.” (10/19)
JOHNNY ENGLISH STRIKES AGAIN — We’re not entirely sure who
was pushing for a third entry in Rowan Atkinson’s spy come-
dy franchise, but here we are. Stepping back into the shoes of
Britain’s accident-prone secret agent, Atkinson teams up with
partner Angus Bough (Ben Miller) from the first film. Emma
Thompson is also here as Britain’s prime minister. William
Davies, who penned the first two films, is handling the script,
and while the franchise has never exactly been loved by critics,
it’s always been good for some reliable, James Bond-parodying
laughs. (10/26)
NOVEMBER
BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY — Rami Malek seems perfectly cast as
Freddie Mercury, the flamboyant lead singer of iconic rock
band Queen. Blessed by Queen’s Brian May and Roger Taylor,
the film follows Mercury’s life and the band’s music leading up
to Queen’s Live Aid performance at Wembley Stadium in 1985.
Eyebrows were raised when one trailer showed Mercury’s rela-
tionships with women more than men, and there’s questions
as to why it doesn’t continue to his death from AIDS-related
complications in 1991, but this could be one of fall’s best films
if writer Anthony McCarten (Darkest Hour, The Theory of
Everything) and directors Bryan Singer and Dexter Fletcher get
it right. (11/2)
BOY ERASED — The second film this year to tackle conversion
therapy — after The Miseducation of Cameron Post — Boy Erased
is based on Garrard Conley’s memoir, and stars Lucas Hedges as
Jared Earmons, son of a Baptist pastor, who is shipped to a gay
conversion therapy program after his parents (Russell Crowe
and Nicole Kidman) discover his sexuality. Joel Edgerton
wrote, directed, and produced the film, and stars as head ther-
apist Victor, who is determined to “cure” Jared. Expect to hear
more from this come awards season, as early reviews are glow-
ing, and the subject matter is incredibly timely, given the push
nationwide to outlaw the horrific practice. (11/2)
SUSPIRIA — Call Me By Your Name director Luca Guadagnino
swaps dreamy Italian countryside for horrific German murders.
Based on Dario Argento’s 1977 original, Suspiria follows an
American dancer who transfers to a German dance academy,
only to realize there are sinister, supernatural ongoings. There’s
a stellar cast, including Dakota Johnson as the dancer in ques-
tion, Tilda Swinton, and even Jessica Harper (the original film’s
lead), but critics are divided as to whether this remake was nec-
essary. Or if it’s even good. (11/2)
THE NUTCRACKER AND THE FOUR REALMS — Disney’s latest live
action effort tackles the story underpinning Tchaikovsky’s infa-
mous ballet, itself based on E.T.A. Hoffmann’s novel. Mackenzie
Foy stars as Clara, whose deceased inventor mother created
a parallel world of four realms where she ruled as queen.
Naturally, things have gone a bit awry in the queen’s absence,
and Clara must save three of the realms from the tyrannical
Mother Ginger (Helen Mirren), leader of the mysterious Fourth
Realm. Keira Knightley, Morgan Freeman, and Richard E. Grant
also star, and Lasse Hallström (Chocolat, The Cider House Rules)
directs. (11/2)
EL ANGEL — Carlos Robledo Puch earned the nickname “The
Angel of Death” for good reason. Arrested in Argentina in 1972
— aged just 20 — he was ultimately charged with 11 murders, 17
robberies, one attempted murder, and a number of other crimes,
and his methods included stabbing, shooting, strangling, blud-
geoning and slitting throats. Luis Ortega’s film depicts the baby-
faced serial killer from his first kill up to his incarceration —
Puch is currently Argentina’s longest-serving inmate — as well
as his burgeoning desire for partner-in-crime Ramón Peralta
(Chino Darin). Critics are calling it a stylish period drama, and
praising Lorenzo Ferro’s strong performance as Puch. (11/9)
FANTASTIC BEASTS: THE CRIMES OF GRINDELWALD — Fantastic
Beasts and Where to Find Them was a stylish if flawed first entry
in J.K. Rowling’s latest Potter-universe franchise. The sequel
promises more: more of Eddie Redmayne’s annoyingly mumbly
Newt Scamander, more impressive CGI magic effects, and more
(possibly gay) Dumbledore, here played by Jude Law. Rowling
once again writes the script, and David Yates returns to direct,
as powerful dark wizard Grindelwald (Johnny Depp) escapes
custody and starts a movement that would see witches and
wizards rule over all non-magical beings. Obviously, he doesn’t
succeed. We’ve all seen Harry Potter. (11/16)
WIDOWS — After four armed robbers are killed in a heist, their
widows — Viola Davis, Michelle Rodriguez, Elizabeth Debicki,
and Cynthia Erivo — step up to finish the job. If that sounds like
a rather ludicrous premise, don’t be so hasty to judge — directed
and co-written by 12 Years a Slave’s Steve McQueen, Widows
touches on a number of topics amongst the obvious firefights
and car chases, including police brutality, domestic violence,
and sexism. Plus, critics say the film, driven by a powerhouse
performance from Viola Davis, is excellent. (11/16)
RALPH BREAKS THE INTERNET — Stop reading this article and
go and watch the trailer for Disney’s Ralph Breaks the Internet.
If you don’t finish it with a goofy grin on your face, seek imme-
diate medical attention, because the sequel to 2012’s wonderful
Wreck-It Ralph looks to be a bigger, bolder, and funnier film,
as Ralph (John C. Reilly) and Vanellope von Schweetz (Sarah
Silverman) venture out of their respective games and into the
internet, via a newly installed router in their arcade. (11/23)
SECOND ACT — Jennifer Lopez is in a new rom-com. We repeat:
J.Lo has a new rom-com. To those who have sat with a tub of ice
cream and watched The Wedding Planner, Maid in Manhattan,
The Back-up Plan, and so on, you know what to expect — Second
Act, about a woman stuck in a low-paying job who blags her way
into a Manhattan consultancy firm, is going to be terrible, and
it’ll be added to your Netflix queue the moment it’s available.
(11/23)
THE FAVOURITE — All About Eve but with corsets and carriag-
es, Emma Stone is the younger cousin who threatens to usurp
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Rachel Weisz as the close confidant of 18th century British
monarch Queen Anne (Olivia Colman). Helmed by Yorgos
Lanthimos (The Lobster), this comedy drama looks nuts in all
the right ways. Come for the sizzling sexual tension, stay for
Colman as Queen Anne screaming at her royal staff for daring
to look at her. Plus, she called filming her sex scenes with Stone
“awfully fun,” so there’s that to look forward to. (11/23)
IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK — Tish is an African-American
woman determined to clear the name of her husband Fonny,
wrongfully accused of rape, before she gives birth to their child.
The latest film from Moonlight screenwriter and director Barry
Jenkins adapts James Baldwin’s 1974 novel, its themes of racism
and injustice still concerningly relevant today, and stars Kiki
Layne as Tish and Stephan James as Fonny. Critics are already
heaping praise on the film, so don’t be surprised to see reappear
come awards season. (11/30)
DECEMBER
MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS — The Scottish queen who was famous-
ly imprisoned and then beheaded at the order of her cousin,
Queen Elizabeth I, is the subject of this film — one that appears
to be a more dramatic and faithful adaptation than the 16th
century soapiness of the CW’s Reign. Saoirse Ronan is the epon-
ymous queen, Margot Robbie the white painted, flame haired
Elizabeth, and the film was written by House of Cards creator
Beau Willimon, which bodes well for all of the Elizabethan
warring and politicking. (12/7)
BACKSEAT — Adam McKay successfully distilled the 2008 finan-
cial crisis into a simultaneously humorous and horrifying expe-
rience with 2015’s Oscar-nominated The Big Short. Expectations
are high that he will do similarly good work with America’s
most powerful Vice President, Dick Cheney, who was widely
believed to be running the show behind President George W.
Bush. Little is known about the film as it’s being kept under tight
wraps, but Christian Bale stars as Cheney, capturing his rise to
V.P., Amy Adams plays his wife Lynne Cheney, Steve Carell is
Donald Rumsfeld, and Sam Rockwell is Bush, alongside a num-
ber of other famous faces from the Bush administration. (12/14)
MARY POPPINS RETURNS — No other film this year carries as
many expectations on its shoulders as this. Disney is taking
perhaps its boldest step in recent memory with this sequel to
the beloved 1964 original. Emily Blunt takes over the title role
from Julie Andrews — who won an Oscar for her work — as
Mary Poppins returns to the Banks family 25 years after she
last gave them a spoonful of sugar. Rob Marshall (Chicago, Into
the Woods) directs a script by Life of Pi and Finding Neverland
scribe David Magee. Whether Disney can recapture the magic
of the original remains to be seen — and Emily Blunt must be
going mad waiting for its release and the inevitable reaction to
her take on the character. Here’s hoping the studio’s audacious
decision pays off. (12/19)
ALITA: BATTLE ANGEL — Robert Rodriguez (Sin City) returns
to filmmaking with this adaptation of Yukito Kishiro’s manga
about a cyborg (Rosa Salazar, performing entirely by motion
capture) who awakens in the future with no memory of who
she is. Taken in by compassionate doctor Ido (Christoph
Waltz), it’s not until their city is overrun by a deadly force that
her unique fighting abilities are discovered. Mahershala Ali,
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Jennifer Connelly and Michelle Rodriguez also star. However,
none of this may matter if concerns over Alita’s deliberately
“uncanny valley,” almost-real appearance turn viewers off —
early previews led to a number of complaints and comments
saying as much. (12/21)
AQUAMAN — Seriously, is anyone expecting this to be good? We
know, we know, no one expected Wonder Woman to be any-
thing, and it transpired to be great, but it seems unlikely — given
the current spate of DC Comics films — that lightning will strike
twice here. Jason Momoa is the titular Aquaman in his first big
screen origin story, but the CGI in the trailer looks mediocre and
the script underwent numerous rewrites and changes, which is
never a good sign. Still, we’re ready to be pleasantly surprised.
And it can’t be any worse than DC’s other films, can it? (12/21)
DESTROYER — Critics are calling Nicole Kidman unrecognizable
in this crime thriller, about an LAPD detective forced to return
to a gang she previously went undercover in with disastrous
results. While early reviews have hailed Kidman’s performance
for upending expectations with a dark, complex, often unlikable
character, the film itself has had a more mixed overall reception.
(12/25)
ON THE BASIS OF SEX — Notorious RBG makes her big screen
debut. Felicity Jones is a young Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a brilliant
lawyer fighting for equal rights for women, including before
the Supreme Court she would eventually come to have a seat
on. Armie Hammer co-stars as Ginsburg’s husband, Martin,
and Emmy-winning director Mimi Leder is at the helm. This is
about as close as it gets to perfect Oscar-fodder, but should also
hopefully make for compelling viewing — Ginsburg’s incredible
life achievements deserve it. (12/25)
JANUARY
HELLBOY — A reboot of Guillermo Del Toro’s films, this time
with Stranger Things’ David Harbour taking over the titular
role as the half-demon superhero. You might ask why we need
this reboot a mere ten years after Hellboy II: The Golden Army,
but there’s one compelling reason to get excited: It will be
R-rated, versus the original films’ PG-13. As Hellboy squares off
against a medieval British sorceress (Milla Jovovich) hellbent
on destroying humankind, expect it to hew closer to the dark-
er, more horrific elements of the source comics — producers
are already promising it will be a “more gruesome version of
Hellboy.” (1/11)
GLASS — The final film in M. Night Shyamalan’s trilogy encom-
passing 2000’s superhero thriller Unbreakable and 2016’s psy-
chological horror Split. Bruce Willis returns as Unbreakable’s
invulnerable and superhuman David Dunn, tasked with pur-
suing James McAvoy’s Kevin Wendell Crumb from Split,
whose 24th personality, The Beast, is a cannibalistic sociopath
with superhuman abilities. Samuel L. Jackson also returns
as Unbreakable’s Elijah Price, here known as Mr. Glass, who
apparently holds secrets critical to both men. If you’re confused,
don’t be — rent both films, binge them ahead of Glass’ release,
and then settle in for Shyamalan’s patented brand of twists and
turns in this superhero horror-thriller. (1/18) l
For more Fall Arts film, visit metroweekly.com.
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Stage
C
ALL IT “THE SEASON OF PAULA VOGEL.” SEVERAL
area companies are staging several of the most compel-
ling works by the Baltimore-born, Pulitzer Prize-winning
playwright, a member of the LGBTQ community, including
The Baltimore Waltz (Keegan), How I Learned to Drive (Round
House) and Indecent (Arena). It’s also the season of Elton John,
with two of the iconic rocker’s musicals — Billy Elliot (Signature)
and Aida (Constellation) — hitting the local boards. The season
also marks the final year for Michael Kahn, who during his ten-
ure as Artistic Director, transformed The Shakespeare Theatre
Company into an international, critically-acclaimed power-
house. He’ll be ending his run, fittingly, on a tragedy of mythic
proportions.
Naturally, this wouldn’t be a Washington Theatre season
with more than a smattering of political dramas as well an abun-
dance of satirical appearances by the delightful Second City
gang. But Washington is clearly turning, more and more, into
a town known for big, sparkling musicals. Signature will grant
us a stay at the Grand Hotel, Olney will ship us off to the South
Pacific, Ford’s will take us Into the Woods, GALA celebrates
Fame, and the Kennedy Center will let Aladdin’s genie out of the
lamp while it opens its own Little Shop of Horrors. After all, who
doesn’t love a singing plant?
ADVENTURE THEATRE MTC
7300 MacArthur Blvd
Glen Echo, Md.
301-634-2270
adventuretheatre-mtc.org
BLUEBERRIES FOR SAL — Based on the classic book by Robert
fall arts preview
Aladdin
Compiled by Randy Shulman
McCloskey, featuring music and lyrics by William Yanesh (9/21-
10/21) • FANCY NANCY’S SPLENDIFEROUS CHRISTMAS — Nancy
has enough money to buy a brand-new sparkly tree topper,
but when things don’t turn out the way Nancy planned, will
Christmas still be splendiferous? (11/17-1/6) • HUCKLEBERRY
FINN’S BIG RIVER — The Mark Twain classic in which Huck
helps Jim, a slave, escape captivity. Based on the Tony-winning
Broadway musical, with music and lyrics by Roger Miller (2/8-
3/10) • WINNIE THE POOH — Pooh and Piglet have to find the
Heffalump, watch Rabbit scheme to rid the forest of Kanga’s
dreaded bathtub, and help Eeyore search for his tail. Based on
the A.A. Milne classic (3/29-5/26) • THE CAT IN THE HAT — A
rainy day is turned into a miraculous, mayhem-filled adventure
in this adaptation of the Dr. Seuss classic. Directed by Theater
J’s Adam Immerwahr (6/21-8/18)
ARENA STAGE
1101 Sixth St. SW
202-488-3300
arenastage.org
TURN ME LOOSE — An intimate and no-holds-barred drama
that chronicles Dick Gregory’s rise as the first black comedian
to expose audiences to racial comedy (Now-10/14, Kreeger
Theater) • ANYTHING GOES — Molly Smith puts her stamp on
the Cole Porter favorite (11/2-12/23, Fichandler) • INDECENT
— The story of the courageous artists who risked their careers
to perform Sholem Asch’s God of Vengeance on Broadway in
1923, a work deemed “indecent.” By Pulitzer Prize-winner
Paula Vogel (11/23-12/30, Kreeger) • KLEPTOCRACY — A World
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Premiere drama by Kenneth Lin that
turns the spotlight on U.S. — Russia rela-
tions (1/18-2/24, Kreeger) • THE HEIRESS
— Based on the novel Washington Square
by Henry James (2/8-3/10, Fichandler) •
JQA — Aaron Posner imagines key con-
frontations between John Quincy Adams
and a few of America’s most dynamic
figures, including George Washington,
Andrew Jackson, Frederick Douglass,
and Abraham Lincoln (3/1-4/14, Kogod)
• JUNK — A junk bond trader prepares
a hostile takeover of a family-owned
manufacturing company in this bracing
new work from playwright Ayad Akhtar
(4/5-5/5, Fichandler) • JUBILEE — A
World Premiere written and directed by
Tazewell Thompson and featuring such
spirituals as “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot”
and “Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve
Seen” (4/26-6/2, Kreeger)
CONSTELLATION THEATRE
1835 14th St. NW
202-204-7741
constellationtheatre.org
AIDA — The Elton John/Tim Rice musical
is based on Verdi’s epic opera, telling the
story of forbidden love between a prin-
cess and her captor. Directed by Michael
J. Bobbitt (10/11-11/18) • THE MASTER AND
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MARGARITA — A new adaptation of the
Russian novel by Mikhail Bulgakov, as
spiritual inquiry and absurd satire inter-
twine (2/7-3/3) • THE WHITE SNAKE —
In Mary Zimmerman’s adaptation of an
ancient Chinese folktale, a snake spirit
transforms itself into a woman in order
to experience the human world and
falls in love with a pharmacist’s assis-
tant. Directed by Allison Arkell Stockman
(4/25-5/26)
EVERYMAN THEATRE
315 West Fayette St.
Baltimore, Md,
410-752-2208
everymantheatre.org
DANCING AT LUGHNASA — Irish play-
wright Brian Friel’s timeless memory
play (Now-10/7) • SWEAT (10/23-11/25)
• THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST
— This tour-de-farce is arguably Oscar
Wilde’s greatest play, as courtships, class,
and convention square off with hand-
bags, puns, and perambulators. Directed
by Rep Stage’s Joseph Ritsch (12/4-1/6) •
EVERYTHING IS WONDERFUL — When the
repentant driver in a fatal collision seeks
forgiveness from the Amish family whose
sons’ lives he claimed, faith guides them
to welcome him into their community
(1/29-3/3) • DINNER WITH FRIENDS — A
dinner party goes south as two couples
find themselves grappling with questions
of loyalty, individuality, and commit-
ment. Donald Margulies’ funny, sharply
observed Pulitzer Prize-winning drama
is celebrating its 20th anniversary (3/12-
4/14)
FOLGER THEATRE
201 East Capitol St. SE
202-544-7077
folger.edu
MACBETH — Shakespeare’s murder-
ous tragedy is seen anew in Davenant’s
Restoration-era adaptation. Starring Ian
Merrill Peakes and Kate Eastwood Norris,
with music performed by Folger Consort
(Now-9/23) • KING JOHN — Everyone
from the Pope to his own court seem
to think John’s crown is up for grabs.
Directed by Aaron Posner, and featuring
Kate Eastwood Norris and Holly Twyford
(10/23-12/2) • NELL GWYNN — A darling
of the Restoration theater becomes the
mistress of King Charles II. Directed by
Robert Richmond (1/29-3/10) • LOVE’S
LABOR’S LOST — Shakespeare’s spry com-
edy is full of lovers and clowns, foolery
and the follies of the heart (4/30-6/9)
FORD’S THEATRE
511 Tenth St. NW
202-347-4833
fordstheatre.org
BORN YESTERDAY — A sharp-edged 1940s
screwball comedy in which an opportu-
nistic tycoon is upended by an idealis-
tic Washington reporter. Edward Gero
and Kimberly Gilbert star. Directed by
Aaron Posner (9/21-10/21) • A CHRISTMAS
CAROL — Wallace returns for his third
year as Scrooge in the perennially popu-
lar Dickens tale (11/15-12/30) • TWELVE
ANGRY MEN — Tensions run high as a lone
juror argues the innocence of a teenager
accused of murder in Reginald Rose’s
sizzling drama. Sheldon Epps directs a
cast that includes Michael Russotto (1/18-
2/17) • INTO THE WOODS — Three words:
We. Can’t. Wait. (3/8-5/22)
GALA HISPANIC THEATRE
3333 14th St. NW
202-234-7174
galatheatre.org
LIKE WATER FOR CHOCOLATE — A young
woman trapped by traditions finds free-
dom in cooking so magical it inspires
people to laugh, cry, and burn with desire
(Now-10/7) • THE OLD MAN, THE YOUTH,
AND THE SEA — Based on historic events,
Spaniard writer Miguel de Unamuno, who
represents the power of reason, and a boy
who dreams of tomorrow plan an escape
under the watchful eye of the General
guarding Fuerteventura Island (2/7-3/3) •
FAME, THE MUSICAL — A diverse group of
ambitious, young hopefuls dream of star-
dom while attending a prestigious high
school for the performing arts (5/9-6/9)
KEEGAN THEATRE
1742 Church St. NW
202-265-3767
keegantheatre.com
LINCOLNESQUE — A speechwriter for a
mediocre Congressman turns to his broth-
er, who thinks he’s Abraham Lincoln, for
help writing great oratory. Playwright
John Strand will conduct a post-show
discussion on Sept. 30 (9/22-10/14) • AS
YOU LIKE IT — A musical adaptation of
Shakespeare’s winsome comedy (11/3-
12/2) • AN IRISH CAROL — The Keegan
holiday tradition continues (12/13-31) •
THE BALTIMORE WALTZ — Susan Marie
Rhea directs Paula Vogel’s wry comedy
about a brother and sister who go on a
journey that may not be exactly as it seems
(1/19-2/9) • HANDS ON A HARDBODY —
In this new musical from Doug Wright,
Trey Anastasio and Amanda Green, ten
Texans struggle to keep at least one hand
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on a brand-new truck in order to win it.
Directed by Mark Rhea (3/9-4/6) • GOD
OF CARNAGE — A playground altercation
between two boys brings together two
sets of Brooklyn parents for a meeting to
resolve the matter. Things turn ugly (5/4-
5/25) • RIPCORD (6/15-7/6) • LEGALLY
BLONDE (8/3-8/25)
KENNEDY CENTER
202-467-4600
kennedy-center.org
WORLD STAGES: MEASURE FOR MEASURE
— Shakespeare’s classic play becomes
a mirror of modern society in a dex-
terously crafted adaption from director
Declan Donnellan (10/10-13, Eisenhower)
• BROADWAY CENTER STAGE: LITTLE
SHOP OF HORRORS — Megan Hilty, Josh
Radnor, and James Monroe Iglehart star
in the man-eating plant smash (10/24-28,
Eisenhower) • ANASTASIA — This daz-
zling musical takes audiences from the
twilight of the Russian Empire to the
euphoria of Paris in the 1920s. Book by
Terrence McNally and score by Stephen
Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens (10/30-11/25,
Opera House) • THE CHOIR OF MAN — A
feel-good pub show from the U.K. (11/23-
25, Terrace) • WORLD STAGES: BARBER
SHOP CHRONICLES — Set in barbershops
in Johannesburg, Harare, Kampala, Lagos,
Accra, and London, the show explores a
rich, intimate community where African
men gather to discuss the world and
their lives (11/28-12/1, Eisenhower) • THE
SECOND CITY’S LOVE, FACTUALLY — A
parody of that nauseating movie so ripe
for parody (12/3-31, Theater Lab) • MISS
SAIGON — A thrilling new production
of the hit musical from the creators of
Les Miz (12/11-1/13, Opera House) • THE
PLAY THAT GOES WRONG — A classic mur-
der mystery chock-full of mishaps and
madcap mania (12/18-1/6, Eisenhower)
• BROADWAY CENTER STAGE: THE MUSIC
MAN — Broadway legend Norm Lewis
stars as consummate con man Harold Hill
(2/6-2/20, Eisenhower) • WORLD STAGES:
NEOARCTIC — Making its U.S. premiere,
this collaboration between Denmark’s
artistic incubator Hotel Pro Forma and
the Latvian Radio Choir daringly explores
a new geological age characterized by
the harsh impact of humanity on our
vulnerable ecosystem. Looks remarkable
(2/13-2/16, Terrace) • TAP DOGS — All
tap, no canines (2/19-2/24, Eisenhower)
• WORLD STAGES: CIRKUS CIRKÖR: LIMITS
(3/6-3/9) • BROADWAY CENTER STAGE:
THE WHO’S TOMMY — The world’s most
famous rock opera (4/25-4/28) • HELLO,
DOLLY! — Broadway legend Betty Buckley
stars in this Tony-winning revival, direct-
ed by Jerry Zaks (6/4-7/7, Opera House)
• BYHALIA, MISSISSIPPI — A new Kennedy
Center production of playwright Evan
Linder’s uncompromising exploration of
race, family, and betrayal in the American
South (6/11-6/30, Terrace) • FALSETTOS
— William Finn and James Lapine’s
groundbreaking musical revolves around
the life of a charming, intelligent, neurot-
ic gay man named Marvin and his family
(6/11-6/23, Eisenhower) • THE BAND’S
VISIT — A critically acclaimed new musi-
cal that celebrates the deeply human ways
music, longing, and laughter connect us
all (7/9-8/4, Eisenhower) • DISNEY’S
ALADDIN — Pure Mouse House spectacle
and magic, flying carpet and all (7/18-9/7,
Opera House) • DEAR EVAN HANSEN — If
you missed it when it started its life at
Arena, you can now see the Tony Award-
winning masterpiece in the Eisenhower
(8/6-9/8)
METRO STAGE
1201 N. Royal St.
Alexandria, Va.
703-548-9044
metrostage.org
THE PAINTED ROCKS AT REVOLVER
CREEK — Thomas W. Jones II directs
Doug Brown in this Athol Fugard drama
inspired by the life of outsider artist
Nukian Mabuza (Now-9/30) • ROOMS:
A ROCK ROMANCE — In 1970s Glasgow
an ambitious singer songwriter meets a
reclusive rocker and romance is born as
they aim for stardom in first the London,
and later, New York punk scene. Music
and lyrics by Paul Scott Goodman (10/11-
11/11) • CHRISTMAS AT THE OLD BULL AND
BUSH — Catherine Flye’s cheery holiday
tale centers on patrons at a pub telling
corny jokes and singing British music
hall songs and Christmas carols (11/20-
12/23) • THREE SISTAHS — Chekhov
meets gospel, rhythm & blues, bebop and
funk in this musical by William Hubbard
set at the height of the civil rights and
anti-war movements of 1969 (1/24-2/24)
MOSAIC THEATER
Atlas Arts Center
1333 H St. NE
202-399-7993
mosaictheater.org
MARIE AND ROSETTA — A celebration
of two pioneers of mid-20th Century
music, whose approach helped pave the
way for rock and roll (Now-9/30) • THE
AGITATORS — The 45-year friendship
and occasional rivalry between two great,
rebellious, and flawed American icons:
 Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass (10/24-11/25) • OH,
GOD — A psychotherapist gets a visit from a new and desperate
patient: God (12/12-1/13) • SHAME — A documentary portrait
of the challenges facing Israelis and Palestinians who decide
to work together against formidable opposition (1/30/2-17) •
NATIVE SON — Richard Wright’s iconic novel about oppression,
freedom, and justice comes to life in a ground-breaking adapta-
tion (3/27-4/28) • THE SHOOTING GALLERY — Aaron Davidman’s
one-man show on one of the most incendiary topics of our day:
guns (4/7-4/27) • SOONER/LATER — An exploration of romance,
marriage, and parenting by Allison Currin (5/15-6/16) • TWISTED
MELODIES — A powerful one-man show, based on the life of ‘70s
soul singer Donny Hathaway, imagines the troubled and brilliant
musician’s last day on Earth (6/19-7/21)

NATIONAL THEATRE
1321 Pennsylvania Ave. NW
202-628-6161
thenationaldc.org
BEETLEJUICE — Alex Timbers directs the pre-Broadway world
premiere of this new musical comedy, based on Tim Burton’s
iconic film (10/14-11/18) • BEAUTIFUL — The music of Carole
King. Where you lead... (11/27-12/30) • SCHOOL OF ROCK: THE
MUSICAL — Another hit from Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber (1/16-
1/27) • FINDING NEVERLAND (2/26-3/3) • A BRONX TALE (3/26-
3/31) • JIM STEINMAN’S BAT OUT OF HELL — Paradise by the
dashboard lights, indeed (5/7-5/26)

OLNEY THEATRE CENTER

2001 Olney-Sandy Spring Rd.
Olney, Md.
301-924-3400
olneytheatre.org
SOUTH PACIFIC — The Rodgers and Hammerstein classic direct-
ed by Alan Muraoka (Now-10/7, Mainstage) • AROUND THE
WORLD IN 80 DAYS — The National Players create a wondrous
telling of the Jules Verne classic (9-18-10/26, Olney Theatre) •
LABOUR OF LOVE — A witty comedy about the ups and downs
of left-wing British politics over the past twenty-five years
(9/26-10/28, Theatre Lab) • ELF THE MUSICAL — Based on the
Will Ferrell movie, and starring a powerhouse cast, including
Patricia Hurley, Kevin McAllister, Nova Y. Payton and Bobby
Smith. Directed by Michael J. Bobbitt (11/9-1/6, Mainstage) •
A CHRISTMAS CAROL — Paul Morella’s one-man adaptation of
the Dickens’ holiday classic (11/23-12/30, Theatre Lab) • ONCE
— Based on the Oscar-winning film, a street guitarist meets a
curious woman who wants to know all about him and romance
blooms (2/6-3/10, Mainstage) • COMEDY OF TENORS — Ken
Ludwig’s latest door-slamming farce is set on the eve of a big
concert in 1936 Paris (4/10-5/12, Mainstage) • MARY STUART
— Jason Loewith directs the bracing Friedrich Schiller drama
(5/8-6/9, Theatre Lab) • MATILDA — Based on the book by Roald
Dahl, a young girl discovers her magical powers in this enchant-
ing musical (6/21-7/21, Mainstage)

REP STAGE
10901 Little Patuxent Parkway
Columbia, Md.
443-518-1500
repstage.org
SWEENEY TODD: THE DEMON BARBER OF FLEET STREET —
Sondheim’s rapturous macabre musical about a murderous
barber and meat pies made from his slaughtered customers

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(Now-9/23) • THINGS THAT ARE ROUND —
A dentist specializing in existential terror
and an aspiring opera singer square off
in a strange ballet of truth or dare in this
dark comedy (11/1-18) • TWILIGHT: LOS
ANGELES 1992 — Anna Deavere Smith’s
stunning one-person tour de force
explores the people who experienced
the Los Angeles riots in the wake of the
Rodney King verdict (2/28-3/17) • THE
39 STEPS — Patrick Barlow’s fast-paced
spoof of Hitchcock’s 1935 classic thriller.
A cast of four portray a multitude of char-
acters in a madcap evening (5/2-5/19)
RICHMOND TRIANGLE PLAYERS
1300 Altamont Ave.
Richmond
804-346-8113
rtriangle.org
THE LARAMIE PROJECT — The true story of
Matthew Shepard’s death and its seismic
effect felt nationwide is detailed through
interviews from those connected to the
case and other citizens of little Laramie,
Wyoming (9/26-10/19) • WHO’S HOLIDAY
— A grown-up Cindy Lou Who prepares
Christmas Eve festivities for friends, and
recounts the infamous night she met the
Grinch (11/14-12/15) • ACT OF GOD —
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A divine comedy by David Javerbaum
(2/27-3/23)
ROUND HOUSE THEATRE
4545 East-West Highway
Bethesda, Md.
240-644-1100
roundhousetheatre.org
SMALL MOUTH SOUNDS —A weeklong
silent retreat in the woods proves to be
anything but tranquil for six restless souls
in search of enlightenment. Directed
by Ryan Rilette (Now-9/23) • HOW I
LEARNED TO DRIVE — Paula Vogel’s aston-
ishing chronicle of one woman’s jour-
ney to break the cycle of sexual abuse
(10/10-11/4) • GEM OF THE OCEAN — This
first chapter of August Wilson’s monu-
mental play cycle. Directed by Timothy
Douglas (11/28-12/23) • OSLO — In 1993,
a husband-and-wife team of Norwegian
bureaucrats assemble a motley band of
would-be diplomats from the Middle
East to negotiate peace between Israelis
and Palestinians (4/24-5/19) • A DOLL’S
HOUSE, PART 2 — Holly Twyford, Craig
Wallace, and Nancy Robinette lead a
powerhouse cast in this “sequel” to the
Ibsen classic (6/6-6/30)
SHAKESPEARE THEATRE COMPANY
450 7th St. NW
202-547-1122
shakespearetheatre.org
THE COMEDY OF ERRORS — Shakespeare’s
uproarious comedy of mistaken identi-
ties involves two sets of twins and an
ocean of confusion. Directed by Alan Paul
(9/25-10/28, Lansburgh) • AN INSPECTOR
CALLS — A festive evening at the home of
a well-heeled British family is suddenly
punctured by a visit from a grim inspec-
tor investigating the death of a young
woman. Stephen Daldry, who first staged
J.B. Priestley’s chilling drama in 1992
at London’s National Theatre, directs
(11/20-12/23, Harman) • THE PANTIES,
THE PARTNER, AND THE PROFIT — David
Ives adapts Carl Sternheim’s epic comic
trilogy, Scenes from the Heroic Life of
the Middle Classes. Michael Kahn directs
(12/4-1/6, Lansburgh) • RICHARD THE
THIRD — Studio’s David Muse directs
one of Shakespeare’s most compelling,
and evil-minded, history plays (2/5-3/10,
Harman) • VANITY FAIR — A new adapta-
tion of William Makepeace Thackeray’s
novel by Kate Hamill (2/26-3/31,
Lansburgh) • THE ORESTEIA — Michael
Kahn goes out with a huge Greek bang,
 directing Ellen McLaughlin’s adaptation of Aeschylus’s potent
trilogy (4/30-6/2, Harman)

SIGNATURE THEATRE
4200 Campbell Ave.
Arlington, Va.
703-820-9771
sigtheatre.org
PASSION — Natascia Diaz and Claybourne Elder star in Stephen
Sondheim’s lush and romantic musical (Now-9/23, Max
Theatre) • HEISENBERG — A chance encounter at a London train
stop changes the course of life for two people in this tender,
funny, intimate comedy. Directed by Joe Calarco (9/18-11/11,
Ark Theatre) • BILLY ELLIOT — All 11-year-old Billy wants to do
is dance in this Elton John musical based on the popular film
(10/30-1/6, Max) • AIN’T MISBEHAVIN’ — A swinging, dancing
celebration of big band and the songs of Thomas “Fats” Waller
starring Nova Y. Payton, Kevin McAllister, and Iyona Blake
(1/23-3/10, Ark) • MASTERPIECES OF THE ORAL AND INTANGIBLE
HERITAGE OF HUMANITY — Three women are trapped in a rav-
aged museum during a catastrophic hundred years war tasked
with restoring a damaged Rembrandt painting. Holly Twyford
stars (2/26-4/7, Ark) • GRAND HOTEL — Eric D. Schaeffer directs
this intricate and magnificent musical set in a lavish hotel in 1928
Berlin (4/2-5/12, Max) • SPUNK — Based on three short stories
of Zora Neale Hurston and adapted by Jelly’s Last Jam writer
George C. Wolfe (4/30-6/23, Ark) • BLACKBEARD — The World
Premiere of a high seas musical adventure by the authors of The
Witches of Eastwick and The Fix, commissioned by Signature
(6/11-7/7, Max)

STUDIO THEATRE
1501 14th St. NW
202-332-3300
studiotheatre.org
IF I FORGET — A modern Jewish family is fracturing in this polit-
ical and deeply personal play. Written by Bethesda native Steven
Levenson (Now-10/14) • CRY IT OUT — The lives of four new par-
ents collide in this candid comedy (11/14-12/16) • ADMISSIONS
— A  no-holds-barred look at privilege, power, and the perils of
whiteness from Joshua Harmon (Bad Jews) (1/16-2/17) • QUEEN
OF BASEL — A bold and Spanish-infused take on Strindberg’s
Miss Julie (3/6-4/7) • THE CHILDREN — David Muse directs a
taut and disquieting thriller about what one generation owes the
next (5/1-6/2)

SYNETIC THEATER
1800 South Bell St.
Crystal City, Va.
800-494-8497
synetictheater.org
SLEEPY HOLLOW — Gothic horror, iconic characters, and imag-
ery combine to produce the kind of wondrous, wordless evening
Synetic is renowned for. Directed by Paata Tsikurishvili and
choreographed by Irina Tsikurishvili (10/3-11/4) • CYRANO
DE BERGERAC — An athletic, acrobatic telling of the world-fa-
mous story (2/6-3/10) • RICHARD III — The latest entry in the
company’s Wordless Shakespeare series (5/15-6/16) • TITUS
ANDRONICUS — Synetic founder Paata Tsikurishvili tackles
this revenge-driven tragedy as the 13th entry in the company’s
celebrated “Silent Shakespeare” series (4/25-5/27) • TREASURE
ISLAND — The company works its magic on Robert Louis
Stevenson’s adventure classic (7/17-8/18)

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 THEATRE J
1529 16th St. NW
202-777-3210
theaterj.org
While the DCJCC is renovated, Theatre J becomes nomadic •
THE PIANIST OF WILLESDEN LANE — The true and inspiring story
of Lisa Jura, a young Jewish pianist whose dream of making her
concert debut at the storied Musikverein concert hall is dashed
by the onset of World War II (Now-9/30, Kennedy Center
Family Theater) • ACTUALLY — What begins as a casual college
hookup turns into a Title IX hearing in which both students
have everything to lose. Starring Jaysen Wright (Wig Out!)
(10/17-11/18, Arena’s Kogod Cradle) • TALLEY’S FOLLY — Lanford
Wilson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning romantic comedy is a poignant
valentine to unlikely love. Directed by Aaron Posner, and star-
ring Erin Weaver (12/7-12/30, GALA Hispanic) • THE JEWISH
QUEEN LEAR — Penned in 1898, Jacob Gordin’s story of power
and pride revolves around a wealthy widow who wants to find
a good wife for her son. A masterpiece of Yiddish theater with
a new English translation. Directed by Adam Immerwahr (3/13-
4/7, Georgetown’s Davis Performing Arts Center)

WASHINGTON STAGE GUILD

900 Massachusetts Ave. NW
240-582-0050
stageguild.org
SUMMERLAND — A spirit photographer has a talent for capturing
haunting images from the world beyond the veil. Based on a true
story (9/27-10/21) • ALL SAVE ONE — A World Premiere comedy
playwright Greg Jones Ellis set in 1950’s Hollywood (11/15-
12/9) • GULF VIEW DRIVE — The final installment in the popular
romantic trilogy by Arlene Hutton (Last Train to Nibroc, See
Rock City), reunites Raleigh and May, last seen on separate life
paths. Lexi Langs and Wood Van Meter reprise their roles (1/17-
2/10) • RESOLVING HEDDA — Playwright Jon Klein reimagines
Ibsen’s notorious schemer Hedda Gabler in this inventive work
in which a major literary character refuses to succumb to her
written fate (3/21-4/15)

WOOLLY MAMMOTH
641 D St. NW
202-393-3939
woollymammoth.net
GLORIA — When an ordinary day at one of New York’s most
prestigious magazines suddenly becomes a nightmare, two
survivors transform the experience into career-making sto-
ries (Now-9/30) • THE FEVER — An ordinary party evolves
into a spellbinding examination of how we assemble, orga-
nize, and care for the bodies around us. Performed in col-
laboration with the audience (11/23-12/4) • THE SECOND
CITY’S SHE THE PEOPLE — Performed by an all-female team
of the sketch troupe’s most fearless comics (12/3-1/6) BLKS —
A day in the life of three twenty-something black women
wrestling with love, uncomfortable truths, and the anguish of
adulting in New York City (2/4-3/3) • WHAT THE CONSTITUTION
MEANS TO ME — In 1988, a young woman tries to earn enough
money to go to college by entering speech competitions about
the U.S. Constitution in American Legion halls all across the
country (4/1-29) • DESCRIBE THE NIGHT — Seven lost souls are
connected across decades by history, fiction, lies, and blood
when a centuries old Russian diary is unearthed (5/27-6/3)

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Music: Pop, Rock, Folk,
Blues and Jazz
C
ONCERTS FEATURING LGBTQ ARTISTS OR WITH
significant queer appeal are all over the map this sea-
son — geographically and in seemingly every possible
way, from genre and format to identity, age, and stature. Elton
John (Capital One Arena), the Indigo Girls (The Birchmere), Jake
Shears (9:30 Club) and Rufus Wainwright (Strathmore) are among
the trailblazers on tap, with next-generation stars Troye Sivan
(The Anthem) and Years and Years (Lincoln Theatre) representing
the newer crop, along with other under-the-radar acts including
Blood Orange aka producer Dev Hynes (Lincoln) and Bright Light
Bright Light, the alias for Rod Thomas (Union Stage).
Heather Mae and Be Steadwell are two more artists worth
getting to know, and the two local lesbians are part of the same
four-person bill at Pearl Street Warehouse. Meanwhile, The
Hamilton offers another noteworthy showcase of mostly local
LGBTQ artists courtesy of Capital Pride.
You can get all that and your diva fix with Diana Ross
(Strathmore) or Christina Aguilera (MGM), too. To say we’re
spoiled for choice would be putting it mildly.
fall arts preview
Diana Ross
Compiled by Doug Rule
9:30 CLUB
815 V St. NW
877-435-9849
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LOS AMIGOS INVISIBLES (9/14) • JOEY COCO DIAZ (9/15) •
ALINA BARAZ W/CAUTIOUS CLAY (9/15) • FIDLAR W/DILLY DALLY,
NOBRO (9/18) • CAR SEAT HEADREST W/NAKED GIANTS, DON
BABYLON (9/19-20) • GARY NUMAN W/NIGHTMARE AIR (9/21)
• WHETHAN W/SWEATER BEATS, ANDREW LUCE (9/21) • OWL
CITY W/MATTHEW THIESSEN AND THE EARTHQUAKES (9/22) •
HIGHLY SUSPECT (9/27) • THE GROWLERS (9/23) • HIGHLY
SUSPECT (9/27) • BELLY (9/29) • OUR LADY PEACE W/OAK &
ASH (10/2) • LIZ PHAIR W/SPEEDY ORTIZ (10/3) • CAM W/LUCIE
SILVAS (10/4) • SIMPLE MINDS — Walk Between Worlds Tour
from the unforgettable “Alive and Kicking” ’80s-era hitmakers
(10/6) • HONNE — Love Me/Love Me Not Tour (10/7) • THE
STRUTS W/WHITE REAPER, SPIRIT ANIMAL (10/8) • KALI UCHIS
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W/GABRIEL GARZON-MONTANO — Two
nights of appealing alt-R&B artists (10/9-
10) • BOB MOSES W/MANSIONAIR (10/11)
• MURDER BY DEATH W/WILLIAM ELLIOTT
WHITMORE (10/12) • WHAT SO NOT W/
CHROME SPARKS (DJ SET) — Aussie
boundary-pushing house/pop act (10/12)
• THE RECORD COMPANY W/MADISEN
WARD AND THE MAMA BEAR (10/13) •
LUCERO W/BRENT COWLES (10/14) •
TYLER CHILDERS (10/15) • PASSENGER
W/LUCY ROSE (10/16) • ATMOSPHERE W/
DEM ATLAS, LIONESS, DJ KEEZY (10/17)
• TANK AND THE BANGAS & BIG FREEDIA
W/NAUGHTY PROFESSOR — Two (sadly,
already sold-out) nights of two of New
Orleans’ hottest contemporary R&B acts,
including the LGBTQ “Queen of Bounce”
(10/18-19) • BLACK TIGER SEX MACHINE
(10/20) • JONATHAN RICHMAN FT. TOMMY
LARKINS (10/20) • BIG THIEF W/RANGE
OF LIGHT WILDERNESS, .MICHAEL. (10/21)
• GALLANT W/JAMILA WOODS (10/22) •
WE WERE PROMISED JETPACKS (10/23) •
HIPPO CAMPUS W/THE DISTRICTS (10/24)
• TWIDDLE W/BUMPIN’ UGLIES (10/26) •
MOON TAXI W/MOON HOOCH — Two nights
of the moody-pop moonies (10/27-28) •
TWIDDLE (10/27) • JAIN W/DRAMA (10/29)
• JAKE SHEARS — The lead male Scissor
Sister, out on his own (10/31) • ANDRE
POWER, JOE KAY, DEVIN TRACY, J. ROBB,
AND ANDRES URIBE — Soulection’s “The
Sound of Tomorrow” (11/1) • CURSIVE
W/MEAT WAVE, CAMPDOGZZ (11/2) •
EKALI W/1788-L (11/3) • FLEETMAC WOOD
(11/3) • CHRISTINE AND THE QUEENS
(11/4) • ST. LUCIA W/ARKELLS (11/5) •
BILLIE EILISH — Another teen hitmak-
er in the quirky, eccentric Lorde mold
(11/7) • MAX W/BRYCE VINE, EZI (11/8)
• MIDLAND W/DESURE (11/8) • CHRIS
ROBINSON BROTHERHOOD (11/9) • BRETT
DENNEN (11/10) • PAPADOSIO W/LITZ
(11/10) • GREGORY ALAN ISAKOV W/LEIF
VOLLEBEKK (11/11) • TORO Y MOI W/DIZZY
FAE (11/12) • TY SEGALL — Solo acoustic
seated show (11/13) • LOUIS THE CHILD
W/NOMBE, R.LUM.R — (11/14-15) • RANDY
ROGERS BAND W/PARKER MCCOLLUM
(11/16) • MITSKI W/OVERCOATS — The
critical and hipster Japanese-American
indie-rock darling (11/16-17) • WILD
NOTHING W/MEN I TRUST (11/18) • THE
DEAD SOUTH W/THE HOOTEN HALLERS,
DEL SUELO (11/20) • ALLEN STONE W/NICK
WATERHOUSE (11/21) • POPPY W/KAILEE
MORGUE, JAIRA BURNS (11/24) • COLTER
WALL (11/28) • SISTER SPARROW AND
THE DIRTY BIRDS (11/29) • KURT VILE &
THE VIOLATORS W/JESSICA PRATT (11/30)
• POLO AND PAN (12/4) • KODALINE
W/OCEAN PARK STANDOFF (12/5) •
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KHRUANGBIN (12/7) • NEAL BRENNAN
(12/8) • PHOSPHORESCENT W/LIZ COOPER
& THE STAMPEDE (12/11) • THIEVERY
CORPORATION W/THE SUFFERS (12/13) •
HISS GOLDEN MESSENGER (12/20)
ALL THINGS GO FALL CLASSIC
Dock 5 at Union Market
1309 5th St. NE
888-512-7469
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For its fifth year, the high-caliber indie-
pop festival has taken inspiration from
the push for women’s rights and gender
parity sparked by last year’s Women’s
March to present an all-female lineup on
its first day, Saturday, Oct. 6. Featuring
brand-new, buzz-generating stars MAGGIE
ROGERS and BILLIE EILISH as headliners,
the day also brings up-and-coming sen-
sations JESSIE REYEZ, RAVYN LENAE, LPX,
ALMA, OSHUN, and KAYE. The next day
brings still more women — plus a few men
— and bigger names all around, with head-
liners BØRNS and former Capital Pride
headliner CARLY RAE JEPSEN. Another
gay-popular Pride performer, BETTY WHO,
returns for a second consecutive year,
part of the Sunday, Oct. 7, lineup with
TWO FEET, THE ACES, CAUTIOUS CLAY,
SNNY, and FOOTSXCOLES
AMP BY STRATHMORE
11810 Grand Park Ave.
North Bethesda, Md.
301-581-5100
ampbystrathmore.com
CHARLIE SEPULVEDA — Latin jazz trum-
peter (9/14) • KARLA BONOFF (9/21) •
PAJAMA JAM: JOANIE LEEDS & THE
NIGHTLIGHTS (9/23) • LET IT FLOW (9/28)
• COWBOY MOUTH (9/30) • JULIA NIXON —
The Songs of Burt Bacharach & Hal David
(10/5) • RAUL MIDON — Genre-defying
soul singer-songwriter (10/12) • LUTHER
RE-LIVES — The Velvet Voice returns
(10/13) • THE FOUR BITCHIN’ BABES —
Mood swingin’ revue with group of ladies
who’ve been rocking and harmonizing for
decades (10/26) • CRACK THE SKY — Cult
prog-rockers (11/1) • DAVE ALVIN & JIMMIE
DALE GILMORE — Rockabilly outlaws (11/6)
• DARK DESERT EAGLES — Tribute to the
Eagles (11/15) • SUSAN WERNER (11/16) •
FRESH A.I.R. — The debut showcase of the
six 2019 Strathmore Artists-in-Residence:
multi-instrumentalist Dante’ Pope, sing-
er-songwriter Anjali “Jiya” Taneja, bass-
ist Eliot Seppa, singer-songwriter Calista
Garcia, Celtic fiddler Seán Heely, and
saxophonist Trey Sorrells, alongside their
mentors Danny Knicely, Nasar Abadey,
and Lynn Veronneau (11/28) • ANTONIO
SANCHEZ — Jazz drum machine (11/29) •
STORM LARGE — A solo cabaret from the
sassy, saucy Pink Martini chanteuse (12/1)
THE ANTHEM
901 Wharf St. SW.
202-888-0020
theanthemdc.com
ALISON KRAUSS — The leading lady of
bluegrass (9/18) • CARLOS VIVES (9/23)
• LENNY KRAVITZ W/CURTIS HARDING —
Raise Vibration Tour (9/24) • FUTURE
ISLANDS W/ED SCHRADER’S MUSIC BEAT
(9/28) • ST. PAUL & THE BROKEN BONES
W/MATTIEL (9/30) • LEON BRIDGES W/
KHRUANGBIN (10/3) • TROYE SIVAN —
A few months after headlining Capital
Pride and hot on the heels of his new
album Bloom (10/4) • FLORENCE + THE
MACHINE W/BETH DITTO — The dog days
are most definitely over (10/5-6) • PINK
MARTINI FEATURING SPECIAL GUEST ARI
SHAPIRO (10/7) • NINE INCH NAILS W/
THE JESUS AND MARY CHAIN, KITE BASE
(10/9-10) • BEN HOWARD W/WYE OAK
(10/11) • LIL PUMP — Trillectro presents
(10/12) • GOO GOO DOLLS — SiriusXM
presents (10/13) • NF — Perception Tour
(10/14) • BROCKHAMPTON — AEG pres-
ents this evening on the I’ll Be There Tour
(10/16) • DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE W/CHARLY
BLISS (10/17) • CHVRCHES W/LO MOON
— Hooky Scottish synth-poppers (10/18)
• LAUREN DAIGLE W/SCOTT MULVAHILL,
AHI — Look Up Child Tour (10/19) • JOE
RUSSO’S ALMOST DEAD — The Grateful
Dead tribute act, with Oteil Burbridge
on bass (10/20) • NICK CAVE & THE BAD
SEEDS W/CIGARETTES AFTER SEX (10/25)
• WU-TANG CLAN (11/1) • LETTUCE WITH
SPECIAL GUESTS WAKA FLOCKA FLAME
AND MARCUS KING, W/TURKUAZ (11/3) •
LIL DICKY W/MUSTARD, OLIVER TREE —
Life Lessons with Lil Dicky and co. (11/6)
• TENACIOUS D W/WYNCHESTER (11/7)
• LAKE STREET DIVE W/JALEN N’GONDA
(11/9) • 6LACK W/SUMMER WALKER — The
Weeknd’s former opening act and kin-
dred alt-R&B artist (11/11) • YOUNG THE
GIANT W/LIGHTS (11/16) • STEVE MARTIN
AND MARTIN SHORT FEATURING THE
STEEP CANYON RANGERS AND JEFF BABKO
— Unlikely bluegrass purveyors, these
erstwhile comedians are still silly enough
to promise this as “an evening you will
forget for the rest of your life” (11/17) •
TASH SULTANA W/OCEAN ALLEY — Flow
State World Tour (11/21) • THE FRONT
BOTTOMS AND MANCHESTER ORCHESTRA
(11/24) • THE BRIAN SETZER ORCHESTRA
W/LARA HOPE AND THE ARK-TONES —
15th Anniversary Christmas Rocks! Tour
(11/30) • DARK STAR ORCHESTRA (12/01)
• LINDSEY STIRLING — Warmer in the
Winter Tour (12/14) • O.A.R. (12/15) • BETHESDA BLUES & JAZZ SUPPER CLUB THE BIRCHMERE
KACEY MUSGRAVES W/NATALIE PRASS — 7719 Wisconsin Ave. 3701 Mount Vernon Ave.
Oh, What A World: Tour (1/24/19) Bethesda, Md. Alexandria
, Va.
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1333 H St. NE PEABO BRYSON (9/21) • BE’LA DONA MICHAEL NESMITH & THE FIRST NATIONAL
202-399-7993 (9/22) • A TRIBUTE TO THE MUSIC OF BAND (9/17) • THE MARSHALL TUCKER
atlasarts.org ARETHA FRANKLIN (9/23) • BROADSOUND BAND (9/18) • RED MOLLY (9/20) • EUGE
JEFF DENSON — Jazz at the Atlas pres- (9/28) • LIV WARFIELD AND THE NPG GROOVE (9/21) • BUDDY GUY W/TOM
ents this singing bassist in a CD release HORNZ (9/29) • TRIBUTE TO THE MUSIC HAMBRIDGE (9/24) • ERIC BENÉT (9/27-
concert for Outside My Window (10/12, OF FANTASIA, ERYKAH BADU, TEENA 28) • HIROSHIMA (9/29) • BASIA (9/30) •
Lang Theatre) • AKUA ALLRICH — The MARIE (9/30) • MOTOWN & MORE: THE THE CHICK COREA TRIO: VIGILETTE WITH
powerhouse D.C. native’s 10th Annual LEGACY LIVES (10/5) • BILL LAURANCE — CARLITOS DEL PUERTO AND MARCUS
Nina Simone/Miriam Makeba Tribute Original member of Snarky Puppy (10/7) GILMORE (10/1) • CHICKS WITH HITS:
(10/13, Lang Theatre) • MADRE TIERRA: • MIRIAMM — The fourth year this vocal TERRI CLARK, PAM TILLIS, AND SUZY
STORIES FROM THE DRUM — A region- phenomenon has turned Bethesda Blues BOGGUSS (10/3) • STEELDRIVERS WITH
al collective of female practitioners of pink in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness KIERAN KANE AND RAYNA GELLERT (10/4-
the Puerto Rican percussion-rooted Month (10/11) • HOWARD HEWETT (10/12) 5) • MICHAEL FRANKS (10/6) • HERMAN’S
musical genres bomba and plena (10/14, • A TRIBUTE TO THE MUSIC OF THE SOUL HERMITS STARRING PETER NOONE (10/7)
Sprenger Theatre) • BANDA MAGDA — DIVAS — An annual celebration of Chaka • INDIGO GIRLS — The preeminent les-
Led by Greek-born singer/accordionist/ Khan, Aretha Franklin, Stephanie Mills, bian folk duo (10/8) • BONNIE ‘PRINCE’
composer Magda Giannikou, group com- and Anita Baker by the Brencore AllStars BILLY WITH THE OTHER YEARS (10/9) •
bines South-American rhythms with jazz Band (10/19) • THE RIPPINGTONS FEAT. LEO KOTTKE (10/10) • THE JAYHAWKS W/
improvisation, cinematic arranging, audi- RUSS FREEMAN (10/26) • EARL KLUGH HARROW FAIR (10/11) • THE WHISPERS
ence participation, mid-century classics, (10/28) • TAKE 6 (11/4) • LALAH HATHAWAY (10/12-13) • KEIKO MATSUI (10/14) • LISA
and world “chansons” sung in six lan- (11/8) • WALTER BEASLEY (11/16) • RARE STANSFIELD — The Deeper Tour North
guages (11/9, Sprenger Theatre) ESSENCE (11/21) • KINDRED THE FAMILY America (10/15) • INCOGNITO WITH SPE-
SOUL (11/23) • CHRISTMAS WITH REGINA CIAL GUEST MAYSA (10/16) • WYNONNA &
BARNS AT WOLF TRAP BELLE (12/9) • GERALD ALBRIGHT AND THE BIG NOISE (10/17) • CANDY DULFER
1635 Trap Road SELINA ALBRIGHT (12/16) (10/18) • STEPHANIE MILLS — The orig-
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THE LONE BELLOW W/SPECIAL GUEST
NAIA IZUMI (11/6-7) • JOHN LLOYD
YOUNG (11/8) • RONNIE SPECTOR & THE
RONETTES (11/9-10) • NICOLE ATKINS
(11/14) • ALAN DOYLE W/WHITNEY ROSE
(11/15) • MAGGIE ROSE — A return date for
one of CMT’s “Next Women of Country”
(11/16) • HOT RIZE — 40th Anniversary
Tour (11/17) • ART GARFUNKEL — A run of
dates from this original folk-pop star in an
intimate, acoustically rich venue (11/18-
20) • NEWMYER FLYER: JANIS JOPLIN &
JIMI HENDRIX TRIBUTE (11/24) • JOHN
EATON: GEORGE GERSHWIN & FRIENDS —
Dubbed a “Washington legend” by the
Washington Post, singing jazz pianist
educates as he entertains, regaling with
tales about and renditions of Broadway
and American standards from Arlen,
Bernstein, Kern and more (11/25) • CHRIS
SMITHER (11/30) • RED BARAAT — Jazz
artist Sunny Jain leads bhangra-rooted
eight-piece party band ready for another
barnstorming night (12/1) • EILEEN IVERS
— The preeminent exponent of the Irish
fiddle (12/2) • THE VERVE PIPE (1/12/19)
• JOHN OATES W/THE GOOD ROAD BAND
(1/17/19-1/18/19)
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inal Broadway Dreamgirl and revered
R&B diva (10/19-20) • OTTMAR LIEBERT
& LUNA NEGRA (10/21) • SAMANTHA FISH
WITH SKRIBE (10/22) • LYLE LOVETT AND
ROBERT EARL KEEN (10/23-24) • PHIL
VASSAR (10/25) • DELBERT MCCLINTON
WITH DAVE CHAPPELL & TOMMY LEPSON
(10/26) • TOM PAXTON & THE DON JUANS
(10/27) • KATHY MATTEA (10/28) • MARY
CHAPIN CARPENTER W/LAURA CORTESE &
THE DANCE CARDS — A return run for the
hometown girl on her Sometimes Just The
Sky Tour (10/29-30) • STARS FROM THE
COMMITMENTS (11/1) • DAVID BROMBERG
BIG BAND (11/2) • MIPSO W/10 STRING
SYMPHONY (11/4) • PETULA CLARK (11/7) •
THE OUTLAWS W/BILLY CRAIN BAND (11/8)
• OLETA ADAMS (11/9) • CHRIS BOTTI
(11/10-11) • GEORGE WINSTON (11/13) •
JOSHUA RADIN W/LILY KERSHAW (11/14)
• BONEY JAMES (11/19) • THE SELDOM
SCENE & DRY BRANCH FIRE SQUAD (11/23)
• CHARLES ESTEN — The Nashville hunk
(11/24-25) • SHAWN COLVIN W/SETH GLIER
(11/29) • NEWMYER FLYER PRESENTS:
TIME LOVES A HERO: A TRIBUTE TO LITTLE
FEAT — Performances by the Nighthawks,
Eric Scott, Patty Reese, Tommy Lepson,
Brian Simms, Janine Wilson, Bill Starks,
Colin Thompson, Tony Denikos, Andy
Rutherford, Chuck Underwood, Paul Bell,
Paul Pisciotta, Chuck Sullivan, Tom Helf,
Arch Alcantara, Edward O’Connell, and
Matt Spielman (12/1) • ROBERT GLASPER
(12/3-4) • A PETER WHITE CHRISTMAS
W/RICK BRAUN & MORE! (12/5) • SARA
EVANS — “At Christmas” (12/8) •
CHERYL WHEELER & JOHN GORKA (12/9)
• AVERY*SUNSHINE (12/12) • CARBON
LEAF W/LIZ LONGLEY — 25th Anniversary
Tour (12/13-14) • SOUTHSIDE JOHNNY
& THE ASBURY JUKES (12/15) • NORMAN
BROWN’S JOYOUS CHRISTMAS W/
BOBBY CALDWELL & MARION MEADOWS
(12/16) • JUDY COLLINS (12/18-19) • BILL
KIRCHEN & COMMANDER CODY — “Honky
Tonk Holiday Show!” (12/21) • A VERY
MAYSA CHRISTMAS FEATURING MAYSA’S
JAZZ FUNK SOUL ORCHESTRA (12/22) •
PIECES OF A DREAM (12/28) • LAST TRAIN
HOME W/CRAVIN DOGS (12/29) • THE
SELDOM SCENE, THE HIGH & WIDES, MS.
ADVENTURE — New Year’s Eve (12/31) •
SCHOONER FARE AND BUSKIN & BATTEAU
(1/5/19) • THE SOS BAND (1/10/19) • RICKY
SKAGGS & KENTUCKY THUNDER (1/11/19-
1/12/19) • TRAVIS TRITT (1/15/19-1/16/19)
58 SEPTEMBER 13, 2018 • METROWEEKLY
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SUNSET ROLLERCOASTER (9/20) •
DINOSAUR JR. (9/21) • BAD MOVES W/
THE OBSESSIVES, ULTRA BEAUTY (9/21) •
LUNA HONEY W/KID CLAWS, KNIFE WIFE
— Live Tape Release (9/23) • CLARENCE
“THE BLUES MAN” TURNER W/FULL
POWER BLUES, LAZY K (9/27) • HEMLINES
W/BACCHAE — Farewell Show (9/28) •
BABE CITY — Record Release Show (9/29)
• CIGARETTE W/DREAMCAST, IMKA (9/30)
• THE ARTISANALS W/THE HIGH DIVERS
(10/2) • ELECTRIC SIX W/JEREMY & THE
HARLEQUINS (10/3) • SEAN BARNA AND
THE MONOGAMISTS W/THE HEAD, MILO IN
THE DOLDRUMS (10/4) • KING KHAN & THE
SHRINES W/GABRIELLA COHEN, DJ MAD
SQUIRREL (10/6) • SWEARIN’, SHEER MAG
W/THE NUMBER ONES (10/9) • MILO W/
KENNY SEGAL (10/10) • PUBLIC IMAGE LTD.
(10/12) • JOYCE MANOR W/VUNDABAR, BIG
EYES (10/13) • CLOZEE W/IHF, CHOPPY
OPPY (10/14) • BLACK JOE LEWIS & THE
HONEYBEARS W/VUG ARAKAS (10/17) •
AJJ, KIMYA DAWSON W/ROZWELL KID,
SHELLSHAG (10/18) • GUIDED BY VOICES
(10/19) • TWAT SNOT W/BB & THE BLIPS,
ANTONIA X CO (10/19) • THE DAMNED W/
RADKEY, THE DARTS (10/20) • KIKAGAKU
MOYO W/J FERNANDEZ (10/23) • WAVVES,
BEACH FOSSILS W/KEVIN KRAUTER (10/24-
25) • DERMOT KENNEDY — Sometimes
called the Irish Bon Iver, tender folk/
rock sonics paired with urban, electronic
beats (10/26) • NATE STANIFORTH (10/26)
• ROKY ERICKSON W/WHITE MYSTERY, BAT
FANGS (10/28) • SARA CURTIN W/LAUREN
CALVE (10/30) • CHARLIE PARR, GHOST OF
PAUL REVERE (11/2) • YAEJI (11/6) • POND
(11/7) • MUNICIPAL WASTE, HIGH ON FIRE,
PLUS GUESTS TOXIC HOLOCAUST, HAUNT
(11/9) • THE JOY FORMIDABLE W/TANCRED
(11/10) • TENNIS W/MATT COSTA — Solo
In Stereo Tour (11/14) • (SANDY) ALEX G
W/HALF WAIF (11/15) • LOS CAMPESINOS!
W/ADULT MOM (11/17) • THE MENZINGERS
W/TINY MOVING PARTS, DADDY ISSUES
(11/20) • NO BS! BRASS BAND W/ANGELICA
GARCIA (11/24) • REVEREND HORTON
HEAT (12/15)
BLUES ALLEY
1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW
202-337-4141
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CORCORAN HOLT — A Birthday
Celebration for this jazz bassist (9/18)
• ERKIN KYDYKBAEV AND SALT PEANUTS
JAZZ BAND — Jazz band presented by
Embassy of Kyrgyz Republic (9/19)
• MIKE STERN - DENNIS CHAMBERS W/
BOB FRANCESCHINI & TOM KENNEDY
(9/20-23) • MARK GUILIANA (9/24) •
VERONNEAU (9/25) • LINDSEY WEBSTER
(9/26) • ANDAIYE FEATURING OSHUN
(9/27) • RENE MARIE — “Experiment in
Truth” from the jazz vocalist (9/28-30)
• DAVE CHAPPELL & FRIENDS (10/1) •
GEORGE BURTON (10/2) • HAROLD LOPEZ-
NUSSA (10/3) • ELIANE ELIAS — Veteran
Brazilian pianist/vocalist (10/4-7) • JANE
MONHEIT (10/8) • SWING SHIFT (10/9) •
AJ CROCE (10/10) • RACHELLE FERRELL —
Celebrated jazz vocalist and keyboardist
returns for an annual weekend run of
shows (10/11-14) • PAUL CARR QUINTET
(10/15) • ROBERTO POMILI TRIO (10/16)
• JUANITO PASCUAL’S NEW FLAMENCO
TRIO (10/17) • DEE DEE BRIDGEWATER
— Legendary jazz vocalist (10/18-21) •
PJ MORGAN (10/22) • GRAEME JAMES
(10/23) • JACQUI NAYLOR (10/24) • NAJEE
(10/25-28) • MONIKA HERZIG’S SHEROES”
— Jamie Baum, Reut Regev, Leni Stern,
Jennifer Vincent, and Karina Colis
(10/29) • EARTH, WIND & FIRE TRIBUTE
BAND — Celebrating the Elements (10/30)
• JOE HERRERA’S REMIX “A MONSTER
MASH-UP” (10/31) • JONATHAN BUTLER
(11/1-4) • ALISON CROCKETT (11/5) • ROY
HARGROVE (11/6-11) • GUNHILD CARLING
— “Sweden’s Queen of Swing” (11/12)
• MICHEL NIRENBERG (11/13) • FRANK
VIGNOLA: HOT JAZZ GUITAR TRIO (11/14)
• ROBERTA GAMBARINI (11/15-18) •
KATIE THIROUX TRIO (11/20) • RUSSELL
MALONE (11/21) • ALEX BUGNON (11/23-
25) • SHELBY BLONDELL (11/27) • JAZZY
BLU (11/28) • STACEY KENT (11/29-12/2)
• A CHAISE LOUNGE CHRISTMAS (12/5) •
FREDDY COLE — Nat King Cole’s broth-
er (12/6-9) • THE CAPITAL BONES BIG
BAND — “A Stan Kenton Christmas”
(12/10) • ERIC FELTEN JAZZ ORCHESTRA
— “Ellington’s Nutcracker” (12/11-
12) • ARTURO SANDOVAL — Ten-time
Grammy-winning Latin jazz legend
(12/13-16) • DAVE DETWILER & THE
WHITE HOUSE BAND — “Christmas Party”
(12/17) • BENJIE PORECKI — “In The
Holiday Groove” (12/18) • LORREE SLY-
MONTGOMERY — “Tis the Season” (12/19)
• MARCUS JOHNSON — “Urban Jam Band
Holiday Party” (12/20-23) • HERRERA-
RICHARDSON — “The Jam Before
Christmas” (12/24) • CYRUS CHESTNUT
— “Tis the Season” (12/26-30) • NEW
YEAR’S EVE WITH CYRUS CHESTNUT AND
SPECIAL GUEST INTEGRITI REEVES (12/31)
• CHRIS THOMAS KING (1/3/19-1/6/19) •
EMMET COHEN TRIO (1/9/19) • TERENCE
BLANCHARD & THE E-COLLECTIVE
(1/10/19-1/13/19)
CAPITAL ONE ARENA
601 F St. NW
202-628-3200
capitalonearena.com
CHILDISH GAMBINO (9/19) • ELTON JOHN
— Farewell Yellow Brick Road Tour (9/21-
22) • MAROON 5 — Red Pill Blues Tour
(10/2) • PHIL COLLINS — Not Dead Yet,
Live! Tour (10/7) • J. COLE FEATURING
YOUNG THUG, JADEN SMITH, EARTHGANG
AND KILL EDWARD (10/8) • SO SO DEF 25TH
CULTURAL CURREN$Y TOUR — Jermaine
Dupri, Xscape, Da Brat, Bow Wow, Jagged
Edge, Anthony Hamilton, Bone Crusher,
Youngbloodz, Dem Franchize Boyz, and
J-Kwon (10/14) • TWENTY ONE PILOTS —
The Bandito Tour (10/31) • JOSH GROBAN
W/IDINA MENZEL (11/15) • TRAVIS SCOTT
— Astroworld: Wish You Were Here Tour
(11/29) • TRANS-SIBERIAN ORCHESTRA
— The Ghosts of Christmas Eve: The
Best of TSO and More (12/23) • JUSTIN
TIMBERLAKE — The Man of the Woods
Tour (1/4/19)
CITY WINERY DC
1350 Okie St. NE
202-250-2531
citywinery.com/washingtondc
MASON JENNINGS (9/14) • RHETT MILLER
(9/15) • POPA CHUBBY (9/16) • WILL HOGE
W/RYAN CULWELL (9/18) • BADFINGER W/
JOEY MOLLAND — Straight Up Live and
Complete (9/19) • STEVEN PAGE TRIO W/
SPECIAL GUEST WESLEY STACE — Former
frontman of Barenaked Ladies (9/20) •
CHRIS TRAPPER W/DIANA CHITTESTER
(9/21) • EDWIN MCCAIN (9/21) • BOYCE
AVENUE (9/23) • IAN MOORE (9/23) •
LOUIS PRIMA JR. & THE WITNESSES (9/24)
• JUMP, LITTLE CHILDREN W/SPECIAL
GUEST MICHAEL FLYNN (9/25) • FACE TO
FACE ACOUSTIC W/AUSTIN LUCAS (9/26) •
ART SHERROD JR & THE ASJ ORCHESTRA
— Tribute to the Music of Motown & Soul
(9/27) • IRIS DEMENT (9/28) • FOLK SOUL
REVIVAL (9/29) • DWELE (9/30) • MARCIA
BALL (10/1) • TIM REYNOLDS & TR3 (10/3)
• GAZ COOMBES W/CALEB ELLIOTT (10/4)
• ROOMFUL OF BLUES W/VINTAGE #18
(10/5) • THE ENGLISH BEAT (10/6-7) •
CAROLYN MALACHI W/BOOMSCAT (10/9)
• MADELEINE PEYROUX (10/11-12) • THE
CURRYS (10/12) • RYAN MONTBLEAU
(10/13) • JOHN LODGE OF THE MOODY
BLUES — The 10,000 Light Years Tour
(10/14) • NATEWANTSTOBATTLE — The
nom de plume for Richmond’s Nathan
Sharp (10/14) • ALANA DAVIS W/BE
STEADWELL (10/15) • AL STEWART W/
SPECIAL GUESTS THE EMPTY POCKETS
(10/16) • MARIA MULDAUR (10/16) •
DRIFTWOOD (10/17) • MISSY RAINES &
60 SEPTEMBER 13, 2018 • METROWEEKLY
TONY FURTADO (10/17) • ARI HEST W/
KA-NA UEMURA (10/18) • MANDY BARNETT
(10/18) • CARL PALMER — Last man
standing of the Emerson Lake Palmer
trio (10/19) • MIKI HOWARD (10/21) •
PARSONSFIELD & SAWYER FREDERICKS
(10/22) • POKEY LAFARGE W/THE WATSON
TWINS (10/23) • SCRAPOMATIC (10/23) •
THE WIND + THE WAVE W/SHAWN JAMES,
SWELLS (10/24) • JOHN HIATT (10/24)
• RICHARD MARX — He’ll be right here
waiting (10/25) • ENTER THE HAGGIS
(10/26) • JENNY & THE MEXICATS (10/26)
• JOHN SEBASTIAN (10/28) • ACOUSTIC
ALCHEMY (10/29) • RAMI KLEINSTEIN
(10/30) • JIM LAUDERDALE W/AMELIA
WHITE (10/31) • RASPUTINA (10/31) •
RECKLESS KELLY W/JEFF CROSBY (11/1)
• DAR WILLIAMS W/ANTIGONE RISING
(11/2-3) • JD SOUTHER (11/4) • JENNIFER
KNAPP (11/6) • JACKOPIERCE (11/7) •
HUMBLE PIE (11/8) • KEVIN GRIFFIN — of
Better Than Ezra (11/9) • HEARTSTRINGS
BY ARTISTS FROM THE KHMER MAGIC
MUSIC BUS — presented by Cambodian
Living Arts (11/9) • LOOSE ENDS FEATUR-
ING JANE EUGENE (11/10) • LES STROUD
(11/11) • SYLVER LOGAN SHARP (11/11)
• DAVID COOK — The former American
Idol (11/14) • CARLENE CARTER (11/16) •
RUTHIE FOSTER (11/17) • TINSLEY ELLIS,
TOMMY CASTRO, AND THE PAINKILLERS —
The T’N’T Tour (11/18) • ANTHONY DAVID
(11/23-24) • THE EXPENDABLES (11/25)
• HOT TUNA (11/27) • THE SUBDUDES
(11/30) • LIVINGSTON TAYLOR (12/1) •
PAT MCGEE (12/1) • J MASCIS W/SPE-
CIAL GUEST LULUC (12/5) • JANE LYNCH
— “A Swingin’ Little Christmas” with
Hollywood’s second-most famous lesbi-
an (12/6) • CONYA DOSS (12/8) • CAROL
RIDDICK (12/16) • BETTYE LAVETTE (12/13)
• THE BLACKBYRDS (12/14) • CHELY
WRIGHT — The former Capital Pride
headliner and out country star (12/20) •
LYNNE FIDDMONT (12/20) • LOS LOBOS
(12/21-22)
DAR CONSTITUTION HALL
1776 D St. NW
202-628-1776
dar.org/conthall
LEGENDS OF HIP HOP — Featuring
Juvenile, Scarface, 8 Ball & MJG, DJ
Quik, Pastor Troy, Project Pat (10/13) •
ELVIS COSTELLO & THE IMPOSTERS (11/4)
• KINGS & QUEENS OF GO GO (11/17) •
MAZE FEATURING FRANKIE BEVERLY, JOE
(11/24)
DC9
1940 9th St. NW
202-483-5000
dcnine.com
BIT BRIGADE PERFORMS THE LEGEND
OF ZELDA (9/17) • REED APPELSEED W/
LOVEJET, NOT YOUR GROUPIES (9/18) •
FUTURE GENERATIONS W/ZULI (9/19) •
LVL UP W/YOWLER, MANNEQUIN PUSSY
— “[Final Tour]” (9/20) • SAINT SISTER
W/MARIAN MCLAUGHLIN (9/21) • MYSTIC
BRAVES W/THE CREATION FACTORY, THE
BEGINNER’S MYND (9/22) • THE SCORE W/
THE ORPHAN THE POET, BIRTHDAY (9/23)
• FICKLE FRIENDS W/LAVENDER — You
Are Someone Else Tour (9/25) • FUTURE
THIEVES CROUSE (9/26) • DREAM WIFE W/
RUSSO, NEW MYTHS (9/27) • THE DEEP
DARK WOODS W/NATIVE HARROW (9/28)
• ACTIVE BIRD COMMUNITY W/SAMIA
(9/29) • SLAVES (UK) (9/30) • TRAD,
GRAS OCH STENAR, ENDLESS BOOGIE
(10/1) • YOUR SMITH (FKA CAROLINE
SMITH) W/BAUM (10/3) • THE DIP W/
PALMAS (10/4) • CHELSEA CUTLER W/
SPECIAL GUEST CHRISTIAN FRENCH (10/6)
• SLEEPWALKES W/ILLITERATE LIGHT
(10/7) • PEACH PIT W/SUN SEEKERS, THE
VERNES (10/10) • GRUFF RHYS (10/11) •
BUSTY AND THE BASS (10/12) • JAKUBI
(10/14) • MIKAELA DAVIS (10/15) •
TTNG W/THE KRAKEN QUARTET (10/18)
• THE NORTH COUNTRY W/LAVENDER
(10/19) • MIKE YUNG (10/20) • MR TWIN
SISTER (10/21) • THE LIFE AND TIMES,
SPOTLIGHTS W/THE EFFECTS (10/22) •
SAINTS OF VALORY W/THE SLANG (10/23)
• SURE SURE & WILDERADO (10/24) • HEY
OCEAN! (10/25) • YUNGBLUD W/ARRESTED
YOUTH — 21st Century Liability Tour
(10/26) • MOM JEANS. W/JUST FRIENDS,
AWAKEBUTSTILLINBED, RETIREMEMENT
PARTY (10/30) • MICHAEL NAU & THE
MIGHTY THREAD (COTTON JONES) W/
CORNELIA MURR (11/1) • MAX FROST W/
UPSAHL (11/2) • MAGIC CITY HIPPIES W/
BAY LEDGES (11/3) • ALL GET OUT W/
HOMESAFE, HOUSEHOLD, SUNSLEEPER
(11/4) • THE NUDE PARTY (11/5) • FOUR
FISTS (P.O.S. X ASTRONAUTALIS) W/
SHIFTEE, ANGEL DAVANPORT (11/7)
• DARWIN DEEZ W/JOY AGAIN (11/8)
• SPORTS W/GINLA (11/9) • EXPLODED
VIEW W/FORMA, LUNA HONEY (11/11)
• CHARLOTTE LAWRENCE (11/12) • RON
GALLO W/TWEN (11/13) • BABE CLUB W/
AIRPARK (11/14) • ALEX BENJAMIN (11/15)
• SHAD (11/16) • TERA MELOS, MOUSE ON
THE KEYS (11/18) • THE DIRTY NIL W/DEAD
SOFT (11/20) • LAURA GIBSON (11/26)
• HAERTS (12/3) • MUTUAL BENEFIT W/
GABI (12/7) • CAVETOWN (12/13) • BORN
RUFFIANS (12/15)
EAGLEBANK ARENA
George Mason University
4500 Patriot Circle
Fairfax, Va.
703-993-3000
eaglebankarena.com
GRACIAS CHRISTMAS CANTATA (9/19) • OZUNA (9/28) • RBRM
(RONNIE BOBBY RICKY MIKE) W/BLACKSTREET, TAMIA, 702 (9/29)
• ALEJANDRO FERNANDEZ AND LOS TIGRES DEL NORTE (10/13) •
ROMEO SANTOS (10/14) • J BALVIN (10/21)

ECHOSTAGE
2135 Queens Chapel Rd. NE
202-503-2330
echostage.com
ZHU: DUNE TOUR 2018 — Club GLOW presents this rising
hip-hop-influenced sultry soul/house star who prefers his music
be the focus of attention (9/24) • ARMIN VAN BUUREN — The
veteran trance/house DJ, long ranked among the top, comes
back for a party presented by Club GLOW (10/5) • REZZ
(10/6) • WIZKID — Nigerian Independence Day Celebration
(10/7) • MALAA — Illegal Tour (10/13) • DJ PAULY D W/DJ
RUCKUS — Jersey Shore invasion (10/19) • KYSFEST 2018:
H.E.R., JACQUEES, TK KRAVITZ (10/25) • PETIT BISCUIT — Steez
Promo presents (10/27) • SLANDER W/SPAG HEDDY, WAVEDASH
(10/31) • SAN HOLO W/SAID THE SKY, BAYNK, TASKA BLACK, THE
NICHOLAS (11/9) • GORGON CITY — The U.K.’s Millennial deep
house duo return to play from new studio album Escape (11/16) •
SEVEN LIONS — The Journey II Tour, presented by Club GLOW
(11/17) • KSHMR (11/24) • SNAILS — Steez Promo presents
(11/30) • NGHTMRE (12/21)

FILLMORE SILVER SPRING

8656 Colesville Road
Silver Spring, Md.
301-960-9999
fillmoresilverspring.com
FILLMORE FLASHBACK ’80S VS. ’90S DANCE PARTY WITH DJ
BIZ MARKIE (9/14) • RESIDENTE — US Tour 2018 (9/19) • KIP
MOORE W/THE WILD FEATHERS & CAROLINE JONES — After The
Sunburn Tour (9/20) • GRITS & BISCUITS 21+ (9/22) • JAY ROCK
W/REASON — The Big Redemption Tour presented by TDE ENT.
(9/24) • SOCIAL DISTORTION W/JUSTIN TOWNES EARLE AND
VALLEY QUEEN (9/29) • THE VAMPS W/NEW HOPE CLUB & HRVY
(9/30) • SLASH FEAT. MYLES KENNEDY AND THE CONSPIRATORS
— Living The Dream Tour (10/2) • THRICE WITH THE BRONX
AND TEENAGE WRIST (10/4) • BEARTOOTH W/KNOCKED LOOSE
& SYLAR — The Disease Tour (10/5) • PAPA ROACH WITH SPE-
CIAL GUEST OF MICE AND MEN (10/7) • JOHN MARK MCMILLAN
WITH MIKE MAINS AND THE BRANCHES & TYSON MOTSENBOCKER
(10/8) • NINJA SEX PARTY (10/9) • WATSKY W/FEED THE BIRDS &
CHUKWUDI HODGE — Welcome To The Family Tour 2018 (10/10)
• DENZEL CURRY (10/11) • THE MAINE (10/13) • MICHAEL FRANTI
& SPEARHEAD W/DUSTIN THOMAS & VICTORIA CANAL (10/14) •
DIRTY HEADS WITH JUKEBOX THE GHOST & JUST LOUD (10/16)
• JOHNNY MARR WITH BELLE GAME (10/17) • MONSTER ENERGY
OUTBREAK TOUR: LIL XAN (10/19) • LILY ALLEN — The sassy,
smart British pop star returns (10/21) • JESSIE J W/RO JAMES
— The R.O.S.E. Tour (10/23) • MINUS THE BEAR W/CASPIAN
— The Farewell Tour (10/24) • DESCENDENTS WITH TEENAGE
BOTTLEROCKET, RUTH RUTH (10/25) • THE REVOLUTION (10/26)
• UB40 (10/27) • LECRAE & ANDY MINEO (10/29) • CIRCA SURVIVE
WITH LA DISPUTE & QUEEN OF JEANS (10/30) • CHIEF KEEF

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— Back From The Dead Fest (10/31) •
KYLE W/MARC E. BASSY & TOBI LOU — The
Lightspeed Word Tour (11/1) • BEHEMOTH
— Ecclesia Diabolica American 2018 (11/2)
• SABRINA CLAUDIO — The No Rain, No
Flowers Tour (11/3) • THE BLAZE — The
buzzed-about French house/pop duo
with equally stunning music videos and
music (11/4) • PRETTYMUCH W/GUNNAR
GEHL (11/5) • HOBO JOHNSON & THE
LOVEMAKERS (11/13) • MAYDAY PARADE
W/THIS WILD LIFE, WILLIAM RYAN KEY &
OH, WEATHERLY (11/15) • MIKE SHINODA
— Monster Energy Outbreak Tour (11/17)
• FONSECA — Simples Corazones US Tour
(11/23) • THE WHITE PANDA (11/24) •
JASON BONHAM’S LED ZEPPELIN EVENING
(11/25) • AMINE WITH BUDDY (11/27) •
3OH!3 & EMO NITE W/LIL AARON (11/28) •
DIGABLE PLANETS (11/30) • MINISTRY W/
CARPENTER BRUT & IGORRR (12/5) • 98
DEGREES AT CHRISTMAS 2018 (12/6) • LYFE
JENNINGS — Tree of Lyfe Tour (12/8) •
JORJA SMITH — Live Nation and Songbyrd
present (12/11) • BOMBA ESTEREO (12/13) •
TURNPIKE TROUBADOURS — Presented by
SiriusXM Outlaw COuntry (12/15)
GW LISNER
730 21st St. NW
202-994-6800
lisner.gwu.edu
GEORGE WASSOUF — Syrian singer (10/19)
• NANCY AJRAM & HUSSAM AL RASSAM
(11/9) • ALEXANDER ROZENBAUM —
“Russian Bob Dylan” returns to D.C. to
present a new show Neformat, presented
by ArbatArena (1/30/19)
THE HAMILTON
600 14th St. NW
202-787-1000
thehamiltondc.com
BRASS-A-HOLICS (9/14) • JUSTIN
TRAWICK AND THE COMMON GOOD — Free
Late Night Music in the Loft (9/14) •
NEWMYER FLYER PRESENTS: DREAM
DISCS: VAN MORRISON’S MOONDANCE AND
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN’S THE WILD, THE
INNOCENT & THE E STREET SHUFFLE (9/15)
• EILEEN CARSON BENEFIT FEATURING
FRANK SOLIVAN & DIRTY KITCHEN, TONY
TRISCHKA, FOOTWORKS, AND CATHY FINK
& MARCY MARXER (9/16) • THE MAGPIE
SALUTE (9/18) • BIRDS OF CHICAGO W/
MAYA DE VITRY (9/19) • DISTRICT MUSIC
BENEFIT FEAT. DONNA THE BUFFALO,
LEIGH NASH, AND LUCY SCHOLL (9/21)
• VINTAGE — Free Late Night Music in
the Loft (9/21) • THE YOUNG DUBLINERS
(9/22) • JONNY GRAVE — Free Late Night
Music in the Loft (9/22) • DAVINA & THE
VAGABONDS (9/23) • ISRAEL VIBRATION
AND ROOTS RADICS (9/26) • THEO CROKER
62 SEPTEMBER 13, 2018 • METROWEEKLY
W/ELIJAH JAMAL BALBED (9/27) • THE
REVEREND PEYTON’S BIG DAMN BAND
(9/28) • HONKY TONK CASANOVAS — Free
Late Night Music in the Loft (9/28) •
THE CLARKS (9/29) • HOLLY MONTGOMERY
BAND — Free Late Night Music in the
Loft (9/29) • JASON BOLAND & THE
STRAGGLERS AND CODY CANADA & THE
DEPARTED (9/30) • SHEMEKIA COPELAND
W/VANESSA COLLIER (10/5) • MOONSHINE
SOCIETY — Free Late Night Music in the
Loft (10/5) • THE BLACK LILLIES (10/6) •
BURT THE DIRT — Free Late Night Music
in the Loft (10/6) • MELVIN SEALS & JGB
(10/7) • CAPITAL PRIDE’S MUSIC IN THE
NIGHT (10/8) • JEFFREY FOUCAULT W/
LAURIE SARGENT (10/10) • EILEN JEWELL
W/HILLFOLK NOIR (10/11) • ANTIBALAS
(10/12) • THE DUSKWHALES — Free Late
Night Music in the Loft (10/12) • THE
ENGLISHTOWN PROJECT (10/13) • JOHNNY
& THE HEADHUNTERS — Free Late Night
Music in the Loft (10/13) • MORGAN JAMES
(10/14) • JJ GREY (10/17) • JOHN NEMETH
(10/18) • THE JERRY DOUGLAS BAND (10/19)
• BRENT & CO — Free Late Night Music in
the Loft (10/19) • LEAN ON ME: JOSÉ JAMES
CELEBRATES BILL WITHERS (10/20) • KARL
STOLL & THE DANGER ZONE — Free Late
Night Music in the Loft (10/20) • TAKE ME
TO THE RIVER FEAT. DIRTY DOZEN BRASS
BAND, IVAN NEVILLE, GEORGE PORTER JR,
BIG CHIEF MONK BOUDREAUX, AND MORE
(10/24) • THE FAB FAUX — “The Beatles in
Love” plus a set of favorites (10/26) • THE
FAB FAUX — “The Beatles in Rock” plus a
set of favorites (10/27) • THE 19TH STREET
BAND — Free Late Night Music in the
Loft (10/27) • SONNY LANDRETH (10/28)
• KANDACE SPRINGS (10/30) • REBIRTH
BRASS BAND (11/2-3) KISS & RIDE — Free
Late Night Music in the Loft (11/2) • THE
CRIMESTOPPERS — Free Late Night Music
in the Loft (11/3) • I DRAW SLOW (11/4) •
FRANK SOLIVAN & DIRTY KITCHEN W/THE
HIGH & WIDES (11/9) • SWAMPCANDY —
Free Late Night Music in the Loft (11/9) •
CARLY HARVEY — Free Late Night Music in
the Loft (11/10) • YACHT ROCK REVUE (11/11-
12) • THE TRAVELIN’ MCCOURYS W/THE
DIRTY GRASS PLAYERS (11/16) • SPEAKERS
OF THE HOUSE — Free Late Night Music
in the Loft (11/16) • JOHN MEDESKI’S MAD
SKILLET (11/17) • RAM BAND — Free Late
Night Music in the Loft (11/17) • GET
THE LED OUT (11/23) • FAST EDDIE & THE
SLOWPOKES — Free Late Night Music in
the Loft (11/23) • GHOST LIGHT (11/24) •
A CHARLIE BROWN CHRISTMAS WITH THE
ERIC BYRD TRIO (11/25) • FLASHBACK BAND
— Free Late Night Music in the Loft (12/1)
• VINTAGE #18 — Free Late Night Music
in the Loft (12/7) • JON MCLAUGHLIN W/
VILRAY — The 2018 This Time of Year
Tour (12/11) • BAD INFLUENCE BAND —
Free Late Night Music in the Loft (12/15) •
WHOSE HAT IS THIS? (12/17)
THE HOWARD THEATRE
620 T St. NW
202-803-2899
thehowardtheatre.com
STANLEY CLARKE (9/15) • DANCEHALL
PALOOZA (9/15) • BLACK UHURU (9/20) •
ROC MARCIANO & FRIENDS W/FLY ANAKIN,
ANKHLE JOHN & JAHN ROME (9/21) • INNA
— Romanian pop princess (9/22) • PETE
YORN (9/26) • WHITE FORD BRONCO —
Everybody’s favorite ‘90s-era cover band
(9/28) • GINUWINE W/SHAE WILLIAMS
(9/29) • REGGAE FEST VS. SOCA (9/29) •
BUIKA (10/10) • KOOL KEITH W/LIVE BAND
(10/11) • KRANIUM (10/12) • G HERBO W/
SPECIAL GUESTS SOUTHSIDE & QUEEN
KEY (10/24) • DANCEHALL PALOOZA:
HOWARD HOMECOMING W/SPICE (10/26)
• REGGAE FEST: HOWARD HOMECOMING
W/AIDONIA (10/27) • GEORGE CLINTON &
PARLIAMENT FUNKADELIC — Halloween
Fundown (10/31) • DK3 DANITY KANE W/
DUMBLONDE, DAWN (11/8) • ROSANA (11/9)
JAMMIN JAVA
227 Maple Ave. E.
Vienna, Va.
703-255-1566
jamminjava.com
NEVER SHOUT NEVER — Songs of Love
Acoustic Tour (9/14) • OZONE SQUEEZE
W/RAI THISTLETHWAYTE, DARREN
STANLEY (9/16) • ROBBIE FULKS & LINDA
GAIL LEWIS (9/18) • MAYER KIRBY MAYER
(9/19) • MATT MAYS W/STEALING OCEANS
+ MUTUAL GROOVE (9/20) • BACK TO THE
’90S GRUNGE UNPLUGGED — Featuring
Lithium (Nirvana Tribute), Aces In Chains
(Alice in Chains), Erik Bradford (Chris
Cornell) and The Singles (medley) (9/21)
• SHENANDOAH RUN (9/22) • FAMILY AND
FRIENDS — Felix Culpa Tour (9/22) • NOAH
GUNDERSEN W/HARRISON WHITFORD
(9/23, Miracle Theatre) • WILLIAM
FITZSIMMONS (9/23) • MASON JAZZ
ENSEMBLE (9/24) • BRIAN M. TANNER —
CD Release Show w/Full Band feat. Mateo
Monk + Mary eL (9/26) • ISRAEL NASH
AND BAND W/ALLEN TATE OF SAN FERMIN
(9/27) • “THE BEST TIMES AFTER ALL”
WITH ARCHIE FISHER & GARNET ROGERS
(9/28) • DRAKE BELL (9/30) • NATHAN
ANGELO W/ERYN (9/30) • THE BACHELOR
BOYS (10/1) • DONOVAN WOODS AND THE
OPPOSITION W/LUKE MITCHEM (10/2) •
GABE DIXON W/JOY OLADOKUN (10/3) •
DARDEN SMITH — Songs and Stories from
The Habit of Noticing: Using Creativity to
Make a Life (and a Living) (10/4) • NOT
EVEN W/JC & TEDDY D (10/5) • THE HOT
LANES BIG BAND — “The Original Music
of Bobby Jasinski (10/6) • NORA JANE
STRUTHERS (10/6) • TOM MORELLO — The
Atlas Underground Experience (10/6,
Miracle Theatre) • EMO NIGHT BROOKLYN
(10/6) • JAMMIN JAVA SONGWRITERS
CIRCLE W/LUKE BRINDLEY + TODD WRIGHT
+ ANTHONY FIACCO — A Songwriters
Tribute to John Fogerty (10/7) • NOAH
KAHAN W/DEAN LEWIS (10/8) • EMILY
KINNEY (10/9) • CASH CAMPBELL (10/10) •
NATHAN COLBERG W/JULIA HISER (10/11) •
ELIZABETH COOK W/CALEB CAUDLE (10/12)
• THE ESSEX GREEN (10/12) • THE NIELDS
(10/13) • VERTICAL ZAR (10/14) • MARTIN
BARRE BAND — Known from Jethro Tull
(10/14, Miracle Theatre) • BOBBY LONG
(10/14) • MATTHEW PERRYMAN JONES
(10/16) • THE 9 SONGWRITERS SERIES
(10/17) • DON ROSS + IAN ETHAN CASE
(10/18) • THE FABULOUS DIALTONES
(10/19) • MAE W/OK MAYDAY (10/20) •
THE RELAPSE SYMPHONY W/DIVINE BY
NIGHT + RED CHIEF’S RANSOM — Aspire
Presents a Reunion Show (10/21) • ELISE
TROUW (10/22) • KENNY WHITE W/JANIE
BARNETT (10/23) • LOST DOG STREET
BAND (10/25) • BACK TO THE ’90S: THE
ULTIMATE ’90S HALLOWEEN EVOLUTION —
Featuring Evolution (311 Tribute), Enjoy
(Incubus), Good Time Boys (RHCP) and
Cupcake (Cake) (10/26) • RUSTON KELLY
W/KATIE PRUITT — Dying Star Fall Tour
(10/27) • FRED EAGLESMITH STARRING TIF
GINN (10/28) • DESERT NOISES + MORNING
TELEPORTATION (10/29) • ROCKING
HORROR COVER SHOW — Featuring Set
for Tomorrow (Nirvana Tribute) + Kid
Brother (Portugal. The Man) + Elizabeth
II (Fleetwood Mac) + Better Homes (Fall
Out Boy) (10/31) • PATTY LARKIN (11/1)
• LUCY KAPLANSKY (11/2) • SAUCE FEAT.
PLEASURE TRAIN (11/2) • FACE THE FISH
(11/3) • KOO KOO KANGA ROO W/DINERS —
Really Really Sweaty Tour (11/7) • AGENTS
OF GOOD ROOTS (11/9) • CARGO AND THE
HEAVY LIFTERS (11/10) • TYLER RAMSEY
(11/11) • ADRIAN LEGG (11/13) • THE
SCENE AESTHETIC (11/15) • MARY FAHL —
Former lead singer of the October Project
(11/16, Miracle Theatre) • BLUE WATER
HIGHWAY W/MORNINGBIRD (11/16) • SEAN
ROWE (11/17) • ANTI-SOCIAL CLUB W/DERD
BERNER + SPECTRUMS (11/17) • MC LARS
W/TOMATO DODGERS + SKYBLEW (11/18)
• SAYWECANFLY + A SUMMER HIGH, WITH
SPECIAL GUESTS THE STOLEN (11/20) •
SEPTEMBER 13, 2018 • METROWEEKLY
WILLIE NILE (11/23) • HORDE TIMES AND
WEIRDNESS FEAT. BIG O AND DUKES &
HTAW LIVE (11/30) • AFTERNOON DREAD
FEAT. PONYTAILS & COCKTAILS (12/1) •
SABRINA BENAIM W/CLEMENTINE VON
RADICS (12/2) • JENNY & TYLER W/SPECIAL
GUEST TAYLOR LEONHARDT (12/9) • DOE
PAORO (12/9) • CHRIS PUREKA W/CRYS
MATTHEWS — A double bill of intriguing
lesbian DIY folk artists (12/20) • CLAUSTER
EVE: JAMMIN JAVA SONGWRITERS CIRCLE
HOLIDAY EDITION — Featuring Todd
Wright, Anthony Fiacco, Luke Brindley,
and Scott Simons (12/21) • TODD WRIGHT’S
16TH ANNUAL SANTA CLAUSTER-F@%!
CHRISTMAS SPECTACULAR (12/22-23) •
DOYLE — Member of The Misfits (1/2/19)
JIFFY LUBE LIVE
7800 Cellar Door Drive
Bristow, Va.
703-754-6400
bristowamphitheater.com
OZZY OSBOURNE — The BIG Concert: No
More Tours 2 (9/14) • VAN MORRISON
(9/16) • WMZQ FALL FEST: LADY
ANTEBELLUM & DARIUS RUCKER (10/6) •
CHRIS STAPLETON (10/13)
63
KENNEDY CENTER
2700 F St. NW
202-467-4600
kennedy-center.org
RENEE FLEMING’S VOICES: CHRISTOPHER
JACKSON — The rising Broadway star from
The Lion King, In The Heights, and most
notably Hamilton, earning a Tony nomi-
nation for his work as George Washington
(9/29, Terrace Theater) • KURT ELLING
— “The standout male vocalist of our
time” (The New York Times) kicks off
the jazz season at the Kennedy Center
(10/5, Terrace) • MAIMOUNA YOUSSEF —
Baltimore-born, D.C.-raised global citizen
and musical healer in a one-night-only con-
cert (10/13, Terrace Theater) • SOUL IN THE
HORN: NATASHA DIGGS AND DPROSPER —
New York-based dance party, social gath-
ering, and music showcase travels down
I-95 with a DJ and curator (10/13, Atrium)
• MASON BATES’S KC JUKEBOX: FUTURE
FOLK W/KING CREOSOTE, CAROLINE SHAW,
AND THE DOVER QUARTET (10/18, Atrium)
• KC JAZZ CLUB: ODEAN POPE — Fiery and
intense saxophonist who was chosen to
replace John Coltrane in Jimmy Smith’s
band by the late legend himself (10/19,
Terrace Theater) • NSO POPS: ANDREW
BIRD WITH GABRIEL KAHANE (10/26-
27, Concert Hall) • CROSSROADS CLUB:
MWENSO & THE SHAKES — Led by charis-
matic singer Michael Mwenso, high-energy
troupe romps its way through the blues
from African and Afro-American traditions
(10/27, Atrium) • RENEE FLEMING’S VOICES:
YOUSSOU N’DOUR — A giant of world
music, this Senegalese singer, percussion-
ist, and humanitarian performs a special
night in the Kennedy Center’s grand hall
(10/30, Concert Hall) • NSO DECLASSIFIED:
BEN FOLDS PRESENTS REGINA SPEKTOR &
CALEB TEICHER — Indie icon and dynamic
tap-dancer/choreographer join for the next
concert in a late-night series curated and
hosted by Folds, the National Symphony’s
artistic advisor (11/2, Concert Hall) • KC
JAZZ CLUB: ALICIA OLATUJA, RENÉ MARIE,
AND THEO BLECKMANN — Songs of Freedom
(11/3) • BRIAN WILSON CELEBRATES PET
SOUNDS — “The Final Performances” with
a 10-piece orchestra and special guests,
original Beach Boys Al Jardine and Blondie
Chaplin (11/5, Concert Hall) • KC JAZZ
CLUB: MIGUEL ZENÓN & SPEKTRAL QUARTET
— A performance of original compositions
from the jazz saxophonist’s new album, Yo
Soy La Tradición, inspired by the music and
rhythms of his birthplace of Puerto Rico
(11/16, Terrace Gallery) • CÉCILE MCLORIN
64 SEPTEMBER 13, 2018 • METROWEEKLY
SALVANT — Ogresse, arranged and conduct-
ed by Darcy James Argue (11/17, Terrace) •
THOM YORKE — Pop star will be joined by
his Radiohead colleague Nigel Godrich and
visual artist Tarik Barri for an enhanced
performance of his electronic solo works,
with support from special guest Oliver
Coates (11/30, Concert Hall) • NPR’S A JAZZ
PIANO CHRISTMAS (12/1, Terrace) • JASON
MORAN — U.S. premiere of James Reese
Europe and The Harlem Hellfighters: The
Absence of Ruin, a music and multimedia
salute to the early African-American rag-
time musician and first black bandleader
who helped spark the international inter-
est in jazz (12/8, Eisenhower Theater) •
ODDISEE & GOOD COMPANY, PHONTE, AND
OLIVIER ST. LOUIS — A respected under-
ground rapper locally and abroad returns
to his hometown for a specially curated
evening with individual sets by his group, a
North Carolina emcee, and a Berlin-based
singer-songwriter (12/13, Eisenhower
Theater) • DISCOVERY ARTIST IN THE KC
JAZZ CLUB: QUIANA LYNELL — The 2017
Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Vocal
Competition winner comes up from her
New Orleans base for a concert of holiday
favorites interpreted via a unique blend
of jazz, classical, soul, and funk (12/14,
Terrace Gallery) • NSO POPS: A HOLIDAY
POPS! UNDER THE MISTLETOE WITH ASHLEY
BROWN (12/14-15, Concert Hall) • A JAZZ
NEW YEAR’S EVE: PATTI AUSTIN’S BEBOP HIP
HOP ELLA FEATURING TREVOR LAWRENCE
JR. — A celebration of Ella Fitzgerald and
her skill with scatting featuring a contem-
porary jazz and pop vocal legend accom-
panied by an acclaimed hip-hop drummer
(12/31, Terrace)
LINCOLN THEATRE
1215 U St. NW
202-888-0050
thelincolndc.com
AMOS LEE W/CAITLYN SMITH (9/18) • BLOOD
ORANGE W/YVES TUMOR (9/28) • HOZIER W/
HUDSON TAYLOR (10/2) • LYKKE LI (10/5)
• GAD ELMALEH (10/10) • YEARS & YEARS
W/CYN, TUNDE OLANIRAN (10/11) • ERIC
HUTCHINSON & THE BELIEVERS W/JEREMY
MESSERSMITH (10/12) • THE MILK CARTON
KIDS W/THE BARR BROTHERS (10/13) •
GARBAGE W/RITUALS OF MINE — Shirley
Manson and co.’s 20th Anniversary Tour
(10/21-22) • ELLE KING W/CORDOVAS
— Shake The Spirit (11/2) • RICHARD
THOMPSON, ELECTRIC TRIO (11/8) • THE
TALLEST MAN ON EARTH (11/9) • KAMASI
WASHINGTON W/BUTCHER BROWN (11/10)
• OLAFUR ARNALDS (11/14) • THE DOLLOP
(11/16) • JIM JAMES W/ALYNDA SEGARRA
FROM HURRAY FOR THE RIFF RAFF (11/17)
• JACKSON GALAXY (11/21) • JEWEL (12/6)
MERRIWEATHER POST PAVILION
10475 Little Patuxent Parkway
Columbia, Md.
410-715-5550
merriweathermusic.com
PORTUGAL. THE MAN W/LUCIUS (9/21) •
TRILLECTRO 2018: SZA, 2 CHAINZ, RL GRIME,
YOUNG THUG — The lineup also includes
Playboi Carti, The Internet, Smokepurpp,
Rico Nasty, Maxo Kream, Sheck Wes, Snoh
Aalegra, Rayana Jay, Everyday People,
Jungle Fever, Beau Young Prince, Good
Intent, Rezt, Innanet James, Soduh, That
Feel Good, Joy Club, Skin Valley, Closed
Sessions, First Family, Girlaaa, Chicken
& Mumbo Sauce, True Laurels, and spe-
cial guest Carnage (9/22) • THE NATIONAL
W/CAT POWER, PHOEBE BRIDGERS (9/28)
• WPOC SUNDAY IN THE COUNTRY NO
LAWN CHAIRS — The lineup includes Brett
Eldredge, Dan + Shay, Dustin Lynch, Devin
Dawson, Morgan Evans, Jimmie Allen, and
Jillian Jacqueline (9/30)
MILKBOY ARTHOUSE
7416 Baltimore Ave.
College Park, Md.
240-623-1423
milkboyarthouse.com
THE UN-AMERICAN MUSIC CONCERT FT.
TENI + AMINDI KI. FRO$T — The lineup
also includes Tessellated, O-Slice, Wallz
Baba, Hameed, SZAGA, Riflex (9/14) •
BILLY PRICE (9/15) • SONGWRITER SUNDYS:
ANDREW GRIMM, ELLEN CHERRY, NICO &
THE BLACK GRASS (9/16) • COLLEGE PARK
MUSIC FEST 2018 — Featuring Al Maralen,
The Produce Section, Adam Kahati, Bryan
Hingerton (9/20) • DRAKE BELL W/KIRA
KOSARIN, MIKE HAUSER — Live & Unplugged
(9/25) • BOSLEY (9/27) • PAINT BRANCH
CREEK W/ROCK CREEK REVIVAL — MilkBoy
ArtHouse One-Year Anniversary (9/29) •
MOOGATU WITH STIG, NAH. (10/4) • SEAN
JONES QUARTET (10/5) • EDDIE REYES EMO
NIGHT — Founding Member of Taking Back
Sunday (10/7) • DENZEL CURRY W/TA1300
TOUR, CITY MORGUE (10/11) • B. KEYZ
(10/12) • NEGUINHO DA BEIJA-FLOR (10/13)
• MOD SUN W/CASKEY, CHXPO, JIMMY
BENNETT, LOSTINVEGAS, FORGETBRENNAN
(10/14) • KERO KERO BONITO W/
TANUKICHAN (10/20) • DUCKWRTH W/
NATURE BOI (10/24) • BRAZILIAN STRINGS
TRIO (10/25) • ALSARAH & THE NUBATONES
(11/2) • PVMNTS W/WSTR (11/3) • GIRLPOOL
& PORCHES W/PALBERTA (11/5) • CHORO
DAS 3 (11/9) • INVOKE (11/15) • THE
MARIAS AND TRIATHLON — Presented by
Ones To Watch (11/17) • BROADSIDE WITH
CONFIDENCE W/SLEEP ON IT, SMALL TALK
(11/29) • SAHBABII X YOUNG NUDY (11/30) •
JUST JUICE W/DAX, WILLY D (12/5)
MGM NATIONAL HARBOR
7100 Harborview Ave.
Oxon Hill, Md.
301-971-5000
mgmnationalharbor.com
SMOKEY ROBINSON (9/15) • STING &
SHAGGY (9/19) • TIMBIRICHE (9/21) •
3 DIVAS (9/29) • CHRISTINA AGUILERA
(9/30) • MAXWELL (10/4-5) • GILBERTO
SANTA ROSA & JORGE CELEDON (10/6) •
88RISING (10/9) • PAULA ABDUL (10/14) •
MS. LAURYN HILL (10/18) • KEITH SWEAT
— ’80s R&B crooner returns for anoth-
er year of new jack swing (10/27) • IN
DREAMS: ROY ORBISON IN CONCERT —
The Hologram Tour (10/29)
PEARL STREET WAREHOUSE
33 Pearl St. SW
202-380-9620
pearlstreetwarehouse.com
JASMINE GILLISON W/LAURA TSAGGARIS,
NARDO LILLY — Little Light Album Release
(9/16) • JOLIE HOLLAND AND SAMANTHA
PARTON W/THE BROTHER BROTHERS
(9/19) • BENCOOLEN SURPRISE ATTACK W/
THE CHRIS CASSADAY CONCOCTION (9/21)
• JUSTIN TRAWICK AND THE COMMON
GOOD W/KENTUCKY AVENUE (9/22) •
HUMAN COUNTRY JUKEBOX — Featuring
Jack Gregori from NBC’s The Voice (9/23)
• SOUTHWEST SOUL SESSIONS W/ELIJAH
BALBED & ISABELLE DE LEON (9/23) •
SUPERSUCKERS — 30th Anniversary “The
Big Show” Tour (9/24) • FRONT COUNTRY
W/LAUREN CALVE (9/27) • MOUNTAIN
RIDE (9/28) • KRANTZ (9/29) • DENNIS
STROUGHMATT AND CREOLE STOMP (9/30)
• DUPONT BRASS W/MK ZULU, DEACON
IZZY, LA’VONNE, DJ JEAUXSMEAUX (10/5) •
BLACK MASALA W/MY SON THE HURRICANE
— CD Release Party (10/6) • JOEY DOSIK
(10/10) • NATHAN & THE ZYDECO CHA
CHAS (10/11) • TOWN MOUNTAIN W/GINA
CLOWES (10/12) • KING SOUL (10/13) •
JOSH ROUSE AND GRANT-LEE PHILLIPS
(10/13) • THE SUITCASE JUNKET (10/15) •
HEATHER MAE & SARAH CLANTON W/KATIE
KUFFEL, BE STEADWELL — A night of les-
bian/queer folk/pop (10/16) • JP HARRIS
(10/18) • HEATHER’S HEADACHE, BLAME IT
ON JANE — Benefit for the American SIDS
Institute (10/19) • CHARLEY CROCKETT
(10/21) • QUINN SULLIVAN (10/24) • BILLY
F GIBBONS (11/1) • CRIS JACOBS BAND
W/JONATHAN SLOANE TRIO (11/2) • TOR
MILLER (11/6) • THE MAIN SQUEEZE (11/9)
• BIG SANDY & HIS FLY-RITE BOYS (11/17) •
RUBY VELLE & THE SOULPHONICS (11/18) •
CHUCK BROWN BAND (11/21) • PATTERSON
HOOD — Solo shows from frontman of
Drive-By Truckers (12/6-7)
66 SEPTEMBER 13, 2018 • METROWEEKLY
ROCK AND ROLL HOTEL
1353 H St. NE
202-388-ROCK
rockandrollhoteldc.com
TIGERS JAW W/THE SIDEKICKS, CAVE
PEOPLE (9/14) • COURTNEY MARIE
ANDREWS W/MICHAELA ANNE (9/20)
• ARTHUR BUCK (9/21) • ROONEY W/
SPECIAL GUEST MATING RITUAL, MILO IN
THE DOLDRUMS (9/22) • GRAHAM COXON
(9/23) • SALES (9/26) • MINIATURE
TIGERS W/JASPER BONES — Tell It To
the Volcano 10th Anniversary Tour (9/27)
• JADE BIRD (9/28) • SHAED (9/29) •
TOVE STYRKE (10/1) • THE FRIGHTS —
Hypochondriac Tour (10/3) • WESTON
(10/4) • BLITZEN TRAPPER FURR —- 10th
Anniversary Tour (10/5) • GREAT LAKE
SWIMMERS W/JOSHUA HYSLOP (10/6)
• MILO GREENE (10/9) • TRIBULATION
(10/11) • LOVELYTHEBAND W/MORGAN
SAINT, BLACKTOP QUEEN (10/12) • YOUNG
RISING SONS W/SAINT SLUMBER (10/14) •
LITTLE DRAGON (10/17-18) • GLORIETTA
(10/19) • WHITE FORD BRONCO (10/20)
• EVIDENCE (10/21) • LEE “SCRATCH”
PERRY + SUBATOMIC SOUND SYSTEM —
45th Anniversary of Blackboard Jungle
Dub (10/26) • DILLINGER FOUR (10/27)
• LEMURIA W/BETHLEHEM STEEL (10/30)
• LIFETIME W/COLD WORLD, GIVE, POST
PINK (11/2) • POLYPHIA W/HAIL THE
SUN, COVET (11/3) • BRONCHO (11/7) •
SLOTHRUST (11/8) • THE NIGHT GAME
(11/9) • FUCKED UP W/BAD WAITRESS
(11/10) • THE DODOS W/PALEHOUND
(11/15) • FUTUREBIRDS W/NEIGHBOR
LADY (11/16) • CAROLINE ROSE W/AND THE
KIDS (11/17) • THE WEEKS W/THE LONELY
BISCUITS (11/18) • YELLOW DAYS (11/20) •
TROPHY EYES & SEAWAY (11/28) • SOCCER
MOMMY (12/1) • PETER BJORN AND JOHN
W/TALOS (12/2) • THE BALLROOM THIEVES
(12/6) • AMBER RUN (12/7) • CAAMP (12/11)
• CAVETOWN (12/13) • IDLES (5/11)
SIXTH & I HISTORIC SYNAGOGUE
600 I St. NW
202-408-3100
sixthandi.org
BETH HART — Dubbed “the ultimate
female rock star” by Blues Magazine
(9/25) • BRIAN FALLON W/SPECIAL GUEST
CRAIG FINN — “Songs from the Hymnal”
is the title of this solo show from front-
man for the Gaslight Anthem (10/4) •
MOUNTAIN MAN — Folk trio returns with
Magic Ship (10/22) • VUSI MAHLASELA —
A national treasure in his homeland of
South Africa as a powerful, rallying figure
in the struggle against apartheid (10/27)
• GHOSTLAND OBSERVATORY W/GIBBZ —
Austin electronic duo (11/6) • BAYSIDE W/
GOLDS (12/11)
THE STATE THEATRE
220 North Washington St.
Falls Church, Va.
703-237-0300
thestatetheatre.com
CHEMLAB W/C-TEC AND HELLBENT (9/15)
• COCO MONTOYA W/CATHY PONTON
KING (9/16) • THE LIVE! TRIBUTE TO
LOS FABULOSOS CADILLACS AND LOS
AUTENTICOS DECADENTES (9/21) •
LEFTOVER SALMON W/TWO TON TWIG
(9/28) • THE LEGWARMERS — D.C.’s
Biggest ’80s Retro Dance Party (9/29)
• CYCLES W/THE SHRAPNELS (10/3)
• RATA BLANCA (10/6) • ZOSO — The
Ultimate Led Zeppelin Experience
(10/12) • MELODIME W/THE BREVET
(10/13) • THE DOBRE BROTHERS (10/14)
• THE MACHINE PERFORMS PINK FLOYD
— 30th Anniversary Show (10/19-20)
• SEBASTIAN BACH W/MONTE PITMAN
AND ONE BAD SON (10/25) • A NIGHT
OF GRANDER MUSIC FEATURING MOLLY
NUSS, AUDREY MORMANN, MICHELLE ANN,
AND NICK CIRILLO (11/9) • HOT DUB TIME
MACHINE (11/21) • THE NIGHTHAWKS W/
BILLY PRICE (11/23) • ROCKAPELLA (12/15)
• THE SMITHEREENS WITH THEIR SPECIAL
GUEST VOCALIST ROBIN WILSON (1/18/19)
• LEZ ZEPPELIN — “All girls. All Zeppelin.”
(1/19/19)
STRATHMORE
5301 Tuckerman Lane
North Bethesda, Md.
301-581-5100
strathmore.org
DIANA ROSS — The supreme Supreme
in a supreme venue (9/25-26, Music
Center) • THE GIPSY KINGS (9/27, Music
Center) • THE AUSTRALIAN PINK FLOYD
SHOW — The Times (London) hails this
“the gold standard” of shows paying trib-
ute to the classic British rockers, an all-
in act now celebrating 30 years (9/30,
Music Center) • PAT METHENY (10/6)
• POSTMODERN JUKEBOX (11/5, Music
Center) • AIDA CUEVAS — “A Tribute to
Juan Gabriel” from a Mexican power-
house dubbed the Queen of Ranchera
Music (11/8, Music Center) • HOME FREE:
A COUNTRY CHRISTMAS — The 2013 win-
ner of NBC’s The Sing-Off (11/25, Music
Center) • THE ANDERSONS PLAY BENNY
GOODMAN (11/25, Mansion) • MANNHEIM
STEAMROLLER CHRISTMAS (12/2, Music
Center) • KENNY G — The Miracles Holiday
& Hits Tour (12/4, Music Center) • RUFUS
WAINWRIGHT (12/8, Music Center) • THE
BEACH BOYS (12/10, Music Center) • JAZZ
AT LINCOLN CENTER ORCHESTRA WITH
WYNTON MARSALIS (12/14-15)
U STREET MUSIC HALL
1115A U St. NW
202-588-1889
ustreetmusichall.com
OM UNIT W/RUDE OPERATOR, ROGUE
STATE (9/15, Ten Tigers Parlor)
• DC RECORD FAIR ON U (9/16) • THE
UNIVERSAL LISTENING ROOM (9/16) •
HYUKOH W/INNER WAVE — 24 Tour-North
America, presented by 9:30 (9/19) • THE
BUTTERTONES W/WILD WING (9/20) •
THE WIDDLER + PUSHLOOP W/HUMDINGA,
MAXIMIZE (9/20) • CARL BROEMEL W/
STEELISM — Member of My Morning
Jacket in a solo show presented by 9:30
(9/21) • WHETHAN W/SWEATER BEATS,
ANDREW LUCE (9/21) • HOT MIX (9/21)
• SYML W/FLORA CASH (9/22) • JUNGLE
FEVER W/MISTA SELECTA, MANE SQUEEZE
— Official Trillectro Afterparty (9/22)
• REIGNWOLF (9/24) • ANNE-MARIE W/
GOODY GRACE (9/26) • CONVERGE:
UNDERDOG, NATIVE SUN (9/26) • MT. JOY
W/ARLIE (9/27) • ROBOTAKI W/INDIGINIS,
EHIOROBO (9/28) • MEG MYERS W/ADAM
JONES (9/29) • ATLIENS W/CARBIN (9/29)
• THE CHARLATANS UK (10/2) • VIRTUAL
RIOT W/2RIP, DAN (10/3) • GEORGE
FITZGERALD (10/40 • CATZ N’ DOGZ (10/4,
Ten Tigers) • ELDERBROOK W/WHITE
CLIFFS, BAILE (10/5) • THE PRESETS W/
BLOOD RED SHOES — Underappreciated
Aussie techno-rockers return in sup-
port of strong new set Hi Viz (10/6) •
BREAKBOT W/IRFANE (10/6) • CONVERGE:
LAST NIIGHT COLLECTIVE (10/10) • MIJA
(10/11, Ten Tigers) • THE MIDNIGHT W/
AYOKAY (10/12) • AZIZI GIBSON (10/13) •
BASHMENT: A HOUSE OF CARIBBEANS TING
(10/13) • WHITE DENIM W/ROTEM (10/14) •
DJANGO DJANGO W/THE SHACKS (10/15)
• SCARLXRD (10/16) • ALICE MERTON
W/FOREIGN AIR (10/17) • CONVERGE:
OTHERFEELS (10/17) • MASEGO (10/18) •
MADAM X (10/18, Ten Tigers) • TREVOR
POWERS (10/19) • MARK FARINA W/KEN
LAZEE (10/19) • BLACKOUT: A BRITNEY
ALBUM CELEBRATION W/DJS JEFF PRIOR,
ADAM KOUSSARI, DVONNE (10/20) • LOW
CUT CONNIE W/RUBY BOOTS &MORE (CHILL
MOODY & DONN T) (10/21) • ALEXANDROS
(10/22) • BLOCKHEAD W/YPPAH, ARMS
AND SLEEPERS (10/23) • JEREMY ZUCKER
W/JOAN (10/24) • OH PEP! (10/24) •
NAPPI HOUR: A NAPPI HOMECOMING WITH
DJ NOBLE, MIKE ORIE, SUCH N SUCH, DJ
NITECRAWLER (10/25) • A TRIBE CALLED
RED (10/26) • RUBBLEBUCKET W/DIET CIG,
STAR ROVER (10/27) • U HELL: DMV DEEP
WITH RUSH PLUS — Saad Ashraf, Luke
Andy, Khalifeh (10/27) • GUS DAPPERTON
(10/29) • CHASE ATLANTIC (10/31) • EZRA
FURMAN W/OMNI (11/1) • THE TWILIGHT
SAD (11/3) • THE CRYSTAL METHOD
(11/3) • THE LEMON TWIGS W/JUNGLE
GREEN (11/4) • THE ORB (11/6) • KASBO
W/VANCOUVER SLEEP CLINIC (11/7) •
SHALLOU W/JAPANESE WALLPAPER (11/8)
• JUSTIN COURTNEY PIERRE W/PRONOUN
(11/9) • PALE WAVES W/MIYA FOLICK, THE
CANDESCENTS (11/10) • KIIARA W/ABIR
(11/11) • LOW (11/12) • DARKEST HOUR —
Damnation A.D., Cemetery Piss, Walk The
Plank, No Man (11/13) • TALL HEIGHTS W/
FRANCES CONE, OLD SEA BRIGADE (11/28)
• WHY? PLAYS ALOPECIA (12/1) • FLINT
EASTWOOD (12/2)
UNION STAGE
740 Water St. SW
877-987-6487
unionstage.com
PALM W/HOVVDY, TRUE BLUE (9/14) •
CHOIR! CHOIR! CHOIR! (9/16) • RIVER
WHYLESS W/ASM (9/19) • WHITE FORD
BRONCO — Lombardi Live Concert to
End Cancer (9/20) • JOSHUA HEDLEY
— Record Release Show (9/21) •
LUTHER RE-LIVES: A TRIBUTE TO LUTHER
VANDROSS (9/21, Miracle Theatre) •
MOTHERS (9/21, Songbyrd) • APRIL +
VISTA W/CISCERO, SUGG SAVAGE (9/21) •
THE SOUL REBELS (9/22) • THE PRINCE
& MICHAEL EXPERIENCE W/DJ MARCO
(9/22) • SG LEWIS, YOSHI FLOWER (9/25)
• THE 9 SONGWRITER SERIES (9/28) •
DREAMERS, WEATHERS, MORGXN (9/27)
• THE OCEAN BLUE W/SPECIAL GUESTS
RIVERSIDE (9/28) • CHRIS DAVE AND
THE DRUMHEDZ (9/30) • LUCKY CHOPS
(10/4) • WELSHLY ARMS (10/7) • THE
LIL SMOKIES & FRUITION (10/11) •
PERPETUAL GROOVE & KUNG FU NIGHT
(10/12-13) • HOODIE ALLEN (10/14) • DOJA
CAT (10/17) • PSYCHO KILLERS — Talking
Heads Tribute (9/19) • LAWRENCE W/KAT
WRIGHT, JOE HERTLER & THE RAINBOW
SEEKERS — Living Room World Tour
2018 (10/20) • HONEY ISLAND SWAMP
BAND (10/20) • JERRY PAPER, KIEFER,
PROPHET & STIMULATOR JONES (10/20)
• BALLYHOO! (10/26) • JOJO SIMMONS
W/RYHEEM JOHNSON, JESUSGANG —
SEPTEMBER 13, 2018 • METROWEEKLY
Positive Music Takeover Tour (10/27)
• GO GO SYMPHONY (10/27) • THAT BIG
‘80S HALLOWEEN PARTY W/DJ MARCO
(10/27) • KLLO (10/28) • ZIMMER (11/1)
• AQUEOUS W/MUNGION (11/2) • KWEKU
COLLINS W/JOSEPH CHILLIAMS(11/4) •
PROF — The Pookie Baby East Coast Tour
with Special Guests (11/5) • LYRICS BORN
W/SPECIAL GUEST BOULEVARDS (11/6) •
IAN SWEET W/YOUNG JESUS (11/7) • THE
CADILLAC THREE (11/9) • BRIGHT LIGHT
BRIGHT LIGHT W/LOI LOI, SUB-RADIO —
The young, gay synth-pop artist born Rod
Thomas has been championed by and
collaborated with Elton John as well as
the Scissor Sisters, and his sound is as
bright as his Gremlins-inspired alias isn’t
(11/10) • GIRAFFAGE & RYAN HEMSWORTH
(11/10) • KT TUNSTALL, MADDIE ROSS
(11/11) • HOW TO DRESS WELL (11/12) •
NOVO AMOR (11/14) • YONDER MOUNTAIN
STRING BAND (11/15) • LITTLE STRANGER
(11/15, Songbyrd) • JESSIE REYEZ — Being
Human on Tour (11/18) • THE ACADEMIC
(11/21) • OLIVER FRANCIS (11/27) •
THE JULIAN LAGE TRIO (11/28) • STEVE
FORBERT (11/30) • THE PAPER KITES
(12/1) • HARRY HUDSON (12/2) • CLOUD
NOTHINGS W/THE COURTNEYS (12/8) •
GRIFFIN HOUSE (12/16)
WARNER THEATRE
513 13th St. NW
202-783-4000
warnertheatredc.com
AMERICAN IDOL: LIVE! 2018 WITH
FOREVER IN YOUR MIND (9/16) • LOST
’80S LIVE: FLOCK OF SEAGULLS, WANG
CHUNG, BOW WOW WOW — Additional acts
presumed left behind but set to perform
include Animotion, Farrington, When
In Rome UK, Gene Loves Jezebel, and
Naked Eyes (9/21) • BEN RECTOR W/THE
BAND CAMINO (9/27) • JOAN BAEZ — Fare
Thee Well Tour 2018, presented by the
Birchmere (9/28) • DIANA KRALL — The
Birchmere presents this concert, part of
a Turn Up The Quiet World Tour 2018
(10/9) • LINDSEY BUCKINGHAM W/J.S.
ONDARA (10/19) • THE LANTERN TOUR:
EMMYLOU HARRIS, JACKSON BROWNE,
LILA DOWNS, STEVE EARLE AND SPE-
CIAL GUESTS — A Concert for Migrant
and Refugee Families, presented by the
Birchmere (10/25) • TOTO (11/8) • JOHN
BUTLER TRIO (11/16) • II DIVO (11/23)
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Choral and Classical

T
HIS SEASON, MANY CLASSICAL ORGANIZATIONS Compiled by Doug Rule
are focused on anniversary celebrations, most notably
Savoy all join to celebrate the music of James Taylor, Nina
of the centennial kind. The City Choir of Washington,
Simone, Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Joan Baez, and more (9/22,
the Washington Chorus, and the Washington
Fichandler Stage) • MUSIC & MINDFULNESS SERIES: YOGA WITH
National Opera are among those with musical tributes to World
THE AMERICAN POPS ORCHESTRA — It’s as bizarre as it sounds,
War I, which ended 100 years ago this November. Also 100 years
a 70-minute yoga practice led by Michelle Peterson and accom-
ago, Gustav Holst premiered his signature orchestral suite The
panied by members of the orchestra performing songs from
Planets, highlights from which will be included in space-themed
some of the greatest crooners. This first of three in the season is
programs at DC Different Drummers as well as at two of the
soundtracked by “classic Broadway melodies in a contemplative
main area orchestras, the Baltimore Symphony and the National
style” (10/21, Dupont Underground) • A VERY SILLY VAUDEVILLE
Symphony.
FEAT. LUKE HAWKINS — Broadway tapper moves through APO’s
Speaking of symphonic centennial celebrations, the National
modern take on classic American vaudeville acts (11/17, Molly
Philharmonic strives for the “last but certainly not least” des-
Smith Study) • HOLIDAYS IN BLACK AND WHITE — Silent films
ignation among the myriad toasts that have come over the past
created by Thomas Edison screen as Luke Frazier conducts
year to the centenary of Leonard Bernstein. Among many nods
the APO in an original score of holiday classics (12/15, Kogod
to the late, great legend scattered throughout its new season,
Cradle) • OLD LADY WHO SWALLOWED A FLY FEAT. HILARY
November’s Bernstein Choral Celebration is a true standout —
MORROW — Actress joins in a madcap retelling of this classic
and timed for prime giving-back gratitude.
children’s story (1/26/19, Molly Smith Study)
AMERICAN POPS ORCHESTRA
ATLAS PERFORMING ARTS CENTER
Arena Stage
1333 H St. NE
1101 6th St. SW
202-399-7993
theamericanpops.org
atlasarts.org
YOU’VE GOT A FRIEND: A SINGER-SONGWRITER CELEBRATION —
URBANARIAS: THE LAST AMERICAN HAMMER — The local short
Ubiquitous ’80s TV star Morgan Fairchild, The Voice contender
opera company opens its season with a topical work by compos-
Rayshun LaMarr, NPR’s Ari Shapiro, Broadway’s Mariand
er Peter Hilliard and librettist Matt Boresi with stars Elizabeth
Torres, and winner of APO’s 2018 NextGen competition Nia

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Futral, Timothy Mix, and Briana Elyse
Hunter (9/22-23, 9/28-29, Sprenger
Theatre) • CAPITAL CITY SYMPHONY: 51ST
SEASON OPENING CONCERT — Leonard
Bernstein is the toast of this program
honoring the late legend’s 100th birth-
day, including a semi-staged presentation
of his one-act opera Trouble in Tahiti
(10/7, Lang Theatre) • CAPITAL CITY
SYMPHONY: TAN NGUYEN — A showcase
for the 2018 winner of the Ylda Novik
Memorial Concerto Competition for
Pianists, part of the Great Masters, Young
Stars series (11/11, Sprenger) • CAPITAL
CITY SYMPHONY: MEET THE ORCHESTRA —
Atlas Arts for Young Audiences presents
(1/26/19)
BALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
410-783-8000
bsomusic.org
OPENING GALA CONCERT: FROM
GERSHWIN TO BROADWAY W/VOCAL-
IST CYNTHIA ERIVO, EMCEE WORDSMITH
(9/15, Meyerhoff) • BEETHOVEN: EROICA
SYMPHONY (9/21, 9/23, Meyerhoff; 9/22,
Strathmore) • STAR WARS: A NEW HOPE
- IN CONCERT — Jack Everly conducts
the BSO as the movie screens (9/28-30,
Meyerhoff) • SIBELIUS SYMPHONIES
(10/4, 10/6, Meyerhoff; 10/7, Strathmore)
• MUSIC BOX: 1,2,3 COUNT WITH ME FEAT.
PERCUSSION QUARTET (10/6, Meyerhoff)
• TONY DESARE: I LOVE A PIANO (10/11,
Strathmore; 10/12-14, Meyerhoff) •
VIVALDI: FOUR SEASONS (10/18, 10/20,
Strathmore; 10/19, Meyerhoff) • BSO
PULSE: KELELA (10/25, Meyerhoff) •
GRIEG: PIANO CONCERTO FEAT. FREDDY
KEMPF (10/27, Strathmore; 10/28,
Meyerhoff) • MIDWEEK CONCERT:
SYMPHONY SPACE-TACULAR: STAR WARS
AND BEYOND! (11/1-3, Meyerhoff) • MOVIE
WITH ORCHESTRA: THE NIGHTMARE
BEFORE CHRISTMAS (11/2-3, Meyerhoff)
• MUSIC BOX: DINOSAURS FEAT. BRASS
QUINTET (11/4, Gordon Center; 11/17,
Meyerhoff) • POULENC CONCERTO
FOR TWO PIANOS FEAT. CHRISTINA
AND MICHELLE NAUGHTON (11/9, 11/11,
Meyerhoff; 11/10, Strathmore) • COPLAND
SYMPHONY NO. 3 (11/15, Meyerhoff; 11/18,
Strathmore) • OFF THE CUFF: COPLAND
SYMPHONY NO. 3 (11/16, Strathmore;
11/17, Meyerhoff) • CHRIS BOTTI (11/23-
25) • BSO PULSE: PARQUET COURTS
(11/29, Meyerhoff) • JOSHUA BELL (11/30-
12/1, Meyerhoff) • MIDWEEK CONCERT: A
SWINGIN’ NUTCRACKER! FEAT. FLY DANCE
COMPANY (12/7-8, Meyerhoff) • HANDEL:
MESSIAH (12/8-9, Meyerhoff) • CIRQUE
NUTCRACKER FEAT. TROUPE VERTIGO
(12/13, Strathmore; 12/14-16, Meyerhoff)
• GOSPEL CHRISTMAS W/CECE WINANS,
70 SEPTEMBER 13, 2018 • METROWEEKLY
PLUS MORGAN STATE UNIVERSITY CHOIR
(12/21, Meyerhoff) • HOLIDAY POPS W/
BALTIMORE CHORAL ARTS SOCIETY (12/22,
Meyerhoff) • LEON FLEISHER’S BIRTHDAY
CELEBRATION (1/4/19-1/5/19, Meyerhoff;
1/6/19, Strathmore) • TURANGALÎLA-
SYMPHONIE FEAT. JEAN-YVES THIBAUDET
& NATHALIE FORGET (1/10/19, Meyerhoff;
1/13/119, Strathmore) • MUSIC BOX: BUGS
FEAT. VIOLIN, CELLO, PIANO TRIO (1/12/19,
Meyerhoff) • BSO PULSE: DAN DEACON
(1/17/19, Meyerhoff)
BARNS AT WOLF TRAP
1635 Trap Road
Vienna, Va.
877-WOLFTRAP
wolftrap.org
DAVID FINCKEL, CELLOS W/WU HAN,
PIANO — “The Power Couple of Chamber
Music” (Wall Street Journal) kick off
Han’s tenure as artistic advisor of the
Chamber Music at the Barns series with
Beethoven’s cello sonatas (11/4) • EILEEN
IVERS: AN NOLLAIG: AN IRISH CHRISTMAS
— Virtuoso fiddler interweaves age-old
Wren Day songs, beloved American car-
ols, even a jigging Bach, telling the story
of the holiday through music and dance
(12/2) • ARNAUD SUSSMANN, VIOLIN,
PAUL NEUBAUER, VIOLA, DAVID FINCKEL,
CELLO — An evening of string trios by
Beethoven, Dohnányi, and Mozart, part of
the Chamber Music series (1/11/19)
THE CHORAL ARTS SOCIETY
OF WASHINGTON
202-244-3669
choralarts.org
DUSK AND DAWN: MUSIC OF LIGHT AND
DARK — The Choral Arts Chamber
Singers and Youth Choir team up for
a themed program from artistic direc-
tor Scott Tucker, with songs including
Epitaph for Moonlight by R. Murray
Schafer, Spirited Light by Jake Runestad,
and Past Life Memories by Sarah Hopkins
(10/20, Live! At 10th & G) • SONGS OF
THE SEASON: CHRISTMAS WITH CHORAL
ARTS FEAT. SOPRANO ESTHER HEIDEMAN
— The 38th Annual Holiday Concert
and Gala combines traditional favorites
and choral jewels, plus masterpieces as
performed by a guest vocalist (12/16-17,
12/24, Kennedy Center Concert Hall) •
A FAMILY CHRISTMAS — Tucker conducts
the Choral Arts Chorus in a concert “for
the young and young at heart” and “with
special guests Santa, Frosty, and Rudolph
(12/22, Rachel M. Schlesinger Concert
Hall, Alexandria; 12/24, Kennedy Center
Concert Hall)
CONGRESSIONAL CHORUS
202-629-3140
congressionalchorus.org
POETS, PAINTERS AND DREAMS — An
Afternoon of Music and Dance inspired
by Marc Chagall, Sara Teasdale, and
Langston Hughes with the full chorus
and its Chamber Ensemble (11/18, Church
of the Epiphany, 1317 G St. NW)
DC’S DIFFERENT DRUMMERS
202-403-3669
dcdd.org
DC SWING! — The annual fall perfor-
mance by the LGBTQ music organiza-
tion’s contemporary swing and jazz
band (10/28, MilkBoy ArtHouse, 7416
Baltimore Ave., College Park) • CAPITAL
PRIDE SYMPHONIC BAND: BEYOND OUR
WORLD: MUSIC INSPIRED BY SPACE AND
EXPLORATION — The organization’s 38th
season officially launches into outer space
with its primary ensemble performing a
varied program centered around Gustav
Holst’s The Planets (11/3, Church of the
Epiphany, 1317 G St. NW) • DC SWING! —
A performance of the jazz band as part of
a Musicians Showcase series presented
by the Arlington County Public Library
(11/10, Columbia Pike Branch, 816 Walter
Reed Dr., Arlington) • HOLIDAY CONCERT
— The annual organization-wide celebra-
tion (12/9, Church of the Reformation, 212
E. Capitol St. NE)
THE EMBASSY SERIES
202-625-2361
embassyseries.org
A 22-year-old series offering public
access to foreign embassies and diplo-
matic homes in D.C. via classical concerts
with native artists followed by receptions,
aimed at “uniting people through musical
diplomacy” • THE 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF
THE BIRTH OF NELSON MANDELA (9/26,
Embassy of South Africa) • ANN SCHEIN,
PIANO, DARRETT ADKINS, CELLO (10/5,
Embassy of Hungary) • DE MAEYER-KENDE
DUO — Jolente de Maeyer, violin, Nikolaas
Kende, piano (10/8, Belgian Ambassador’s
Residence) • ANDRZEJ WIERCINSKI, PIANO
(10/19, Polish Ambassador’s Residence)
• MYRIAM AVALOS, PIANO (10/26,
Peruvian Ambassador’s Residence) •
RICARDO COBO, CLASSICAL GUITAR-
IST (11/2, Colombian Ambassador’s
Residence) • YI-YANG CHEN, PIANO (11/15,
Arts Club of Washington aka Home of
President James Madison) • MIRIAM
RODRIGUEZ BRÜLLOVÁ, GUITAR, DALIBOR
KARVAY (11/19, Embassy of Slovakia) •
ELHAM FANOOS, PIANO (11/30, Afghan
Ambassador’s Residence)
FOLGER CONSORT
Folger Elizabethan Theatre
201 East Capitol St. SE
202-544-7077
folger.edu
OKTOBERFEST — Celebrating the Early
Music of Germany with the Consort’s
founding directors Robert Eisenstein on
viol and Christopher Kendall on lute,
plus other string and wind instrumen-
talists and tenor Mark Bleeke (10/12-14)
• A CHRISTMAS MESSE — A Banquet of
Seasonal English Music with strings,
harp, organist Webb Wiggins, and an
ensemble of voices (12/14-23)
GAY MEN’S CHORUS
202-293-1548
gmcw.org
ROPE BURN 2: GUARDIANS OF EQUALITY —
The organization’s fall fundraiser returns
with a celebration of gay geekdom, spot-
lighting LGBTQ inclusion in fantasy and
gaming through song and also dance, aeri-
al arts, drag, and cosplay burlesque, plus
panel discussions (10/18, SAX Lounge,
734 11th St. NW) • THE BEST WORST
THING — An intimate cabaret featuring
GMCW soloists relating bad experiences
with silver linings via pop and Broadway
songs (11/17, Atlas) • THE HOLIDAY SHOW
— An all-new sassy and sweet seasonal
show with all manner of song and dance
and other antics, including a visit from
Santa for the naughty or nice — depend-
ing on his mood (12/8, 12/15-16, Lincoln
Theatre)
THE IN SERIES
Source Theatre
1835 14th St. NW
202-204-7763
inseries.org
VIVA V.E.R.D.I.-THE PROMISED END — This
vocal/opera concert organization kicks off
its season with a program conceived by its
new artistic director Timothy Nelson that
includes the most popular choral work
of all time, Verdi’s towering Requiem,
distilled for a core of eight singers (Now-
9/23) • FIGARO IN 4 QUARTETS — Nelson
directs a re-imagined offering of Mozart’s
beloved opera paired with T.S. Elliot’s
last poem (10/20-28, GALA Hispanic
Theatre) • OPERETTA WONDERLAND:
THE MAGIC OF VICTOR HERBERT — Brian
J. Shaw directs a selection of hits from
Sweethearts, Naughty Marietta, The
Enchantress, Babes in Toyland, and more
(11/28-12/2, D.C. Scottish Rite Temple)
• FROM U STREET TO THE COTTON CLUB
— KenYatta Rogers and Stanley Thurston
direct tales of a courageous people in
72 SEPTEMBER 13, 2018 • METROWEEKLY
turbulent times with the music of Duke
Ellington, Fats Waller, and more (1/5/19-
1/20/19)
KENNEDY CENTER
202-467-4600
kennedy-center.org
ELIZABETH DESHONG, MEZZO-SOPRANO
— A recital presented by Vocal Arts DC
(9/28, Terrace Theater) • 2018 MARIAN
ANDERSON VOCAL AWARD WINNER: RYAN
SPEEDO GREEN IN CONCERT — This
“scene-stealing bass-baritone” (New York
Times) performs a recital co-presented by
the Washington National Opera and the
Fortas Chamber series and in recognition
of getting an award whose past recipi-
ents include Denyce Graves, Eric Owens,
and Lawrence Brownlee (10/4, Terrace)
• DOVER QUARTET — Young ensemble
kicks off its first season as the Kennedy
Center’s Quartet-in-Residence with a
program of Schubert, Webern, and the
Center’s Composer-in-Residence Mason
Bates (10/10, Terrace) • HANZHI WANG,
ACCORDION — Washington Performing
Arts promises that those who take in this
young Chinese artist will have “expecta-
tions defied and your ears delighted by
the sound, technique, texture, and rep-
ertoire of the accordion” (10/11, Terrace)
• RENEE FLEMING’S VOICES: ROBERT
FAIRCHILD — Former New York City
Ballet principal and Tony-nominated star
of An American in Paris (10/12, Terrace)
• THE KENNEDY CENTER CHAMBER
PLAYERS: WORKS OF DVORAK, R. STRAUSS
& BRAHMS — The first concert of the sea-
son from this ensemble of NSO musicians
(10/14, Terrace) • MASON BATES’S KC
JUKEBOX: FUTURE FOLK — King Creosote,
Pulitzer Prize-winner Caroline Shaw,
and the Dover Quartet perform in this
immersive, innovative evening of indie-
rock and alt-classical (10/18, Atrium) •
KALICHSTEIN-LAREDO-ROBINSON TRIO —
“The greatest piano trio on the face of the
Earth” (Washington Post) returns to its
roost as Trio-in-Residence of the Fortas
Chamber Music Concert series (10/23,
Terrace) • YEKWON SUNWOO, PIANO —
The 2017 Van Cliburn Piano Competition
winner performs a recital presented by
Washington Performing Arts (10/24,
Terrace) • HYESANG PARK, SOPRANO —
The Washington debut of young South
Korean vocalist, presented by Vocal Arts
DC (10/25, Terrace) • HILARY HAHN,
VIOLIN — Washington Performing Arts
presents the star violinist in a return
to the music that launched her career,
the sonatas and partitas by Bach (10/26,
Terrace) • OPERA LAFAYETTE: CERERE
PLACATA (CERES PLACATED) — Local com-
pany premieres a new edition of a work
inspired by mythology from Neapolitan
master Niccolò Jommelli (10/28, Terrace)
• CZECH PHILHARMONIC — Washington
Performing Arts presents the first per-
formance of this orchestra with its new
music director Semyon Bychkov (10/29,
Concert Hall) • WEST-EASTERN DIVAN
ORCHESTRA W/DANIEL BARENBOIM (11/7)
• JOHN BRANCY, BARITONE AND PETER
DUGAN, PIANO: ARMISTICE: THE JOURNEY
HOME — Vocal Arts DC presents young
duo’s program of songs, with historical
narrative, by composers who fought in and
were influenced by World War I (11/12,
Terrace) • ESCHER STRING QUARTET — A
Fortas Chamber Music Concert featur-
ing renowned ensemble, formerly BBC
New Generation Artists (11/14, Terrace)
• CÉCILE MCLORIN SALVANT: OGRESSE —
A classically trained, Grammy-winning
jazz vocalist presents the D.C. pre-
miere of her original concert concept,
a Kennedy Center commission arranged
and conducted by Darcy James Argue
(11/17, Terrace) • THE WASHINGTON
CHORUS: BRAHMS: A GERMAN REQUIEM
AND BRITTEN’S BALLAD OF HEROES (11/18)
• SIMON KEENLYSIDE, BARITONE AND
MALCOLM MARTINEAU, PIANO — Vocal
Arts DC presents the long-awaited debut
of versatile English singer accompanied
by an eminent artist (11/30, Terrace) •
THE TALLIS SCHOLARS — Richly textured
holiday vocal music from a U.K.-based,
Renaissance-focused group presented in
the Fortas Chamber Music series (12/5,
Terrace) • SIMONE DINNERSTEIN, PIANO
— Ever-inventive artist presents a centu-
ries-spanning program of works by Satie,
Couperin, Schumann, and Glass, present-
ed by Washington Performing Arts (12/6,
Terrace) • ANGEL BLUE, SOPRANO AND
CATHERINE MILLER, PIANO — A recital
presented by Vocal Arts DC from this
California native who wowed audiences
at the Metropolitan Opera last year as
Mimi in La bohème (12/19, Terrace)
NATIONAL PHILHARMONIC
Music Center at Strathmore
5301 Tuckerman Lane
Bethesda, Md.
301-581-5100
Nationalphilharmonic.org
FILM WITH LIVE ORCHESTRA: ON THE
WATERFRONT — Elia Kazan’s iconic eight-
time Oscar-winning film plays in remas-
tered high-definition while Leonard
Bernstein’s only work composed specif-
ically for film is rendered live at the sea-
son-opening concert of an organization
led by Bernstein acolyte Piotr Gajewski
(9/29) • LENNY’S PLAYLIST — Gajewski
conducts a program of Mozart’s Overture
to The Magic Flute, Shostakovich’s
Symphony No. 5, and Barber’s Violin
Concerto featuring Bella Hristova (10/13-
14) • BERNSTEIN CHORAL CELEBRATION —
Stan Engebretson conducts the orchestra,
the National Philharmonic Chorale, and
the Strathmore Children’s Chorus in a
program featuring selections from Mass,
Candide, and West Side Story (11/17) •
HOLIDAY SING-ALONG WITH GUEST ARTIST
IYONA BLAKE — Local musical theater
powerhouse joins the orchestra and mem-
bers of its chorale for a program of hol-
iday favorites led by Victoria Gau (12/7)
• HANDEL’S MESSIAH — Engebretson
returns to lead this organization-wide
concert with soloists performing the
uplifting oratorio synonymous with
Christmas — even though it was written
for Easter (12/22-23)
NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Kennedy Center Concert Hall
202-467-4600
kennedy-center.org
NSO POPS: GET OUT — The 2017 Oscar
winner for Best Original Screenplay, this
speculative thriller/comedy continues to
surprise, now in the Concert Hall as the
NSO performs Michael Abels’ score under
his guest baton (9/20) • SEASON OPENING
GALA CONCERT W/JOSHUA BELL — Music
Director Gianandrea Noseda launches the
NSO’s season into orbit with a space-
themed program featuring renowned vio-
linist (9/22) • MUSORGSKY’S PICTURES
FROM AN EXHIBITION — Noseda leads a
program inspired by the visual arts also
including Rachmaninoff and Respighi
(9/27-29) • TCHAIKOVSKY’S FIFTH,
EMANUEL AX PLAYS MOZART’S PIANO
CONCERTO NO. 1 — John Storgårds leads
a program (10/4-6) • MENDELSSOHN:
VIOLIN CONCERTO FEAT. RAY CHEN —
NSO Conductor Laureate Christoph
Eschenbach returns for a program that
also includes Mendelssohn’s Calm Sea
and Prosperous Voyage and Beethoven’s
Symphony No. 6 (10/12-14) • NSO POPS:
STAR WARS: THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK
(10/23-25) • NSO POPS: ANDREW BIRD
WITH GABRIEL KAHANE — Reineke leads
a performance with these indie-pop/rock
stars re-imagining their original compo-
sitions for an intimate orchestral experi-
ence (10/26-27) • NSO FAMILY CONCERT:
HALLOWEEN SPOOKTACULAR (10/28) •
JAMES GAFFIGAN CONDUCTS RUSSIAN
MASTERPIECES W/SIMON TRPCESKI, PIANO
— Acclaimed American conductor returns
for a program including Shostakovich’s
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Piano Concerto No. 2, Prokofiev’s Third
Symphony, and Khachaturian’s Suite from
Masquerade (11/1-3) • RACHMANINOFF’S
PIANO CONCERTO NO. 3 FEAT. DENIS
KOZHUKHIN — Acclaimed Russian pia-
nist makes his NSO debut in a program
conducted by Carlos Miguel Prieto from
Mexico and also featuring Copland and
Revueltas (11/15-17) • NSO POPS: WALT
DISNEY ANIMATION STUDIOS: A DECADE
IN CONCERT (11/23-25) • BRITTEN’S WAR
REQUIEM — Noseda leads famed English
composer’s epic work commemorat-
ing the end of the Great War, joined by
some of today’s most gifted solo vocalists
along with the Choral Arts Society of
Washington and the Children’s Chorus
of Washington (11/29-12/1) • MAHLER’S
FIRST SYMPHONY — A program of spirited
and expressive works led by Noseda and
also including a new work by Kennedy
Center Composer-in-Residence Mason
Bates (12/6-9) • NSO POPS: UNDER THE
MISTLETOE WITH ASHLEY BROWN —
The originator of the title role in Mary
Poppins on Broadway makes her NSO
debut in a holiday concert also featur-
ing the Washington Chorus (12/14-15)
• HANDEL’S MESSIAH — Vocal soloists
and the University of Maryland Concert
Choir join the NSO under guest conduc-
tor Nicholas McGegan for a holiday tra-
dition in the festively decorated Concert
Hall (12/20-23)
STRATHMORE
5301 Tuckerman Lane
Bethesda, Md.
301-581-5100
strathmore.org
MARYLAND LYRIC OPERA — La Fanciulla
del West in concert (9/14-15) • BILL
MURRAY, JAN VOGLER & FRIENDS: NEW
WORLDS — The celebrated comedian
sings, reads prose and poetry, and narrates
a mixed-genre program co-conceived
by internationally renowned cellist Jan
Vogler and also featuring violinist Mira
Wang and pianist Vanessa Perez (9/28,
Music Center) • SHEN YUN SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA — Melding the spirit, beauty,
and distinctiveness of Chinese music with
the precision, power, and grandeur of the
Western symphony orchestra, presented
by Falun Dafa Association of DC (10/10,
Music Center) • WINDSYNC — Houston-
based wind quintet performs a bound-
ary-pushing thematic program mixing
classical standards and new works by
American composers with a pop-rock sen-
sibility, and presented with the extra the-
atricality of choreography, costumes, and
multimedia elements (10/25, Mansion) •
GORAN BREGOVIĆ: THREE LETTERS FROM
SARAJEVO — A new work inspired by the
“Jerusalem of the Balkans” from a beloved
Balkan composer joined by his Wedding
and Funeral Orchestra, international
soloists, and a string quartet and vocal
sextet (10/28, Music Center) • MEXICO
BEYOND MARIACHI: DÍA DE MUERTOS (11/1,
Mansion) • HEATH QUARTET — A char-
ismatic British ensemble and winners of
the 2016 Gramophone Chamber Award
(11/15, Mansion) • GIL SHAHAM, VIOLIN
AND AKIRA EGUCHI, PIANO — Washington
Performing Arts presents a concert fea-
turing one of today’s preeminent violin-
ists” (New York Times) in an eclectic,
wide-ranging program (11/15, Music
Center)
WASHINGTON BACH CONSORT
202-429-2121
Bachconsort.org
HANDEL & BACH: SING A NEW SONG —
The opening of the Consort’s 41st sea-
son welcomes its new Artistic Director,
Dana Marsh (9/16, National Presbyterian
Church) • BACH TO MOZART — Special
guest artists The Franklin Quartet per-
forms rarely heard Mozartian transcrip-
tions in a concert that also includes selec-
tions from The Well-Tempered Clavier
performed on fortepiano (11/2, 945 G St.
NW)
WASHINGTON NATIONAL OPERA
Kennedy Center
202-295-2400
dc-opera.org
OPERA IN THE OUTFIELD: THE BARBER OF
SEVILLE — The 11th annual free opera
broadcast (9/29, Nats Park) • LA TRA-
VIATA — WNO’s Francesca Zambello
launches the season with a new produc-
tion of Verdi’s everlasting story of love
and sacrifice (10/13-21, Opera House) •
HOLIDAY FAMILY OPERA: THE LION, THE
UNICORN, AND ME — A revival of Francesca
Zambello’s heartwarming adaptation of
the famous children’s book, retelling the
Nativity story from the perspective of
a donkey (12/14-16, Terrace Theater) •
SILENT NIGHT — To commemorate the
centennial end of the Great War, the
WNO offers the Washington premiere
of a hopeful work adapted from the
2005 film Joyeux Noël featuring Pulitzer
Prize-winning music by Kevin Puts and
a cast composed entirely of WNO family,
including Domingo-Cafritz Young Artist
alumni (11/10-25, Eisenhower Theater)
For more Fall Arts Preview Classical &
Choral listings, visit metroweekly.com.
DEAN ALEXANDER
Dance
T
HE FALL DANCE SEASON STARTS STRONG WITH
a local focus: a gathering of many of the community’s key
movers and shakers next weekend, followed by free per-
formances of key dance ensembles over the course of the next
month at the Kennedy Center, which has commissioned new
works for the occasion.
The new season is also rich with performances of flamenco,
hip-hop — and the Nutcracker. You’ll find a little Kwanzaa, even
a nod to Clara, too. Did I mention the Nutcracker? Tis (almost)
the season.
2018 DC DANCE SUMMIT
dancemetrodc.org
Dance Metro DC presents three days of performances, classes,
panel discussions, and more, bringing together members of the
regional dance community. Each day’s activities take place at a
different hosting organization, with the first day at DANCE PLACE
offering an evening Presentation Showcase with the follow-
ing Kennedy Center Local Dance Commission Recipients and
Dance Place Artists-in-Residence: Kalanidhi Dance, Heart Stück
Bernie, SOLE Defined, Diana Movius, and Erica Rae/Raediant
Movement (9/21). Activities on the second day are at DANCE
EXCHANGE (9/22) with the summit concluding at the DANCE
INSTITUTE OF WASHINGTON (9/23) • Among other related but
not official events that weekend is a DC DANCE HISTORY DINNER
at Busboys & Poets Brookland (9/22)
fall arts preview
The Washington Ballet
Compiled by Doug Rule
ATLAS PERFORMING ARTS CENTER
1333 H St. NE
202-399-7993
atlasarts.org
PRIOREDANCE: CIRQUE DE NUIT — The latest evening-length
work from local gay choreographer Robert J. Priore and per-
formed by his company takes as inspiration the world of fantasy
as well as the sideshow lifestyle, as a community of societal out-
casts come together to create magic inside and outside of the cir-
cus tent (9/13-14, Sprenger Theatre) • FURIA FLAMENCA DANCE
COMPANY: CAFE FLAMENCO — An intimate evening of flamenco
“tablao” style, with drinks and tapas served tableside during
the performance, accompanied by guitarist Torcuato Zamora
(10/13, Sprenger) • STEP AFRIKA! MAGICAL MUSICAL HOLIDAY
STEP SHOW — D.C.’s internationally known stepping company
presents its annual interactive celebration of the holidays, with
furry friends and DJ Frosty the Snowman (12/14-30, Sprenger)
THE CLARICE
University of Maryland
College Park, Md.
301-405-ARTS
theclarice.umd.edu
MFA DANCE THESIS CONCERT: STACEY CARLSON AND CHRISTINE
HANDS — Carlson’s multidisciplinary work dwelling intertwines
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dance with puppetry, projections, aerial
arts, and other mysterious elements as
it explores the myriad subtleties of its
title; Hands’ Hamlet is a reimagining of
the classic as a work of highly physical
dance theater, set against a sci-fi-inspired
design (10/12, 10/14, Kogod Theatre) •
FACULTY DANCE CONCERT — A showcase
of eloquent and provocative choreogra-
phy from featured UMD faculty members
and special guests, including Crystal U.
Davis, Maura Keefe, Alvin Mayes, Sara
Pearson and Patrick Widrig, and Kendra
Portier (12/7-9, Dance Theatre) • 36TH
ANNUAL CHOREOGRAPHERS’ SHOWCASE
(1/26) • NEDERLANDS DANS THEATER 2
— Featuring the “young company” of one
of the world’s most celebrated troupes
(1/30, Kay Theatre)
DANCE PLACE
3225 8th St. NE
202-269-1600
danceplace.org
ROSIE HERRERA DANCE THEATRE — Make
Believe investigates religious upbring-
ing and spiritual practices (9/15-16) •
CULTURAL SHOCK DC — Volume IV con-
siders the theme of “enlightenment”
(9/29-30) • HELANIUS J. WILKINS — A
Bon Coeur exploring complex issues of
race, culture, and inclusivity (10/6-7) •
WORDS BEATS & LIFE — Footsteps in the
Dark is an original hip-hop production
featuring choreography by American and
international Muslim dancers (10/6-7) •
DISCOVER SEASON GALA (10/20) • GLOBAL
PERSPECTIVES FESTIVAL — New this year,
presenting a mixed-bill evening high-
lighting a breadth of dances from com-
munities around the world, performed
by local groups and artists (10/27-28) •
DC CASINEROS — World-renowned salsa
company performs its signature blend of
Cuban dance styles followed by a social
dance party (11/3-4) • BILL SHANNON
— Latest work combines movement,
wearable projection technology and
video installation (11/10-11) • REVISION
DANCE COMPANY — Garage Sale reveals
the sentimentality of objects and their
power to transport us (11/17-18) • CAKE-
FACE (12/1-2) • BOWEN MCCAULEY DANCE
COMPANY — Company kicks off its 23rd
season (12/8-9) • KWANZAA CELEBRATION
— Annual Celebration directed by Sylvia
Soumah (12/15-16) • FIELDWORK FOR
MIXED DISCIPLINES SHOWING — A forum
for artists to share developing works and
exchange peer-to-peer feedback, culmi-
nating in a works-in-progress showing
(12/18) • CONTEMPORARY VIEWPOINTS
FESTIVAL — Featuring works by Britta
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Joy Peterson, darlingdance, Tariq
Darrell+The UNUM Dance Collective,
and PriorDance (1/12/1/13)
DAVIS PERFORMING ARTS CENTER
Georgetown University
3700 O St. NW
202-687-ARTS
performingarts.georgetown.edu
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY DANCE
COMPANY — A prelude to the spring sea-
son, this Fall 2018 Works-In-Progress
Concert features performances by pro-
fessional and student choreographers,
ranging from hip-hop to classical (11/28,
11/30) • BLACK MOVEMENTS DANCE
THEATRE — Contemporary dance theater
company performs signature works along
with new works by professional guest and
student choreographers and performers
(12/1) • BALLET FOLKLORICO MEXICANO
DE GEORGETOWN — Posada: Camino a
Belen recreates Mary and Joseph’s jour-
ney to Bethlehem seeking shelter in a fam-
ily-friendly winter showcase, followed by
a reception with authentic Mexican fare
(12/1)
DISSONANCE DANCE THEATRE
202-540-8338
ddtdc.org
FALL FORWARD: NGOMA CENTER FOR
DANCE — A mixed-bill evening of dance
from Ngoma School students featuring
three world premieres, two — Rise and
The Happy Hour — choreographed by
Dissonance founding artistic director
Shawn Short, the third, The Winds of
Time, a work by Alvin Mayes and honor-
ing the music of Aretha Franklin (9/29-
30, The Clarice at UMD) • CHRISTMAS
PLAYLIST — The company offers its first
Christmas/Nutcracker Medley holiday
concert with Ngoma students, featuring
the new ballet Gospel Suite set to the music
of Richard Smallwood, Walter Hawkins,
and Byron Cage (12/15-16, The Clarice)
• CONUNDRUM — Polish, Twitch, That
Little Bitty Thing, and Drive 3+3 will all be
new works premiered here (1/26, Robert
E. Parilla Center, Rockville) • REWIND
2 FAST FORWARD (2/10, Proscenium
Theatre at UMBC)
FUEGO FLAMENCO XIV
Gala Hispanic Theatre
3333 14th St. NW
202-234-7174
galatheatre.org
JOSÉ BARRIOS & CO. — The U.S. premiere
of Reditum, a high-spirited performance
by one of Spain’s hottest flamenco danc-
ers and presented in collaboration with
the Fundación Conservatorio Flamenco
Casa Patas (11/8-11) • OMAYRA AMAYA
FLAMENCO DANCE CO...WITH EDWIN
APARICIO — The D.C. premiere of La
Sobremesa featuring a mesmerizing dance
by this Spanish troupe’s namesake danc-
er paired with the gay festival curator
(11/16-18)
GMU CENTER FOR THE ARTS
Concert Hall
4373 Mason Pond Drive
Fairfax, Va.
888-945-2468
cvpa.gmu.edu
COMPAÑÍA FLAMENCA EDUARDO
GUERRERO — Flamenco Pasión bursts
with energy as elite dancers convey the
many styles of this beloved Spanish art
form, guided by one of the country’s fore-
most dancers and choreographers (10/12)
• FALL NEW DANCES — Emerging chore-
ographers perform their musical choices
(11/8-10, Harris Theatre) • SPECTRUM
DANCE THEATER — A Rap on Race is an
innovative new work, featuring a series
of choreographed dance duets juxta-
posed with verbal duets, gleaned from
the public conversation held in 1970
between anthropologist Margaret Mead
and novelist James Baldwin; conceived by
Tony-nominated choreographer Donald
Byrd and Pulitzer-nominated actress/
playwright Anna Deavere Smith, with
an original jazz score by Charles Mingus
(11/16) • DANCE INNOVATIONS (12/6-8,
Harris Theatre) • MOSCOW BALLET —
Great Russian Nutcracker (12/21) • MOMIX
— Opus Cactus melds dance and illusion
along with spellbinding music and elabo-
rate costumes for a wildly inventive stage
excursion to the American Southwest
from one of the most innovative and
imaginative modern companies (1/25)
HYLTON PERFORMING ARTS CENTER
Merchant Hall
10960 George Mason Circle
Manassas, Va.
703-993-7759
hyltoncenter.org
MANASSAS BALLET THEATRE — Just in
time for Halloween, theatrical and seduc-
tive take on the ultimate vampire story,
Dracula, with live accompaniment by the
Kim Reynolds Band (10/20-21) • VIRGINIA
NATIONAL BALLET — The Nutcracker (11/23)
• NORTHERN VIRGINIA BALLET — The
Nutcracker (11/24) • CLARA’S CHRISTMAS
— An interpretation of The Nutcracker
also including a choreographed version
of Handel’s Messiah (12/2) • MANASSAS
BALLET THEATRE — The Nutcracker (12/13)
JANE FRANKLIN DANCE
Theatre on the Run
3700 S. Four Mile Run
Arlington, Va.
703-933-1111
janefranklin.com
VALLEY FEST STREET FESTIVAL (9/30,
New District Brewing Company) • THE
BIG MEOW – Adapted from the book by
Elizabeth Spires (10/27) • SHORTHANDED
FEATURING FORTY+ — Reminisce with
an intergenerational cast revisiting tech-
nology pushed away over time, from the
cassette tape to paper dolls, IBM 3033
to shorthand notation; the program also
includes recent works by Emily Crews
and Rebecca Weiss (10/27-28) • BEAUTY
AND THE BEAT — Nosy neighbors jump-
ing to big conclusions, as inspired by the
Tom Waits song “What’s He Building in
There” (11/3-4) • COMPLETE DOGNESS —
The story of a pup with bad habits but the
ability to learn new tricks is told through
spoken word, music, and movement
(11/10) • EYESOAR — Telling the story of
the people who bring the geographical
area around the theater to life via video,
audio, interviews, and movement (11/10)
• — BITS & PIECES AND A PINT — Excerpts
from Complete Dogness
JOY OF MOTION
Jack Guidone Theater
5207 Wisconsin Ave. NW
202-399-6763
joyofmotion.org
SEASON OPENER 2018 — An evening of
faculty and resident company work in a
dynamic concert of premieres (9/22-23)
KATZEN ARTS CENTER
American University
4200 Wisconsin Ave. NW
202-885-2587
american.edu/cas/auarts
FALL MASTER CLASSES — A weekend
of master classes with a visiting artist
(10/20-21) • CHOREOLAB 2018 — Student
choreographers present an evening of
concert dance works-in-progress (11/9,
Greenberg Theatre)
KENNEDY CENTER
Terrace Theater
202-467-4600
kennedy-center.org
SOLE DEFINED — Local dance company
performs to ‘90s-era “Golden Age of Hip
Hop” beats by DJ The Kid in conjunction
with the Hip Hop Theater Festival (9/14,
Millennium Stage) • KALANIDHI DANCE
— Company offers the world premiere
of the Kuchipudi-based dance Bhoomi
(Earth), part of the Kennedy Center’s
2018 Local Dance Commissioning Project
(9/28-29, Millennium Stage) • ERICA RAE
SMITH-GOODEN — The legacy and vital-
ity of Caribbean dancehall is celebrat-
ed in a choreographed piece including
a live “selecta” (DJ), a world premiere
part of the Kennedy Center’s 2018 Local
Dance Commissioning Project (10/5-6,
Millennium Stage) • DIANA MOVIUS — A
multimedia ballet that draws inspiration
from Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring to
probe the 2008 financial crisis sees a
world premiere as part of the Kennedy
Center’s 2018 Local Dance Commissioning
Project (10/13-14, Millennium Stage) •
THE ALEXANDRIA FOLK DANCE TROUPE
OF EGYPT (10/17, Millennium Stage) •
COMPANHIA DE DANÇA DEBORAH COLKER
— Founded by an athlete, this physically
daring, visually striking Brazilian compa-
ny returns with Dog Without Feathers (Cão
Sem Plumas), an evocative work inspired
by a poem by João Cabral de Melo Neto
(10/18-20, Eisenhower Theater) • ABADA-
CAPOEIRA DC & BATALÁ WASHINGTON —
Local capoeira leaders join forces with
the all-women samba/reggae percussion
band for a program of dynamic martial
art and dance movements celebrating
the culture of Brazil (10/20, Millennium
Stage) • SAN FRANCISCO BALLET —
Featuring two programs of works select-
ed from renowned company’s ground-
breaking festival, Unbound: A Festival
of New Works (10/23-28) • DEMO BY
DAMIAN WOETZEL: GATHERING — Former
New York City Ballet principal dancer
Woetzel curates and hosts an evening of
recent commissions and D.C. premieres
from some of today’s most creative voices
in dance and music, TBA (10/29, Terrace
Theater) • RAGAMALA DANCE COMPANY
— Acclaimed Bharatanatyam ensemble,
created and run by the mother/daughter
team of Ranee Ramaswamy and Aparna
Ramaswamy, returns with one of its new-
est productions, Written in Water, a large-
scale multi-disciplinary work with origi-
nal dance, music, text, and painting (11/2-
3, Terrace Theater) • FILM SCREENING:
THE UNSEEN SEQUENCE WITH MALAVIKA
SARUKKAI — A film by Sumantra Ghosal
examining the traditional style of Indian
dance bharatanatyam and showcasing
Sarukkai’s efforts to reinterpret, renew,
and invigorate the style; includes a
post-screening Q&A with Sarukkai (11/8,
Terrace Gallery) • MALAVIKA SARUKKAI —
Master bharatanatyam dancer and chore-
ographer, last seen at the Kennedy Center
in 2013, returns with the U.S. premiere of
Thari-The Loom, her first work choreo-
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graphed for an ensemble, one that delves
into the history and legacy of the sari
(11/9-10, Terrace Theater) • BALLET WEST
— A whimsical take on The Nutcracker,
pairing reimagined designs with beloved
choreography for an ultimately opulent
production, with the Tchaikovsky score
performed live by the Kennedy Center
Opera House Orchestra (12/5-9, Opera
House) • MATTHEW BOURNE’S NEW
ADVENTURES — A return of one of the
most popular and beloved productions,
a thrilling twist on the classic fairy tale
from revered British choreographer/
director (1/15-1/20, Opera House)
STRATHMORE
5301 Tuckerman Lane
Bethesda, Md.
301-581-5100
strathmore.org
MOSCOW BALLET’S GREAT RUSSIAN
NUTCRACKER — Russian dancers, play-
ful puppets, and the unmatched splen-
dor of handcrafted sets and costumes
for the holiday favorite, featuring guest
performers from CityDance School &
Conservatory (12/16-17) • THE HIP HOP
NUTCRACKER WITH SPECIAL GUEST MC
KURTIS BLOW — A dozen all-star dancers,
an on-stage DJ, and an electric violin-
ist reimagine Tchaikovsky’s classic score
through hip-hop choreography (12/18-
19) • STEP AFRIKA! 25TH ANNIVERSARY
CELEBRATION — The first professional
company dedicated to the tradition of
stepping offers a retrospective featuring
the company’s best-loved works (1/20) •
FARRUQUITO — Powerhouse performer
and heir to the most renowned Gypsy
flamenco dynasty (2/21)
THE WASHINGTON BALLET
202-362-3606
washingtonballet.org
CONTEMPORARY MASTERS — Works by
iconic choreographers who have defined
modern dance: Mark Morris, with Drink
to Me Only with Thine Eyes, Merce
Cunningham’s Duets, and Paul Taylor’s
Company B (10/31-11/4, Harman Center) •
THE NUTCRACKER — Septime Webre may
no longer lead this company, but his twist
on the family favorite carries on, with
D.C. as the backdrop, George Washington
as the titular figure, and King George
III as the Rat King (11/24-25, THEARC;
11/29-12/28, Warner Theatre) • THE
SLEEPING BEAUTY (2/27-3/3, Kennedy
Center) • THREE WORLD PREMIERES (4/3-
4/7, Harman Center) l
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Museums and Galleries
P
HOTOGRAPHY FROM JAPAN, KILIMS FROM TURKEY,
Fabergé from Russia, and art and ephemera from the
American desert are among the many far-flung highlights
at area museums and galleries this fall. There are also insightful
exhibitions commemorating World War I, the Trail of Tears,
and the influence of Shakespeare on world politics.
Yet it is the intersection of art and culture with technology
that is one predominant theme across the board. This season
sees intriguing, immersive, tech-driven art installations on offer
not only at expected venues, chief among them the category
forerunner ArTecHouse, but also august institutions such as the
Hirshhorn. Meanwhile, another Smithsonian institution, the
American History museum, showcases five technological inno-
vations that, taken together, dramatically changed our life with
and experience of art and culture.
1708 GALLERY
319 West Broad St.
Richmond, Va.
804-643-1708
1708gallery.org
YO BRUCE: GERALD DONATO + BRUCE WILHELM — Drawings,
sketches, and works on paper by Donato, one of the gallery’s
founding artists, as well his student Wilhelm, in a nod to the
40th anniversary of this artist-run contemporary gallery, which
will be celebrated in a party on Thursday, Sept. 27 (Now-10/20)
• INLIGHT RICHMOND 2018 – A two-night public exhibition of
light-based art installations and performance (11/16-17, Virginia
Museum of Fine Arts, 200 North Boulevard)
AMERICAN VISIONARY ART MUSEUM
800 Key Highway
Baltimore, Md.
410-244-1900
avam.org
PARENTING: AN ART WITHOUT A MANUAL — The latest theme
examined in a year-long exhibition at this quirkiest of museums
is that of “what might be humanity’s most essential performance
art.” Works by 36 artists, created out of every conceivable
medium, express, in some way, their personal experience of par-
enting or being parented — be it good, bad, horrific, or sublime
— alongside revelations from the latest scientific research, global
wisdom, and fun. (Opens 10/6-9/1/19) • REVEREND ALBERT LEE
WAGNER: MIRACLE AT MIDNIGHT — A one-man show in celebra-
tion of one of America’s most prominent visionary artists, curat-
ed from 50 masterpieces (Ongoing)
ARTECHOUSE - WASHINGTON, D.C.
1238 Maryland Ave. SW
dc.artechouse.com
FRACTAL WORLDS BY JULIUS HORSTHUIS — A visual journey
through mind-bending sci-fi worlds and infinite 3D geometric
patterns, incorporating both projection and virtual reality ele-
ments, and developed by Dutch visual effects designer whose
work has been featured in the films Manchester By The Sea
and Koning van Katoren (Now-9/30) • NEW NATURE BY MARPI
— Inspired by multiplayer online gaming systems, digital artist
fall arts preview
Compiled by Doug Rule
Mateusz “Marpi” Marcinowski has developed an immersive
audio-visual experience featuring a colorful digital menagerie of
nature-inspired creatures and plant life that react in real-time to
users’ gestures and actions (10/12-1/13)
THE ATHENAEUM
201 Prince St.
Alexandria, Va.
703-548-0035
nvfaa.org
THE 2018 ATHENAEUM INVITATIONAL — Artists, both those spe-
cially invited and others who answered a call for submissions,
create works showing a sense of lightness or hope emanating
from something dark (Now-11/11) • ELIZABETH CASQUIERO:
RE:VISION — Through the use of retro comic books and lifestyle
ads, visual artist reflects the push-and-pull of immigration and
what it means to progress while abiding by tradition (11/15-
1/6/19)
D.A.R. MUSEUM
1776 D St. NW.
202-628-1776
dar.org/museum
LATELY ARRIVED: RECENT ADDITIONS TO THE COLLECTION —
Viewing American history through its decorative arts is the
overall focus of this museum featuring several permanent exhi-
bitions and others with rotating displays, such as this collection
of 60 objects, organized by some of the characteristics that
make them worth collecting (Now-12/30) • PERIOD ROOMS —
The most extensive portion of the museum, these 31 individual
rooms tell the story of the American domestic interior, from the
1690s through the 1930s. Reflecting how people furnished their
houses, the rooms illustrate a wide range of cultures and region-
al differences (Permanent)
DEL RAY ARTISANS
Nicholas A. Colasanto Center
2704 Mount Vernon Ave.
Alexandria, Va.
703-838-4827
delrayartisans.org
ATOMIC DOG AND CONSEQUENTIAL CAT — Artwork from Del Ray
Artisans members featuring cats and/or dogs (Now-9/30, VCA
Alexandria Animal Hospital) • EAT, DRINK, AND BE MERRY — A
display of both three-dimensional and functional ceramic ves-
sels used for food and the table as well two- or three-dimension-
al non-ceramic art that depicts or represents dining (Now-9/30)
• BRINGING WORDS TO LIFE — Pairing a line from an artist’s
favorite song, poem, book, or speech with the artist’s visual
interpretation (9/30-1/27/19, VCA Alexandria Animal Hospital)
• SYMMETRY — Fine art photography showcasing artists’ visions
of symmetry (10/5-28) • CONNECTING THREADS — A display of
artwork featuring fiber and textiles as a major component in
construction and/or as a part of the subject matter, conveying
some sort of message, emotion, or meaning beyond the literal
definition of the materials (11/2-25) • HOLIDAY MARKET 2018 —
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The 23rd annual market offers pottery,
photography, jewelry, cloth, paper crafts,
and glass made by local artists (Weekends
11/30-12/16)
FOLGER SHAKESPEARE LIBRARY
201 East Capitol St. SE
202-544-4600
folger.edu
FORM & FUNCTION: THE GENIUS OF THE
BOOK — Discovering a history beyond
what’s printed on the page, one focused
on the way the pages were printed and
bound together, looking at the structure,
craftsmanship, and beauty of the oft-over-
looked marvel of the book, one of the
world’s greatest technologies (Now-9/23)
• CHURCHILL’S SHAKESPEARE — Britain’s
legendary prime minister was a lifelong
admirer of the Bard, whose influence can
be found in his speeches and ideas, and
explored in materials from Cambridge’s
Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill’s
home Chartwell, and the Folger col-
lection (10/6-1/6) • A FIRST FOLIO OF
SHAKESPEARE — The first collected edi-
tion of Shakespeare’s plays, including the
only source for 18 of his plays (Permanent)
FREER | SACKLER
SMITHSONIAN’S MUSEUMS OF ASIAN ART
1050 Independence Ave. SW
202-633-1000
freersackler.si.edu
ENCOUNTERING THE BUDDHA: ART AND
PRACTICE ACROSS ASIA — Step into a
Tibetan Buddhist shrine, visit a Sri
Lankan stupa, see the exploits of an 8th
century Korean monk and discover mul-
tiple Buddhas and bodhisattvas in this
look at Buddhist art through the lens
of spiritual practice and the perspec-
tives of practitioners (Now-11/29/20) •
JAPAN MODERN: PHOTOGRAPHY FROM
THE GLORIA KATZ AND WILLARD HUYCK
COLLECTION — A selection of works by
groundbreaking 20th-century photogra-
phers capturing everything from evoca-
tive landscapes to the gritty realities of
postwar Japan, with a focus on Japanese
artists’ search for a sense of place in a
rapidly changing country (9/29-1/21/19)
• FEAST YOUR EYES: A TASTE FOR LUXURY
IN ANCIENT IRAN — Exploring the mean-
ing behind the museums’ extraordinary
collection of luxury metalwork, dating
from the first millennium BCE to the
early Islamic period (Ongoing) • SUBODH
GUPTA: TERMINAL — Internationally
acclaimed artist transforms familiar
household objects into wondrous struc-
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tures, here towers of brass containers,
connected by an intricate web of thread to
create a monumental installation recall-
ing the architectural features found on
religious structures (Now-3/2/19)
THE GEORGE
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY MUSEUM
THE TEXTILE MUSEUM
701 21st St. NW
202-994-5200
museum.gwu.edu
A NOMAD’S ART: KILIMS OF ANATOLIA
— Stunning examples of abstract art,
kilims, woven by women to adorn tents
and camel caravans, are also enduring
records of life in Turkey’s nomadic com-
munities (Now-12/23) • FAIG AHMED:
NONVISUAL LANGUAGE — Intimate exhi-
bition introduces new works and instal-
lations by acclaimed Azerbaijani artist,
who has taken inspiration from Peruvian
textiles to create breathtaking woven car-
pets throwing conventional patterns into
chaos (10/6-12/23) • EYE OF THE BIRD:
VISIONS AND VIEWS OF D.C.’S PAST —
Examining the evolution of D.C. through
two newly commissioned panoramic
landscape paintings by local artist Peter
Waddell and related works — one show-
ing Pierre Charles L’Enfant’s grand city
plan, the other capturing the city’s devel-
opment by 1825, the year of L’Enfant’s
death (10/17-12/23) • TEXTILES 101 — An
interactive display allowing museumgo-
ers to enter the mind of an artist and
explore the basic elements — fiber, struc-
ture and color — that influence textile
design (Ongoing) • TREASURES FROM THE
ALBERT H. SMALL COLLECTION — Recent
acquisitions and rare treasures on rotat-
ing display from the museum’s repository
of maps, prints, rare letters, photographs,
and drawings documenting the history of
D.C. (Ongoing)
HILL CENTER GALLERIES
Old Naval Hospital
921 Pennsylvania Ave. SE.
202-549-4172
hillcenterdc.org
REGIONAL JURIED EXHIBITION — Over 100
artists working in an array of mediums
were selected for this annual exhibition
(Now-9/22) • ALEC DUBRO: HEARTS IN
ATLANTIS (9/27-1/7) • AZIZA CLAUDIA
GIBSON-HUNTER: PLAYING TO WIN
(9/27-1/7) • CECILIA ARMELLIN: WINK ON
ASIA (9/27-1/7) • CEDRIC BAKER: SOUL
SEARCHING...TRANSITIONS IN SOUL
(9/27-1/7) • JOELLEN MURPHY: THE
VIBRANT LANDSCAPE (9/27-1/7) • SALLY
CANZONERI: THEN-AND NOW (9/27-1/7)
• 2018 POTTERY ON THE HILL SHOW AND
SALE — An exhibition of works in clay
by 17 of the nation’s top ceramic artists,
including Richard Aerni, Michael Hunt
and Naomi Dalglish of Bandana Pottery,
Birdie Boone, Robert Briscoe, Kenyon
Hansen, Michael Kline, Mark Shapiro,
and Sam Taylor (11/2-4)
HILLWOOD MUSEUM & GARDENS
4155 Linnean Ave. NW
202-686-5807
hillwoodmuseum.org
FABERGÉ REDISCOVERED — Unveiling new
discoveries relating to Hillwood’s collec-
tion of about 90 Fabergé pieces, includ-
ing two imperial Easter eggs, and other
famed works (Now-1/13) • PERFUME &
SEDUCTION — Fine examples of perfume
bottles, gold boxes, porcelain objects, and
other 18th-century luxury items used in
the bathing and dressing ritual la toilette,
a part of court society introduced by King
Louis XIV (2/16/19-6/19/19)
HIRSHHORN MUSEUM & SCULPTURE
GARDEN
700 Independence Ave. SW
202-633-1000
hirshhorn.si.edu
SEAN SCULLY: LANDLINE — Never-before-
seen artworks from a recent renowned
series shows this influential multi-media
artist, known for hard-edged minimalism,
moving to a more expressive style (Now-
2/3) • RAFAEL LOZANO-HEMMER: PULSE
— In its largest interactive technology
exhibition to date, the museum’s entire
Second Level will be filled with immersive
environments using heart-rate sensors to
create kinetic and audiovisual experi-
ences from visitors’ own biometric data,
as developed by this Mexican-Canadian
artist (11/1-4/28) • CHARLINE VON HEYL:
SNAKE EYES (11/8-1/27) • WHAT ABSENCE
IS MADE OF — The unexpected and
mind-bending ways that artists express
absence or loss and surmount the limits
of the material world, as seen in a survey
of 70 works spanning 70 years and drawn
from the Hirshhorn’s extensive collection,
including Annette Lemieux, Constantin
Brancusi, Ed Atkins, On Kawara, and
John Baldessari (Now-Spring 2020) •
MARK BRADFORD: PICKETT’S CHARGE —
Gay artist’s timely, commissioned “cyclo-
rama” of eight large, site-specific paint-
ing collages inspired by the same-named
Philippoteaux masterpiece depicting the
loss of the Confederate Army at the Battle
of Gettysburg that still has resonance
today (Now-11/12)
IA&A AT HILLYER
9 Hillyer Court NW
202-338-0325
athillyer.org
MICRO-MONUMENTS II: UNDERGROUND —
Focusing a contemporary lens on notions
such as the cosmos, nature, and deep
time, via the work of 15 local and eight
German artists, presented in partnership
with the Washington Sculptors Group
(Now-10/28) • UPROOTED — An all-me-
dia exhibition featuring 14 artists from
across the U.S. with works examining the
concept of home and the after-effects of
leaving one’s home behind (Now-9/30) •
JENNA NORTH: THE JOAN DARE GALLERY
(Now-9/30) • ANDREA LIMAURO (10/5-
28) • RICHARD SMOLINSKI (10/5-28) •
KAITLIN JENCSO (11/2-12/16)
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
Thomas Jefferson Building
10 First St. SE
202-707-8000
loc.gov/exhibits
ECHOES OF THE GREAT WAR: AMERICAN
EXPERIENCES OF WORLD WAR I — Drawing
on the most comprehensive collection
of multi-format WWI holdings in the
nation to show the upheaval of the war
as Americans confronted it, both at home
and abroad, and its effects (Now-1/21,
Southwest Gallery) • DRAWN TO PURPOSE:
AMERICAN WOMEN ILLUSTRATORS AND
CARTOONISTS — Bringing to light remark-
able but little-known contributions made
by North American women to the art
forms of illustration and cartooning,
drawn from the Library’s rich collections
(Now-10/20, Graphic Arts Galleries)
LONG VIEW GALLERY
1234 9th St. NW
202-232-4788
longviewgallerydc.com
GIAN GAROFALO (Now-9/16) • PAULA
CRAWFORD (9/27-10/21) • LAURA BERAN
(10/25-11/25) • LORI KATZ (11/29-12/31)
MANSION AT STRATHMORE
5301 Tuckerman Lane
Bethesda, Md.
301-581-5109
strathmore.org
DIA DE MUERTOS: CULTURAL
PERSPECTIVES — Latin-American art-
ists living in the U.S. give their perspec-
tives on the holiday to remember their
loved ones, which is celebrated in differ-
ent ways in different cultures, all richer
than the American stereotype of it as a
macabre Mexican Halloween (Now-11/4)
• EMILY UCHYTIL: PASSING THROUGH —
Larger-than-life paintings of living crea-
tures, from insects to mammals (Now-
11/4) • MONTGOMERY COUNTY PLEIN AIR
ARTISTS (11/17-1/6) • THE 85TH ANNUAL
EXHIBITION OF FINE ART IN MINIATURE —
Intricately detailed works of art, painstak-
ingly produced in miniature (11/17-1/6)
• NICK EISELE: OIL + LIGHT (11/17-1/6) •
NIGHT: THE 28TH ANNUAL STRATHMORE
JURIED EXHIBITION (1/12/19-2/17/19)
NATIONAL BUILDING MUSEUM
401 F St. NW
202-272-2448
nbm.org
FLICKERING TREASURES: REDISCOVERING
BALTIMORE’S FORGOTTEN MOVIE
THEATERS — A survey of Baltimore’s mov-
ie-going past from 1896 to the present,
using oral histories, architectural frag-
ments, theater ephemera, and of course
photography — particularly vivid, con-
temporary shots from Baltimore Sun staff
photographer Amy Davis — to illumi-
nate themes of memory, loss, and pres-
ervation (11/17-10/14/19) • COMMUNITY
POLICING IN THE NATION’S CAPITAL: THE
PILOT DISTRICT PROJECT, 1968-1973 —
Organized as part of a citywide com-
memoration of the 50th anniversary of
Martin Luther King, Jr.’s assassination
and shining a light on a local experiment
in community policing, a program with
good intentions (Now-1/15) • EVICTED
— A groundbreaking exhibition explor-
ing the causes and impacts of eviction
through an immersive experience with
unique design elements and striking
graphics (Now-5/19) • SECRET CITIES:
THE ARCHITECTURE AND PLANNING OF
THE MANHATTAN PROJECT — Examining
the innovative design and construction
of three communities built to support the
development of the atomic bomb, trac-
ing their precedents in the Bauhaus and
other early modern schools of architec-
tural thought (Now-3/3)
NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART
3rd St. & Constitution Ave. NW
202-737-4215
nga.gov
RACHEL WHITEREAD — A first comprehen-
sive survey of work by this British sculp-
tor, co-organized with Tate Britain, fea-
turing roughly 100 objects from a 30-year
career including drawings, photographs,
architecture-scaled sculptures, archi-
val materials, documentary materials on
public projects, and several new works
(9/16-1/13) • IN THE LIBRARY: RACHEL
WHITEREAD’S ‘GHOST’ (9/17-1/11) • SENSE
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OF HUMOR — Drawing from the museum’s
collection to showcase the incredibly
rich though easily overlooked tradition
of prints and drawings used for humor-
ous effect, from Renaissance caricatures
to biting English satires to 20th-century
comics (Now-1/6) • DAWOUD BEY: THE
BIRMINGHAM PROJECT (Now-3/24) •
JACKSON POLLOCK: MURAL — Originally
commissioned by Peggy Guggenheim for
her New York City townhouse, the early
painting is Pollock’s largest work at near-
ly 20 feet long (Now-10/28)
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MUSEUM
1145 17th St. NW
202-857-7700
ngmuseum.com
TOMB OF CHRIST: THE CHURCH OF THE
HOLY SEPULCHRE EXPERIENCE — Be
transported to Jerusalem for an immer-
sive 3D experience unlike anything seen
in a museum before, virtually visiting
the church and learning about its storied
history, enduring mysteries, and tech-
nological advances helping with ongo-
ing research and restoration (Now-1/6) •
TITANIC: THE UNTOLD STORY — Exploring
the link between the 1985 discovery of the
infamous ship — by oceanographer and
National Geographic Explorer-at-Large
Robert Ballard — and a top secret Cold
War mission, in an exhibition in part-
nership with the National Archives and
the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library
(Now-1/1)
NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN
HISTORY & CULTURE
14th St. & Constitution Ave. NW
844-750-3012
nmaahc.si.edu
Through the rest of this month, the muse-
um is allowing entry on a first-come,
first-served basis via a special Walk-Up
Weekdays promotion. After September
and on weekends, the museum reverts
to its original policy, with same-day,
timed-entry passes available at the crack
of dawn online and through a limited
number of walk-up passes starting at
1 p.m, and advance timed entry passes
available online months in advance. Once
you snag a timed-entry pass, you’ll be able
to see the collection of 37,000 objects
grouped into 12 permanent exhibitions
focused on specific regions — American
South, American West — and broad topics
— Civil Rights, Clothing & Dress, Music.
The museum also features the 400-seat
Sweet Home Cafe and a menu, guided
by celebrity chef Carla Hall, showcas-
ing traditional African-American cuisine
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broken into four regions: the Northern
States, the Agricultural South, the Creole
Coast, and the West Range. Finally,
there’s WATCHING OPRAH: THE OPRAH
WINFREY SHOW AND AMERICAN CULTURE
— A special exhibition showing, through
original artifacts from Harpo Studios and
Winfrey’s own personal collection, the
talk show’s influence on American soci-
ety, particularly in the areas of race, gen-
der, and the mass media (Now-6/2019)
NATIONAL MUSEUM
OF AMERICAN HISTORY
1400 Constitution Ave. NW
202-633-1000
americanhistory.si.edu
RUBY SLIPPERS AND AMERICAN CULTURE
DISPLAYS — The museum’s new American
Culture-themed wing opens with eight
installations including Dorothy’s slippers
from The Wizard of Oz as well as jazz and
classical instruments, a video game wall,
New York Yankee Stadium ticket booth,
and a stained-glass window from the
Victor Company’s New Jersey headquar-
ters featuring “Nipper,” the iconic dog
listening to his master’s recorded voice
(Opens 10/19) • AMERICA’S LISTENING —
Thomas Edison’s phonograph, Alexander
Graham Bell’s graphophone, Emile
Berliner’s gramophone, Ray Dolby’s noise
reduction system, and Apple’s iPod will
also be on display in the new wing as
five innovations in recorded sound that
changed how we consume music and
movies (Opens 10/19) • SUPER HEROES
— The museum’s annual holiday celebra-
tion this year will include a special dis-
play inspired by the protagonists of comic
books and video games (Opens 11/15) •
THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION: A WORLD
WAR — The 1781 victory at Yorktown and
the Franco-American partnership made
the fight for U.S. independence possi-
ble, something depicted in Louis-Nicolas
van Blarenberghe’s paintings The Siege of
Yorktown and The Surrender of Yorktown,
united along with Charles Willson Peale’s
early 1780s portrait of George Washington
for the first time in a national muse-
um since their display together in the
1700s (Now-7/9) • RIGHTING A WRONG:
JAPANESE AMERICANS AND WORLD WAR
II — Exploring the painful history of
Japanese Americans post-Pearl Harbor,
focused on Executive Order 9066, FDR’s
order that resulted in internment camps
for which the U.S. Congress and President
Reagan later apologized and offered resti-
tution (Now-3/5)
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NATIONAL MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY
10th St. & Constitution Ave. NW
202-633-1000
mnh.si.edu
OUTBREAKS: EPIDEMICS IN A CONNECTED
WORLD — An exhibition about the
important field of epidemiology and
human health, marking the centennial
of the Great Influenza and spotlighting
the heightened threat pandemic diseases
pose today in an increasingly intercon-
nected, increasingly mobile, increasingly
urbanized and industrialized global world
(Now-2021)
NATIONAL MUSEUM
OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN
4th St. & Independence Ave. SW
202-633-1000
nmai.si.edu
TRAIL OF TEARS: A STORY OF CHEROKEE
REMOVAL — Dispelling misconceptions
about Indian removal and providing a
realistic look at the devastating cost of
greed and oppression from the Cherokee
perspective (Now-1/2019) • AMERICANS
— A showcase of nearly 350 objects and
images, from a Tomahawk missile to
baking powder cans, all demonstrating
that Indian words and images are every-
where in American life, and revealing
that Americans have always been fasci-
nated, conflicted, and profoundly shaped
by their relationship to American Indians
(Now-2022)
NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WOMEN
IN THE ARTS
1250 New York Ave. NW
202-783-5000
nmwa.org
NEW YORK AVENUE SCULPTURE PROJECT:
BETSABEÉ ROMERO — Mexico City-based
artist’s Totemic structures made out of
tires embellished with intricate carvings,
metallic paint, and interior lights form
the next chapter in the museum’s evolv-
ing public art program (9/28-9/20/2020)
• RODARTE — Sisters Kate and Laura
Mulleavy become the first designers to be
recognized with a solo exhibition at the
museum, showcasing their luxury label’s
conceptual blend of high couture, modern
femininity, craftsmanship, and California
influences (11/10-2/10) • AMBREEN BUTT:
MARK MY WORDS — Pakistani-American
artist who injects her style of Persian min-
iature painting with contemporary politi-
cal subject matter, as seen in this focused
exhibition of works on paper (12/7-4/14)
THE PHILLIPS COLLECTION
1600 21st St. NW
202-387-2151
phillipscollection.org
NORDIC IMPRESSIONS: ART FROM ÅLAND,
DENMARK, THE FAROE ISLANDS, FINLAND,
GREENLAND, ICELAND, NORWAY, AND
SWEDEN, 1821–2018 — A major sur-
vey of Nordic art spanning nearly 200
years and featuring works by 53 artists
(10/13-1/13) • INTERSECTIONS: RICHARD
TUTTLE: IT SEEMS LIKE IT’S GOING TO
BE — Combining Tuttle’s 41-verse poem
with 41 works created for each verse,
juxtaposed with works on paper from
the museum’s collection (Now-12/30) •
WOMEN OF INFLUENCE (PART II) ELMIRA
BIER, MINNIE BYERS, AND MARJORIE
PHILLIPS — Examining the critical roles
these three women have played in shap-
ing the Phillips (Now-12/30) • MOVING
FORWARD, LOOKING BACK: A COLLECTION
STILL IN THE MAKING — Revealing more
of the Phillips’ history through photo-
graphs, exhibition announcements, let-
ters and more drawn from the archives
(Now-12/31)
RENWICK GALLERY
1661 Pennsylvania Ave. NW
202-633-7970
renwick.americanart.si.edu
NO SPECTATORS: THE ART OF BURNING
MAN — An immersive celebration of the
art, maker culture, and ephemera of the
annual desert gathering has shrunk from
canvassing the entire Renwick building
when it opened last March to its cur-
rent exhibition of half the space (Now-
1/21) • DISRUPTING CRAFT: RENWICK
INVITATIONAL 2018 — Tanya Aguiñiga,
Sharif Bey, Dustin Farnsworth, and
Stephanie Syjuco are four artists who chal-
lenge conventions by imbuing craft with
a renewed sense of emotional purpose,
inclusiveness, and activism (11/9-5/5)
SMITHSONIAN AMERICAN ART MUSEUM
8th & F Streets NW
202-633-7970
americanart.si.edu
BETWEEN WORLDS: THE ART OF BILL
TAYLOR — A showcase of the drawn and
painted imagery from one of America’s
most celebrated self-taught artists (9/28-
3/17) • TREVOR PAGLEN: SITES UNSEEN —
Artist blurs the lines between art, science,
and investigative journalism to construct
unfamiliar and at times unsettling works
showing the world around us (Now-1/6) •
DIANE ARBUS: A BOX OF 10 PHOTOGRAPHS
(Now-1/27)
For more Fall Arts Preview Museum &
Gallery listings, visit metroweekly.com.
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ILY TOMLIN, WANDA SYKES, AND CABLE TV’S TWO
Andys — as far as non-singing, non-dancing entertain-
ment goes, those are some of the best and biggest names
in show business today. Again this fall, there are an abun-
dance of culinary celebrities popping up — and not just at the
annual food-centric fests put on by the Smithsonian, HRC, or
MetroCooking DC at the Convention Center: José Andrés, Carla
Hall, and Ina Garten are just three who will also be out and about
stirring the pot to promote new books bearing their names.
You can also get more than your fill of weighty discussions
with experts from the worlds of science, politics, and interna-
tional affairs. Yet if by chance what you want is more clever
comedy with an LGBTQ bent, look no further than Tig Notaro’s
Bentzen Ball, which is gayer than ever this year.
AFI SILVER THEATRE AND CULTURAL CENTER
8633 Colesville Road
Silver Spring
301-495-6720
afi.com/Silver
13TH ANNUAL SPOOKY MOVIE INTERNATIONAL HORROR FILM
FESTIVAL — The best in horror from around the world, includ-
ing Phantasm: Remastered, presented by legendary filmmaker
Don Coscarelli, who will also sign copies of True Indie: Life and
Death in Filmmaking (10/4-7) • NOIR CITY DC — The Film Noir
Foundation presents film noir classics paired with rarities or
Compiled by Doug Rule
lower-budget features, with select screenings introducted by
TCM host and foundation founder Eddie Muller (10/12-25) •
REEL ROCK 13 — A collection of 2018’s best climbing and adven-
ture films, taking viewers on a wild ride from the frigid Antartic
to the bedoin canyonlands of the Middle East, and featuring
Madaleine Sorkin, Alex Honnold, and Conrad Anker, among
others (11/12-14)
AMP BY STRATHMORE
11810 Grand Park Ave.
North Bethesda, Md.
301-581-5100
ampbystrathmore.com
BENGT WASHBURN & ROBERT BARIL — AMP Comedy (9/27) •
FRIENDS: THE MUSICAL PARODY — Satirizing everyone’s favorite
’90s sitcom (10/18-19) • MYQ KAPLAN — AMP Comedy (10/25) •
SMOOTH CRIMINAL — A Murder Mystery Musical Tribute (11/17)
THE ANTHEM
901 Wharf St. SW.
202-265-0930
theanthemdc.com
REESE WITHERSPOON — Whiskey In A Teacup book tour (9/22) •
JO KOY — Comedian on his Break The Mold Tour (9/29) •
DC CENTRAL KITCHEN: CAPITAL FOOD FIGHT — Tastings from

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over 80 restaurants plus a stage battle
between four of D.C.’s top chefs at this
15th anniversary event hosted by JOSÉ
ANDRÉS and SPIKE MENDELSOHN (11/8)
ATLAS PERFORMING ARTS CENTER
1333 H St. NE
202-399-7993
atlasarts.org
SILENT FILM: THE FALL OF THE USHER — A
Halloween-timed presentation of Jean
Epstein’s creepy 1928 film combining two
Poe tales, a silent film enchanced with live
original music by Andrew Earle Simpson
for added creepiness (10/28, Sprenger
Theatre) • REBECCA MAGNUSON: SHE
SINGS — A one-night-only offering of an
inspiring one-woman musical telling the
story of triumph over injustice, from a
Nashville-rooted singer-songwriter and
concert pianist (11/16)• SILENT FILM:
WINGS — Andrew Earle Simpson offers
more live original music, this time for the
first Best Picture Oscar winner, following
the adventures of two American aviators
in World War I-era France (12/12, Lab
Theatre)
THE BENTZEN BALL COMEDY FESTIVAL
Lincoln Theatre
1215 U St. NW
202-888-0050
brightestyoungthings.com/bentzen-ball
Lesbian comedian Tig Notaro curates
this annual four-day event presented by
Brightest Young Things and this year fea-
turing nonprofit partners Human Rights
Watch and Whitman-Walker Health,
whose Walk & 5K To End HIV is set for the
Saturday of festival weekend. OPENING
NIGHT WITH PHOEBE ROBINSON & SPECIAL
GUEST NOTARO — 1 of the 2 Dope Queens
from HBO and author of Everything Is
Trash, But It’s Okay (10/25) • SMART
FUNNY & BLACK FEATURING AMANDA
SEALES, JEMELE HILL, AND REESE WATERS
(10/25-26) • #ADULTING WITH MICHELLE
BUTEAU & JORDAN CARLOS WITH SPE-
CIAL GUESTS NOTARO AND SHENG WANG
(10/26) • OFF BOOK: THE IMPROVISED
MUSICAL PODCAST — Featuring Jessica
Mckenna, Zach Reino, and more TBA
(10/26, Kennedy Center Millennium
Stage) • GET CURIOUS W/JONATHAN VAN
NESS LIVE (10/27) • CAMERON ESPOSITO,
RHEA BUTCHER & FRIENDS FEATURING
NAOMI EKGEPERIN — Hollywood’s les-
bian comedy couple lead this show with
more TBA (10/27) • HANDMAID’S TALE:
86 SEPTEMBER 13, 2018 • METROWEEKLY
THE MUSICAL (10/27, Kennedy Center
Terrace Theater) • MELINDA HILL — More
TBA (10/27, Kennedy Center Millennium
Stage) • FESTIVAL CLOSING SHOW WITH
NOTARO & FRIENDS (10/28)
BIER BARON TAVERN
1523 22nd St. NW
202-293-1887
inlovewithbier.com
HEAVY HITTERS END OF SUMMER TAPPING
— A selection of popular high-octane
beers, from Dogfish’s 120 Minute to
Sierra Nevada’s Narwhal to Founders’
KBA (9/22) • JESSIMAE PELUSO W/MATT
RUBY (9/22-23) • THE OVERACHIEVERS
COMEDY SHOW (9/27, 10/25) • BROOKS
WHEELAN W/KEVIN TIT (9/28-29) • YANNIS
PAPPAS FEATURING CHRIS DISTEFANO —
Co-produed by Kaleidoscope Comedy
(9/28-29) • JOE MATARESE W/RAHMEIN
MOSTAFAVI — As seen on America’s Got
Talent and Comedy Central (10/5-6)
• PAUL MECURIO W/KASHA PATEL AND
JARED STERN (10/5-6) • BILLY SORRELLS
(10/12-13) • PARIS SASHAY — Live Taping
in The Cellar (10/13) • DJ DOUGGPOUND
AND BRENT WEINBACH — As seen on Tim
and Eric Awesome Show and Conan(10/14)
• MARIANNE SIERK (10/18-19) • CHRIS
FRANJOLA (10/20-21) • KELLEN ERSKINE
(10/24-25) • SUCK IT! A COMEDY GAME
SHOW — Blaire Postman and Leon Scott
co-host an evening in which three come-
dians are quizzed on subjects they say
they’re obsessed with; also featuring
musical mash-up trio Strum & Siren
(10/24) • DINA HASHEM (10/26-27) • BRET
ERNST (10/26-27) • CHRIS COPE W/ERIK
ESCOBAR (11/2-3)
THE BIRCHMERE
3701 Mount Vernon Ave.
Alexandria
, Va.
703-549-7500
birchmere.com
WMAL FREE SPEECH FORUM — w/Mark
Levin, Chris Plante, Larry O’Connor, Mary
Walter, and Vince Coglianese (9/22) •
RAVEN’S NIGHT — “Momento Mori” is the
theme of the annual all hallow’s “esoteric
evening of belly dance & entertainment”
(11/3) • PAULA POUNDSTONE (11/16-18)
• A JOHN WATERS CHRISTMAS (12/20) •
PIFF THE MAGIC DRAGON (12/26-27)
BLACK CAT
1811 14th St. NW
202-667-4490
blackcatdc.com
MORTIFIED — Live Podcast (9/21) •
CHURCH NIGHT — Comedy act offering
an eccentric, religious parody inspired by
Dana Carvey’s “Church Lady” SNL sketch
as well as A Prairie Home Companion
(9/22) • PINBALL MOVIE NIGHT (9/25) •
THE VERY BEST OF HUMP! 2008-2017 —
The showcase of odd homemade porn as
curated by Dan Savage (10/4-5) • STORY
DISTRICT: HOWL — Stories about Primal
Instincts (10/9) • EIGHTIES MAYHEM:
’80S HALLOWEEN DANCE PARTY — FYM
Productions presents this full club event
with DJs Steve EP, Missguided, and Killa
K (10/27)
CAPITAL HOME SHOW
Dulles Expo Center
Chantilly, Va.
capitalhomeshow.com
Vern Yip, one of the best designers on
TLC’s Trading Spaces and former judge
and host of various HGTV shows, head-
lines this year’s event, also featuring the
building of a 1,400 square foot-home on
the show floor by Val Valdez of Design
Home. Falls Church decor shop Stylish
Patina sponsors a free, hands-on Make-It,
Take-It DIY Station at the event, featur-
ing more than 250 exhibitors, with addi-
tional discussions and seminars, home
remodeling projects and hands-on work-
shops (9/21-23)
CAPITAL ONE ARENA
601 F St. NW
202-628-3200
capitalonearena.com
KEVIN HART — The Irresponsible Tour
(9/15) • GAMES OF THRONES LIVE
CONCERT EXPERIENCE FEATURING RAMIN
DJAWADI (9/25) • JOEL AND VICTORIA
OSTEEN: A NIGHT OF HOPE (10/6) • WWE
SMACKDOWN 1000 (10/16) • WASHINGTON
INTERNATIONAL HORSE SHOW (10/23-28)
• CIRQUE DU SOLEIL: CRYSTAL — The
aerial arts company’s “coolest arena
show yet,” a production that showcas-
es synchronized, freestyle and extreme
ice-skating alongside circus acts such as
swinging trapeze, aerial straps and hand-
to-hand, all over ice (12/5-9)
DOWNTOWN HOLIDAY MARKET
700-900 F St. NW
downtownholidaymarket.com
Now in its 14th year, the market presents
over 150 artisans offering a vast, eclectic
and international assortment of gifts and
souvenirs, collectibles and wearables —
from prints and photographs, to pottery
and glassware, to custom jewelry and
accessories. Each day brings a rotating
schedule of merchants, plus concerts by
local musicians and options for food and
drink (11/23-12/23)
DRAFTHOUSE COMEDY
1100 13th St. NW
202-750-6411
drafthousecomedy.com
JOKES THAT GIVE BACK (9/20) • BROAD
WAY W/FRANQI FRENCH: AYANNA
GREGORY (9/20) • DES BISHOP (9/21-
22) • SPEECHLESS: THE ULTIMATE
IMPROVISATIONAL GAUNTLET (9/27) •
SMILEY FROWN W/ROSS BENOIT (9/27) •
RAE SANNI (9/28-29) • JAMIE LEE (10/5-
6) • DAN SODER — As seen on Netflix’s
The Standups and Billions (10/11-13) •
THE MAGIC OF DC (10/13-14) • COMEDY
SUPREME’S 8TH ANNIVERSARY SHOW
WITH NICKY SUNSHINE (10/14) • JOE
LIST (10/19-20) • JIMMY PARDO’S NEVER
NOT FUNNY PODCAST (10/26) • EMMA
WILLMANN (11/9/10) • NICOLE BYER — As
seen on Netflix’s Nailed It and MTV’s Girl
Code (11/23-24) • SAM MORRIL (11/30-
12/1) • JOSH WOLF (12/28-31)
EAGLEBANK ARENA
George Mason University
4500 Patriot Circle
Fairfax, Va.
703-993-3000
eaglebankarena.com
25TH PBR: UNLEASH THE BEAST: U.S.
BORDER PATROL INVITATIONAL — The
world’s premier bull-riding organization
presents the top 35 bull riders against
the best bulls in the industry for over
two hours of intense bull-riding action
that is not a rodeo (9/22-23) • MASH
2018 — Bollywood promoter Vijay Taneja
presents stars a showcase of stars includ-
ing John Abraham, Alka Yagnik, Malaika
Arora Khan, Kumar Sanu, Kubbra Sait,
Bhoomi Trivedi, Sudesh, and Krushna
(10/27) • JEFF DUNHAM — “Passively
Aggressive” Comedian (11/7)
GALA HISPANIC THEATRE
3333 14th St. NW
202-234-7174
galatheatre.org
REEL TIME AT GALA: 7TH ANNUAL FILM
FESTIVAL — Five days of films from
Mexico, Argentina, and Colombia, with a
focus on contemporary films by emerging
and young directors (11/28-12/2) • FIESTA
DE LOS REYES MAGOS – GALA’s tradition-
al bilingual Three Kings celebration fea-
tures the Magi, members of the Nativity
scene, live animals, performances from
local Latin American musical groups, and
a walk through the neighborhood (1/6)
GW LISNER
730 21st St. NW
202-994-6800
lisner.gwu.edu
JOSÉ ANDRÉS — We Fed An Island doc-
uments the work the star D.C. chef
fed hundreds of thousands of starving,
homeless people in Hurrican Maria-
ravaged Puerto Rico; book signing
co-presented by Politics and Prose and
GW (9/14) • AFRICA UMOJA SPRIT OF
UNITY — International Arts Foundation
presents a show, performed by South
Africans, telling the history of the country
through music and dance (9/21-23) • BOB
WOODWARD — Fear: Trump in the White
House, in conversation with The New
York Times’s Michael Schmidt (9/27) •
MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000 LIVE!
30TH ANNIVERSARY TOUR — Two sepa-
rate, unique shows, both featuring origi-
nal host and show creator Joel Hodgson
as Joel Robinson riffing alongside new
MST3K host Jonah Heston aka Jonah
Ray as they screen two movies nev-
er-before-seen on MST3K: The Brain, a
Canadian sci-fi suburban nightmare, as
part of Show #1, and Deathstalker II,
about a princess, a sorcerer, and sword
epic complete with clones, Amazons, and
mysticism, in Show #2 (10/12) • PETE
SOUZA — Shade is the latest book from
Barack Obama’s famous photographer
featuring hundreds more groundbreak-
ing photographs (10/24) • MAXIM GALKIN
— Russian humorist and actor presents
his new TV program on tour, with paro-
dies, fun musical numbers and suprises,
presented by ArbatArena (11/2) • DEATH
BECOMES US, A TRUE CRIME FESTIVAL:
KENDA CONFIDENTIAL (11/3); BUZZFEED
UNSOLVED (11/3); WINE & CRIME (11/3);
HOW DID THIS GET MADE? (11/3); CRIMINAL
(11/4); THE LAST PODCAST ON THE LEFT
(11/4)
HILLWOOD MUSEUM & GARDENS
4155 Linnean Ave. NW
202-686-8500
hillwoodmuseum.org
FABERGÉ REDISCOVERED LECTURE
SERIES — Five discussions in conjunc-
tion with current temporary exhibition:
“The Firm of Fabergé: Business, Clients,
and Collectors,” by Hillwood’s chief
curator Wilfried Zeisler (10/3); “Russia:
Royalty and the Romanovs,” by Caroline
de Guitaut, the decorative arts curator
of the Royal Collection Trust (10/10);
“Fabergé in the Age of Progress,” by
Mikhail Ovchinnikov, the deputy director
of the Fabergé Museum in St. Petersburg
(10/16); “Fabergé in London,” by Kieran
SEPTEMBER 13, 2018 • METROWEEKLY
McCarthy, a Fabergé adviser to collectors
and institutions and managing director
of Wartski, London (10/23); “Jewels of
the Romanovs: The Collections of Maria,
Alexandra, Olga and Xenia,” by Stefano
Papi of the Gemological Institute of
America and former specialist in the jew-
elry departments of both Sotheby’s and
Christie’s (10/30) • GARDENER’S FOCUS:
FALL DESIGN — Head Gardener Jessica
Bonilla leads a tour through the fall sea-
sonal plantings (10/9-19) • — GARDENER’S
FOCUS: SPECIALTY MUMS — A behind-
the-scenes tour of the greenhouse by
Hillwood horticulturist Enrique Mendez
(10/14-30) • SPOOKY POOCH HOWL-O-
WEEN CELEBRATION — Strut your mutt in
a canine costume competition and pur-
chase a signature champagne cocktail at
Yappy Hour (10/27) • SYLVAIN CORDIER:
NAPOLEON: ART AND LIFE IN THE IMPERIAL
COURT — The curator of early decorative
arts at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
gives the 7th Annual Frederick J. Fisher
Lecture (11/8) • TRADITIONAL HOLIDAY
WREATHS — Designers guide partici-
pants in using fresh materials to make
wreaths out of evergreens (11/27-12/2) •
GARDENER’S FOCUS: HOLIDAY DECOr —
Hillwood floral and event decor designer
Ami Wilber highlights Christmas trees
inspired by Fabergé Rediscovered (11/30-
12/14) • RUSSIAN WINTER FESTIVAL (12/8-
9) • GARDENER’S FOCUS: BONES OF THE
WINTER GARDEN (12/18)
KENNEDY CENTER
202-467-4600
kennedy-center.org
COLIN QUINN — “One In Every Crowd”
from stand-up veteran (10/6, Terrace
Theater) • FILM: ROXANNE ROXANNE — A
Netflix chronicling the journey of Lolita
“Roxanne Shanté” Gooden into Queens
hip-hop legend, with post-screening
Q&A and discussion with producer Mimi
Valdés, Roxanne Shanté, and more (10/9,
Terrace Theater) • LILY TOMLIN — One of
America’s foremost comediennes offers
a rare night of stand-up (10/17, Concert
Hall) • THE 21ST ANNUAL MARK TWAIN
PRIZE FOR AMERICAN HUMOR: JULIA
LOUIS-DREYFUS (10/21, Concert Hall) •
MAZ JOBRANI — Iranian-American come-
dian returns to the Kennedy Center after
last year’s sold-out show was turned into
his first original Netflix special (11/16,
Concert Hall) • VIKKI TOBAK — Contact
High: A Visual History of Hip-Hop (11/16,
Terrace Theater) • THE SECOND CITY’S
LOVE, FACTUALLY — A holiday satire from
twisted minds getting to the truth of
December life, love, and romance, and of
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course parodying more than just a popu-
lar holiday movie’s title (12/4-31, Theater
Lab) • PUDDLES PITY PARTY — The “Sad
Clown with the Golden Voice” (12/14,
Eisenhower Theater)
KRAMERBOOKS
1517 Connecticut Ave. NW
202-387-1400
kramers.com
ANDREW YARROW — Man Out: Men
on the Sidelines of American Life by a
senior fellow at the Progressive Policy
Institute (9/17) • CAROL ANDERSON — One
Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression
Is Destroying Our Democracy by the
chair of African-American Studies at
Emory University (9/18) • ERIN GIBSON
— Feminasty: The Complicated Woman’s
Guide to Surviving the Patriarchy with-
out Drinking Herself to Death (9/20) •
SUPER SPECTACULAR COMEDY SHOW
FOR HUMANITY! — Grassroots Comedy
DC pressents this funny fundraiser head-
lined by Comedy Central’s Robert Mac
(9/21) • BRIAN VANDEMARK — Road to
Disaster: A New History of America’s
Descent into Vietnam by a professor at
the US Naval Academy (9/25) • LUCIE
GREENE IN CONVERSATION WITH MACON
PHILLIPS — Renowned futurist and think
tank leader offers an unparalleled look at
Big Tech in Silicon States, up for discus-
sion with CARE USA’s chief digital officer
(9/26) • JACQUELINE CHIO-LAURI — The
New Filipino Kitchen: Stories and Recipes
from around the Globe (9/27) • NATHAN
SCHNEIDER — Everything for Everyone:
The Radical Tradition that Is Shaping
the Next Economy (10/4) • MAYA RAO —
The Great American Outpost: Dreamers,
Mavericks, and the Making of an Oil
Frontier by Washington correspondent
for the Minneapolis Star-Tribune (10/11)
• DANIEL MASON — The Winter Soldier by
clinical assistant professor in the Stanford
University Department of Psychiatry
(10/24) • JOSH HUNT — University
of Nike: How Corporate Cash Bought
American Higher Education (11/12) • REP.
JACKIE SPEIER — Undaunted: Surviving
Jonestown, Summoning Courage, and
Fighting Back (11/13) • CHRIS MCGREAL —
American Overdose: The Opioid Tragedy
in Three Acts by reporter for the Guardian
and former BBC journalist (11/16)
LA-TI-DO
Bistro Bistro
1727 Connecticut Ave. NW
202-328-1640
latidoproductions.com
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KARI GINSBURG — Don Michael Mendoza
and Anya Randall Nebel co-host this pro-
fessional karaoke/cabaret/variety show
with Music Director Paige Rammelkamp
with additional guests and musicians to
be announced per show (10/15) • GREAT
COMPOSERS FEATURING TOM FLATT
(11/12) • DUETS WITH DON MIKE 2018
(12/3) • I HATE THE HOLIDAYS (12/10) • I
LOVE THE HOLIDAYS AND 2018 CLOSING
PARTY (12/17)
LINCOLN THEATRE
1215 U St. NW
202-328-6000
thelincolndc.com
WELCOME TO NIGHT VALE — “A Spy in
the Desert” is the focus of this round of
the live podcast (9/26) • RUPAUL’S DRAG
RACE: WERQ THE WORLD (10/23) • RUPI
KAUR — Indian poet, artist, and performer
whose shows are “a musical poetic the-
atrical masterclass” (10/29-30) • LADIES
NIGHT AT THE LINCOLN STARRING ANGELA
WINBUSH W/LORI WILLIAMS, SHADZ & MC
SYLVER (11/4) • INSIDE NETFLIX’S THE
STAIRCASE & MAKING A MURDERER —
Featuring David Rudolf and Jerry Buting,
moderated by NPR’s Carrie Johnson
(11/5)
METROCOOKING DC
Washington Convention Center
801 Mt. Vernon Pl.
202-249-3000
MetroCookingDC.com
EMERIL LAGASSE is the headliner at the
James Beard Foundation Cooking Stage
at this 13th annual regional culinary
showcase that will also feature JACQUES
PEPIN, LIDIA BASTIANICH, CARLA HALL,
BETHENNY FRANKEL, and many of D.C’s
best chefs, including SCOTT DREWNO, AMY
BRANDWEIN, ERIK BRUNER-YANG, VIKRAM
SUNDERAM, and MICHAEL SCHLOW. In
addition to the James Beard Foundation
Cooking Stage, The event features 200
specialty food vendors, with a focused
Made in DC pavilion, and also includes
a two-day Beer, Wine & Spirits section, a
BBQ Bash on Saturday and the 6th annual
Grand Tasting Pavilion on Sunday, and,
new this year, a Holiday Gingerbread
House Competition featuring profession-
al and amateur bakers (12/1-2)
MGM NATIONAL HARBOR
7100 Harborview Ave.
Oxon Hill, Md.
844-346-4664
mgmnationalharbor.com
LORD OF THE DANCE (10/7) • THE
ILLUSIONISTS (10/12) • GARY OWEN
(10/13) • THE FOLLIES SHOW (10/16, 10/23,
10/30, 11/6) • #IMOMSOHARD (10/19) •
JESS HILARIOUS — Standup comedian
known for appearances on MTV and VH1
(10/29) • THE PRICE IS RIGHT LIVE (11/2-
4) • JIM JEFFERIES (11/9) • THE COMEDY
GET DOWN: CEDRIC THE ENTERTAINER,
GEORGE LOPEZ, EDDIE GRIFFIN, D.L.
HUGHLEY — The stars of the BET com-
edy series (11/10-11) • THERESA CAPUTO
LIVE!: THE EXPERIENCE (11/30) • CRAIG
FERGUSON (12/8) • PENN & TELLER (12/13)
• CIRQUE DREAMS HOLIDAZE (12/20-23) •
TYLER HENRY: THE HOLLYWOOD MEDIUM
(1/15)
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC LIVE!
Grosvenor Auditorium
17th and M Sts. NW
202-857-7700
nationalgeographic.org/dc/
NATGEO NIGHTS: FROM THE CANOPY —
National Geographic Explorers Kevin
McLean, Meg Lowman, Peter Houlihan,
and Nalini Nadkarni share photography
and stories from their work in treetops
around the globe (9/20) • AFTER-HOURS:
BYT & NATGEO’S MY PARTY WILL GO ON!
— 8th Annual costume party with guest
DJs, National Geographic Explorer talks,
a photobooth and caricature artist (9/21)
• FILM: FREE SOLO — An advance screen-
ing and discussion of filmmaker E. Chai
Vaserhalyi’s documentary focused on
Alex Honnold’s historic 2017 climb of
Yosemite’s 3,200-foot El Capital peak,
also captured in photographs by Jimmy
Chin (10/2) • FROM THE ARCHIVE: INTO
THE DEEP — Exclusive photos from and
discussion about the deep-sea expedi-
tions of Robert Ballard, who discovered
the Titanic (10/3) • VIRTUAL REALITY
EXPLORATION: BEARS EARS NATIONAL
MONUMENT — Nat Geo photographer
Aaron Huey guides a virtual tour using
cutting-edge technology to this land-
mark that is considered sacred to indig-
enous people (10/10) • CONVERSATION:
ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE: RUNNING
DRY — Journalist Naveena Sadasivam
moderates a discussion with nation-
al resource experts on solutions to the
world’s deepening water crisis (10/16) •
NATGEO NIGHTS: INTO THE UNDERWORLD
— Explore the hidden world inside caves
with archaeologist Guillermo de Anda
and biologists Ingi Agnarsson and Daniela
Cafaggi (10/18) • YOU’RE THE EXPERT
LIVE — Chris Duffy hosts this academ-
ic twist on a classic radio game show,
with speakers Jo Firestone and Josh
Sharp (10/20) • SPECIAL EVENT: ROBERT
BALLARD: TOUR OF THE TITANIC — The
scientist who discovered the infamous
ship wreck for National Geographic
Explorer offers a guided tour through the
exhibit Titanic: The Untold Story (10/24)
• CONVERSATION: EXPLORING OCEAN
WORLDS — Ballard and fellow scientists
Kevin Hand, Chris German, and Julie
Huber to discuss how new discoveries
in our oceans may help unlock myster-
ies, including whether we are alone in
the universe (10/25) • VIRTUAL RELATION
EXPLORATION: ANTARCTICA (10/30) •
TASTING: THE FOOD EXPLORER: DAVID
FAIRCHILD — National Geographic writer
Daniel Stone hosts a unique multicourse
meal featuring foods introduced to the
U.S. palate over 100 years ago by Fairchild
(11/13) • NATGEO NIGHTS: ALL OVER THE
MAP (11/15) • CONVERSATION: THROUGH
THE LENS — Documentary photographer
Daniella Zalcman discusses her series
on Native Americans who are pushing
back against racial stereotypes (11/27) •
UNCOVERING GALILEE: NEW DISCOVERIES
IN THE HOLY LAND — Archaeologist
Jodi Magness shares what has been
found during a recent dig of a monu-
mental 5th century synagogue (11/29) •
CONVERSATION: GETTING THE STORY — A
discussion of the thrills and challenges in
putting together the world’s best-known
magazine as told by its Editor in Chief
Susan Goldberg and other (12/4)
NATIONAL ZOO
3001 Connecticut Ave. NW.
202-633-4800
nationalzoo.si.edu
ZOOFIESTA — Celebrating Hispanic
Heritage Month through talks, feedings
and demonstrations highlighting animals
including Andean bears, sloths, golden
lion tamarins, and Panamanian golden
frogs (9/23) • CONSERVATION DISCOVERY
DAY — The only time each year the zoo’s
unique breeding and research facility is
open to the public (10/6, Smithsonian
Conservation Biology Institute in Front
Royal) • BOO AT THE ZOO — More than
40 treat stations, animal demonstrations,
keeper chats and decorated trails (10/19-
21) • NIGHT OF THE LIVING ZOO — Friends
of the National Zoo’s annual adults-only
Halloween party (10/26) • ZOOLIGHTS
(11/23-1/1) • BREWLIGHTS — FONZ’s hop-
piest holiday event, a ticketed microbrew
and craft beer brouhaha (11/29)
REEL AFFIRMATIONS
202-682-2245
thedccenter.org/reelaffirmations
D.C.’s International LGBTQ Film Festival
and Monthly Film Series. RA XTRA: MAN
MADE — Filmmaker T Cooper profiles
four contestants at Trans FitCon, the
world’s only transgender bodybuild-
ing competition (9/28, HRC Equality
Center, 1640 Rhode Island Ave. NW)
• RA XTRA: THE BREEDING — An erotic
thriller from Daniel Armando about a
young artist whose taboo fetish leads to
life-altering consequences (10/19, HRC)
• 25TH ANNUAL D.C.’S INTERNATIONAL
LGBTQ FILM FESTIVAL — An array of new
short, feature-length, and documentary
films screen along with panel discussions,
filmmaker Q&As, and parties celebrating
film and this festival’s silver anniversary
(11/1-4, GALA’s Tivoli Theatre, 1333 14th
St. NW) • RA XTRA: BUDDIES — A World
AIDS Day screening of Arthur J. Bressan
Jr.’s gay indie classic from 1985, a dev-
astating two-hander about a gay yuppie
who volunteers to help an AIDS patient
abandoned by his friends and lovers (12/6,
HRC)
SIXTH & I HISTORIC SYNAGOGUE
600 I St. NW
202-408-3100
sixthandi.org
SALLY FIELD — the memoir In Pieces, in
conversation with Ari Shapiro (9/20) •
REBECCA TRAISTER — Good and Mad: The
Revolutionary Power of Women’s Anger
(10/3) • GARY SHTEYNGART — Lake Success
(10/9) • MIKE BRZEZINSKI — Know Your
Value: Women, Money, and Getting What
You’re Worth (10/11) • JULIÁN CASTRO —
An Unlikely Journey: Waking Up from My
American Dream, in conversation with
Jonathan Allen (10/15) • DORIS KEARNS
GOODWIN — Leadership (10/18) • YOTAM
OTTOLENGHI — Ottolenghi Simple, in
conversation with Sally Swift (10/21) •
BETCHES: ALEEN KUPERMAN, SAMANTHA
FISHBEIN, AND JORDANA ABRAHAM —
When’s Happy Hour? Work Hard So You
Can Hardly Work (10/25) • PETER SEGAL
— The Incomplete Book of Running (10/29)
• UPRIGHT CITIZENS BRIGADE TOURING
COMPANY (11/3) • LIANE MORIARTY
— Nine Perfect Strangers (11/7) • ZACK
AKERS, SKIP BRONKIE, AND COTE SMITH
— Limetown (11/14)
SMITHSONIAN FOOD HISTORY WEEKEND
National Museum of American History
1400 Constitution Ave. NW
202-633-1000
americanhistory.si.edu/events/food-his-
tory-weekend
Food world celebrities expected at the
fourth annual event are chef/TV per-
sonalities BOBBY FLAY, AARΌN SÁNCHEZ,
and MANEET CHAUHAN, James Beard
SEPTEMBER 13, 2018 • METROWEEKLY
Award-winning chefs SUE MILLIKEN,
SUSAN FENIGER, TRACI DES JARDINS, and
EDOUARDO JORDAN, and authors SANDRA
A. GUTIERREZ (The New Southern-Latino
Table), CORBY KUMMER (The Pleasures
of Slow Food), and MICHAEL W. TWITTY
(The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through
African-American Culinary History in the
Old South). This year’s theme is “Regions
Reimagined,” with a focus on explor-
ing the evolving concept of region and
local connections. BLACK TIE GALA —
Food, drinks, and presentation of the 4th
Annual Julia Child Award to Sue Milliken
and Susan Feniger of L.A.’s Border Grill
(11/1) • ROUNDTABLES — A free day-long
symposium about the migration of people
and food throughout American history
with leading researchers, experts, and
thinkers (11/2) • FESTIVAL — A day of free
activities around the museum, from book
signings to film screenings to demos —
though no tastings — led by chefs/restau-
rateurs Aarόn Sánchez, Maneet Chauhan,
Edouardo Jordan, Janice Marshall, and
Sean Sherman of Minneapolis (11/3)
• LAST CALL — Toasting the history of
American brewing (11/3)
SMYAL
410 7th St. SE
202-546-5940
smyal.org
NATIONAL COMING OUT DAY DANCE — A
free dance party for those aged 13 to
24, with DJ Honey and performances
by SMYAL youth, plus food and drink;
co-presented by Capitol Pride Alliance,
Whitman-Walker Health, SafeSpace
NOVA, and the Gay GenOUT LGBTQ
Youth Chorus (10/12, Eastern Market
North Hall, 225 7th St. SE) • ANNUAL
FALL BRUNCH — SMYAL’s premiere event
celebrates community leaders as well as
the organization’s youth in an inspira-
tional awards-focused program with an
open-bar cocktail reception, a silent auc-
tion, and a three-course brunch (10/14,
Marriott Marquis, 901 Massachusetts
Ave. NW)
SOLID STATE BOOKS
600 H St. NE
202-897-4201
solidstatebooksdc.com
GAYLE F. WARD — Shout, Sister, Shout! The
Untold Story of Rock and Roll Trailblazer
Sister Rosetta Tharpe (9/16) • THE INNER
LOOP: AMINATTA FORNA — Happiness, as
part of a literary reading series program
with nine locale writers (9/18) • BARBARA
ADAMS — Women, Minorities, and Other
Extraordinary People: The New Path for
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Workforce Diversity, in conversation
with Ambassador Ruth A. Davis (9/22)
• MICK CORNETT — The Next American
City: The Big Promise of Our Midsize
Metros (9/24) • JENNIFER BAKER, JASON
REYNOLDS, AND HASANTHIKA SIRISENA —
Everyday People: The Color of Life (9/26)
• MAURICE JACKSON, BLAIR RUBLE, AND
BRIDGET ARNWINE — DC Jazz: Stories of
Jazz Music in Washington, DC (9/29) •
STORYTIME WITH LIBBY BABBOT KLEIN —
Baby Feminists (10/6) • ANTONIA FELIX
— Elizabeth Warren: Her Fight. Her Work.
Her Life. (10/11) • JUSTICE & INJUSTICE:
MARY HARTNETT AND DAN NORLAND — A
wide-ranging conversation centered on
the Supreme Court between a co-author
of Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s My Own Words
and author of Witnesses of the Unseen:
Seven Years in Guantanamo (10/12)
STORY DISTRICT
storydistrict.org
MIXTAPE VOLUME 4 — A remix of fan
favorites (9/24, Union Stage) • HOWL:
STORIES ABOUT PRIMAL INSTINCTS (10/9,
Black Cat) • CAT-HEADED BABY: STORIES
ABOUT SUPERSTITIONS, HOAXES, OR
STRANGE BELIEFS (11/13, Black Cat) •
SURPRISE! STORIES ABOUT THINGS YOU
WEREN’T EXPECTING (12/11, Black Cat)
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STRATHMORE
5301 Tuckerman Lane
North Bethesda, Md.
301-581-5100
strathmore.org
THE FUN SHOW WITH CAT & NAT (9/21,
Music Center) • COLIN MOCHRIE & BRAD
SHERWOOD — “Scared Scriptless” (10/5,
Music Center) • EVE ENSLER & ANNE
LAMOTT — The Vagina Monologues author/
performer is joined by essayist/author
of Hallelujah Anyway, Rediscovering
Mercy for a wide-ranging conversation
on the provocative issues that they’ve
each made their stock in trade, and more
(10/21, Music Center) • INA GARTEN —
The culinary celebrity will discuss her
newest cookbook Cook Like a Pro as well
as other adventures and pursuits (11/1,
Music Center) • MUSEUM SHOP HOLIDAY
MARKET — Eighteen of the area’s best
museum gift shops come to Strathmore
for this annual benefit, a treasure for holi-
day gift ideas (11/8-11, Mansion) • WANDA
SYKES (11/3, Music Center)
WARNER THEATRE
513 13th St. NW
202-397-SEAT
warnertheatre.com
POP-UP MAGAZINE: A NIGHT OF LIVE
STORIES — Contributors include Ann
Friedman, Emily Dreyfuss, Rowan
Jacobsen, Marc Bamuthi Joseph, and the
Magik*Magik Orchestra (9/25) • AC2:
AN INTIMATE EVENING WITH ANDERSON
COOPER & ANDY COHEN (9/29) • LOLITA
SNIPES’ HEAD OVER HEELS — An inspi-
rational comedy starring Angie Stone,
Tamika Scott, Trina Braxton, Q Parker,
William Jackson, Tony Tone, and Big Que
(10/5-6) • CHRIS D’ELIA (10/11) • MARIA
BAMFORD (10/120 • WHOSE LIVE ANYWAY?
— With Jeff B. Davis, Joel Murray,
Ryan Stiles, and Greg Proops (10/13) •
EBI (10/20) • JE’CARYOUS AND SNOOP:
REDEMPTION OF A DOGG — A Stage Play
starring Snoop Dogg & Tamar Braxton
(11/9-11) • BOB WEIR AND WOLF BROS
(11/12) • TASHA COBBS LEONARD — The
Revival Tour (11/15)
For more Fall Arts Preview Above &
Beyond listings, visit metroweekly.com.
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ate than cunning in the obvious effort

Desperate Housewife
to spin a shocking mystery from Emily’s
unknown past. A cool customer like Em
might say the movie’s simply trying too
hard to impress, with its zig-zagging plot
The cheeky thriller A Simple Favor twists itself into knots trying turns and jaunty French pop soundtrack.
desperately to outsmart the audience. By André Hereford The proceedings hit peak preciousness
with a third-act tête-à-tête conducted over

T
wisecracks and cocktails in a cemetery. It’s
HE TWISTS AND TURNS OF BIG LITTLE LIES IN THE THRILLER A SIMPLE all too cutesy by the end, and the solution
Favor ( ) eventually lead it off a cliff. But before the Gone Girl clone to the mystery not satisfying enough to
crashes into self-parody, its cast and glam noir looks generate a joie de vivre that warrant the laboriously circuitous trail.
is quite infectious. Kendrick is chipper fun as the deter-
Anna Kendrick is perky to the max as down-to-earth single mom and passionate mined, self-deprecating Stephanie, who
food and crafts vlogger Stephanie Smothers. Recently widowed and new to town, also occasionally lets loose a sliver of the
Stephanie is gratified to see her second-grader Miles (Joshua Satine) become fast darkness underlining her good cheer. She
friends with a boy in his class, Nicky (Ian Ho). And she’s overjoyed when Nicky’s and Lively both get into the groove of
impeccably glamorous and beautiful mom Emily (Blake Lively) somehow deigns to the film’s winking tone, although neither
befriend a mousy, regular gal like her. really sells the segue into Hitchcockian
At the boys’ private school in this gossipy Connecticut town, Emily, a Porsche- murderousness.
driving, New York City fashion publicist, is the mom all the other moms love to envy Lively well embodies the golden, ami-
and obsess over. So, of course, Stephanie is thrilled to set down her cookie sheets to able alpha that the script calls for, but she
kick back and clink martinis with the coolest blonde in town. She’s the coolest mom, does little to suggest the depths of pain
with the hottest husband, Sean, a stalled novelist whom Emily can’t keep her hands and deviousness driving the enigmatic
off of — especially since he’s played by box office hunk of the summer Henry Golding Emily. The full scope of Emily’s dysfunc-
(Crazy Rich Asians). tion just doesn’t resonate from Lively’s
Despite the couple’s luxe life and flagrant displays of affection, Emily drops plenty of performance. Golding, the unsteady third
hints that all’s not wine and roses for her and her handsome hubby. Then, one day, she leg of this emotional triangle, is not at
asks Stephanie the simple favor of picking up Nicky at school, and promptly disappears all compelling, although he certainly is
off the face of the planet. Stephanie immediately gets to sleuthing, and Kendrick is just swoon-worthy eye candy. Lushly attired
the right actor to convey the earnest concern that propels the character to chase down by costume designer Renee Ehrlich Kalfus,
every clue. But those clues eventually lead Stephanie, and the film, down a dark tunnel he and Lively look like movie stars every
of dead-end turns. step of the way.
Directed by Paul Feig (Bridesmaids) with a gleeful sense of mischief, the film, based Fortunately, there are delights other
on the novel by Darcey Bell, piles revelations upon twists upon double-crosses, but than just the vicarious thrills of living and
never comes up with anything truly surprising. The plotting appears more desper- continues on page 94

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DANIE DEGRASSE
Music

Sivan

CALL IT A DEBUT, or call it a comeback,

Queer Pop Princes

most of us are probably just happy to
have Jake Shears back. With his instantly
recognizable vocals, not to mention the
sheer force of personality Shears brought
Troye Sivan and Jake Shears embrace sexuality and self-love to Scissor Sisters, his first solo record Jake
on a standout sophomore album and a Shears (HHHHH) was probably never
fantastic solo debut. By Sean Maunier going to escape comparison with his for-
mer band. The album does draw on a lot

I
of familiar energy and camp, but with the
N HIS 2013 COMING-OUT VIDEO, TROYE SIVAN EXPRESSED A FEELING
focus now on Shears himself, he is more
that would end up guiding his career. Reacting to the mantra, “It Gets Better,”
able to craft songs in his own image.
Sivan retorted that we shouldn’t necessarily have to wait for things to get better
During his time with Scissor Sisters,
— they can be great right here and now. His second album Bloom (HHHHH) exists in
Shears became a master at packaging a
a world where coming out is an afterthought, and gay love in particular is free, joyful
chaotic mix of influences into songs that
and, above all, celebrated.
were incredibly catchy, usually campy, and
Sivan is a talented artist who obviously deserves recognition for more than the fact
often overtly, unapologetically queer. The
that he is a gay pop star, but he has straightforwardly and openly centred his sexuality
angst-saturated, stadium-sized lead single
on this record, making his queerness the focal point of the love songs on the album. The
“Creep City” is the most infectious track
catchy slow burn “Seventeen” is a bold choice of an album opener, detailing a hookup
of the album and can easily stand along-
with an older man told from Sivan’s perspective. In the lyrics, the singer bluntly recalls
side any of Scissor Sisters’ hits. “S.O.B.”
the tension between his active pursuit and the way he was taken advantage of in ret-
(“sex on the brain”) and “Clothes Off” are
rospect.
saturated with a campy, yet visceral sexu-
Sivan gives us other moments of pathos on tracks like “The Good Side,” “Postcard,”
ality that recalls Night Work in its upfront,
and “Animal,” which slow down the pop beats to create a more melancholy atmosphere.
in-your-face homoeroticism.
The emotion comes across as honest and they work well for what they are, but none of
Make no mistake though — this album
them are quite as affecting and visceral as the opener. Bloom is instead at its strongest
is much more than a Scissor Sisters redux.
when he is leaning into the more joyful sides of the queer experience, as he does on
Going solo gives Shears more room to draw
the title track “Bloom,” a catchy, understated celebration of bottoming. Another strong
on personal themes. One of the highlights
track, “Dance to This,” has him hold his own alongside Ariana Grande. The overlooked
of the album is “Big Bushy Mustache,” a
highlight of the album might just be “Plum,” a catchy track full of enough thinly-veiled
self-image anthem with a clear message:
fruit metaphors to make anyone who saw Call Me By Your Name blush.
Jake Shears loves his facial hair, and he
If Troye Sivan’s first record can be seen as his timid step outside of the closet, then
wants you to love yours, too. Self love is
this one gleefully takes a sledgehammer to it. Bloom dares to imagine a world where
a recurring theme of the album, usually
the closet need not exist, where queer love and all its aspects can be embraced with joy
coming through in the form of a cocky
and enthusiasm.

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RAPHAEL CHATELAIN

swagger, albeit one that is balanced out by pointed moments of

vulnerability. “Sad Song Backwards” throws a bit of Americana
into the chaotic mosaic of musical influences the album borrows
from, resulting in an upbeat breakup ballad that riffs on the ear-
nest melodrama that saturates Top 40 country.
The proud flamboyance and camp of the album is interwoven
with moments of clarity and sincerity as well. The overwhelm-
ing feeling of Jake Shears is one of picking up and moving for-
ward. It closes out on the steady, confident “Mississippi Delta,”
a love letter of sorts to his adopted home of New Orleans, where
he moved after his 2015 split from his long-term partner. There
is an unmistakable sense that he has found himself here, and the
album owes much to his rediscovered sense of self. The resulting
ego trip is well worth tagging along for. l

Bloom and Jake Shears are both out now and available to buy on Amazon.com and iTunes, and on streaming services.

continued on page 91
dressing like Emily and Sean. Kendrick’s suburban Nancy Drew
shares a convincing onscreen rapport with her fashionable new
pal that crucially relays Steph and Em’s fresh but deeply-felt
friendship. Alas, their co-starring heat is nowhere near potent
enough to relay real desire in the lukewarm lip-lock the ladies
share at one point, but desire takes a backseat here to wit. And
the supporting cast — which includes Andrew Rannells as the
bitchiest gossip among the school’s catty parents, and Jean
Smart as Emily’s boozy mother — provides much of the zest and
color that’s missing from the mystery.
At various stages, Stephanie, Emily, and Sean all prove to be unre-
liable narrators of their secrets, in a move intended to stir the per-
plexing plot. Instead, the story plays like an outlandish tall tale being
spun by a passable fibber who’s just making it up as they go along.
Struggling to supply a suspenseful mystery that can live up to the
build-up of twists, A Simple Favor stumbles and falls before reaching
the finish line. It’s a high-revving race in circles that might amuse,
and may muss your hair a bit, but won’t really take you very far. l

A Simple Favor is rated R, and opens in theaters everywhere September 14. Visit fandango.com.

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 Stage
interactions now seem labored, the dia-
logue stilted, the monologues contrived.
It may allow Jacobs-Jenkins to surface his
messaging, but continuity is lost. Neither
director Kip Fagan nor the actors, who
brings such music to the first act, can sur-
mount this hurdle, as committed as they
may be.
These issues aside, a great cast makes
for plenty of entertaining and compelling
moments. Conrad Schott absolutely shines
for his nuanced-to-perfection Dean (even
if he struggles a bit with his post-trau-
matic version) and his brief but clever-
ly-drawn IT guy Devin. Also showing his
chops in three very different characters is
Justin Weaks, delivering some remarkable
subtlety in just a few lines of dialogue.
Oozing with comedy is Megan Graves’
Ani, who is at once guileless and ironic.
Convincing and subtly amusing is Ahmad
Kamal as Lorin, the beleaguered worker
TESSA CASTRACANE

down the hall. He, of everyone, does the

best with the post-traumatic Lorin of the
second act.
More problematic is Eunice Hong as
Kendra, the most scathing of the office-
mates. This is a challenging role because

Madhouses
Kendra must drive much of the comedy
but also the lion’s share of Jacobs-Jenkins’
messaging on the toxic workplace. Hong
almost gets it right, but the dance between
Woolly puts forth a vicious comedy of office politics, while Folger being funny and being damaging never
offers stunningly unique version of Macbeth. By Kate Wingfield quite works. Still, she chews through her
fast and furious patter with some stun-

T
ning dexterity. As Gloria, Alyssa Wilmoth
HERE IS A PROVOCATIVE KIND OF COMMENT HUMMING AROUND Keegan is similarly caught between play-
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ Gloria (HHHHH), a play with a premise that might ing it large enough to forward the arc ver-
have been, as they say, ripped from the headlines. The controversy is not in his sus finding authenticity. Ultimately — and
assumption that our casually brutal communities (online, in class, at work) — in which this rests with Jacobs-Jenkins’ choice to
alpha snark and savvy decide who “belongs” and who doesn’t — put pressure on the keep her peripheral — the former wins
psychologically fragile. It is his subtler suggestion that in breeding and feeding this cul- and her woman ends up presenting more
ture of self-obsessed one-upmanship, we are far more deeply entwined in the violence like a plot-mover, and a potted vision of
erupting in our communities than we realize or would like to believe. the alienated and disturbed.
Whether one agrees wholly with Jacobs-Jenkins or not, his delivery is, as always, In her Nan, the pretend-nice, ruthless
clever, devious, and unrelenting, in equal measures. Luring us in with a very funny take boss most of us have encountered in one
on a typical office of perpetually disgruntled, competitive and/or self-involved minions, form or another, Keegan shows her versa-
Jacobs-Jenkins pulls the rug out and then returns for a second act in which he explores tility in capturing this pampered woman.
his more damning points. If his people originally seemed harmlessly charmless, now, in But the Starbucks monologue given to
the aftermath of tragedy, they reveal something deep and insidious: the me-first ethos her by Jacobs-Jenkins is symptomatic of
has not just survived the unimaginable, it has been fed by it. everything in the second act: as meaning-
But as important the subject and as interesting Jacobs-Jenkins’ take, the play must ful as the gist may be, people just don’t talk
nevertheless work — as written and as delivered. Here, the end-result is somewhat like this and the artifice undoes so much of
mixed. what the first act built.
First is Jacobs-Jenkins’ choice to keep it rather too simple. He touches with only the Finally, credit to set designer Misha
broadest brush strokes the reasons for violence. It may be his eagerness to get to the Kachman for a clever kind of intimacy
psychology of the aftermath (and its relation to his characters as a whole), but it feels between employees and audience — and
unconvincing. It’s hard not to reflect that the vast majority of us will endure conniving, respect to Fagan for the care and craft in
bitchy office-mates without snapping. showing the violence through these sets.
The challenges continue with Jacobs-Jenkins’ tonal about-face in the second act. As with any art that touches on topical
With a first act that runs like clockwork with its perfectly-pitched one-liners (at least tragedy, the questions must be: is this
until the violence), the pace of the second feels awkward by comparison. The care-free genuine? Are the choices justified? Even
characters from the first act have all been irrevocably changed, fair enough, but their flawed, the answers here are yes.

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BRITTANY DILIBERTO
IT TURNS OUT THAT 17TH-CENTURY playwrights and
theater companies considered Shakespeare a lot less sacrosanct
than we do today. Indeed, according to experts on the era, the
Bard’s plays were routinely tweaked to meet the entertainment
needs of the day’s audiences. Adapters liberally added music,
songs and new dialogue all with a view to getting “bums on
seats” with some “contemporary” punch.
Delivering one such adaptation — Sir William Davenant’s ver-
sion of Macbeth — is the ever-inventive Folger Theatre under the
imaginative hand of director Robert Richmond. Workshopped
with scholars theatrical and musical, this production of Macbeth
(HHHHH) is something of an exercise in historical authenticity,
but with an eye to keeping it as fun and enthralling for a 21st cen-
tury audience as it might have been to our 17th century cousins.
Thus, assuming their penchant for mannered, gesticulato-
ry acting might be a bit much for two-odd hours, Richmond
manages it with an interesting concept. Setting the play in
London’s Bedlam asylum of 1666, it starts with the inmates
staging Macbeth ostensibly to raise money. As they begin their
play-within-a-play, grand gestures abound, and, for now, such
an agitated style makes sense.
But before this can all get too much, Richmond invokes a bit
of theatrical “magic” that saves the day. Riffing on the old super-
stition that a real murder was once committed during a staging
of the play, his inmates suddenly emerge from their private hells
and begin playing their roles for keeps. If there is something a
tad fuzzy about the transition, the concept is brilliant: once 21st
century restraint takes hold, the new intensity is palpable.
It’s a bold vision and it works on multiple fronts. The crude
draperies of the asylum do double-time to suggest tapestries,
Macbeth runs to September 24 at Folger Theatre, 201 East Capitol Street SE. Tickets are $42 to $79.
Call 202-544-7077 or visit folger.edu.
Gloria runs to September 30 at Woolly Mammoth Theatre, 641 D St. NW. Tickets are $20 to $69.
Call 202-393-3939 or visit woollymammoth.net.
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caves and walls when the authentic action
takes hold. What serves as the dingy, can-
dle-lit dungeon of Bedlam transforms eas-
ily into the cavernous castles of a cold and
wind-swept Scotland.
Working a little less convincingly are a few
of the details added for color but somehow a
tad out of step. The slow-motion scenes of
inmate abuse and the fruitier moments of
lusty rubs belong in an edgier piece, some-
thing with a darker soul — one that doesn’t
feature the returning presence of an adorable
child (a near-universal guarantee that noth-
ing all that bad is going to happen).
Such quibbles would matter less — or
perhaps makes more sense — if the dark
tension inside the man at its center were
fully realized. Unfortunately, although Ian
Merrill Peakes is oh so very good in deliv-
ering his Macbeth, he is never quite great
in revealing his ruined soul. Put another
way, if his portrayal is well-conceived and
intense, it never quite compels — there is
no compulsion to understand what makes
this man tick, nor what makes him fail.
Matters are not helped by Peakes’ tendency
to over-egg his vocalizations and continue
the contrived gesturing long past the transition out of Bedlam. It’s
too much of a good thing and it distracts.
All that said, much is salvaged in the good chemistry between
this Macbeth and Kate Eastwood Norris’ Lady Macbeth. With
Peakes’ modern haircut and Norris’ unapologetic American
accent, they signal (if anachronistically) a believable couple.
More importantly, Norris is powerfully convincing as the hov-
ering, pressuring wife bursting with intelligence and urgency.
Working less well later — and this sits largely with Richmond
— are Macbeth’s emotions towards his (now ailing) wife. One
minute he is grabbing her angrily by the chin (with his new-
found machismo), the next he is giving her a hasty grope (like a
bizarre afterthought), the next he is asking after her with tender-
ness. By the time she succumbs to her madness and he delivers
his heartfelt “brief candle” monologue, it’s all been too much
chopping and changing.
Even with these challenges, the cast delivers plenty of won-
derful moments. Louis Butelli as the warden-turned-Duncan
steals every scene with his fluency and sinister charisma, while
Andhy Mendez offers a sympathetic and quietly compelling
Banquo. Chris Genebach is a powerhouse of energy and emo-
tional commitment (though the louder he gets, the less effec-
tive). And mention must be made of Jeff Keogh who as Seyton
offers much vocal color, and Rafael Sebastian who reveals much
potential in the quivering intensity he brings to his post-trans-
formation Malcolm. The witches (Rachael Montgomery, Emily
Noel, and Ethan Watermeier), given more prominent roles,
bring a memorable cohesion.
Suffice to say: be you scholar, aficionado, or simply up for a
fun night’s theater, this entertains — whatever your century. l
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Well, anyone older than a fifth grader

Underbaked
knows this arrangement can only lead to
misery, and it does. But the shared knowl-
edge that Pedro’s marriage to his true
love’s sister can’t end well is part of what
GALA’s Como Agua para Chocolate lacks a few key ingredients, binds the audience to these characters.
while REP’s Sweeney Todd needed a little longer Tita and Pedro and Elena’s extreme nods
in the oven. By André Hereford to convention and emotion are played
out in grand style, across a landscape

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shaken by a violent revolution, and yet
OVE, SORROW, AND LONGING ARE FOLDED INTO THE PLOT AND INTO Tita’s dilemma comes down to the simple
each delectable dish described in Mexican author Laura Esquivel’s beloved 1989 thwarting of a noble love.
novel Como Agua para Chocolate (English title: Like Water for Chocolate). That Her plight is an oppression of her gen-
bittersweet recipe produced an equally popular film, directed by Esquivel’s ex-husband der, her spirit, and her independence —
Alfonso Arau, and now begets a theatrical adaptation, care of Spanish playwright Garbi but true love cannot be oppressed, the
Losada. Making its U.S. premiere at GALA Hispanic Theatre under the assured direc- story says. Tita pours her thwarted love
tion of Olga Sánchez, Como Agua para Chocolate ( ), performed in Spanish into her food, and manages to change her
with English surtitles, captures the poetry and magical realism that have stirred fans of world that way.
the story’s previous incarnations. Therein lie the story’s other potent
Sánchez and company dive passionately into the multi-generational epic romance, points of connection: food, and the shared
spiced with dashes of narration and fantasy. Employing a keen sense of where to move experiences of preparing and eating a meal,
the actors, and of transitioning the action across time and space, Sánchez, greatly abetted gathering in the kitchen, or around the
by Christopher Annas-Lee’s lighting design, keeps the narrative flowing with grace and family table. Nearly everyone is vulnerable
imagination. Decades pass, but scenic designer Mariana Fernández’s set stays mostly the to the power of those shared experiences,
same, serving faultlessly as the homestead of the familia at the heart of the tale. and the script cleverly exploits that univer-
The family’s matriarch, Mamá Elena (Luz Nicolás), runs their ranch with a steady sal relationship to food, dramatizing how
hand on her rifle, and her eyes pointed towards tradition. Her family’s history dictates it can bring joy or discomfort, pleasure or
that her youngest daughter Tita (Inéz Dominguez del Corral) can never marry, but sadness. Tita’s food contains and expresses
instead must spend her life serving her mother until one of them dies. It’s a raw deal her emotions. Said to have been born cry-
for Tita, who’s already stolen the heart of their neighbor Pedro (Peter Pereyra). He ing, and swept from her mother’s belly on a
declares his love for Tita the very first time they meet. wave of tears, Tita can cry into a casserole,
But tradition rules, and Tita’s bad luck is her older sister Rosaura’s good fortune, and the taste of it will reduce a table full of
as Mamá Elena refuses Pedro’s appeal for Tita’s hand in marriage and forces him to diners to heaving sobs.
take Rosaura (Guadalupe Campos) instead. Pedro dutifully agrees to marry the sister Clearly, there’s magic in Tita’s cooking,
he doesn’t love, reckoning that at least he’ll be nearer to the sister he actually loves. an otherworldly specialness that animates
Perhaps simply breathing the same air will be enough to quench their desire. her cuisine. That spark can’t be located,

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 however, in del Corral’s performance in the role. Her Tita feels
plain, unconfident, comfortable as the object of Pedro’s adora-
tion, but not in command of her own will and desires. Tita’s trial
of deprivation should produce a knowing woman from the inno-
cent girl introduced in the first act, but del Corral only faintly
relays the evolution.
Pereyra does better getting under the skin of Pedro, a love-
sick sap, more or less, who abides by Mamá Elena’s dictates but
retains his dignity. As Elena, Nicolás projects the dignity and
hurt of a nevertheless cruel and selfish mother figure. She almost
single-handedly carries the current of dark history and pain
swirling beneath several generations of this family.
Conveying the bulk of comic relief, Karen Morales mugs and
mews as the family’s excitable maid Chencha. A little of this
Chencha goes a long way. Teresa Yenque finds a truer voice and
rhythm portraying the family’s other housekeeper, the stalwart,
reasonable Nacha. And Yaremis Félix, as Tita’s other sister,
Gertrudis, builds a full-bodied supporting character who aims
for laughs without shooting to kill.
Gertrudis grabs her moments, because this is her story too, as
Sánchez so effectively crafts from the dozen or so disparate plo-
tlines a tightly cohesive portrait of a family (and nation) shaped
by tradition, revolution, sex, food, and magic.
KATIE SIMMONS-BARTH
THE DEMON BARBER ENTERS AUSPICIOUSLY ENOUGH
in REP Stage’s new, punk-lite production of Sweeney Todd:
The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (HHHHH). But it’s his loony
accomplice, Mrs. Lovett, who walks away with the show.
Jade Jones, recently seen onstage rolling around as a munch-
kin in The Wiz at Ford’s, rises to plant her feet firmly in Lovett’s
lace-up boots, giving a superb lead performance. Alert to every
note of Stephen Sondheim’s intricate score, and to each innuen-
do and layer of Hugh Wheeler’s script, Jones is a joy to watch,
whether slinging the “Worst Pies in London,” or dreamily
soaring “By the Sea.” Her Lovett is brassy but not too broad, a
cold-hearted killer, and yet, a warm and loyal partner.
Jones supplies a sardonic sweetness that nicely counters the
hissing bitterness enacted by V. Savoy McIlwain in the title role.
Sweeney Todd, of course, has much to be bitter about, since
he lost his wife and child when he was sent away to prison by
the corrupt Judge Turpin (Nigel Reed). Hellbent on having his
revenge against Turpin and his toady, The Beadle (Benjamin
Lurye), Sweeney nevertheless gets sidetracked by other murder-
ous pursuits, as he and Lovett turn his barber shop into a butcher
Sweeney Todd runs until September 23 at REP Stage, The Horowitz Visual and Performing Arts Center’s Studio Theatre,
10901 Little Patuxent Parkway, Columbia, Maryland. Tickets are $10 to $40. Call 443-518-1500, or visit repstage.org.
Como Agua para Chocolate runs until October 7 at GALA Theatre, 3333 14th St., NW. Tickets are $25 to $48.
Call 202-234-7174 or visit galatheatre.org.
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supply for her meat pie pub.
It’s a bloody gruesome operation, although the production
isn’t, relatively speaking. Director Joseph W. Ritsch opts for
gestures and lighting effects to convey Sweeney’s horrific crimes
and Mrs. Lovett’s ghastly oven. However, either due to timing or
staging, the dreadful things that go on inside their shops rarely
produce the visceral impact of genuine horror.
Similarly, the production’s gestures towards Trump-era com-
mentary — including Turpin’s campaign poster: Make London
Great Again — don’t generate much meaningful interplay with
the text or characters. Turpin does harbor a repulsive affection
for his ward, Johanna (Suzanne Lane), that could be read as
a comment on current events. But Turpin is tawdry enough
as is, without fixating on the first family, and the character’s
multi-faceted villainy is delineated convincingly by Reed. This
Turpin doesn’t do anything noteworthy with the songs, but he
stands out as a portrait of an authoritarian who’s a kinky, con-
trolling creep. On second thought, there may be hope yet for the
Trump comparison.
Politics aside, Sweeney Todd also is at least three parts love
story: Mrs. Lovett’s pining for Sweeney; the romance between
Johanna and the innocent sailor, Anthony Hope (Noah Israel);
and Sweeney’s love for his lost family. The last of these should
drive Sweeney’s thirst for revenge, and presumably, might take
new shape upon his discovery that his daughter lives, and, in
fact, is Turpin’s ward, Johanna. But McIlwain, so good at sug-
gesting Sweeney’s seething contempt for those responsible for
the injustices he’s suffered, doesn’t get across how this father’s
bloodlust might be changed by paternal affection. His anger,
though justified, feels the same from beginning to end.
Lane gets across even less as the lovelorn waif Johanna. She
sings beautifully, but doesn’t connect the music to a distinct
personality for this young woman, whose tumultuous past
and present could fill a collection of Brontë novels. Yet, Lane’s
Johanna enunciates more powerfully than she emotes, leaving
little purchase to grasp why Anthony, or Turpin, might find her
so enchanting.
As her intrepid beau, Israel’s crooning is unsteady, but his
performance captures the contrast between the bright-eyed
romantic Anthony and the utter corruption of his surroundings.
Striking another intriguing contrast to the dark and wounded
is John Taos Foster as Tobias Ragg, the not-so-innocent young
man who finds himself waiting tables for Mrs. Lovett. Ragg adds
a great voice and humor to the ensemble, along with Lurye’s
golden-throated cad Beadle, and the vivacious Justine Icy Moral,
a solid team player in a number of roles.
Altogether, this ensemble is greater than the sum of its parts,
and so too might be the production. Director Ritsch also choreo-
graphed the brief dancing, designed the cavernous East London
set, and even contributed to the prop design, so deserves credit
for galvanizing his cast and crew behind a vision for Sweeney
Todd as a rib-tickling song-and-dance about avenging injustice.
Credit also is due to musical director Stacey Antoine, for the live-
ly interpretation of the score. But kudos especially to Jade Jones,
for packaging the best of her talents and her collaborators’ input
into such a brilliant, storytelling performance. l
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Scene Mixtape’s 10th Anniversary and Finale at U-Hall
Saturday, September 8 Photography by Ward Morrison / See and purchase more photos
from this event at www.metroweekly.com/scene

DrinksDragDJsEtc... till 9pm • Special Late Friday, Harness and Jock Party, till 9pm • Special Late
Night menu till 11pm • 10pm-close • Featuring Night menu till 2am • Visit
Visit pitchersbardc.com September 14 DJ Ryan Doubleyou • pitchersbardc.com
No Cover
Thursday, GREEN LANTERN
Happy Hour, 4-9pm
SHAW’S TAVERN 9 1/2 SHAW’S TAVERN
September 13 • Shirtless Thursday,
Happy Hour, 4-7pm • $3
Miller Lite, $4 Blue Moon,
Open at 5pm • Happy
Hour: 2 for 1 on any drink,
NELLIE’S SPORTS BAR
Open 3pm • Beat the
Happy Hour, 4-7pm • $3
Miller Lite, $4 Blue Moon,
10-11pm • Men in
$5 House Wines, $5 Rail 5-9pm • Friday Night Clock Happy Hour — $2 $5 House Wines, $5 Rail
9 1/2 Underwear Drink Free,
Drinks • Half-Priced Pizzas Videos, 9:30pm • Rotating (5-6pm), $3 (6-7pm), $4 Drinks • Half-Priced Pizzas
Happy Hour: 2 for 1 on any 12-12:30am • DJs
and Select Appetizers • All DJs • Expanded craft beer (7-8pm) • Buckets of Beer, and Select Appetizers
drink, 5-9pm • Multiple BacK2bACk
You Can Eat Ribs, 5-10pm, selection • No Cover $15 • Weekend Kickoff
TVs showing movies,
$24.95 • $4 Corona and Dance Party, with Nellie’s TRADE
shows, sports • Expanded NELLIE’S SPORTS BAR
Heineken all night A LEAGUE OF HER OWN DJs spinning bubbly pop Doors open 5pm • Huge
craft beer selection • Beat the Clock Happy Hour
2319 18th St. NW music all night Happy Hour: Any drink
Music videos featuring — $2 (5-6pm), $3 (6-7pm),
TRADE Doors open, 5pm-3am • normally served in a cock-
DJ Wess $4 (7-8pm) • $15 Buckets
Doors open 5pm • Huge Happy Hour: $2 off every- NUMBER NINE tail glass served in a huge
of Beer all night • Sports
Happy Hour: Any drink thing until 9pm • Video Open 5pm • Happy Hour: glass for the same price,
A LEAGUE OF HER OWN Leagues Night
normally served in a cock- Games • Live televised 2 for 1 on any drink, 5-9pm 5-10pm • Beer and wine
2319 18th St. NW
tail glass served in a huge sports • No Cover • Friday Night only $4 • Otter Happy
Doors open, 5pm-2am • NUMBER NINE
glass for the same price, Piano with Chris, 7:30pm Hour, 5-11pm
Happy Hour: $2 off every- Happy Hour: 2 for 1 on any
5-10pm • Beer and wine FREDDIE’S BEACH BAR
thing until 9pm • Video drink, 5-9pm • No Cover
only $4 Crazy Hour, 4-8pm • PITCHERS ZIEGFELD’S/SECRETS
Games • Live televised
Karaoke, 9pm 2317 18th St. NW Men of Secrets, 9pm •
sports PITCHERS
ZIEGFELD’S/SECRETS Open 5pm-3am • Happy Guest dancers • Rotating
2317 18th St. NW
All male, nude dancers • GREEN LANTERN Hour: $2 off everything DJs • Kristina Kelly’s Diva
FREDDIE’S BEACH BAR Open 5pm-2am • Happy
Open Dancers Audition • Happy Hour, 4-9pm • $3 until 9pm • Video Games Fev-ah Drag Show • Doors
Crazy Hour, 4-8pm • Hour: $2 off everything
Urban House Music by DJ Rail and Domestic • Free • Foosball • Live televised at 9pm, Shows at 11:30pm
Karaoke, 9pm until 9pm • Video Games
Tim-e • 9pm • Cover 21+ Pizza, 7-9pm • $5 Svedka, sports • Full dining menu and 1:45am • DJ Don T. in
• Foosball • Live televised
all flavors all night long Ziegfeld’s • Cover 21+
sports • Full dining menu
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Saturday, GREEN LANTERN
Happy Hour, 4-9pm • $5
September 15 Bacardi, all flavors, all
night long • The Bear
NIGHTLIFE HIGHLIGHTS
DEEP SUGAR’S 15TH
ANNIVERSARY TOUR
In addition to her original
singing career and a roster of
club hits, including the late-
’90s Top 10 pop hit “Free,”
Baltimore-native Ultra Naté
is known more and more as a
prominent DJ, due in part to
her regular, high-profile gigs
in the Summer house haunt
of Ibiza. In her homebase as
well as in D.C., she’s known
for this underground soul-
ful house party that draws a
mixed crowd, in all the right
ways. This Friday, Sept. 14,
Nate and her partner-in-
Deep Sugar Lisa Moody
launch a multi-city tour to
celebrate the party’s first 15
years from the D.C. nightclub

MARCO CERRONE
9 1/2 Cave: Retro to Electro
Happy Hour: 2 for 1 on any Music, 9pm-close •
they refer to as their home
drink, 2-9pm • $5 Absolut Featuring DJ Popperz • away from home. Mookie
and $5 Bulleit Bourbon, No Cover Brock is warm-up DJ. Friday,
9pm-close • Expanded
craft beer selection • NELLIE’S SPORTS BAR Sept. 14, starting at 9 p.m. U
Ultra Naté
No Cover Drag Brunch, hosted Street Music Hall, 1115A U
by Chanel Devereaux, St. NW. Tickets are $10. Call 202-588-1880 or visit ustreetmusichall.com.
A LEAGUE OF HER OWN 10:30am-12:30pm and
2319 18th St. NW 1-3pm • Tickets on sale
Doors open, 2pm-3am •
Video Games • Live tele-
at nelliessportsbar.com
• House Rail Drinks, Zing
DRINK COMPANY: GWAR PUB
vised sports Zang Bloody Marys, Nellie With the threat of a lawsuit at the eleventh hour, Warner Bros. last month
Beer and Mimosas, $4, forced Derek Brown, Angie Fetherston, and fellow Drink-ers to cancel the
FREDDIE’S BEACH BAR 11am-3am • Buckets of
Saturday Breakfast Buffet, Beer, $15 • Guest DJs opening of their immersive tribute to the animated TV series Rick and Morty
10am-3pm • $14.99 with that they had spent the summer assembling. As a result, two of the three small
one glass of champagne NUMBER NINE
or coffee, soda or juice •
connected spaces in the Drink Company’s Shaw pop-up bar, or PUB, remain
Doors open 2pm • Happy
Additional champagne $2 Hour: 2 for 1 on any drink, dark until the November relaunch of the popular holiday-themed Miracle on
per glass • World Tavern 2-9pm • $5 Absolut and $5 7th Street extravaganza. But Richmond’s GWAR has been tapped to lift spirits
Poker Tournament, 1-3pm Bulleit Bourbon, 9pm-close
• Crazy Hour, 4-8pm • • THIRSTY, featuring DJ
in the complex’s third bar, decked out with outrageous stage props and cos-
Freddie’s Follies Drag Chord Bezerra, 9:30pm tumes in a 34-year retrospective of the heavy metal heads. One of his favorite
Show, hosted by Miss bands, Brown describes GWAR as a “funnier KISS, on steroids, during a WWE
Destiny B. Childs, 8-10pm
• Karaoke, 10pm-close stage show peppered with intergalactic horror themes and a little Damien
Hirst.” PUB highlights include a 20-foot World Maggot, an intergalactic battle
scene, a hall of blood (paying homage to the gallons of synthetic blood spurted
at every show), and a mobile of GWAR’s interplanetary journey. Band-related
memorabilia will be for sale, such as a limited-edition Hail Oderus Tiki Mug —
from which patrons drink the GWAR-inspired cocktail Oderus Eternal, green
chile-flavored vodka mixed with manzanilla, grapefruit, and club soda ($12,
or $52 with the mug). Meanwhile, rosé meets Strawberry Campari and Blanc
Vermouth with a splash of soda in If You Want Blood (You Got It) ($12), the
bloodiest punch on a menu of 18 specialty concoctions, including four “Parting
Shots” ($6) and two “Spirit Free” juice blends ($7). Also on hand are a few beer
and wine selections, and snack packages of Combos, Pirate’s Booty, Gushers,
and Twinkies. Daily from 5 p.m. to 12:30 a.m. (until 1:30 a.m. on Fridays and
Saturdays). Runs to Oct. 31. Drink Company, 1839 7th St. NW. Call 202-316-
9396 or visit popupbardc.com.

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 PITCHERS Slash • Featuring JaxKnife A LEAGUE OF HER OWN Beer and Mimosas, $4, $5 House Wines, $5 Rail craft beer selection •
2317 18th St. NW Complex, Salvadora Dali, 2319 18th St. NW 11am-1am • Buckets of Drinks • Half-Priced Pizzas No Cover
Open Noon-3am • Video and Jane Saw • Music by Doors open, 2pm-12am • Beer, $15 • Guest DJs and Select Appetizers
Games • Foosball • Live The Barber Streisand $4 Smirnoff and Domestic • Dinner-n-Drag, with FREDDIE’S BEACH BAR
televised sports • Full Cans • Video Games • NUMBER NINE Miss Kristina Kelly, 8pm Crazy Hour, 4-8pm •
dining menu till 9pm • ZIEGFELD’S/SECRETS Live televised sports Happy Hour: 2 for 1 on • For reservations, email Singles Night • Half-Priced
Special Late Night menu Men of Secrets, 9pm-4am any drink, 2-9pm • $5 shawsdinnerdragshow@ Pasta Dishes • Poker Night
till 2am • Visit pitchers- • Guest dancers • Ladies FREDDIE’S BEACH BAR Absolut and $5 Bulleit gmail.com — 7pm and 9pm games •
bardc.com of Illusion Drag Show Champagne Brunch Buffet, Bourbon, 9pm-close • Pop Karaoke, 9pm
with host Ella Fitzgerald 10am-3pm • $24.99 with Goes the World with Wes TRADE
SHAW’S TAVERN • Doors at 9pm, Shows four glasses of champagne Della Volla at 9:30pm • Doors open 2pm • Huge GREEN LANTERN
Brunch with $15 at 11:30pm and 1:45am or mimosas, 1 Bloody No Cover Happy Hour: Any drink Happy Hour, 4-9pm •
Bottomless Mimosas, • DJ Don T. in Ziegfeld’s Mary, or coffee, soda or normally served in a cock- $3 rail cocktails and
10am-3pm • Happy Hour, • DJ Steve Henderson in juice • Crazy Hour, 4-8pm PITCHERS tail glass served in a huge domestic beers all night
5-7pm • $3 Miller Lite, Secrets • Cover 21+ • Karaoke, 9pm-close 2317 18th St. NW glass for the same price, long • Singing with the
$4 Blue Moon, $5 House Open Noon-2am • $4 2-10pm • Beer and wine Sisters: Open Mic Karaoke
Wines, $5 Rail Drinks • GREEN LANTERN Smirnoff, includes flavored, only $4 Night with the Sisters
Half-Priced Pizzas and Happy Hour, 4-9pm • $4 Coors Light or $4 Miller of Perpetual Indulgence,
Select Appetizers
Sunday, Karaoke with Kevin down-
stairs, 9:30pm-close
Lites, 2-9pm • Video
Games • Foosball • Live
9:30pm-close
September 16
TRADE
Doors open 2pm • Huge NELLIE’S SPORTS BAR
televised sports • Full din-
ing menu till 9pm • Visit
Monday, NELLIE’S SPORTS BAR
Beat the Clock Happy Hour
Happy Hour: Any drink
9 1/2
Happy Hour: 2 for 1 on any
Drag Brunch, hosted pitchersbardc.com September 17 — $2 (5-6pm), $3 (6-7pm),
normally served in a by Chanel Devereaux, $4 (7-8pm) • Buckets of
drink, 2-9pm • $5 Absolut Beer, $15 • Half-Priced
cocktail glass served in a 10:30am-12:30pm and SHAW’S TAVERN 9 1/2
and $5 Bulleit Bourbon, Burgers • Paint Nite, 7pm
huge glass for the same 1-3pm • Tickets on sale Brunch with Bottomless Happy Hour: 2 for 1 on any
9pm-close • Multiple TVs • PokerFace Poker, 8pm •
price, 2-10pm • Beer and at nelliessportsbar.com Mimosas, 10am-3pm • drink, 5-9pm • Multiple
showing movies, shows, Dart Boards • Ping Pong
wine only $4 • Gay Bash, • House Rail Drinks, Zing Happy Hour, 5-7pm • $3 TVs showing movies,
sports • Expanded craft Madness, featuring 2 Ping-
10pm-close • An alterna- Zang Bloody Marys, Nellie Miller Lite, $4 Blue Moon, shows, sports • Expanded
beer selection • No Cover Pong Tables
tive dance party and drag
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NUMBER NINE
Happy Hour: 2 for 1 on any
drink, 5-9pm • No Cover
SHAW’S TAVERN
Happy Hour, 4-7pm • $3
Miller Lite, $4 Blue Moon,
$5 House Wines, $5 Rail
Drinks • Half-Priced Pizzas
and Select Appetizers •
Shaw ’Nuff Trivia, with
Jeremy, 7:30pm
TRADE
Doors open 5pm • Huge
Happy Hour: Any drink
normally served in a cock-
tail glass served in a huge
glass for the same price,
5-10pm • Beer and wine
only $4
Tuesday, NELLIE’S SPORTS BAR
Beat the Clock Happy Hour
September 18 — $2 (5-6pm), $3 (6-7pm),
$4 (7-8pm) • Buckets of
9 1/2 Beer $15 • Drag Bingo
Happy Hour: 2 for 1 on any with Sasha Adams and
drink, 5-9pm • Multiple
Brooklyn Heights, 7-9pm •
TVs showing movies, Karaoke, 9pm-close
shows, sports • Expanded
craft beer selection • NUMBER NINE
No Cover Happy Hour: 2 for 1 on any
drink, 5-9pm • No Cover
A LEAGUE OF HER OWN
2319 18th St. NW PITCHERS
Doors open, 5pm-12am • 2317 18th St. NW
Happy Hour: $2 off every- Open 5pm-12am • Happy
thing until 9pm • Video Hour: $2 off everything
Games • Live televised until 9pm • Video Games
sports • Foosball • Live televised
sports • Full dining menu
FREDDIE’S BEACH BAR till 9pm • Special Late
Crazy Hour, 4-8pm • Taco
Night menu till 11pm •
Tuesday • Poker Night — Visit pitchersbardc.com
7pm and 9pm games •
Karaoke, 9pm SHAW’S TAVERN
Happy Hour, 4-7pm • $3
GREEN LANTERN Miller Lite, $4 Blue Moon,
Happy Hour, 4pm-9pm $5 House Wines, $5 Rail
• $3 rail cocktails and Drinks • Half-Priced Pizzas
domestic beers all night and Select Appetizers •
long
Half-Priced Burgers and
Pizzas all night with $5
House Wines and $5 Sam
Adams
TRADE
Doors open 5pm • Huge
Happy Hour: Any drink
normally served in a
cocktail glass served in a
huge glass for the same
price, 5-10pm • Beer
and wine only $4 • Sissy
That Tuesday: A Monthly
Cabaret Show featuring
Pussy Noir and special
guests, 8pm-close • Music
by Wess the DJ
Secrets in Washington, D.C. He also holds
including clubs in Chicago, Milwaukee,
mixes at mixcloud.com/djstevehenderson.
Listen to this Playlist at Metroweekly.com.
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Playlist
DJ STEVE HENDERSON
SOS
(Barry Harris Mix)
Cher
God is a Women
(Taj BK 7 Skies Mix)
Ariana Grande ft. Madonna
On The Radio
(Thee Werq’n B!tches TGIF Mix)
Donna Summer
Remind Me To Forget
(Barry Harris Remix)
Kygo ft. Miguel
Girls Like You
(Dirty Disco Mix)
Maroon 5 ft. Cardi B
Love Is Bigger Than Anything In Its
Way
(Offer Nissim Remix)
U2
Missing You
(Steve Henderson DynaMix)
Robyn
Somewhere Above The Clouds
(Hiisak Remix)
DJs From Mars
Messin’ With My Mind
(Ralphi Rosario & Erick Ibiza Club Mix)
Chris Cox
Free
(Club Mix)
Ranny & Jipsta ft. Joey T.
Steve Henderson is the resident DJ at
many residencies across the country,
Pittsburgh, and Baltimore. Stream his
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Wednesday, GREEN LANTERN
Happy Hour, 4pm-9pm •
PITCHERS
2317 18th St. NW
Thursday, GREEN LANTERN
Happy Hour, 4-9pm
SHAW’S TAVERN
Happy Hour, 4-7pm • $3
September 19 Bear Yoga with Greg Leo, Doors open, 5pm-12am September 20 • Shirtless Thursday, Miller Lite, $4 Blue Moon,
6:30-7:30pm • $10 per • Happy Hour: $2 off 10-11pm • Men in $5 House Wines, $5 Rail
9 1/2 class • $3 rail cocktails everything until 9pm • 9 1/2 Underwear Drink Free, Drinks • Half-Priced Pizzas
Happy Hour: 2 for 1 on any and domestic beers all Video Games • Foosball Happy Hour: 2 for 1 on any 12-12:30am • DJs and Select Appetizers
drink, 5-9pm • Multiple night long • Live televised sports • drink, 5-9pm • Multiple BacK2bACk • All You Can Eat Ribs,
TVs showing movies, Full dining menu till 9pm TVs showing movies, 5-10pm, $24.95 • $4
shows, sports • Expanded NELLIE’S SPORTS BAR • Special Late Night menu shows, sports • Expanded NELLIE’S SPORTS BAR Corona and Heineken all
craft beer selection • SmartAss Trivia Night, till 11pm • Visit pitchers- craft beer selection • Beat the Clock Happy Hour night • Coco Social: Pasta
No Cover 8-10pm • Prizes include bardc.com Music videos featuring — $2 (5-6pm), $3 (6-7pm), Making Class, Second
bar tabs and tickets to DJ Wess $4 (7-8pm) • $15 Buckets Floor, 6:30pm
A LEAGUE OF HER OWN shows at the 9:30 Club • SHAW’S TAVERN of Beer all night • Sports
2319 18th St. NW $15 Buckets of Beer for Happy Hour, 4-7pm • $3 A LEAGUE OF HER OWN Leagues Night TRADE
Doors open, 5pm-12am • SmartAss Teams only • Miller Lite, $4 Blue Moon, 2319 18th St. NW Doors open 5pm • Huge
Happy Hour: $2 off every- Absolutely Snatched Drag $5 House Wines, $5 Rail Doors open, 5pm-2am • NUMBER NINE Happy Hour: Any drink
thing until 9pm • Video Show, hosted by Brooklyn Drinks • Half-Priced Pizzas Happy Hour: $2 off every- Happy Hour: 2 for 1 on any normally served in a cock-
Games • Live televised Heights, 9pm • Tickets and Select Appetizers • thing until 9pm • Video drink, 5-9pm • No Cover tail glass served in a huge
sports available at nelliessports- Piano Bar and Karaoke Games • Live televised glass for the same price,
bar.com with Jill, 8pm sports PITCHERS 5-10pm • Beer and wine
FREDDIE’S BEACH BAR 2317 18th St. NW only $4
Crazy Hour, 4-8pm • $6 NUMBER NINE TRADE FREDDIE’S BEACH BAR Open 5pm-2am • Happy
Burgers • Beach Blanket Happy Hour: 2 for 1 on any Doors open 5pm • Huge Crazy Hour, 4-8pm • Hour: $2 off everything ZIEGFELD’S/SECRETS
Drag Bingo Night, hosted drink, 5-9pm • No Cover Happy Hour: Any drink Karaoke, 9pm until 9pm • Video Games All male, nude dancers •
by Ms. Regina Jozet normally served in a cock- • Foosball • Live televised Open Dancers Audition
Adams, 8pm • Bingo prizes tail glass served in a huge sports • Full dining menu • Urban House Music by
• Karaoke, 10pm-1am glass for the same price, till 9pm • Special Late DJ Tim-e • 9pm • Cover
5-10pm • Beer and wine Night menu till 11pm • 21+ l
only $4 Visit pitchersbardc.com

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 LastWord.
People say the queerest things

“There’s a big problem with the idea of

masculinity and homosexuality,
that they can’t somehow go hand in hand.
”
— Actor KIT HARINGTON, speaking to Variety at the Toronto Film Festival about queer representation in Hollywood. Harington
argued that Marvel should cast a gay person as a superhero, expressing disbelief that the industry can’t “have someone in a
Marvel movie who’s gay in real life who plays some superhero. I mean, when is that going to happen?”

“What the fuck?

They’re coming in here, they’re getting clipped.”
— DONALD TRUMP, in an alleged reference to transgender soldiers who undergo gender confirmation surgery. Bob Woodward
writes in his new book Fear: Trump in the White House that the President made the reference during an outburst about transgen-
der soldiers serving openly in the military. “Trump had proclaimed himself a supporter of LGBT rights,” Woodward writes. “Now
he told [Steve] Bannon, ‘What the f**k? They’re coming in here, they’re getting clipped’ — a crude reference to gender reassign-
ment surgery. Someone had told him that each surgery cost $250,000, an inflated number. ‘Not going to happen,’ he said.”

“We believe our people should have

equal access to the same rights,
entitlements, responsibilities and freedoms enjoyed elsewhere in the United Kingdom.
”
— A coalition of 30 leading businesses, including Coca-Cola, IBM, Santander, and Allstate, in a letter pushing for Northern Ireland
to legalize marriage equality. Northern Ireland is currently the only part of the U.K. that does not recognize same-sex marriages,
and the companies behind “Businesses For Love Equality” want that to change. The letter adds: “A diverse, outward-looking and
inclusive society is essential to create a vibrant and competitive economy and a prosperous future for Northern Ireland.”

“The distressing reality reflected in this study

is preventable,
and our nation’s schools, political leaders and communities can take concrete steps to combat this epidemic.
”
— ELLEN KAHN, Director of the HRC Foundation’s Children, Youth and Families Program, responding to a report by the American
Academy of Pediatrics which found that four out of five transgender American teens had attempted suicide over a 36-month peri-
od. “These harrowing statistics lay bare the urgency of building welcoming and safe communities for LGBTQ young people,
particularly for transgender youth,” Kahn added.

“I ask that you not view me only as a homosexual,

but as a determined, compassionate, hard-working man who is of good moral character.
”
— Pennsylvania resident GARY CAMPBELL, in a letter to Clarks Summit University. The Christian college revoked its offer for
Campbell to finish studying for his Bachelor’s degree after learning that he is gay. Campbell had intended to get his last six credits
and graduate, an important part of his recovery from alcohol addiction, but is now seeking an attorney to challenge the school’s
decision. “Having a degree is much more to me than a certificate, it’s a culmination of hard work, sweat and tears, and I owe it to
myself and to my recovery to accomplish this goal,” he wrote.

110 SEPTEMBER 13, 2018 • METROWEEKLY