NEIGHBORHOOD
BULLETIN BOARD Studio Theatre’s Season Remainder
Productions are available on demand – watch when you want. There are no apps to download, just visit the website to stream. Here is the remaining 2020-21 season lineup through June 13: “Flow by Will Power,” May 21 to June 13; “Tender Age” by George Brant, July 2 to 25. www.studiotheatre.org Photo: Courtesy of DC Fray
Live Music at The Hamilton
Rorschach Theatre’s DISTANCE FREQUENCIES: TRANSMISSION
In fall 2020, Rorschach Theatre launched an unprecedented project for unprecedented times, sending subscribers on self-guided urban adventures as a story unfolded around them. Now, 10 months later, with more than 400 participants hailing from 18 states and three different countries, the story will conclude with a live outdoor performance this July. From July 15 to 31, Rorschach will conclude season-long experience DISTANCE FREQUENCIES in this live, sitespecific show with outdoor, distanced performances. Explore DC history, both real and imagined, in this original work of magic realism with a soundtrack of DC punk and Go-Go. Relax on the palatial Great Lawn at The Parks at Walter Reed in Northwest DC, a site that holds more than a century of history even as its next incarnation takes shape. Tickets are on sale now at www. rorschachtheatre.thundertix.com.
Here’s the June lineup. On Friday, June 11, Amy Helm, legendary singer-songwriter playing folk rock, blues, country It’s time to register for DC Fray summer leagues. Bocce on and Americana; doors at 6:30 p.m. On the National Mall begins June 24; cornhole at Garfield Park Saturday, June 12, Jonathan Sloane, deepon June 23; hockey at Watkins Field on June 22 and 24; kickly rooted in the blues and expanding into ball at Walter Pierce Park on June 20 and 23, Stead Park, R&B, rock ‘n’ roll, funk and soul. Doors June 23 and 24, Amidon Elementary School on June 20, 6 p.m. On Thursday, June 17, Ras Slick 22, 23, 24 and 26; softball at The Fields at RFK and Randall and Dutty Bus Crew. Doors at 6:30 p.m. Field on June 20, Harry Thomas on June 22 and New York On Friday, June Avenue Fields on June 23; ultimate Frisbee at The Fields at 18, Bluegrass on RFK on June 23; volleyball at Garfield Park on June 22, 23 the Hill: The Dirty and 24. DC Fray believes that play has the power to transGrass Players with form lives, build communities and create positive impact in Off the Rails, jamthe world. Read more and register at www.dcfray.com. heavy bluegrass quartet. Doors at 6 p.m. On Thursday, June 24, Sungazer, hardhitting jazz fusion, eight-bit, In late March, Studio Theatre broke ground on progressive rock, and EDM. Open Studio, a transformational $20 million inDoors at 6:30 p.m. On Friday, vestment in the future. The three-pronged capital June 25, Newmyer Flyer prescampaign will enhance artistic innovation at the ents Mysterious Traveler: The studio, invest in community engagement and inMusic of Weather Report, a crease operational efficiency for the four-theatre tribute to jazz-fusion pioneers complex at 14th and P Streets NW in Logan Weather Report. Doors at 6 Swingers, a London brand of mini-golf courses, will open its Dupont Circle. Announced in 2020 and delayed by nearly p.m. On Saturday, June 26, Circle location, 330 19th St. NW, on June 18. Guests (21+) will be a year by the pandemic, Studio Theatre is taking collective seven-piece band transported to a world of verdant, undulating crazy golf courses feaadvantage of this time when the theatre is dark to covering the best of the 80s, turing a 1920s English clubhouse, multiple cocktail bars with over 35 complete major renovations and open anew in its 90s, 2000s and today. Doors hand-crafted drinks, gourmet street food vendors and private event 2021-22 season. Renovations will be complete by at 6 p.m. The Hamilton is at spaces. The 20,000-square-foot venue can accommodate over 500 early 2022. More information is available at www. 600 14th St. NW. www.live. guests. Swingers’ second US location will open in New York City’s Viropenstudiocampaign.org. thehamiltondc.com/live.the- gin Hotel later this year. Tickets are on sale now for $19 to $24 a person with packages available upon request. www.swingers.club/us hamiltondc.com
DC Fray Summer Sports Leagues
Studio Theatre Breaks Ground on $20 Million Renovation
Swingers Crazy Golf Opens in Dupont Circle
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