2019 Fall Arts Preview

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CONTENTS

THESPIANISM

Now is the right time to see a local stage production, thanks to theatreWashington’s annual Theatre Week offerings.

By Doug Rule

UNSTEADY CABIN

LGBTQ Republicans differ on whether Log Cabin was justified in endorsing President Trump’s re-election bid.

By John Riley

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Volume 26 Issue 19

FALL ARTS PREVIEW 2019

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Film, Stage, Pop/Rock/Folk/Jazz/Blues, Classical & Choral, Dance, Museums & Galleries, and Above & Beyond.

By André Hereford, Rhuaridh Marr, Doug Rule, and Randy Shulman

SPOTLIGHT: DIXIE LONGATE p.7 OUT ON THE TOWN p.10 SELF PORTRAIT: RODNEY EVANS p.14 COMMUNITY CALENDAR p.21 NIGHTLIFE: FLASHY SUNDAY p.87 NIGHTLIFE LISTINGS p.88 LAST WORD p.94 Washington, D.C.’s Best LGBTQ Magazine for 25 Years 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 Illustrators David Amoroso, 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 Judy Garland Cover Illustration David Amoroso 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

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BRADFORD ROGNE

N 2000, KRIS Andersson was just another actor living in L.A. eking out a living.

“You work a little, you don't work a little, you work a little, you don't work a little,” he says.

And then something happened that would forever transform his life. He went with a friend to a Tupperware party.

The woman selling the wares was very persuasive, and Andersson signed up to host Tupperware parties to make extra money. “A friend of mine dared me to do them in drag,” he says, noting that he’d not done drag before. “So I started doing Tupperware parties in people's living rooms [as Dixie]. And it grew and grew and grew.” The gimmick was so successful, Andersson became the company’s top seller nationwide.

In 2004, a theater director suggested Andersson turn Dixie’s sales pitch into a full-fledged one-person show. And A Tupperware Party with Dixie Longate was born — all with Tupperware’s blessing.

“When I took it out of the living room and to the stage, I wanted it to be more than just a comedy show. I wanted it to have a true theatrical arc and to have meaning behind it. The whole show is really a love letter to women. It's a show about women's empowerment and finding what you're truly capable of and not shying away from doing something amazing for yourself. It's an allegory of women's empowerment told through the Tupperware party.”

The show played off-Broadway for several years, earning

Andersson a Drama Desk nod. In 2008, he took it on tour. “We are now one of the longest-running off-Broadway tours in history,” he says. “Which is kind of crazy.”

Andersson, who rarely does interviews out of character, is careful to note that he’s not bringing the full production next Thursday and Friday, Sept. 19 and 20, when he performs for a special Tupperware party benefitting D.C.’s Different Drummers. “The show is a bigger machine than just me coming in and doing it,” he says. To keep costs down, so more money can go to the organization, Dixie will be “doing storytelling and a Tupperware party.” Moreover, any of Andersson’s commissions made from the sale of Tupperware on both nights are being donated to DCDD. The 49-year-old Pittsburgh native notes that while he performs in drag, “Dixie is a real person in our world. She's a real woman with three kids from Alabama. She's been married three times. All three husbands are out of the picture now. Some of them might not be around anymore, but she's never been indicted in any of their murders, so that's very important to note.”

Andersson would love to see the LGBTQ embrace the Tupperware brand. “Basically they're letting a drag queen be the face of a global publicly-traded company,” he says. “I literally want every gay guy across the country to find some little old lady who’s selling Tupperware in their community and book a party with her. I would love that.” —Randy Shulman

Dixie Longate

A Tupperware Party with Dixie Longate is Thursday, Sept. 19 and Friday, Sept. 20, at 7 p.m. at Arena Stage, 1101 6th St. SW. Tickets are $45-$80. Visit www.dcdd.org/dixie.

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Spotlight THIS IS NOT BERLIN

Filmmaker Hari Sama's semi-autobiographical comingof-age drama is a smart, uber-queer, Mexican indie that shouldn't be overlooked. The story of high school buddies Carlos and Gera growing up fast in '80s Mexico City has a sexy, punk/New Wave angle that should appeal to queer alternative folks who came of age in that era, cut with a contemporary cool that might also appeal to audiences who didn't paint on eyeliner, tease and gel their hair up to the ceiling, and spend their teenage nights pogo-ing with birds of a feather inside their favorite haunt. The cast, including the 2018 Oscar nominee for Roma, Marina de Tavira, as Carlos' disapproving mom, rocks, and so does the Spanish-language New Wave soundtrack. Opens Friday, Sept. 13. Landmark’s E Street Cinema, 555 11th St. NW. Call 202-452-7672 or visit www.landmarktheatres.com. (André Hereford)

THE B-52’S

Fred Schneider returns to the area with his “Love Shack” pack (including fellow LGBTQ members Keith Strickland and Kate Pierson), this time as part of a 40th Anniversary Tour, which comes in support of a first-ever official history of the band published by Da Capo Press. The group is also working to develop an authorized documentary about the group with producer Fred Armisen and director Craig Johnson. The group’s debut at the Anthem next week will be accompanied by opening sets from fellow ’80s-era hitmakers Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark and Berlin (“Take My Breath Away”). Tuesday, Sept. 17. Doors at 6:30 p.m. 901 Wharf St. SW. Tickets are $55 to $95. Call 202-888-0020 or visit www.theanthemdc.com.

MARYLAND LYRIC OPERA: PAIRING OF TWO ONE-ACT OPERAS

Music Director Louis Salemno launches a new season of this young, singer-focused troupe with a concert pairing two celebrated one-act operas: Il Tabarro by Giacomo Puccini and the haunting Cavalleria Rusticana by Pietro Mascagni. Susan Bullock, Mark Delavan, Jonathan Burton, Jill Gardner, and Yi Li lead the cast of principal soloists accompanied by the 80-member Maryland Lyric Opera Orchestra and Chorus with concertmaster Jose Miguel Cueto and chorus master Steven Gathman. Saturday, Sept. 13, at 7:30 p.m., and Sunday, Sept. 14, at 2 p.m. Music Center at Strathmore, 5301 Tuckerman Lane, North Bethesda. Tickets are $35 to $75. Call 301-581-5100 or visit www.strathmore.org.

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Out On The Town

RA XTRA: GAY CHORUS DEEP SOUTH

Called into action by the 2016 election — and the accompanying wave of discriminatory bills and laws that came crashing down especially hard on LGBTQ communities in the South — the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus jumped on a tour bus and headed for Tennessee. David Charles Rodrigues and an eight-person film crew were along for every mile of the tour’s course from Tennessee through Mississippi, Alabama, and the Carolinas. Gay Chorus Deep South pursues the Chorus’ mission of unity with song, sass, and through the personal stories of several chorus members — chief among them the SFGMC Artistic Director and Conductor Dr. Tim Seelig, a former Southern Baptist minister. Seelig, a bright and funny presence, leads the chorus through perhaps the film’s most moving moment, as they sing a traditional Irish blessing while gathered among family and friends who’ve come to see them perform. The film, next up in the monthly screening series from Reel Affirmations, conveys a strong message of openness, while also presenting the SFGMC’s Southern tour as a fierce act of resistance. Thursday, Sept. 19, at 7 p.m. Landmark’s E Street Cinema, 555 11th St. NW. Tickets are $14. Call 202-452-7672 or visit thedccenter.org. (André Hereford) Compiled by Doug Rule

FILM BONNIE AND CLYDE

The 1967 classic starring Warren Beauty and Faye Dunaway as Depression-era bank robbers in love returns to the big screen as part of the Capital Classics series at Landmark’s West End Cinema.

Directed with a ferocity by Arthur Penn, Bonnie and Clyde, co-starring Geraldine Page and Gene Hackman, is renowned for its bloodbath climax, a precursor to Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather.

Wednesday, Sept. 18, 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 $12.50 each. Call 202-534-1907 or visit www.landmarktheatres.com.

HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH

The film version of John Cameron Mitchell’s wildly imaginative

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musical comedy-drama features brilliantly subdued lighting effects and animated sequences, a strong cast including Mitchell in the title role, and an infectious punk score

by Stephen Trask. All of that is what makes it a recurring hit on the “midnight movie” circuit, with another run at Landmark’s E Street Cinema set for next weeekend.

But the 2001 film earned its place in Metro Weekly’s list of “25 Gay Films Everyone Should See: The Sequel” chiefly on account of its story, which subtly, slyly captures the ongoing struggle for recognition of the transgender community in mainstream society. The fictional trans title character effectively stands in for many actual transgender people who understandably harbor some resentment over mainstream society’s routine ignorance, even discrimination. Hedwig, the ”internationally ignored song stylist,” doggedly pursues respect in

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a world that makes fun of her and bluntly refuses to understand her predicament. The ultimate message: Hedwig cannot be denied. Friday, Sept. 13, and Saturday, Sept. 14, at midnight. 555 11th St. NW. Tickets are $10. Call 202-452-7672 or visit www.landmarktheatres.com.

LINDA RONSTADT: THE SOUND OF MY VOICE

At the peak of her success, Linda Ronstadt, one of the most successful recording artists of all time, turned away from pop music to explore a variety of other genres, from American standards to operetta to traditional Mexican canciones.

Sadly, her singing voice has been silenced due to Parkinson’s disease.

Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman, the award-winning gay documentarians behind The Times of Harvey Milk and HOWL, offer a musical biography telling Ronstadt’s story through her own words and music,

as well as commentary by professional colleagues including Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris, Bonnie Raitt, and Jackson Browne. Opens Friday, Sept. 13. Area theaters, including the Angelika at Mosaic, 2911 District Ave., Fairfax, Va. Call 571-512-3301 or visit www.angelikafilmcenter.com.

SMITHSONIAN’S BACK TO SCHOOL FILM SERIES

This weekend, the Warner Bros.

Theater in the National Museum of American History offers a mini-film festival focused on popular films about teenagers and set in or around school. On Saturday, Sept. 14, the lineup includes Footloose at 12:30 p.m., Grease at 2:30 p.m., and School of Rock at 4:30 p.m., while Sunday, Sept. 15, offers Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone at 12:15 p.m., The Breakfast Club at 3:10 p.m., and Mean Girls at 5 p.m. On Saturday night from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. there’s even a dance

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TODD FRANSON

Austin

THESPIANISM

Now is the right time to see a local stage production, thanks to theatreWashington’s annual Theatre Week offerings.

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ARLIER THIS YEAR, ACTORS’ EQUITY ASSOCIATION released a report calling D.C. “the fastest-growing theater city” in the nation, based on the amount of work being done here.

“It's another confirmation about what a strong town we are for theater,” says Amy Austin, president of theatreWashing-

ton. The organization is currently helping residents get better acquainted with the local theater scene through its annual Theatre Week promotion, loosely based on the concept of Restaurant Week. “It’s designed to make it easier for people to see what’s going on in their neighborhoods, and the different kinds of theater there. And it's designed to have you try something new. So if you like musicals, you might want to try a place that specializes in musicals where you haven't been. Or you may want to go see a drama.”

The promotion allows theatergoers to pick from 27 shows they would like to see throughout September, with tickets priced at $15 or $35 per show — as much as half off the normal price. Beyond increasing ticket sales, Theatre Week is intended to drum up greater long-term awareness and interest in local theater, and, Austin adds, creates “an opportunity for us to showcase the community and to celebrate what we have here in D.C. — the depth of talent and the depth of theater.”

Theatre Week also helps spotlight local theater through a series of special events, including two physical tours — one of which is a downtown “Historic Theatre Walking Tour” with leading D.C. cultural commentator Bob Mondello of NPR, on Monday, Sept. 16. The day before comes a “Tour d’Theaters Bike Ride,” which Austin singles out as a particular highlight. “You get to see and talk about theater from a different vantage point, not only about the production,” she says. “And this year, we're taking a look at some of the spaces that have been renovated recently.” Led by Adam Immerwahr, the bike ride starts with a tour of the newly renovated Edlavitch DC Jewish Community Center, home to his company Theater J. The new REACH expansion at the Kennedy Center and the renovated lobby at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company are other stops on the leisurely paced ride, which starts at 9:30 a.m. on Sunday, Sept. 15.

However you choose to participate, Austin hopes Theatre Week leads to greater appreciation of theater in all its forms.

“What theater gives you is such an important thing for these times,” she says. “It allows you a space where you sit together with other people and see the same thing all at the same time — a live performance. And it gives you a story that you reflect on and think about and talk about later so that you can make more sense of the world.” —Doug Rule

Theatre Week runs to Sunday, Sept. 29. Call 202-337-4572 or visit www.theatreweek.org for complete details and a list of all available shows. Discount tickets are available at www.TodayTix.com. party, “Grease is the Party,” featuring themed beverages and where “sock hop attire or Kevin Bacon cosplay [is] highly encouraged.” 1300 Constitution Ave. NW. Tickets are $15.50 with fees. Call 202-633-1000 or visit www.si.edu/theaters.

THE MIRACLE OF MORGAN'S CREEK

“How did this get made in the 1940s?” That’s the question you will likely ask yourself as you leave the Smithsonian Theaters screening of what they bill as “one of the most outrageous films in American history.” Directed by Preston Sturgers, who would go on to inspire Mel Brooks and the Coen Brothers, among others, The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek tells the story of a small-town girl, played

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by Betty Hutton, getting into big trouble at a party to entertain soldiers on leave during World War II. A chaotic comedy of errors ensues after she discovers she’s pregnant, with pointed jabs at patriotism, sex, gender, and politics. The screening is followed by an exclusive Q&A and book signing by Tom Sturges, Preston’s son. Sunday, Sept. 22, at 2:30 p.m. The Warner Bros.

Theater, 1300 Constitution Ave. NW. Tickets are $15.50 with fees.

Call 202-633-1000 or visit www. si.edu/imax.

THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW

Landmark's E Street Cinema presents its monthly run of Richard O’Brien’s camp classic, billed as the longest-running midnight movie in

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history. Landmark's showings come with a live shadow cast from the Sonic Transducers, meaning it's even more interactive than usual.

Friday, Sept. 13, and Saturday, Sept.

14, at midnight. 555 11th St. NW. Call 202-452-7672 or visit www. landmarktheatres.com.

STAGE SURFACING: AN INVENTORY OF HELPLESSNESS

ExPats Theatre presents a 60-minute work by Russian/Austrian writer Julya Rabinowich, in which three characters live in captivity, invisible to the world. There’s the female refugee, hiding underground for fear of deportation and traumatized by her cross-cultural journey, a kidnap victim locked in a basement at

the mercy of her perpetrator, and a young man imprisoned in his own home due to the threat of blood-revenge against his family. Billed as a “thought-provoking production [that] opens our eyes to the plight of the marginalized, disposessed, and downtrodden.” Weekends to Sept.

29. Lab Theatre 1, Atlas Performing Arts Center, 1333 H St. NE. Tickets are $20 to $35. Call 202-399-7993 or visit www.atlasarts.org.

WHAT THE CONSTITUTION MEANS TO ME

In her boundary-breaking new play, Heidi Schreck resurrects her 15-year-old self, a repeat winner of Constitutional debate competitions, in order to trace the profound relationship between four generations of women in her family and

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the founding document that shaped their lives. Having garnered two Tony Award nominations earlier in the year and recently named a Pulitzer Prize Finalist for Drama, What The Constitution Means to Me starring Schreck comes to the Kennedy Center for a limited, twoweek engagement. Wednesday, Sept. 11 through Thursday, Sept.

22. Kennedy Center Eisenhower Theater. Tickets are $49 to $169.

Call 202-467-4600 or visit www. kennedy-center.org.

MUSIC

KJERSTIN ROSSI

BLOC PARTY

SELF PORTRAIT

Rodney Evans found that the key to his documentary Vision Portraits was pointing the camera at his own experience.

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HETHER IT’S FACT OR FICTION, THE MAKING OF EVERY FILM POSES A QUEStion to the director of how much of themselves — their truth, fears, tastes, and limitations — they will put on camera. Measuring just what to reveal for the enlightenment or entertainment of an audience is a form of alchemy that Rodney Evans, the award-winning writer-director of queer indies Brother to Brother and The Happy Sad, understands well.

“I think a lot of times the film will just tell you what it needs,” says Evans, recalling that initially he did not intend to include himself as a subject in his new documentary Vision Portraits. “It becomes really obvious when something doesn't work or when something's off, and then it's the job of the editor to figure out structurally how to balance everything.”

It was while working with editor Hannah Buck on Vision Portraits that Evans became convinced that this illuminating documentary about artists who have experienced some degree of vision loss was missing something. They’d already edited much of their footage of photographer and visual artist John Dugdale, whom Evans also profiled in his 2016 short film, “Persistence of Vision.” Dugdale and writer Ryan Knighton had gone on-camera for Vision Portraits to discuss their respective experiences of having gone almost totally blind, and continuing to create new work. Dancer-choreographer Kayla Hamilton put in perspective how her vision loss permanently altered how she moves through space.

But Evans had not yet decided to document his own experience dealing with progressive vision loss caused by retinitis pigmentosa. Still, the film knew what it needed.

“As we created, it just became more clear that that's what people were asking, in that they wanted it to be grounded in my experience,” Evans says. “And I think that was the key to making the film feel cohesive — using my experience as the through-line that ties everything together. I'm the character that's changing over the course of the film.”

Ultimately, Vision Portraits, which premiered at this year’s SXSW Film Festival and took home the Jury Prize for Outstanding Documentary at Frameline 2019, is a profoundly insightful film, in part because of Evans’ turn towards the intimately personal.

“I think that it became what the film needed,” he says. “I just became less reluctant to doing it....

And I had a great partner in Hannah Buck in figuring out what the balance should be between my experience and those of the other artists in the film.” —André Hereford Vision Portraits is not rated, and opens Friday, Sept. 13 at Landmark’s West End Cinemas.

Visit www.landmarktheatres.com/washington-d-c.

Evans will speak following the 7:30 p.m. screening on Friday, September 13 in a Q&A moderated by Rhea Combs, Smithsonian Institute Supervisory Museum Curator, Photography x Film.

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Led by the gay Kele Okereke, the British indie-rock band returns to celebrate 20 years together with a particular focus on the band’s critically acclaimed 2006 album Silent Alarm, which they’ll perform in its entirety. The American indie-pop duo Cults opens. Monday, Sept. 16.

Doors at 6:30 p.m. The Anthem, 901 Wharf St. SW. Tickets are $45 to $75. Call 202-888-0020 or visit www.theanthemdc.com

BUTTERFLY

“Madama Butterfly is a piece that all opera companies are sort of wrestling with,” says Timothy Nelson, noting that the debate is over “whether it's still appropriate to perform the piece, because it has some major misogynistic and racial problems in it.” Few opera-focused entities have altered Puccini’s tragedy to the extent that The In Series has under Nelson, whose new production is an “experiment in trying to find a way to do the piece that makes it still speak on a human level, and tries to excise race from it entirely.” Guided by David Belasco’s one-act play that inspired Puccini’s epic opera, the resulting 80-minute production centers more than ever on the work’s titular character. The In Series further distinguishes its truncated production with two distinct versions — one in English, and another in the traditional Italian, with projected English supertitles. They will be performed on alternating dates by differing casts. Music Director Jessica Krash will accompany both casts playing Puccini’s score on piano. Through Sept. 22. Source, 1835 14th St. NW. Tickets are $21 to $46, or $31 to $56 for Opening Night & Celebration. Call 202-2047741 or visit www.inseries.org.

CREATIVE CAULDRON’S SUMMER CABARET SERIES

The 10th annual summer cabaret series at ArtSpace Falls Church draws to a close with two performances of “Meatballs and Music”

by Tom Sweitzer, a music therapist who shares the message, through his personal story, of the power of music, the importance of connection, and the importance of forgive-

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plans, however, once he learned that Napoleon had proclaimed himself Emperor of the French. And thus the work known for its classical control and romantic exuberance became known as the “Eroica” Symphony instead. Saturday, Sept.

21, at 8 p.m., and Sunday, Sept. 22, at 3 p.m. Music Center at Strathmore, 5301 Tuckerman Lane, North Bethesda, Md. Tickets are $29 to $79. Call 301-581-5100 or visit www.strathmore.org.

FOOD & DINING DC BEER WEEK

DC SHORTS FILM FESTIVAL

One of the largest festivals in the world of its kind, the 16th annual DC Shorts International Film Festival and Screenplay Competition features more than 150 shorts running an average of 5 to 15 minutes each. The films are presented in 19 Official Selection Showcases and 11 Special Interest Showcases, all screening at the Landmark E Street Cinema. Of course, part of the joy of watching any collection of short films is in the discovery, taking delight in the variety of subject matter, styles, and genres on display. It’s like a Whitman’s Sampler, but on film. Individual Showcase tickets are $15.

All Access Festival Passes are $140 and provide access to all showcases and the parties.

Many of this year’s films are available for watching online during the run of the festival for $40. For more details on this year’s festival, pick up a copy of the official DC Shorts Program Guide at venues around town or browse it at Issuu.com/metroweekly. Call 202393-4266 or visit https://festival.dcshorts.com for more details.

ness. Friday, Sept. 13, and Saturday, Sept. 14, at 8 p.m. 410 South Maple Ave. in Falls Church. Tickets are $18 to $22 per show, or $60 for a table for two with wine and $120 for four with wine. Call 703-436-9948 or visit www.creativecauldron.org.

ELISE TESTONE’S ALL-STAR AMY WINEHOUSE BIRTHDAY TRIBUTE

Two days before what would have been her 36th birthday, the great, late British soul singer is celebrated in a concert featuring Testone, a singer-songwriter who became a finalist on American Idol, backed by an eight-piece band of musicians who have performed with the Trey Anastasio Band, Prince, Snarky Puppy, and more. The concert also features Philadelphia-based reggae/fusion band The Underwater Sounds playing The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill. Thursday, Sept. 12.

Doors at 6:30 p.m. The Hamilton,

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600 14th St. NW. Tickets are $22 to $32. Call 202-787-1000 or visit www.thehamiltondc.com.

GAY MEN’S CHORUS: COULDA, WOULDA, SHOULDA CABARET

Members of the chorus take to the stage for a cabaret of funny stories and songs from the worlds of pop and Broadway — all of which “we wish we had done differently.” The program includes songs including “You And Me (But Mostly Me),” “The Road You Didn’t Take,” “I Wanna Dance With Somebody/Dancing On My Own,” “Chandelier,” and “‘Till There Was You.” Saturday, Sept. 21, at 5 and 8 p.m. City Winery DC, 1350 Okie St. NE. Tickets are $45. Call 202-2502531 or visit www.citywinery.com.

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NATIONAL PHILHARMONIC

The resident symphony at Strathmore lives to see another season thanks to donors and a new partnership. And the National Philharmonic kicks things off with the acclaimed Eroica Trio in a performance of Beethoven’s Triple Concerto in C Major, one of the most unusual concertos in the canon, at once intimate and symphonic in style. Also on the program at the season-opening concert, led by the organization’s Piotr Gajewski, is the symphony from which the trio of violinist Sara Parkins, cellist Sara Sant’Ambrogio, and pianist Erika Nickrenz took its name — although Beethoven originally intended his groundbreaking Symphony No. 3 in E-Flat Major to be named for Napoleon Bonaparte, in recognition of what he thought were Napoleon’s democratic ideals. The German composer scrapped those

When this promotion was launched 11 years ago, there weren’t any breweries based in D.C., just a dedicated crew of craft beer aficionados with a dream. Now there are a dozen breweries in D.C. proper and the entire region has seen an explosion in the craft. DC Beer Week has grown by leaps and bounds, with dozens of events taking place over the course of eight days. This year’s Marquee Events include: “Red Bear Celebrates Women In Beer” on Thursday, Sept. 12, featuring a panel discussion on the topic; Brewers on the Block in Buffalo & Bergen’s outdoor beer garden Suburbia on Saturday, Sept.

14, where guests can get unlimited pours in a souvenir tasting glass from 40-plus area breweries, cideries, and meaderies; and on Sunday, Sept. 15, the 3rd Annual Record Fair at Right Proper Brewing Company’s Brookland Production House, where Songbyrd, Joe’s Record Paradise, and Joint Custody will be among the local record vendors on display, with treats served up by Smoke and Ember, Eat 170 and Bri’s Brookland Creamery, plus vintage clothing from Antiqui-TEEs and the capability of tie-dying your own Right Proper t-shirt. Additional highlights to come in the final weekend: a Friday the 13th Superstitious “Lucky Food Specials” and Atlas Brew Works beers on tap at City Tap Penn Quarter, and on Saturday, Sept. 14, both a showcase of Ciders, Lagers & Lambics at Anxo, as well as an Oktoberfest grand opening party for Bronson Bier Hall in Arlington. Visit www.dcbeerweek. net for a full schedule of events.

ART & EXHIBITS ARTY QUEERS: D.C.’S LGBTQ+ ART MARKET

The DC Center for the LGBT Community offers the chance for local LGBTQ and queer-identified artists to showcase and sell their works on the second Saturday of every month, including Sept. 14, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Prospective

art buyers can expect to see original artworks in a range of media, including painting, pottery, photography, jewelry, glasswork, textiles, and clothing. 2000 14th St. NW, Suite 105. Call 202-682-2245 or visit www.thedccenter.org.

MID-CENTURY MASTER: THE PHOTOGRAPHER OF ALFRED EISENSTAEDT

Nearly 50 photographs and ephemera from the Life Magazine artist known for capturing larger-thanlife personalities and those among the most notable people of the 20th century — from Marilyn Monroe to Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.

This special exhibition at Hillwood explores the relationship that evolved over the course of photo sessions between Eisenstaedt and Hillwood founder Marjorie Merriweather Post. Concurrently, on the second floor of the mansion, Hillwood features a special display celebrating Adelaide Close Riggs, the eldest of Post’s three daughters, in recognition of her dedication and contributions to the museum as well as the 20th anniversary of her passing. To Jan. 12. 4155 Linnean Ave. NW. Suggested donation is $18. Call 202-686-5807 or visit www.HillwoodMuseum.org.

REFIK ANADOL: INFINITE SPACE

A D.C. original that just opened a new gallery in New York’s Chelsea Market, ArTecHouse presents the first major retrospective of Refik Anadol, a thoroughly 21st-century-focused artist who uses data and computerized networks to create radical visualizations of our digitized memories, expanding the possibilities of architecture, narrative, and the movement. Through site-specific, parametric data sculptures and immersive installations, the L.A.-based Turkish artist helps rethink the physical world, our relationship to time and space, and the creative potential where humans and machines interact. The exhibition’s title derives from an infamous, internationally touring immersive installation featuring three infinity boxes and a selection of multimedia works spanning Anadol’s career. Extended to Sept.

15. ArTecHouse, 1238 Maryland Ave. SW. Tickets are $13 to $20, with “after hours” sessions featuring a bar with exhibition-related Augmented Reality cocktails. visit www.artechouse.com.

ABOVE & BEYOND

seven other city neighborhoods, overseen by each locality’s Main Street program. The festival’s activities, performances, and displays represent all types of art and artists, ranging from performers in music, dance, theater, and poetry to visual artists working in painting, photography, film, sculpture, crafts, and fashion. Co-sponsored

by D.C.’s Department of Small and Local Business Development as well as the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities, the 11th annual D.C. Art All Night is set for Congress Heights, Deanwood Heights, Dupont Circle, H Street, Minnesota Avenue, North Capitol, Shaw, and Tenleytown. Saturday, Sept. 14, from 7 p.m. to 3 a.m. Visit www.dcartallnight.org for full details.

KENNEDY CENTER’S REACH: OPENING FESTIVAL

Years in the making, the unprecedented addition to the Kennedy Center campus of 72,000 square feet of interior space and nearly twice the volume of outdoor space officially opens this weekend via a 16-day, star-studded festival offering nearly 500 events. Free, timed-entry passes are required for entry into the REACH — and unfortunately, all passes for the festival’s marquee evening and weekend events are fully booked. Still, there are notable events planned over the festival’s second week that are available by reserving the appropriate morning and afternoon passes. The passes also grant access to recurring REACH installations, including: Skylight Soundscapes, an immersive, music-centered lounge where guests can explore everything from the techno scenes in Detroit and Berlin, to the art and desert setting of Burning Man, to the fuzzy inside of a synthesizer; and the Virtual Reality Lounge, where Oculus headsets bring to life multi-dimensional works such as Robert Connor’s Half Life VR, featuring the Royal Swedish Ballet performing a work by choreographer Sharon Eyal, Lena Herzog’s Last Whispers, an immersive oratorio about the mass extinction of languages, and Julie Taymor’s “Circle of Life” in 360°, a panoramic video from Broadway’s The Lion King enabling viewers to choose where to look at every point. The festival runs to Sept. 22. Call 202-467-4600 or visit www.kennedy-center.org/ reach to reserve passes or for more information, including a full schedule of events. l

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UNSTEADY CABIN

LGBTQ Republicans differ on whether Log Cabin was justified in endorsing President Trump’s re-election bid. By John Riley

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HERE IS NO WORLD WHERE I CAN SIT DOWN at the dining room table and explain to my children that I just endorsed Donald Trump for president.”

So said Jennifer Horn, former board member of Log Cabin Republicans, in an interview with the Washington Post last month. Horn and a number of other high-profile Log Cabin members publicly — and loudly — resigned from the conservative LGBTQ organization after the board voted to endorse President Donald Trump for re-election.

It ignited a firestorm within Log Cabin, one that culminated in Jerri Ann Henry, Log Cabin’s Executive Director, quitting after less than a year as the group’s first female leader. Speaking to CNN, Henry criticized the board for the endorsement and slammed the overall direction of Log Cabin, saying it was “once a civil rights organization with conservative principles...[but now] it’s mostly about happy hours,” noting that Log Cabin was not “involved in the marriage fight at all,” and that “no one said anything” when the Equality Act passed the House earlier this year.

Asked if Log Cabin could survive the endorsement, she said, “I’m not sure. My recommendation would be to shut it down, or just become the [Young Republicans] of the gay community — Republicans who just happen to be gay.”

Despite Henry’s resignation — and the wave of criticism that followed the endorsement — Log Cabin has doubled down on its support of Trump, touting actions they perceive to have benefitted the LGBTQ community, such as promising to end the HIV/AIDS epidemic in 10 years, and appointing openly gay people to positions within his administration, including former Log Cabin Executive Director R. Clarke Cooper to the State Department and Richard Grenell as U.S. Ambassador to Germany.

And Charles Moran, spokesman for the national organization, tells Metro Weekly that, far from a snap decision to curry favor with the administration, the Trump endorsement was based on feedback from individual chapters.

“Log Cabin Republicans didn’t endorse President Trump in 2016,” says Moran. “In that election, the majority of our chapters voted to endorse, but the Board of Directors opted not to.”

Moran appreciates that some LGBTQ Republicans — particularly those more closely tied to the D.C. GOP establishment — remain hesitant about supporting Trump. But he says Log Cabin, “as a grassroots organization,” is obliged to listen to the “mandate” from its chapters, after they “reached out to the national board and said, ‘We want you to move faster on this this year, and we want you to take our voice in consideration.’”

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within the LGBTQ community.”

“We have a very aggressive effort during Pride season where we go to the festivals, where we have booths, where we talk about the context of homosexuality within the equality community, where just because you're gay doesn’t mean that you have to support crazy Green New Deal, or some of these other intersectionality issues which we believe the left is trying to conflate with an equality agenda,” he says. “So we provide that counterbalance and give people that voice to say, ‘I’m gay but I’m not buying in to some of the crazy that’s coming out of the Democratic Party today.’”

Moran also asserts that the Left has overemphasized the threat Trump poses to LGBTQ rights.

“President Trump has stated on more than one occasion, he does not believe in discrimination based on sexual orientation, he supports an equality agenda around gay and lesbian [people] being treated openly, and fairly, and honestly, and I think that that's congruent from his life as a philanthropist and a businessman, and now as a politician.”

He also believes that Trump has “flipped the script in terms of not engaging in the anti-gay playbook that has existed in the past in the Republican Party.”

“That tone has changed, and we think that that's important because we're tired of our community being used as a political wedge in the Republican Party. We see...it as something that's been wholly good for the Republican Party and for America, because we don't want to be used as a punching bag anymore.”

Asked about the Trump administration’s attacks on LGBTQ rights — including banning transgender people from the military and arguing that LGBTQ people should be discriminated against nationwide — Moran says that many of these issues involve a great degree of nuance and blames the president’s opponents and the media for the way they’re discussed. In addition, Moran accuses most national LGBTQ organizations, which he refers to as “Gay, Inc.,” of being overtly partisan and biased against Trump.

“After President Trump got elected, I think there really was an opportunity to reset the relationship with Republicans,” he says. “I was hopeful that there would be new lines of dialogue between these LGBT umbrella organizations.... But instead, it turned out to be just a flat rejection of President Trump, a rejection of his election, and everybody moved into ‘resist’ mode.”

Drew Anderson, director of news and rapid response for GLAAD, rejects Log Cabin’s argument, pointing to the sheer number of times his administration has attacked LGBTQ people.

“If they want to tout the visual of Donald Trump holding the gay pride flag upside down, that is fine,” Anderson says, referring to of one of the 2016 campaign’s iconic images.

“However, I would say the facts and actions are speaking

theFeed louder than the rhetoric that Donald Trump, and quite frankly, However, he is frustrated at the lack of negotiation between others are saying.... The Trump administration has attacked Log Cabin and the Trump campaign for the endorsement, noting LGBTQ Americans, in policy and rhetoric, 124 times since 2017. that as leader of Log Cabin he worked with the Bush campaign So from GLAAD’s perspective, we don’t see how they can come in 2000 prior to endorsing. “It would have been much smarter to to the conclusion that Donald Trump is a friend to the commu- say, ‘Let's work this trans military issue,’ for example. ‘And let's nity, because of that number alone. negotiate on that.’”

“And it’s not what they say, it’s what they lack in saying that Tafel says matters are complicated further because “on many also matters,” he continues. “It’s noteworthy that President issues, [Trump is] not anything that a Republican would have Trump did not acknowledge Pride Month until this year. That been, say 10 years ago.” kind of silence is a response. Those are easy hurdles that any “This president at his core is not a conservative. He is erratic, other president or political figure could hop over, and acknowl- he is unpredictable. He is petty, he's narcissistic. Conservatives edge a marginalized community, but it appears have forfeited a lot of their basic principles, Donald Trump only wants to do it when it so we’re in a period now where it’s just tribal.

“This president benefits him.”

And in a sense, Trump's big success within the As for Moran’s claim that “Gay, Inc.” is Republican party was that he was able to troll at his core is not overly critical of Trump, Anderson notes that the Left more successfully and be kind of a a conservative.

GLAAD — a nonpartisan organization — has thug for the Right in a way that the traditional called out congressional Democrats like Dan Republicans couldn’t. That's what people were He is petty, Lipinski or Joe Manchin when they take antiattracted to, they wanted, in a sense, a bully, he’s narcissistic.

LGBTQ actions. He adds that GLAAD was because they perceived the Left as a bully.” correct in its prediction that a Trump victory Adam Savit, president of Log Cabin’s D.C. Conservatives in 2016 would embolden anti-LGBTQ forces. chapter, has witnessed a change in support have forfeited a “When LGBTQ groups saw Donald Trump among chapter members since Trump took lot of their basic picking Mike Pence as his VP candidate, they office. In 2016, a narrow majority in D.C. voted knew that if Trump were to win the presidency, against endorsing Trump. This year, over 80 principles. We’re it would not be a favorable administration for percent supported an endorsement. in a period now LGBTQ acceptance,” Anderson says, highlight“There’s always been some tension,” he ing Pence’s anti-LGBTQ record as Governor of says. “The people who were very, very antiwhere it’s just Indiana. “That is why, from the get-go, we have Trump cleared out before I came on, as a tribal.” —Rich Tafel been very adamant to hold the Trump adminisstatement after he got nominated and won the tration accountable, because of that fact.” election. There’s all kinds of friendly disagreeAnderson emphasizes how quickly antiments and arguments back and forth with the LGBTQ attitudes took hold in Trump’s administration, noting people that support and don’t support. But I think gradually “the moment he was sworn in as president, [they] wiped away all every month, and through the last couple of years, support [online] references to the LGBTQ community. The actions since grows. It’s a direct parallel to the Republican Party overall, in being inaugurated back up that LGBTQ Americans will never be that at first there was chaos, but over time you either reconcile viewed as equals by the Trump administration.” yourself to him and begin to like him in some way, or you find Rich Tafel, a former Log Cabin executive director who has elsewhere to express yourself.” also resigned from the organization due to the endorsement, While dissent is still allowed, Savit acknowledges that Log says that while there’s a certain logic for Log Cabin to throw Cabin — and the larger GOP — has embraced a more populist, its support behind the president, the way it was handled and pro-Trump worldview. the optics of people resigning in protest — particularly lesbian “I would argue that the more populist direction has actually members in a party that has struggled to recruit female talent been a good thing, from a gay angle, because beforehand there and voters — are terrible. was more influence from the Religious Right and a traditional “That’s just unfortunate, and I think it doesn’t reflect well moral perspective, whereas populism is a more working-class, on the organization to not reach a more collaborative strategy live-and-let-live [attitude],” he says. “I think that appeals to for the endorsement,” Tafel says. “Because I think there's a case Republicans. I’ll speak for myself, but I think there’s this signiffor an endorsement, but the way the whole thing has been han- icant section that feels that we would rather issues of sexuality dled, it’s extremely unfortunate, and could have, potentially, an not be an issue anymore. Basically be de-emphasized. Not that extremely damaging impact on the organization’s brand going there’s nothing left, but the fact that marriage is there, and gays into the future, which is very sad.” in the military is solid, and Trump has said he has no interest in Regarding the rationale for a Trump endorsement, Tafel rolling back marriage, the more general issues of life are what notes that because Log Cabin declined to endorse Trump in we’re voting on and deciding on.”

2016, younger LGBTQ Republicans will have missed out on jobs But Joey Swartz, a 35-year-old former Republican from or appointments in the administration that could have placed Laurel, Md., says he left the party precisely because he feels that them in positions to influence policy for the better. the GOP has become a cult of personality.

“I think they're trying to make up for that and say to the “I subscribe to the thought process that in terms of gay rights, administration, ‘Look, we're loyal,’” Tafel says. “This adminis- Trump is going to do very little, if anything, to harm it,” he says. tration's ruthless, almost unlike anything I’ve seen, of you being “But there is this cultishness around Trump — and this is what either for or against us.... Because they have been sort of frozen has happened at LCR both in the local and national chapters. out since they didn’t endorse, and I think that's probably driving We’ve gone from being a big-tent, Republican-leaning set of gays some of the behavior.” and allies and turned into this rabid Trump machine. Almost SEPTEMBER 12, 2019 • METROWEEKLY.COM

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theFeed everyone I know who was an LCR at one time has left. The only people who are left are the weirdest, kookiest, crunchiest Trumpistas. And it comes down to this cult of personality.”

Furthermore, most of the positive developments on LGBTQ rights predated Trump taking office, so he doesn’t deserve the credit, Swarts says.

“The fact that he doesn’t find gay people something worth going and howling about, doesn’t mean he’s castrated the Religious Right — that was done by progress already,” he says.

“In fact, the evidence shows that he’s trying to expand religious exemptions. That is actually helping the Religious Right.

“And to be clear, I’m fine with a lot of exemptions. If someone doesn’t want to bake me a cake, fine, I’ll take my money elsewhere,” Swartz adds. “But again, it doesn’t mean that Trump has castrated the Religious Right or is the most pro-gay president in history. No, he just came along at the most pro-gay moment in history. And it’s a totally different story when you start getting into trans issues.”

Ultimately, while LGBTQ Republicans may debate the points of a Trump endorsement, Monika Nemeth, president of the Gertrude Stein Democratic Club of Washington, D.C., isn’t surprised that a Republican group would endorse a sitting Republican incumbent for re-election. However, an LGBTQ group endorsing four more years of the Trump administration is another matter.

“I am shocked that an organization that purports to stand up for the LGBTQ community would endorse Donald Trump,” she says. “It is our view that the Trump administration has been the worst administration when it comes to LGBTQ rights and policies, bar none.”

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Nemeth disagrees with the contention that Trump has silenced the Religious Right, pointing to examples of Trump actively “courting” evangelicals. “I think the evangelical community got more than they could have hoped for in a Trump candidacy,” she says. “He’s doing everything to cater to them.

He’s emboldened them.”

Nemeth rejects the notion that Trump is somehow an ally to the community. She also has enormous respect for those Republicans who decided to leave Log Cabin following the Trump endorsement.

“It feels good to know that I’m a decent judge of character, and the people I call my friends within Log Cabin are leaving as a result of this,” she says. “They have their principles, and they’re sticking to them.”

As a transgender person, Nemeth says that while trans issues may be personal to her, she understands that they are not always prioritized by politicians — or most of her fellow voters.

Specifically, she objects to the Trump administration because she sees the president and his subordinates actively taking steps that will harm LGBTQ people, such as reversing the Obama administration’s guidance for transgender schoolchildren.

“Not only has this administration not been doing anything to help or promote the LGBTQ community, they have actively gone and rescinded policies so that the community is harmed,” she says. “I take strong exception to anyone who says the Trump administration has been good for the community. They’ve been worse. They could have just simply sat there and done nothing, and that would have been better.” l Rhuaridh Marr contributed to this article.

Community THURSDAY, SEPT. 12 Center Faith, a group of The DC Center, holds an INTERFAITH

INTERSECTIONAL FORUM

with local LGBTQ clergy and lay leaders discussing what different faith traditions can teach each other from an LGBTQ persepctive. 6:30-8 p.m. 2000 14th St. NW, Suite 105. For more information, email Eric Eldritch at e.eldritch@thedccenter.org.

The CAPITAL AREA GAY

& LESBIAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE holds its signature networking event on the second Thursday of each month.

The event will provide LGBTQ professionals and business owners the chance to socialize, network, and make connections. 6:30-8:30 p.m. Location provided upon registration.

To register for the event, visit www.caglcc.org.

The DC Center’s LGBTQ FIRST

RESPONDERS AND MILITARY SERVICE MEMBERS SUPPORT GROUP seeks to help active duty military members, Reservists, and present or former firefighters, EMTs, and law enforcement officers.

Due to the sensitive nature of this group, discussions, names, and attendance will be kept confidential. 7-8:30 p.m. 2000 14th St. NW, Suite 105. For more information, visit www. thedccenter.org.

Weekly Events ANDROMEDA TRANSCULTURAL HEALTH

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 www.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 www.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 afterwards. Route distances vary. 7 p.m. For meeting places and more information, visit www.dcfrontrunners.org.

DC LAMBDA SQUARES, D.C.’s

LGBTQ square-dancing group, features an opportunity to learn

PROJECT STRIPES hosts about and practice various forms of modern square dancing. No partner required. Please dress casually. 7:309:30 p.m. National City Christian Church, 5 Thomas Circle NW. For more info, call 202-930-1058 or visit www.dclambdasquares.org.

DC SCANDALS RUGBY holds prac-

tice. The team is always looking for new members. All welcome. 7-9 p.m.

Harry Thomas Recreation Center, 1743 Lincoln Rd. NE. For more information, visit www.scandalsrfc.org.

THE DULLES TRIANGLES

Northern Virginia social group meets for happy hour at the Cosmopolitan Lounge inside the Sheraton Hotel in Reston. All welcome. 7-9 p.m. 11810 Sunrise Valley Drive, Second Floor. For more info, visit www.dullestriangles.com.

HIV TESTING at Whitman-Walker

Health. 9 a.m.-12:30 p.m. and 2:305 p.m. at 1525 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 www.whitman-walker.org.

KARING WITH INDIVIDUALITY (K.I.) SERVICES, 20 S. Quaker

Lane, Suite 210, Alexandria, Va., offers $30 “rapid” HIV testing and counseling by appointment only. 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Must schedule special appointment if seeking testing after 2 p.m. Call 703-823-4401. www.kiservices.org

METROHEALTH CENTER

offers free, rapid HIV testing.

Appointment needed. 1012 14th St. NW, Suite 700. To arrange an appointment, call 202-849-8029. www.metrohealthdc.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 www.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. www.ushelpingus.com.

Church, 1226 Vermont Ave NW. GAMMA meetings are also held in Vienna, Va., and in Frederick, Md. For more information, visit www.gammaindc.org.

The DC Center holds its FALL RECEPTION, its annual signature fundraising event, as it celebrates 15 years of service to the local LGBTQ community. The event will also serve as a final goodbye to outgoing executive director David Mariner, who recently announced his departure to serve as the new executive director of Camp Rehoboth in Rehoboth Beach, Del. 7-10 p.m. The Warner Building, 1299 Pennsylvania Ave. NW. For tickets and more information, visit www.thedccenter.org.

WOMEN IN THEIR TWENTIES (AND THIRTIES), a social dis-

cussion 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 www.thedccenter.org.

SMYAL’S REC NIGHT provides

a social atmosphere for LGBTQ and questioning youth, featuring dance parties, vogue nights, movies and games. 4-7 p.m. For more info, email rebecca.york@ smyal.org.

SATURDAY, SEPT. 14 ADVENTURING outdoors group

hikes along the C&O Canal and then crosses the Potomac River to explore Shepherdstown, the oldest town in West Virginia.

Total length of this moderate round-trip hike is about 10 miles on mostly level ground. Bring plenty of beverages, lunch, bug spray, sunscreen, comfortable walking shoes, about $15 for fees, plus spending money for Shepherdstown. Carpool at 9 a.m. from the Forest Glen Metro Kiss & Ride lot. Return after dark. For more information, contact David, 240-938-0375, or visit www.adventuring.org.

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 www.betmish.org.

The DC Center hosts ARTY QUEERS, a monthly indoor LGBTQ+ art market featuring original artwork, textiles, pottery, photography, jewelry, glasswork, textiles, and clothing created by queer artists. 11 a.m.-5 p.m. 2000 14th St. NW, Suite 105. For more information, email Kimberley@thedccenter.org.

DC AQUATICS CLUB holds

CHRYSALIS arts & culture

Weekly Events BET MISHPACHAH, founded by

a practice session at Howard University. 6:30-8 p.m. Burr Gymnasium, 2400 6th St. NW. For more information, visit www.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 www.whitman-walker.org.

KARING WITH INDIVIDUALITY (K.I.) SERVICES, 20 S. Quaker

FRIDAY, SEPT. 13

Lane, Suite 210, Alexandria, Va., offers $30 “rapid” HIV testing and counseling by appointment only. 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Must schedule special appointment if seeking testing after 2 p.m. Call 703823-4401. www.kiservices.org.

GAMMA is a confidential, voluntary,

METROHEALTH CENTER

peer-support group for men who are gay, bisexual, questioning and who are now or who have been in a relationship with a woman. 7:309:30 p.m. Luther Place Memorial

LGBT-affirming social group for ages 11-24. 4-6 p.m. 1419 Columbia Road NW. Contact Tamara, 202-319-0422, www.layc-dc.org.

offers free, rapid HIV testing.

Appointment needed. 1012 14th St. NW, Suite 700. To arrange an appointment, call 202-849-8029. www.metrohealthdc.org.

group holds a bi-monthly Potluck Social at a straight-friendly Dupont Circle neighborhood gay bar. Autumn plans for museum visits and other outings will be reviewed.

All welcome. Bring an appetizer, salad, entree, vegetable dish or dessert. Group will supply non-alcoholic beverages and paper goods. Alcoholic beverages must be purchased from the bar. 7-9 p.m. For location and food coordination, contact Kevin, 571-338-1433 or kgiles27@gmail.com.

Cultural Tourism DC hosts

QUEERING CAPITOL HILL, one of its trademark

WalkingTown DC walking tours. The tour, led by Philip Clark, a former chair of the Rainbow History Project, will look at the long and rich LGBTQ history of the Capitol Hill neighborhood. 2-4 p.m.

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701 Pennsylvania Ave. SE. For more information, and to reserve a spot, visit www.culturaltourismdc.org.

The DC Center hosts a monthly meeting of UNIVERSAL PRIDE, a group to support and empower LGBTQIA people with disabilities, offer perspectives on dating and relationships, and create greater access in public spaces for LGBTQIA PWDs. 1-2:30 p.m. 2000 14th St. NW, Suite 105. For more information, contact Andy Arias, andyarias09@gmail.com.

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 www.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 afterwards.

Route distance will be 3-6 miles.

Walkers meet at 9:30 a.m. and runners at 10 a.m. at 23rd & P Streets NW. For more information, visit www.dcfrontrunners.org.

SUNDAY, SEPT. 15 ADVENTURING outdoors group

hikes 9 moderate miles in Rock Creek Park from the Van Ness Metro to Silver Spring, with an optional stop afterwards at Denizens Brewing Company.

Bring plenty of beverages, snacks, comfortable walking shoes, bug spray, sunscreen, the $2 trip fee, and whatever you care to spend at Denizens. Meet at 9:30 a.m. at the top of the escalators on the eastern side of Connecticut Avenue at the Van Ness Metro, near the CVS. For more information, contact Jeff, 301-775-9660 or visit www.adventuring.org.

Volunteers are needed to help prepare CASA RUBY’S MONTHLY DINNER. Held on the third Sunday

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of each month, in conjunction with The DC Center and Food Rescue DC, 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 www.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, www.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 www.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 afterwards.

Route distances vary. For meeting places and more information, visit www.dcfrontrunners.org.

FAIRLINGTON UNITED METHODIST CHURCH is an open,

inclusive church. All welcome, including the LGBTQ community. Member of the Reconciling Ministries Network. Services at 9:30 and 11:00 a.m. 3900 King Street, Alexandria, Va. 703-6718557. For more info, visit www.fairlingtonumc.org.

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. Visit www.quakersdc.org.

INSTITUTE FOR SPIRITUAL DEVELOPMENT, God-centered

new age church & learning center.

Sunday Services and Workshops event. 5419 Sherier Place NW. Visit www.isd-dc.org.

ments provided. 7-9 p.m. 3636 Georgia Ave. NW. 202-446-1100.

Visit www.ushelpingus.org.

LUTHERAN CHURCH OF REFORMATION invites all to

WASHINGTON WETSKINS WATER POLO TEAM practices 7-9

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. Visit www.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. For more info, call 202-638-7373 or visit www.mccdc.com.

RIVERSIDE BAPTIST CHURCH,

a Christ-centered, interracial, welcoming-and-affirming church, offers service at 10 a.m. 680 I St. SW. For more info, call 202-5544330 or visit www.riversidedc.org.

UNITARIAN CHURCH OF ARLINGTON, an LGBTQ welcom-

ing-and-affirming congregation, offers services at 10 a.m. Virginia Rainbow UU Ministry. 4444 Arlington Blvd. For more info, visit www.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. For more info, call 202-3873411 or visit www.universalist.org.

MONDAY, SEPT. 16 The Metro D.C. chapter of PFLAG, a support group for parents, family members and allies of the LGBTQ community, holds its monthly meeting at The DC Center. 7-9 p.m.

2000 14th St. NW, Suite 105.

For more information, visit www.thedccenter.org.

Weekly Events DC’S DIFFERENT DRUMMERS

welcomes musicians of all abilities to join its Monday night rehearsals.

The group hosts marching/color guard, concert, and jazz ensembles, with performances year round.

Please contact Membership@ DCDD.org to inquire about joining one of the ensembles or visit www.DCDD.org.

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 www.thedccenter.org.

US HELPING US hosts a black

gay men’s evening affinity group for GBT black men. Light refresh-

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 www.wetskins.org.

TUESDAY, SEPT. 17 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 www.thedccenter.org.

THE HEALTH 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 www.thedccenter.org.

The SAPPHIRE SAPPHOS, D.C.’s first political, social, and cultural group for black lesbians, will participate in a panel discussion at the Shaw/Watha T. Daniel Neighborhood Library reflecting on the 40th anniversary of the group’s founding. Panelists include: Tania Abdulahad, Sharon Farmer, Annette “Chi” Hughes, V. Papaya Mann, and Michelle Parkerson.

Event is free and open to all. Space is limited and seating is available on a first-come, first-served basis.

6:30-8:30 p.m. 1630 7th St. NW. For more information, call 202-7271199 or email Wash.dcpl@dc.gov.

WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 18 BOOKMEN DC, an informal men’s

gay-literature group, discusses From Macho to Mariposa: Gay Latino Fiction, a collection of stories edited by Charles RiceGonzalez and Charlie Vasquez. All are welcome. 7:30 p.m. The DC Center, 2000 14th St. NW, Suite 105. Visit www.bookmendc.blogspot.com.

Weekly Events AD LIB, a group for freestyle con-

versation, meets about 6-6:30 p.m., Steam, 17th and R NW. All welcome. For more information, call Fausto Fernandez, 703-732-5174.

FREEDOM FROM SMOKING, a

group for LGBT people looking to quit cigarettes and tobacco use, holds a weekly support meeting at The DC Center. 7-8 p.m.

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Fall Arts Preview out concerts in London in 1969, the film chronicles her struggles with drug addictions, bad press, and the strained relationships with those around her, as she hopes the shows will restore her fallen star.

Robert Goold’s film is apparently just fine, but critics are lauding Zellweger’s performance, saying it’s less a physical and vocal transformation — as has become du jour in biopics — and more an utter embodiment of the film’s titular Judy. (9/27) THE LAUNDROMAT — Meryl Streep, Gary

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If you’re seeking popcorn entertainment, there’s Brad Pitt being blasted into outer space in Ad Astra, Joaquin Phoenix painting on a smile in Joker, and Arnie reuniting with Linda Hamilton for another Terminator. But, ultimately, the next few months — much like most of 2019 — belong to Disney. Frozen II is here to worm its songs into your brain, Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker will tie up the latest trilogy, and in Jojo Rabbit, a young boy plays with his imaginary friend Hitler. Wait, what?

SEPTEMBER DOWNTON ABBEY — Rejoice, Downton

fans, because everyone’s favorite upstairs-downstairs drama is back, offering 122 minutes of Dame Maggie Smith serving upper class burns and witty asides as the delectable dowager Countess. Apparently there’s a plot about King George V and Queen Mary coming to visit, sending the Crawleys and their servants into quite the (restrained and English) tizz, but we’re too excited about more of Violet’s withering looks to care.

(9/20) AD ASTRA — The latest entry in the some-

what niche category of “Oscar-baiting films about space exploration” — think Gravity, The Martian, and First Man —

stars Brad Pitt as an astronaut who blasts off from Earth to find his long-lost father (Tommy Lee Jones), whose extraterrestrial experiments threaten the entire solar system. This starry drama — which also features Ruth Negga, Donald Sutherland, and Liv Tyler — has been getting strong praise from critics, with some calling it a career-best performance from Pitt. (9/20) RAMBO: LAST BLOOD — What could be

better than watching Sylvester Stallone mumble his way through the fifth entry in the Rambo film series? Quite a lot, we’d wager. (9/20) JUDY — Renée Zellweger transforms into

one of entertainment’s true legends, Judy Garland. Based on the musical End of the Rainbow, about Garland’s run of sell-

Oldman, Antonio Banderas, and Sharon Stone star in a Stephen Soderberghdirected comedy-drama based on the Panama Papers, as Streep’s character investigates a fake insurance policy and ends up uncovering a global scandal. It sounds great on — ahem — paper, but early reviews suggest that Soderbergh and screenwriter Scott Z. Burns have crafted a messy, half-funny episodic film that somewhat squanders its strong cast and source material. (9/27) ZEROVILLE — If you’re not familiar with

Steve Erickson’s 2007 novel Zeroville, watch the trailer for James Franco’s film adaptation. We say that because, with zero context, it is the trippiest, weirdest three minutes of film preview in a long time. With context, this film — long delayed thanks to a lack of distributor — is about a young seminarian who comes to Hollywood in 1969 at a pivotal time for the movie industry, only to embark on a dreamlike journey that leads to the discovery that there is a secret movie hidden, frame by frame, in every film ever made. Actually, even with context it’s still trippy. Franco directs, and stars alongside Megan Fox, Seth Rogan, and Jacki Weaver. (9/27)

OCTOBER JOKER — There is strong debate over

which actor’s take on DC Comics villain The Joker is the best: Jack Nicholson in 1989’s Batman, Heath Ledger’s Oscarwinning turn in 2008’s The Dark Knight, or Mark Hamill’s voicework in multiple animated efforts. Well, now there could be a new addition to the list (no, Jared Leto, not you). Early reviews are glowing for this Todd Phillips-directed origin story, which puts Joaquin Phoenix behind the Joker’s terrifying smile as a failed stand-up comic who turns to a life of crime. A dark psychological thriller that tackles mental illness and its effects,

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one reviewer branded Joker scarier than many horror movies released this year.

Shazam! this is not. (10/4)

interest from us in this animated offering

by MGM and Sausage Party directors Conrad Vernon and Greg Tiernan. (10/11)

DOLEMITE IS MY NAME — Eddie Murphy’s

MALEFICENT: MISTRESS OF EVIL

comeback officially begins in this critically lauded turn as Rudy Ray Moore, the comedian best known for his character Dolemite, the kung-fu fighting pimp who starred in 1975 blaxploitation film Dolemite and its sequels. Murphy charts Moore’s rise from floundering stand-up to film producer, and stars alongside KeeganMichael Key, Da’Vine Joy Randolph, Wesley Snipes, Craig Robinson, Tituss Burgess, and Snoop Dogg. (10/4) PAIN AND GLORY — Writer-director Pedro

Almodóvar draws on his own experiences for a story about a director struggling with a creative crisis as one of his early films is remastered and re-released. Antonio Banderas stars as the director, who narrates various scenes from his life — his childhood in the ’60s, his first love in Madrid, discovering cinema — to the lead actor of the remastered film, with whom he hasn’t spoken in 30 years. Penelope Cruz, Raúl Arévalo, and Asier Etxeandia also star. Early reviews are glowing, and Banderas took home Best Actor at the Cannes Film Festival, so expect Pain and Glory to reappear during awards season.

(10/4) LUCY IN THE SKY — Natalie Portman stars

as astronaut Lucy Cola, who returns to Earth after a lengthy mission only to find her life much smaller on the ground than in space, and her connection to reality slowly unraveling. An affair with another astronaut (Jon Hamm) doesn’t help matters — especially when he ditches her for a younger cadet. (10/4) GEMINI MAN — You’ve likely already seen

the trailer for this Will Smith-starring scifi, which has been heavily promoted for several months. Smith is Henry Brogan, a government assassin marked for death, only to discover that his would-be killer is a younger clone of himself, named Junior (a digitally de-aged Smith). Gemini Man has sat in development hell for 20 years, with various actors and directors attached, so let’s hope director Ang Lee’s final product has been worth the wait.

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— Angelina Jolie commanded every squareinch of screen in 2014’s Maleficent, which was an otherwise humdrum but visually resplendent alternate take on the Sleeping Beauty villain’s backstory. Jolie’s incredible performance helped the original overcome its shortcomings, but can lightning strike twice? Michelle Pfeiffer and Chiwetel Ejiofor join to help improve the odds, as Jolie’s fairy queen faces off against Pfeiffer’s human monarch, Queen Ingrith, who is determined to separate humans and fairies forever. (10/18) JOJO RABBIT — If you haven’t heard about

Thor: Ragnarok director Taika Waititi’s newest film, let Vox sum it up for us: “a coming-of-age story about a boy and his best friend Hitler.” You probably have a lot of questions. Based on the novel Caging Skies by Christine Leunens, Jojo Rabbit is a black comedy about a young boy during the Second World War. A member of the Hitler Youth, he discovers that his mother (Scarlett Johansson) is hiding a Jewish girl in their attic, and struggles to accept her normality given everything he’s been taught. Cue imaginary friend Hitler (Waititi), a bumbling version of the Nazi leader, who helps him process his ideological beliefs. Reviews are polarized — though mostly positive — with some comparing Jojo Rabbit to 1997’s Oscar-winning Life is Beautiful, which was similarly criticized for using Nazi atrocities as a backdrop for comedy.

Oh, and fun fact, since Disney acquired production company Fox Searchlight, the Hitler-starring Jojo Rabbit is now technically a Disney movie. (10/18) THE LIGHTHOUSE — Scary movie season

kicks off with one of the most acclaimed horror films in recent memory. Robert Eggers’ black-and-white film about two lighthouse keepers who slowly lose their sanity and become threatened by their worst nightmares has been showered with praise by critics, including Eggers direction and story, as well as Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson’s performances. If you’re looking to get suitably spooked, mark your calendars for this one. (10/18) BLACK AND BLUE — Police body cams and

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don’t) are topics du jour, and they come to a head in Deon Taylor’s thriller. Naomie Harris (Moonlight, Skyfall, Spectre) is a New Orleans police rookie who captures a drug dealer’s murder on her body cam — the only problem is that her partner and a squad of corrupt officers killed him. She’s forced to flee in order to save the footage, getting help from a stranger (Tyrese Gibson) as police officers and a local gang hunt her down. (10/25) THE LAST FULL MEASURE — In this true-

life tale, Sebastian Stan is a Pentagon investigator who agrees to help Vietnam veterans convince Congress to award the Medal of Honor to to Air Force Pararescueman William Pitsenberger, who sacrificed his own life to save and evacuate other soldiers during an ambush. Christopher Plummer, Samuel L. Jackson, Ed Harris, and Bradley Whitford also star. (10/25)

NOVEMBER TERMINATOR: DARK FATE

— James Cameron returns to save his sci-fi franchise, which Hollywood successfully drove into the ground over the course of three sequels. Relegating those later films to “alternate timelines,” producer Cameron and director Tim Miller are offering a true sequel to Terminator 2: Judgment Day — which not only holds up as a great action film, but remains a technical marvel some 28 years after its release. Arnold Schwarzenegger returns as the original Terminator, as does Linda Hamilton as Sarah Connor, and they team up to save a young woman targeted for termination by a new, advanced Terminator prototype (Gabriel Luna).

Terminator is perhaps even more relevant in today’s AI-powered and increasingly automated world, but frankly we’re just looking forward to watching Hamilton kick some ass again. (11/1) THE IRISHMAN — Robert De Niro, Al

Pacino, and Joe Pesci, directed by Martin Scorsese. Need we say more? Oh, we do?

Okay, well, Netflix is branding this film as an “epic saga of organized crime in postwar America,” based on the story of Frank “The Irishman” Sheeran, a mob hitman who worked for the Buffalino crime family. De Niro stars as Sheeran, recounting his various exploits as a hustler and hitman, and his role in the infamous disappearance of legendary union boss Jimmy Hoffa. Harvey Keitel, Bobby Cannavale,

Fall Arts Preview: Film Anna Paquin, and Ray Romano also star, and the screenplay is by Steven Zaillan, of Schindler’s List and Gangs of New York fame. (11/1)

Kubrick’s 1980 film — as well as recreating and directly referencing several key scenes in flashbacks. (11/8)

HARRIET — Cynthia Erivo is poised to

win her first Academy Award in this starring turn as abolitionist Harriet Tubman, who escaped slavery and went on to rescue dozens of other slaves through the Underground Railroad network. Tubman is an American icon and critics are lauding Erivo’s portrayal, as well as John Toll’s lush cinematography. If that critical consensus is maintained upon wider release, expect Harriet to reap rewards come Oscar season. Janelle Monae and Leslie Odom Jr. also star. (11/1)

etloads of CGI, and more explosions than you can shake a stick at? No, it’s not a Michael Bay film, but rather a Rolan Emmerich affair — not that either director is known for subtle filmmaking.

Emmerich has recruited Luke Evans, Patrick Wilson, Aaron Eckhart, Mandy Moore, Darren Criss, Nick Jonas, Woody Harrelson, and more for a film about the Battle of Midway, a decisive, post-Pearl Harbor naval battle in 1942 that turned the tide of war between the U.S. and Japan. (11/8)

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— Edward Norton directs Edward Norton in a film written and produced by Edward Norton.

Narcissism aside, Norton has adapted Jonathan Lethem’s award-winning novel about a private investigator with Tourette syndrome in ’50s New York who tries to solve the mystery of his mentor’s murder. Bruce Willis, Bobby Cannavale, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Cherry Jone, Alec Baldwin, and Willem Dafoe are just some of the stars filling this crime film, which critics suggest is a solid — if slow — tale of murder and corruption in NYC. (11/1)

HONEY BOY — Critics have been sweet on

WAVES — Writer-director Trey Edward

CHARLIE’S ANGELS — It’s been 16 years

Shults’ story of a suburban AfricanAmerican family navigating loss, love, forgiveness, and their domineering but well-intentioned patriarch has left critics scrambling to find enough adjectives to convey its emotional impact. Starring Sterling K. Brown, Kelvin Harrison Jr., Taylor Russell, Renee Elise Goldsberry, and Lucas Hedges, this could be a powerful escape from fall blockbusters and period dramas — and seemingly no less deserving come awards season. (11/1) DOCTOR SLEEP — Forty years after suffer-

ing through his father’s rampage in The Shining, Dan Torrance (Ewan McGregor) is a man struggling with alcoholism and the trauma of what took place at the Overlook Hotel. After a girl who shares his mysterious powers — known as “the shining” — seeks him out, they team up to battle the True Knot, a cult that feeds on children with psychic abilities. Based on Stephen King’s 2009 novel, Mike Flanagan (The Haunting of Hill House) has adapted Doctor Sleep to allow it to fit in the same “universe” as Stanley

MIDWAY — A large ensemble cast, buck-

Alma Har’el’s film ever since it was shown at Sundance back in January. Shi LaBeouf turned rehab into redemption by tackling his own demons and writing a semi-autobiographical drama based on his childhood and relationship with his father, as he took his first steps into acting and celebrity life. LaBeouf plays the father, while Noah Jupe and Lucas Hedges star as young and grown-up versions of Otis, a young actor navigating stardom and ultimately crashing into rehab and recovery.

(11/8) since the Angels last graced our screens, which in Hollywood terms means it’s long overdue for a comeback. Enter Kristen Stewart, Ella Balinska, and Naomi Scott as the new trio, supported by three Bosleys: Elizabeth Banks, Djimon Hounsou, and Patrick Stewart. Banks wrote, directed, and produced this film, which isn’t a reboot or a remake, but rather a continuation of the original TV series and the early 2000s films. (11/15) THE GOOD LIAR — A con artist (Ian

McKellen) meets a wealthy widow (Helen Mirren) on a dating website, as part of one final job to secure the biggest payday of his life. From there, things start to unravel as his past catches up with him, her grandson (Russell Tovey) grows suspicious, and he starts to develop feelings for his mark. Writer-director Bill Condon is no stranger to crafting a compelling tale, having scripted Chicago, Dreamgirls, and the McKellen-starring Gods and Monsters, and Jeffrey Hatcher’s eponymous novel is a good launching point for a gripping drama. (11/15)

THE REPORT — Daniel Jones is not a

household name, but the former U.S. Senate investigator led the investigation into the CIA’s use of torture post-9/11, which ultimately produced what became known as “The Torture Report,” a 6,700page report into the brutal, immoral, and ineffective techniques used to try and extract information. Adam Driver stars as Jones, leading a starry cast including Annette Bening, Jon Hamm, Jennifer Morrison, Maura Tierney, and Michael C. Hall. If gripping docudramas are your thing, critics say Scott Z. Burns’ film is a must-see. (11/15) MICKEY AND THE BEAR — A headstrong

teen must choose between caring for her addict, veteran father and keeping their house afloat, or taking an opportunity that would allow her to forge her own future.

Writer-director Annabelle Attanasio’s feature debut tackles the opioid crisis, PTSD, and the increasing burden on young carers to forego their own lives for those around them — and it’s received unanimous praise from critics, particularly for star Camila Morrone. (11/15) FROZEN II — Six years after “Let It Go”

conquered the world, Elsa, Anna, Olaf, Kristoff and Sven are back to try and earn Disney another billion dollars at the box office and billions more in merchandise sales. Songwriting husband-and-wife duo Robert Lopez and Kristen AndersonLopez return, as do writer-director Jennifer Lee and director Chris Buck, so expect more heart-tugging, toe-tapping comedy-drama as sisters Elsa and Anna venture north to find the source of Elsa’s powers. Oh, and Josh Gad promises the songs are “even catchier,” so get ready to hum them for the next six years. (11/22) A BEAUTIFUL DAY IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD

— Just hand Tom Hanks the Oscar for Best Actor now and get it over and done with. Hanks is Fred Rogers, beloved host of Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, and Matthew Rhys is the cynical journalist assigned to profile him for Esquire magazine. Presumably he, the audience, critics, and Academy voters will all be charmed

by Hanks’ portrayal of a man who spent thirty years giving children a space to learn, grow, feel, and make sense of the world. (11/22) KNIVES OUT — Talk about an ensemble

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Fall Arts Preview: Film Johnson has assembled quite the group of actors for his black comedy murder-mystery. Just some of the names involved: Daniel Craig, Chris Evans, Jamie Lee Curtis, Toni Collette, Don Johnson, Michael Shannon, Lakeith Stanfield, Katherine Langford, and Christopher Plummer. Craig is a master detective (with a Southern accent, no less) brought in to investigate the murder of a wealthy author (Plummer) amidst a gathering of his extended family. Critics are raving about Knives Out, calling it a welcome upending of murder-mystery tropes that makes the most of its ensemble. And you get to hear Captain America say “eat shit” repeatedly, so there’s that. (11/29) QUEEN & SLIM — Writer Lena Waithe and

director Melina Matsoukas offer a first date from hell and a powerful, modern spin on Bonnie and Clyde and Thelma & Louise. Slim (Daniel Kaluuya) and Queen (Jodie Turner-Smith) are pulled over by a white police officer at the end of a forgettable date, but the situation quickly escalates and Slim shoots the officer in self-defense. Captured on the officer’s dash cam, the incident goes viral after the pair flee the scene, finding themselves on the run and unwitting representatives for a nation struggling with entrenched racial tensions and dealing with grief, pain, and fear. Pose star Indya Moore, Chloë Sevigny, and Flea also star. (11/29)

DECEMBER PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE — A French

period drama with a lesbian narrative?

We’re interested. Set at the end of the 18th century, Marianne is a painter summoned to create a portrait of a young woman, intended to be displayed to elicit marriage proposals. The woman rejects her fate and refuses to be painted, forcing Marianne to go undercover as her maid — only to then fall in love with her. Céline Sciamma’s film looks wonderful and has received rave reviews, with particular praise towards its two leads, Noémie Merlant and Adèle Haenel. (12/6) A HIDDEN LIFE — Franz Jägerstätter was a

farmer and devout Catholic who refused to take the Hitler oath and fight for the Nazis during World War II — an act of rebellion in a regime that brutally punished any form of dissent. Filmmaker Terrence Malick brings Jägerstätter’s story to the screen, and in its review Variety noted that his tale of “dema30

gogues, and the way certain evangelicals have once again sold out their core values for political advantage, feels stunningly relevant.” (12/13) UNCUT GEMS — Filmmaking brothers

Josh and Benny Safdie have managed something so incredible, so unbelievable, that it may tear apart the very fabric of our reality: they have crafted a film that could put Adam Sandler in the running for an Oscar. Sandler stars as a charismatic New York City jeweler who makes a series of high-stakes bets in pursuit of the windfall of a lifetime, all while balancing his business, family, and encroaching adversaries.

Critics are raving about Sandler, with the Guardian calling it a “towering performance from the often tiresome actor.” If that’s not a backhanded compliment, we don’t know what is. (12/13)

BOMBSHELL — The 90-second teaser trail-

er for Bombshell, about the downfall of Fox News founder Roger Ailes after various employees and anchors accused him of sexual harassment, is one of the most electrifying, exciting, and engrossing previews in recent memory — and there’s only one line of dialogue. Nicole Kidman is Gretchen Karlson, Charlize Theron is Megyn Kelly (in an astonishingly good transformation), and Margot Robbie is fictional character Kayla Pospisil, three of the 20 women who reported Ailes’ harassment. John Lithgow steps into Ailes’ shoes, and the cast also includes Connie Britton, Kate McKinnon, and Allison Janney. We can’t wait. In fact, we’re going to watch the trailer again. (12/20) LITTLE WOMEN — The last time Greta

The biggest film of the fall season — and one of surprisingly few blockbusters — J.J. Abrams returns to direct, produce, and co-write this conclusion to the epic trilogy of films that started four years ago.

With the Resistance shattered and the First Order prepared to turn them into dust, its all hands on deck as Disney tries to wring as much money as possible from this galaxy far, far away. Will Rey triumph over Kylo Ren? Will Finn and Poe finally admit their sexual tension and get it on?

Will the whole thing just feel like Return of the Jedi 2.0? One thing’s for sure, Carrie Fisher will appear via unused footage from the first two films, so get ready to sob into your popcorn. (12/20)

Gerwig directed Saoirse Ronan we were gifted the delightful Lady Bird. This time around it’s an adaptation of Louisa May Alcott’s iconic novel, about the four March sisters navigating their way into adulthood. Ronan is Jo, Emma Watson is Meg, Florence Pugh is Amy, and Eliza Scanlen is Beth, with Timothée Chalamet as Jo’s potential suitor Theodore and Laura Dern and Meryl Streep as Marmee March and Aunt March, respectively.

Gerwig has decided to focus on the March sisters as young women, and her film will jump through time as it focuses on themes more than narrative — we’ll find out how successful that is in December. Fun fact: while Little Women has been branded an example of the “All-American girl,” the sisters are portrayed by Irish, English, and Australian actresses. (12/27)

CATS — Arguably the second-most antic-

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ipated film this fall, after Star Wars, if only because we’re all itching to know if this adaptation of the Broadway musical is as big of a car crash as the trailer — and subsequent social media reaction — led us to believe. However, ignoring the creepy human-cat hybrid CGI, there’s a lot of talent bringing this tale (or tail) to life. Tom Hooper (The King’s Speech, Les Misérables) is behind the camera and helped craft the screenplay, and the cast is stocked with A-list actors, including Judi Dench, Ian McKellen, Idris Elba, and Jennifer Hudson, who will belt out “Memory” in a way only Jennifer Hudson can. And given everyone else will be in a different screening watching Star Wars, if you secretly end up loving Cats, no one need ever know. (12/20)

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Beauty) wrote and directed this film, set during the Great War and based on a story told by his grandfather. Two young soldiers, Schofield (George MacKay) and Blake (Dean-Charles Chapman), are given a near-impossible task: save a battalion of 1,600 soldiers from marching into a trap by delivering a message through the battlefields of the war. And the cruel twist?

One of those 1,600 men is Blake’s brother. Mendes’ film apparently won’t shy from showing the horror and brutality of trench warfare — and the toll it took on the men who bravely fought, and died, for their countries. (12/27)l For more Fall Arts Film listings, please visit www.metroweekly.com or follow our new interactive version of the print edition at www.issuu.com/metroweekly.

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Fall Arts Preview classic toy story gets a vibrant retelling in this brand new adaptation (11/15-1/1) •

THE SNOWY DAY AND OTHER STORIES BY EZRA JACK KEATS — This beautiful show

follows the character of Peter and his friend Archie around the neighborhood in four of Ezra Jack Keats’ beloved tales (2/14-4/5) ALLY THEATRE COMPANY

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Syrian woman pursues her science career in New York as she tries to forget a complicated past (11/1-11/23) • RASHEEDA SPEAKING — A tense workplace thriller that examines the realities of "post-racial" America when two co-workers — one black, the other white — are driven apart by the machinations of their boss (3/6-3/22) ARENA STAGE

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AST SEASON, PAULA VOGEL TOOK THE SPOTLIGHT. THIS SEASON, it’s August Wilson’s turn, as several major D.C. theaters present a portion of the august playwright’s finest works from his “Century Cycle,” including the biggest hitter at all — Fences, at Ford’s. Overall, the D.C. theater season looks to be as interesting, exciting, and socially and politically relevant as ever, with an abundance of productions focusing on racial relations in this country, both from a present and past perspective. And not to play favorites, but we are secretly looking forward to Amadeus at The Folger, Rep Stage’s E2, Mosaic’s ambitious “Till Trilogy,” and Teenage Dick (not what you think) at Woolly. Musically, meanwhile, the city is undergoing an embarrassment of riches (keeping Alan Paul in a directing tizzy) with Cats, My Fair Lady, and a return of Hamilton at the Kennedy Center, Spring Awakening at the newly renovated Round House, Fun Home at Studio, Singing in the Rain and Pippin at Olney, Hedwig at Keegan, A Chorus Line and Hair at Signature, and — best of all — Little Shop of Horrors at Constellation. All eyes, however, are fixed on the Shakespeare Theatre Company, as this season marks the debut of new artistic director Simon Godwin, who will direct Timon of Athens and Much Ado About Nothing come spring. Welcome, Simon! We’re thrilled you’re here!

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1524 Spring Hill Rd. Mclean, Va. 703-854-1856 www.1ststagetysons.org TRYING — Joanna McClelland Glass

draws on her real experience working for former U.S. Attorney General Francis Biddle at his home in D.C. in the ’60s.

Directed by Alex Levy (9/19-10/20) • AIRNESS — A comedy about air guitar competitions. A co-production with Keegan Theatre (12/5-12/29, Keegan) • THE ROYALE — In 1905, Jay “The Sport” Jackson dreams of becoming the first African American boxer to fight for the

heavyweight championship. A co-production with Olney (1/30-2/23, Olney) • A NEW BRAIN — William Finn’s musical confronts the author’s encounter with a neurological disorder (3/26-4/19) ADVENTURE THEATRE MTC

1101 Sixth St. SW 202-488-3300 arenastage.org JITNEY — The August Wilson classic

directed by Ruben Santiago-Hudson (9/13-10/20, Kreeger Theater) • RIGHT TO BE FORGOTTEN — A young man’s mistake at 17 haunts him online a decade later. (10/11-11/12, Kogod) • DISNEY’S NEWSIES — Based on the film. Music by Alan Menken. Book by Harvey Fierstein (11/1-12/22, Fichandler) • KEN LUDWIG’S DEAR JACK, DEAR LOUISE — Tony Awardwinner Ken Ludwig tells the heart-warming story of his parents’ courtship during World War II (11/21-12/29, Kreeger) • A THOUSAND SPLENDID SUNS — The lives of two Afghan women are inextricably bound together (1/17-3/1, Fichandler) BALTIMORE CENTER STAGE

700 N. Calvert St. Baltimore, Md. 410-332-0033 www.centerstage.org

MISS YOU LIKE HELL — Everyone has

7300 MacArthur Blvd Glen Echo, Md. 301-634-2270 www.adventuretheatre-mtc.org ELEPHANT AND PIGGIE’S “WE ARE IN A PLAY” — Gerald and Piggie are "bestus"

friends, and are going to a party hosted by the Squirrelles (9/20-10/27) • THE VELVETEEN RABBIT — Margery Williams's

baggage in this timely mother-daughter musical about escaping and belonging (Now- 10/13) • THOUGHTS OF A COLORED MAN — Welcome to the vibrant inner life of being Black, proud, and thriving in the 21st Century. By Keenan Scott II (10/1011/10) • MEN ON BOATS — A hilarious, true(ish) history of the Grand Canyon (11/29-12/22)

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Fall Arts Preview: Stage CONSTELLATION THEATRE

1835 14th St. NW 202-204-7741 www.constellationtheatre.org LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS — The

EVERYMAN THEATRE

315 West Fayette St. Baltimore, Md, 410-752-2208 Everymantheatre.org

Ashman-Menken classic doesn’t have a dud song in the lot. Plus, there’s a soul-singing plant! (10/17-11/17) • THE 39 STEPS — A cast of four actors embodies over 150 characters in this fast-paced and riotously funny remix of Hitchcock’s 1935 spy thriller. Nick Olcott directs (2/6-3/8) • EURYDICE — Sarah Ruhl’s fresh reimagining of the classic Orpheus myth, told through the eyes of its heroine. Directed

by Mary Hall Surface (5/8-5/31)

RADIO GOLF — The fast-paced, crackling

EDGE OF THE UNIVERSE PLAYERS 2

201 East Capitol St. SE 202-544-7077 www.folger.edu

923 F St. NW 202-355-6330 www.universeplayers2.org

MY BARKING DOG — A troubled man, an

isolated woman, and a wild coyote who shows up at their apartment building spells a major change of human civilization (10/4-10/13)

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conclusion to August Wilson’s 10-play Century Cycle examining the AfricanAmerican experience in the 20th century (10/15-11/17) • MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS — Ken Ludwig adapts Agatha Christie’s masterpiece (12/3-1/5) • BE HERE NOW — A comedic look at what we’re willing to do for love and happiness and to create meaning in our FOLGER THEATRE

1 HENRY IV — Prince Hal spends his days

carousing in seedy taverns with criminals and lowly commoners, but his path to the throne eventually leads him to the battlefield. With Ed Gero as Falstaff (Now-10/13) • AMADEUS — Genius and jealousy collide in 18th-century Vienna as the mediocre Salieri will do everything in his power to destroy his musical rival, Mozart. Directed by Richard

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Clifford (11/5-12/22) • THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR — Shakespeare’s delightful comedy on love, money, deception, and the power of women. Directed by Aaron Posner (1/14-3/1) FORD'S THEATRE

511 Tenth St. NW 202-347-4833 www.fordstheatre.org FENCES — One of August Wilson’s most

famous and profound works, starring Craig Wallace and Erika Rose. Timothy Douglas, one of the foremost interpreters of Wilson's work, directs (9/27-10/27) • A CHRISTMAS CAROL — Wallace dons his Scrooge nightcap and returns for his fourth year as the miser who would spoil Christmas (11/21-1/1) • SILENT SKY — A decade before women gained the right to vote, Henrietta Leavitt and her fellow women “computers” transformed the science of astronomy. This drama explores the determination, passion, and sacrifice of the women who redefined our understanding of the cosmos (1/24-2/23) • GUYS AND DOLLS — Peter Flynn, who knocked Into the Woods out of the park last season, returns to direct this classic, featuring the showstoppers “Luck be a

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Fall Arts Preview: Stage Lady” and “Sit Down, You’re Rockin’ the Boat” (3/13-5/20) GALA HISPANIC THEATRE

3333 14th St. NW 202-234-7174 www.galatheatre.org

LIFE IS A DREAM — Hugo Medrano directs

one of the essential works of Spanish Golden Age theater, a timeless play that explores free will, fate, and tyranny (Now-10/13) • WE HAVE IRÉ — In this bilingual performance combining spoken word, dance, and live music, Afro Cuban and Cuban-American transnational artists tell their real life stories of finding success in the United States through hard work and ire, the Lucumí condition of being blessed with positive energy (12/612/7) • EXQUISITE AGONY — Pulitzer Prize-winner Nilo Cruz will direct his own play about a middle-aged woman's obsessive quest to find love with a young man who receives the gift of her late husband’s heart (2/6-3/1) • AUNT JULIA AND THE SCRIPTWRITER — Set in Peru during the 1950s, this funny and tender story of an 18-year-old student who falls for a 32-year-old divorcee is based on the real life experience of Nobel Prize-winner

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Vargas Llosa (4/23-5/17)

turn of the 20th century (10/31-11/3)

GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY CENTER FOR THE ARTS

KEEGAN THEATRE

Concert Hall Fairfax, Va. 888-945-2468 www.cfa.gmu.edu

L.A. THEATRE WORKS: SEVEN — Seven

playwrights collaborate to weave together a tapestry of poignant stories about seven courageous women from around the globe, relaying their struggles, threats, and violence along the road to triumph in their communities; the resulting documentary play was created with the support of the D.C.-based Vital Voices Global Partnership (10/18) • ENCHANTMENT THEATRE COMPANY: PETER RABBIT TALES — Based on The Original Peter Rabbit Books by Beatrix Potter and brought to life on stage with fantastical masks, playful puppets, lavish set, and original music by Charles Gilbert (10/6) • MASON SCHOOL OF THEATER: RAGS — Composer Charles Strouse, lyricist Stephen Schwartz, and book writer Joseph Stein team up on a new adaptation of a hidden musical gem, about immigrants arriving at Ellis Island at the

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1742 Church St. NW 202-265-3767 www.keegantheatre.com WEST BY GOD — Two families grapple

with issues of grief and love, memory and identity in this new play by West Virginia native Brandon McCoy (9/27-10/20) • AIRNESS — A comedy about air guitar competitions. A co-production with 1st Stage (11/8-11/30) • AN IRISH CAROL — A Keegan holiday tradition entering its 9th season (12/12-31) • BOY — After an accident, a well-intentioned doctor convinces the parents of a male infant to raise their son as a girl. Directed by Susan Marie Rhea (2/7-3/7) • MEMPHIS — In the segregated ’50s, a young white DJ n falls in love with an electrifying black singer named Felicia Farrell. The 2010 Tony Award-winner for Best Musical (4/105/10) • YOGA PLAY — A provocative comedy about authenticity and enlightenment in a world determined to sell it (6/5-6/27) • HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH — John Cameron Mitchell’s award-winning, oneof-a-kind rock musical (7/24-8/23)

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Fall Arts Preview: Stage KENNEDY CENTER

202-467-4600 www.kennedy-center.org CATS — Let the memory live again with new costumes, sets, and choreography (9/17-10/6, Opera House) • BROADWAY CENTER STAGE: FOOTLOOSE — Walter Bobbie directs J. Quinton

Johnson, Michael Park and Rebecca Luker in the first of this season’s semi-staged productions that have been consistently mind-blowing (10/9-10/13, Eisenhower) • THE SECOND CITY’S LOVE, FACTUALLY — A parody of that nauseating movie so ripe for parody (12/3-29, Theater Lab) • COME FROM AWAY — The remarkable true story of 7,000 stranded passengers and the small town in Newfoundland that welcomed them is the basis for this Tony-winning musical (12/10-1/5, Eisenhower) • MY FAIR LADY — The timeless classic, in a glowing new production from Lincoln Center, directed by Bartlett Sher (12/17-1/19, Opera House) • BROADWAY CENTER STAGE: NEXT TO NORMAL — Rachel Bay Jones stars in this unflinching look at a suburban family struggling with the effects of mental illness (1/29-2/2, Eisenhower) • JESUS CHRIST, SUPERSTAR — In celebration of its 50th anniversary, a new mesmerizing production comes to North America from London. Just in time for Easter! (4/144/26, Opera House) • BROADWAY CENTER STAGE: BYE BYE BIRDIE — A loving send-up of the early 1960s, small-town America, teenagers, and rock and roll (4/23-4/26, Eisenhower) • ROYAL SHAKESPEARE COMPANY: THE TAMING OF THE SHREW — Justin Audibert turns Shakespeare's fierce comedy of gender politics on its head (5/6-5/10, Eisenhower) • TINY BEAUTIFUL THINGS — An original Kennedy Center production based on the best-selling book by Cheryl Strayed and adapted by Nia Vardalos (6/2-6/28, Terrace) • HAMILTON — The astounding Tony-winning musical returns for 14 weeks (6/16-9/20, Opera House) MOSAIC THEATER

Atlas Arts Center 1333 H St. NE 202-399-7993 www.mosaictheater.org FABULATION — Lynn Nottage’s satirical tale follows a successful

African-American publicist as she stumbles down the social ladder after her husband steals her fortune (Now-9/22) • THEORY — A young tenure-track professor tests the limits of free speech by encouraging her students to contribute to an unmoderated discussion group and an anonymous student posts offensive comments and videos (10/23-11/17) • EUREKA DAY — How do you find consensus when you can’t agree on the facts? A comedy directed by Serge Seiden (12/4-1/5) • PILGRIMS MUSA & SHERI IN THE NEW WORLD — A new immigrant from Egypt picks up a boisterous and quirky waitress and a night of improbable passion turns into an extended labyrinth of cultural assumptions upended (1/16-2/16) • INHERIT THE WINDBAG — Liberal Gore Vidal and conservative William F. Buckley meet to reprise their infamous debate (3/11-3/29) • THE TILL TRILOGY —Ifa Bayeza’s three plays — The Ballad of Emmett Till, That Summer in Sumner, and Benevolence — tell the story and impact of the life of Emmett Till. In rep (4/1-6/21)

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Fall Arts Preview: Stage NATIONAL THEATRE

1321 Pennsylvania Ave. NW 202-628-6161 www.thenationaldc.org JIMMY BUFFETT'S ESCAPE TO MARGARITAVILLE — Kill us now.

(10/8-10/13) • RENT: THE 20TH ANNIVERSARY TOUR (11/12-11/17) • FIDDLER ON THE ROOF — Director Bartlett Sher brings a fresh and authentic vision to the beloved musical (12/10-12/15) • THE SIMON & GARFUNKEL STORY — Nope, not a joke (1/31-2/1) • THE KING’S SPEECH (2/11-2/16) • THE LAST SHIP — Starring Sting.

Yes, that Sting. (3/27-4/5) • ROALD DAHL’S CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY — Get your Golden Ticket (4/7-4/26) OLNEY THEATRE CENTER

2001 Olney-Sandy Spring Rd. Olney, Md. 301-924-3400 www.olneytheatre.org CABARET — Alan Paul reinvents a masterpiece masterfully (Now-10/6, Mainstage) • THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK — In 1941

Amsterdam, 13-year-old Anne Frank goes into hiding from the Nazis with her family (9/17-9/24, Historic Stage) • THE ROYALE — In 1905, Jay “The Sport” Jackson dreams of becoming the first African American boxer to fight for the heavyweight championship. A co-production with 1st Stage (9/25-10/27, Theatre Lab) • SINGING IN THE RAIN — The greatest movie musical of all time comes to life, rain and all (11/8-1/5, Mainstage) • A CHRISTMAS CAROL — Paul Morella’s one-man adaptation of the Dickens’ holiday classic returns for its 10th Anniversary (11/2912/29, Theatre Lab) • MISS YOU LIKE HELL — A mother and daughter encounter a mosaic of characters as diverse and weird as America itself on a road trip in this musical by Erin McKeown (1/29-3/1, Mainstage) • THE AMATEURS — A mind-bending journey from the 14th Century to the present day by Jordan Harrison (3/4-4/5, Theatre Lab) • THE HUMANS — A middle-class American family celebrates a difficult Thanksgiving.

Directed by Aaron Posner (4/1-5/3, Mainstage) • PIPPIN — They’ve got magic to do, just for you (6/10-7/19, Mainstage) REP STAGE

10901 Little Patuxent Parkway Columbia, Md. 443-518-1500 www.repstage.org SOUVENIER — The story of Florence Foster Jenkins, the eccen-

tric society matron who fancied herself a great singer, told through the eyes of her accompanist, Cosme McMoon (Now9/22) • E2 — Power, gender and sexuality collide in Bob Bartlett’s contemporary reimagining of Christopher Marlowe’s tale of England’s infamous ineffectual king, Edward II (10/3111/17) • KILL MOVE PARADISE —James Ijames takes the Elysium of Greek antiquity and flips the script. Set in a cosmic waiting room, Isa, Daz, Grif and Tiny try to make sense of the world they have been untimely ripped from (2/20-3/8) • DAMES AT SEA — Rick Hammerly directs this winning musical based on the Hollywood extravaganzas of the ’30s (4/30-5/17)

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RICHMOND TRIANGLE PLAYERS

1300 Altamont Ave. Richmond, Va. 804-346-8113 www.rtriangle.org

FALSETTOS — William Finn’s buoyant musical revolves around

the life of a charming, intelligent, neurotic gay man (Now to 10/5) • THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW — You can never get enough of the Time Warp, again (10/17-10/26) • TIMES SQUARE ANGEL — Charles Busch’s hilarious parody of Frank Capra Christmas classics (11/13-12/21) • THE CAKE — A baker grapples with baking a cake for a same-sex wedding (2/12-3/7) ROUND HOUSE THEATRE

4545 East-West Highway Bethesda, Md. 240-644-1100 www.roundhousetheatre.org SCHOOL GIRLS; OR, THE AFRICAN MEAN GIRLS PLAY — The

pretty, popular queen bee of the Aburi Girls Boarding School didn’t count on her reign being threatened (9/18-10/13) • THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME — What begins as an investigation into the grisly death of a neighbor’s dog results in a remarkable coming-of-age journey for a 15-yearold. Directed by Ryan Rilette and Jared Mezzochi (11/20-12/22) • SPRING AWAKENING — Alan Paul directs this exhilarating paean to teenage sexuality. Music by Duncan Sheik (1/222/24) • COST OF LIVING — Two parallel narratives intersect as a wealthy graduate student with cerebral palsy and his newest caretaker build an uneasy trust, while a truck driver struggles to reconnect with his estranged wife, recently left paralyzed by a car crash in this Pulitzer Prize-winning drama (4/1-4/19) • BIG LOVE — Fifty Greek maidens flee across the sea to Italy and claim refugee status to escape fifty arranged marriages. The fifty Grecian men follow in pursuit. (5/20-6/21) SHAKESPEARE THEATRE COMPANY

Sidney Harman Hall 610 F Street NW 202-547-1122 www.shakespearetheatre.org

EVERYBODY — Playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins adapts the

15th-century play Everyman in which Death, portrayed by Nancy Robinette, pays a visit to a group of people. Will Davis directs the comedy (10/14-11/17, Lansburgh, 450 7th St. NW) • PETER PAN — J.M. Barrie’s classic is reimagined in a world premiere adaptation by Lauren Gunderson. Directed by Alan Paul (12/3-1/12, Harman) • THE WOMAN IN BLACK — Susan Hill’s acclaimed ghost story comes alive in Stephen Mallatratt’s ingenious stage adaptation, which has been playing for three decades in the West End as one of Britain’s biggest (and scariest) hits (12/3-12/22, Lansburgh) • THE AMEN CORNER — A Harlem pastor rails at her congregation and her teenaged son for their vices. She must face the music herself when a figure from her own troubled past returns (2/1-3/15, Harman) • TIMON OF ATHENS — Artistic Director Simon Godwin makes his directorial debut at the Shakespeare with a restaging of his recent, acclaimed production, featuring Olivier Awardwinner Kathryn Hunter (2/20-3/22, Lansburgh) • ROMANTICS ANONYMOUS — Two chocolatiers suffering from social anxiety fall in love in this heartwarming musical (4/7-5/17, Lansburgh) • MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING — Godwin takes the reigns to SEPTEMBER 12, 2019 • METROWEEKLY.COM

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Fall Arts Preview: Stage close the season with one of Shakespeare’s most beloved comedies (5/5-6/14, Harman) SIGNATURE THEATRE

4200 Campbell Ave. Arlington, Va. 703-820-9771 www.sigtheatre.org

ESCAPED ALONE — In Caryl Churchill’s dark comedy, three old

friends are joined by a neighbor to engage in amiable chitchat with a side of apocalyptic horror. Directed by Holly Twyford (9/24-11/3, Ark Theatre) • A CHORUS LINE — One of the most successful, award-winning musicals of all time is given the full Signature treatment (10/29-1/5, Max) • GUN & POWDER — In this world premiere musical two light-skinned African American twins pass themselves as white to help their mother settle a sharecropper debt (1/28-2/23, Ark) • EASY WOMEN SMOKING LOOSE CIGARETTES — A world premiere comedy by D.C. area playwright Dani Stoller (2/18-3/29, Ark) • CAMILLE CLAUDEL — Turn-of-the-century French sculptor Camille Claudel was a groundbreaking artist and a revolutionary free-thinker, but her entire life was determined by the men around her. A new musical (3/24-4/19, Max) • HAIR — The joyous, buoyant, and trippy musical that took the ’60s by storm, featuring classics as “Age of Aquarius,” “Let the Sunshine In” and, of course, “Hair” (5/19-7/12, Max) STUDIO THEATRE

1501 14th St. NW 202-332-3300 studiotheatre.org DOUBT: A PARABLE — Sarah Marshall anchors this Pulitzer

Prize-winning masterpiece about faith, ambiguity, and the price of moral conviction set in 1964 at a Bronx Catholic school (Now-10/6, Metheny) • WHITE PEARL — A leaked ad for skin-whitening cream goes viral in this twisted corporate comedy about the ugliness of the beauty industry (11/6-12/8, Milton) • PIPELINE — A searing and deeply compassionate look at a broken education system (1/5-2/16, Mead) • PASS OVER — A humorous and chilling collision of the Exodus saga and Waiting for Godot about the dreams of generations of young black men marooned in a cycle of violence (3/4-4/5, Milton) • FUN HOME — Studio Artistic Director David Muse directs this heartfelt, powerful musical about coming out, based on the memoirs of lesbian cartoonist Allison Bechdel (5/13-6/14, Mead) SYNETIC THEATER

1800 South Bell St. Crystal City, Va. 800-494-8497 www.synetictheater.org THE TEMPESST — The troupe’s legendary, cinematic adap-

tation returns, complete with a water-filled stage and Irina Tsikurishvili as “Prospera” (9/25-10/20) • THE SNOW QUEEN — A whimsical, family-friendly adaptation of Hans Christian Anderson’s beloved fairy tale (12/3-12/29) • PHANTOM OF THE OPERA — A physical adaptation of Gaston Leroux’s classic.

Directed by Paata Tsikurishvili (2/5-3/1) • LIFE IS A DREAM — A modern take on Calderon’s Spanish Golden Age classic (4/225/17) • THE SERVANT OF TWO MASTERS — Carlo Goldoni’s commedia dell’arte masterpiece, Synetic style (6/17-7/12)

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Fall Arts Preview: Stage THEATRE ALLIANCE

WASHINGTON STAGE GUILD

DAY OF ABSENCE — Citizens in a sleepy

CANDIDA — In this George Bernard Shaw

2020 Shannon Pl. SE 202-241-2539 www.theateralliance.com country town are forced to deal with a shocking discovery (10/5-11/3) • THE BITTER EARTH — An introspective black playwright finds his lack of activism questioned by his white boyfriend, an impassioned member of the Black Lives Matter Movement (2/22-3/22) • THE BLACKEST BATTLE — A revolutionary hiphop musical written by Psalmayene 24 (5/16-6/14) THEATRE J

1529 16th St. NW 202-777-3210 www.theaterj.org LOVE SICK — Middle-Eastern harmonics,

dazzling choreography, and an inspired story of passion and awakening combine in this new musical (Now to 9/29) • OCCUPANT — Susan Rome stars in this late masterpiece by Edward Albee. Aaron Posner directs (11/7-12/8)

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900 Massachusetts Ave. NW 240-582-0050 www.stageguild.org classic, a preacher and a poet are in love with the same woman (9/26-10/20) • HARD TIMES — An adaptation of the Dickens classic in which four actors play all the roles (11/14-12/8) • BLOOMSDAY — A young couple meet on a walking tour of James Joyce’s Dublin, but a misunderstanding keeps them apart. Thirty-five years later, they return to retrace their steps and confront their younger selves about the missed opportunity (1/23-2/16) • SAM & DEDE — Subtitled, “My Dinner with Andre the Giant,” Gino Dilorio’s play chronicles one of the unlikeliest of friendships in history (3/19-4/12) WOOLLY MAMMOTH

641 D St. NW 202-393-3939 woollymammoth.net FAIRVIEW — Beverly insists the celebra-

tion for Grandma’s birthday be perfect.

But her husband is useless, her sister is into the wine, and her daughter’s secrets are threatening to derail the day (Now-

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9/6) • WHAT TO SEND UP WHEN IT GOES DOWN — A play-pageant-ritual-homegoing celebration in response to the physical and spiritual deaths of Black people as a result of racialized violence (10/3011/10) • SHIPWRECK: A HISTORY PLAY ABOUT 2017 — A group of well-meaning liberals gather at a farmhouse for a relaxing weekend when the 45th U.S. President sends a history-altering dinner invitation (2/10-3/8) • THERE’S ALWAYS THE HUDSON — Paola Lázaro’s new work takes an unflinching look at confronting trauma, and how the bonds with our chosen family can carry us through (4/6-5/3) • TEENAGE DICK — Mike Lew’s modern, darkly comic re-telling of Shakespeare’s Richard III set in high school. Bullied because of his cerebral palsy, Richard is willing to crush his enemies in order to become senior class president (6/16/28) l For more Fall Arts Stage listings, please visit www.metroweekly.com or follow our new interactive version of the print edition at www.issuu.com/metroweekly.

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Tanya Tucker at The Birchmere

Pop/Rock/Folk/Jazz/Blues Compiled by Doug Rule

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HE BIGGEST NAME ON THIS SEASON’S LIVE MUSIC DOCKET IS A familiar one: Cher. That’s right, every gay’s favorite septuagenarian is coming back around for a stadium show. Also returning are two former residents of gay D.C., Bob Mould and Tom Goss. But that’s not all the LGBTQ music there is to see and hear, as we can expect everything from Big Freedia to Shamir, Chely Wright to Crys Matthews, Tegan and Sara to Miya Folick, and Gavin Creel to (Who Is) Fancy.

And then there are all the LGBTQ-affirming acts you could dream of — naturally led

by Lizzo with all her Lizzbians, all feeling good as hell.

9:30 CLUB

815 V St. NW 877-435-9849 www.930.com THE BAND CAMINO W/VALLEY (9/13) • BARNS COURTNEY W/THE HUNNA — The 404 Tour (9/14) • MARC REBILLET W/ DINGLEBERRY DYNASTY (9/14) • POLO & PAN W/MINDCHATTER (9/15) • LIVE —

A Throwing Copper 25th Anniversary Celebration, now sold out (9/16) • SIGRID W/RAFFAELLA — The Sucker Punch Tour, sold out (9/17) • VIDA BLUE (9/18) • BAND OF SKULLS W/DEMOB HAPPY (9/19) • GRACE VANDERWAAL W/PATRICK MARTIN — Ur So Beautiful Tour (9/20) • GRAND-

SON W/NOTHING,NOWHERE. — “the end of the beginning” (9/21) • RIDE W/THE SPIRIT OF THE BEEHIVE (9/22) • WHITNEY W/HAND HABITS (9/23) • STEREOLAB W/ BITCHIN BAJAS (9/25) • PINEGROVE W/ BOYSCOTT (9/26) • HALFALIVE W/SURE SURE (9/27) • JADE BIRD W/FLYTE (9/28) • BLISSPOP DISCO FEST — DJing in-the-

round on a special stage over two nights will be: headliner The Black Madonna, along with Josey Rbelle, Deep Sugar’s Wayne Davis & Lisa Moody, and Amy Douglas, plus at the downstairs Backbar DJs Philco b2b Samantha Francesca b2b Hot Coffee (9/27); headliner Chromeo with DĀM-Funk, a live remix set from

RAC, and a disco set from Robotaki, plus at the Backbar DJs Baronhawk, Eddy Bauer, and Rose Corps (9/28) • K.FLAY W/HOUSES, YOUR SMITH — The Solutions Tour (9/29) • DEAN LEWIS W/SCOTT HELMAN — A Place We Knew Tour (9/30) • JOSEPH W/DEEP SEA DIVER — A harmonizing trio of young sisters (10/2) • CARAVAN PALACE (10/3) • MT. JOY W/ SUSTO (10/3) • BUILT TO SPILL W/PRISM BITCH, LOVE AS LAUGHTER — Keep It Like A Secret 20th Anniversary Tour (10/4) • LUNA PERFORMING PENTHOUSE W/ OLDEN YOLK (10/5) • BOMBAY BICYCLE CLUB W/THE GREETING COMMITTEE — The acclaimed quirky and eclectic indiepop group from the U.K. hops back on for a ride in advance of another intriguingly named album, Everything Else Has Gone Wrong (10/5) • STEVE LACY (10/6) • NOAH KAHAN W/JP SAXE — Busy Head Tour (10/7) • KERO KERO BONITO W/ NEGATIVE GEMINI (10/8) • SHOVELS & ROPE W/CEDRIC BURNSIDE — By Blood Tour (10/9) • SHAED W/ABSOFACTO (10/10) • PERPETUAL GROOVE W/ KENDALL STREET COMPANY — All Good presents (10/11) • LEWIS CAPALDI (10/12) • MASHROU’LEILA (10/12) • IDLES W/ PREOCCUPATIONS (10/14) • MOONCHILD (10/16) • YUNGBLUD W/MISSIO — Twisted Tales of the Ritalin Club Tour (10/17) • CHARLI XCX W/SLAYYTER (10/18) •

BISHOP BRIGGS W/MIYA FOLICK, JAX ANDERSON (10/19) • ANTHONY BROWN & GROUP THERAPY (10/21) • OLIVER TREE W/TOMMY CASH, NVDES (10/22) • SOFI TUKKER W/HAIKU HANDS, LP GIOBBI —

R.I.P. Shame World Tour by an LGBTQfriendly, playful-pop “Best Friend” duo (10/23) • JOSH ABBOTT BAND W/RAY FULCHER — Catching Fire Tour (10/24) • CIGARETTES AFTER SEX — Greg Gonzalez sings in the languid style and makes the kind of evocative, hazy, slow-burning music you’d expect from his band’s name (10/25) • LOST FREQUENCIES (10/25) • JULIA MICHAELS W/RHYS LEWIS (10/27) • BEA MILLER W/KAH-LO — Sunsets in Outerspace Tour (10/28) • BIG FREEDIA W/LOW CUT CONNIE (10/29) • JUKEBOX

THE GHOST PRESENTS HALLOQUEEN W/ ZACH JONES & THE TRICKY BITS — After a

regular set, the D.C.-rooted group dresses up and performs as legendary rock band Queen for this 5th annual event, with a Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers cover band (10/31) • THE MAINE W/TWIN XL (11/1) • THE CINEMATIC ORCHESTRA (11/2) • CHELSEA WOLFE W/JOANNA GIKA (11/3) • MUMIY TROLL (11/3) • CAVETOWN W/ FIELD MEDIC, SPOOKYGHOSTBOY (11/4) •

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— Likely the best Canadian band that you don’t know but should (11/5) THE ALDEN

McLean Community Center 1234 Ingleside Ave. McLean, Va. 703-790-0123 www.aldentheatre.org LEE LESSACK AND JOHNNY RODGERS —

“Simon and Garfunkel [Revisited] Live in Central Park” (11/22) • JOHN EATON’S HOLIDAY SONGBOOK — Acclaimed local jazz pianist offers an afternoon of holiday songs from the Great American Songbook (12/15) • DAMIEN SNEED’S “WE SHALL OVERCOME” — Repertoire from across African—American music traditions interwoven with spoken word from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s recorded speeches in a belated King birthday toast (1/30) ALL THINGS GO FALL CLASSIC

Dock 5 at Union Market 1309 5th St. NE 888-512-7469 www.allthingsgofallclassic.com The high-caliber indie-pop festival continues to draw on-the-verge stars in its sixth year, with LÉON, ALLIE X, LANY, MUNA, and ARKELLS among those chomping at the bit to follow last year’s Maggie Rogers and Billie Eilish — and Tové Lo and Sofi Tukker years before them — to the top of the charts. Top-notch Scottish synth pop act CHVRCHES headlines the festival on its first day, Saturday, Oct. 12, while MELANIE MARTINEZ caps things off on Sunday, Oct. 13, immediately following a performance from BETTY WHO, marking her third year in a row at All Things Go. CHARLIE HANSON, COIN, MXMTOON, NASTY CHERRY, OLIVIA O’BRIEN, SHENNA, SNEAKS, and TEAMARRR round out the two-day bill at the festival, with food available from featured vendors &Pizza, Arepa Zone, Bun’d Up, DC Empanadas, Insomnia Cookies, Jrink, Nando’s, Rocklands, Shake Shack, Swizzler Foods, and Taqueria del Barrio (10/12-13) AMP BY STRATHMORE

11810 Grand Park Ave. North Bethesda, Md. 301-581-5100 www.ampbystrathmore.com MICHELA’S LOVE MOVEMENT — Tap danc-

ing phenom Michela Marino Lerman leads this jazz music/dance hybrid ensemble (9/20) • ERIC CLAPTON TRIBUTE BY THE 48

BELL BOTTOM BLUES (9/21) • THE SMALL GLORIES — Powerhouse Americana

duo from the Canadian Prairies (11/17) • FRESH A.I.R. — The debut showcase of the six 2020 Strathmore Artists-inResidence: Ayo, Niccolo Seligmann, Christian Douglas, Nataly Merezhuk, Jake Blount, and Lucas Ashby, alongside their mentors Nitanju Bolade Casel, Tom Teasley, Ken Avis, and Cathy Fink (11/20) THE ANTHEM

901 Wharf St. SW. 202-888-0020 www.theanthemdc.com BLOC PARTY W/CULTS — Performing Silent Alarm (9/16) • THE B-52’S W/ ORCHESTRAL MANOEUVRES IN THE DARK, BERLIN — 40th Anniversary Tour of the

“Love Shack” and “Roam” hitmakers (9/17) • MARINA W/DAYA — Love + Fear Tour from underrated, socially conscious British pop starlet and up-and-coming queer American chanteuse (9/18) • MAC DEMARCO W/DUSTIN WONG & TAKAKO MINEKAWA (9/20) • BASTILLE W/JOYWAVE — Doom Days Tour Part 1 (9/21) • MASSIVE ATTACK — Featuring Elizabeth Fraser and Horace Andy, celebrating and performing Mezzanine in full (9/24) • LIZZO W/ARI LENNOX — The LGBTQ-affirming and self-loving “it” girl who’s got the juice to sell out the Anthem in record time, two nights in a row (9/2526) • GRIZ — The gay, brassy, budding EDM star (9/27) • JOE RUSSO’S ALMOST DEAD — All Good presents a return of this Grateful Dead tribute act (9/28) • CATFISH AND THE BOTTLEMEN W/SPECIAL GUESTS JULY TALK (9/29) • THE HEAD AND THE HEART W/THE MOONDOGGIES (10/03) • ZEDD W/JAX JONES, NOTD —

A night of high-caliber, high-charting EDM (10/4) • LAUV W/SPECIAL GUEST BÜLOW — ~how i’m feeling~ tour (10/5) • MAGGIE ROGERS W/EMPRESS OF (10/78) • SILENCE THE VIOLENCE-BENEFIT CONCERT — The David Lynch Foundation presents Katy Perry, Norah Jones, Mavis Staples, The Celebration Gospel Choir, and Jeremy Elliot (10/11) • THE BLACK KEYS W/MODEST MOUSE, JESSY WILSON — Let’s Rock Tour (10/12, 10/16) • WILCO W/SOCCER MOMMY — Ode to Joy Tour (10/15) • BON IVER W/FEIST — One hip-

ster-favorite alt-pop act after another, for two sold-out shows (10/17-18) • NIGHTMARE 2019 — Badvss and U Street Music Hall present two early evening EDM DJ parties, one featuring Tipper, Jade Cicada, Detox Unit, Evac, SoDown, and DMVU (10/19); the other Gramatik,

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Liquid Stranger, Figure, Protohype, Gentlemen’s Club, and Brightside (10/20) • YOUNG THUG & MACHINE GUN KELLY W/POLO G, STRICK (10/22) • SLEATERKINNEY W/SHAMIR (10/25) • ALESSIA CARA W/RYLAND JAMES — The Pains of Growing Tour from this sharp, original pop starlet and former Capital Pride headliner (10/26) • UMPHREY’S MCGEE W/STAR KITCHEN (10/31) • FOR SISTERS ONLY, 20 YEARS W/MARSHA AMBROSIUS — WPGC presents (11/1) • LOUIS THE CHILD W/SEBASTIAN PAUL (11/8) • ERIC CHURCH — Double Down Tour for two sold-out nights (11/15-16) • HOZIER W/ ANGIE MCMAHON — Another night of

“Church,” so to speak, from with the LGBTQ-affirming Irish soul-rocking troubadour (11/18) • SARA BAREILLES W/ EMILY KING — Amidst The Chaos Tour 2019 with one of the most talented and most underappreciated singer-songwriters of her generation, with a promising starlet as opening act (11/19-20) • AJR W/ FLORA CASH — The NeoTheat ATLAS PERFORMING ARTS CENTER

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

AKUA ALLRICH — The powerhouse D.C.

native performs her 11th Annual Nina Simone/Miriam Makeba Tribute concert as part of a day-long Black Women, Arts, and Activism Festival (10/6, Lang Theatre) • SOFIA VIOLA — Argentine singer/songwriter and folk storyteller performs a wide-ranging Atlas Presents Jazz concert (10/11, Lab Theatre I) • BABY BEATS WITH MAX AND ROOT — “Two Beat Boxing Dads making music and songs the whole family can enjoy,” but especially those under eight (11/15-16, Lab Theatre II) • CECILY — In “Cecily Salutes DC,” Wammie-winning vocalist and songwriter toasts fellow Washingtonians who came before her, including Roberta Flack, Duke Ellington, and Gil Scott-Heron (11/16, Lab Theatre II) THE BARNS AT WOLF TRAP

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

LUCY KAPLANSKY — A contemporary and

collaborator of Suzanne Vega, Shawn Colvin, and The Roches (10/10) • OVER THE RHINE — Husband and wife duo Linford Detweiler and Karin Bergquist celebrate 30 years of making Americana music together (10/11) • PAT MCGEE

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Fall Arts Preview: Pop/Rock/Folk/Jazz/Blues BAND W/ALMOST EVERYTHING (10/17—18) • JESSE COOK (10/19) • MAGPIE — 45th Anniversary (10/20) • GEORGE WINSTON

— “One of the foremost instrumental composers of all time” (10/30-31) • MODERN WARRIOR LIVE (11/6) • THE QUEBE SISTERS (11/7) • MAX WEINBERG’S JUKEBOX — The audience picks via jukebox the songs this steller, unflappable band plays live and on the fly (11/8) • LEO KOTTKE (11/9) • JOHN EATON — 30th Anniversary Celebration for this local jazz pianist and songbook expert/educator, dubbed a “Washington legend” by the Washington Post (11/10) • TRACE BUNDY (11/14) • SILK ROAD ENSEMBLE — Founder Yo-Yo Ma won’t appear in performances of this “vibrant and virtuosic” ensemble, per the Wall Street Journal (11/15-16) • BRIAN NEWMAN (11/20) • AMY HELM (11/21) • SUTTON FOSTER — The superb and charismatic Tony-winning Broadway triple threat and star of TV Land’s Younger (11/23-24) BETHESDA BLUES & JAZZ SUPPER CLUB

7719 Wisconsin Ave. Bethesda 240-330-4500 www.bethesdabluesjazz.com

TAMIA — There’s A Stranger In Her House (9/14-15) • MIRIAMM AND EPW

— “Turn Bethesda Blues & Jazz Pink!”

(10/6) • THE BRIAN MCKNIGHT 4 (10/1112) • BAND OF ROSES PRESENTS SHE ROCKS THE ’90S! (10/20) • ART SHERROD JR. FEAT. ANN NESBY (10/25) • BETTY WRIGHT (11/1) • THE ORIGINAL LAKESIDE — With Special Guest & Hosted by Mr. C’s Time Tunnel (11/3) • THE BLACKBYRDS (11/8) • CASSANDRA WILSON (11/9) • TIFFANY — “Could’ve Been” Live (11/16) • GP PROMOTIONS PRESENTS TRIBUTE TO BARRY WHITE — Featuring Jourdan Carroll (11/17) • CHUCK BROWN BAND (11/22) • RARE ESSENCE (11/27) • LEELA JAMES — A night of exquisite soul-stirring singing is on tap (11/29) • MAZE FEAT. FRANKIE BEVERLY — Up Close and Personal (11/30-12/1) THE BIRCHMERE

3701 Mount Vernon Ave. Alexandria 703-549-7500 www.birchmere.com THE KINGSTON TRIO, THE BROTHERS FOUR & THE LIMELITERS — Trifecta of Folk Greats (9/15) • JAKE SHIMABUKURO (9/18) • BILLY BRAGG — “One Step

Forward, Two Steps Back”: Current Career-Spanning Set(9/19); Songs From 50

the First Three Albums (9/20); Songs From the Second Three Albums (9/21) •

A TRIBUTE TO ROY BUCHANAN FEAT. BILLY PRICE — Joined by a dozen fellow musicians (9/22) • RICK WAKEMAN W/KAULA/ FATH — Grumpy Old Rock Star Tour fea-

turing songs from Yes, David Bowie, the Beatles, and more (9/25) • VIEUX FARKA TOURÉ & BOMBINO — Sons of the Sahara Tour (10/16, Flex Stage) • GOAPELE — San Francisco’s indie soul-pop chanteuse (10/17) • LEE ANN WOMACK W/MORGAN WADE — Solitary Thinkin’ Acoustic Tour (10/18) • HIROSHIMA — 40th Anniversary Tour (10/19) • DAR WILLIAMS W/SUSAN WERNER (10/20) • OLETA ADAMS — She don’t care how you get here, just get here if you can (11/3) • SUPERCHUNK — Plays Acoustic Foolish, a 25th Anniversary Acoustic Performance (11/4) • THE WAILIN’ JENNYS (11/5-7) • MARY CHAPIN CARPENTER & SHAWN COLVIN (11/8-10) • MARCUS MILLER (11/11) • AN ACOUSTIC EVENING WITH JOHN HIATT

— The Eclipse Sessions Tour (11/12) •

THE GIBSON BROTHERS AND ROB ICKES & TREY HENSLEY (11/13) • AN EVENING WITH THE FLATLANDERS (11/14) • CARMINHO — Portuguese fado star (11/19) • TANYA TUCKER — While I’m Livin’ Tour (12/1) • A PETER WHITE CHRISTMAS — With Peter

White, Euge Groove, Vincent Ingala & Lindsey Webster (12/4) • JUDY COLLINS — Winter Stories feat. Jonas Fjeld and special guests (12/6-7) • STEVEN CURTIS CHAPMAN W/JILLIAN EDWARDS — Acoustic Christmas (12/8) • NORMAN BROWN — Joyous Christmas w/Bobby

Caldwell & Marion Meadows (12/12) • OHIO PLAYERS (12/13) • SOUTHSIDE JOHNNY & THE ASBURY JUKES (12/14) • BILL KIRCHEN & TOO MUCH FUN — A Honky Tonk Holiday w/very special guest Junior Brown (12/15) • CARBON LEAF — Hindsight’s 2019: Look Past The Future Tour (12/19-20) • LUTHER RE-LIVES — Holiday Show feat. William “Smooth” Wardlaw (12/22) BLACK CAT

1811 14th St. NW 202-667-4490 www.blackcatdc.com TEAM DRESCH W/DES ARK, PRINCESS —

Queercore lesbian punk veterans from Portland, Oregon, with opening acts from a North Carolina band and a queer Chicago-born performance art duo (9/29) • TIGER ARMY W/SADGIRL, KATE CLOVER (10/1) • MAN MAN W/GRLWOOD — Experimental rock band with more queercore punk to start the show

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(10/2) • VETUSTA MORLA (10/3) • XIU XIU W/REPLICANT EYES (10/4) • SHEER MAG W/TWEENS (10/5) • CHARLIE PARR — “Resonator-fueled folk songs from Duluth, Minnesota” (10/9) • RADKEY W/ BOAYT, PARK SNAKES — The hard-rocking band of brothers from Missouri (10/11) • BLACKALICIOUS — Nia 20th Anniversary Tour (10/12) • GAYC/DC — Founded by Pansy Division bassist Chris Freeman, an improbable gay band paying tribute to AC/DC (11/9) • JULIA JACKLIN W/ CHRISTIAN LEE HUTSON (11/10) • BLACK MOUNTAIN W/RYLEY WALKER (11/13) • ALLAH-LAS W/TIM HILL — “The perfect mixture of the sands, the seas, the streets, and cities of the golden state” (11/16) 2) • REVEREND HORTON HEAT — The 2019 Horton’s Holiday Hayride with special guests the Voodoo Glow Skulls, the 5.6.7.8’s, and a special appearance by Dave Alvin (12/15) BLACKROCK CENTER FOR THE ARTS

12901 Town Commons Dr. Germantown, Md. 301-528-2260 www.blackrockcenter.org

MIKE MASSÉ — Some of the best classic

rock songs of all time performed acoustically (9/14) • BLUE CANYON BOYS — Equal parts purists and innovators in bluegrass (9/28) • LOS PLENEROS DE LA 21 — East Harlem-based Puerto Rican Bomba and Piena ensemble (10/12) • CRYS MATTHEWS — Local soul-fired lesbian folk/rocker (10/17) • THE PRODIGALS (10/19) • JOSHUA DAVIS — A 2015 finalist on The Voice (11/21) • METROPOLITAN KLEZMER — Vibrant versions of Yiddish gems, reinvented with both irreverence and respect (11/24) • ROBBIN KAPSALIS & VINTAGE #18 — D.C.-based soul blues band (12/14) • JOEL HARRISON’S COSMIC ROADHOUSE — D.C. native guitarist and composer (12/21) BLUES ALLEY

1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW 202-337-4141 www.bluesalley.com CHRIS URQUIAGA — Gay Latin pop sing-

er-songwriter and alum of Strathmore’s prestigious Artist-in-Residence (9/24) • TERELL STAFFORD QUINTET — Featuring Tim Warfield, Bruce Barth, Nathan Pence & Billy Williams (9/25) • MIKE STERN-

JEFF LORBER FUSION ALL STARS W/JIMMY HASLIP & DENNIS CHAMBERS (9/26-29) • VERONNEAU — Local Brazilian/cock-

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Fall Arts Preview: Pop/Rock/Folk/Jazz/Blues DWAYNE ADELL TRIO W/KRIS FUNN & QUINCY PHILLIPS (10/1) • ROOSEVELT “THE DR.” COLLIER (10/2) • PAUL TAYLOR & MICHAEL LINGTON (10/3-4) • CINDY BLACKMAN SANTANA GROUP (10/5-6) • LEVON MIKAELIAN TRIO — Untainted Release Party (10/7) • THE ANDERSON BROTHERS PLAY GERSHWIN (10/8) • YOUN SUN NAH — Vocalist from South Korea (10/9) • STEVE TURRE SEXTET FEAT. JAMES CARTER & VINCENT HERRING

— Celebrate Rahsaan Roland Kirk (10/10) • FREDERIC YONNET — Dazzling young harmonica player (10/11-13) • RICHARD BARATTA & THE GOTHAM CIRCLE — With Vincent Herring, Eric Alexander, and David Kikoski (10/14) • ERIC ALEXANDER (10/15) • GERALD CLAYTON QUARTET (10/16) • NAJEE (10/17-20) • DAVE KLINE BAND — “Celebrates Jimi Hendrix” (10/21) • QUIANA LYNELL — Acclaimed jazz vocalist (10/22) • PEDRITO MARTINEZ (10/23) • JONATHAN BUTLER — Awardwinning singing guitarist from South Africa (10/24-27) • FEEDEL BAND — Ethio-Jazz (10/28) • RICHIE GOODS — “The Goods Project” (10/29) • BOB & EDDIE’S BLUES PARTY — With Dave Marsh-Coleman O’Donoghue-Sharon, Garcia-Jay Summerour & More (10/30) • RENE MARIE (11/1-3) • DAVE CHAPPELL & FRIENDS (11/4) • GRAEME JAMES (11/5) • DELVON LAMARR ORGAN TRIO (11/6) • MS. LISA FISCHER & GRAND BATON (11/710) • DAISY CASTRO — Gypsy jazz violinist (11/12) • HELEN SUNG — Acclaimed pianist (11/13) • RUBEN STUDDARD — The American Idol star (11/22-24) • THE STRING QUEENS — Acclaimed string trio (11/26) • RUSSELL MALONE — Awardwinning guitarist (11/27) • ALEX BUGNON (11/29-12/1) • DAVINA & THE VAGABONDS (12/3) • A VERY CHAISE LOUNGE CHRISTMAS (12/4) • STACEY KENT (12/58) • ERIC FELTEN JAZZ ORCHESTRA — “Ellington’s Nutcracker & More” (12/1011) • FREDDY & LIONEL COLE — “For The Holidays” (12/12-15) • MARCUS JOHNSON’S HOLIDAY JAM (12/19-22) • CYRUS CHESTNUT — Another year-ending and New Year’s ringing run from the great jazz piano showman (12/26-31) CAPITAL ONE ARENA

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Pretty Tour from the former American Idol (10/4) • POST MALONE — Runaway Tour (10/12) • THE CHAINSMOKERS — World War Joy (10/15) • TOOL W/KILLING JOKE (11/25) • CHER W/NILE RODGERS + CHIC — The Here We Go Again Tour, and the gays are enraptured (12/10) • ANDREA BOCELLI (12/15) • TRANS-SIBERIAN ORCHESTRA — Performing the all-new “Christmas Eve And Other Stories” (12/23) CITY WINERY DC

1350 Okie St. NE 202-250-2531 www.citywinery.com BOB MOULD W/WILL JOHNSON — The gay

former D.C. resident returns supporting new set Sunshine Rock per a solo electric show (9/26) • HEATHER MAE — GLIMMER Tour from great lesbian singer-songwriter (10/4) • PAULA COLE — Revolution Tour (10/5) • GREG LASWELL (10/6) • AN EVENING WITH KRIS ALLEN — “10 Years, 1 Night” for the former American Idol (10/6) • TYRONE WELLS W/ DAN RODRIGUEZ (10/8) • BONNIE BISHOP (10/8, Wine Garden) • BEHIND THE LENS FT. MICK ROCK AND HENRY DILTZ (10/9) • ERIC HUTCHINSON W/SKOUT

— Uncorked-Solo Acoustic Stories & Singalongs (10/10) • THE THE BAND BAND (10/11, Wine Garden) • THE DODOS W/ TWEN — “Perform Their Seminal Album Visiter In Full” (10/11) • ZO! & CARMEN RODGERS — Soul from members of the Foreign Exchange (10/12) • JENNIFER KNAPP (10/13) • TAYLOR HICKS W/BRIAN MACKEY — Another former American Idol (10/13) • BACKYARD BAND (10/13, Wine Garden) • DALE WATSON & HIS LONE STARS (10/14, Wine Garden) • BOB SCHNEIDER BAND (10/15) • MARC COHN (10/17) • JIMMY THACKERY (10/18) • MAC POWELL AND THE FAMILY REUNION (10/18) • RAHEEM DEVAUGHN (10/19) • RHETT MILLER W/ELAINA KAY (10/20) • PATRICIA BARBER TRIO (10/22) • JACKOPIERCE (10/24) • MADELEINE PEYROUX (10/25) • WILLIAM DUVALL — Of Alice in Chains (10/26) • SAWYER FREDERICKS (10/27) • VYBE BAND (10/29) •CHANTAE CANN & ASHLEIGH SMITH (10/30) • CRANK CRUSADERS FEAT. RAHEEM DEVAUGHN — The Go-Go Experience, complete with a dance floor (10/31) • DAYMÉ AROCENA — Cuban singer blends traditional Santerian chant, jazz stylings, contemporary R&B, and Afro-Cuban rhythms (11/14) • CECE PENISTON — “Finally,” she’s back again (11/15) • JONTAVIOUS WILLIS & JERRON “BLIND BOY” PAXTON (11/15) • MARSHALL

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CRENSHAW (11/16) • JIMBO MATHUS’ INCINERATOR (11/16) • PETER HIMMELMAN (11/19, Wine Garden) • BOOKER T. JONES (11/20) • BRIA SKONBERG — A trailblaz-

ing trumpeter, vocalist, and songwriter who the New York Times has anointed “the shining hope of hot jazz” (11/21) • CHRIS KNIGHT — Almost Daylight Album Release Show (11/22) • CORY SMITH — In The Meantime Tour (11/23) • BUSH TETRAS W/DES DEMONAS — “making paranoid, groove-centered post-punk since 1979” (11/23) • SEV W/NEHEMIAH — Two D.C.area bands perform in the Wine Garden (11/29) • O-TOWN (12/5) • JUMP LITTLE CHILDREN — White Buffalo Tour w/Hula Hi-Fi (12/10) • LOS LOBOS (12/12-13) COMET PING PONG

5037 Connecticut Ave. NW 202-364-0404 www.cometpingpong.com DUDE YORK, BORN DAD, COMPANY CALLS — A triple bill with a Seattle band, a local

queer gaggle whose music is “50-percent jokes, 50-percent queer rage,” and a poppy punk trio also from D.C. (9/22) DC9

1940 9th St. NW 202-483-5000 www.dcnine.com MAISIE PETERS W/JACK GRAY — Up-and-

coming British folk-pop singer-songwriter (10/14) • MICHAELA ANNE (10/15) • MISS JUNE (10/16) • NIGHT CLUB (10/17) • SUB-RADIO W/CINDERS — Homegrown indie-pop band worth checking out (10/18) • JOSIAH JOHNSON — Founding member of The Head and The Heart offers transcendent, healing folk songs as a solo artist (11/24) EAGLEBANK ARENA

George Mason University 4500 Patriot Circle Fairfax 703-993-3000 www.eaglebankarena.com J BALVIN W/LYANNO, ELADIO CARRIÓN — Arcoiris Tour (9/26) • MALUMA —

The handsome young heartthrob who stole Madonna’s show is out on his 11:11 World Tour (10/13) • RAHAT FATEH ALI KHAN (10/19) • MANÁ — Rayando El Sol Tour 2019 (10/22) • JUAN LUIS GUERRA (10/25) • FANTASIA W/ROBIN THICKE, TANK, AND THE BONFYRE — The former American Idol leads The Sketchbook Tour with special guests (10/27) • BAD BUNNY — X 100PRE Tour (11/1) • LOGIC

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Fall Arts Preview: Pop/Rock/Folk/Jazz/Blues — Confessions of a Dangerous Mind Tour (11/2) • A DAY TO REMEMBER W/I PREVAIL, BEARTOOTH — The Degenerates Tour (11/3) • LOS TEMERARIOS (11/23) • ANUEL AA — Emmanuel World Tour (12/14) FILLMORE SILVER SPRING

8656 Colesville Road Silver Spring 301-960-9999 www.fillmoresilverspring.com WALE — Everything Is Fine Tour (10/9) • LAGWAGON & FACE TO FACE W/MAKEWAR (10/10) • SAWEETIE W/SPECIAL GUESTS (10/11) • RICH BRIAN (10/12) • AMON AMARTH W/ARCH ENEMY, AT T… — The Noise presents the Berserker Tour (10/13) • WHINE DOWN W/JANA KRAMER & MICHAEL CAUSSIN (10/16) • STEEL PANTHER — Heavy Metal Rules Tour (10/18) • CANDLEBOX W/JIMME’S CHICKEN SHACK, BLACK DOG PROWL (10/19) • SABRINA CLAUDIO W/GALLANT — Truth Is Tour (10/21) • DERMOT KENNEDY —

Sometimes referred to as the Irish Justin Vernon aka Bon Iver, tender folk with electronic flourishes (10/23) • SUM 41 W/THE AMITY AFFLICTION, THE PLOT IN YOU — Order In Decline Tour (10/27) • ATREYU — WZBH presents 20-Year Anniversary Tour (10/29) • SIMPLE PLAN & STATE CHAMPS W/SPECIAL GUESTS WE THE KINGS (10/30) • MANCHESTER ORCHESTRA — British rock (12/1) • CHON & BETWEEN THE BURIED AND ME W/INTERVALS (12/3) • AARON LEWIS — State I’m In Tour (12/4) • SUMMER WALKER — The First and Last Tour (12/11) • CHASE RICE — AM/ PM 2019 Tour from the rising country star (12/12) • A$AP FERG W/MURDA BEATZ — The Yedi Tour (12/14) • THE BOUNCING

SOULS W/THE BRONX, OFF WITH THEIR HEADS, BAR STOOL PREACHERS (12/18) • PJ MORTON — PAUL Tour (12/20) • ALMOST QUEEN — BIG100 Throwback Bash presents this postXmas tribute to Queen (12/28) • THE WHITE PANDA (12/30) GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY CENTER FOR THE ARTS

Fairfax, Va. 888-945-2468 www.cfa.gmu.edu

LADAMA — Latina powerhouse group and a Mason Artist-in-

Residence whose hard-to-categorize music is, as NPR puts it, “a vivid montage of music of the Americas” (10/4) • MASON JAZZ ENSEMBLE: JAZZ 4 JUSTICE* — A collaboration with the law community for annual benefit concert led by Jim Carroll (11/8) • MASON JAZZ ENSEMBLE: MASON JAZZ VOCAL NIGHT — Dr. Darden Purcell leads performances by the ensemble and Mason Jazz Studio soloists (11/25) • CHANTICLEER (11/30) • SWEET HONEY IN THE ROCK — D.C.’s progressive-minded African-American a cappella ensemble performs “Celebrating the Holydays” (12/7) THE HAMILTON

600 14th St. NW 202-787-1000 www.thehamiltondc.com MOONSHINE SOCIETY — Free Late Night Music in the Loft (9/13) • NEWMYER FLYER: AN ALLEN TOUSSAINT DANCE PARTY (9/14) • JOHNNY & THE HEADHUNTERS — Free Late Night Music in the Loft (9/14) • AN EVENING WITH HOLLY BOWLING (9/18) • CHATHAM COUNTY LINE W/THE DIRTY GRASS PLAYERS (9/20) • JONNY GRAVE — Free Late Night Music in the Loft (9/20) • KISS & RIDE — Free Late Night Music in the Loft (9/21) • ANN HAMPTON CALLAWAY — “Jazz Goes to the Movies” 54

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Fall Arts Preview: Pop/Rock/Folk/Jazz/Blues (9/22) • AN EVENING WITH DAVE STRYKER EIGHT TRACK BAND (9/27) • BRENT & CO — Free Late Night Music in the Loft (9/27) • KAT WRIGHT W/THE RAD TRADS (9/28) • SOUL PROSPECT — Free Late Night Music in the Loft (9/28) • JIMMY HERRING AND THE 5 OF 7 (10/1) • THE STEEL WHEELS W/JUSTIN JONES (10/4) • VINTAGE #18 — Free Late Night Music in the Loft (10/4) • TRACY HAMLIN & CAROLYN MALACHI — Benefiting St. Ann’s Center for Children, Youth & Families (10/5) • SOL ROOTS — Free Late Night Music in the Loft (10/5) • CAPITAL PRIDE’S MUSIC IN THE NIGHT (10/7) • KARL DENSON’S TINY UNIVERSE (10/8) • AN EVENING WITH WE BANJO 3 (10/9) • CON BRIO AND LYRICS BORN (10/10) • THE CLEVERLYS (10/11) • PINK TALKING FISH — Dark Side of the Moon Concept Show, presented by All Good (10/13) • THE CALIFORNIA HONEYDROPS (10/15) • AN EVENING W/LEONID & FRIENDS (10/18) • HARDY W/HUNTER PHELPS — SiriusXM presents The Highway Finds Tour (10/19) • THE BROS. LANDRETH — Tour ‘87 with special guests (10/23) • ELIANE ELIAS — Multi-Grammy-winning singing pianist/composer from Brazil (10/25) • THE FAB FAUX — Perform White Album Selections and a set of Favorites (10/26) • REBIRTH BRASS BAND — A weekend run of Nawlins’ finest jazzy big band (11/1-2) • NORTH MISSISSIPPI ALLSTARS (11/13) • FRANK SOLIVAN & DIRTY KITCHEN (11/15) • YONDER MOUNTAIN STRING BAND (11/16) • RISING APPALACHA W/RAYE ZARAGOZA (11/20) • DEANNA BOGART AND TORONZO CANNON (11/22) • KELLER WILLIAMS — Thanksforgrassgiving ft. Keller & The Keels (11/30) • A CHARLIE BROWN CHRISTMAS W/THE ERIC BYRD TRIO (12/1) • BEN WILLIAMS — A Holiday Musical Extravaganza (12/26) • AN EVENING WITH: LIVE AT THE FILLMORE (12/27) • START MAKING SENSE — A Talking Heads tribute act (12/29) THE HOWARD THEATRE

620 T St. NW 202-803-2899 www.thehowardtheatre.com SHEILA E. — The singing percussion dynamo (10/5) • KEKE PALMER (10/11) • LITTLE BROTHER (10/17) • RATA BLANCA (10/24) • LLOYD UNPLUGGED (10/26) • MAÎTRE GIMS —- Davucci Productions presents

Congolese-born French rapper and singer (11/2) • ARTHUR HANLON (11/6) • LALI (11/7) • VINTAGE TROUBLE, KYLE DANIEL (11/23) • CEELO GREEN — Holiday Hits Tour (12/19) • JODY WATLEY (2/8) 56

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227 Maple Ave. E. Vienna 703-255-1566 www.jamminjava.com OH LAND W/ARTHUR MOON — The quirky

Danish electronic singer-songwriter (9/26, Miracle Theatre) • JAKE CLEMONS — Direct from the Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band Tour (9/26) • CARGO AND THE HEAVY LIFTERS + THE BILLY WALTON BAND (9/27) • ROCKNOCEROS

— Pink! 10th Anniversary Concert (9/28) • BEN TUFTS & FRIENDS PRESENTS: AS HEARD ON TV — Some of the DMV's best and brightest perform the theme songs from your favorite TV shows, yesterday and today (9/28) • SHENANDOAH RUN (9/29) • THE BACHELOR BOYS BAND (10/1) • MATT WERTZ (10/2) • CAPSTAN — Aspire presents a concert also featuring Bilmuri + Rarity + Neverkept + Pulses (10/3) • LUKE BRINDLEY (10/4) • THE OCEAN BLUE W/SUBURBAN LIVING — The “Bring The Kids” Show (10/5) • CHELY WRIGHT — The lesbian country star (10/13) • SARAH REEVES (10/14) • AMY SPEACE — Ghost of Charlemagne Tour for up-and-coming folk artist (10/25) • TRASHCAN SINATRAS (11/1) • JOSEPH ARTHUR (11/2) • BRENDAN JAMES (11/3) • LUCIE SILVAS W/FANCY — Nashville-based songstress, with an opening set by the gay pop artist better known as Who Is Fancy (11/10) • THE BACHELOR BOYS BAND (11/11) • CORY BRANAN (11/12) • PETER BRADLEY ADAMS (11/13) • LUCY WAINWRIGHT ROCHE — Rufus’ and Martha’s younger half-sister, a talent to be reckoned with in her own right (11/14) • ALLISON MORRER (11/15) • TRACY GRAMMER (11/16) • THIS WILL DESTROY YOU (11/16, Miracle Theatre) KENNEDY CENTER

202-467-4600 www.kennedy-center.org NSO POPS: MAXWELL — The multi-Gram-

my-winning soul star sings his hits with orchestral accompaniment in “A Night at the Symphony” (9/18-21, Concert Hall) • RENÉE FLEMING VOICES: RHIANNON GIDDENS W/FRANCESCO TURISI — MacArthur “Genius” Grantee

and Nashville star performs from her latest album there is no Other supported

by Italian multi-instrumentalist (9/26, Terrace Theater) • ROBERT GLASPER W/ SPECIAL GUEST YASLIN BEY — A Black Radio Production (9/26-29, Studio K) • RENÉE FLEMING VOICES: GAVIN CREEL — The Tony winner (Hello, Dolly!) and gay pop artist (10/3) • JOE CHAMBERS,

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ber gathers three percussionists, Ray Mantilla, Warren I. Smith, and Bobby Sanabria, backed by the 16-piece Moving Pictures Orchestra and vocalist Mavis Swan Poole (10/4, Terrace Theater) • PINK MARTINI W/SPECIAL GUEST MEOW MEOW — Washington Performing Arts

presents a concert of the cocktail lounge orchestra bar none with the “crowd-surfing Australian ‘tragi-comedienne’ and chanteuse” (10/13, Concert Hall) • PHAROAHE MONCH — Veteran rapper and former Organized Konfusion member celebrates the 20th anniversary of his debut album Internal Affairs (10/17, Terrace Theater) • NSO POPS: NAT KING COLE AT 100 — Michael Butterman leads the NSO and an all-star band in a centennial toast with vocalists including Patti Austin, Eric Benét, Freddy Cole, Dulé Hill, and BeBe Winans (10/17-19, Concert Hall) • PAN AMERICAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA — Forever Piazzolla (10/20, Terrace Theater) • DORADO SCHMITT

AND THE DJANGO FESTIVAL ALLSTARS

— Featuring Samson Schmitt, Amati Schmitt, Ludovic Beier, Pierre Blanchard (11/1, Terrace Theater) • JASON MORAN AND THE BANDWAGON + INGRID LAUBROCK, BLACK STARS — Celebrating

the 20th anniversary of the birth of the superlative, chance-taking trio of Moran with bassist Tarus Mateen, and drummer Nasheet Waits (11/9, Family Theater) • LUPE FIASCO — Chicago-born Grammywinning rapper (11/14, Concert Hall) • DISCOVERY ARTIST: THE KOJO ODU RONEY EXPERIENCE FEAT. ANTOINE RONEY (11/16) • NPR’S A JAZZ PIANO CHRISTMAS (12/7, Terrace Theater) • TAYLOR MAC: HOLIDAY SAUCE — One-of-a-kind artist is joined by

longtime collaborators and eight-piece band “to reframe the songs you love and the holidays you hate” (12/12, Opera House) • THE HAMILTONES — Grammynominated soul trio that got its name and its start backing Anthony Hamilton (12/13, Terrace Theater) • NSO POPS: A HOLIDAY POPS! WITH LESLIE ODOM, JR.

— The Tony winner (Hamilton) joins for this annual concert with the Choral Arts Society of Washington (12/13-14, Concert Hall) • ART ENSEMBLE OF CHICAGO — 50th Anniversary of radically experimental group founded by newly announced NEA Jazz Master Roscoe Mitchell (12/14, Terrace Theater) • KEITH & KRISTYN GETTY AND FRIENDS — Sing! An Irish Christmas (12/14 Opera House) • THE ROOTS — A Christmas- and week-ending concert by the official house band

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Fall Arts Preview: Pop/Rock/Folk/Jazz/Blues on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (12/29, Concert Hall) • A JAZZ NEW YEAR’S EVE: BRANFORD MARSALIS (12/31, Terrace Theater) • JAZZMEIA HORN (1/18, Studio K) • NSO POPS: DIANA ROSS - The ultimate Supreme with the ultimate in accompaniment (1/9-11, Concert Hall) • NSO POPS: MEGAN HILTY AND CHEYENNE JACKSON (2/13-15, Concert Hall) LINCOLN THEATRE

1215 U St. NW 202-888-0050 www.thelincolndc.com TINARIWEN (9/19) • AN EVENING OF TALK & MUSIC: NICK CAVE (9/20) • THE WATERBOYS (9/22) • ADAM ANT W/GLAM SKANKS — Friend or Foe performed in its entirety (9/23) • CAT POWER W/ ARSUN — Wanderer Tour from alt-rock favorite (9/25) • NAHKO AND MEDICINE FOR THE PEOPLE W/AYLA NEREO (9/29) • ZAZ — One of the most popular French singers in the world (10/14) • NATASHA BEDINGFIELD — The “Unwritten” pop

BARNES (11/21-22) • IDK (11/29) • THE SPILL CANVAS W/THE JULIANA THEORY, CORY WELLS (12/12) MGM NATIONAL HARBOR

7100 Harborview Ave. Oxon Hill, Md. 301-971-5000 www.mgmnationalharbor.com GLORIA TREVI (9/27) • BILL BURR (10/5) • AVRIL LAVIGNE (10/9) • THE ISLEY BROTHERS AND WAR (10/19) • ZZ TOP (10/25) • JOE BONAMASSA (11/9) • WE WILL ROCK YOU — “The Musical by Queen and Ben Elton” (11/12) • WARREN HAYNES, JAMEY JOHNSON, LUKAS — The Last Waltz Tour (11/14) • KEM (11/16) • WARRANT W/WINGER AND FIREHOUSE (11/22) • PATTI LABELLE (12/6) PEARL STREET WAREHOUSE

33 Pearl St. SW 202-380-9620 www.pearlstreetwarehouse.com THE MERRY KINKSTERS TOUR — With

starlet finally returns to write a new chapter (10/14) • INGRID MICHAELSON W/MADDIE POPPE (10/23) • TEGAN AND SARA — Hey, I’m Just Like You Tour from the Canadian lesbian twin sister duo, with D.C. stop already sold out (10/27) • RICEBOY SLEEPS W/WORDLESS ORCHESTRA — Jónsi of Sigur Rós and composer Alex Sommers perform accompanied by ensemble conducted by Robert Ames (10/28) • X AMBASSADORS W/BEAR HANDS, LPX — “Renegades” hitmakers with two NYC acts, including the alias of Lizzy Plapinger of MS MR (10/29) • ANGEL OLSEN W/VAGABON (11/1) • THE NEW PORNOGRAPHERS W/LADY LAMB — “9:30 Club Show Sold Out! Second Night Added!” (11/6) • KISHI BASHI — Quirky, intensely melodic folk-pop (11/8) • MANDOLIN ORANGE W/SUNNY WAR (11/14) • ROBERT EARL KEEN W/SHINYRIBS — Countdown to Christmas (12/6) • MISTERWIVES W/FOREIGN AIR (12/13)

Kinky Friedman, Cleve and Sweet Mary Hattersley, Washington Ratso, and Brian Molnar (11/7) • BOBBY THOMPSON — New Album Release Celebration (11/8) • ERIC GALES W/SCHREINER (11/9) • JACK KLATT (11/12) • POKEY LAFARGE W/JAKE LA BOTZ (11/14) • PEOPLE’S BLUES OF RICHMOND (11/15) • BIG SANDY & HIS FLYRITE BOYS (11/16) • LULA WILES (11/17) • SARAH SHOOK & THE DISARMERS (11/23) • “SHINER HONKY TONK NIGHT” FEAT. WIL GRAVATT BAND (11/29)

MILKBOY ARTHOUSE

and pioneer of “newgrass” (10/26) • J.S. ONDARA W/ELISE DAVIS — Nairobiborn singer-songwriter offers a fresh take on the American dream on Tales of America (10/300 • JOSHUA RADIN & THE WEEPIES W/LILY KERSHAW — SiriusXM Coffeehouse Tour (11/6) • JORDAN RAKEI — The singing multi-instrumentalist from Down Under (11/9) • AMJAD ALI KHAN — The world’s preeminent sarod player performs with his sons Amaan Ali Bangash and Ayaan Ali Bangash (11/16) • DAMIEN SNEED — Joy to the World holi-

7416 Baltimore Ave. College Park, Md. 240-623-1423 www.milkboyarthouse.com TOM GOSS W/NAKIA, LIZ DEROCHE — The

Territories Tour from the former D.C. resident and gay troubadour (10/26) • SCOTTY SIRE (10/29) • DAX — Canadian rapper (10/30) • BADFLOWER W/ WEATHERS & DEAD POET SOCIETY (10/31) • STEFON HARRIS & BLACKOUT (11/8) • PIVOT GANG (11/13) • MONICA BILL 58

SIXTH & I HISTORIC SYNAGOGUE

600 I St. NW 202-408-3100 www.sixthandi.org FOY

VANCE W/RYAN MCMULLAN — Northern Irish singer-songwriter pays homage to his influences on upcoming albums From Muscle Shoals and To Memphis (10/22) • DAVID BROMBERG BIG BAND PLUS SPECIAL GUEST BETTYE LAVETTE — A godfather of Americana

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day program from award-winning pianist and composer (12/7) • RACHAEL & VILRAY W/AKIE BERMISS — Lake Street Dive singer-songwriter and singing guitarist team up to evoke Tin Pan Alley (12/12) SONGBYRD MUSIC HOUSE

2477 18th St. NW 202-450-2917 www.songbyrddc.com

TASHA W/CHRISTELLE BOFALE (9/22) • COSMO SHELDRAKE W/ALTOPALO (9/23) • MIKE ADAMS AT HIS HONEST WEIGHT (9/24) • SHAOLIN JAZZ (9/24) • GOLD CONNECTIONS (9/25) • LESLIE STEVENS W/ANNIE STOKES (9/26) • NEIGHBOR LADY (9/28) • SIR BABYGIRL W/NYSSA, SHUNKAN — Self-described as “unabash-

edly bubblegum, unashamedly queer pop for a future free of genre boundary and the gender binary” (9/28) • VUNDABAR W/AND THE KIDS, INDIGO DE SOUZA (9/28) • HEDERA (9/29) • LANDON CUBE (9/29) • MULATTO (9/29) • B BOYS W/CLEAR CHANNEL (10/1) • DA KID EMM (10/3) • VICTOR INTERNET W/JEFF DRACO (10/4) • IAN NOE W/JEREMY IVEY (10/5) • TUNIC (10/6) • GIRL BAND W/TOSSER (10/6) • THE MEDIUM (10/7) • KELSEY WALDON (10/8) • P-LO W/GUAPDAD4000 (10/9) • BRAD STANK (10/10) • BEDOUINE W/ GUS SEYFFERT (10/11) • JOHN-ALLISON “A.W.” WEISS — Was Right All Along 10th Anniversary Tour (10/12) • TSHUSHIMAMIRE (10/12) • DREAMGIRL (10/13) • TAYLOR MCFERRIN — The eldest son of the “Don’t Worry, Be Happy” hitmaker (10/15) • ROSIE TUCKER (10/16) • SWOOSH GOD (10/16) • PLASTIC PICNIC | CATALDO W/PINEWALLS (10/17) • DOOMSQUAD (10/18) • MOLLY SARLE W/ LURAY (10/18) • CALEBORATE (10/19) • BENEE (10/20) • HUNNY TEN W/ALFRED AND SPORTS COACH (10/21) • CLAUD W/ GRACE IVES (10/24) • RUEL W/DESTINY ROGERS (10/25) • VINNIE CARUANA (10/26) • DOMO WILSON W/D’JON (10/27) • DIANE SCREAM W/DJESBEN (10/28) •

THE WORLD IS A BEAUTIFUL PLACE & I AM NO LONGER AFRAID TO DIE W/HARMONY WOODS (10/29) • GOODBYE HONOLULU (10/30) • HOVVDY W/KEVIN KRAUTER AND CAROLINE SAYS (10/30) • MATING RITUAL W/TOLEDO (11/1) • THE BRAZEN YOUTH W/FLIPTURN & JEFF DRACO (11/2) • THE STRIKE (11/2) • GREAT GRANDPA W/DUMP HIM & MERCE LEMON (11/3) • AHI (11/7) • JJ WILDE (11/8) • 4TH AVE (11/9) • AMY O W/OUTER SPACES AND CIGARETTE (11/9) • MAGIC SWORD W/DROID BISHOP (11/10) • AN EVENING WITH MIKAELA DAVIS & SOUTHERN STAR (11/11) • WILDERMISS

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(11/11) • LISA PRANK W/TALULAH PAISLEY (11/13) • WHITMER THOMAS (11/14) • DAVID MONKS (11/15) • ALI BARTER (11/16) • CLOSE TALKER (11/16) • FROM INDIAN LAKES (11/19) • THE BUILDING W/ HEATHER WOODS BRODERICK (11/22) • BEACH BUNNY W/ANOTHER MICHAEL AND NOWADAYS (11/23) • PIP BLOM (11/24) • ROLE MODEL W/CHLOE LILAC (11/30) • SAY SUE ME (12/4) • MADISON MCFERRIN

— Another offspring of the “Don’t Worry, Be Happy” McFerrin (12/5) •

BLOOD CULTURES W/MODERN NOMAD AND MYSTERY FRIENDS (12/6) • OLIVER FRANCIS (12/7) • LEIF VOLLEBEKK (12/14) THE SOUNDRY

10221 Wincopin Circle Columbia, Md. 443-283-1200 www.thesoundry.com JUSTIN JONES (9/14) • THE YOUNG DUBLINERS (9/15) • KIM RICHEY W/ ALEXANDER PETERS (9/19) • THE CHUCK BROWN BAND (9/20) • POPA CHUBBY (9/21) • KAT WRIGHT W/THE RAD TRADS (9/26) • TALENT & FRIENDS — Benefiting the Power52 Foundation (9/27) • THE NIGHTHAWKS W/JOSE RAMIREZ (9/28) • ABSTRACT ABBEY ROAD (10/1) • THE GREYHOUNDS (10/2) • AN EVENING WITH RISA BINDER & JUSTIN TRAWICK (10/3) • FRED EAGLESMITH (10/4) • NEWMYER FLYER: JOHN LENNON BIRTHDAY TRIBUTE VOL. 4 (10/5) • AN EVENING WITH: JUNKYARD SAINTS (10/11) • BONERAMA (10/12) • AN EVENING WITH: THE BOB BAND — Performing the Music of Bob Dylan (10/13) • AN EVENING WITH: THE RON HOLLOWAY BAND (10/19) • AN EVENING WITH: ELIZABETH COOK & WILL HOGE (10/20) • WYLDER W/MARIELLE KRAFT (10/25) • AN EVENING WITH: BILLY PRICE CHARM CITY RHYTHM BAND (10/26) • TOWN MOUNTAIN AND JON STICKLEY TRIO (11/1) • TORONZO CANNON AND THE CHICAGO WAY (11/2) • AN EVENING WITH: LA YOUNG & THE UNUSUAL SUSPECTS (11/8) • AN AFTERNOON WITH: TROUT FISHING IN AMERICA (11/9) • AN EVENING WITH: THE 19TH STREET BAND (11/9) • AN EVENING WITH: ALLISON MOORER (11/14) • ALBERT CUMMINGS (11/15) • VANESSA COLLIER W/JEFF FETTERMAN BAND (11/16) • DEANNA BOGART (11/23) • A CHARLIE BROWN CHRISTMAS WITH THE ERIC BYRD TRIO (11/30) • AN EVENING WITH: LIVE AT THE FILLMORE (12/26)

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THE STATE THEATRE

220 North Washington St. Falls Church 703-237-0300 www.thestatetheatre.com JONNY LANG W/ZANE CARNEY (9/18) • STS9 — A three-night run of concerts

from this instrumental “post-rock dance music” band, kicking off with an acoustic, Axe The Cables show (9/26-28) • DEMONETIZED TOUR FEAT. BIGJIGGLYPANDA (10/3) • KANY GARCIA (10/11) • ZOSO — “The Ultimate Led Zeppelin Experience” (10/12) • BUDDY GUY (10/14) • HOLLYWOOD NIGHTS — A True Bob Seger Experience (10/18) • MAT KEARNEY (10/23) • EAGLEMANIA — “The World’s Greatest Eagles Tribute” (11/1) • THE NIGHTHAWKS W/GABE STILLMAN (11/29) • DEAN FORD & THE BEAUTIFUL ONES — A Tribute to Prince (1/4) STRATHMORE

5301 Tuckerman Lane North Bethesda 301-581-5100 www.strathmore.org LUCINDA WILLIAMS (9/24) • RAY LAMONTAGNE (10/15, Music Center) • SERGIO MENDES & BEBEL GILBERTO (10/16, Music Center) • JOSANNE FRANCIS & CHAO TIAN — Alumni of

Strathmore’s Artists in Residence Class of 2018 (10/24, Mansion) • CHICK COREA TRILOGY — Presented by Washington Performing Arts (10/30, Music Center) •

NATIONAL PHILHARMONIC: THE MUSIC OF ABBA (11/2) • CHRIS THILE (11/5, Music Center) • ROY ORBISON & BUDDY HOLLY

— Cutting-edge holographic performance brings the dead rock stars back to life supported by a live band and live backup singers (11/13, Music Center) • MOLLY JOYCE WITH NO LANDS (11/14, Mansion) • PARDON MY FRENCH! — A sultry Frenchmusic ensemble from New Orleans (11/21, Mansion) • BÉLA FLECK & THE FLECKTONES (12/2, Music Center) • DAVE KOZ & FRIENDS (12/9) • ALICE WARD & JOEY ANTICO (12/12, Mansion) • THE HIP HOP NUTCRACKER W/GUEST MC KURTIS BLOW (12/17-19, Music Center) U STREET MUSIC HALL

1115A U St. NW 202-588-1880 www.ustreetmusichall.com WOVENHAND (9/15) • BLEACHED (9/17) • GENE FARRIS W/RAWLE NIGHT LONG (9/18) • LOUIS COLE W/THUMPASAURUS (9/19) • CATCHING FLIES, IHF (9/19) • BANNERS (9/20) • OCTAVE ONE (9/20)

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• FLOR (9/21) • MARK SHERRY (9/21) • RAVEENA (9/22) • JAMES ARTHUR (9/23) • SCARLXRD (9/25) • JULIAN GRAY W/ JERICHO (9/25) • PHUM VIPHURIT W/ ESTEF (9/30) • THE REGRETTES W/GREER (10/1) • MEUTE (10/2) • HAYDEN JAMES — Between Us Tour (10/3) • ROMARE (10/3) • SURF CURSE (10/5) • MICHAEL BIBI (10/5) • MAX W/ZOTTO (10/6) • KIANA LEDÉ (10/8) • SAM DIVINE W/CONFETTI THE FIRST, ABBEY J (10/9) • 070SHAKE (10/10) • HELENA HAUFF W/SOPHIA SAZE (10/10) • HALF MOON RUN W/TIM BAKER (10/11) • PISSED JEANS W/KNIFE WIFE (10/12) • YEHME2 (10/12) • MARIKA HACKMAN W/ GIRL FRIDAY (10/13) • AUGUSTANA (10/14) • SLENDERBODIES W/HAZEY EYES (10/15) • MOON BOOTS (10/16) • !!! (CHK CHK CHK) (10/17) • LUST FOR YOUTH W/TUFF LOVER (10/18) • YUNG BAE (10/19) • SAM FENDER (10/20) • IYA TERRA (10/23) • NINA KRAVIZ W/ARTHUR KIMSKII (10/24) • MAXO KREAM W/Q DA FOOL (10/25) • ORCHARD LOUNGE (10/25) • RUSTON KELLY W/DONOVAN WOODS — Mr. Kacey Musgraves (10/26) • THE MILK CARTON KIDS (10/28) • MATT MAESON — The Day You Departed Tour (10/30) • DAN DEACON (10/30) • WHITE REAPER W/NUDE PARTY, WOMBO (10/31) • KINDNESS (11/1) • FUTURISTIC (11/3) • AYOKAY (11/5) • PHANTOMS W/SACHI (11/6) • BLOCKHEAD W/ELIOT LIPP (11/7) • ABHI THE NOMAD (11/8) • LOUIS THE CHILD W/SEBASTIAN PAUL (11/8) • TIFFANY YOUNG (11/9) • SINÉAD HARNETT (11/11) • BLACK MIDI W/FAT TONY (11/13) • LAST DINOSAURS W/BORN RUFFIANS (11/14) • CHASTITY BELT W/STRANGE RANGER (11/15) • CHARLOTTE LAWRENCE W/GOODY GRACE (11/16) • FREE SKIZZY MARS TOUR (11/17) • WHITE DENIM (11/19) • MIKAL CRONIN (11/23) • JAYMES YOUNG (11/24) • EZRA COLLECTIVE (12/3) • THURSTON MOORE GROUP (12/7) • ZIMMER (12/12) PLAID (12/12) • SURFACES (12/13) UNION STAGE

740 Water St. SW 877-987-6487 www.unionstage.com ARIES (9/13) • ORVILLE PECK (9/21) • KID QUILL (10/6) • ELDER ISLAND (10/7) • TOBI LOU (10/8) • CUPCAKKE (10/9) • LUCKY DAYE (10/11) • CAVE IN (10/16) • IN REAL LIFE (10/23) • JUKE ROSS (11/3) • DREAMERS (11/7) • CONOR MAYNARD (11/12) • DAVE (11/17)

Fall Arts Preview: Pop/Rock/Folk/Jazz/Blues WARNER THEATRE

513 13th St. NW 202-783-4000 www.warnertheatredc.com PREACHER LAWSON (9/14) • TESLA W/ MORANO, BAD MARRIAGE (9/18) • CHARLIE DANIELS (9/20) • REO SPEEDWAGON W/ CHARLIE FARREN (9/24) • A NIGHT WITH JANIS JOPLIN STARRING MARY BRIDGET DAVIS (9/25) • ARYANA SAYEED — Young

Afghan singer-songwriter and TV personality (9/27) • PAULINA RUBIO — The Mexican superstar (9/29) • DEEP PURPLE — BIG100 presents The Long Goodbye Tour (10/2) • INCUBUS W/WILD BELLE — DC101 presents 20 Years of Make Yourself & Beyond (10/12-13) • FRANK TURNER

& THE SLEEPING SOULS AND KAYLEIGH GOLDSWORTHY — No Man’s Land (10/14) • KILLER QUEEN — Queen tribute band from the U.K. (10/17) • TOWER OF POWER W/THE CHUCK BROWN BAND (10/18) • DENNIS DEYOUNG — The Grand

Illusion 40th Anniversary Album Tour (10/19) • A TRIBUTE TO THE BEATLES’ WHITE ALBUM — “It was (more than) 50 years ago today...” (10/20) • MOTT THE HOOPLE ‘74 — With Ian Hunter, Ariel Bender & Morgan Fisher (10/22) • JACKIE EVANCHO (10/24) • MIDDLEDITCH

& SCHWARTZ (11/2) • FRANCO ESCAMILLA

— Tour Payaso 2019 from Mexican music artist (11/3) • EMMYLOU HARRIS, JACKSON BROWNE & MORE — The Lantern Tour II, another Concert for Migrant and Refugee Families (11/5) • TODRICK HALL - Haus Party Tour (11/9) • OLD CROW MEDICINE SHOW (11/13) • FRANKIE VALLI AND THE FOUR SEASONS (11/14-15) • CHAKA KHAN — The funky R&B diva is back and ready to dance (11/16) WEINBERG CENTER FOR THE ARTS

20 W. Patrick St. Frederick, Md. 301-600-2828 www.weinbergcenter.org

2019 MD FOLK FESTIVAL: LIVINGSTON TAYLOR — The best local folk musicians (9/28) • THE WAILERS — Performing

the 40th Anniversary of Survival plus a second set of classics (9/29) • THE FOUR BITCHIN’ BABES — Performing the mood-swinging musical revue Hormonal Imbalance v 2.5 (10/4) • THE STEEL WHEELS — Virginia-based acoustic roots music collective (10/5) • ROANOKE — “Swirling guitars and harmonica, plucky mandolin, and driving percussion” (10/10) AN EVENING WITH

KATHY MATTEA (10/19) • THE DOO WOP PROJECT — Authentic sound and vocal

excellence recreating and reimagining some of the greatest music in American pop and rock history (10/25) • STEEP CANYON RANGERS (11/1) • KITTEL & CO. — A contemporary string trio (11/7) • RONNIE MILSAP — Country Music Hall of Famer (11/16) • NOBUNTU — All-female a cappella quintet (11/17) • MANDOLIN ORANGE — “A slow-burning, steadily rising folk duo” per NPR (11/24) • A JOHN DENVER CHRISTMAS W/CHRIS COLLINS AND BOULDER CANYON — Celebrate

the holidays with a Rocky Mountain Christmas and Denver’s hits as well as his interpretations of holiday classics performed by Collins and co. (12/6) • DEANNA BOGART — Boogie-woogie, contemporary blues, country, and jazz, a blend Bogart calls “blusion” (12/28) • 1964 THE TRIBUTE — “The Best Beatles Tribute on Earth” per Rolling Stone (1/10) l For more Fall Arts Music listings, please visit www.metroweekly.com or follow our interactive version of the print edition at www.issuu.com/metroweekly.

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performing Jennifer Higdon’s Viola Concerto and Berlioz’s Harold in Italy (10/13, Lang Theatre) • CAPITAL CITY SYMPHONY’S SYMPHONIC FLIGHT — Led by assistant conductor Tiffany Lu, the symphony orchestra celebrates the songs and grace of our feathered friends with a program including Respighi’s The Birds, and guest violinist James Stern performing “Spring” from Vivaldi’s Four Seasons (11/24, Sprenger) • THE BOHEMIAN CAVERNS JAZZ ORCHESTRA: A BOHEMIAN CHRISTMAS — The award-winning,

17-piece BCJO, founded by saxophonist Brad Linde, and directed by Linde and trumpeter Joe Herrera, offers an eclectic selection of holiday-themed tunes from the big band repertoire (12/16, Sprenger) BALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Zurich Chamber Orchestra at the GMU Center for the Arts

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AKE FLIGHT THIS SEASON ON MUSICAL JOURNEYS TO WORLDS NEW and undiscovered, or revisit the warmth of dear, familiar harbors, and do it all while never leaving the DMV. Follow the American Pop Orchestra’s Pied Piper to Hamelin, or hitch a ride on Dolly Parton’s Coat of Many Colors. Be transported to a galaxy far, far away with the Baltimore Symphony’s live performance of the Empire Strikes Back score, or to ye olde Downton Abbey with the Fairfax Symphony’s musical tribute to the beloved series. Step “Outside the Bachs” with the New Orchestra of Washington, or into the future with Washington National Opera’s premiere 20-minute operas. There are more paths to explore, and musical treasures to discover, than even the most avid music lover could manage in a season. Still, there’s certainly no harm in trying to see and hear it all.

AMERICAN POPS ORCHESTRA

the Great American Songbook, for this installment of the theatrical children’s series (1/18/20, Molly Smith Study)

COAT OF MANY COLORS: THE MUSIC OF DOLLY PARTON — This season opener

ATLAS PERFORMING ARTS CENTER

Arena Stage 1101 6th St. SW www.theamericanpops.org

celebrates American treasure Dolly, with guest vocalists Joan Osborne, Neyla Pekarek, Nova Y. Payton, Morgan James, Jess Eliot Myhre, Rita Castagna, and recent Metro Weekly cover star Garrett Clayton performing the country legend’s greatest hits and hidden gems alongside founding Maestro Luke Frazier and the APO (9/21, Fichandler Stage) • MUSIC & MINDFULNESS SERIES: YOGA WITH THE AMERICAN POPS ORCHESTRA — Yoga

instructor Dan Carter leads this season’s sessions of mindful yoga, accompanied by calming live music courtesy of the APO (10/26 and 2/22/20, Molly Smith Study) • THE PIED PIPER — A new journey through the familiar fairy tale, and

410-783-8000 www.bsomusic.org

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

CAPITAL CITY SYMPHONY’S MEET THE ORCHESTRA: THAT STRING THING! — A

quintet of the orchestra’s string-playing members share how they create such beautiful music in this intimate, educational experience designed for young patrons, ages three and above (9/28, Sprenger Theatre) • CAPITAL CITY SYMPHONY’S SYMPHONIC TRAVELS — Maestra Victoria Gau and the symphony open the orchestra’s 52nd season, “a celebration of the outdoors as expressed through the joy of music,” with the bright optimism of Aaron Copland’s An Outdoor Overture, and guest violist Colin Sorgi

celebrates its new season with a free concert of crowd-pleasing classics, including Mozart’s Overture to The Marriage of Figaro, a theme from John Williams’ unforgettable Star Wars score, and movements from Beethoven’s 9th and Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 4. (9/14, Meyerhoff) • STAR WARS: THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK IN CONCERT — Episode V of the Jedi Saga screens as the BSO, led by Associate Conductor Nicholas Hersh, performs John Williams’ score live (9/19, Strathmore and 9/20-21, Meyerhoff) • TCHAIKOVSKY SYMPHONY NO. 4 — BSO Music Director Marin Alsop conducts, joined by guest violinist/composer Daniel Bernard Roumain to perform centerpiece composition Voodoo Violin Concerto (9/27, 9/29, Meyerhoff and 9/28, Strathmore) • SYMPHONIC FAIRY TALES — Young pianist Conrad Tao takes on the rarely heard Scriabin Piano Concerto (10/3, Strathmore and 10/45, Meyerhoff) • MUSIC BOX: AUTUMN COLORS — Celebrate fall with a BSO oboe, bassoon and piano trio (10/5, Meyerhoff) • THE NAT KING COLE SONGBOOK — Jazz vocalist Denzal Sinclaire and the BSO interpret Cole’s greatest hits (10/10, Strathmore and 10/11-13, Meyerhoff) • BRAHMS SYMPHONY NO. 4 — Joined by soprano Aušrinė Stundytė, contralto Renée Morloc, contralto Sonya Alexandra Knussen, and the Women’s Voices of Peabody Opera, the BSO goes big with Wagner and Brahms (10/17, Meyerhoff and 10/20 Strathmore) • OFF THE CUFF: BRAHMS SYMPHONY NO. 4 — Music director Marin Alsop unpacks

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Fall Arts Preview: Classical & Choral the profound emotions of Brahm’s masterpiece (10/18, Strathmore and 10/19, Meyerhoff) • LEMONY SNICKET’S THE COMPOSER IS DEAD — The audience at this family concert is presented a mystery to solve, while learning about the instruments of the orchestra (10/26, Meyerhoff) • MOZART VIOLIN CONCERTO — Violin phenom Stefan Jackiw returns to the BSO in a program of Viennese masterpieces (10/26, Strathmore and 10/27, Meyerhoff) • LESLIE ODOM, JR. WITH THE BSO — The Tony Award-winner sings hits from Hamilton, Spring Awakening, the Nat King Cole songbook, and more (11/1, Meyerhoff) • MOVIE WITH ORCHESTRA: GHOSTBUSTERS (11/2-3, Meyerhoff; 11/18, Strathmore) • EMANUEL AX PERFORMS BRAHMS (11/8, 11/10, Meyerhoff and 11/9, Strathmore) • BLACK VIOLIN — Classically-trained string players Wil B. (viola) and Kev Marcus (violin) are joined onstage by DJ SPS and drummer Nat Stokes for their unique blend of classical and hip-hop music, often described as “classical boom” (11/9, Meyerhoff) • MUSIC BOX: GREAT BIG ANIMALS — A toddler-friendly show with a jazz quartet and plush animal friends (11/10, Gordon Center and 11/16, Meyerhoff) • MOZART PIANO CONCERTO NO. 23 (11/15, 11/17, Meyerhoff and 11/16, Strathmore) • STRAVINSKY PULCINELLA — RussianAmerican composer and pianist Lera Auerbach joins the BSO for this evocation of the world of commedia dell’arte clowns (11/21, Meyerhoff and 11/24, Strathmore) • OFF THE CUFF: STRAVINSKY PULCINELLA (11/22, Strathmore and 11/23, Meyerhoff) • MIDWEEK CONCERT: THE SNOWMAN — Get into the holiday spirit with the animated film projected with live music performed by the BSO (12/7, Meyerhoff) • HANDEL MESSIAH — Edward Polochick leads the BSO Symphonic Chorale in this holiday favorite, featuring the iconic “Hallelujah” Chorus (12/7-8, Meyerhoff) • CIRQUE NUTCRACKER — Troupe Vertigo’s acrobats, jugglers, and aerialists perform Tchaikovsky’s holiday classic with a circus twist (12/12, Strathmore and 12/13-15, Meyerhoff) BARNS AT WOLF TRAP

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

DAVID FINCKEL, CELLO, WU HAN, PIANO FOUNDER’S DAY CELEBRATION — Pianist

at the Barns, and cellist David Finckel explore two emotional extremes: joy and sorrow, through the works of Bach, Mendelssohn, Glazunov, and Chopin (10/27) • THE SILK ROAD ENSEMBLE — Ensemble founder, world-renowned cellist Yo-Yo Ma, won’t appear at this performance, but that won’t stop these virtuosos from creating music “that is contemporary and ancient, familiar and foreign, traditional and innovative, and draws on styles from around the world to create a new musical language” (11/15-16) • ESCHER STRING QUARTET WITH JASON VIEAUX, GUITAR — The celebrated quartet and guitarist Vieaux perform works

by Boccherini, Schumann, Albéniz, and Wolf (11/22) • JEFFREY KAHANE, PIANO — Renaissance man Kahane takes on on J.S. Bach’s masterwork, The Goldberg Variations (12/1) BENDER JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER WASHINGTON

Kreeger Theater 6125 Montrose Rd. Rockville, Md. 301-881-0100 www.benderjccgw.org

PARKER QUARTET & BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA QUARTET — Grammy-

winning Parker Quartet will be joined by members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra to perform the Mendelssohn Octet (9/22) • MOZART IN JEANS WITH PIANIST ALON GOLDSTEIN — A 45-minute all-Mozart, morning family concert is followed by an afternoon encore concert for adults (11/3) • STEFAN JACKIW, VIOLIN & ANNA POLONSKY, PIANO — The formidable duo plays pieces by Bach, Brahms, and Stravinsky (11/17) • SHANGHAI QUARTET & ALEXANDER FITERSTEIN, CLARINET — One of the world’s foremost chamber ensembles, the quartet is joined by clarinetist Fiterstein in a program consisting of Beethoven’s Quartet No. 15 in A Minor, Op. 132 and Mozart’s Clarinet Quintet in A Major, K. 581 (12/8)

202-403-3669 www.dcdd.org

CAPITAL PRIDE SYMPHONIC BAND FALL CONCERT — Annual autumn showcase

by the LGBT musical organization’s sitdown symphony (11/9, Church of the Epiphany) • DCDD’S HOLIDAY CONCERT (12/15, Church of the Reformation) THE EMBASSY SERIES

202-625-2361 www.embassyseries.org The series presents its 25th season of “uniting people through music diplomacy,” via concerts and cultural events • IRINA MURESANU, VIOLIN (9/13, Embassy of Romania) • ROMAN RABINOVICH, PIANO (9/17, Embassy of Uzbekistan) • 25TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION OF THE INDEPENDENCE OF SOUTH AFRICA (10/10, Embassy of South Africa) — FORMOSA QUARTET SPECIAL CONCERT (10/25, The Twin Oaks Estate-Taiwan) • RICHARD LIN, VIOLIN AND CHIH-YI CHEN, PIANO

(11/12, Anderson House - Society of the Cincinnati) • ELHAM FANOOS, PIANO (11/22, Embassy of Afghanistan) • GALA

HOLIDAY CONCERT WITH THE NEW YORK VIRTUOSI STRINGS (12/4, Embassy of Slovakia) • ZLATOMIR FUNG, CELLO (12/6,

Embassy of Bulgaria)

FAIRFAX SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

GMU Center for the Arts Fairfax, Va. 703-993-2787 www.fairfaxsymphony.org

THE DOWNTON ABBEY ERA — Luxuriate

in a musical journey back to beloved Downton, featuring guest artist Janet Sung, violin (9/21) • NOSTALGIC NIGHTS WITH BERTA ROJAS, GUITAR (11/16, GMU Harris Theatre) • THE NUTCRACKER — The annual performance with the Fairfax Ballet (12/21-22) • THE FOUR SEASONS — Violin soloist Simone Porter joins the orchestra to perform both Vivaldi and Piazzolla’s Four Seasons (2/8/20) FOLGER CONSORT

CONGRESSIONAL CHORUS

Calvary Baptist Church 733 8th St. NW 202-629-3140 www.congressionalchorus.org NEVERTHELESS, SHE PERSISTED... — A

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MUSIC FOR MACHIAVELLI: FLORENCE CIRCA 1500 — Folger Consort performs

carnival songs Machiavelli wrote for the Medici family and music for his comedic stage play The Mandrake, among other works, with instrumentalists Larry Lipnik, Dan Meyers, Mark Rimple, and Mary Springfels, and soprano Emily Noël (9/27-29, St. Mark’s on Capitol Hill) •

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Fall Arts Preview: Classical & Choral GLORIA! A BAROQUE ITALIAN CHRISTMAS (12/13-18, St. Mark’s) • PALESTRINA’S PERFECT ART WITH STILE ANTICO — A

concert of late-Renaissance compositions (2/7/20-2/8/20, National Cathedral)

mous ensemble of sopranos and altos, comprised of boys between the ages of 9 and 14 and representing 31 countries, returns for their annual holiday concert (12/13)

GAY MEN’S CHORUS

THE IN SERIES

202-293-1548 www.gmcw.org

COULDA WOULDA SHOULDA — A cabaret

about all the things we wish we had done differently (9/21, City Winery) • SMALL ENSEMBLES EXTRAVAGANZA — The company’s select ensembles present a showcase of popular music (10/26, Live! at 10th & G) • THE HOLIDAY SHOW — An allnew, bigger and better than ever edition of musical holiday cheer (12/7, 12/14-15, Lincoln Theatre) GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY CENTER FOR THE ARTS

Concert Hall Fairfax, Va. 888-945-2468 www.cfa.gmu.edu

MASON SCHOOL OF MUSIC: GRAND PIANO CELEBRATION (9/22) • KEYBOARD CONVERSATIONS WITH JEFFREY SIEGEL: MUSIC OF MOZART AND HAYDN — The

virtuoso pianist’s “concerts with commentary” give the story behind the music • SYMPHONIC BAND & MASON PERCUSSION CONCERT (10/2) • THE FOUR ITALIAN TENORS — The quartet of world-class tenors entertains on their debut U.S. tour Viva Italia! • UNIVERSITY

WIND SYMPHONY WITH FAIRFAX WIND SYMPHONY CONCERT (10/8) • VIRGINIA OPERA: TOSCA — Puccini’s tour-de-force

of jealousy, intrigue, and murder opens the company’s 45th season • MASON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA (10/16) • FALL CHORAL CONCERT — An annual showcase for the select choral ensemble University Singers, and the nearly 100-voice University Chorale (10/20) • KEYBOARD

CONVERSATIONS WITH JEFFREY SIEGEL: MISTRESSES AND MASTERPIECES (10/20) • ZURICH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA, WITH DANIEL HOPE, VIOLIN: THE FOUR SEASONS (11/10) • UNIVERSITY WIND SYMPHONY AND MASON SYMPHONIC BAND (11/11) • VIRGINIA OPERA: IL POSTINO — Crystal

Manich directs this VO debut production, sung in Spanish and based in part on the 1994 Oscar-winning film (11/16-17) •

UNIVERSITY GUITAR ENSEMBLE CONCERT (11/23) • MASON SYMPHONY HOLIDAY CONCERT (12/8) • STRING CHAMBER CONCERT (12/10) • VIENNA BOYS CHOIR: CHRISTMAS IN VIENNA — The world-fa66

Source Theatre 1835 14th St. NW 202-204-7763 www.inseries.org

a new composition by Grammy Awardwinner Libby Larsen (11/13, Terrace) • WPA PRESENTS ZOLTÁN FEJÉRVÁRI, PIANO, IN RECITAL (11/17, Terrace) • RANDALL GOOSBY, VIOLIN (12/3, Terrace) • PAMELA FRANK, VIOLIN, AND PETER SERKIN, PIANO (12/4, Terrace) • VOCAL ARTS DC PRESENTS MICHELLE BRADLEY, SOPRANO, IN RECITAL (12/11, Terrace) MARYLAND LYRIC OPERA

— Inspired by Shakespeare’s The Tempest, the story of colonization and subjugation retold with the music of Billie Holiday, and poetic-prose written by Sybil Williams (10/18-27, Atlas Performing Arts Center) • L’ENFANCE DU CHRIST — In collaboration with the Foundry United Methodist Church Choir, a unique staging of Berlioz’s grand oratorio explores human migration and the power of hospitality to those fleeing persecution (12/7-14, Foundry United Methodist Church) • LE CABARET DE CARMEN — Performed in French, in a fast-paced 90-minutes, Bizet’s opera comes to life in a unique cabaret-style tango performance (1/31/19)

240-427-5568 www.mdlo.org

KENNEDY CENTER

Music Center at Strathmore 5301 Tuckerman Lane Bethesda, Md. 301-581-5100 www.nationalphilharmonic.org

STORMY WEATHER

202-467-4600 www.kennedy-center.org VOCAL ARTS DC PRESENTS BRENDA RAE, SOPRANO, IN RECITAL (9/15, Terrace) • TAKÁCS QUARTET I: BARTÓK'S STRING QUARTETS, NOS. 1, 3, & 5 (10/15, Terrace) • TAKÁCS QUARTET II: BARTÓK'S STRING QUARTETS, NOS. 2, 4, & 6 (10/16) • WPA PRESENTS MELBOURNE SYMPHONY (10/16, Concert Hall) • VOCAL ARTS DC PRESENTS CHRISTIAN GERHAHER, BARITONE, AND GEROLD HUBER, PIANO, IN RECITAL (10/18, Terrace) • DREW PETERSEN —

From making his Carnegie Hall debut at age five, to earning an American Pianist Award in his twenties, and recently being signed by Steinway & Sons to their celebrated artist roster, 25-year old Petersen is living up to early hype as a child prodigy (10/19, Terrace) • MAXIM LANDO — Pianist (10/28, Terrace) • SPEKTRAL QUARTET: LOOKING SKYWARD (10/29) • KALICHSTEIN-LAREDO-ROBINSON TRIO — KenCen Trio-in-Residence shares a program celebrating Beethoven’s upcoming 250th birthday (10/30, Terrace) • THE

KENNEDY CENTER CHAMBER PLAYERS: FALL CONCERT (11/3, Terrace) • FORTAS CHAMBER MUSIC CONCERTS: CANTUS

— The eight-member, all-male vocal ensemble presents the D.C. premiere of

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IL TABARRO/CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA IN CONCERT (9/14-15, Strathmore) • MDLO YOUNG ARTIST INSTITUTE FALL GALA —

Six rising young talents star in this year’s gala, conducted by music director Louis Salemno, and featuring excerpts from six operas in three different languages (11/1, Strathmore) • MDLO ORCHESTRA

INAUGURAL CONCERT WITH SOLOIST LEON FLEISHER (11/12, Strathmore) • NEW PRODUCTION PREMIERE: MASSENET’S THAÏS — Claudia Zahn directs this new,

fully-staged production, with soprano Sarah Joy Miller singing the title role (1/30/20 and 2/1/20, Kay Theatre) NATIONAL PHILHARMONIC

EROICA + BEETHOVEN — The acclaimed

Eroica Trio teams up with the National Philharmonic for a performance of Beethoven’s Triple Concerto, “one of the most unusual concertos in the Western tradition” (9/21-22) • VOICES OF LIGHT:

SILENT FILM WITH LIVE ORCHESTRA AND CHORALE — The National Philharmonic

Chorale joins the orchestra, conducted

by Stan Engebretson, to perform Richard Einhorn’s score accompanying a screening of Theodore Dreyer’s silent-era masterpiece The Passion of Joan of Arc (11/23) • HOLIDAY SINGIN’ POPS — Toplevel Broadway and international talent deliver fresh new takes on beloved holiday songs (12/6) NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

202-467-4600 www.kennedy-center.org

SEASON OPENING GALA CONCERT —

Maestro Gianandrea Noseda conducts a jazz-inspired program, featuring guest pianist extraordinaire Yuja Wang (9/28, Concert Hall) • CARMINA BURANA (10/35, Concert Hall) • JANOWSKI CONDUCTS

BRUCKNER'S SEVENTH — Joined by guest violinist Arabella

Steinbacher to perform Mozart’s demanding Violin Concerto No. 4 (10/10-12, Concert Hall) • FAMILY CONCERT: HALLOWEEN SPOOKTACULAR — Even the musicians are serving spooky looks at this annual Halloween tradition (10/20, Concert Hall) • KRZYSZTOF URBAŃSKI CONDUCTS TCHAIKOVSKY'S FOURTH — Guest pianist Lise de la Salle performs Chopin’s Piano Concerto No. 2 (10/31-11/2, Concert Hall) • NURIT BAR-JOSEF, VIOLIN — Gianandrea Noseda conducts a dance-inspired program, spinning through a waltz by Strauss, tango by Piazzolla, polka

by Stravinsky, and more (11/7-9, Concert Hall) • TRISTAN AND ISOLDE: ACT II — Masters of the Wagnerian repertoire, soprano Christine Goerke and tenor Stephen Gould sing the story of young lovers. Noseda conducts. (11/13-15, Concert Hall) • ALSO SPRACH ZARATHUSTRA — Celebrated soprano Renée Fleming and Grammy-nominated baritone guest with the NSO to perform the D.C. premiere of Kevin Puts’ Brightness of Light. Noseda conducts (11/21-23, Concert Hall) • CELEBRATING SLATKIN AT 75 (12/5-7, Concert Hall) • HANDEL'S MESSIAH (12/19-22, Concert Hall) THE CHORAL ARTS SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON

202-244-3669 www.choralarts.org

NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: CARMINA BURANA — The

Choral Arts singers join the NSO to perform Orff’s outrageous cantata (10/3-5, Kennedy Center Concert Hall) • DÍA DE LOS MUERTOS FEATURING BRAHMS’S EIN DEUTSCHES REQUIEM — A special presentation of Brahms by the New Orchestra of Washington, featuring The Choral Arts Chamber Singers (11/910, Mexican Cultural Institute) • NSO POPS: A HOLIDAY POPS! WITH LESLIE ODOM, JR. — The NSO Pop’s annual tradition, complete with Santa, The Choral Arts Society of Washington, “snow,” and guest Hamilton star Leslie Odom, Jr. (12/13-14, KC Concert Hall) • SONGS OF THE SEASON — Joined by mezzo-soprano Kristina Lewis, the Choral Arts Chorus and Youth Choir bring glad tidings with a selection of favorite holiday carols and seasonal classics (12/15-16, 12/21, and 12/24, KC Concert Hall) THE CITY CHOIR OF WASHINGTON

National Presbyterian Church 4101 Nebraska Ave. NW 202-495-1613 www.thecitychoirofwashington.org HAYDN LORD NELSON MASS — The choir performs “arguably

Haydn’s greatest choral work,” Mass for Troubled Times, as well as the Washington premiere of Pärt’s otherworldly Salve Regina (11/10) • A TWELFTH NIGHT CONCERT — The choir Partners in Song, and in spirit, with the Freedom High School Chamber Choir (Chantilly, VA), directed by Laura Lazarevich, to present an evening of traditional carols and songs to celebrate the new year (1/5/20) THE CLARICE

Gildenhorn Recital Hall University of Maryland College Park, Md. 301-405-ARTS www.theclarice.umd.edu BACH CANTATA SERIES: BWV 248 IV (9/17) • FACULTY ARTIST SERIES: THE FRENCH CONNECTION (9/22) • FACULTY ARTIST SEPTEMBER 12, 2019 • METROWEEKLY.COM

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Fall Arts Preview: Classical & Choral SERIES: JOSEPH GRIMMER, BASSOON (9/29) • IMANI WINDS: A WOMAN’S PERSPECTIVE (10/4) • UMD WIND ORCHESTRA: THE AWAKENING HOUR

(10/4, Dekelboum Concert Hall) • FAMILY ART DAY: IMANI WINDS (10/5, Langley Park Community Center) •

UMD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: DVOŘÁK’S EIGHTH SYMPHONY (10/5, Dekelboum Concert Hall) • UMD REPERTOIRE ORCHESTRA (10/16, Dekelboum Concert Hall) • BACH CANTATA SERIES: BWV 140 (10/17, Grand Pavilion) • UMD WIND ENSEMBLE: JOURNEYS (10/18, Dekelboum Concert Hall) • MASTERFUL STRINGS: MASTERCLASS WITH PETER ZAZOFSKY, VIOLIN (10/22) • BRENTANO QUARTET (11/1) • UMD WIND ORCHESTRA: THE ORACLE (11/1, Dekelboum Concert Hall) • UMD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: HOLST’S THE PLANETS (11/3, Dekelboum Concert Hall) • STEFON HARRIS & BLACKOUT (11/8, MilkBoy ArtHouse) • TENEBRAE

— The 17-voice ensemble from the U.K. celebrates 20th-century English choral music (11/13, St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church) • MARYLAND OPERA STUDIO PRESENTS ARIODANTE (11/21-25) • HONORS CHAMBER MUSIC (12/2) • WINTER

CONCERT:FEMMES DE CHANSON AND MÄNNERMUSIK (12/2, Memorial Chapel) • HANDEL’S MESSIAH (12/8, Dekelboum Concert Hall) • UMD PERCUSSION ENSEMBLE (12/9, Dekelboum Concert Hall) • UMD CHORAL ACTIVITIES: BACH CANTATA SERIES (1/18/20) • NEXTLOOK: SIMONE BARON — Baron’s new work for

dance and chamber ensemble, ruin gaze, examines the mystery and magic of ruins (2/14/20, Joe’s Movement Emporium) •

MARYLAND OPERA STUDIO: OPERA NEW WORK READING (2/14/20) • NATHALIE JOACHIM WITH SPEKTRAL QUARTET: FANM D’AYITI (2/19/20, MilkBoy ArtHouse) • UMD CHORAL ACTIVITIES: BACH CANTATA SERIES (2/20/20, Grand Pavilion) • FACULTY AND GUEST ARTIST SERIES: THE BOSTON TRIO (2/20/20) • UMD MEN’S CHORUS: MEN’S CHORUS INVITATIONAL (2/22/20, Memorial Chapel) • UMD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: PHENOMENAL WOMEN (2/28/20, Dekelboum Concert Hall) • UMD ORCHESTRA: DVOŘÁK AND COPLAND (2/29/20, Dekelboum Concert

Hall)

THE PHILLIPS COLLECTION

1600 21th St. NW 202-974-6832 www.phillipscollection.org PAQUITO D’RIVERA & HARLEM QUARTET

2019/20 season brings Cuban musical phenom and 14–time Grammy award-winner D’Rivera together with the versatile Harlem Quartet for a genre-defying collaboration that blurs boundaries (10/13) • CHRISTIAN TETZLAFF, VIOLIN, AND LARS VOGT, PIANO (10/20) • Z.E.N. TRIO — Works by Schubert, Shostakovich, and Arno Babajanian (10/27) • JONATHAN BISS: BEETHOVEN PIANO SONATA SERIES, PART I — For the first installment in his exploration of the Beethoven Piano Sonatas, Jonathan Biss turns to Sonatas of Beethoven’s “early period” (12/1) • MUSIC, SYMBOLISM & LES NABIS — Soprano Axelle Fanyo, pianist Bénédicte Jourdois, and pianist George Fu “explore the origins of the symbolist aesthetics of the Nabi painters through music inspired by the movement’s literary progenitors: poets Charles Baudelaire and Stéphane Mallarmé” (11/10) • VISION STRING QUARTET — Tickets have already sold out for this program by the exciting young international ensemble (11/17) • JONATHAN BISS: BEETHOVEN PIANO SONATA SERIES, PART II — Biss interprets Sonatas of Beethoven’s “middle period” (12/1) • FRANCISCO FULLANA, VIOLIN, & TOMOMI SATO, PIANO (12/8) • CLAREMONT TRIO — The Claremont Trio returns to the Phillips for a program of all-female composers (12/15) URBANARIAS

www.urbanarias.org OPERA IMPROV AT BUSBOYS AND POETS —

The cutting-edge opera company returns with a brand-new show of sung improv (11/21) WASHINGTON BACH CONSORT

202-429-2121 www.bachconsort.org

A ROYAL OCCASION: HANDEL’S CORONATION ANTHEMS — The Consort’s

vocalists and instrumentalists serenade you with exquisite music composed for Kings and Queens (9/22, National Presbyterian Church) • AT HOME WITH BACH: BACH’S BRANDENBURG CONCERTO NO. 6 — Consort principal cellist John

Moran directs a program featuring the Brandenburg Concerto No. 6 alongside other works by Bach, Telemann, and Stölzel (11/8, Live! at 10th & G, and 11/9, Virginia Theological Seminary) • THE

TUDORS: SACRED MOTETS OF TALLIS, SHEPPARD, BYRD, AND OTHERS (12/6,

Live! at 10th & G, and 12/7, Virginia Theological Seminary)

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202-342-6221 www.thewashingtonchorus.org MOZART

REQUIEM (11/16, Kennedy Center Concert Hall) • A CANDLELIGHT CHRISTMAS — The 130+ voices of the chorus sing holiday selections backed by the National Capital Brass (12/14, Strathmore; 12/15, 12/22, Kennedy Center Concert Hall) • THE WASHINGTON CHORUS KIDS, FAMILY + FRIENDS CHRISTMAS — Put on your Ugly Christmas sweater and join TWC for their new signature holiday concert for the entire family, featuring carol sing-alongs, candy canes, and a special appearance from Jolly Old St. Nick (12/23, GMU Center for the Arts) WASHINGTON METROPOLITAN PHILHARMONIC

703-799-8229 www.wmpamusic.org

PIANO AND FRIENDS: MUSIC WITH WINDS, VOICE, AND STRINGS — The WMP per-

forms selections by Mozart, Fauré, and Dvořák for its final concert this season at Alexandria’s History Museum (9/15, The Lyceum) • ELGAR CELLO CONCERTO — WMP opens its season with an American Songbook collection, including composer Gwyneth Walker’s setting of Langston Hughes’ poem Let America Be America Again (10/13, Alexandria-Masonic Memorial) • STRAVINSKY PULCINELLA (12/8, Alexandria-Masonic Memorial) WASHINGTON NATIONAL OPERA

Kennedy Center 202-295-2400 www.dc-opera.org

OTELLO — Russell Thomas sings the title

role and Leah Crocetto is his Desdemona in Verdi’s raging storm of jealousy and betrayal (10/26-11/16, Opera House) • THE MAGIC FLUTE — WNO’s enchanting quest for love and truth features a whimsical production designed by late Where the Wild Things Are author/illustrator Maurice Sendak (11/2-23, Opera House) • WNO: AMERICAN OPERA INITIATIVE: THREE NEW 20-MINUTE OPERAS — Three world premiere short operas staged in a concert performance, accompanied by a small chamber orchestra comprised of WNO Orchestra musicians (1/10/20, Terrace) l For more Fall Arts Classical & Choral listings, please visit www.metroweekly.com or follow our interactive version of the print edition at www.issuu.com/metroweekly.

Fall Arts Preview ENSEMBLE — An evening of contempo-

rary dance and community collaboration teaming the ClancyWorks and Coppin State ensembles with dancers from Baltimore-area high schools (11/22-24) • 7(X1) SAMURAI — Soloist David Gaines presents an energetic, acrobatic, wordless one-man rendition of Kurosawa’s classic The Seven Samurai (12/21-22) BOWEN MCCAULEY DANCE COMPANY

703-910-5175 www.bmdc.org

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DANCE FOR PARKINSON’S DISEASE MASTER CLASS/STRETCH CLASS AT THE KENNEDY CENTER — Founding Artistic

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HIS FALL AND WINTER, DANCE-HAPPY AUDIENCES WILL HAVE TO BE on their toes to keep up with a busy season of exciting new work and brilliant artists. The Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company is back to grace D.C. with a world-premiere, while the Washington Ballet shows off the company’s NEXTsteps, a program of never-before-seen ballets. Adventurous crowds can join the Open Ring Circus for an acrobatic retelling of a little-known slice of circus history, step up to witness the thrilling feats of the aerial artists and acrobats from China’s Cirque Mei, or get down with Mucha Música’s musical journey through Latin America. Swing from salsa to tango, if you like, or get in line with Step Afrika!’s Magical Musical Holiday Step Show. There are dance parties and workshops and performances for all ages and abilities, and enough Tchaikovsky to keep area sugar plum fairies dancing till spring.

ATLAS PERFORMING ARTS CENTER

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

FURIA FLAMENCA DANCE COMPANY: CAFÉ FLAMENCO — The award-win-

ning dancers of Furia Flamenca supply the explosive movement, and guitarist Torcuato Zamora the passionate music, in this cabaret-style performance (10/5– 06, Lab Theatre) • CULTURE QUEEN’S DANCE PARTY — Jessica “Culture Queen” Hebron teaches kids and tots how to dance The Twist, The Locomotion, and more in this swinging journey through the ’60s via storytelling and music (10/1112, Sprenger Theatre) • STEP AFRIKA!’S MAGICAL MUSICAL HOLIDAY STEP SHOW

— Continuing an eight-year tradition at Atlas, D.C.’s renowned percussive dancers and special guest DJ Frosty the Snowman bring furry characters and a pre-show instrument-making workshop

Director Lucy Bowen McCauley leads two free class sessions as part of the Kennedy Center’s annual National Dance Day celebration (9/21, The REACH) • DANCE FOR PD WORKSHOP — Bowen McCauley directs a free workshop (10/6, Dancing Made Easy Studio, Carroll Hospital, Westminster, Md.) • DANCE PLACE ENCORE PERFORMANCE — An up-close and intimate performance by the professional company, featuring world premiere Crossing by resident choreographer Ilana Goldman, and a surprise new work by Lucy Bowen McCauley (11/16-17, Dance Place) CHAMBER DANCE PROJECT

Media Lounge Lansburgh Theatre 700 12th St. NW 202-499-2297 www.chamberdance.org

MINIATURE MINIMALISM: COLIN GEE —

to this family-friendly celebration (12/1222, Sprenger) BALTIMORE THEATRE PROJECT

45 West Preston St. Baltimore, Md. 410-752-8558 www.theatreproject.org

The first in CDP’s Evening with an Artist series features choreographer Gee sharing how he’ll create an intricate physical work with dancers and a string quartet (9/25) • THE CREATION OF PRUFROCK: DIANE COBURN BRUNING AND MATT TORNEY — Theatre director Torney and

OPEN RING CIRCUS — Open Ring troupe

pays homage to the heroes and victims of a little-known three-ring tragedy with Coated: 1944 Circus Fire, a show of aerial arts, acrobatic storytelling, and custom-designed set pieces (11/5-6) • FULL CIRCLE DANCE COMPANY — For their allnew REFUGE: Needing, Seeking Finding, the company “known for tackling realworld issues with emotional and physical power” explores ideas of home, loss, and belonging in works by choreographers of diverse backgrounds (11/1617) • CLANCYWORKS DANCE COMPANY

& COPPIN STATE UNIVERSITY DANCE

CDP artistic director Coburn Bruning screen video from a live performance of their collaborative work Prufrock, and dissect its creation (10/23) • DANCER + CHOREOGRAPHER: CHRISTIAN DENICE

— New company performer and choreographer Denice discusses his life and career, via photos, performance videos, and rehearsal footage (11/14) CITYDANCE

301-581-5204 www.citydance.net GALLERY — Weaving together disparate

stories and experiences of womanhood, six dancers from S.J. Ewing & Dancers

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and the CityDance Conservatory explore empowerment and vulnerability in athletic dances set to a house music beat (10/35, Source Theater, 1835 14th St. NW) • CREATING THE MAGIC WEEKEND I — A mid-year showcase by the Conservatory, featuring choreography by CityDance faculty, Ignite artists and guests (12/68, Strathmore) • CREATING THE MAGIC WEEKEND II — The Conservatory’s midyear showcase continues (12/13-14, Strathmore) THE CLARICE

Dance Theatre University of Maryland College Park, Md. 301-405-ARTS www.theclarice.umd.edu MFA DANCE THESIS CONCERT — Works

choreographed by MFA in Dance students include Heidi McFall’s Corpora Caelestia: A Movement Opera, and RonyaLee Anderson’s Black Madonna and Miss America (10/4-6, Kogod Theatre) • DOUBLED BODIES — Choreographers Kristina Harris and Gabriel Mata challenge expectations about female/male partnering and gendered aesthetics in this work playing in a double-bill with Jordan Resnick’s Brechtian drama I Have An Idea for a Play (10/18-20) • DCX NEW DANCES — In a fun, supportive environment, students present new and in-progress pieces (10/24-25) • BLACK GRACE — Dynamic company from New Zealand brings traditional Polynesian dance motifs onto the contemporary stage with four performance pieces, including choreographer Neil Ieremia’s exploration of toxic masculinity, Crying Men (10/24, Kay Theatre) • MADDEN DANCE PROJECT — The dancers of elephant JANE perform choreographer Heidi Henderson’s series of solos and duets, untitled sad piece, and, in Kendra Portier’s Burnish (Magenta #08), NYC-based company BANDportier “renders the phenomenon of magenta into live performance” (11/15-17) • MONICA BILL BARNES AND COMPANY — Dance-show-meets-afterwork-party Happy Hour finds Bill Barnes and Company performing small vignettes in a variety of dance styles while the audience enjoys snacks and cocktails (11/21-22, MilkBoy ArtHouse) • 37TH ANNUAL CHOREOGRAPHERS’ SHOWCASE

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DANCEART THEATER

www.dancearttheater.com TRANSFORMATIONS SHOWCASE — Third

annual presentation of a selection of works by various choreographers (10/2627, Fredgren Studio Theatre) DANCE PLACE

3225 8th St. NE 202-269-1600 www.danceplace.org D. SABELA GRIMES — Choreographer-

composer grimes creates a new interdisciplinary work, collaborating “in real time” with participants at his Bubblin’ Black Joy workshop (9/12) • D. SABELA GRIMES: ELECTROGYNOUS — L.A.-based artist grimes synthesizes ancient and Afro-futuristic soundscapes with his own poetry, video art by Meena Murugesan and digital illustration by Mr. Maxx Moses (9/14-15) • DANCE BOX THEATER’S NAKED KING: SUBJECT TO CHANGE - PART 1 — Co-artistic directors Stephen Clapp

and Laura Schandelmeier stage an evening-length dance theater work that points a finger at an emperor with no clothes, featuring Ronya Lee Anderson, Valerie Branch, Melissa Lineburg, Tariq O’Meally, and guest artist Pricilla Smith as The Real Donna J. Trump (9/21-22) • PROJECT CHARMA — Chris and Ama Law and this hip-hop collective of teaching artists close out the Art on 8th season with a free session of their weekly adult classes (9/26) • SLOWDANGER — Five dancers, two computational artists, and one responsive LED sculpture adds up to the company’s intriguing new evening-length work titled empathy machine (10/5-6) • FOCUS CIA DE DANÇA — Hailing from Rio de Janeiro, this contemporary dance company brings new work STILL REICH to delight D.C. audiences (10/1213) • AMPLIFY GALA — Dance Place’s Season Gala features performances by The Illustrious Blacks, Coyaba Dance Theater, and more! (10/19) • CULTURE SHOCK, WASHINGTON DC — Searching for the meaning of “home” in Volume V: Home, this multi-faceted company translates into movement the varied perceptions of what home looks, feels, and sounds like to the respective choreographers who contributed to the program (10/26-28) • ANIKAYA: CONFERENCE OF THE BIRDS — Conceived and directed by choreographer Wendy Jehlen, an evening-length movement theater work embodying stories from modern-day refugees and other migrants (11/2-3) • SOLE DEFINED: ZAZ — Inaugural Dance

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Place Artist-in-Residence SOLE Defined translates global rhythms through tap dance and body percussion, in this premiere performance exploring the events of Hurricane Katrina from a small speakeasy in New Orleans (11/9-10) • BAAKARI WILDER & KERRI EDGE: REFORM — A collection of tap dance monologues charting a story beginning post-emancipation at Angola State Prison, then traveling through time to the present-day prison system (11/23-24) • CONTEMPORARY VIEWPOINTS FESTIVAL — Dance Place’s curated mixed-bill showcase of boundary-pushing modern dance presented in a range of work by choreographers from the DMV (12/7-8) • COYABA DANCE THEATER: KWANZAA CELEBRATION — An annual holiday tradition at Dance Place that gathers families, friends, and guest performers with the Coyaba dancers, under the direction of Sylvia Soumah (12/1415) • KANKOURAN WEST AFRICAN DANCE COMPANY — KanKouran’s annual MLK Day concert celebrates over 35 years of fulfilling the company’s mission of “giving back that which was lost” (1/18-19) • DARLINGDANCE — An evening of dance theater featuring the premiere TARGET PRACTICE, by a company that reflects humor, community, and realism in its feminist, postmodern works (1/25-26) • PASSION FRUIT DANCE COMPANY: DANCE WITHIN YOUR DANCE — Choreographed

and directed by Tatiana Desardouin, a work that asks, “What is the groove? How do you find it? How much weight does it hold in self-expression?” (2/1-2) DAVIS PERFORMING ARTS CENTER

Georgetown University 3700 O St. NW 202-687-ARTS www.performingarts.georgetown.edu GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY DANCE COMPANY — Members of GU’s old-

est dance organization present new works-in-progress (12/4 and 12/6) • BLACK MOVEMENTS DANCE THEATRE — Celebrating Legends in music, BMDT performs their annual fall concert (12/7) DISSONANCE DANCE THEATRE

202-540-8338 www.ddtdc.org

FALL FORWARD 2019 — An evening rang-

ing from classical to contemporary dance, featuring world-premiere works by company founder Shawn Short, plus performances by students of the Ngoma School (10/26, Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center) • BLACK DANCE FESTIVAL DMV —

Fall Arts Preview: Dance Works by African-American choreographers, including DDT 2019-20 resident choreographer Kareem B. Goodwin (11/2-3 and 11/9, Jack Guidone Theatre) • DIASPORA — An evening celebrating West African, Caribbean, South American, and American music with dances set to soca, blues, samba, and soul, among others (2/21, Atlas Performing Arts Center) GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY CENTER FOR THE ARTS

4373 Mason Pond Drive Fairfax, Va. 888-945-2468 www.cfa.gmu.edu

ARTS BY GEORGE! — An evening showcasing the talents of

Mason students culminates in a benefit performance by Tony, Grammy, and Emmy Award-winner Audra McDonald (9/28) • FALL NEW DANCES — Every dance is a premiere in this program of works by choreographers at the start of their careers (11/7-9, Harris Theatre) • CIRQUE MEI — Elite circus artists and acrobats from China’s northern Hebei Province pull out all the stops in a spectacular display of flying, diving, and balancing feats to thrill the whole family (10/19) • TAJ EXPRESS — Blending vibrant costumes, rollicking music, and joyous dance, the Bollywood Musical Revue brings the Indian Bollywood movie experience to life onstage in an action-packed romance set to India’s pop hits (11/9) • RUBBERBANDANCE GROUP — This contemporary company from Montreal stirs up their own mix of classical ballet and improvisational hip-hop in Vic’s Mix, their latest work by founder Victor Quijada (11/22) • DANCE INNOVATIONS (12/5-7, Harris Theatre) • MOSCOW BALLET’S GREAT RUSSIAN NUTCRACKER — One of the first independent, internationally touring ballet companies to emerge from the former Soviet Union returns to GMU with its renowned rendition of the timeless tale (12/10-11) • THE NUTCRACKER — The Fairfax Symphony Orchestra and the Fairfax Ballet Company throw their chestnuts into the fire with a traditional, winter wonderland take on the classic ballet (12/21-22) • ALONZO KING LINES BALLET — In collaboration with composer and sound designer Alexander MacSween, choreographer King addresses “the fact that languages of the world are vanishing at an alarming rate” (1/25) • BILL T. JONES/ARNIE ZANE COMPANY — The pioneering ensemble and 2019 Mason Artist-in-Residence performs the world premiere On the Water, a work to provoke thought about belonging versus isolation (2/1)

forms an encore of their extravaganza of acrobatics, contortion tricks, balancing acts, and more (10/24) • SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE LIVE! — Top contestants from the Emmy-winning FOX TV show’s 16th season hit the stage in a variety of genres, from lyrical to salsa, hip-hop to contemporary (10/22) • TAJ EXPRESS — A second chance to catch the Bollywood Musical Revue this fall in Northern Virginia (11/15) JANE FRANKLIN DANCE

Theatre on the Run 3700 S. Four Mile Run Drive Arlington, Va. 703-933-1111 www.janefranklin.com EYESOAR AT VALLEY FEST — At this celebration of Four Mile

Run Valley, the company performs excerpts from the work EyeSoar, which highlights the people and organizations in Four Mile Run (9/29) • SPLATTER — A vibrant, family-friendly journey of spoken word, movement, and music, based on Anna Llenas’ book The Color Monster (11/9, 11/16, and 11/23) • MIX IT UP — A series of mix-and-match programs of works by Jane Franklin Dance, the socially-conscious Light Switch Dance Theatre, community-based dancers Forty+, and choreographers Emily Crews and Rachel Luebbert (11/9, 11/16, 11/23) • THE BIG MEOW — A story told through movement, music, and spoken word about “an ever-hopeful fluff ball who desperately wants to belong to the neighborhood band of cats” (1/25, 2/1, and 2/8) • BORDER — A movement theatre work that explores personal experiences of bias through the real-life stories of its diverse cast (1/25, 2/1, and 2/8)

GW LISNER

730 21st St. NW 202-994-6800 www.lisner.gwu.edu TANGO LOVERS — Direct from Argentina and Uruguay, an

ensemble of 24 world-class musicians and dancers unfurl the history of tango in the distinctive production I Am Tango (10/5) HYLTON PERFORMING ARTS CENTER

10960 George Mason Circle Manassas, Va. 703-993-7759 www.hyltoncenter.org

MANASSAS BALLET THEATRE — MBT opens its season with Jazz

in Motion, a collaboration with the Kim Reynolds Band and vocalist Mark Luna, blending contemporary choreography with jazz standards and originals (10/18-20) • CIRQUE MEI — The elite circus troupe from the People’s Republic of China perSEPTEMBER 12, 2019 • METROWEEKLY.COM

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Fall Arts Preview: Dance KENNEDY CENTER

2700 F Street, NW 202-467-4600 www.kennedy-center.org SILVER CLOUDS PLAYGROUND — The

Kennedy Center celebrates the legacy of choreographer Merce Cunningham with this exhibit of Andy Warhol’s interactive playroom, which Cunningham incorporated into his 1968 work Rain Forest (10/25, Studio J) • JOHN CAGE: MUSIC FOR MERCE - MARGARET LENG TAN, TOY AND PREPARED PIANO — Acclaimed perform-

er Tan interprets Cage’s compositions for Cunningham, on toy and prepared pianos (10/2, Skylight Pavilion) • MERCE CUNNINGHAM AT 100 — Compagnie Centre National de Danse ContemporaineAngers presents Cunningham’s Beach Bird and BIPED (10/3-5) • CUNNINGHAM ON FILM — Outdoor screenings of selections from Cunningham’s body of work (10/4-5) • MARIINSKY BALLET: PAQUITA — A “glittering showcase of classical technique and non-stop virtuosic turns,” this 19th-century work is rarely performed in its entirety (10/8-13, Opera House) • DEMO: BY DAMIAN WOETZEL: BALLET X — The Philadelphia-based company makes its Kennedy Center debut (10/2526, Terrace Theater) • DANCE FITNESS — Fitness-focused classes in different styles of dance (11/2, Studio J and 12/7, Studio F) • MARK MORRIS DANCE GROUP: PEPPERLAND — Following its warm reception in Liverpool, MMDG presents this exuberant celebration of 50-plus years of The Beatles (11/1316, Eisenhower Theater) • DANCE FOR

PARKINSON’S DISEASE: MARK MORRIS DANCE GROUP — MMDG offers a work-

shop of dance classes for people with Parkinson’s (11/16, The REACH) • ATLANTA BALLET: THE NUTCRACKER — The company makes its Kennedy Center debut with a new production of the holiday favorite (11/27-12/1, Opera House) • THE DAY — Cellist Maya Beiser, dancer Wendy Whelan, and choreographer Lucinda Childs collaborate on a new music/dance work, with music by David Lang (12/6-7, Eisenhower) • MATTHEW BOURNE’S NEW ADVENTURES: SWAN LAKE

— Bourne returns to the Kennedy Center with his audacious hit reimagining of Tchaikovsky’s fairy-tale ballet (1/21-26, Opera House) • GREGORY MAQOMA'S VUYANI DANCE THEATRE — South African star choreographer Maqoma drew inspiration from the novel Cion for this full-length work, danced to Maurice

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Ravel’s Boléro (1/24-25, Eisenhower) • THE NATIONAL BALLET OF CANADA — Returning with two different programs, the company performs works including Tchaikovsky’s The Sleeping Beauty, William Forsythe’s The Vertiginous Thrill of Exactitude, Jiří Kylián’s Petite Mort, Alexei Ratmansky’s Piano Concerto #1, and a pas de deux to be announced (1/282/2) • ALVIN AILEY AMERICAN DANCE THEATER — The beloved company performs Ailey’s signature work Revelations, and a host of other selections (2/4-9, Opera House) • AMERICAN BALLET THEATER: GISELLE — A new generation of ABT’s stars dances the quintessential tale of unrequited love, heartbreaking loss, and triumphant forgiveness (2/11-16, Opera House) PUBLICK PLAYHOUSE

5445 Landover Rd. Cheverly, Md. 301-277-1710 www.pgparks.com

MUCHA MÚSICA: A MUSICAL JOURNEY THROUGH LATIN AMERICA — Audiences

sing, play instruments, and dance salsa, experiencing the many rhythms from many regions of Latin America (10/10) STRATHMORE

5301 Tuckerman Lane North Bethesda, Md. 301-581-5100 www.strathmore.org RONALD K. BROWN/EVIDENCE — The

company performs Brown’s trademark amalgam of African, modern, Caribbean, and social dance styles, accompanied

by Arturo O’Farrill Ensemble playing live Afro-Cuban jazz (11/8) • THE HIPHOP NUTCRACKER — Legendary rapper Kurtis Blow joins a troupe of all-star contemporary and hip-hop dancers in giving a hip-hop spin to the Tchaikovsky classic (12/17-19) • STEP AFRIKA!: STEP XPLOSION — One of the region’s finest step squads premieres a new Strathmorecommissioned work, Drumfolk, reflecting on the harsh realities of the American South (1/12) THE WASHINGTON BALLET

3515 Wisconsin Avenue, NW 202-362-3606 www.washingtonballet.org EXCERPTS FROM TCHAIKOVSKY — During

a festive afternoon filled with food, fun, and dance, TWB performs excerpts from Tchaikovsky’s famous ballets (9/15, England Studio and 10/6, THEARC) •

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Commemorating National Dance Day, the company performs excerpts from Fives

by Choo San Goh (9/21, The REACH) • DISTRICT OF JOY AT CITYCENTERDC — TWB and CityCenterDC team up to present free pop-up performances for all ages (9/25 and 10/2, CityCenterDC) • TWB AT ¡MUÉVETE! HISPANIC HERITAGE MONTH COMMUNITY DAY — Up-andcoming choreographer, and TWB Studio Company member, Helga ParisMorales created an original dance for TWB’s appearance at this festive, bilingual celebration (9/28, National Portrait Gallery) • TWB AT ARLINGTON VALLEY FEST (9/29, Arlington) • GRAND JETÉ SOIREE — Season opening event featuring TWB dancers performing an excerpt from the new work NEXTsteps (10/18, Smithsonian American Art Museum) • TWB AT TASTE OF THE HARVEST FESTIVAL

— Students from the Washington School of Ballet perform at this event celebrating the harvest season (10/19, THEARC) • NEXTSTEPS — D.C.’s leading ballet company presents a program of never-beenseen ballets by choreographers Annabelle Lopez Ochoa, John Heginbotham, and Jessica Lang(10/23-27, Sidney Harman Hall) • THE NUTCRACKER — TWB’s acclaimed production adds a D.C.-centric twist to the holiday dance tradition (11/2324, THEARC and 11/30-12/29, Warner Theatre) • BALANCHINE + ASHTON — This program highlighting two 20th-century titans of dance provides a mixed repertoire of styles and moods (2/19-23, Kennedy Center Eisenhower Theater) WEINBERG CENTER FOR THE ARTS

20 W. Patrick St. Frederick, Md. 301-600-2828 www.weinbergcenter.org

RUSSIAN BALLET THEATRE: SWAN LAKE

— RBT’s dancers bring to life choreographer Nadezhda Kalinina new production of a classic Tchaikovsky ballet that isn’t The Nutcracker (11/8/19) • THE NUTCRACKER BALLET — Guest artists from the New York City Ballet join the Maryland Regional Ballet Company for their rendition of the holiday chestnut (12/13-15) l For more Fall Arts Dance listings, please visit www.metroweekly.com or follow our interactive version of the print edition at www.issuu.com/metroweekly.

Fall Arts Preview VCA Alexandria) • ART INSPIRED BY THE TWILIGHT ZONE — Through art and photography, member artists explore humanity’s hopes, despairs, and prejudices in metaphoric ways nodding to the classic TV show (10/4-27) • $100 AND UNDER — The return of a popular holiday-timed show with pieces, chosen by artists as their best works at an affordable price point, available on an “art-to-go basis” (11/1-12/1) • LOCAL ARTISAN SHOWCASE (Now-11/10, VCA Alexandria) • HOLIDAY MARKET 2019 — The 24th annual market offers pottery, photography, jewelry, cloth, paper crafts, and glass made by local artists (12/6-22) FOLGER SHAKESPEARE LIBRARY

A Steamers Lament by Amy Guadagnoli at Washington Printmakers Gallery

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HE FORMER CORCORAN GALLERY OF ART LIVES ON IN EXHIBITIONS this season at two local universities, reminiscing on the 30th anniversary of the Robert Mapplethorpe cancellation and held in the same grand old building.

Another anniversary getting the nod in exhibitions this fall is the advent, 180 years ago, of photography — although the National Portrait Gallery is rightfully making a bigger deal about the centennial of American women getting the right to vote through the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. If you’re seeking the lighter side of art, look to the holidays in particular. The U.S. Botanic Garden is the place to go to see an extravagantly decorated display, while Del Ray Artisans is the place to go for gifts through the quirky Alexandria gallery’s popular “$100 and Under” show, which supports local artists.

AMERICAN UNIVERSITY MUSEUM

Katzen Arts Center 4400 Massachusetts Ave. NW 202-885-1300 www.american.edu/cas/museum MOVES LIKE WALTER: NEW CURATORS OPEN THE CORCORAN LEGACY COLLECTION — Named for the late cura-

tor and former Corcoran Gallery of Art director Walter Hopps, this student-curated exhibition features 88 paintings, photographs, and works on paper from 63 artists — all of which were part of the Corcoran Gallery’s collection distributed to 22 Washington institutions last year (Now-12/15)

201 East Capitol St. SE 202-544-4600 www.folger.edu

how Henry Clay Folger and his wife Emily Folger set out to create their shrine to the Bard as a gift to the American people (Now-1/5) • 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 www.freersackler.si.edu

SACRED DEDICATION: A KOREAN BUDDHIST MASTERPIECE — The oldest surviving

DEL RAY ARTISANS

Nicholas A. Colasanto Center 2704 Mount Vernon Ave. Alexandria, Va. 703-838-4827 www.delrayartisans.org HIGH NOTE — Member artists have creat-

ed works intended to capture the effect that their favorite music has had on them and in their lives (Now-9/29) • UNCOMMON ALEXANDRIA — One of several “Gallery Without Walls” exhibits this season featuring member artworks on display at a nearby veterinary clinic, this one capturing scenes of local life that “skips the touristy sights to better reflect our neighborhoods, towns, and communities” (Now-9/29, VCA Alexandria Animal Hospital) • CREATURE COMFORTS — A holiday-timed show of artwork focused on how pets and animals provide their humans comfort and joy (9/30-1/26,

gilded wood figure in an informal pose, this beautiful sculpture of Gwaneum, the most popular deity in Korean Buddhism, is exhibited on loan from the National Museum of Korea (9/21-3/22) • HOKUSAI: MAD ABOUT PAINTING — A yearlong exploration of the prolific career of Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai as a nod to next year’s Summer Olympics in Tokyo (11/2311/2020) • THOMAS WILMER DEWING: CONTEMPLATION AND CONNECTION — An exhibition of works, often depicting aristocratic women in solitary pursuits or as passive onlookers, from an American painter working at the turn of the 20th century (11/27-11/2020) • WHISTLER IN WATERCOLOR — Museum founder Charles Lang Freer amassed the world’s largest collection of watercolors by James McNeill Whistler, 50 examples of which are part of this collection (Now-11/3)

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Fall Arts Preview: Museums & Galleries GWU CORCORAN SCHOOL OF THE ARTS & DESIGN

500 17th St. NW 202-994-1525 www.corcoran.gwu.edu

6.13.89: THE CANCELLING OF THE MAPPLETHORPE EXHIBITION — An exam-

ination of the former Corcoran Gallery’s bowing to conservative political pressure by cancelling a Robert Mapplethorpe retrospective 30 years ago as well as the ensuing controversy, impact, and legacy of the decision, told through archival materials never before seen by the public as well as related ephemera (Now10/6, The Atrium Galleries) • A TIME FOR

ACTION: WASHINGTON ARTISTS CIRCA 1989 — Paintings, drawings, and prints

by artists registering their protest of the Mapplethorpe cancellation, plus reminiscences of artists (Now-10/5, Luther W. Brady Gallery) • KELLI RAE ADAMS: WORK/STUDY — A mixed-media installation focused on the student debt crisis in the U.S., including a display of kiln-fired ceramic bowls each sufficient to hold the average individual debt load (approximately $37,000) in the form of coins (Now-10/6) HILLWOOD MUSEUM & GARDENS

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

BOUKE DE VRIES: WAR AND PIECES — A

contemporary response to a tradition dating to the 17th century of creating scenic or architectural centerpieces crafted out of sugar and porcelain, only this Dutch artist depicts an epic battle, seen via seven sculptural vignettes, using thousands of white porcelain fragments, plus sugar and even pieces of plastic toys, all set up on Hillwood’s grand dining table (9/24-4/5) • MID-CENTURY MASTER: THE PHOTOGRAPHY OF ALFRED EISENSTAEDT

— Nearly 50 photographs and ephemera from the Life Magazine artist known for capturing larger-than-life personalities, including Hillwood founder Marjorie Merriweather Post (Now-1/12) HIRSHHORN NATIONAL MUSEUM OF MODERN ART

700 Independence Ave. SW 202-633-1000 www.hirshhorn.si.edu

PAT STEIR: COLOR WHEEL — The entire

perimeter of the museum’s second-floor inner-circle galleries will be transformed into a vibrant spectrum of color via site-specific exhibition featuring 28 large-scale abstract paintings that cre74

ate an immense color wheel shifting hues with each painting (10/24-9/7/20) • MANIFESTO: ART X AGENCY — More than 100 works of art and ephemera, the majority from the Hirshhorn’s collection, focused on artist manifestos and their impact, exploring how artists have used these statements of principles or theories to engage with the political and social issues of their time (Now-1/5) LIBRARY OF CONGRESS

Thomas Jefferson Building 10 First St. SE 202-707-8000 www.loc.gov/exhibits SHALL NOT BE DENIED: WOMEN FIGHT FOR THE VOTE — Telling the story of the larg-

est reform movement in American history, the 72-year campaign for women’s suffrage that culminated in the passage and ratification of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution exactly one century ago (Now-9/2/20, Southwest Gallery) MANSION AT STRATHMORE

5301 Tuckerman Lane Bethesda, Md. 301-581-5109 www.strathmore.org

PERSPECTIVE: HUBERT JACKSON & CAROLYN GOODRIDGE — Jackson draws

local heroes and sheroes through dynamic color and layering, and Goodridge creates cosmos-inspired paintings whose surfaces are alive with texture and motion (Now-10/20, 1st Floor Galleries) • TIMBER — An exhibition of regional and national artists skilled at turning, sculpting, or carving woodworks out of mahogany, ash, and holly, with a focus on the creative and unexpected (Now-10/20) • LAURIE BREEN — Abstract painter builds lines, shapes, and colors intuitively, without a plan, trusting that “chaos is the way through each piece” (Now-11/3, Invitational Gallery) • DRAWING FOR ART — An exhibition and fundraiser in one, in which every participant goes home with one piece of original artwork (10/26-11/3) • THE 86TH ANNUAL EXHIBITION OF FINE ART IN MINIATURE — Intricately detailed works of art, painstakingly produced in miniature (11/16-1/5) NATIONAL BUILDING MUSEUM

401 F St. NW 202-272-2448 www.nbm.org

ALAN KARCHMERE: THE ARCHITECTS’ PHOTOGRAPHER — A cross-section of pro-

fessional photographs as well as personal

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artifacts shedding light on the celebrated way this late photographer conveyed architects’ ideas and intentions (Opens 11/9) • ANIMALS, COLLECTED — Imagined as a cabinet of curiosities, a selection of architectural objects depicting animals, both real and mythological, as decorative elements drawn from the museum’s permanent collection but many never before displayed (Now-Spring 2020) •(Now-Spring) • HOOPS: COMMUNITY PORTRAITS BY BILL BAMBERGER — A rich and diverse selection of private and community basketball courts around the country and the globe, as seen in 75 large-format prints (Now-1/5 NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART

3rd St. & Constitution Ave. NW 202-737-4215 www.nga.gov THE EYE OF THE SUN: 19TH CENTURY PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART — Some 140 imag-

es showcase how photography, now a 180-year-old medium, developed throughout its first 50 years in the 19th century, including several photographs recently acquired from Charles Isaacs and Carol Nigro (Now-12/1) • VERROCCHIO: SCULPTOR AND PAINTER OF RENAISSANCE FLORENCE — A

first-ever monographic exhibition in the U.S. of the innovative 15th century Florentine artist and teacher whose pupils included da Vinci, Perugino, and Botticelli (9/15-1/12) NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MUSEUM

1145 17th St. NW 202-857-7700 www.nationalgeographic.org/events WOMEN: A CENTURY OF CHANGE — A col-

lection of powerful images from famed National Geographic photographers offer a glimpse of both what it means to be a woman in the world today and how that’s changed in the 100 years since American women gained the right to vote; exhibition includes stories and commentary from female luminaries, among them Melinda Gates, Gloria Allred, Jane Goodall, and Christiane Amanpour (10/22-Spring) • BECOMING JANE: THE EVOLUTION OF DR. JANE GOODALL — Celebrating the explorer who has helped us understand our closest living relatives, chimpanzees; hands-on, transportive, multimedia exhibition includes a 3D exploration of the park in Tanzania where the groundbreaking chimp research was conducted (11/22-Summer)

NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY & CULTURE

14th St. & Constitution Ave. NW 844-750-3012 www.nmaahc.si.edu

VISUAL ART AND THE AMERICAN EXPERIENCE — “The only per-

manent art exhibition on the Smithsonian Mall dedicated to illustrating the critical role American artists of African descent played in shaping the history of American art” (Permanent) NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN HISTORY

1400 Constitution Ave. NW 202-633-1000 www.americanhistory.si.edu ELEPHANTS AND US: CONSIDERING EXTINCTION — Tied to the

30th anniversary of the historic African Elephants Conservation Act and exploring Americans’ relationship with elephants over time (11/1-9/13) • ARTIFACT WALL: ILLEGAL TO BE YOU: GAY HISTORY BEYOND STONEWALL Objects from the museum’s LGBTQ collections, putting the history of Stonewall within a broader context of being gay in America, on display in a long, central glass-fronted cases (Ongoing) • RUBY SLIPPERS AND AMERICAN CULTURE DISPLAYS — Dorothy’s slippers from The Wizard of Oz factor into an installation also including 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 (Ongoing) NATIONAL MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY

10th St. & Constitution Ave. NW 202-633-1000 www.mnh.si.edu

NATURE’S BEST PHOTOGRAPHY — Fine art prints accompanied

by video, all winners of the 24th annual Windland Smith Rice International Awards (Opens Oct.) • OUTBREAK: EPIDEMICS IN A CONNECTED WORLD (Now-2021) • OBJECTS OF WONDER — Explore the breadth, scope and splendor of the world's most extensive natural history research collection, including many exceptional objects rarely seen by the public (Now-2021) NATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN

4th St. & Independence Ave. SW 202-633-1000 www.nmai.si.edu 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 www.nmwa.org JUDY CHICAGO-THE END: A MEDITATION ON DEATH AND EXTINCTION — Through nearly 40 works of painted porcelain

and glass, as well as two large sculptures, the famed artist and feminist icon reflects on her own mortality while appealing for

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compassion and justice for all earthly creatures affected by human greed (9/191/20) • 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 (Now-9/20) • POWER IN MY HAND: WOMEN POETS, WOMEN ARTISTS & SOCIAL CHANGE — A collection of print-

ed poems, artist’ books, and art objects celebrates the creative and social bonds between women poets and women artists (Now-10/31, Library and Research Center) • MORE IS MORE: MULTIPLES — Three-dimensional art objects produced in series of identical editions by Cindy Sherman, Mickalene Thomas, Barbara Kruger, Helen Marten, and Jiha Moon, among others, inviting inquiry into the temptation of retail and the allure of fine art (Now-9/22) NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY

8th & F Streets NW 202-633-8300 www.npg.si.edu

THE OUTWIN 2019: AMERICAN PORTRAITURE TODAY — A display of

work by the finalists for the 5th triennial Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition (10/26-8/30) • RECENT ACQUISITIONS — An annual showcase of 25 portraits recently added to the museum’s collection (11/15-8/30) • PORTRAITS OF THE WORLD: DENMARK — Featuring the painting “Kunstdommere” by Michael Ancher (12/13-10/12) • VOTES FOR WOMEN: A PORTRAIT OF PERSISTENCE — Revealing the women and organizations often overlooked in the complex narrative of women’s suffrage in the U.S. (Now-1/5) • ONE LIFE: MARIAN ANDERSON — Examining the ways in which artists, concert promoters, and others wielded Anderson’s iconic likeness as a powerful symbol in the pursuit of civil rights (Now-5/17) • WOMEN OF PROGRESS: EARLY CAMERA PORTRAITS — An exhibition of daguerre-

otypes and ambrotypes from the 1840s and 1850s featuring early feminist icons (Now-5/31) • STORIED WOMEN OF THE CIVIL WAR ERA — From First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln to the actress and Union spy Pauline Cushman, a focus on women who rose to national prominence during the war (Now-5/8)

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NEWSEUM

555 Pennsylvania Ave. NW 202-292-6453 www.newseum.org RISE UP: STONEWALL AND THE LGBTQ RIGHTS MOVEMENT — Exploring what

happened at New York’s Stonewall Inn a half-century ago and how it sparked the civil rights fight of our time, told through artifacts, images, and historic print publications (Now-12/31) THE PHILLIPS COLLECTION

1600 21st St. NW 202-387-2151 www.phillipscollection.org INTERSECTIONS: LOS CARPINTEROS: CUBA VA! — Two videos and a group of

LED sculptural portraits from an internationally acclaimed Cuban artist collective known for subversive artworks that produce a social landscape of Cuba’s modern history, at once utopian and dystopian (10/10-1/12) • BONNARD TO VUILLARD: THE INTIMATE POETRY OF EVERYDAY LIFE

— Over 60 exquisite, rarely seen works by a leading group of European post-impressionist artists who worked together under the name the Nabi Collection (10/261/26) • DEAR DOVE, DEAR PHILLIPS, DEAR STIEGLITZ — Exploring the decades-long relationship between artist, patron, and gallery dealer as witnessed through correspondence (Now-7/19, Reading Room) • JAMES MCLAUGHLIN MEMORIAL STAFF SHOW: COMMUNITY EXHIBITION — A display of works by artists employed at the museum (Now-9/29) • THE WARMTH OF OTHER SUNS: STORIES OF GLOBAL DISPLACEMENT — Historical and contem-

porary works by approximately 100 artists posing urgent questions around the experiences and perceptions of migration and the current refugee crisis (Now-9/22) • MOVING FORWARD, LOOKING BACK: A COLLECTION STILL IN THE MAKING — Revealing aspects of the museum’s history through photographs, exhibition announcements, letters, and more drawn from the archives (Now-12/31) RENWICK GALLERY

1661 Pennsylvania Ave. NW 202-633-7970 www.americanart.si.edu/visit/renwick GINNY RUFFNER: REFORESTATION OF THE IMAGINATION — Glass and sculpture artist

has added Augmented Reality technology to her latest series of elegant works to create an interactive experience via digital app (Now-1/5) • MICHAEL SHERRILL RETROSPECTIVE — Delicately rendered

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clay, glass, and metal sculptures incorporating new media and technologies to help viewers see the natural world anew (Now-1/5) • DAVID BEST’S TEMPLE — Transforming the Renwick’s Bettie Rubenstein Grand Salon into a glowing sanctuary, offering a quiet place to reflect and pay tribute to lost loved ones (Now1/5) • CONNECTIONS: CONTEMPORARY CRAFT AT THE RENWICK GALLERY — A dynamic presentation of the permanent collection, featuring more than 80 objects celebrating craft as a discipline and an approach to living differently in the modern world (Ongoing) SMITHSONIAN AMERICAN ART MUSEUM

8th & F Streets NW 202-633-7970 www.americanart.si.edu

PICTURING THE AMERICAN BUFFALO: GEORGE CATLIN AND MODERN NATIVE AMERICAN ARTISTS — Examining repre-

sentations of buffalo and their integration into the lives of Native Americans on the Great Plains in the 1830s and in the 20th century (10/11-4/12) • CHIURA OBATA: AMERICAN MODERN — A comprehensive survey of a Japanese-born artist whose varied body of work displays a seemingly effortless synthesis of “East” and “West,” from his bold California landscapes to intimate drawings about the mass Japanese internment during World War II (11/27-5/25) • SCULPTURE DOWN TO SCALE: MODELS FOR PUBLIC ART AT FEDERAL BUILDINGS, 1974-1985

— Nine models offering windows into the creative process from artists including Jackie Ferrara, Sol LeWitt, Claes Oldenburg, and Beverly Pepper (Now3/28/21) • AMERICAN MYTH & MEMORY: DAVID LEVINTHAL PHOTOGRAPHS — Images of everything from toy cowboys to Barbie dolls to baseball players as a way of examining the myths and stereotypes of our pastimes and enduring heroes and the stories we tell about ourselves (Now10/14) • GALLERIES FOR FOLK AND SELFTAUGHT ART — The museum’s collection includes pieces by untrained and vernacular artists drawing on tradition, such as quilts, or revealing a more personal vision (Indefinitely) TOUCHSTONE GALLERY

901 New York Ave. NW 202-347-2787 www.touchstonegallery.com LUSCIOUS LANDSCAPES BY LINDA BANKERD — A collection of abstract land-

scapes inspired by the changing seasons

Fall Arts Preview: Museums & Galleries and made within the last three years (Now-9/29) • A WORLD OF COLOR, MY WAY BY COLLEEN SABO — Oil and watercolor paintings reflect what the artist sees when at home as well as while traveling to Europe, Australia, and Africa, observing changes in weather and nature (Now-9/29) • MINIMAL SURFACES BY DAVIDE PRETE — Sculptures and prints exploring aesthetic qualities of minimal surfaces through a combination of traditional metalsmithing techniques and contemporary 3D modeling and print techniques (Now-9/29)

U.S. NATIONAL ARBORETUM THE NATIONAL BONSAI & PENJING FOUNDATION

TRANSFORMER

Halloween, an exhibit of bonsai creations with whimsical creatures, playful pots, and spooky trees, from a provocative and pioneering bonsai artist (10/26-11/17)

1404 P St. NW 202-483-1102 www.transformerdc.org SASCHA APPELHOFF & LENA VON GOEDEKE’S NORMCORE — Two contem-

porary Berlin-based artists play with the idea of “normcore,” a portmanteau of normal and hardcore, in an exhibition co-sponsored by the German government and the Goethe-Institut Washington (Now-10/10) • 16TH ANNUAL SILENT AUCTION & BENEFIT PARTY (10/26, GWU/ Corcoran School of the Arts & Design)

Special Exhibits Wing 3501 New York Ave. NE 202-245-4523 www.usna.usda.gov

VIEWING STONE EXHIBIT: SPIRIT OF LITERATI — From tea utensils to root art

to rocks, objects originally collected and appreciated by the scholar class of China and Japan, organized by the Potomac Viewing Stone Group (Now-9/29) • TWISTED GENIUS: THE ECCENTRIC BONSAI ARTISTRY OF NICK LENZ — Timed for

WASHINGTON PRINTMAKERS GALLERY

1641 Wisconsin Ave. NW 202-669-1497 www.washingtonprintmakers.com

CUTTING THROUGH BY AMY GUADAGNOLI

— Abstract woodblock prints, with layers of bold but ambiguous shapes that cross over and cancel out one another, beckoning viewers to find their own answers to the question, “What is this?” (Now-9/29)

• RON MEICK (10/2-27) • MATINA MARKI TILLMAN: HUMANOGRAPHY - Direct etchings of charcoal and pencil drawings onto Solarplates presenting individual, self-asa-subject, double and multiple portrayals of the human, most created and arranged with a sequential character (10/31-11/24) • SALLY CANZONERI (12/4-22) WASHINGTON PROJECT FOR THE ARTS

2124 8th St. NW 202-234-7103 www.wpadc.org

NATURA NATURANS — An artist-driven

educational experiment consisting of lectures, workshops, field trips, and an exhibition, held over six weekends, exploring the greater importance of nature in today’s Anthropocene era and of the need for more artistic responses to the developing ecological crisis per climate change (9/13-11/23) l

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the documentary Memory: The Origins of Alien, and home-invasion thriller Villains starring Bill Skarsgård, Maika Monroe, Jeffrey Donovan, and Kyra Sedgwick (10/3-6) ALAMO DRAFTHOUSE

www.drafthouse.com/northern-virginia MOVIE PARTY: AIRPLANE! (9/15) • MUBI FREE VICTORY SCREENING: REAR WINDOW (9/16) • TOKYO GHOUL S (9/16, 9/18, 9/20) • DIFFERENT SEASONS: THE MANY SIDES OF STEPHEN KING — In addition to

Open Mike Eagle of The New Negroes appearing at The Bentzen Ball

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S IF OUR EVERYDAY LIFE THESE DAYS ISN’T SCARY ENOUGH, THIS season offers up more frightful delights than any one person could probably stand for — from film series dedicated to Hitchcock and Stephen King to real-life horror stories shared at Story District, to Halloween-inspired parties such as HellBent at the 9:30 Club. Beyond the scares, there’s the return of Tig Notaro for the 10th Annual Bentzen Ball, with other stand-up comedy and discussion highlights including David Sedaris at the Kennedy Center, Jane Goodall at the Anthem, and Martha Stewart among the star-studded lineup at MetroCookingDC. Certainly, there are good tricks and treats to be had all around this season — even for the self-described weirdos among us.

9:30 CLUB

815 V St. NW 202-265-0930 www.930.com CRANK KARAOKE — Chicken & Mumbo

Sauce presents a live band, go-go karaoke, and jam session featuring Walk Like Walt, Crank Karaoke Band, DJ Money and special guests (9/13) • SMALL TOWN MURDER — Comedians Joames Pietragallo and Jimmie Whisman offer a live perrformance of their hit podcast about murders in small towns, one per week (10/13) • HELLBENT — Lemz offers a special Halloween-themed edition of his popular LGBTQ dance party (10/26) AFI SILVER THEATRE

8633 Colesville Road Silver Spring 301-495-6720 www.afi.com/Silver AFI LATIN AMERICAN FILM FESTIVAL —

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longest-running showcases of Latin American cinema, now in its 30th year and including films from Spain and Portugal to celebrate Ibero-American cultural connections during National Hispanic Heritage Month. The lineup includes the gripping Guatemalan drama José, winner of the Queer Lion at the 2018 Venice Film Festival (Now-10/2) • NOIR CITY DC — The Film Noir Foundation presents film noir classics, including five canonical works celebrating their 75th anniversaries this year, paired with rarities or lower-budget features, with select screenings introduced by film historian Foster Hirsch and TCM host and foundation founder Eddie Muller (10/11-24) • 14TH ANNUAL SPOOKY MOVIE INTERNATIONAL HORROR FILM FESTIVAL — One of the

largest annual events for horror fans in the region, the best in horror from around the world, including Depraved, a modern take on Frankenstein, Japanese zombie movie sensation One Cut of the Dead,

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screenings of the new It: Chapter Two, the Alamo presents a series focused on other King cinematic adaptations, including Creepshow, the 1982 “living horror comic book” from director George Romero (9/17) and Maximum Overdrive (9/26, Loudoun; 9/30, Woodbridge) • FILM CLUB: PUTNEY SWOPE — This 1969 comedy from Robert Downey, Sr. is a satire of Hollywood’s portrayal of race and the corporate world’s corrupt powers that be (9/18, Loudoun) • AFTERNOON TEA: DOWNTON ABBEY — In addition to regular screenings of the new film, both Alamo locations offer an extra screening over tea and treats, both of which have already sold out (9/22) • MOVIE PARTY: SHAUN OF THE DEAD (9/24) • ANIME-ZING: MILLENNIUM ACTRESS — Satoshi Kon’s 2002 drama is “a perfect illustration of the power of anime” (9/25, Woodbridge; 9/30, Loudoun) • MOVIE PARTY: PULP FICTION — A 25th anniversary screening for fans, with the Alamo furnishing fake “Red Apple cigarettes,” cap guns, and “a pretty fucking good $5 milkshake” (9/23, Loudoun; 9/26, Woodbridge) • FILM CLUB: QUADROPHENIA — The epic teenage riot, inspired by The Who’s concept album, is screened for a 40th anniversary party where audience interaction is encouraged (9/25, Loudoun) MOVIE PARTY: SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN (9/28) • CHAMPAGNE CINEMA, MOVIE PARTY: STEEL MAGNOLIAS (9/29) • MOVIE PARTIES: THE LOST BOYS (10/1) • ROGER WATERS: US + THEM — A live recording

from the acclaimed world tour featuring a state-of-the-art audiovisual production and breathtaking quad sound as you’d expect from the Pink Floyd co-founder and mastermind (10/2) • LIVE Q&A: THE ULTIMATE WILLY WONKA PARTY — Paris Themmen and Julie Dawn Cole, the actors who played Mike TeeVee and Veruca Salt, will be on hand for the Gene Wilder-starring classic plus a pre-screening “scrumdiddlyumptious karaoke contest”; guests are encouraged to dress up

Fall Arts Preview as “their favorite character, set-piece, or prop from the film” (10/3, Woodbridge; 10/4, Loudoun)

LUCY KALANTARI & THE JAZZ CATS — Kids

THE ALDEN

Mosaic District Fairfax, Va. 571-512-3301 www.angelikafilmcenter.com

McLean Community Center 1234 Ingleside Ave. McLean, Va. 703-790-0123 www.aldentheatre.org MIDDAY MOVIES: FOREIGN-LANGUAGE FILMS — Selected by staff and shown in

the original language with English subtitles on select Wednesdays, once per month (9/25, 10/23, 11/27) • THE POP UPS: THE GREAT PRETENDERS CLUB — A scavenger hunt transporting the whole family to a whimsical, educational world full of dancing robots, a fire-stomping rhino, live drawing, huge balloons, full-scale puppets, and a costume party (10/19) • BRUSH UP YOUR SHAKESPEARE — Preparing audiences for upcoming American Shakespeare Center (ASC) on Tour productions (10/22) • ASC ON TOUR — SHAKESPEARE’S IMOGEN (CYMBELINE) (10/26), A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM (10/26), STEINBECK’S THE GRAPES OF WRATH (10/27) • MARIO THE MAKER MAGICIAN — A New York-based touring

children’s performer “as seen on Sesame Street” (11/2) • LARD DOG & THE BAND OF SHY (11/16) • THE BARTER PLAYERS ENCORE COMPANY: FROSTY — “Can Frosty the Snowman help Billy find his real family in time for Christmas?” (12/14) • THE CAPITOL STEPS — Veteran troupe of political satirists (1/4) AMP BY STRATHMORE

11810 Grand Park Ave. North Bethesda, Md. 301-581-5100 www.ampbystrathmore.com ARTS & THE BRAIN SERIES — “Art,

Aging & the Creative Brain” with Sarah Lenz Lock, JD (10/2); “Using Rhythm to Strengthen Your Brain & Build Connection” with Jessica Phillips-Silver, PhD (10/16); “Alive Inside: A Story of Music & Memory”: Film Screening & Panel Discussion (11/5); “The Future of Hospital Sound with Yoko K. Sen (11/19) • BSO MUSIC BOX — “Classical for kids” (10/12, 11/23) • GUSTAFER YELLOWGOLD — a Kids Pajama Jam Party and a multimedia show filled with music, animation, and storytelling and performed by Morgan Taylor (10/20) • EMMY BLOTNICK — A former staff writer on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, touring in support of her debut album, Party Nights (11/22) •

Pajama Jam Party (12/1) ANGELIKA FILM CENTER

UTA NO PRINCE-SAMA-MAJI LOVE KINGDOM MOVIE — A filmed concert featuring Japanese pop idols (9/14) • SCIFEST: TOTAL RECALL — Paul Verhoeven’s

dystopian action caper starring Arnold Schwarzenegger screens as part of monthly sci-fi series (9/16) • TOKYO GHOUL S (9/16) • GREAT ART ON SCREEN: TINTORETTO: A REBEL IN VENICE — Helena Bonham Carter narrates a documentary about the Italian Renaissance artist born 500 years ago (9/17-18) • NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE: ONE MAN, TWO GUVNORS (9/26, 10/2) • SNOOPY COME HOME —

Screenings of a nearly 50-year-old film, the second animated feature based on the beloved Peanuts comic strip (9/29, 10/5) • ROGER WATERS: US + THEM (10/2, 10/7) • HITCHCOCKTOBER — Dial M For Murder 3D (10/2, Pop-Up @ Union Market, 550 Penn St. NE; 10/3, Mosaic), North By Northwest (10/9, Pop-Up, 10/10, Mosaic), The Birds (10/16, PopUp, 10/17, Mosaic), The Lady Vanishes (10/23, Pop-Up, 10/24, Mosaic), and Psycho (10/30, Pop-Up, 10/31, Mosaic) • FAMILY FLASHBACK: HOOK — Steven Spielberg’s famous grown-up twist on the Peter Pan fable starring Dustin Hoffman, Robin Williams, Julia Roberts, and Maggie Smith (10/5) • METALLICA & SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY: S&M² (10/9, 10/14) • GREAT ART ON SCREEN: GAUGUIN IN TAHITI: PARADISE LOST — A look at the bold, colorful life of the legendary French painter and the bold, colorful art that resulted from his sojourn to an exoticized South Pacific (10/15-16) •

for hope towards the future, and how we must act now if we hope to leave the world a better place for the next generation” (9/22-23) • RACHEL BLOOM — What Am I Going to Do with My Life Now? Tour from the star of the quirky and hilarious hit TV musical comedy series Crazy Ex Girlfriend, performing songs from the show plus original standup material (10/10) • RUPAUL’S DRAG RACE: WERQ THE WORLD TOUR 2019 — A Voss Events production featuring queens from the hit TV show (10/27) THE ATHENAEUM

201 Prince St. Alexandria, Va. 703-548-0035 www.nvfaa.org

CATHY BARROW: WHEN PIES FLY —

Washington Post’s “Bring It” food columnist talks about her latest cookbook focused on pastry dough — from galettes to knishes, kolaches to poppers — in conversation with Kitchen Details blogger Nancy Pollard (9/17) • BANNED BOOKS READ-OUT — Alexandria Mayor Justin Wilson and Library Director Rose Dawson will lead an evening of readings from banned or challenged books at an event co-presented by the Alexandria Library (9/25) ATLAS PERFORMING ARTS CENTER

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

BLACK WOMEN, ARTS, AND ACTIVISM FESTIVAL — The Atlas hosts a day-long

of Star Trek and other hit sci-fi shows starring Tim Allen, Sigourney Weaver, and Alan Rickman (10/21) • BOLSHOI BALLET: RAYMONDA (10/27, 11/5)

event featuring an art exhibition, vendors, a spirited panel discussion about black power from the perspectives of several female artists, and culminating in Akua Allrich’s 11th annual tribute to Nina Simone and Miriam Makeba (10/6) • SILENT FILM: THE LODGER: A STORY OF THE LONDON FOG — A few days after Halloween comes a screening with live, original music from Andrew Earle Simpson of one of Alfred Hitchcock’s earliest films, a 1927 thriller inspired by real-life Jack the Ripper crimes (11/3, Sprenger Theatre)

THE ANTHEM

THE BENTZEN BALL COMEDY FESTIVAL

NATIONAL THEATER LIVE: A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM (10/17, 10/23) • SCI-FEST: GALAXY QUEST — The 20-year-old parody

901 Wharf St. SW. 202-265-0930 www.theanthemdc.com DR. JANE GOODALL: REASONS FOR HOPE

— The acclaimed primate research pioneer and UN Messenger of Peace drops by for talks highlighting “5 main reasons

Lincoln Theatre 1215 U St. NW 202-888-0050 www.brightestyoungthings.com

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Brightest Young Things with support by Events DC, and with José Andrés’ World Central Kitchen as this year’s nonprofit partner. Although more guests and more shows — including all of those on the final day, Sunday, Oct. 27 — are still “to be announced,” the main lineup is: MARIA BAMFORD W/JACKIE KASHIAN (10/24) •

LOS ESPOOKYS LIVE: JULIO TORRES & ANA FABREGA W/LORELEI RAMIREZ AND GRETA TITELMAN — “A Bentzen Ball Pre-

Halloween Show” where costumes are encouraged (10/24) • PETE HOLMES W/ JAMIE LEE (10/25) • THE NEW NEGROES — A Late Show at Lincoln featuring Baron Vaughan, Open Mike Eagle, Jaboukie Young-White, Dulce Sloan, Haywood Turnipseed Jr., and Violet Gray (10/25) • ROXANE GAY — “A Smart, Funny and Real Afternoon” (10/26) • TIG NOTARO: BUT ENOUGH ABOUT YOU (10/26) THE BIRCHMERE

3701 Mount Vernon Ave. Alexandria , Va. 703-549-7500 www.birchmere.com WMAL FREE SPEECH FORUM — Mark

Levin, Chris Plante, Larry O’Connor, Mary Walter, and Vince Coglianese & Mary Walter, co-hosts of Mornings on the Mall, return for a forum, already sold out (9/28) • RAVEN’S NIGHT 2019 — The annual all hallow’s “esoteric evening of belly dance & entertainment” (11/2) • PAULA POUNDSTONE — Comic returns for her annual end-of-year run of shows (11/15-17) • A JOHN WATERS CHRISTMAS: FILTHIER & MERRIER 2019 TOUR — The annual holiday show from Baltimore’s Pope of Trash, who says, “I’ll Stuff Your Turkey” (12/18) BLACKROCK CENTER FOR THE ARTS

12901 Town Commons Dr. Germantown, Md. 301-528-2260 www.blackrockcenter.org

FLOW-VERSE OPEN MIC — “Whatcha Got

to Say?” (9/26 and the last Thursday of every month) • GERMANTOWN OKTOBERFEST PARADE & BLACKROCK OPEN HAUS (10/5) • BLACKROCK IMPROV COMEDY PROGRAM: OPEN WORKSHOP (10/5) • TULA’S HALLOWEEN CABARET & DISCO — “Come for the drag show,

stay for the dance” at this spook-tacular drag evening (11/2) • MAGNIFYING THE WORD: SPOKEN WORD WORKSHOP (11/8) • IVY LEAGUE OF COMEDY: FABULOUSLY FUNNY FEMALES — Featuring Linda Belt, Adrienne Iapalucci, and Ellen Karis (11/9) • A NASHVILLE CHRISTMAS FEA80

TURING THE COUNTRY JAMBOREE (12/7) • LÚNASA CHRISTMAS SHOW — Irish

Christmas (12/8)

CAPITAL HOME SHOW

Dulles Expo Center Chantilly, Va. www.capitalhomeshow.com Brett Tutor, the hunky new carpenter on TLC’s Trading Spaces headlines this year’s event, featuring more than 250 exhibitors, with additional discussions and seminars, home remodeling projects, and hands-on workshops. Falls Church decor shop Stylish Patina sponsors a free, hands-on Make-It, Take-It DIY Station (9/20-22) CITY WINERY DC

1350 Okie St. NE 202-250-2531 www.citywinery.com/washingtondc WINE PAIRING X ALBUM LISTENING: MALBEC WITH MIKE — Vine of the Rhyme

and LLeft Entertainment present a Hip-Hop/R&B happy hour event and album listening party featuring Michael Jackson’s Off The Wall, with commentary on the 40-year-old album’s impact by music veterans Tracey Lee and Ojizz (9/18) • STRAIGHT UP WITH STASSI — “Everyone’s favorite authority on basic” and star of Bravo’s Vanderpump Rules (9/20) • THE GREAT LOVE DEBATE (9/27) • BLIND TASTING WORKSHOP — Resident sommelier will lead tastings and analysis of four wines to help participants successfully asses what’s in a glass “just like the pros” (9/29) • CRUSH YOUR CRAFT W/THE AMOURS & KYLE ON THE MIC — A D.C.-based singing sister duo is the focus of the September edition of Briclyn Entertainment’s monthly workshop where creative individuals in film, music, and marketing speak on their craft (9/29) • HOUSE OF DEVERAUX BURLESQUE & VARIETE — Formerly a Burlesque Night Out, a night of jaw-dropping burlesque hosted by “The Golden Glamazon” Sydni Deveraux, plus Bebe Bardot, Venessa Chevelle, Eva Mystique, Soul Erotic, NYC’s Qualms Galore, and Philly’s Gold Fox (10/4) DC COMEDY LOFT

Bier Baron Tavern 1523 22nd St. NW. 202-293-1887 www.dccomedyloft.com TREVOR WALLACE — As seen on MTV and Funny or Die (9/12-14, The Cellar) • JAY JURDEN — One of TimeOut NY’s Comics

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to Watch” in 2019 (9/13-14) • PROFS AND PINTS: THE WORST PRESIDENT EVER? — “No tuition or tests. Just lectures you’ll love.” (9/18) • COMEDY LOFT’S BEST NEW COMICS CONTEST: WHO’S UP NEXT? — D.C.’s best young comics compete for bragging rights as best New Comic of 2019 (9/18, 10/9, 10/30) • FAIZON LOVE — A Special Event with comedian known from Friday, Bebe’s Kids, and The Parent ‘Hood (9/20-21) • MANDEE MCKELVEY — On The Verge Spotlight and one of Thrillist’s “50 best undiscovered comedians” (9/20-21) • COMEDY SCHOOL WITH ROBERT MAC — “ABCs of Comedy: The Art, Business, and Craft of Stand-Up” (9/22) • COMEDY SHUFFLE BY CAPITAL LAUGHS — “Open Mic with a twist,” with an “interrupter [for] when you just aren’t funny!” (9/16 and every Monday, The Cellar) • STAND UP SCIENCE — Comedian Shane Mauss and the Here We Are Podcast presents (9/25) • GRASSROOTS COMEDY DC — A Charity Show with comedians raising funds for the fight against Trump (9/26) • JORDAN TEMPLE (9/26) • MOLLY AUSTIN — On The Verge Spotlight (9/27-28) • THE DC GURLY SHOW — D.C.’s oldest queer burlesque troupe generally performs the first Thursday of the month (10/3) • MATTHEW BROUSSARD (10/4) • MARTIN AMINI (10/5) • KASAUN WILSON (10/6) • MARY MACK (10/7) COMEDY LOFT’S “WHO’S UP NEXT?” (10/9) • THE SKLAR BROTHERS — As seen on ESPN Classic’s Cheap Seats and the View from the Cheap Seats podcast (10/10) • LET HER SMOKE COMEDY TOUR — Franqi French, Meme Simpson, Calise Hawkins, Davina Joy, and Ashima Franklin (10/1112) • SHAWN WAYANS — A Special Event with this Wayans brother making his Loft debut (10/11-12) • NEKO WHITE — Host of Vice News’ How To Be A Person (10/13) • AIDA RODRIGUEZ (10/17-19) • JAMIE LOFTUS — On The Verge Spotlight (10/18-19, The Cellar) • DID YOU MISS ME? Live Taping (10/24) • BILLY SORRELLS (10/25-26) • CHANEL ALI (10/25-26, The Cellar) • JESSIMAE PELUSO (11/1-2) • CHRIS COPE (11/1-2, The Cellar) • KILL TONY PODCAST — From the Deathsquad Podcast Network, billed as “the #1 Live Weekly Podcast in the World,” in which Tony Hinchcliffe assesses the material of willing comedians, new and veteran (11/7) • TONY HINCHCLIFFE — Performances of stand-up after the podcast taping (11/8-9) • HUNTER HILL — Elder Millennial Tour (11/8) • COMEDY SCHOOL GRADUATION (11/9) • JAKE “THE SNAKE” ROBERTS — Dirty Details Tour

Fall Arts Preview: Above & Beyond with roadstories and pranks that happened at the height of Roberts’ career in the WWE (11/11) • NATALIE FRIEDMAN (11/14) • J.F. HARRIS (11/14) • D.C. BENNY W/J.F. HARRIS (11/15-16) • DAN PERLMAN (11/15-16, The Cellar) • JORDAN KLEINE — On The Verge Spotlight and one of Thrillist’s “50 best undiscovered comedians” (11/15-16, The Cellar) • TODD REXX — As seen on HBO’s Def Comedy Jam All-Stars (11/22-23) • PAUL MECURIO (11/22-23) • CARL ANTHONY PAYNE II (11/29-30) • GIANMARCO SORESI (11/2930) • SHULER KING (12/5-7) • DC GURLY SHOW (12/5) • SEANN WALSH (12/6-7, The Cellar) • BROOKS WHEELAN W/KIM CONGDON — As seen on Saturday Night Live, Comedy Central’s @Midnight, and Adam Devine’s House Party (12/13-14) • ZOLTAN KASZAS W/DJ SANDHU (12/19-21) • DJ SANDHU — A veteran of the World Series of Comedy and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival (12/22) • ERICA RHODES (12/27-28) • JACKIE FABULOUS (1/3-4) DC IMPROV

1140 Connecticut Ave. NW 202-296-7008 www.dcimprov.com DMV FRESH: STAND-UP SHOWCASE —

Featuring Josh Kuderna, Yedoye Travis, Kevin Seefried, Von Mychael, and Tim Miller (9/13-14) • MARGARET CHO — A sold-out special run from the pioneering queer comedian (9/13-14) • CHRIS COCCIA (9/15, 10/20) • DL HUGHLEY (9/19-22) • DMV FRESH: STAND-UP SHOWCASE — Featuring Winston Hodges, Isabel Hagen, Bridget Geiran, Lafayette Wright, Cerrome Russell (9/20) • BEGINNING IMPROV WITH CHRIS ULRICH (9/21, 10/19, 11/4) • COMEDYSPORTZ IMPROV (9/21, 10/12) • LATE NIGHT IMPROV (9/21, 10/12) • CHARLIE BERENS — Milwaukee’s best, known for his online hit “Manitowoc Minute” videos, makes his DC Improv headlining debut (9/25) • SOMM LIKE IT HOT W/COURTNEY FEARRINGTON — A wine tasting event with live music from Deacon Izzy & the Congregation and great comedy from Chris Alan, Shalewa Sharpe, and Erin Foley (9/26) • COUPLES THERAPY: A COMEDY SHOW — Rahmein Mostafavi leads a discussion with comics, including Rob Maher and Paris Sashay, and willing audience members laughing about relationships and singledom (9/26) • ERIN FOLEY — Actress and writer as well as creator of the “Sports Without Balls” podcast (9/27-28) • SOMMORE — The Queens of Comedy star and first female host of BET’s Comic View (9/27-29) •

THE MIDNIGHT GARDENERS LEAGUE — “a

smorgasbord of stand-up, sketch, improv, and other weird fun” from a troupe of D.C. comedians (9/29) • GUS JOHNSON (10/1) • THE OVERACHIEVERS — One of the top comedy shows in the country, hosted by local favorite Martin Amini with music

by DJ Bo, plus guests Reggie Conquest, Derek Gaines, and Gavin Matts (10/3) • AHAMED WEINBERG — “The son of a Jewish father and a Catholic mother who converted to Islam — and raised him to be Muslim” (10/4-5) • MICHAEL RAPAPORT W/PARIS SASHAY — Actor/director/“I Am Rapaport” podcaster makes his DC Improv debut (10/4-6) • CHINGO BLING (10/9) • DAVE ATTELL — Annual visit from the stand-up veteran (10/10-13) • TONY ROCK — Chris’ brother (10/17-20) • DANIEL WEINGARTEN (10/18-19) • ROD MAN (10/24-27) • MEDIUM CINDY KAZA (10/31) • HALLOWEEN WHODUNIT — Die Laughing Productions returns with its spooky annual adventure, this time set during the production of Friday the 13th After Next; “Lights, camera, murder!”

(10/31) • NICOLE BYER — The hilarious, irrepressible host of Netflix’s left-field hit Nailed It! (11/1-3) • BILL BELLAMY (11/7-10) • NATHAN MACINTOSH (11/8-9) • JOHN HEFFRON — Winner of the second season of NBC’s Last Comic Standing (11/14-17) • PUN DMV — A fun pun competition (11/20) • NIKKI GLASER (11/2223) • JAK KNIGHT (11/22-23) • DONNELL RAWLINGS (11/29-12/1) • ARIES SPEARS — As seen on Shaq’s All-Star Comedy Jam and madTV (12/5-8) • RAFINHA BASTOS — One of the biggest comedians to come out of Brazil, standing tall at 6’7” (12/6-7) • HYPNOTIST FLIP ORLEY (12/1215) • MERRY MURDER MYSTERY (12/19) • SHERYL UNDERWOOD (12/20-22) • ADAM RAY (12/27-31) • JESSICA KIRSON (12/2829) • FESTIVAL OF LAUGHS — “The last night of Hanukkah is gonna be lit!” with Jessica Kirson plus special guests Adam Ray and Josh Adam Meyers (12/30) DC WEIRDO SHOW

Dew Drop Inn 2801 8th St. NE 202-791-0909 www.dcweirdoshow.com WEIRDOS FOR LIFE — In recognition of

September as Suicide Prevention Month, the monthly “freaks, geeks and exposed buttcheeks” variety show presents a fundraiser for Trans LifeLine co-produced with drag king Phoenix King offering performances in drag, burlesque, fire manipulation, dance, comedy, and

live music (9/20) • NETFLIX & KILL — A Halloween-themed variety show co-produced by Drag King extraordinaire Pretty Rik E (10/18) • SWEET JESUS — “Annual blasphemous/atheism/anti-religious show” (11/15) DOWNTOWN HOLIDAY MARKET

700-900 F St. NW www.downtownholidaymarket.com Now in its 15th 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 (11/22-12/23) DRAFTHOUSE COMEDY

1100 13th St. NW 202-750-6411 www.drafthousecomedy.com CHRIS ESTRADA — How to Be Broke (9/13) • ATTACK OF THE COMICS COMEDY SHOW — Billed as “D.C.’s longest-run-

ning stand-up open mic” show (9/13, and every Friday night) • THREE GUYS ON:

SATURDAY NIGHT COMEDY SHOWCASE (9/14 and every Saturday) • CHOCOLATE CITY COMEDY SHOW FEAT. GORDON BAKER BONE — Comedy-ish Productions (9/15) • ZACK FOX LIVE — Atlanta-raised

comedy firebrand offers a mix of visual art, comedy, and hip-hop (9/16) •

ADVICE FROM A F*CK BOY FEAT. CLINT COLEY — The rare relationship-geared

podcast offering “advice from the man’s perspective for men” (9/18) • THE WHOLE CREW IS STUPID COMEDY TOUR (9/19) • KELLEN ERSKINE — From Amazon’s Inside Jokes as well as season seven of America’s Got Talent (9/20-21) • TORREI HART — It’s Time To Tell My Side Tour (9/22) • JOKES THAT GIVE BACK — Benefiting the Wounded Warrior Project (9/25) • SPEECHLESS: THE ULTIMATE IMPROVISATIONAL GAUNTLET (9/26) • ALEX EDELMAN (9/27-28) • BIRTHDAY ROAST OF DOC BOB SOOD M.D. (9/29) • 9TH ANNUAL COMEDY SUPREME — An all-female night of standup developed and hosted by Adaylah Banks, with a headline performance by Paris Sashay plus Ty Davis and Algiers Diamond (10/13) • MARCELLA ARGUELLO — From Women Crush Wednesdays and HBO’s 2 Dope Queens (10/18-19) • SAM MORRIL (11/8-9) • JOE LIST — From NBC’s Last Comic Standing (11/22-23)

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FOLGER SHAKESPEARE LIBRARY

201 East Capitol St. SE 202-544-7077 www.folger.edu

JUDITH CARNEY: IN THE SHADOW OF SLAVERY: AFRICA’S FOOD LEGACY IN THE ATLANTIC WORLD — Scholar and author explores

how enslaved Africans facilitated their survival and remade biomes by carrying the ingredients, traditions, and foodways of Africa to the Americas and Caribbean (9/18) • FREE FOLGER FRIDAY: CHIMES AT MIDNIGHT — Dr. Michael Anderegg offers a free lecture that takes a closer look at Orson Welles’ classic 1965 film, which utilizes text from five Shakespeare plays, primarily Henry IV, Part 1 and Henry IV, Part 2 (9/20) THE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY

GW LISNER 730 21st St. NW 202-994-6800 https://lisner.gwu.edu

JOSH CAMPBELL WITH JAMES COMEY (9/16, Dorothy Betts Theatre) • RICK RIORDAN — The Tyrant’s Tomb author (9/23) • PATTI SMITH — A profound, beautifully realized memoir in

which dreams and reality are vividly woven into a tapestry of one transformative year in Year of the Monkey (9/24) • DAVID CAMERON — Former Prime Minister of the U.K. discusses his new memoir For The Record (10/1, TBA) • ERIC HOLDER WITH ARI BERMAN — Mother Jones presents the conversation “Protecting Our Vote” with the former U.S. Attorney General and the liberal magazine’s Berman, author of Give Us The Ballot (10/23) THE HEURICH HOUSE MUSEUM

1921 Sunderland Place NW 202-429-1894 http://heurichhouse.org

1921 IN THE CASTLE GARDEN — A weekly bar event spotlight-

ing D.C.’s brewing culture and history in the Dupont Circle museum’s botanical backyard (Thursdays 5 to 8pm) • HEURICH OKTOBERFEST: SENATE BEER STYLE — The Heurich House revives the tradition of a biergarten festival in the Castle Garden featuring pours of its relaunched Senate Beer as well as brews from Red Bear Brewing Co., ANXO Cidery, and Sankofa Beer Company, among others (9/21) KENNEDY CENTER

202-467-4600 www.kennedy-center.org FILM: A TOWERING TASK: THE STORY OF THE PEACE CORPS —

World premiere of documentary co-presented by the National Peace Corps Association (9/22) • BISWA KALYAN RATH (9/28) • THE IMPROVISED SHAKESPEARE COMPANY — Critically acclaimed Chicago-based ensemble creates a fully improvised masterpiece right before theatergoers’ eyes (10/1-6) • BEN FOLDS BOOK TALK — A conversation with Center President Deborah Ritter about the memoir A Dream about Lightning Bugs: A Life of Music and Cheap Lessons followed by a performance (10/1) • NEMR — Lebanese-American stand-up comic credited with pioneering the stand-up scene throughout the Middle East (10/5) • MARC MARON (10/11) • DAVID SEDARIS (10/15) • THE 22ND ANNUAL MARK TWAIN PRIZE FOR AMERICAN HUMOR: DAVE CHAPPELLE (10/27) • NICK OFFERMAN — All Rise is “an evening of deliberative talking and light dance that 82

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Fall Arts Preview: Above & Beyond will compel you to chuckle” (11/1) • NO SUCH THING AS A FISH — British podcasters “for anyone with a thirst for knowledge, a taste for puns, and a need for some belly laughs” (11/10) • JANEANE GAROFALO (11/15) • THE SECOND CITY’S LOVE, FACTUALLY — “Back by popular demand,” a holiday satire from twisted minds getting to the truth of December life, love, and romance, and of course parodying more than just a popular holiday movie’s title (12/3-29)

learned to fight back (11/4) • DANA R. FISHER — American Resistance: From the Women’s March to the Blue Wave (11/7) • DAVID PRIESS — How to Get Rid of a President: History’s Guide to Removing Unpopular, Unable, or Unfit Chief Executives (11/13) • CHARLTON MCILWAIN — Black Software (11/14) • DAVID L. ROLL — George Marshall: Defender of the Republic (11/19) • SERGIO TRONSCOSO — A Peculiar Kind of Immigrant’s Son, in conversation with Lisa Page (11/20)

KRAMERBOOKS

LOYALTY BOOKS

1517 Connecticut Ave. NW. 202-387-1400 www.kramers.com SUPER SPECTACULAR COMEDY SHOW FOR RACIAL EQUITY IN EDUCATION — A benefit

for D.C.’s Black Swan Academy co-produced by Profiled, a NYC-based comedy show featuring comedians of color (9/13) • LEE BYCEL — Refugees in America (9/16) • PETER POMERANTSEV — This Is Not Propaganda (9/19) • CHACHO LIQUOR TASTING — Try a new, fiery spirit distilled from pure South American cane sugar and infused with spicy jalapeno (9/23) • ANNALEE NEWITZ — Founding editor of io9 offers The Future of Another Timeline, a story of time travel, murder, and the lengths we’ll go to protect loved ones (9/25) • JOHN WOODRUFF — The War at Home: Skirmish for the Upper West Side (9/26) • HAPPY HOUR/ BOOK SIGNING: ELIZABETH CLINE — The Conscious Closet (9/28, Tribute, 2412 18th St. NW Ste. R) • IAN DOESCHER & JACOPO DELLA — Quercia for MacTrump (10/1) • MARLIN FITZWATER — Calm Before the Storm (10/3) • CATHY BARROW — Food writer expands our perception of pastries with When Pies Fly (10/7) • ANNE GARDINER PERKINS — Yale Needs Women: How the First Group of Girls Rewrote the Rulues of an Ivy League Giant, in conversation with Carolyn Grillo (10/10) • ALNOOR EBRAHIM — Measuring Social Change from a Tufts University management professor, in conversation with Scott Schenkelberg, the CEO of Miriam’s Kitchen (10/17) • KIM WEHLE — How to Read the Constitution and Why (10/21) • ERICA WRIGHT — Famous in Cedarville, in conversation with Matthew Pennock (10/22) • NOURA ERAKAT — Justice for Some, in conversation with Yousef Munayyer, executive director of the U.S. Campaign for Palestinian Rights (10/28) • JOHN CARLIN — Dawn of the Code War, about how America’s enemeies launched a cyber war against us — and how we’ve

of ABC’s The Great Holiday Baking Show, as well as many of D.C’s best and newest chefs, including AMY BRANDWEIN, VICTOR ALBISU, ERIK BRUNER-YANG, HAIDAR KAROUM, DANIELA MOREIRA, KWAME ONWUACHI, KEVIN TIEN, and ENRIQUE LIMARDO. In addition to the James Beard Foundation Cooking Stage, the event features 200 specialty food vendors and includes a two-day Beer, Wine & Spirits section, a BBQ Bash on Saturday, and the 7th annual Grand Tasting Pavilion on Sunday (11/16-17) NATIONAL ZOO

827 Upshur St. NW 202-726-0380 www.loyaltybookstores.com AKILAH HUGHES — Obviously: Stories

From My Timeline and the literary debut of Kentucky-born, New Yorkbased comedian and activist (9/24) • MALKA OLDER — State Tectonics (9/25) • MOONLIT DC WORKSHOP: TELLING IT SLANT: QUEER(ING) FORM — Malik K. Thompson leads participants in an examination of works by both queer/trans and cisgender/heterosexual poets who take unconventional approaches (9/30) • AN EVENING OF MYSTERY (AUTHORS) WITH JOHN COPENHAVER, ED AYMAR & ANGIE KIM (10/3) • ERICKA REYNOLDS —

Enslaved: The Lady and Her Pentagon Series Book One (10/5) • SHELLY ORIA — Indelible in the Hippocampus: Writings from the Me Too Movement, a truly intersectional edited collection of essays, fiction, and poetry including the perspective of black, Latinx, Asian, queer, and trans writers, in conversation with contributors Amber Sparks, Stacia Brown, Sigal Samuel, Ailish Hopper, and Yael Shinar (10/18) • BOOKS + BRUNCH WITH JAMI ATTENBERG — All This Could Be Yours author in a discussion over brunch with food and drink from Petworth Citizen (10/20, The Reading Room) • DANIEL BROOK — The Accident of Color: A Story of Race in Reconstruction (10/22) METROCOOKING DC

3001 Connecticut Ave. NW. 202-633-4800 www.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 (9/21) • CONSERVATION DISCOVERY DAY — The only time each year the zoo’s unique breeding and research facility is open to the public (10/5, Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute in Front Royal) • BOO AT THE ZOO — More than 40 treat stations, animal demonstrations, keeper chats, and decorated trails (10/18-20) • ANIMAL DISCOVERY DAYS — Special demonstrations, activities, and opportunities to learn about wildlife conservation and focused on a particular animal, with upcoming days: SLOTH DAY (10/20, Small Mammal House); ORANGUTAN CARING DAY (11/14, Primates); and INTERNATIONAL CHEETAH DAY (12/4, Cheetah Conservation Station) • NIGHT OF THE LIVING ZOO — Friends of the National Zoo’s annual adults-only Halloween party (10/25) • ZOOLIGHTS (11/29-1/1) • GRUMP HOLIDAY MARKET @ ZOOLIGHTS — The alternative art and crafts holiday show (12/6-8) • BREWLIGHTS — FONZ’s hoppiest holiday event, a ticketed microbrew and craft beer brouhaha (12/12)

Washington Convention Center 801 Mt. Vernon Pl. 202-249-3000 www.MetroCookingDC.com

POLITICS AND PROSE

MARTHA STEWART AND WOLFGANG PUNK are headliners at the James Beard

MARTY MAKARY — The Price We Pay:

5015 Connecticut Ave. NW 202-364-1919 www.politics-prose.com

Foundation Cooking Stage at the 14th annual regional culinary showcase that will also feature LIDIA BASTIANICH,

MYRON MIXON, JUSTIN SEVERINO, FERNANDO DESA of Goya Foods, and LAUREN KATZ, a D.C. native and winner

What Broke American Health Care-And How to Fix It (9/14) • GARY MARCUS — Rebooting AI: Building Artificial Intelligence We Can Trust (9/14, Union Market, 1270 5th St. NE) • AMITAI ETZIONI — Reclaiming Patriotism (9/15) • KATE BLACK — Represent: The Woman’s Guide

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to Running for Office and Changing the World, in conversations with Emily Cain and Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal (9/18, Wharf, 70 District Square SW) • NAOMI KLEIN — On Fire: The (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal (9/18, Sidwell Friends, 3825 Wisconsin Ave. NW) • NICHOLAS LEMANN — Transaction Man: The Rise of the Deal and the Decline of the American Dream (9/19, Wharf) • MARGARET ATWOOD — The Testaments, the sequel to The Handmaid's Tale, discussed in a sold-out conversation with New York magazine’s Rebecca Traister (9/21, Lincoln Theatre) • GINA RIPPON — Gender and Our Brains: How New Neuroscience Explodes the Myths of the Male and Female Minds (9/22) • PAMELA PAUL AND MARIA RUSSO — How to Raise a Reader (9/24) • BENJAMIN MOSER — Sontag: Her Life and Work, in conversation with Elizabeth Bruenig (9/26) • TA-NEHISI COATES — The Water Dancer (9/26-27, Lincoln Theatre) • FATIMA BHUTTO — New Kings of the World: Dispatches from Bollywood, Dizi, and K-Pop (9/29) • LAUREN DUCA — How to Start a Revolution: Young People and the Future of American Politics (10/1, Union Market) • PAUL HENRICKSON — Plagued by Fire: The Dreams and Furies of Frank Lloyd Wright (10/1) • BRIAN ALLEN CARR — Opioid, Indiana (10/2, Union Market) • MARITA GOLDEN — Us Against Alzheimer’s: Stories of Family, Love, and Faith, in conversation with Sonsyrea Tate, Heather Davis, Cathy Alter, and Joe Oppenheimer (10/4) • ROBERT J. SHILLER — Narrative Economics: How Stories Go Viral and Drive Major Economic Events (10/5) • SARAH MILOV — The Cigarette: A Political History (10/5, Union Market) • DANIEL LEADER — Living Bread: Tradition and Innovation in Artisan Bread Making, in conversation with Mark Furstenberg (11/6) • TOM LOBIANCO — Piety and Power: Mike Pence and the Taking of the White House (10/9) • KEITH MESTRICH AND MARK A. PINSKY — Organized Money: Progressives Can Leverage the Financial System to Work for Them, Not Against Them (10/12) • ANDREW MARANTZ — Antisocial: Online Extremists, TechnoUtopians, and the Hijacking of the American Conversation (10/13) • AMANDA VAILL — Jerome Robbins, by Himself: Selections from His Letters, Journals, Drawings, Photographs, and an Unfinished Memoir (10/14, Wharf) • KK OTTESEN — Activist: Portraits of Courage (10/14) • ADRIENNE BRODEUR — Wild Game: My Mother, Her Lover, and Me (10/16) • PAUL 84

FREEDMAN — American Cuisine: And How It Got This Way (10/19) • TED GIOIA —

Music: A Subversive History (10/22) • WHOOPI GOLDBERG — The Unqualified Hostess: I Do It My Way So You Can Too! (10/25) • SUSAN GOLDBERG — Women: The National Geographic Image Collection (10/26) • MEGAN PHELPSROPER — Unfollow: A Memoir of Loving and Leaving the Westboro Baptist Church (10/26) • GAIL COLLINS — No Stopping Us Now: A History of Older Women in America (10/28) • MAULIK PANCHOLY — The Best At It (10/29) • ANNE NELSON — Shadow Network: Media, Money, and the Secret Hub of the Radical Right (10/30) • LIZABETH COHEN — Saving America’s Cities: Ed Logue and the Struggle to Renew Urban America in the Suburban Age, in conversation with E. J. Dionne (11/3) • PAMELA NEWKIRK — Diversity, Inc.: The Failed Promise of a Billion-Dollar Business (11/4) • JEANINE BASINGER — The Movie Musical! (11/13) • JOHN BECKER AND MEGAN SCOTT — Joy of Cooking, 2019 Edition, in conversation with the Washington Post’s Bonnie Benwick (11/15) • MARK MORRIS — Out Loud: A Memoir from the gay, groundbreaking modern dancer/choreographer (11/17) SIXTH & I HISTORIC SYNAGOGUE

600 I St. NW 202-408-3100 www.sixthandi.org

JONATHAN VAN NESS — The Queer Eye

star returns for a sold-out discussion of his new memoir Over the Top: A Raw Journey to Self-Love (9/26) • JODI KANTOR AND MEGAN TWOHEY — In She Said, two Pultizer Prize-winning #MeToo reporters share the untold story of their investigation and its consequences in a conversation with Bob Woodward (10/2) • ANN PATCHETT — The Dutch House pushes against conventional notions of family to explore the intertwined lives of two siblings (10/3) • BARI WEISS — How to Fight AntiSemitism from provocative New York Times columnist, interviewed by Jeffrey Goldberg (10/6) • SALMAN RUSHDIE — Quichotte offers an entertaining portrait of an age in which fact is so often indiscernible from fiction, discussed in conversation with Dolen Perkins-Valdez (10/10) • BILL BRYSON — The Body: A Guide for Occupants offers a head-totoe, comprehensive tour of the human

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body, from the author of A Short History of Nearly Everything (10/15) • ADAM RIPPON — Gay figure skater discusses his new memoir Beautiful on the Outside in conversation with Liz Dolan (10/16) • JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER — We Are The Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast, discussed in conversation with Libby Casey (10/23) • EVE RODSKY — Fair Play, part how-to guide for couples, part modern relationship manifesto, offers a 21st century solution to the age-old problem of women shouldering the brunt of domestic responsibilities (10/28) • HAPPIER HOUR: AN EVENING WITH GRETCHEN AND ELIZABETH — Tips on how to be happier, healthier, and more creative from authors Gretchen Rubin and her sister Elizabeth Craft (11/3) • HARRY POTTER AND THE SACRED TEXT — A podcast that reads the best-selling book series of all time as if it were a sacred text (11/7) SMITHSONIAN THEATERS

202-633-1000 www.si.edu/theaters

SECRETS OF THE UNIVERSE — Scientist

Manuel Calderon de la Barca Sanchez leads an IMAX journey to the largest machine ever built and the greatest scientific instrument ever created, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) (Regular screenings, Lockheed Martin IMAX Theater, National Air and Space Museum) • THE STARS TONIGHT — (Regular screenings, Albert Einstein Planetarium, Air and Space Museum) • APOLLO 11: FIRST STEPS EDITION — A thrilling IMAX experience showcasing the real-life moments of humankind’s first steps on the moon (Regular screenings, Lockheed Martin IMAX Theater) • HITCHCOCK FILM SERIES — North By Northwest and Psycho (9/28, Warner Bros. Theater); Dial M For Murder 3D and The Birds (9/29, Warner Bros. Theater) • HALLOWEEN FILM FESTIVAL — Hocus Pocus (10/19, Warner Bros. Theater) SOLID STATE BOOKS

600 H St. NE 202-897-4201 www.solidstatebooksdc.com TOPE FOLARIN — A Particular Kind of Black Man: A Novel (9/18) • TOM LOBIANCO — Piety & Power: Mike Pence

and the Taking of the White House (9/26) • AARTI SHAHANI — Here We Are: American Dreams, American Nightmares, from the NPR correspondent (10/2) • TIMOTHY DENEVI — Freak Kingdom:

Fall Arts Preview: Above & Beyond Hunter S. Thompson’s Manic Ten-Year Crusade against American Fascism (10/3) • ELIZABETH HERMAN & CELESTE SLOMAN — The Women of the 116th Congress: Portraits of Power (10/16) • LEAH GREENBERG & EZRA LEVIN — We Are Indivisible: A Blueprint for Democracy after Trump (11/4) SONGBYRD MUSIC HOUSE

2477 18th St. NW. 202-7450-2917 www.songbyrddc.com

SONGBYRD MUSIC TRIVIA — Every 1st and 3rd Monday (9/16) • CLASSIC ALBUM SUNDAYS D.C.: DAVID BOWIE — Heroes (9/22) • PUNKHOUSE COMEDY — Fourth Fridays of the Month (9/27) • DIARY OF AN R&B LEGEND: WHITNEY HOUSTON —

The R & B Club both listens to, and discusses at-length, the impact and legacy of Houston’s iconic music (9/28) STORY DISTRICT

202-630-9828 www.storydistrict.org WORST DECISION EVER — The last in a

six-show competitive storytelling series focused on true stories about epic fails, embarrassments, social faux pas, and situations you might rather forget (9/24, DC Improv) • HAUNTED — Stories about memories, beings, or things that stay with you (10/8, Black Cat) • BEST OF THE WORST — A winners showcase of the six-show competitive series including Best Worst Date’s Colleen Connolly, Best Worst Job’s Jenn Kamara, Best Worst Trip’s Mike Baireuther, Best Worst Mistake’s Amber, and Best Worst Fight’s Shawna Renee (10/22, DC Improv) • HORROR SHOW — True stories of real terror and situations gone wrong (11/1, Amp by Strathmore) • ’SCUSE ME WHILE I KISS THIS GUY — Stories about Misunderstandings (11/12, Black Cat) • DICK IN A BOX — Stories about Memorable Gifts (12/10, Black Cat) STRATHMORE

5301 Tuckerman Lane North Bethesda, Md. 301-581-5100 www.strathmore.org SATURDAY FAMILY STORY SESSIONS —

Adventures in Arden with Shakespeare for the Young (9/21, Mansion); Literacy Out Loud with Tahira (10/5, Mansion); Life is Improvised! w/Baltimore Improv

Group (10/19, Mansion); The Miraculous Magical Balloon w/Synetic Theater (10/26, Mansion) • ARTISTS IN FICTION BOOK CLUB — Monthly discussion series, with the focus on: Kazuo Ishiguro’s An Artist of the Floating World (9/25, Mansion); Susan Vreeland’s Luncheon of the Boating Party (10/16, Mansion); and Allegra Goodman’s The Chalk Artist (11/20) • WHOSE LIVE ANYWAY? — An evening of improvised comedy as seen on TV with Ryan Stiles, Greg Proops, Jeff B. Davis, and Joel Murray (10/12, 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 (11/7-10, Mansion) • PLEIADES JEWELRY SHOW & SALE — A selection of unique, high-quality, hand-crafted jewelry and metalwork made by seven local artisans (11/23-24, Mansion) • SINBAD — Comedy veteran named one of Comedy Central’s “100 Greatest Standups of All Time” (12/13, Music Center)

ANDRE — Legalize Everything Tour,

TEAM RAYCEEN

FLYING DOG MOVIES: THE MATRIX (9/25) • CRAIG FERGUSON — Hobo Fabulous Tour (10/9) • 72 FILM FEST — Frederick’s

HRC Equality Center 1640 Rhode Island Ave. NW 202-628-4160 www.AskRayceen.com RAYCEEN’S READING ROOM — A kick-

off event for Banned Books Week with authors, poets, comedians, and more (9/24, Cleveland Park Library, 3310 Connecticut Ave. NW) • RAYCEEN’S GAME NIGHT: CELEBRITY CHARADES — Free monthly event also features live music by Deborah Bond, guest DJ MIM, announcer Anthony Oakes, plus special guests, vendors, exhibitors, free catered food sponsored by AHF Pharmacy, and cash bar sponsored by DCHomos (10/2) • RAYCEEN, FIX ME UP! AUTUMN MIXER — Pendarvis hosts this evening of ice-breaker games and more (10/17, XX+, 1926 9th St. NW 2nd Floor) • AFROQUEER: BLACK LGBTQ IMMIGRANTS IN AMERICA

— Pendarvis hosts a free panel discussion exploring the intersections of culture, sexuality, and gender (10/24) • THE

TITILL8TINGLY SEXY 8TH SEASON FINALE

— Burlesque, demos, and other performances (11/6) WARNER THEATRE

from the star of eponymous show on Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim (9/16) • ANJELAH JOHNSON — “Technically Not Stalking” show from the MADtv Bon Qui Qui creator (9/21) • KATHLEEN MADIGAN — Hot Dogs and Angels Tour (10/4) • NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON — Letters from An Astrophysicist (10/23) • JE’CARYOUS JOHNSON PRESENTS: SET IT OFF (10/2527) • NATE BARGATZE — Good Problem to Have (11/07, 11/10) • DANIEL HABIF — Inquebrantables World Tour 2019 from this Mexican motivational speaker (11/6) • THE NPR POLITICS PODCAST LIVE — “The Road to 2020” (11/08) • TODRICK HALL — Haus Party Tour (11/09) • COMEDY BANG! BANG! LIVE! — Starring Scott Aukerman with Guests (11/12) • DISNEY JUNIOR HOLIDAY PARTY (11/17) WEINBERG CENTER FOR THE ARTS

20 W. Patrick St. Frederick, Md. 301-600-2828 www.weinbergcenter.org

annual 72-hour film competition returns for its 14th year (10/11-12) • THE OFFICE! A MUSICAL PARODY — An “unauthorized parody of the hit TV show” (10/15) •

20TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT — Members of the cast and

crew will attend a red carpet screening of the horror classic (10/18) • SILENT

FILM: THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME (10/27) • FLYING DOG MOVIES: FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS (10/30) • SILENT FILM: WINGS (11/9) • CLASSIC ALBUMS LIVE: THE DOORS L.A. WOMAN (11/23) • FLYING DOG MOVIES: THE BIG LEBOWSKI (11/27) • THE ERIC BYRD TRIO PERFORMS A CHARLIE BROWN CHRISTMAS LIVE! (11/29) • LIGHTWIRE THEATER: A VERY ELECTRIC CHRISTMAS (12/1) • SPECIAL FILM EVENT: IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE (12/7) FLYING DOG MOVIES: MONTY PYTHON’S THE LIFE OF BRIAN (12/27) • SPECIAL FILM EVENT: CARTOON FEST 2020 (1/4) l

For more Fall Arts Above and Beyond listings, please visit www.metroweekly.com or follow our interactive version of the print edition at www.issuu.com/metroweekly.

513 13th St. NW 202-397-SEAT www.warnertheatre.com PREACHER LAWSON — A finalist on NBC’s

America’s Got Talent and America’s Got Talent: The Champions (9/14) • ERIC

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Thursday, September 12 A LEAGUE OF HER OWN Open 5pm-2am • Happy Hour: $2 off everything until 9pm • Video Games • Live televised sports FREDDIE’S BEACH BAR Crazy Hour, 4-8pm • Josh Zuckerman performs, 8-10pm • Karaoke, 10pm-close 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 Bud Products all night • Sports Leagues Night NUMBER NINE Happy Hour: 2 for 1 on any drink, 5-9pm • No Cover PITCHERS 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 • Thirst Trap Thursdays, hosted by Venus Valhalla, 11pm-12:30am • Featuring a Rotating Cast of Drag Performers • Dancing until 1:30am

Destinations A LEAGUE OF HER OWN 2317 18th St. NW 202-733-2568 www.facebook.com/alohodc AVALON SATURDAYS Soundcheck 1420 K St. NW 202-789-5429 www.facebook.com/ AvalonSaturdaysDC 88

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 Bottles of Wine, 5pm-close • Democratic Debate Watch Party — seating is first come, first served TRADE Doors open 5pm • XL Happy Hour: Any drink normally served in a cocktail glass is served in an XL glass for the same price, 5-10pm • Beer and wine only $5 ZIEGFELD’S/SECRETS All male, nude dancers, 9pm-close • “New Meat” Open Dancers Audition • Music by DJ Don T. • Cover 21+

Friday, September 13 A LEAGUE OF HER OWN 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 • $5 Svedka, all flavors all night long • Alpha and Omega Productions and Matt Black Productions presents GLÖ Underwear Party, 10pm-3am • Featuring DJs UltraPup, Club Melk, and PhoenixPup • $5 Cover (includes clothes check) • $5 Fireball

FREDDIE’S BEACH BAR 555 23rd St. S. Arlington, Va. 703-685-0555 www.freddiesbeachbar.com GREEN LANTERN 1335 Green Ct. NW 202-347-4533 www.greenlanterndc.com

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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 • Rotating DJs, 9:30pm PITCHERS 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

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 • XL Happy Hour: Any drink normally served in a cocktail glass is served in an XL glass for the same price, 5-10pm • Beer and wine only $5 • Otter Happy Hour with guest DJs, 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 11:45pm • Music by DJ Jeff Eletto • Cover 21+

NELLIE’S SPORTS BAR 900 U St. NW 202-332-6355 www.nelliessportsbar.com NUMBER NINE 1435 P St. NW 202-986-0999 www.numberninedc.com PITCHERS 2317 18th St. NW 202-733-2568 www.pitchersbardc.com

Saturday, September 14 A LEAGUE OF HER OWN Open 2pm-3am • Video Games • Live televised sports AVALON SATURDAYS @Soundcheck 1420 K St. NW The Return of Steve Sidewalk, 10pm-4am • $15 Cover, $20 Cover for VIP • Drink specials • Drag Show, 10:3011:30pm, hosted by Ba’Naka and a rotating cast of drag queens • $4 Absolut Drinks, 10pm-midnight • 21+ • Visit www.

DougieMeyerPresents.com 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 • 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 • Freeballers Dance Party, 10pm-3am • Music by DJs BacK2bACk • No Cover • $5 Fireball, $5 Margaritas, $8 Long Islands 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 playing pop music all night

SHAW’S TAVERN 520 Florida Ave. NW 202-518-4092 www.shawstavern.com TRADE 1410 14th St. NW 202-986-1094 www.tradebardc.com ZIEGFELD’S/SECRETS 1824 Half St. SW 202-863-0670 www.ziegfelds.com SEPTEMBER 12, 2019 • METROWEEKLY.COM

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NUMBER NINE Doors open 2pm • Happy Hour: 2 for 1 on any drink, 2-9pm • $5 Absolut and $5 Bulleit Bourbon, 9pm-close • Pop Tarts, featuring DJs BacK2bACk, 9:30pm PITCHERS Open Noon-3am • Video Games • Foosball • Live televised sports • Full dining menu till 9pm • Special Late Night menu till 2am 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 • D.C.’s Art All Night Festival in Shaw comes to Shaw’s Tavern

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TRADE Doors open 2pm • XL Happy Hour: Any drink normally served in a cocktail glass is served in an XL glass for the same price, 2-10pm • Beer and wine only $5 ZIEGFELD’S/SECRETS Men of Secrets upstairs, 9pm-close • Guest dancers • Ladies of Illusion Drag Show with host Ella Fitzgerald in Ziegfeld’s • Doors open at 9pm, Show at 11:45pm • Music by DJs Keith Hoffman and Don T. • Cover 21+

Sunday, September 15 A LEAGUE OF HER OWN Open 2pm-12am • $4 Smirnoff and Domestic

Cans • Video Games • Live televised sports FREDDIE’S BEACH BAR Ella’s Sunday Drag Brunch, 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 Beer and Mimosas, $4, 11am-1am • Buckets of Beer, $15 • Guest DJs

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NUMBER NINE 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 • Pop Goes the World with Wes Della Volla at 9:30pm • No Cover PITCHERS 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 SHAW’S TAVERN Happy Hour, 5-7pm • $3 Miller Lite, $4 Blue Moon, $5 House Wines, $5 Rail Drinks • Half-Priced Pizzas and Select Appetizers • Dinner and Drag with Miss Kristina Kelly, 8pm • No

Cover • For reservations, email shawsdinnerdragshow@gmail.com TRADE Doors open 2pm • XL Happy Hour: Any drink normally served in a cocktail glass is served in an XL glass for the same price, 2-10pm • Beer and wine only $5

Monday, September 16 FREDDIE’S BEACH BAR Crazy Hour, 4-8pm • Singles Night • Half-Priced Pasta Dishes • 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 NUMBER NINE Happy Hour: 2 for 1 on any drink, 5-9pm • No Cover SHAW’S TAVERN Happy Hour, 5-7pm • $3 Miller Lite, $4 Blue Moon, $5 House Wines, $5 Rail Drinks • Half-Priced Pizzas and Select Appetizers • Shaw ‘Nuff Trivia, 7:30pm

TRADE Doors open 5pm • XL Happy Hour: Any drink normally served in a cocktail glass is served in an XL glass for the same price, 5-10pm • Beer and wine only $5

Tuesday, September 17 A LEAGUE OF HER OWN 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 • Karaoke, 9pm GREEN LANTERN Happy Hour, 4-9pm • $3 rail cocktails and domestic beers all night long • Tito’s Tuesday: $5 Tito’s Vodka all night 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 Open at 5pm • Happy Hour: 2 for 1 on any drink, 5-9pm • No Cover PITCHERS 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 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, 5-10pm • Bingo with Kristina Kelly, 8:30pm TRADE Doors open 5pm • XL Happy Hour: Any drink normally served in a cocktail glass is served in an XL glass for the same price, 5-10pm • Beer and wine only $5 • Sissy That Tuesday: A Monthly Cabaret hosted

by Pussy Noir and special guests, 8pm • Music by WesstheDJ

Wednesday, September 18 A LEAGUE OF HER OWN 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 www.nelliessportsbar.com NUMBER NINE Happy Hour: 2 for 1 on any drink, 5-9pm • No Cover PITCHERS 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 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 • XL Happy Hour: Any drink normally served in a cocktail glass is served in an XL

glass for the same price, 5-10pm • Beer and wine only $5

Thursday, September 19 A LEAGUE OF HER OWN 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 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 Bud Products all night • Sports Leagues Night NUMBER NINE Happy Hour: 2 for 1 on any drink, 5-9pm • No Cover PITCHERS 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 • Thirst Trap Thursdays, hosted by Venus Valhalla, 11pm-12:30am • Featuring

a Rotating Cast of Drag Performers • Dancing until 1:30am 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 Bottles of Wine, 5pm-close TRADE Doors open 5pm • XL Happy Hour: Any drink normally served in a cocktail glass is served in an XL glass for the same price, 5-10pm • Beer and wine only $5 ZIEGFELD’S/SECRETS All male, nude dancers, 9pm-close • “New Meat” Open Dancers Audition • Music by DJ Don T. • Cover 21+

Friday, September 20 A LEAGUE OF HER OWN 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 • $5 Svedka, all flavors all night long • Rough House: Hands On, Lights Off, 10pm-close • Featuring DJ Lemz • $5 Cover (includes clothes check) 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 • Rotating DJs, 9:30pm PITCHERS 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 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 • Capital Laughs Comedy Show, Second Floor, 7:30pm

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TRADE Doors open 5pm • XL Happy Hour: Any drink normally served in a cocktail glass is served in an XL glass for the same price, 5-10pm • Beer and wine only $5 • Otter Happy Hour with guest DJs, 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 11:45pm • Music by DJ Jeff Eletto • Cover 21+

Saturday, September 21 A LEAGUE OF HER OWN Open 2pm-3am • Video Games • Live televised sports AVALON SATURDAYS @Soundcheck 1420 K St. NW KINETIC Dance Party with DJ Dan Slater, 10pm-4am • $15 Cover,

$20 Cover for VIP • Drink specials • Drag Show, 10:30-11:30pm, hosted by Ba’Naka and a rotating cast of drag queens • $4 Absolut Drinks, 10pm-midnight • 21+ • Visit www.

DougieMeyerPresents.com 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 • 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, 9pm-close • Music by 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 playing pop music all night 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 PITCHERS Open Noon-3am • Video Games • Foosball • Live televised sports • Full dining menu till 9pm • Special Late Night menu till 2am 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 • XL Happy Hour: Any drink normally served in a cocktail glass is served in an XL glass for the same price,

2-10pm • Beer and wine only $5 • Gay Bash: The Alt Dance Party and Home for Unconventional Drag in the Nation’s Capital, 10pm • Hosted by Donna Slash • Featuring JaxKnife Complex, Salvadora Dali, Jane Saw and special guests • Music by The Barber Streisand ZIEGFELD’S/SECRETS Men of Secrets upstairs, 9pm-close • Guest dancers • Ladies of Illusion Drag Show with host Ella Fitzgerald in Ziegfeld’s • Doors open at 9pm, Show at 11:45pm • Music by DJs Keith Hoffman and Don T. • Cover 21+

Sunday, September 22 A LEAGUE OF HER OWN Open 2pm-12am • $4 Smirnoff and Domestic Cans • Video Games • Live televised sports

FREDDIE’S BEACH BAR Ella’s Sunday Drag Brunch, 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 • No Cover 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 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 • Multiple TVs showing movies, shows, sports • Expanded craft beer selection • Pop

Goes the World with Wes Della Volla at 9:30pm • No Cover PITCHERS 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 SHAW’S TAVERN Happy Hour, 5-7pm • $3 Miller Lite, $4 Blue Moon, $5 House Wines, $5 Rail Drinks • Half-Priced Pizzas and Select Appetizers • Dinner and Drag with Miss Kristina Kelly, 8pm • No Cover • For reservations, email shawsdinnerdragshow@gmail.com TRADE Doors open 2pm • XL Happy Hour: Any drink normally served in a cocktail glass is served in an XL glass for the same price, 2-10pm • Beer and wine only $5 l

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LastWord.

People say the queerest things

“This is the type of anger I’m getting for presenting as gay.

Can you even imagine, the type of violence that’s being thrown at trans people, at queer people of color and gender-nonconforming people?

”

— ADAM ELI, an openly gay Jewish man in New York who was confronted by a man who objected to Eli wearing a pink yarmulke, a pride patch, and carrying a purse. The man said Eli was disgracing God by flaunting his homosexuality, which is an “abomination.”

“I’ve had people threaten to jump me in the halls or jump me after school.

Just because I stood up for myself and other people like me. ” — ALI MCDORMAN, a transgender student at Galesburg High School in Illinois who was the target of threats after a parent posted on Facebook that the school was allowing a “male student” to use the girls’ locker room, creating an uproar among community members.

about being typecast about playing queer? ... Why would I not want “The thing I get a lot is, ‘Are you worried to play those roles? Quite frankly, I would be thrilled if it’s every role I ever played again!”

— ELLEN PAGE, speaking at the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival, where she premiered her feature film directorial debut There’s Something in the Water. Page was responding to a common question she’s asked about being typecast as queer ever since coming out five years ago.

“I gave 28 years of my life repressing my homosexuality,

not unerstanding and not knowing really what it’s like to be able to just simply accept who I am.

”

— MCKRAE GAME, the former founder of the Truth Ministry, one of the country’s more prominent faith-based conversion therapy programs, speaking to journalist Tamron Hall about his decision to come out as gay after spending more than two decades preaching that people would go to hell if they were gay.

“It’s not the religious component that’s dangerous in our results — it’s any effort to change someone’s gender identity from transgender to cisgender.”

— ALEX KEUROGHLIAN, director of the National LGBT Health Education Center at the Fenway Institute and the Massachusetts General Hospital Psychiatry Gender Identity Program, who is the lead author of a recent study finding that transgender people subjected to conversion therapy are at greater risk of psychological distress.

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