2018 Fall Arts Preview by Metro Weekly

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

CONTENTS

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

Volume 25 Issue 16

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 Real LGBTQ News and Entertainment since 1994 Editorial Editor-in-Chief Randy Shulman Art Director Todd Franson Online Editor at metroweekly.com Rhuaridh Marr Senior Editor John Riley Contributing Editors André Hereford, Doug Rule Senior Photographers Ward Morrison, Julian Vankim Contributing Illustrator Scott G. Brooks Contributing Writers Sean Maunier, Troy Petenbrink, Bailey Vogt, Kate Wingfield Webmaster David Uy Production Assistant Julian Vankim Sales & Marketing Publisher Randy Shulman National Advertising Representative Rivendell Media Co. 212-242-6863 Distribution Manager Dennis Havrilla Patron Saint Craig Zadan Cover Photography Ethan Hoover Metro Weekly 1775 I St. NW, Suite 1150 Washington, DC 20006 202-638-6830 All material appearing in Metro Weekly is protected by federal copyright law and may not be reproduced in whole or part without the permission of the publishers. Metro Weekly assumes no responsibility for unsolicited materials submitted for publication. All such submissions are subject to editing and will not be returned unless accompanied by a self-addressed, stamped envelope. Metro Weekly is supported by many fine advertisers, but we cannot accept responsibility for claims made by advertisers, nor can we accept responsibility for materials provided by advertisers or their agents. Publication of the name or photograph of any person or organization in articles or advertising in Metro Weekly is not to be construed as any indication of the sexual orientation of such person or organization.

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Spotlight

The DC Weirdo Show

ELD THE THIRD FRIDAY OF EACH MONTH, THE DC Weirdo Show bills itself as the longest-running variety 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 community’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, bellydance 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. SEPTEMBER 13, 2018 • METROWEEKLY

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, contemporary 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 threehour 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, inclusive of tax and gratuity. Call 202-503-2640 or visit dcdragshowbrunch.com

ALISON KRAUSS

She leads one of the best bluegrass bands in the business, Union Station, whose style of Americana is refined, pretty, and 8

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pristine. Yet Krauss long ago proved her skill experimenting 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.

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 roiling the nation and chronicles a cultural divide — still woefully misunderstood — that is tearing at the fabric of democracy. Opens Friday, Sept. 14. Area theaters. Visit fandango.com. 10

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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, featuring 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, adapted 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 composition 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 anamericaninpariscinema.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 company 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 landmarktheatres.com.

PICK OF THE LITTER

Heralded as an uplifting, heartwarming celebration of the dog-human bond, Dana Nachman and Don

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Hardy’s documentary explores the rigorous two-year journey required of all canine candidates as they prepare to work as a guide dog for the blind. Among the many hard challenges thrown at dogs during this process: Learning when to disobey a direct command that might endanger their person. Opens Friday, Sept. 14. Area theaters. Visit fandango.com.

STAGE IN THE CLOSET

Rainbow Theatre Project opens its sixth season with its first full production of a new play — a joint world premiere with Cleveland’s Convergence-Continuum. A metaphysical 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 launches 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’Marcus 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 mosaictheater.org.

PASSION

Natascia Diaz ignites the fiery love triangle at the heart of this Tonywinning musical opening the season 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 musical, 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

GETTING VOCAL

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

HERE’S SOMETHING VERY ‘EVERYDAY’ ABOUT A SINGER AND A PIANO MAKing a song — especially an opera singer, who actually sings very, very loudly.” It’s a cool, rainy Saturday, and composer Gregory Spears is deep in a discussion of the upcoming performance of Walden, a song cycle based on the work of Henry David Thoreau, commissioned by Vocal Arts DC. “There’s something very grounding about having instruments made out of wood accompanying a person who has no microphone,” the youthful 41-year-old, who lives in New York, continues. “That’s what brings me back, over and over, to classical music. Because it has that tradition of purely acoustic performance.” Spears, who is a proud member of the LGBTQ community, says that composing music to Thoreau’s words had its share of challenges. “I don’t know if you’ve read Thoreau recently,” he says, “but it’s these long, complex nineteenth-century sentences. And yet, the ideas are all about being logical and making clear arguments about the world based on observation, often nature. So trying to set this as a song was an interesting challenge. I liked Thoreau’s ideas about simplicity and directness and taking away all the stuff of life that’s not necessary, all the sort of consumerist stuff that surrounds us. If you clear all that away, what can you see?” Spears was particularly thrilled to write for baritone Brian Mulligan, who will also perform the 1974 Pulitzer Prize-winning song cycle, Dominick Argento’s From the Diary of Virginia Woolf, at this Sunday’s recital. “Vocal Arts are always engaging these incredible, world-class singers,” says Spears. “They didn’t tell me immediately who the singer would be, but when they mentioned Brian Mulligan, I was excited because I actually went to college with him back in the ’90s. We didn’t ever get a chance to work together then, but I’ve been following his career. So it was exciting to be able to write a piece for him.” —Randy Shulman Gregory Spears’ Walden will be performed by Brian Mulligan and pianist Timothy Long on Sunday, Sept. 16, at 2 p.m., at the Kennedy Center Terrace Theater. Tickets are $50. Call 202-467-4600 or visit kennedy-center.org. 14

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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 lingering effects in the country today. MetroStage Artistic Associate Thomas W. Jones II directs Doug Brown, Marni Penning, Jeremiah Hasty, and Jeremy Keith Hunter. In previews. To Sept. 30. MetroStage, 1201 North Royal St., Alexandria. Tickets are $55. Call 703-548-9044 or visit metrostage.org.

MUSIC DIANA ROSS

Even after all these years, Ross still has the pipes, the power, and the stage charisma to bring an audience to its knees or to its feet. The Lady returns to the area for another glorious opportunity to relive her Motown hits and disco classics — for her and her fans, especially those of the LGBTQ variety. And there are few places better or more acoustically perfect to savor the sound. Tuesday, Sept. 25, and Wednesday, Sept. 26, at 8 p.m. Music Center at Strathmore, 5301 Tuckerman Lane, North Bethesda. Tickets are $69 to $239. Call 301-581-5100 or visit strathmore.org.

MARYLAND LYRIC OPERA: LA FANCIULLA DEL WEST

Despite acclaim as one of opera’s greatest scores and lushest orchestrations, this masterwork from Puccini remains relatively unknown and rarely performed. To the rescue comes this young, singer-focused company via a semi-staged concert version of the romantic Western epic. Translated in English as The Girl of the Golden West, the opera focuses on Millie, a heroine in the mold of Puccini’s far-better-known Tosca and Butterfly. Louis Salemno

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 narrative that surrounds metalworking despite women’s consistent presence the field for centuries. To Sept. 16. 1250 New York Ave NW. Admission is $10. Call 202-7835000 or visit nmwa.org.

MICRO-MONUMENTS II: UNDERGROUND

Ex Hex

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 programming. 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 performances this weekend, with two casts led by a different internationally acclaimed soprano in the role of Millie: Susan Bullock on Friday, Sept. 14, and Elizabeth BlanckeBiggs 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 launches 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 presents 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

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-center.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 struggle. Here’s to the group keeping up that fight by maintaining their level of quality musicianship and signature soaring harmonies, which have been known to inspire singalongs. 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.

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MUSEUMS & GALLERIES BASELITZ: SIX DECADES

The Hirshhorn presents the first major U.S. retrospective since 1996 of one of Germany’s greatest living 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 hirshhorn.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, including sculpture, jewelry, and conceptual forms. Inspired by NMWA’s

An exhibition featuring 15 local and eight German artists, who were brought together to focus a contemporary lens on topics including the cosmos, nature, and deep time, with the intention of serving as a catalyst for exploration into enduring questions about our history and place in the world. A co-presentation of the Washington Sculptors Group and IA&A at Hillyer, featured artists 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 popular 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 parental 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 Rougeinspired restaurant Sax offers movement-based spectacles, including aerial stunts, hip-hop group routines, pole performances, and burlesque, to add excitement beyond the food. And male burlesque is the showcase every Sunday during brunch, as a group of male professional dancers, aerialists, and bodybuilders perform full-length shows, accompanied by unlimited mimosas delivered by by table service 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.

COLLIN HOVDE

TRADE: GAY/BASH: SUMMER 4 EVER

VIVA VERDI - THE PROMISED END

The InSeries, D.C.’s passionate and eccentric concert/cabaret production company opens its new season with an original work that blends Verdi’s Requiem with a one-woman meditation on Shakespeare’s King Lear. Timothy Nelson, the company’s incoming artistic director, developed the show through imagining what an opera based on Lear might have sounded like from Verdi had the Italian composer actually realized his dream project. Helen Hayes Award-winning powerhouse Nanna Ingvarsson takes on the role of Verdi/ Lear in a production featuring eight area vocal artists as “Spirits of the Future Singers” 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 St. NW. Tickets are $20 to $45. Call 202-204-7763 or visit inseries.org.

Josh Vogelsong started his monthly 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, everybody comes dressed up,” Vogelsong says. “Everybody gets crazy during 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 Camp, who will perform along with Jane Saw, Salvadora Dali, Jaxknife Complex, and, last but not least, Donna Slash, Vogelsong’s other-persona. Jams from the Barber Streisand. Saturday, Sept. 15. Doors at 10 p.m., with shows at 11:30 p.m. and 1 a.m. 1410 14th St. NW. Call 202-986-1094 or visit facebook. com/gaybashdc.

ABOVE AND BEYOND MAKING DC HISTORY AWARDS

11th St. NW. Tickets are $50 to $65 including appetizers and unlimited mimosas. Call 202-737-0101 or visit sirmaleburlesque.com.

DRAG BAR ROUBAIX: SASSY DRAG BRUNCH

Over the past year, the local Hilton brothers have expanded well beyond Marvin and The Brixton and their original U Street base. None of the additions, however, stand out as much as Bar Roubaix in Columbia Heights with its racing bike theme, complete with chains dangling behind the bar and wheels serving as light fixtures. Named after the French city sponsoring one of the world’s oldest and most iconic professional bike races and housed in the former Acre 121 space, Roubaix features a menu of European-inspired bites from Chef Rafael Nunez. And now, Roubaix stands out even more thanks to a drag brunch the third Sunday of each month, organized by Josael Abraham Gutierrez. Sassy Drag Brunch features Desiree Dik as the “master of sassiness” along with

her sassy sisters Laronica Vegas and Paula, in addition to special guests, next round Rose and Mariah Black. Drink specials include $18 Bottomless Mimosas, Bloody Mary’s, and Bloody Maria’s, $9 Margaritas, and $9 Irish Coffees. Sunday, Sept. 16, from noon to 2 p.m. 1400 Irving St. NW. Ste. 109. Tickets are $21 inclusive of show, one entree, and 18-percent gratuity, or $10 for show with no food. Call 202-560-5721 or search “Sassy Drag Brunch” on eventbrite.com.

PRETTY BOI DRAG: #PRETTYBOIAFTERDARK

Founded over two years ago by former DC King Pretty Rik E, this troupe performs two rounds of its sexy show After Dark at an intimate venue in Petworth “where every seat is in the splash zone.” A VIP ticket includes a Meet and Greet before the show, group photo with the cast, front-row seating, and a Pretty Boi Drag Tee #AfterDark Goodie Bag. Saturday, Sept. 22, at 7 and 10 p.m. Ten Tigers Parlour, 3813 Georgia Ave. NW. Tickets are $25, or $50 for VIP including Meet & Greet Call 202-506-2080 or visit tentigersdc.com.

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SHAW’S TAVERN: DINNER-N-DRAG, SERVED!

Sometimes you’re dragging and you just can’t make it to brunch. And sometimes you want a regular, more traditional kind of meal — you know, at night, over wine. Well, these days, you can have just that with one of D.C.’s leading ladies of drag. Every Sunday night at Shaw’s Tavern, Kristina Kelly hosts a show over supper with half-priced bottles of wine and different dinner specials each week. Seating at 7 p.m., show at 8 p.m. 520 Florida Ave. NW. Reservations required via shawsdinnerdragshow@gmail.com. Call 202-518-4092 or visit shawstavern.com.

NIGHTLIFE DC9: PEACH PIT

Named after the diner on Beverly Hills, 90210, Peach Pit was started by DJ Matt Bailer more than eight years ago at Dahlek, the former Eritrean restaurant that also birthed Mixtape. Bailer describes the party as a “kind of sweaty mosh pit of guys and girls, straights and gays, black people and white peo-

Leon Harris of NBC4 emcees this year’s annual gala of the Historical Society of Washington, D.C., which honors D.C. developer John “Chip” Akridge and his eponymous commercial real estate company with the Distinction in Historic Preservation Award, the Central Union Mission for Distinction in Social Service, and Brett Hitt and Hitt Contracting, Inc., for Distinction in Corporate Achievement, plus the Drew Jarvis Family will be inducted into the Legacy Families of Washington, D.C. This year’s Visionary Historian Award, a lifetime achievement honor, was bestowed at a separate ceremony in May on Howard Gillette, the now-retired George Washington University professor and historian who established its Center for Washington Area Studies. Thursday, Sept. 20, starting with an Honoree Reception at 6:30 p.m., followed by the Awards Presentation at 7:30 p.m. Newseum, 555 Pennsylvania Ave. NW. Tickets are $300 to $350. Call 202-249-3955 or visit dchistory.org. l

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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

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 bottom 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.

“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 documentary 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

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Gay New Hampshire Democrat beats opponent who allegedly used homophobic “dog whistle” attack in mailers By John Riley

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

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 question whether Pappas had the “backbone” to stand up against right-wing special interest groups seeking to repeal the

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theFeed Affordable Care Act. Both the LGBTQ Victory Fund and Equality PAC accused Sullivan, a Marine veteran and former Obama administration 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, particularly 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 constituents,” 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 SheaPorter. In his victory speech, Pappas shared the stories of several 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

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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 arrivals, happy hour drink specials, and food available. There will 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 Jim Graham (second from left) at a Whitman-Walker gala in 1996.

TO OUR HEALTH

Whitman-Walker celebrates 40 years of service to the D.C. community with a gala next weekend.

UR COMMUNITY REALLY COUNTS ON US,” SAYS JEWEL ADDY, EXTERNAL affairs manager at Whitman-Walker Health. “Everyone who walks through our doors 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.” For forty years, Whitman-Walker has served members of D.C.’s LGBTQ community and people living with HIV, providing high-quality health care including regular checkups, HIV and STD testing and treatment, addiction services, and mental health counseling. To commemorate those achievements, Whitman-Walker will hold its 40th anniversary gala at the Marriott Marquis Washington on Saturday, Sept. 22. The evening’s program, emceed by Rayceen Pendarvis, NBC4 news host Chuck Bell, and local actress and four-time Helen Hayes Award winner Holly Twyford, will begin with a cocktail reception and hors d’oeuvres, followed by a seated dinner and speaking program, a silent auction, and a dance party featuring music from DJ Paddy Boom, formerly of the Scissor Sisters. The Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington’s GenOUT Chorus and the legendary Washington trio Betty, who were behind the theme song for The L Word, are also slated to perform. Ahead of the gala, Whitman-Walker has launched a “40 Stories” Project, featuring interviews and biographies of people who were instrumental to its history, including former Whitman-Walker Executive Director and D.C. Councilmember Jim Graham, national newscaster Max Robinson, and Dr. Mary Edwards “Walker,” one of the clinic’s namesakes. The project includes interviews and testimonials from current employees and clients, who talk about the services they’ve received or their work at Whitman-Walker. “We offer so many different programs and services that it’s often hard to capture what we do in a single tweet or word,” says Addy. “So it’s nice to have these different voices share their individual experiences with us.” 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 vital source for the organization, as demand for services only continues to grow. “The amount of lives we’ve saved and the amount of stigma we’ve helped combat is immeasurable,” says Addy. “When people give money to support Whitman-Walker and our patients’ health and wellbeing, it really does help people thrive.” —John Riley 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 person. To purchase tickets, visit wwhgala.com. For more information on Whitman-Walker’s “40 Stories” Project, visit whitman-walker.org/40-stories.

offers free HIV testing and HIV services (by appointment). 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Decatur Center, 1400 Decatur St. NW. To arrange an appointment, call 202-291-4707, or visit andromedatransculturalhealth.org.

DC AQUATICS CLUB practice

session at Takoma Aquatic Center. 7:30-9 p.m. 300 Van Buren St. NW. For more information, visit swimdcac.org.

DC FRONT RUNNERS run-

ning/walking/social club welcomes runners of all ability levels for exercise in a fun and supportive environment, with socializing afterward. Route distance is 3-6 miles. Meet at 7 p.m. at 23rd & P Streets NW. For more information, visit dcfrontrunners.org.

DC LAMBDA SQUARES, D.C.’s

gay and lesbian square-dancing group, features mainstream through advanced square dancing at the National City Christian Church. Please dress casually. 7-9:30 p.m. 5 Thomas Circle NW. 202-930-1058, dclambdasquares.org.

DC SCANDALS RUGBY holds

practice. 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.

THE DULLES TRIANGLES

Northern Virginia social group meets for happy hour at Sheraton in Reston. All welcome. 7-9 p.m. 11810 Sunrise Valley Drive, second-floor bar. For more information, visit dullestriangles.com.

HIV TESTING at Whitman-

Walker Health. 9 a.m.-12:30 p.m. and from 2-5 p.m. at 1525

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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 appointment 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. 202-5673155 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 without symptoms. For an appointment call 202-745-7000 or visit whitman-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 202-4461100.

WOMEN’S LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE for young LBTQ

women, 13-21, interested in leadership development. 5-6:30 p.m. SMYAL Youth Center, 410 7th St. SE. For more information, call 202567-3163, 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 information, 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.

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Weekly Events BET MISHPACHAH, founded by

members of the LGBT community, holds Friday evening Shabbat services in the DC Jewish Community Center’s Community Room. 8 p.m. 1529 16th St. NW. For more information, 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 whitman-walker.org.

PROJECT STRIPES hosts LGBT-

affirming social group for ages 11-24. 4-6 p.m. 1419 Columbia Road NW. Contact Tamara, 202-3190422, 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 catherine.chu@smyal.org.

SATURDAY, Sept. 15 ADVENTURING outdoors group

hikes a moderately strenuous 8 miles on Great North Mountain to scenic overlook on the VirginiaWest 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 discussed. 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, 571-3381433 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 information, visit facebook.com/khushdc. The DC Center hosts a monthly 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 thedccenter.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 information, 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 runners of all ability levels for exercise in a fun and supportive environment, with socializing afterward. Route distance will be 3-6 miles. Walker meet at 9:30 a.m. and runners 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 runners of all ability levels for exercise in a fun and supportive environment, 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 information, 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 dignitywashington.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 information 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. lincolntemple.org.

LUTHERAN CHURCH OF REFORMATION invites all to

Sunday worship at 8:30 or 11 a.m. Childcare is available at both services. 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 interpreted) 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 welcoming-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 thedccenter.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 swimdcac.org.

NOVASALUD offers free HIV test-

ing. 5-7 p.m. 2049 N. 15th St., Suite 200, Arlington. Appointments: 703789-4467. 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 thedccenter.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 information, 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@whitman-walker.org.

TUESDAY, Sept. 18 CENTER BI, a group of The DC

Center, hosts a monthly roundtable discussion around issues of bisexuality. 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 practice. 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. 703746-4986 or text 571-214-9617. james.leslie@inova.org.

OVEREATERS ANONYMOUS

holds an LGBT-focused meeting 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, 703-5211999. Handicapped accessible. Newcomers welcome. liveandletliveoa@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, gonorrhea 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, discusses 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.blogspot.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

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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

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fall arts preview

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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 Oscarbait 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 supercalifragilisticexpialidocious 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)

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 domineering 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 documentary explores the lifelong friendship between four of SEPTEMBER 13, 2018 • METROWEEKLY

Britain’s most lauded and awarded actresses. Or, as Britain’s Times described it: “A torrent of mischief, gossip, swearing, recitations, 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 documentary 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 semester. (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 established musician who stumbles across unknown singer-songwriter 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

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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 transforms him into the horrific Venom and grants superhuman abilities. 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 — director 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 comedy 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 relationships 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 therapist Victor, who is determined to “cure” Jared. Expect to hear more from this come awards season, as early reviews are glowing, 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 question, Tilda Swinton, and even Jessica Harper (the original film’s lead), but critics are divided as to whether this remake was necessary. 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 infamous 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, bludgeoning and slitting throats. Luis Ortega’s film depicts the babyfaced 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 immediate 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-

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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 eponymous 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 experience 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 number 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, 34

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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 anything, 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 darker, 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 psychological horror Split. Bruce Willis returns as Unbreakable’s invulnerable and superhuman David Dunn, tasked with pursuing 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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ALL IT “THE SEASON OF PAULA VOGEL.” SEVERAL area companies are staging several of the most compelling 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 tenure as Artistic Director, transformed The Shakespeare Theatre Company into an international, critically-acclaimed powerhouse. 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 abundance 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

Aladdin

Compiled by Randy Shulman McCloskey, featuring music and lyrics by William Yanesh (9/2110/21) • 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 (2/83/10) • 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 SEPTEMBER 13, 2018 • METROWEEKLY

Premiere drama by Kenneth Lin that turns the spotlight on U.S. — Russia relations (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 confrontations 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 princess and her captor. Directed by Michael J. Bobbitt (10/11-11/18) • THE MASTER AND

MARGARITA — A new adaptation of the

Russian novel by Mikhail Bulgakov, as spiritual inquiry and absurd satire intertwine (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 assistant. 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 handbags, 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

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(1/29-3/3) • DINNER WITH FRIENDS — A dinner party goes south as two couples find themselves grappling with questions of loyalty, individuality, and commitment. Donald Margulies’ funny, sharply observed Pulitzer Prize-winning drama is celebrating its 20th anniversary (3/124/14) FOLGER THEATRE

201 East Capitol St. SE 202-544-7077 folger.edu MACBETH — Shakespeare’s murderous 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 comedy 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 opportunistic tycoon is upended by an idealistic 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 popular 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 (1/182/17) • 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 freedom 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 stardom 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 brother, 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 (11/312/2) • 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 40

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 (5/45/25) • 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 dexterously 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 dazzling 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. (11/2325, 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 murder 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

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stars in this Tony-winning revival, directed 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, neurotic gay man named Marvin and his family (6/11-6/23, Eisenhower) • THE BAND’S VISIT — A critically acclaimed new musical 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 Awardwinning 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 (10/1111/11) • 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 (11/2012/23) • 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 adaptation (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 (1/161/27) • FINDING NEVERLAND (2/26-3/3) • A BRONX TALE (3/263/31) • 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 directed 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 enchanting 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 42

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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 characters 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 —

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 astonishing chronicle of one woman’s journey to break the cycle of sexual abuse (10/10-11/4) • GEM OF THE OCEAN — This first chapter of August Wilson’s monumental 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)

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SHAKESPEARE THEATRE COMPANY

450 7th St. NW 202-547-1122 shakespearetheatre.org

THE COMEDY OF ERRORS — Shakespeare’s

uproarious comedy of mistaken identities 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 inspector 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 adaptation 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 ravaged 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 political and deeply personal play. Written by Bethesda native Steven Levenson (Now-10/14) • CRY IT OUT — The lives of four new parents 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 imagery 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-famous 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) 46

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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 starring 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 (3/134/7, 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 (11/1512/9) • 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 (1/172/10) • 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 stories (Now-9/30) • THE FEVER — An ordinary party evolves into a spellbinding examination of how we assemble, organize, and care for the bodies around us. Performed in collaboration 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) For more Fall Arts Preview Stage listings, visit metroweekly.com. 48

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fall arts preview

Diana Ross

Music: Pop, Rock, Folk, Blues and Jazz

ONCERTS FEATURING LGBTQ ARTISTS OR WITH significant queer appeal are all over the map this season — 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.

Compiled by Doug Rule 9:30 CLUB

815 V St. NW 877-435-9849 930.com

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 SEPTEMBER 13, 2018 • METROWEEKLY

W/GABRIEL GARZON-MONTANO — Two

nights of appealing alt-R&B artists (10/910) • 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) • 52

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 allthingsgofallclassic.com For its fifth year, the high-caliber indiepop 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 sensations 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 headliners 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 trumpeter (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, singer-songwriter Anjali “Jiya” Taneja, bassist 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) •

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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 kindred 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) • KACEY MUSGRAVES W/NATALIE PRASS — Oh, What A World: Tour (1/24/19) ATLAS PERFORMING ARTS CENTER

1333 H St. NE 202-399-7993 atlasarts.org

JEFF DENSON — Jazz at the Atlas pres-

ents this singing bassist in a CD release concert for Outside My Window (10/12, Lang Theatre) • AKUA ALLRICH — The powerhouse D.C. native’s 10th Annual Nina Simone/Miriam Makeba Tribute (10/13, Lang Theatre) • MADRE TIERRA: STORIES FROM THE DRUM — A regional collective of female practitioners of the Puerto Rican percussion-rooted musical genres bomba and plena (10/14, Sprenger Theatre) • BANDA MAGDA — Led by Greek-born singer/accordionist/ composer Magda Giannikou, group combines South-American rhythms with jazz improvisation, cinematic arranging, audience participation, mid-century classics, and world “chansons” sung in six languages (11/9, Sprenger Theatre) BARNS AT WOLF TRAP

1635 Trap Road Vienna, Va. 877-WOLFTRAP wolftrap.org

BETHESDA BLUES & JAZZ SUPPER CLUB

7719 Wisconsin Ave. Bethesda, Md. 240-330-4500 bethesdabluesjazz.com PEABO BRYSON (9/21) • BE’LA DONA (9/22) • A TRIBUTE TO THE MUSIC OF ARETHA FRANKLIN (9/23) • BROADSOUND (9/28) • LIV WARFIELD AND THE NPG HORNZ (9/29) • TRIBUTE TO THE MUSIC OF FANTASIA, ERYKAH BADU, TEENA MARIE (9/30) • MOTOWN & MORE: THE LEGACY LIVES (10/5) • BILL LAURANCE —

Original member of Snarky Puppy (10/7) • MIRIAMM — The fourth year this vocal phenomenon has turned Bethesda Blues pink in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month (10/11) • HOWARD HEWETT (10/12) • A TRIBUTE TO THE MUSIC OF THE SOUL DIVAS — An annual celebration of Chaka Khan, Aretha Franklin, Stephanie Mills, and Anita Baker by the Brencore AllStars Band (10/19) • THE RIPPINGTONS FEAT. RUSS FREEMAN (10/26) • EARL KLUGH (10/28) • TAKE 6 (11/4) • LALAH HATHAWAY (11/8) • WALTER BEASLEY (11/16) • RARE ESSENCE (11/21) • KINDRED THE FAMILY SOUL (11/23) • CHRISTMAS WITH REGINA BELLE (12/9) • GERALD ALBRIGHT AND SELINA ALBRIGHT (12/16)

THE BIRCHMERE

3701 Mount Vernon Ave. Alexandria , Va. 703-549-7500 birchmere.com

MICHAEL NESMITH & THE FIRST NATIONAL BAND (9/17) • THE MARSHALL TUCKER BAND (9/18) • RED MOLLY (9/20) • EUGE GROOVE (9/21) • BUDDY GUY W/TOM HAMBRIDGE (9/24) • ERIC BENÉT (9/2728) • HIROSHIMA (9/29) • BASIA (9/30) • THE CHICK COREA TRIO: VIGILETTE WITH CARLITOS DEL PUERTO AND MARCUS GILMORE (10/1) • CHICKS WITH HITS: TERRI CLARK, PAM TILLIS, AND SUZY BOGGUSS (10/3) • STEELDRIVERS WITH KIERAN KANE AND RAYNA GELLERT (10/45) • MICHAEL FRANKS (10/6) • HERMAN’S HERMITS STARRING PETER NOONE (10/7) • INDIGO GIRLS — The preeminent lesbian folk duo (10/8) • BONNIE ‘PRINCE’ BILLY WITH THE OTHER YEARS (10/9) • LEO KOTTKE (10/10) • THE JAYHAWKS W/ HARROW FAIR (10/11) • THE WHISPERS (10/12-13) • KEIKO MATSUI (10/14) • LISA STANSFIELD — The Deeper Tour North America (10/15) • INCOGNITO WITH SPECIAL GUEST MAYSA (10/16) • WYNONNA & THE BIG NOISE (10/17) • CANDY DULFER (10/18) • STEPHANIE MILLS — The orig-

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 (11/1820) • 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) Lisa Stansfield

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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 (1/11/191/12/19) • TRAVIS TRITT (1/15/19-1/16/19)

BLACK CAT

1811 14th St. NW 202-667-4490 blackcatdc.com

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 (10/2425) • 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 bluesalley.com 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)

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• 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 LOPEZNUSSA (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 (11/2325) • 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 brother (12/6-9) • THE CAPITAL BONES BIG BAND — “A Stan Kenton Christmas” (12/10) • ERIC FELTEN JAZZ ORCHESTRA — “Ellington’s Nutcracker” (12/1112) • 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 SLYMONTGOMERY — “Tis the Season” (12/19) • MARCUS JOHNSON — “Urban Jam Band Holiday Party” (12/20-23) • HERRERARICHARDSON — “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 (9/2122) • 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/

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 FEATURING 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/SPECIAL GUEST LULUC (12/5) • JANE LYNCH

— “A Swingin’ Little Christmas” with Hollywood’s second-most famous lesbian (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)

SPECIAL GUESTS THE EMPTY POCKETS (10/16) • MARIA MULDAUR (10/16) • DRIFTWOOD (10/17) • MISSY RAINES & 60

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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 SPECIAL 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 SEPTEMBER 13, 2018 • METROWEEKLY

— 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

W/ELIJAH JAMAL BALBED (9/27) • THE REVEREND PEYTON’S BIG DAMN BAND (9/28) • HONKY TONK CASANOVAS — Free

• 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)

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 —

THE HOWARD THEATRE

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

Free Late Night Music in the Loft (11/9) • CARLY HARVEY — Free Late Night Music in the Loft (11/10) • YACHT ROCK REVUE (11/1112) • 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)

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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) •

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)

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KENNEDY CENTER

SALVANT — Ogresse, arranged and conduct-

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 nomination 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 concert (10/13, Terrace Theater) • SOUL IN THE HORN: NATASHA DIGGS AND DPROSPER — New York-based dance party, social gathering, 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 replace John Coltrane in band by the late legend Terrace Theater) • NSO

was chosen to Jimmy Smith’s himself (10/19,

POPS: ANDREW BIRD WITH GABRIEL KAHANE (10/2627, 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, percussionist, 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

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 ragtime musician and first black bandleader who helped spark the international interest 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 contemporary jazz and pop vocal legend accompanied 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)

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018 • METROWEEKLY

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 special 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 another 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 lesbian/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

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 frontman for the Gaslight Anthem (10/4) • MOUNTAIN MAN — Folk trio returns with Magic Ship (10/22) • VUSI MAHLASELA —

Drive-By Truckers (12/6-7)

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018 • METROWEEKLY

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 tribute to the classic British rockers, an allin 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 powerhouse dubbed the Queen of Ranchera Music (11/8, Music Center) • HOME FREE: A COUNTRY CHRISTMAS — The 2013 winner 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 support 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

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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 —

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 SPECIAL 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) For more Fall Arts Preview Music listings, visit metroweekly.com. l

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Choral and Classical

HIS SEASON, MANY CLASSICAL ORGANIZATIONS are focused on anniversary celebrations, most notably of the centennial kind. The City Choir of Washington, the Washington Chorus, and the Washington National Opera are among those with musical tributes to World War I, which ended 100 years ago this November. Also 100 years ago, Gustav Holst premiered his signature orchestral suite The Planets, highlights from which will be included in space-themed programs at DC Different Drummers as well as at two of the main area orchestras, the Baltimore Symphony and the National Symphony. Speaking of symphonic centennial celebrations, the National Philharmonic strives for the “last but certainly not least” designation among the myriad toasts that have come over the past year to the centenary of Leonard Bernstein. Among many nods to the late, great legend scattered throughout its new season, November’s Bernstein Choral Celebration is a true standout — and timed for prime giving-back gratitude. AMERICAN POPS ORCHESTRA

Arena Stage 1101 6th St. SW theamericanpops.org

YOU’VE GOT A FRIEND: A SINGER-SONGWRITER CELEBRATION —

Ubiquitous ’80s TV star Morgan Fairchild, The Voice contender Rayshun LaMarr, NPR’s Ari Shapiro, Broadway’s Mariand Torres, and winner of APO’s 2018 NextGen competition Nia

Compiled by Doug Rule Savoy all join to celebrate the music of James Taylor, Nina Simone, Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Joan Baez, and more (9/22, Fichandler Stage) • MUSIC & MINDFULNESS SERIES: YOGA WITH THE AMERICAN POPS ORCHESTRA — It’s as bizarre as it sounds, a 70-minute yoga practice led by Michelle Peterson and accompanied by members of the orchestra performing songs from some of the greatest crooners. This first of three in the season is soundtracked by “classic Broadway melodies in a contemplative style” (10/21, Dupont Underground) • A VERY SILLY VAUDEVILLE FEAT. LUKE HAWKINS — Broadway tapper moves through APO’s modern take on classic American vaudeville acts (11/17, Molly Smith Study) • HOLIDAYS IN BLACK AND WHITE — Silent films created by Thomas Edison screen as Luke Frazier conducts the APO in an original score of holiday classics (12/15, Kogod Cradle) • OLD LADY WHO SWALLOWED A FLY FEAT. HILARY MORROW — Actress joins in a madcap retelling of this classic children’s story (1/26/19, Molly Smith Study) ATLAS PERFORMING ARTS CENTER

1333 H St. NE 202-399-7993 atlasarts.org

URBANARIAS: THE LAST AMERICAN HAMMER — The local short

opera company opens its season with a topical work by composer Peter Hilliard and librettist Matt Boresi with stars Elizabeth SEPTEMBER 13, 2018 • METROWEEKLY

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 birthday, 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)

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) • TURANGALÎLASYMPHONIE 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

BALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

DAVID FINCKEL, CELLOS W/WU HAN, PIANO — “The Power Couple of Chamber

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OPENING GALA CONCERT: FROM GERSHWIN TO BROADWAY W/VOCALIST 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 (11/2325) • BSO PULSE: PARQUET COURTS (11/29, Meyerhoff) • JOSHUA BELL (11/3012/1, 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

(1/17/19, Meyerhoff)

BARNS AT WOLF TRAP

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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 carols, 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 director 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)

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CONGRESSIONAL CHORUS

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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 performance by the LGBTQ music organization’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 celebration (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 diplomatic 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 GUITARIST (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 instrumentalists 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, spotlighting LGBTQ inclusion in fantasy and gaming through song and also dance, aerial 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 — depending on his mood (12/8, 12/15-16, Lincoln Theatre) THE IN SERIES

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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 (Now9/23) • 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

turbulent times with the music of Duke Ellington, Fats Waller, and more (1/5/191/20/19) 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 recipients 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 “expectations defied and your ears delighted by the sound, technique, texture, and repertoire 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 indierock 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

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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 performance 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 featuring 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. premiere 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 centuries-spanning program of works by Satie, Couperin, Schumann, and Glass, presented 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 remastered high-definition while Leonard Bernstein’s only work composed specifically for film is rendered live at the season-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 (10/1314) • 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 members of its chorale for a program of holiday 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 spacethemed program featuring renowned violinist (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 compositions for an intimate orchestral experience (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 74

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 commemorating 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 featuring the Washington Chorus (12/14-15) • HANDEL’S MESSIAH — Vocal soloists and the University of Maryland Concert Choir join the NSO under guest conductor Nicholas McGegan for a holiday tradition 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 — Houstonbased wind quintet performs a boundary-pushing thematic program mixing classical standards and new works by American composers with a pop-rock sensibility, and presented with the extra theatricality of choreography, costumes, and multimedia elements (10/25, Mansion) •

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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 charismatic 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 featuring one of today’s preeminent violinists” (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 season welcomes its new Artistic Director, Dana Marsh (9/16, National Presbyterian Church) • BACH TO MOZART — Special guest artists The Franklin Quartet performs rarely heard Mozartian transcriptions in a concert that also includes selections 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 TRAVIATA — WNO’s Francesca Zambello

launches the season with a new production 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.

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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 performances 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 following 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)

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 performed by his company takes as inspiration the world of fantasy as well as the sideshow lifestyle, as a community of societal outcasts come together to create magic inside and outside of the circus 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 SEPTEMBER 13, 2018 • METROWEEKLY

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 choreography 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 upbringing and spiritual practices (9/15-16) • CULTURAL SHOCK DC — Volume IV considers 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 highlighting a breadth of dances from communities 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) • CAKEFACE (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, culminating in a works-in-progress showing (12/18) • CONTEMPORARY VIEWPOINTS FESTIVAL — Featuring works by Britta 78

Joy Peterson, darlingdance, Tariq Darrell+The UNUM Dance Collective, and PriorDance (1/12/1/13)

the Fundación Conservatorio Flamenco Casa Patas (11/8-11) • OMAYRA AMAYA

DAVIS PERFORMING ARTS CENTER

Sobremesa featuring a mesmerizing dance by this Spanish troupe’s namesake dancer paired with the gay festival curator (11/16-18)

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 professional 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 journey to Bethlehem seeking shelter in a family-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 honoring the music of Aretha Franklin (9/2930, 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 dancers and presented in collaboration with

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FLAMENCO DANCE CO...WITH EDWIN APARICIO — The D.C. premiere of La

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 foremost dancers and choreographers (10/12) • FALL NEW DANCES — Emerging choreographers 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 juxtaposed 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 elaborate 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 seductive 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 technology 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 jumping 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 vitality of Caribbean dancehall is celebrated 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 company 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) • ABADACAPOEIRA 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 selected from renowned company’s groundbreaking 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 newest productions, Written in Water, a largescale multi-disciplinary work with original dance, music, text, and painting (11/23, 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 choreographer, last seen at the Kennedy Center in 2013, returns with the U.S. premiere of Thari-The Loom, her first work choreo-

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 splendor 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 violinist reimagine Tchaikovsky’s classic score through hip-hop choreography (12/1819) • 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 (4/34/7, Harman Center) l

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Museums and Galleries

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 innovations 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 parenting 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 celebration of one of America’s most prominent visionary artists, curated 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 elements, 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

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 (11/151/6/19) 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 exhibitions 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 regional 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 vessels used for food and the table as well two- or three-dimensional 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 — SEPTEMBER 13, 2018 • METROWEEKLY

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-overlooked 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 collection (10/6-1/6) • A FIRST FOLIO OF SHAKESPEARE — The first collected edition 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 multiple Buddhas and bodhisattvas in this look at Buddhist art through the lens of spiritual practice and the perspectives 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 photographers capturing everything from evocative 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 meaning 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-

tures, here towers of brass containers, connected by an intricate web of thread to create a monumental installation recalling the architectural features found on religious structures (Now-3/2/19) THE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY MUSEUM THE TEXTILE MUSEUM

• 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)

701 21st St. NW 202-994-5200 museum.gwu.edu

HILLWOOD MUSEUM & GARDENS

— 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 communities (Now-12/23) • FAIG AHMED: NONVISUAL LANGUAGE — Intimate exhibition introduces new works and installations by acclaimed Azerbaijani artist, who has taken inspiration from Peruvian textiles to create breathtaking woven carpets 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 showing Pierre Charles L’Enfant’s grand city plan, the other capturing the city’s development by 1825, the year of L’Enfant’s death (10/17-12/23) • TEXTILES 101 — An interactive display allowing museumgoers to enter the mind of an artist and explore the basic elements — fiber, structure and color — that influence textile design (Ongoing) • TREASURES FROM THE ALBERT H. SMALL COLLECTION — Recent acquisitions and rare treasures on rotating display from the museum’s repository of maps, prints, rare letters, photographs, and drawings documenting the history of D.C. (Ongoing)

FABERGÉ REDISCOVERED — Unveiling new

A NOMAD’S ART: KILIMS OF ANATOLIA

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)

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4155 Linnean Ave. NW 202-686-5807 hillwoodmuseum.org

discoveries relating to Hillwood’s collection of about 90 Fabergé pieces, including 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-beforeseen artworks from a recent renowned series shows this influential multi-media artist, known for hard-edged minimalism, moving to a more expressive style (Now2/3) • 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 experiences 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 “cyclorama” of eight large, site-specific painting 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-media 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 (10/528) • 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)

• EMILY UCHYTIL: PASSING THROUGH — Larger-than-life paintings of living creatures, from insects to mammals (Now11/4) • MONTGOMERY COUNTY PLEIN AIR ARTISTS (11/17-1/6) • THE 85TH ANNUAL EXHIBITION OF FINE ART IN MINIATURE — Intricately detailed works of art, painstakingly 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 fragments, theater ephemera, and of course photography — particularly vivid, contemporary shots from Baltimore Sun staff photographer Amy Davis — to illuminate themes of memory, loss, and preservation (11/17-10/14/19) • COMMUNITY

POLICING IN THE NATION’S CAPITAL: THE PILOT DISTRICT PROJECT, 1968-1973 —

Organized as part of a citywide commemoration 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 exploring the causes and impacts of eviction through an immersive experience with unique design elements and striking graphics (Now-5/19) • SECRET CITIES:

LONG VIEW GALLERY

MANSION AT STRATHMORE

NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART

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 perspectives on the holiday to remember their loved ones, which is celebrated in different ways in different cultures, all richer than the American stereotype of it as a macabre Mexican Halloween (Now-11/4)

collection to showcase the incredibly rich though easily overlooked tradition of prints and drawings used for humorous 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 nearly 20 feet long (Now-10/28) NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MUSEUM

THE ARCHITECTURE AND PLANNING OF THE MANHATTAN PROJECT — Examining

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)

OF HUMOR — Drawing from the museum’s

the innovative design and construction of three communities built to support the development of the atomic bomb, tracing their precedents in the Bauhaus and other early modern schools of architectural thought (Now-3/3)

3rd St. & Constitution Ave. NW 202-737-4215 nga.gov RACHEL WHITEREAD — A first comprehensive survey of work by this British sculptor, co-organized with Tate Britain, featuring roughly 100 objects from a 30-year career including drawings, photographs, architecture-scaled sculptures, archival 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

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 immersive 3D experience unlike anything seen in a museum before, virtually visiting the church and learning about its storied history, enduring mysteries, and technological advances helping with ongoing 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 partnership 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 museum 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, showcasing 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 society, particularly in the areas of race, gender, 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 headquarters 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 celebration this year will include a special display 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 possible, 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 museum 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 restitution (Now-3/5)

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 interconnected, 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 everywhere in American life, and revealing that Americans have always been fascinated, 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 evolving 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 miniature painting with contemporary political subject matter, as seen in this focused exhibition of works on paper (12/7-4/14)

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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 shaping the Phillips (Now-12/30) • MOVING

FORWARD, LOOKING BACK: A COLLECTION STILL IN THE MAKING — Revealing more

of the Phillips’ history through photographs, exhibition announcements, letters 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 current exhibition of half the space (Now1/21) • DISRUPTING CRAFT: RENWICK INVITATIONAL 2018 — Tanya Aguiñiga, Sharif Bey, Dustin Farnsworth, and Stephanie Syjuco are four artists who challenge 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 (9/283/17) • 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)

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Comedy, Readings, Spoken Word, Multimedia, Tastings, Tours, Etc.

ILY TOMLIN, WANDA SYKES, AND CABLE TV’S TWO Andys — as far as non-singing, non-dancing entertainment goes, those are some of the best and biggest names in show business today. Again this fall, there are an abundance 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 international 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 adventure 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 SEPTEMBER 13, 2018 • METROWEEKLY

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

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)

1333 H St. NE 202-399-7993 atlasarts.org

BIER BARON TAVERN

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)

HEAVY HITTERS END OF SUMMER TAPPING

SILENT FILM: THE FALL OF THE USHER — A

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 featuring 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 SPECIAL 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:

1523 22nd St. NW 202-293-1887 inlovewithbier.com

— 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 comedians 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

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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, headlines 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, featuring more than 250 exhibitors, with additional discussions and seminars, home remodeling projects and hands-on workshops (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 showcases synchronized, freestyle and extreme ice-skating alongside circus acts such as swinging trapeze, aerial straps and handto-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 (9/2122) • SPEECHLESS: THE ULTIMATE IMPROVISATIONAL GAUNTLET (9/27) • SMILEY FROWN W/ROSS BENOIT (9/27) • RAE SANNI (9/28-29) • JAMIE LEE (10/56) • 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 (11/3012/1) • 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 including 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 traditional bilingual Three Kings celebration features 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 documents the work the star D.C. chef fed hundreds of thousands of starving, homeless people in Hurrican Mariaravaged 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 original host and show creator Joel Hodgson as Joel Robinson riffing alongside new MST3K host Jonah Heston aka Jonah Ray as they screen two movies never-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 groundbreaking photographs (10/24) • MAXIM GALKIN — Russian humorist and actor presents his new TV program on tour, with parodies, 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

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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

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 jewelry 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 seasonal plantings (10/9-19) • — GARDENER’S FOCUS: SPECIALTY MUMS — A behindthe-scenes tour of the greenhouse by Hillwood horticulturist Enrique Mendez (10/14-30) • SPOOKY POOCH HOWL-OWEEN CELEBRATION — Strut your mutt in a canine costume competition and purchase 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 participants 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 (11/3012/14) • RUSSIAN WINTER FESTIVAL (12/89) • 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 popular holiday movie’s title (12/4-31, Theater Lab) • PUDDLES PITY PARTY — The “Sad Clown with the Golden Voice” (12/14, Eisenhower Theater)

KARI GINSBURG — Don Michael Mendoza

KRAMERBOOKS

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)

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 without Drinking Herself to Death (9/20) •

SUPER SPECTACULAR COMEDY SHOW FOR HUMANITY! — Grassroots Comedy

and Anya Randall Nebel co-host this professional karaoke/cabaret/variety show with Music Director Paige Rammelkamp with additional guests and musicians to be announced per show (10/15) • GREAT

LINCOLN THEATRE

1215 U St. NW 202-328-6000 thelincolndc.com

WELCOME TO NIGHT VALE — “A Spy in

BYT & NATGEO’S MY PARTY WILL GO ON!

METROCOOKING DC

ROLES YOU’D NEVER PLAY FEATURING 88

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC LIVE!

Featuring David Rudolf and Jerry Buting, moderated by NPR’s Carrie Johnson (11/5)

tank leader offers an unparalleled look at Big Tech in Silicon States, up for discussion 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) Bistro Bistro 1727 Connecticut Ave. NW 202-328-1640 latidoproductions.com

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Grosvenor Auditorium 17th and M Sts. NW 202-857-7700 nationalgeographic.org/dc/

NIGHT AT THE LINCOLN STARRING ANGELA WINBUSH W/LORI WILLIAMS, SHADZ & MC SYLVER (11/4) • INSIDE NETFLIX’S THE STAIRCASE & MAKING A MURDERER —

LA-TI-DO

GET DOWN: CEDRIC THE ENTERTAINER, GEORGE LOPEZ, EDDIE GRIFFIN, D.L. HUGHLEY — The stars of the BET comedy 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

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 theatrical masterclass” (10/29-30) • LADIES

DC pressents this funny fundraiser headlined 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

(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 (11/24) • JIM JEFFERIES (11/9) • THE COMEDY

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 professional 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

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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: — 8th Annual costume party with guest DJs, National Geographic Explorer talks, a photobooth and caricature artist (9/21) • FILM: FREE SOLO — An advance screening 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 expeditions 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 landmark that is considered sacred to indigenous people (10/10) • CONVERSATION:

ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE: RUNNING DRY — Journalist Naveena Sadasivam

moderates a discussion with national 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 academic 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 mysteries, 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 monumental 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 (10/1921) • 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 hoppiest 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 bodybuilding 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 devastating 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) •

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 exploring 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/restaurateurs 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

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

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 inspirational awards-focused program with an open-bar cocktail reception, a silent auction, and a three-course brunch (10/14, Marriott Marquis, 901 Massachusetts Ave. NW)

— Limetown (11/14)

SOLID STATE BOOKS

BETCHES: ALEEN KUPERMAN, SAMANTHA FISHBEIN, AND JORDANA ABRAHAM —

AKERS, SKIP BRONKIE, AND COTE SMITH SMITHSONIAN FOOD HISTORY WEEKEND

National Museum of American History 1400 Constitution Ave. NW 202-633-1000 americanhistory.si.edu/events/food-history-weekend Food world celebrities expected at the fourth annual event are chef/TV personalities BOBBY FLAY, AARΌN SÁNCHEZ, and MANEET CHAUHAN, James Beard

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)

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 holiday gift ideas (11/8-11, Mansion) • WANDA SYKES (11/3, Music Center)

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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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Movies

Desperate Housewife The cheeky thriller A Simple Favor twists itself into knots trying desperately to outsmart the audience. By André Hereford

HE TWISTS AND TURNS OF BIG LITTLE LIES IN THE THRILLER A SIMPLE Favor ( ) eventually lead it off a cliff. But before the Gone Girl clone crashes into self-parody, its cast and glam noir looks generate a joie de vivre that is quite infectious. Anna Kendrick is perky to the max as down-to-earth single mom and passionate food and crafts vlogger Stephanie Smothers. Recently widowed and new to town, Stephanie is gratified to see her second-grader Miles (Joshua Satine) become fast friends with a boy in his class, Nicky (Ian Ho). And she’s overjoyed when Nicky’s impeccably glamorous and beautiful mom Emily (Blake Lively) somehow deigns to befriend a mousy, regular gal like her. At the boys’ private school in this gossipy Connecticut town, Emily, a Porschedriving, New York City fashion publicist, is the mom all the other moms love to envy and obsess over. So, of course, Stephanie is thrilled to set down her cookie sheets to kick back and clink martinis with the coolest blonde in town. She’s the coolest mom, with the hottest husband, Sean, a stalled novelist whom Emily can’t keep her hands off of — especially since he’s played by box office hunk of the summer Henry Golding (Crazy Rich Asians). Despite the couple’s luxe life and flagrant displays of affection, Emily drops plenty of hints that all’s not wine and roses for her and her handsome hubby. Then, one day, she asks Stephanie the simple favor of picking up Nicky at school, and promptly disappears off the face of the planet. Stephanie immediately gets to sleuthing, and Kendrick is just the right actor to convey the earnest concern that propels the character to chase down every clue. But those clues eventually lead Stephanie, and the film, down a dark tunnel of dead-end turns. Directed by Paul Feig (Bridesmaids) with a gleeful sense of mischief, the film, based on the novel by Darcey Bell, piles revelations upon twists upon double-crosses, but never comes up with anything truly surprising. The plotting appears more desper-

ate than cunning in the obvious effort 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 turns and jaunty French pop soundtrack. The proceedings hit peak preciousness with a third-act tête-à-tête conducted over wisecracks and cocktails in a cemetery. It’s all too cutesy by the end, and the solution to the mystery not satisfying enough to warrant the laboriously circuitous trail. Kendrick is chipper fun as the determined, self-deprecating Stephanie, who also occasionally lets loose a sliver of the darkness underlining her good cheer. She and Lively both get into the groove of the film’s winking tone, although neither really sells the segue into Hitchcockian murderousness. Lively well embodies the golden, amiable alpha that the script calls for, but she does little to suggest the depths of pain and deviousness driving the enigmatic Emily. The full scope of Emily’s dysfunction just doesn’t resonate from Lively’s performance. Golding, the unsteady third leg of this emotional triangle, is not at all compelling, although he certainly is swoon-worthy eye candy. Lushly attired by costume designer Renee Ehrlich Kalfus, he and Lively look like movie stars every step of the way. Fortunately, there are delights other than just the vicarious thrills of living and continues on page 94

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Music

Sivan

Queer Pop Princes I

Troye Sivan and Jake Shears embrace sexuality and self-love on a standout sophomore album and a fantastic solo debut. By Sean Maunier

N HIS 2013 COMING-OUT VIDEO, TROYE SIVAN EXPRESSED A FEELING that would end up guiding his career. Reacting to the mantra, “It Gets Better,” Sivan retorted that we shouldn’t necessarily have to wait for things to get better — they can be great right here and now. His second album Bloom (HHHHH) exists in a world where coming out is an afterthought, and gay love in particular is free, joyful and, above all, celebrated. Sivan is a talented artist who obviously deserves recognition for more than the fact that he is a gay pop star, but he has straightforwardly and openly centred his sexuality on this record, making his queerness the focal point of the love songs on the album. The catchy slow burn “Seventeen” is a bold choice of an album opener, detailing a hookup with an older man told from Sivan’s perspective. In the lyrics, the singer bluntly recalls the tension between his active pursuit and the way he was taken advantage of in retrospect. Sivan gives us other moments of pathos on tracks like “The Good Side,” “Postcard,” and “Animal,” which slow down the pop beats to create a more melancholy atmosphere. The emotion comes across as honest and they work well for what they are, but none of them are quite as affecting and visceral as the opener. Bloom is instead at its strongest when he is leaning into the more joyful sides of the queer experience, as he does on the title track “Bloom,” a catchy, understated celebration of bottoming. Another strong track, “Dance to This,” has him hold his own alongside Ariana Grande. The overlooked highlight of the album might just be “Plum,” a catchy track full of enough thinly-veiled fruit metaphors to make anyone who saw Call Me By Your Name blush. If Troye Sivan’s first record can be seen as his timid step outside of the closet, then this one gleefully takes a sledgehammer to it. Bloom dares to imagine a world where the closet need not exist, where queer love and all its aspects can be embraced with joy and enthusiasm. 92

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CALL IT A DEBUT, or call it a comeback, 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 to Scissor Sisters, his first solo record Jake Shears (HHHHH) was probably never going to escape comparison with his former band. The album does draw on a lot of familiar energy and camp, but with the focus now on Shears himself, he is more able to craft songs in his own image. During his time with Scissor Sisters, Shears became a master at packaging a chaotic mix of influences into songs that were incredibly catchy, usually campy, and often overtly, unapologetically queer. The angst-saturated, stadium-sized lead single “Creep City” is the most infectious track of the album and can easily stand alongside any of Scissor Sisters’ hits. “S.O.B.” (“sex on the brain”) and “Clothes Off” are saturated with a campy, yet visceral sexuality that recalls Night Work in its upfront, in-your-face homoeroticism. Make no mistake though — this album is much more than a Scissor Sisters redux. Going solo gives Shears more room to draw on personal themes. One of the highlights of the album is “Big Bushy Mustache,” a self-image anthem with a clear message: Jake Shears loves his facial hair, and he wants you to love yours, too. Self love is a recurring theme of the album, usually coming through in the form of a cocky

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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 earnest 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 overwhelming feeling of Jake Shears is one of picking up and moving forward. 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 unreliable narrators of their secrets, in a move intended to stir the perplexing 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

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Madhouses

Woolly puts forth a vicious comedy of office politics, while Folger offers stunningly unique version of Macbeth. By Kate Wingfield

HERE IS A PROVOCATIVE KIND OF COMMENT HUMMING AROUND Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ Gloria (HHHHH), a play with a premise that might have been, as they say, ripped from the headlines. The controversy is not in his assumption that our casually brutal communities (online, in class, at work) — in which alpha snark and savvy decide who “belongs” and who doesn’t — put pressure on the psychologically fragile. It is his subtler suggestion that in breeding and feeding this culture of self-obsessed one-upmanship, we are far more deeply entwined in the violence erupting in our communities than we realize or would like to believe. Whether one agrees wholly with Jacobs-Jenkins or not, his delivery is, as always, clever, devious, and unrelenting, in equal measures. Luring us in with a very funny take on a typical office of perpetually disgruntled, competitive and/or self-involved minions, Jacobs-Jenkins pulls the rug out and then returns for a second act in which he explores his more damning points. If his people originally seemed harmlessly charmless, now, in the aftermath of tragedy, they reveal something deep and insidious: the me-first ethos has not just survived the unimaginable, it has been fed by it. But as important the subject and as interesting Jacobs-Jenkins’ take, the play must nevertheless work — as written and as delivered. Here, the end-result is somewhat mixed. First is Jacobs-Jenkins’ choice to keep it rather too simple. He touches with only the broadest brush strokes the reasons for violence. It may be his eagerness to get to the psychology of the aftermath (and its relation to his characters as a whole), but it feels unconvincing. It’s hard not to reflect that the vast majority of us will endure conniving, bitchy office-mates without snapping. The challenges continue with Jacobs-Jenkins’ tonal about-face in the second act. With a first act that runs like clockwork with its perfectly-pitched one-liners (at least until the violence), the pace of the second feels awkward by comparison. The care-free characters from the first act have all been irrevocably changed, fair enough, but their

interactions now seem labored, the dialogue 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 surmount 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-traumatic version) and his brief but cleverly-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 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 officemates. This is a challenging role because 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 being funny and being damaging never quite works. Still, she chews through her fast and furious patter with some stunning dexterity. As Gloria, Alyssa Wilmoth Keegan is similarly caught between playing it large enough to forward the arc versus finding authenticity. Ultimately — and this rests with Jacobs-Jenkins’ choice to keep her peripheral — the former wins and her woman ends up presenting more like a plot-mover, and a potted vision of the alienated and disturbed. In her Nan, the pretend-nice, ruthless boss most of us have encountered in one form or another, Keegan shows her versatility in capturing this pampered woman. But the Starbucks monologue given to her by Jacobs-Jenkins is symptomatic of everything in the second act: as meaningful as the gist may be, people just don’t talk like this and the artifice undoes so much of what the first act built. Finally, credit to set designer Misha Kachman for a clever kind of intimacy between employees and audience — and respect to Fagan for the care and craft in showing the violence through these sets. As with any art that touches on topical tragedy, the questions must be: is this genuine? Are the choices justified? Even flawed, the answers here are yes.

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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 version 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 century audience as it might have been to our 17th century cousins. Thus, assuming their penchant for mannered, gesticulatory 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 superstition 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,

caves and walls when the authentic action takes hold. What serves as the dingy, candle-lit dungeon of Bedlam transforms easily 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, something with a darker soul — one that doesn’t feature the returning presence of an adorable child (a near-universal guarantee that nothing 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 delivering 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 hovering, 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 newfound machismo), the next he is giving her a hasty grope (like a bizarre afterthought), the next he is asking after her with tenderness. 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 wonderful 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 emotional commitment (though the louder he gets, the less effective). 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-transformation 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

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. 96

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Underbaked

GALA’s Como Agua para Chocolate lacks a few key ingredients, while REP’s Sweeney Todd needed a little longer in the oven. By André Hereford

OVE, SORROW, AND LONGING ARE FOLDED INTO THE PLOT AND INTO each delectable dish described in Mexican author Laura Esquivel’s beloved 1989 novel Como Agua para Chocolate (English title: Like Water for Chocolate). That bittersweet recipe produced an equally popular film, directed by Esquivel’s ex-husband Alfonso Arau, and now begets a theatrical adaptation, care of Spanish playwright Garbi Losada. Making its U.S. premiere at GALA Hispanic Theatre under the assured direction of Olga Sánchez, Como Agua para Chocolate ( ), performed in Spanish with English surtitles, captures the poetry and magical realism that have stirred fans of the story’s previous incarnations. Sánchez and company dive passionately into the multi-generational epic romance, spiced with dashes of narration and fantasy. Employing a keen sense of where to move the actors, and of transitioning the action across time and space, Sánchez, greatly abetted by Christopher Annas-Lee’s lighting design, keeps the narrative flowing with grace and imagination. Decades pass, but scenic designer Mariana Fernández’s set stays mostly the same, serving faultlessly as the homestead of the familia at the heart of the tale. The family’s matriarch, Mamá Elena (Luz Nicolás), runs their ranch with a steady hand on her rifle, and her eyes pointed towards tradition. Her family’s history dictates that her youngest daughter Tita (Inéz Dominguez del Corral) can never marry, but instead must spend her life serving her mother until one of them dies. It’s a raw deal for Tita, who’s already stolen the heart of their neighbor Pedro (Peter Pereyra). He declares his love for Tita the very first time they meet. But tradition rules, and Tita’s bad luck is her older sister Rosaura’s good fortune, as Mamá Elena refuses Pedro’s appeal for Tita’s hand in marriage and forces him to take Rosaura (Guadalupe Campos) instead. Pedro dutifully agrees to marry the sister he doesn’t love, reckoning that at least he’ll be nearer to the sister he actually loves. Perhaps simply breathing the same air will be enough to quench their desire.

Well, anyone older than a fifth grader knows this arrangement can only lead to misery, and it does. But the shared knowledge that Pedro’s marriage to his true love’s sister can’t end well is part of what binds the audience to these characters. Tita and Pedro and Elena’s extreme nods to convention and emotion are played out in grand style, across a landscape shaken by a violent revolution, and yet Tita’s dilemma comes down to the simple thwarting of a noble love. Her plight is an oppression of her gender, her spirit, and her independence — but true love cannot be oppressed, the story says. Tita pours her thwarted love into her food, and manages to change her world that way. Therein lie the story’s other potent points of connection: food, and the shared experiences of preparing and eating a meal, gathering in the kitchen, or around the family table. Nearly everyone is vulnerable to the power of those shared experiences, and the script cleverly exploits that universal relationship to food, dramatizing how it can bring joy or discomfort, pleasure or sadness. Tita’s food contains and expresses her emotions. Said to have been born crying, and swept from her mother’s belly on a wave of tears, Tita can cry into a casserole, and the taste of it will reduce a table full of diners to heaving sobs. Clearly, there’s magic in Tita’s cooking, an otherworldly specialness that animates 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 adoration, but not in command of her own will and desires. Tita’s trial of deprivation should produce a knowing woman from the innocent girl introduced in the first act, but del Corral only faintly relays the evolution. Pereyra does better getting under the skin of Pedro, a lovesick 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 plotlines a tightly cohesive portrait of a family (and nation) shaped by tradition, revolution, sex, food, and magic.

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 munchkin 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 innuendo 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 murderous pursuits, as he and Lovett turn his barber shop into a butcher

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 commentary — 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, controlling 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 suggesting 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 choreographed 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 lively 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

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. 98

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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... Thursday, September 13 9 1/2 Happy Hour: 2 for 1 on any drink, 5-9pm • Multiple TVs showing movies, shows, sports • Expanded craft beer selection • Music videos featuring DJ Wess A LEAGUE OF HER OWN 2319 18th St. NW Doors open, 5pm-2am • Happy Hour: $2 off everything until 9pm • Video Games • Live televised sports FREDDIE’S BEACH BAR Crazy Hour, 4-8pm • Karaoke, 9pm

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GREEN LANTERN Happy Hour, 4-9pm • Shirtless Thursday, 10-11pm • Men in Underwear Drink Free, 12-12:30am • DJs BacK2bACk NELLIE’S SPORTS BAR Beat the Clock Happy Hour — $2 (5-6pm), $3 (6-7pm), $4 (7-8pm) • $15 Buckets of Beer all night • Sports Leagues Night NUMBER NINE Happy Hour: 2 for 1 on any drink, 5-9pm • No Cover PITCHERS 2317 18th St. NW Open 5pm-2am • Happy Hour: $2 off everything until 9pm • Video Games • Foosball • Live televised sports • Full dining menu

till 9pm • Special Late Night menu till 11pm • Visit pitchersbardc.com

Friday, September 14

9 1/2 Open at 5pm • Happy Hour: 2 for 1 on any drink, 5-9pm • Friday Night Videos, 9:30pm • Rotating DJs • Expanded craft beer selection • No Cover

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 ZIEGFELD’S/SECRETS All male, nude dancers • Open Dancers Audition • Urban House Music by DJ Tim-e • 9pm • Cover 21+

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A LEAGUE OF HER OWN 2319 18th St. NW Doors open, 5pm-3am • Happy Hour: $2 off everything until 9pm • Video Games • Live televised sports FREDDIE’S BEACH BAR Crazy Hour, 4-8pm • Karaoke, 9pm GREEN LANTERN Happy Hour, 4-9pm • $3 Rail and Domestic • Free Pizza, 7-9pm • $5 Svedka, all flavors all night long • HybridNine: Stripped, a

Harness and Jock Party, 10pm-close • Featuring DJ Ryan Doubleyou • No Cover NELLIE’S SPORTS BAR Open 3pm • Beat the Clock Happy Hour — $2 (5-6pm), $3 (6-7pm), $4 (7-8pm) • Buckets of Beer, $15 • Weekend Kickoff Dance Party, with Nellie’s DJs spinning bubbly pop music all night NUMBER NINE Open 5pm • Happy Hour: 2 for 1 on any drink, 5-9pm • No Cover • Friday Night Piano with Chris, 7:30pm PITCHERS 2317 18th St. NW Open 5pm-3am • Happy Hour: $2 off everything until 9pm • Video Games • Foosball • Live televised sports • Full dining menu

till 9pm • Special Late Night menu till 2am • Visit pitchersbardc.com 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 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 • Otter Happy Hour, 5-11pm ZIEGFELD’S/SECRETS Men of Secrets, 9pm • Guest dancers • Rotating DJs • Kristina Kelly’s Diva Fev-ah Drag Show • Doors at 9pm, Shows at 11:30pm and 1:45am • DJ Don T. in Ziegfeld’s • Cover 21+

NIGHTLIFE HIGHLIGHTS

Saturday, September 15 9 1/2 Happy Hour: 2 for 1 on any drink, 2-9pm • $5 Absolut and $5 Bulleit Bourbon, 9pm-close • Expanded craft beer selection • No Cover A LEAGUE OF HER OWN 2319 18th St. NW Doors open, 2pm-3am • Video Games • Live televised sports FREDDIE’S BEACH BAR Saturday Breakfast Buffet, 10am-3pm • $14.99 with one glass of champagne or coffee, soda or juice • Additional champagne $2 per glass • World Tavern Poker Tournament, 1-3pm • Crazy Hour, 4-8pm • Freddie’s Follies Drag Show, hosted by Miss Destiny B. Childs, 8-10pm • Karaoke, 10pm-close

GREEN LANTERN Happy Hour, 4-9pm • $5 Bacardi, all flavors, all night long • The Bear Cave: Retro to Electro Music, 9pm-close • Featuring DJ Popperz • No Cover NELLIE’S SPORTS BAR Drag Brunch, hosted by Chanel Devereaux, 10:30am-12:30pm and 1-3pm • Tickets on sale at nelliessportsbar.com • House Rail Drinks, Zing Zang Bloody Marys, Nellie Beer and Mimosas, $4, 11am-3am • Buckets of Beer, $15 • Guest DJs NUMBER NINE Doors open 2pm • Happy Hour: 2 for 1 on any drink, 2-9pm • $5 Absolut and $5 Bulleit Bourbon, 9pm-close • THIRSTY, featuring DJ Chord Bezerra, 9:30pm

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 soulful house party that draws a mixed crowd, in all the right ways. This Friday, Sept. 14, Nate and her partner-inDeep Sugar Lisa Moody launch a multi-city tour to celebrate the party’s first 15 years from the D.C. nightclub they refer to as their home away from home. Mookie Brock is warm-up DJ. Friday, Sept. 14, starting at 9 p.m. U Ultra Naté Street Music Hall, 1115A U St. NW. Tickets are $10. Call 202-588-1880 or visit ustreetmusichall.com.

MARCO CERRONE

DEEP SUGAR’S 15TH ANNIVERSARY TOUR

DRINK COMPANY: GWAR PUB

With the threat of a lawsuit at the eleventh hour, Warner Bros. last month forced Derek Brown, Angie Fetherston, and fellow Drink-ers to cancel the opening of their immersive tribute to the animated TV series Rick and Morty that they had spent the summer assembling. As a result, two of the three small connected spaces in the Drink Company’s Shaw pop-up bar, or PUB, remain dark until the November relaunch of the popular holiday-themed Miracle on 7th Street extravaganza. But Richmond’s GWAR has been tapped to lift spirits in the complex’s third bar, decked out with outrageous stage props and costumes in a 34-year retrospective of the heavy metal heads. One of his favorite bands, Brown describes GWAR as a “funnier KISS, on steroids, during a WWE 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 202-3169396 or visit popupbardc.com. Compiled by Doug Rule SEPTEMBER 13, 2018 • METROWEEKLY

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PITCHERS 2317 18th St. NW Open Noon-3am • Video Games • Foosball • Live televised sports • Full dining menu till 9pm • Special Late Night menu till 2am • Visit pitchersbardc.com SHAW’S TAVERN Brunch with $15 Bottomless Mimosas, 10am-3pm • Happy Hour, 5-7pm • $3 Miller Lite, $4 Blue Moon, $5 House Wines, $5 Rail Drinks • Half-Priced Pizzas and Select Appetizers TRADE Doors open 2pm • Huge Happy Hour: Any drink normally served in a cocktail glass served in a huge glass for the same price, 2-10pm • Beer and wine only $4 • Gay Bash, 10pm-close • An alternative dance party and drag show • Hosted by Donna

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Slash • Featuring JaxKnife Complex, Salvadora Dali, and Jane Saw • Music by The Barber Streisand ZIEGFELD’S/SECRETS Men of Secrets, 9pm-4am • Guest dancers • Ladies of Illusion Drag Show with host Ella Fitzgerald • Doors at 9pm, Shows at 11:30pm and 1:45am • DJ Don T. in Ziegfeld’s • DJ Steve Henderson in Secrets • Cover 21+

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9 1/2 Happy Hour: 2 for 1 on any drink, 2-9pm • $5 Absolut and $5 Bulleit Bourbon, 9pm-close • Multiple TVs showing movies, shows, sports • Expanded craft beer selection • No Cover

A LEAGUE OF HER OWN 2319 18th St. NW Doors open, 2pm-12am • $4 Smirnoff and Domestic Cans • Video Games • Live televised sports FREDDIE’S BEACH BAR Champagne Brunch Buffet, 10am-3pm • $24.99 with four glasses of champagne or mimosas, 1 Bloody Mary, or coffee, soda or juice • Crazy Hour, 4-8pm • Karaoke, 9pm-close GREEN LANTERN Happy Hour, 4-9pm • Karaoke with Kevin downstairs, 9:30pm-close NELLIE’S SPORTS BAR Drag Brunch, hosted by Chanel Devereaux, 10:30am-12:30pm and 1-3pm • Tickets on sale at nelliessportsbar.com • House Rail Drinks, Zing Zang Bloody Marys, Nellie

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Beer and Mimosas, $4, 11am-1am • Buckets of Beer, $15 • Guest DJs NUMBER NINE Happy Hour: 2 for 1 on any drink, 2-9pm • $5 Absolut and $5 Bulleit Bourbon, 9pm-close • Pop Goes the World with Wes Della Volla at 9:30pm • No Cover PITCHERS 2317 18th St. NW Open Noon-2am • $4 Smirnoff, includes flavored, $4 Coors Light or $4 Miller Lites, 2-9pm • Video Games • Foosball • Live televised sports • Full dining menu till 9pm • Visit pitchersbardc.com SHAW’S TAVERN Brunch with Bottomless Mimosas, 10am-3pm • Happy Hour, 5-7pm • $3 Miller Lite, $4 Blue Moon,

$5 House Wines, $5 Rail Drinks • Half-Priced Pizzas and Select Appetizers • Dinner-n-Drag, with Miss Kristina Kelly, 8pm • For reservations, email shawsdinnerdragshow@ gmail.com TRADE Doors open 2pm • Huge Happy Hour: Any drink normally served in a cocktail glass served in a huge glass for the same price, 2-10pm • Beer and wine only $4

Monday, September 17 9 1/2 Happy Hour: 2 for 1 on any drink, 5-9pm • Multiple TVs showing movies, shows, sports • Expanded

craft beer selection • No Cover FREDDIE’S BEACH BAR Crazy Hour, 4-8pm • Singles Night • Half-Priced Pasta Dishes • Poker Night — 7pm and 9pm games • Karaoke, 9pm GREEN LANTERN Happy Hour, 4-9pm • $3 rail cocktails and domestic beers all night long • Singing with the Sisters: Open Mic Karaoke Night with the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, 9:30pm-close NELLIE’S SPORTS BAR Beat the Clock Happy Hour — $2 (5-6pm), $3 (6-7pm), $4 (7-8pm) • Buckets of Beer, $15 • Half-Priced Burgers • Paint Nite, 7pm • PokerFace Poker, 8pm • Dart Boards • Ping Pong Madness, featuring 2 PingPong Tables

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

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Tuesday, September 18

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

9 1/2 Happy Hour: 2 for 1 on any drink, 5-9pm • Multiple TVs showing movies, shows, sports • Expanded craft beer selection • No Cover

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

A LEAGUE OF HER OWN 2319 18th St. NW Doors open, 5pm-12am • Happy Hour: $2 off everything until 9pm • Video Games • Live televised sports FREDDIE’S BEACH BAR Crazy Hour, 4-8pm • Taco Tuesday • Poker Night — 7pm and 9pm games • Karaoke, 9pm GREEN LANTERN Happy Hour, 4pm-9pm • $3 rail cocktails and domestic beers all night long

NELLIE’S SPORTS BAR Beat the Clock Happy Hour — $2 (5-6pm), $3 (6-7pm), $4 (7-8pm) • Buckets of Beer $15 • Drag Bingo with Sasha Adams and Brooklyn Heights, 7-9pm • Karaoke, 9pm-close NUMBER NINE Happy Hour: 2 for 1 on any drink, 5-9pm • No Cover PITCHERS 2317 18th St. NW Open 5pm-12am • Happy Hour: $2 off everything until 9pm • Video Games • Foosball • Live televised sports • Full dining menu till 9pm • Special Late Night menu till 11pm • Visit pitchersbardc.com 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 •

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

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 Secrets in Washington, D.C. He also holds many residencies across the country, including clubs in Chicago, Milwaukee, Pittsburgh, and Baltimore. Stream his mixes at mixcloud.com/djstevehenderson. Listen to this Playlist at Metroweekly.com.

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Wednesday, September 19 9 1/2 Happy Hour: 2 for 1 on any drink, 5-9pm • Multiple TVs showing movies, shows, sports • Expanded craft beer selection • No Cover A LEAGUE OF HER OWN 2319 18th St. NW Doors open, 5pm-12am • Happy Hour: $2 off everything until 9pm • Video Games • Live televised sports FREDDIE’S BEACH BAR Crazy Hour, 4-8pm • $6 Burgers • Beach Blanket Drag Bingo Night, hosted by Ms. Regina Jozet Adams, 8pm • Bingo prizes • Karaoke, 10pm-1am

GREEN LANTERN Happy Hour, 4pm-9pm • Bear Yoga with Greg Leo, 6:30-7:30pm • $10 per class • $3 rail cocktails and domestic beers all night long NELLIE’S SPORTS BAR SmartAss Trivia Night, 8-10pm • Prizes include bar tabs and tickets to shows at the 9:30 Club • $15 Buckets of Beer for SmartAss Teams only • Absolutely Snatched Drag Show, hosted by Brooklyn Heights, 9pm • Tickets available at nelliessportsbar.com NUMBER NINE Happy Hour: 2 for 1 on any drink, 5-9pm • No Cover

PITCHERS 2317 18th St. NW Doors open, 5pm-12am • Happy Hour: $2 off everything until 9pm • Video Games • Foosball • Live televised sports • Full dining menu till 9pm • Special Late Night menu till 11pm • Visit pitchersbardc.com 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 • Piano Bar and Karaoke with Jill, 8pm 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

Thursday, September 20 9 1/2 Happy Hour: 2 for 1 on any drink, 5-9pm • Multiple TVs showing movies, shows, sports • Expanded craft beer selection • Music videos featuring DJ Wess A LEAGUE OF HER OWN 2319 18th St. NW Doors open, 5pm-2am • Happy Hour: $2 off everything until 9pm • Video Games • Live televised sports FREDDIE’S BEACH BAR Crazy Hour, 4-8pm • Karaoke, 9pm

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 • All You Can Eat Ribs, 5-10pm, $24.95 • $4 Corona and Heineken all night • Coco Social: Pasta Making Class, Second Floor, 6:30pm 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 ZIEGFELD’S/SECRETS All male, nude dancers • Open Dancers Audition • Urban House Music by DJ Tim-e • 9pm • Cover 21+ l

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Scene

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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 transgender 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 reassignment 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.

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— 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.

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— 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 period. “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.

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