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MPD Fields Transgender Crime QuestionsNews media, community activists hound MPD on handling of recent crimes

Police tape marks the section of 11th Street NW where Gopalan was found

by John Riley

MetRopolitan police Department officials held a news confer-ence Sept. 12 intended

to address a shooting and the death of an unidentified person, but were bombarded with questions about the recent wave of crimes targeting mem-bers of the transgender community, the department’s handling of lGBt issues and whether the MpD has an internal “culture of transphobia.”

assistant police chief peter J. newsham fielded questions from reporters on the steps of the police Department’s headquarters regarding accusations from members of the lGBt community, and specifically transgen-der activists, that the MpD has been slow to respond and unsuccessful in solving and prosecuting anti-lGBt crimes.

the news conference took place less than 12 hours after the shooting of a transgender woman in Southeast D.c.

according to a police incident report, the transgender woman was shot by an acquaintance in the 2300 block of Savannah Street Se. She drove herself to the MpD’s Seventh District Station, where she reported the shooting to police. the woman was taken to George Washington Hospital, where she was treated for a gunshot wound to the neck. newsham said the victim was in stable condition.

at the time of the press conference, newsham told reporters police had not arrested the suspect identified by the victim. on Sept. 13, police announced that 20-year-old Darryl Willard of northeast Washington had surrendered at First District police Headquarters and was arrested. Willard is being charged with “assault with intent to kill while armed.”

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the Savannah Street shooting is the latest in a string of shootings, assaults, robberies and murders committed against members of the transgender community in the District that dates back to mid-July, when 23-year-old lashai Mclean, a transgender woman, was shot and killed in the 6100 block of Dix Street ne. Since then, there have been at least three different shootings and at least one attempted robbery, as well as other assaults, aimed at trans-gender individuals, mostly women. newsham said the cases do not appear to be related to one another.

Following an update on the Savannah Street shooting, reporters asked newsham if the MpD was failing to aggressively pursue cases involving transgender victims. newsham pushed back, saying, “We give every single crime in the District of columbia the same attention, and we’re very serious about closing all cases.”

When asked about a ratio dispar-ity between unsolved or “open” cases

involving members of the transgender community and those involving the general public, newsham said there have only been two murders in the past few years and that such a comparison cannot be made.

“With regards to the homicides that we’ve had … fortunately, we’ve not had that many,” he said. “if you want to say that there are more open homicides of transgenders than there are of others, of everyone else … i don’t think you can statistically compare, because the num-bers of the transgenders are statistically so much smaller than the numbers of others.”

newsham was also asked about the police Department’s crackdown on prostitution, which activists say dis-proportionately targets transgender women who may face discriminatory hiring practices. But newsham said MpD’s enforcement is not gender-based and does not specifically target transgender women. He also pushed back against allegations that there is a

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who specifically responded to crimes against the lGBt community. in 2009, it was restructured and decentralized with the aim of training regular patrol officers to become affiliate members of GllU in their respective police districts, rather than maintaining a core GllU force.

Ruby corado, a local transgen-der activist, shook her head slightly as newsham spoke. When given a chance to speak after newsham, she was highly critical of MpD.

“i think it is important to hear that the communication between the police Department and the transgender com-munity and, i would say, the lGBt com-munity in general, is not at the best of its times,” corado said.

corado and fellow activist earline Budd contrasted the current relationship between the transgender community and the GllU with the relationship between the two sides prior to its restructuring.

“it is an office that was productive at the time. and for the time it existed in full force, had a better communication with us,” corado said of the GllU. “it hasn’t been actually until recent media coverage, and a meeting with the city council, that the chief started commu-

“culture of transphobia” within the ranks of the police Department.

“the MpD is like any other sector of the population,” newsham said. “We have our concerns here, but as an agency we will not tolerate that from our mem-bers. We’ve asked the transgender com-munity, if they are treated inappropri-ately, to bring it to our attention and we will deal with that. We are not going to tolerate that as a police Department.”

Moreover, he said, chief cathy lanier has gone out of her way to reach out to the transgender community and work closely with its members to solve crimes affecting them, one of many positive developments that get overshadowed by negative news coverage.

When asked whether reconstituting the Gay and lesbian liaison Unit (GllU) as it had previously existed would help MpD deal more effectively with anti-lGBt crimes, newsham answered only indirectly, saying lanier’s vision is to have all officers trained to be able to interact with members of the lGBt com-munity.

the GllU was originally started under former police chief charles Ramsey, and structured as a full-time unit of officers

nicating with us again. and i want to say thank you, because that is something we had lost and now we’ve recovered.”

“i still think, at some point, the city should revisit going back to what we used to have,” Budd said. “i think it was more of a reachable, approachable team of officers. i think now that it’s so broad, it’s not the same.”

Muddying the waters in that relation-ship is the difficulty that police officers often face when classifying the crimes they respond to, such as the recent death of an unidentified person in the 2600 block of 11th Street nW on Sept. 10.

initially, members of the transgen-der community had been contacted by police in order to identify the deceased, who was found wearing makeup, a black and purple jacket, a gray shirt that had been cut like a camisole with a plung-ing neckline and slits on the sides, blue shorts and carrying high-heel shoes. However, two days later, newsham told reporters police did not have enough information to classify the dead person as transgender.

With the victim still unidentified at the time of the conference, newsham distributed a flier to the press with a pic-ture of the deceased, whom he described as a “Hispanic or Middle eastern male, approximately between the ages of 25 and 30 … 5 foot, 8 inches with dark, wavy hair about 3 inches long.”

newsham said police hoped the pub-lication of the photo would help them identify the victim. and on the evening of Sept. 13, police did: Gaurav Gopalan, 35, of northwest Washington.

Metro Weekly received an email ear-lier that day from a source claiming to know the victim, who said the deceased did not identify as a transgender woman. that source did not reply to follow-up inquiries by press time.

Meanwhile, as efforts are made in D.c. to stop attacks on the transgen-der community, an april 2011 attack in Baltimore county found some mea-sure of closure Sept. 13 as teonna Monae Brown, 19, was sentenced to five years in prison for attacking chrissy lee polis, a transgender woman, in a Rosedale, Md., McDonald’s, according to the Baltimore Sun. that beating was videotaped and broadcast widely, draw-ing national attention to crimes against transgender people. a second attacker, a 14-year-old girl, pleaded guilty and was committed to a juvenile detention facility in July. l

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house, located at 2127 Queens chapel Road ne, formerly owned by WFJ llc. public records show WFJ llc owns another property located at 2145 Queens chapel Road ne. the chevy chase, Md., mailing address listed for that entity is Jones’s home address.

according to the terms of the grant, Miracle Hands was supposed to convert the warehouse at 2127 Queens chapel Road into a job-training facility for people with HiV/aiDS. However, the warehouse was sold for $2.7 million to RF Holdings llc, in March 2010, and opened later that year as the Stadium club, a “Five Star Dining and premier Gentleman’s club experience.”

according to the complaint filed by the D.c. office of the attorney General, although Miracle Hands changed the location of its planned job-training facil-ity, it continued to submit invoices for renovation work performed at the origi-nal location. Miracle Hands then began billing the District for renovations at the second location, but those renovations were never completed.

Metro Weekly was unable to reach Jones or any other employee of Miracle Hands for comment. l

results of the probe were revealed.Specifically, Jones called catania

and Graham, “a couple of gay guys who sometimes get to acting like little fag-gots.” Jones also claimed that racial bias is playing a role in the Miracle Hands investigation.

“that kind of hateful speech has no place in public discourse,” catania spokesman Brendan Williams-Kief said Sept. 7 in response to Jones’s on-air com-ments. “it’s particularly harmful and abhorrent when it comes from a director of a nonprofit receiving public funds.”

Graham refused to comment on Jones’s statements, but said he thought Jones was trying to put up a “smoke-screen” to deflect criticism.

“the real issue is: Did he seriously misuse public funds? and did he commit wrongdoing, possibly a crime?” Graham said last week. “He basically took this money and used it to turn his property into a strip club.”

Jones’s comments came in response to a suit filed against Miracle Hands on aug. 30 by D.c. attorney General irvin B. nathan that alleged that Miracle Hands used $329,653 in District grant money to pay for renovations at a former ware-

Radio WrongHead of nonprofit being sued by city tosses epithet at gaycouncilmembers

by John Riley

tHe DiRectoR oF an HiV/aiDS nonprofit – now being sued by D.c.’s attorney general for allegedly diverting more than $300,000 in city funds intend-ed for an HiV/aiDS facility to a business running as a nude-dancing establishment – called the city council’s two gay mem-bers who criticized him “faggots” and accused them of pursuing a racist agenda, as reported by The Washington Times.

cornell Jones, director of the nonprof-it Miracle Hands inc., took to the micro-phone Sept. 3 during his Saturday radio show, Keeping up with the Joneses on Wol-aM 1450, to slam councilmembers David catania (i-at large) and Jim Graham (D-Ward 1) for requesting that the attorney general’s office conduct a probe of Miracle Hands’ financial deal-ings and for criticizing Jones after the

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what can you get out of it? What positive? Where could you get a victory, or where could you begin setting up a victory, or where could you start changing the story to tell a different story?”

talking about the 1996 Democratic national convention, which took place in chicago aug. 26 to 29, 1996, Stachelberg said that HRc “knew … that it was going to be an enDa vote and a DoMa vote.

“i know that all of the lobbyists for the Human Rights campaign who were at the convention, our job — priority num-ber one — was when you saw a senator, your first, second and third thing that you were talking to him or her about was the employment non-Discrimination act and DoMa.”

noting that enDa was only first introduced in the summer of 1994, she said that a lot of the work at the conven-tion involved educating members about what enDa was.

it was that decision to split atten-tion between fighting against DoMa and fighting for enDa that still frustrates Freedom to Marry executive Director evan Wolfson, who was an attorney for lambda legal working on the Hawaii marriage case at the time. Saying that the enDa vote had the ultimate effect of “further greasing the skids for this anti-gay attack,” Wolfson says, “i think it was, from HRc’s point of view, always much more about an enDa-advancement step than it was about a true strategy to block DoMa. and i felt strongly that we ought to be fighting and working hard to block what was the most sweeping and radi-cal assault on gay people proposed in congress up until that point.”

For Daniel Zingale, who was the political director at HRc at the time, he doesn’t see that as an accurate read-ing of the political dynamic, noting, “Remember, so many Democrats at the time had voted against lifting the ban [on gays in the military]. i think only, in the end, we only got 33 votes for lifting the ban — and there was no enDa cover. that was just what they did. So, to imag-ine that people who were afraid to vote to lift the ban on gays in the military would have been ready to vote for gay marriage is, i think, probably to misunderstand the times. they weren’t going to do it.”

But, to add in discussion of enDa, Zingale says, was an attempt — that he sees as having been successful — to expand the scope of the debate.

“For us to succeed in the long term around marriage, americans had to be

act is a legitimate exercise of congress’s power. to me, the answer again is yes,” he said. “But that is not just my view. the clinton administration also believes that the Defense of Marriage act is legitimate and lawful.”

though the clinton administration had announced that president clinton would sign the bill if passed by congress, Sen. edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) sang a different tune. “it is no secret that i oppose this legislation,” Kennedy said, leading off the hearing for the Democrats. “i regard it as a thinly disguised example of intolerance. But regardless of anyone’s views on same-sex marriage, this bill is a flatly unconstitutional exercise of con-gressional authority.”

after discounting the bill’s necessity to address interstate recognition of mar-riage and dismissing what he called the bill’s “unprecedented assertion of federal authority,” he concluded, “What is left of this bill is its real goal — it is a mean-spirited form of legislative gay-bashing designed to inflame the public four months before the november election.”

it was here that Kennedy also raised an issue that would become a key part of the discussion and strategy of advancing lesbian, gay and bisexual equality over the course of the next four months — and lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender equality in the 15 years since.

“But some good can still come out of this bad bill. if our Republican col-leagues insist on bringing it up before the Senate, then Sen. [Jim] Jeffords (R-Vt.), Sen. [Joseph] lieberman (D-conn.), i, and others intend to offer our employment non-Discrimination act as an amendment to this bill in order to prohibit job discrimination based on sexual orientation.”

over the two months following the House passage of the bill, the strategy became, at least for the Human Rights campaign, a dual focus of both opposing DoMa and supporting and lobbying for the enDa vote.

as Winnie Stachelberg, who was the legislative director at HRc at the time, puts it, “there was no way we were going to defeat the Defense of Marriage act. So,

by chris Geidner

tHe Day BeFoRe tHe House of Representatives passed the Defense of Marriage act in 1996, the Senate held its

sole hearing on the legislation. Sen. orrin Hatch (R-Utah) opened the July 11, 1996, hearing by proclaiming, “congress can and, when necessary, must ensure that no one state can dictate how every other state must treat a subject.”

the state was Hawaii, and the sub-ject was marriages entered into by couples of the same sex. DoMa, intro-duced in the Senate by Sen. Don nickles (R-okla.), with only presidential candi-date and then-Sen. Majority leader Bob Dole (R-Kan.) as a co-sponsor, on May 8, 1996, was aimed at preventing other states from having to recognize such marriages should Hawaii or another state allow them. the bill also would create a federal definition of “marriage” limited to those between one man and one woman. Hatch made clear in his opening that he believed — and that the clinton administration believed — DoMa was constitutional.

“the last question is whether this

Double DefeatIn 1996, ENDA was hoped to help ease the pain of DOMA, but instead fell by one vote in a Senate focused on a “thinly disguised example of intolerance”

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that DoMa “will safeguard the sacred institutions of marriage and the family from those who seek to destroy them and who are willing to tear apart america’s moral fabric in the process.”

Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-calif.), who earlier had tried to stop “Don’t ask, Don’t tell” with the Senate amend-ment to which Zingale referred, coun-tered Helms, saying, “Scapegoating is ugly. History has seen it too many times. you know that and i know that. Groups of people who are different are identi-fied. it becomes ‘we’ versus ‘them.’ their identity as individuals is lost and they become faceless. Special rules are writ-ten for them. they are singled out as a group. Read the history books, my col-leagues. you will find it there. We are all americans in this country, regardless of our differences.”

yet, on tuesday, the debate over DoMa took a different direction. lott opened the debate a little before 10 a.m., saying, “the Defense of Marriage act is not an attack upon anyone. it is, rather, a response to an attack upon the institution of marriage itself.”

although Kennedy led the debate for the bill’s opponents and voiced his oppo-

Democrats were not attempting a delay tactic. “it is not our desire to preclude a vote, or to hold up a vote on the Defense of Marriage act.”

By Sept. 5, tensions were raised fur-ther, and — though he said he contin-ued to hold out hope that agreement would be reached for a way to proceed on tuesday, Sept. 10 — lott filed a clo-ture motion on behalf of himself and 16 other Republican senators. Daschle shot back, saying again, “i just wanted to take a moment to explain that it is not our desire necessarily to hold up this piece of legislation.” this time, though, he added, “there is support on our side as well.”

By the end of the day, agreement was reached and lott announced that the Senate would consider DoMa on tuesday, Sept. 10, with 45 minutes of debate on each side and then take up “the Kennedy bill” — enDa — with 30 min-utes of debate on each side immediately following the DoMa vote.

on Monday, Sept. 9, it was announced that there would be a full three hours of debate on DoMa the next day before the vote would be held. Sen. Jesse Helms (R-n.c.) took to the floor on Monday, setting the tone by telling to the chamber

made aware of the fact that it was still legal to fire lesbian and gay people from their jobs in most parts of the country.”

When the Senate returned in September, though, Senate Majority leader trent lott (R-Miss.) — who took over the top spot in June 1996 when Dole resigned from the Senate to focus on his presidential cam-paign — and nickles spent several days in a disagreement with Senate Minority leader tom Daschle (D-S.D.) and Kennedy over the way that the Senate would be consid-ering DoMa — and if and how it would be considering enDa.

initially, on Sept. 3, lott announced that four amendments to DoMa were “provided for” on each side of the bill. later in the day, however, nickles took to the floor saying that although he and others had submitted amendments in conjunction with the agreement made before the august recess, “it is our hope there will be no amendments adopted to the Defense of Marriage act.”

the next day, lott announced that they would not be proceeding with the pre-recess agreement to allow the amend-ments offered. although Daschle said it remained his hope that some amend-ments could be offered, he also said the

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back to cast a tie-breaking vote if needed and spent the afternoon being connected by Socarides with Democratic senators whose vote on the bill was still uncertain. But, when the vote came, they fell one short.

With support from seven Republican senators and opposition from five Democrats, the lobbying eventual-ly reached its end, and Socarides said Kennedy declared the vote was lost. the vote that could have tied it up, Sen. David pryor (D-ark.), had been called back to his home state due to a medical situa-tion involving his son. the final vote on enDa was 49-50.

By sunset on Sept. 10, 1996, enDa, despite coming closer to passage than many had expected just weeks earlier, had lost its vote. and DoMa, passed without amendment, was days away from heading to president clinton’s desk for his signature.

This is the third of a series marking the 15th anniversary of the passage of the Defense of Marriage Act. The aim of the series is to present an in-depth examination of the circumstances, consideration and passage of the 1996 federal marriage law. l

have been done to stop DoMa but says that “once enDa got folded into the mix,” he saw “there was at least as much desire on the part of some on our side to engineer some enDa action as there was to focus 100 percent on blocking DoMa. and i think that was a mistake.”

Zingale doesn’t necessarily disagree about the mixed focus, but doesn’t see it as a mistake, saying, “everyone involved — and there were a lot of different opin-ions about timing and strategy — i think all the lGBt advocates i was dealing with appreciated the fact that there was an opportunity … around enDa that we couldn’t be cavalier about. and we had to be mindful of the fact that there were a lot of lGBt americans living in states where marriage was a pretty far-off dream, but the daily reality was that they could be and were being fired from their jobs. So, i think of it as a strategic thing to do – but also the right thing to do.”

Regardless of the aims, hours after DoMa passed the Senate, enDa failed to pass the Senate — by one vote. Richard Socarides, then the White House gay and lesbian liaison, described the afternoon, saying that Vice president al Gore was in pennsylvania but prepared to come

sition to DoMa and support for the com-ing vote on enDa, the second Democratic senator to speak was Sen. paul Wellstone (D-Minn.), who spoke only about his support for enDa and did not mention DoMa. Hours later, Wellstone would be among the majority of the Democratic caucus in voting for DoMa.

later, Sen. carol Moseley-Braun (D-ill.) noted, “i ask everyone listening to this debate to note that the federal government has yet to issue a marriage license. that is not within our purview. it is not something the federal govern-ment does.”

yet, a few hours later, Boxer, Kennedy and Moseley-Braun were joined by only 11 of their Democratic colleagues in vot-ing against the bill. they were Sens. Daniel akaka (D-Hawaii), Russ Feingold (D-Wisc.), Dianne Feinstein (D-calif.), Dan inouye (D-Hawaii), Bob Kerrey (D-neb.), John Kerry (D-Mass.), Daniel patrick Moynihan (D-n.y.), claiborne pell (D-R.i.), chuck Robb (D-Va.), paul Simon (D-ill.) and Rob Wyden (D-ore.). eighty-four senators — a majority of the Democratic senators and all the Republicans — voted for the bill.

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beverages, bug spray, $20. Carpool at 9 a.m. from East Falls Church Metro Kiss & Ride lot. Craig, 202-462-0535. adventuring.org.

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BELiEvErS CovENaNT FELLoWShiP Sunday worship, meets 10:45 a.m., Worship and Ministry Center, 8201 Greensboro Drive, Suite 300, McLean. bcfchurch.us.

FirST CoNGrEGaTioNaL UNiTEd ChUrCh oF ChriST welcomes all to 1 p.m. service, First Trinity Lutheran Church, 501 4th St. NW. fccuc-cdc.org or 202-628-4317.

FrEEdoM FELLoWShiP ChriSTiaN ChUrCh, Christ-centered, affirming church, offers worship service, 10 a.m., 4649 Nannie Helen Burroughs Ave. NE. Visit ffccdc.org.

METroPoLiTaN CoMMUNiTy ChUrCh oF NorThErN virGiNia services at 11 a.m., led by Rev. Kharma Amos. Children’s Sunday School, 11 a.m. 10383 Democracy Lane, Fairfax. 703-691-0930, mccnova.com.

NaTioNaL CiTy ChriSTiaN ChUrCh, inclu-sive church with GLBT fellowship, offers gospel worship, 8:30 a.m., and traditional worship, 11 a.m. 5 Thomas Circle NW. 202-232-0323, nationalcitycc.org.

rivErSidE BaPTiST ChUrCh, a Christ-centered, interracial, welcoming-and-affirming church, offers service at 10 a.m. 680 I St. SW. 202-554-4330, riverside-dc.org.

UNiTariaN ChUrCh oF arLiNGToN, an LGBTQ welcoming-and-affirming congregation, offers services at 10 a.m. Virginia Rainbow UU Ministry. 4444 Arlington Blvd. [email protected].

UNivErSaLiST NaTioNaL MEMoriaL ChUrCh, is a welcoming and inclusive church of the UUAC. GLBT Interweave social/service group meets monthly. Services at 11 a.m., Romanesque sanctuary. 1810 16th St. NW. 202-387-3411, universalist.org.

Monday, September 19SErviCEMEMBErS UNiTEd offers “The Countdown to Repeal Party” to mark repeal of DADT. 9 p.m.-midnight, Town Danceboutique, 2009 8th St. NW. servicemembers.org.

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ThE dC diFFErENT drUMMErS’s Capitol Pride Symphonic Band rehearses 7-9:30 p.m., Reformation Lutheran Church, on Capitol Hill. Contact [email protected].

GETEqUaL meets 6:30-8 p.m. at Quaker House, 2111 Florida Ave. NW. [email protected].

METroPoLiTaN CoMMUNiTy ChUrCh oF WaShiNGToN, d.C., sponsors an HIV-positive support group. 7 p.m., 474 Ridge St. NW. Open to all. Matt, [email protected].

TraNSGENdEr hEaLTh EMPoWErMENT “Diva Chat” support group. 6-8 p.m., 1414 North Capitol St. NE. Snacks provided. 202-636-1646.

Saturday, September 17ChrySaLiS arts and culture group visits the African American Civil War Soldiers Memorial and Museum. Free. Meet at 11 a.m., U Street Metro, 10th Street exit, street level. Craig, 202-462-0535, [email protected].

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aNdroMEda TraNSCULTUraL hEaLTh offers free HIV testing, 9-5 p.m., and HIV services (by appointment). 202-291-4707 or andromedahealthcenter.org.

BET MiShPaChah, founded by members of the LGBT community, holds Saturday morning Shabbat services, 10 a.m., followed by kiddush luncheon. Services in DCJCC Community Room, 1529 16th St. NW. betmish.org.

dC aqUaTiCS CLUB (DCAC) practice session at Marie Reed Aquatic Center, 2200 Champlain St. NW. 8-9:30 a.m. swimdcac.org.

dC FroNT rUNNErS running/walking/social club welcomes all levels for exercise in a fun and supportive environment, socializing afterward. Meet 9:30 a.m., 23rd & P Streets NW, for a walk; or 10 a.m. for fun run. [email protected] or dcfrontrunners.org.

dC ThirTy SoMEThiNG social group (dinners, concerts, etc.) for gay guys in their 30s meets. To join/more information, send name and email address to [email protected].

diGNiTy NorThErN virGiNia sponsors Mass for LGBT community, family and friends. 6:30 p.m., Immanuel Church-on-the-Hill, 3606 Seminary Road, Alexandria. All welcome. 703-912-1662, [email protected].

dC SENTiNELS basketball team meets at Turkey Thicket Recreation Center, 1100 Michigan Ave. NE, 2-4 p.m. For players of all levels, gay or straight. teamdcbasketball.org.

Sunday, September 18advENTUriNG outdoors group hikes 5 easy miles in Shenandoah National Park. Bring lunch,

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CarEGivErS CoNNECT is a support group for those caring for loved ones living with HIV/AIDS or a recent cancer diagnosis. Co-sponsored by Whitman-Walker Health and Mautner Project. Registration required. Contact [email protected].

dC LaMBda SqUarES gay and lesbian square-dancing group features mainstream through advanced square dancing at the National City Christian Church, 5 Thomas Circle NW, 7-9:30 p.m. Casual dress. Email [email protected], call 301-257-0517 or visit dclambdasquares.org.

The dULLES TriaNGLES Northern Virginia social group meets for happy hour at Sheraton in Reston, 11810 Sunrise Valley Drive, second-floor bar, 7-9 p.m. All welcome. Email [email protected] or visit dullestriangles.com.

idENTiTy offers free and confidential HIV test-ing in Gaithersburg, 414 East Diamond Ave., and in Takoma Park, 7676 New Hampshire Ave., Suite 411. Walk-ins 2-6 p.m. For appointments other hours, call Gaithersburg at 301-300-9978 or Takoma Park at 301-422-2398.

Friday, September 16Gay diSTriCT, weekly facilitated discussion for gay men 18-35, holds an open house. 8-11:30 p.m., St Margaret’s Church, 1830 Connecticut Ave. NW. gaydistrict.org.

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BET MiShPaChah, founded by members of the GLBT community, holds Friday night Shabbat services followed by “oneg” social hour. 8:30 p.m. Services in DCJCC Community Room, 1529 16th St. NW. betmish.org.

hiv TESTiNG at Whitman-Walker Health, Elizabeth Taylor Medical Center, 1701 14th St. NW, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. For an appointment call 202-483-TEST. whitman-walker.org.

SMyaL’S rEC NiGhT provides a social atmo-sphere for GLBT and questioning youth, featur-ing dance parties, movie nights and game nights. [email protected].

Metro Weekly’s Community Calendar highlights important events in the gay community, from alternative social events to volunteer opportunities. Event information should be sent by e-mail to [email protected]; by fax to 202-638-6831; or by mail to Metro Weekly, Attn: Community Calendar, 1012 14th Street NW, Suite 209, Washington, D.C. 20005. Deadline for inclusion is noon on the Friday before publication. “Announcement” submissions that are not date-specific may run for two weeks, with the option for listing organizations to resubmit if appropriate. Questions about the calendar can be directed to the Metro Weekly office at 202-638-6830.

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US hELPiNG US hosts a black gay men’s evening affinity group. 3636 Georgia Ave. NW. 202-446-1100.

WaShiNGToN WETSkiNS Water Polo Team practices 7-9 p.m. Takoma Aquatic Center, 300 Van Buren St. NW. Newcomers with at least basic swim-ming ability always welcome. Tom, 703-299-0504; [email protected]; or wetskins.org.

tueSday, September 20SErviCEMEMBErS LEGaL dEFENSE NETWork celebrates DADT repeal. 6-10 p.m., K Street Lounge, 1301 K St. NW. Suggested donation: $20. RSVP at sldn.org/events.

The LGBT Congressional Staff Association presents “BroThEr oUTSidEr: LiNkiNG raCiaL JUSTiCE aNd ThE LGBT EqUaLiTy MovEMENT,” moderated by Roll Call TV’s Robert Traynham. 5-7 p.m., Capitol Visitors Center, Orientation Theatre (South), East Capitol Street NE at First Street SE. Free. [email protected].

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aSiaNS aNd FriENdS weekly happy hour, with dinner afterward, 6:30-7:30 p.m. at Cobalt/30 Degrees Lounge, 1639 R St. NW. afwashington.net.

Whitman-Walker Health’s Gay MEN’S hEaLTh aNd WELLNESS/STd CLiNiC opens at 6 p.m., 1701 14th St. NW. Patients are seen on walk-in basis. No-cost screening for HIV, syphilis, gonorrhea and chlamydia. Hepatitis and herpes testing available for fee. whitman-walker.org.

ThE hiv WorkiNG GroUP of ThE CENTEr hosts “Packing Party,” where volunteers assemble safe-sex kits of condoms and lube. 7 p.m., Green Lantern, 1335 Green Court NW. thedccenter.org.

WedneSday, September 21ToM davorEN SoCiaL BridGE CLUB meets for social bridge, no partner needed. 7:30 p.m., Dignity Center, 721 8th St. SE. lamdabridge.com.

BookMEN dC, informal men’s gay-lit group, dis-cusses Persistent Voices: Poetry by Writers Lost to


AIDS, edited by Philip Clark. 7:30 p.m., 2101 E St. NW. bookmendc.blogspot.com.

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ad LiB, a group for freestyle conversation, meets about 7:45 p.m., covered-patio area of Cosi, 1647 20th St. NW. All welcome. Jamie, 703-892-8567.

dC SWiNG! rehearses 7-9:30 p.m., at Reformation Lutheran Church on Capitol Hill. Contact [email protected].

kariNG WiTh iNdividUaLiTy (k.i.) SErviCES, at 3333 Duke St., Alexandria, offers free “rapid” HIV testing and counseling, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Call 703-823-4401 for details.

PriME TiMErS oF dC, social club for mature gay men, hosts weekly happy hour/dinner. 6:30 p.m., Windows Bar above Dupont Italian Kitchen, 1637 17th St. NW. Carl, 703-573-8316; or Bill,703-671-2454.

ULTiMaTEoUT, LGBT ultimate Frisbee, practices 6:30-8 p.m., National Mall in front of Air & Space Museum. All welcome. Ben, [email protected]. http://on.fb.me/lqcEof.

US hELPiNG US hosts “A Positive U” support group for black gay men living with HIV/AIDS, 7-9 p.m., 3636 Georgia Ave. NW. 202-446-1100.

thurSday, September 22LaMBda SCi-Fi Book GroUP discusses Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky. 7 p.m., 1425 S St. NW. Peter and Rob, 202-483-6369, or James, 202-232-3141. lambdascifi.org.

BroThEr ToNGUE PoETry WorkShoP SEriES, four consecutive Thursdays of examining poetry of “queer-identified men,” starts tonight. Led by Regie Cabico. 7-9 p.m., The Center, 1318 U St. NW. $25 for the series. Scholarships available. 202-682-2245, thedccenter.org. l

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FoR tHoSe who often find themselves sim-ply shocked by extremism in political debate, these are certainly trying and exciting times. although i’m not one who’s

easily shocked by politics that delve deeply in the mean, petty and spiteful — with age comes a persistent feeling of political déjà vu — i will admit that recent days have been exciting, in all the wrong ways.

More specifically, the Republican presidential debates have offered the same thrill as watching stock car races for the crashes — noisy, flashy and with some explosive collisions. interestingly, what’s provided much fodder for the left in the past two debates hasn’t been just the candidates, but the audiences themselves.

First, there was the hearty cheer-ing for texas Gov. Rick perry’s exten-sive death penalty résumé. then, in this week’s jointly sponsored cnn-tea party debate, a significant number of the audience cheered the notion of allow-ing a hypothetical uninsured 30-year-old man to die if he becomes seriously ill. it’s all very bread and circuses in the tea party mosh pit these days.

of course, it’s easy for me to sit back in judgment of this spectacle. the right-ward creep — actually, more of a sprint — of the Gop over the past two decades has pretty much ensconced me on the center-left portion of the political spec-trum. that’s even as i have a fairly con-servative reason for opposing the death penalty: Government power does have to be limited and, given the ample dem-onstrations that the government wields the power of life and death imperfectly and too often capriciously, the death penalty is a power that a just and demo-

cratic government should not have.as for the “let them die” approach

to health care, i think it’s fair enough to write that off as simple, selfish bar-barism.

in addition to the repulsed cring-ing at the spectacle being felt among Democrats, liberals and progressives, there’s also an undercurrent of expect-ant schadenfreude as the difficult 2012 elections move ever closer. namely, the hope that the Gop will nominate some-one so far to the extremes that he or she wouldn’t stand a chance against president Barack obama. these are the people who chatter with glee behind the scenes at the antics of Rep. Michele Bachmann — who’s apparently now joined the anti-vaccine know-nothings who think a free society is a society of deadly and crip-pling childhood diseases — as she keeps pushing the ship hard to starboard.

as entertaining as the spectacle may be at the moment, i can’t help but think of the 2008 election cycle when we were told repeatedly about obama, “He can’t win.” and in retrospect it’s still kind of amazing that he did. the greater point is that you can’t dismiss anyone’s chances, especially during a time when so many americans — regardless of sexual orientation or race or region — are facing such dire economic straits.

My “best world” preference would be that the Republicans nominate a can-didate who’s both sane and competent, even if it’s someone i could never see myself voting for — although that last bit applies to every Republican candi-date so my approach to this is admit-tedly a bit self-serving. But it does mean that i’d prefer next year’s election to be a contest between two rational, if deep-ly oppositional candidates, rather than a race against a candidate who believes not only that God has an opinion about tax policy but that he communicates it through natural disasters.

But the best world isn’t the real world, so i’m not bullish on the chances of rationality from the right. i just hope that we don’t mistake irrationality for unelectability. l

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In order of scheduled release date. Dates subject to change at the whim of a stu-dio executive.

SePteMBerdrivE — Ryan Gosling headlines a mur-derer’s row as an unnamed Hollywood stunt driver who moonlights as a heist wheelman. carey Mulligan, Ron perlman, Bryan cranston, christina Hendricks, and albert Brooks tag along for the ride. (9/16)

i doN’T kNoW hoW ShE doES iT — anation waiting in bated breath can finally exhale: Sarah Jessica parker found more chick lit to adapt. this time, carrie — err, Kate Reddy — struggles to bring home the bacon as a financial manager without neglecting her kids and husband. if you listen carefully, you’ll hear feminists weeping under each narrative voiceover. (9/16)

ThE LioN kiNG (iN 3d) — Simba, Scar, and the rest of the pride return for a two-week only run that could very well make decent use of post-production 3D. one thing to ponder: How else can Disney squeeze money of this fran-chise? (9/16)

STraW doGS — the 1971 psychologi-cal thriller that launched a thousand screeds on violence and debasement of women is back, as James Marsden tries to fill Dustin Hoffman’s shoes as a timid husband pushed to a homi-cidal brink. if it’s anything like Sam peckinpah’s original — and it looks awfully similar — expect blood and controversy. (9/16)

aBdUCTioN — John Singleton tries to convince us all that taylor lautner — who is still 19, mind you — is a rising action star. Will it work? and more importantly, does it matter in the least to teeny-bopper fangirls? (9/23)

doLPhiN TaLE — Marine biologist Harry connick Jr. and prosthetics expert Morgan Freeman design an artificial dolphin tail so a little boy won’t lose his favorite animal friend. File this one under “maudlin things based on true stories.” (9/23)

kiLLEr ELiTE — Jason Statham and clive owen finally face off to answer an age-old question: Who has a more enter-taining accent to imitate? (9/23)

MoNEyBaLL — Based on the Michael lewis book of the same name, this drama throws Brad pitt into the world of major-league baseball as Billy Beane, the general manager of the oakland a’s who dragged the sport kicking and screaming into sabermetric statistical analysis. think Friday Night Lights, except with bats, and if the creepy goblin-looking baby was replaced with a geeky Jonah Hill. (9/23)

MaChiNE GUN PrEaChEr — Marc Forster directs this biopic about Sam childers (Gerard Butler), a former drug-dealing gang biker who finds God and devotes his life to building an orphanage in war-ravaged Southern Sudan. like almost everything else released in September, it’s also based on a true story. (9/23)

rEd STaTE — Kevin Smith shelves his penis joke oeuvre with this violent take on fundamental religious cults star-ring Michael parks, John Goodman, and Melissa leo. Don’t expect to see it in the local multiplex, though — Smith decided to distribute the film on his own, also making it available on demand and online. (9/25)50/50 — Joseph Gordon-levitt stars in a black comedy about a 27-year-old who struggles to accept his cancer diagnosis. loosely based on screen-writer Will Reiser’s own experiences with cancer, the movie’s got plenty of horsepower behind Gordon-levitt, including Seth Rogen, anna Kendrick, Bryce Dallas Howard, and anjelica Huston. (9/30)

CoUraGEoUS — a christian drama from the makers of Fireproof that folFireproof that folFireproof -lows four suburban police officers as they try to be good fathers. let’s just call this what it is — Milquetoast: The Movie. (9/30)

drEaM hoUSE — a publisher (Daniel a publisher (Daniel acraig) relocates his family to a quiant fixer-upper in new england, only to learn that a mother and two children were murdered in the house years earlier. Warning: the trailer blows

what could have been a shocker of a what could have been a shocker of a plot twist, so stay away from plot twist, so stay away from youtube if you know what’s good for you. (9/30)if you know what’s good for you. (9/30)

WWhaT’S yoUr NUMBEr — anna Faris is a girl who revisits the past duds of is a girl who revisits the past duds of her love life to find a husband! her love life to find a husband! chris evans is a one-night-standing lothario who can’t bear to see his conquests the morning after! Will they fall in love?! only time will tell! i can’t stop using exclamation points! (9/30)

TUCkEr & daLE vS. EviL — a wickedly a wickedly afunny comedy that made the festival rounds and earned enough acclaim for a wider release, this canadian export turns the backwoods horror story on its head. alan tudyk and tyler labrine star as the titular witless hillbillies, who can’t seem to figure out why col-lege students keep dying around them. (9/30)

MarGarET — Kenneth lonergan’s long-gestating drama about a teenage girl who inadvertently causes a fatal bus accident in new york city was shot so many years ago, anna paquin actually looks like she belongs in high school. the reason for the delay? lonergan wouldn’t release the footage until he was satisfied with the final cut. (9/30)

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oCtoBerThE idES oF MarCh — George clooney tries on his writer-director pants in this political drama, starring Ryan Gosling as a brilliant campaign staffer who tries to get clooney’s Mike Morris into the White House. expect a lot of intrigue, tense dialogue, and perfectly coiffed hair. (10/7)

rEaL STEEL — this is a movie about robots that box professionally. Just a hunch, but that’s probably enough to separate the interested from everybody else. (But in the event that the movie sparks a robo-revolution, i feel obliged to add that i loved it! ...please don’t use loved it! ...please don’t use lovedmy blood as battery fuel.) (10/7)

ThE hUMaN CENTiPEdE 2 — FULL SEqUENCE:no. never. (10/7)

ThE SoNS oF TENNESSEE WiLLiaMS — tim Wolff’s documentary investigates how one of the earliest gay civil rights move-ments in the country — in the Deep

South, to boot — led to the gay Mardi Gras krewe scene in 1960s new orleans. expect a whole lot of archival footage of n’awlins drag balls. (10/7)

dirTy Gy Gy irL — this film opens the 10-day, 20th anniversary Reel affirmations international Film Festival on thursday, oct. 13. (it will also get a theatrical run later in the month). it’s an offbeat com-ing-of-age comedy set in rural oklahoma in 1987, where Danielle (Juno temple) treks across the country to los angeles to find her birth father. also starring William H. Macy, Milla Jovovich, and Mary Steenburgen.

ThE arTiST — this silent film set in the Jazz age tackles, appropriately enough, the end of the silent film era as an up-and-coming dancer (Berenice Bejo) and a sizzled-out leading man (Jean Dujardin) cross paths on their way to and from stardom. French writer and director Michel Hazanavicius snagged John Goodman, James cromwell, and penelope ann Miller to co-star in his black-and-white epic, which scored a black-and-white epic, which scored a

palme d’or nomination at cannes.

ThE BiG yEar — Steve Martin, owen Wilson, and Jack Black star as bird-watching friends who challenge each other to spot the most species of birds in north america in 12 months. (10/14)

FooTLooSE — MtV Films brings back an ‘80s classic, with a few updates. the uptight adults of Bomont now outlaw dancing because a group of teens get killed in a car crash, Ren Mccormack bears a Bawstan accent instead of a chicago one, and there’s a lot more bump n’ grind. Starring Kenny Wormald, Julianne Hough, and Dennis Quaid. (10/14)

ThE ThiNG — it’s one thing to tread on Footloose, but you don’t go touch-ing John carpenter. Mark elizabeth Winstead stars in this prequel, which takes place three days before the 1982 original, when scientists discovered a shape-shifting alien buried deep in the antarctic ice. let’s just say the situation doesn’t bode well for them. (10/14)

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ThE SkiN i LivE iN — antonio Banderas stars as a sadistic surgeon who, while pulling off an uncanny cary Grant, holds an anonymous woman captive in his estate for reasons unknown. Director pedro almodóvar called the film “a hor-ror story without screams or frights,” which seems appropriately melodramat-ic for the Spanish director. (10/14)

ThE MiGhTy My My aCS — carla Gugino rallies a women’s basketball team at the small immaculata University to an unprec-edented championship in 1972, with a little help from the college’s tough-love nuns. David Boreanaz co-stars as Gugino’s nBa referee husband, while a referee husband, while aellen Burstyn joins in as the head of the school, Mother St. John. (10/21)

ParaNorMaL aCTiviTy 3 y 3 y — is this some kind of Halloween tradition now? the latest addition to the cam-horror franchise explains how Katie (Katie Featherston) and Kristi (Sprague Grayden) first encountered the demon that would later possess them. at least it isn’t another Saw movie. (10/21)

ThE ThrEE MUSkETEErS iN 3d — paul W.S. anderson’s knows exactly how to spruce up a timeless classic by alexandre Dumas — three-dimensional steampunk! Matthew Macfayden, luke evans, and Ray Stevenson play the titular sword-bearers, who face off against the likes of christoph Waltz’s cardinal Richelieu. (10/21)

MarGiN CaLL — this Wall Street drama follows employees at a large investment bank as they realize they’re sitting on the brink of the 2007 financial collapse. the narrow premise is bolstered by writer and director J.c. chandor’s screenplay, which landed on the 2010 Black list, a collection of the best unproduced screenplays in Hollywood. (10/21)

aNoNyMoUS — this may shock you, but Roland emmerich is apparently capable of not laying waste to the planet. not laying waste to the planet. notthe German director dives into con-spiratorial alt-history in this political drama, which imagines edward de Vere (Rhys ifans) as the true author behind Shakespeare’s work — and a guy who Shakespeare’s work — and a guy who

incestuously lusts after Queen elizabeth i (Vanessa Redgrave). Factual destruc-tion can still be apocalyptic, right? (10/28)

iN TiME — Justin timberlake, amanda Seyfried, and cillian Murphy star in a dystopian thriller where everybody stops aging at 25 and time is money. the bad news? that’s the whole damn premise. the good news? as Gattaca showed, writer and director andrew niccol has a deft hand with tacky sci-fi. (10/28)

JohNNy ENGLy ENGLy iSh rEBorN — Britain’s favorite bumbling super-spy returns, eyebrows and all, after Mi-7 calls him out of retirement to investigate a threat again the chinese premier. Maybe its patriotism, but i’ll stick with The Naked Gun. (10/28)

ThE rUM diary — Based on the Hunter diary — Based on the Hunter diaryS. thompson novel of the same name, Johnny Depp putzes around puerto Rico as paul Kemp, an alcoholic journalist who writes for the San Juan Star and can’t stop chasing after a woman named can’t stop chasing after a woman named

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chenault, played by amber Heard. (10/28)

LikE CraZy — y — y a British exchange student a British exchange student a(Felicity Jones) falls in love with a los angeles college boy (angeles college boy (angeles college boy ( nton yelchin), but gets booted out of the country after overstaying her visa to be with him. then, like hundreds of thousands before them, the couple learns the plight of the long distance relationship. Winner of the Grand Jury prize at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. (10/28)

noVeMBerPUSS iN BooTS — Has anyone stopped to think how the Shrek franchise has affected Grimm’s Fairy tales? in the lat-est animated adventure, puss in Boots (a(a( ntonio Banderas) gets retconned as a swashbuckling hero that doubles as a killer merchandising opportunity. (11/4)

ToWEr hEiST — Working stiffs hire eddie Murphy to help them steal millions from a businessman who defrauded their pena businessman who defrauded their pen-

sions down to nothing. (11/4)

a vEry haroLd & kUMar 3d ChriSTMaS— Good news, everybody! neil patrick Harris didn’t die after he got shot in the head in retaliation for branding a prostitute back in that texas whore-house in Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay. i know y’all were wor-ried about that. (11/4)

My WEEy WEEy k WiTh MariLyN — Michelle Williams dons the iconic blonde curls in an adaptation of two books by colin clark, who wrote about escort-ing Marilyn Monroe around Britain during the filming of The Prince and the Showgirl. also starring Kenneth Branagh, Dougray Scott, and emma Watson. (11/4)

iMMorTaLS — the myths of theseus and the Minotaur gets the 300 treatment in a movie that you won’t be surprised to learn will involve minimal clothing, heavy racial overtones, and 3D glasses. But director tarsem Singh still managed to snare Henry to snare Henry cavill, Mickey Rourke, avill, Mickey Rourke,

and Freida pinto for it, so he’s got that going for him. (11/11)

JaCk aNd JiLL — adam Sandler is a man! adam Sandler is a woman! adam Sandler is increasingly comfortable with his crippling addiction to terrible, well-paying comedies! (11/11)

J. EdGar — the clint eastwood-directed biopic starring leonardo Dicaprio and armie Hammer allegedly punts the topic of J. edgar Hoover’s rumored cross-dressing habits and closeted homosexu-ality, which is a damn shame — what the hell am i going to do with all these custom-bedazzled “leo & armie 4eva!” t-shirts i ordered? (11/9)

MELaNChoLia — lars von trier turns his eyes away from genital mutilation and foxes that eat their own entrails with this somber science-fiction drama about a woman abandoned on her wedding night and a rogue planet that threatens to destroy earth, all under the umbrella of German romanticism. (yof German romanticism. (yof German romanticism. ( ea, it’s that kind of movie.) Kirsten Dunst, kind of movie.) Kirsten Dunst, charlotte


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Gainsbourg, and Kiefer Sutherland star. (11/11)

haPPy FEET TWy FEET TWy o — More dancing pen-guins! not much needs to be written about this concept, the animation, or the celebrity-loaded credits. So instead: Awwwww. (11/18)

ThE TWiLiGhT SaGa — BrEakiNG daWN (ParT oNE): i’m told that Breaking Dawnfeatures a c-section preformed via vam-piric fang. and a telepathic fetus. and superhuman sex scene that knocks a woman out cold. these are not things iexpected to happen in a teen book series about vampires. (11/18)

ThE dESCENdaNTS — George clooney plays a man living in Hawaii who is forced to re-examine his indifferent attitude towards his family after his wife suffers a boating accident and falls into a coma. Directed by Sideways’ alexander payne. (11/18)

ThE MUPPETS — Kermit, Miss piggy, and the gang team up with some new friends — including Jason Segel and amy adams — to save the Muppet theater from an oil prospector who wants to drill on the land. expect all the classic Muppet flour-ishes. (11/23)

PiraNha 3ddd — prehistoric piranhas return to lake Victoria just in time for bikini season. if this horror comedy plumbs as low as its predecessor did, there’s a decent chance its classiest qual-ity will be its title. Starring Ving Rhames and christopher lloyd. (11/23)

a daNGEroUS METhod — yet another David cronenberg-Viggo Mortensen collaboration, but without the blood and violence they’ve come to regularly deliver. Mortensen plays Sigmund Freud, who pushes his fledging protégé carl Jung (Michael Fassenbender) as Sabina Spielrein (Keira Knightley) threatens to wedge them apart. (11/23)

hUGo — Martin Scorsese dives headfirst into 3D filmmaking with an adaptation of The Invention of Hugo Cabret, about an orphan (aan orphan (aan orphan ( sa Butterfield) living within the walls of a paris train station. if it’s as half as whimsically fantastic as the novel, Hugo will be a delight. (11/23)

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deCeMBerWE NEEd To TaLk aBoUT kEviN — an adap-tation of the chilling lionel Shriver novel of the same name, tilda Swinton stars as a mother who recounts the events sur-rounding the high school massacre com-mitted by her son. (12/2)

NEW yEar’S EvE — Garry Marshall decid-ed Valentine’s Day wasn’t enough of a romantic blight, so he spawned an unho-ly sequel with another bloated ensemble cast. i’d rather watch an oral history of Flag Day. (12/9)

ThE SiTTEr — after getting booted out of college, foulmouthed noah (Jonah Hill) moves home and babysits to earn some extra cash — but loses the kids after he drags them to a party. this comedy’s hard-R rating could very well mean that director David Gordon Green’s made the filthiest babysitting movie ever. (12/9)

aLviN aNd ThE ChiPMUNkS: ChiPWrECkEd— okay, i lied. i’d rather go see New Year’s Eve than listen to high-pitched rodents squeal at me for 90 minutes. (12/16)

ShErLoCk hoLMES: a GaME oF ShadoWS — With major roles lined up for professor Moriarty (Mad MenMoriarty (Mad MenMoriarty ( ’s Jared Harris) and Mycroft Holmes (Stephen Fry), Guy Ritchie’s follow-up seems to be aiming for the meat of Sir arthur conan Doyle’s best detective stories. (12/16)

ThE iroN Lady — Meryl Streep steps up ady — Meryl Streep steps up adyto play British prime Minister Margaret thatcher in this phyllida lloyd-directed biopic, because apparently 16 academy awards isn’t enough for her. (12/16)

ThE advENTUrES oF TiNTiN — Stephen Spielberg, who originally bought the rights to tintin in the early ‘80s, directs this motion-capture 3D film about Belguim’s favorite fictional journalist and Snowy, his faithful terrier. Starring Jaime Bell, andy Serkis, and Daniel craig. (12/23)

ThE darkEST hoUr — When invisible aliens descend on earth to devour the planet’s electricity, a group of young people traveling in Russia try to fight

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LiLLy’S PUrPLE PLaSTiC PUrSE — even lilly has some bad days, but when you have movie star sunglasses and a purple plastic purse, how bad can it be? From the book by Kevin Henkes and adapted for the stage by Kevin Kling. Directed by nick olcott (9/23-10/31) • ‘TWaS ThE NiGhT BEForE ChriSTMaS — anew children’s play by tony-award nominated and olivier award Winning Ken ludwig. Directed by Jerry Whiddon (11/18-1/2/12) • ThE SNoWyWyWday — celebrate the 50th anniversary of the first american picture book that featured an african-american child as the main character. the simple tale of a boy waking up to discover that snow has fallen during the night is brought to life in the magical world premiere (1/20-2/12/12) • aLEXaNdEr aNd ThE TErriBLE, horriBLE, No Good, vEryBad day — Book and lyrics by Judith Viorst, with music by Shelly Markham (3/2-4/9/12) • FivE LiTTLE MoNkEyS— in this zany play, all in cumulative verse, five silly simian siblings insist on doing things their own way. it’s monkey mayhem (4/27-6/3/12) • iF yoU GivE a MooSE a MUFFiN — in this sequel to If You Give a Mouse a Cookie, a moose will almost always be a big-

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aMEriCaN CENTUry Try Try hEaTErGunston theater ii2700 South lang St.arlington, Va.703-998-4555americancentury.org

ThE CoUNTry GirL — a crackling, a crackling, acomplex mid-century drama about a troubled marriage complicated by the stresses of show business. By clifford odets (9/9-10/8) • LiTTLE MUrdErS — ellen Dempsey directs this mordant comedy produced at the peak of Sixties insanity by political and social satirist/cartoonist Jules Feiffer (1/13-2/11/12) • oN ThE WaTErFroNT — the stage ver-sion of Budd Schulberg’s screenplay for the movie classic concerns union violence and corruption on the new york docks. Directed by Kathleen akerly (3/30-4/28/12) • SiSTEr Mary iGNaTiUS EXPLaiNS iT aLL For yoU — Joe Banno makes his act directing debut with this hard-nosed comedy that skewers religion, dogma, and the catholic church. cam McGee plays the title role (6/8-7/7/12) • MaraThoN‘33 — the acclaimed experimental play by actress/singer/dancer June Havoc, the real life “Baby June” of Gypsy, rec-reating her harrowing years as a mara-thon dancer. a theatrical tour de force a theatrical tour de force a

that combines music, dance, history and desperation in one of american century theater’s most ambitious pro-ductions. Directed by Jack Marshall with musical direction by thomas Fuller (7/27-8/25/12)

arENa STaGEMEad CENTEr For aMEriCaN ThEaTEr1101 6th St. SW202-488-3300arenastage.org

TroUBLE iN MiNd — in 1957 on Broadway, battle lines are drawn within a newly integrated theater com-pany preparing to open a misguided race play on the Great White Way. as personalities and prejudices col-lide, lead actress Wiletta Mayer has the chance to achieve her most glori-ous dream, but at what cost? e. Faye Butler stars (now to 10/23, Kreeger) • ThE Book CLUB PLay — a new work a new work aby Karen Zacarias (10/7-11/6, Kogod) • EqUivoCaTioN — Set in london, 1605, Bill cain’s high-stakes political thriller reveals the complexities of the truth and the terrible consequences of compromise (11/18-1/1/12, Kreeger) • yoU, NEro — as Rome collapses beneath emperor nero’s outrageous narcissism, a forgotten playwright tries to restore order through the art of theater. pulitzer prize finalist amy Freed’s wild farce questions whether well-crafted drama and intellect are any match for decadence and blood-shed (11/25-1/1/12, Fichandler) • rEd — Winner of six tony awards, includ-ing Best play, Red depicts the brilliant and passionate painter Mark Rothko facing the biggest challenge of his career. a co-production with a co-production with a chicago’s Goodman theatre. Directed by Robert Falls and starring edward Gero (1/20-3/4/12, Kreeger) • ELEPhaNT rooM — absurdist performance duo Rainpan absurdist performance duo Rainpan a43 and magician Steve cuiffo create a new theatrical event filled with magic and comedy (1/20-2/26/12, Kogod) • ah, WiLdErNESS! — Kyle Donnelly directs eugene o’neill’s sweet-tem-pered, romantic comedy (3/9-4/8/12, Fichandler) • LoNG day’S JoUrNEy iNTo NiGhT — the darker side of o’neill is represented in this pulitzer prize-winning classic (3/30-5/6/12, Kreeger) • ThE MUSiC MaN — Meredith Willson’s rousing musical features such timeless

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classics as “76 trombones.” Directed by Molly Smith and starring Kate Baldwin (5/11-7/22/12, Fichandler) • LikE WaTEr For ChoCoLaTE — a World a World a premiere of a pre-Broadway musical based on the bestselling novel and steeped in the his-tory and magic of Mexican folktales (6/8-7/29/11)

CoNSTELLaTioN ThEaTrE

1835 14th St. nW202-204-7741constellationtheatre.org

arMS aNd ThE MaN — George Bernard Shaw’s timeless classic comedy (10/20-11/20) • BLood WEddiNG — two families in rural Spain are caught up in a cycle of murder and revenge (2/2-3/4/12) • ThELovE oF ThE NiGhTiNGaLE — a king and a king and aqueen watch a play within a play in a mythical land (5/3-6/2/12)

doMiNioN STaGEGunston arts center2700 S. lang St.arlington, Va.571-377-4697dominionstage.org

TakE ME oUT — in Richard Greenberg’s play, Darren lemming, the star center fielder of the world champion new york empires comes out as gay and trouble ensues (10/7-23) • drEaMGirLS — anya nebel directs and David Moretti pro-duces Henry Krieger’s unforgettable musical (1/13-1/28/12) • NovEMBEr — David Mamet’s political satire, revolv-ing around a presidential incumbent’s declining chances for reelection. Sound familiar? (5/18-6/9/12)

FoLGEr ThEaTrE201 east capitol St. Se202-544-7077folger.edu

oThELLo — one of Shakespeare’s finest tragedies, a dramatic story of manipu-lation and betrayal. Robert Richmond directs owiso odera and ian Merrill

peakes as othello and iago. costumes by William ivey long (10/18-11/27) • ThEGaMiNG TaBLE — the thrills of the gaming table play out against the eccentricities of english manners in this stylish com-edy by early-18th century playwright Susanna centlivre (1/24-3/4/12) • ThETaMiNG oF ThE ShrEW — aggressive petruchio takes on the headstrong Kate in Shakespeare’s quintessential battle of the sexes redefines the boundaries of love. the would-be couple are played by real-life couple cody nickell and Kate eastwood norris. Directed by aaron posner (5/1-6/10/12)

Ford’S ThEaTrE511 10th St. nW202-347-4833fordstheatre.org

ParadE — ostracized for his faith and northern heritage, Jewish factory man-ager leo Frank is accused of murder-ing a teenaged factory girl the day of the annual confederate Memorial Day parade. alfred Uhry’s award-winning book and Jason Robert Brown’s haunting

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score illuminate a circus of conflicting accounts, false testimony and mishandled evidence in a town reeling with social and racial tension. a co-production with a co-production with atheater J (9/23-10/30) • a ChriSTMaSCaroL — edward Gero returns to play Scrooge in Michael Wilson’s adaptation of the Dickens classic (11/18-12/31) • NECESSary SaCriFiCES — in a work com-missioned by Ford’s, playwright Richard Hellesen explores the two documented encounters between Frederick Douglass and abraham abraham a lincoln during a period of national crisis. as lincoln searches for a way to end slavery in the summers of 1863 and 1864, Douglass’s rhetoric and conviction challenges the presi-dent to envision a post-emancipation world. together, the men imagine not only a unified nation but a society that brings truth to the Declaration of independence’s assertion that “all men are created equal.” Directed by Jennifer l. nelson (1/20-2/12/12) • 1776 — a buoyant musical about the forging a buoyant musical about the forging aof america’s democracy. peter Flynn directs and Michael Bobbitt provides the choreography (3/9-5/19/12)

ForUM ThEaTrERound House Silver Spring8641 coleville RoadSilver Spring, Md.240-644-1390forumtd.org

Mad ForEST — on the eve of the Romanian Revolution, and under the eternal watch of the secret police, two families (one poor and one wealthy) struggle to retain their friendship. By caryl churchill (9/22-10/15) • ThELaNGUaGE arChivE — Julia cho’s prize-winning play asks whether love is a uni-versal language or, like esperanto, just a well-intentioned dream (2/16-3/10/12) • ThE iLLUSioN — tony Kushner freely adapted this work from pierre corneille’s L’illusion comique. Mitchell Hebert directs (5/24-6/16/12)

GaLa hiSPaNiC ThEaTrE3333 14th St. nW202-234-7174galatheatre.org

¡ay, Caray, Cara MELa! — carmela and paulino, a vaudeville comedy duo, have fallen into

the hands of Franco’s fascists troops during the Spanish civil War. Forced to put on a performance, they rehearse their show — flamenco songs, the paso doble, and bizarre comedy routines. But as heels and castanets clatter, their own intriguing story unfolds. By José Sanchis Sinisterra. Directed by José luis arellano-García (now to 10/9) • aNNa iNThE TroPiCS — the arrival of a new “lec-tor” at a 1929 cuban cigar factory in ybor ybor ycity, Florida becomes a catalyst amongst the workers. Forbidden passions are unleashed in this pulitzer prize winning play about the transformative power of literature in a landscape that pits old traditions against changing economic realities. By nilo cruz. Directed by José carrasquillo (2/9-3/4/12) • i PUT ThEFEar oF MEXiCo iN ‘EM — a humorous and a humorous and acomplex work that explores stereotypes and challenges notions of boundaries, safety and identity. Directed by abel abel alopez (4/11-4/29/12) • PUErTo riCo…¡FUá!— a hilarious and satirical take on the a hilarious and satirical take on the amost notorious times in history of the island and the development of today’s “Boricua,” carlos Ferrari’s musical was

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an instant hit in puerto Rico when it first opened. Hugo Medrano directs (6/7-7/1/12)

ThE iN SEriESVarious locales202-204-7760inseries.org

LovE PoTioN #1 — Director nick olcott sets his hip english adaptation in a D.c. high school in the 1950s (10/15-10/29, Gala) • arLEN BLUES & BErLiNBaLLadS — the songs of irving Berlin and of blues-and-jazz great Harold arlen defined what america played and sang and danced to for much of the 20th century. Directed by abel abel a lopez (12/3-12/11, atlas) • BarBEr & BarBEriLLo — in Samuel Barber’s 10-minute pocket-opera A Hand of Bridge, two couples play cards and share their inner thoughts. Barbieri’s light opera The Little Barber of Lavapies features romantic intrigue and uproarious hijinks (1/7-1/22/12, Source) • FroM ShUFFLE To ShoW BoaW BoaW T — a mix a mix aof music from 1920s black musicals, operetta tunes, and blues, jazz and

tin pan alley selections (2/24-3/4/12, atlas) • …dE Mi CoraZoN LaTiNo — alatin-american songbook celebration featuring Mexican tenor Jesus Daniel Hernandez, mentored by placido Domingo himself (4/13-4/21/12, Source) • idoMENEo — one of Mozart’s early operas (6/9-6/17, atlas)

kEEGaN ThEaTrEchurch Street theatre1742 church St. nW703-892-0202keegantheatre.com

ThE CrUCiBLE — arthur Miller’s classic portrait of one man’s struggle toward grace is set in the scorching context of the 17th-century Salem witch trials. Directed by Susan Marie Rhea (10/22-11/19) • aN iriSh CaroL — Set in a Dublin pub, this world premiere by Matthew Keenan is a homage to Dickens’ classic — told as only the irish can. Directed by Mark a. Rhea (12/3-12/31) • LaUGhTEroN ThE 23rd FLoor — one from neil Simon’s autobiographical period, the comedy is based on the playwright’s

experience as a writer for Sid caesar’s Your Show of Shows (1/21-2/18/12) • TWELvE aNGry MEN ry MEN ry — a roomful of jurors a roomful of jurors adeliberate after hearing the arguments in a seemingly open-and-shut case. as prejudices are tested and evidence weighed, the entire jury is forced to look past the show of the courtroom to unearth the shocking truth (3/3-3/25/12) • WorkiNG ThE MUSiCaL — Stephen Schwartz (Wicked) adapted his musical Wicked) adapted his musical Wickedabout what it means to work from the book by Studs terkel (4/14-5/13/12) • SPriNG aWakENiNG — inspired by Frank Wedekind’s controversial 1891 play about teenage sexuality and society’s efforts to control it, the piece features a sensational rock score by Duncan Sheik (6/2-7/8/12) • CUChULLaiN — aaron can’t pay his drug dealer and won’t get a soul-numbing job — so he dares to take on the welfare state in this dark and comic ride from irish playwright Rosemary Jenkinson (6/9-7/1/12) • aUGUST: oSaGE CoUNTy — tracy letts’ family saga won the 2008 pulitzer prize for drama. Directed by Mark Rhea (7/28-8/26/12)

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kENNEdy CENTEdy CENTEdy r2700 F St. nW202-467-4600kennedy-center.org

TWo doGS’ oPiNioN oN LiFE — the national theatre of china presents this impro-visational, avant-garde comedy, a story of two brother dogs who leave their hometown for the city to pursue their dreams (9/20-21, terrace) • LESMiSEraBLES — a new 25th anniversary a new 25th anniversary aproduction of the sumptuous, unforget-table musical, featuring all new staging and scenery inspired by the paintings of Victor Hugo (9/28-10/30, opera House) • ToP rESTaUraNT — Beijing people’s art theatre brings this popular 1988 piece set in a restaurant and revolv-ing around peking Duck (9/30-10/2, eisenhower) • NorMaN — Film, dance, music and theater collide in this tribute to filmmaker norman Mclaren (10/6-8, eisenhower) • BiLLy ELLioTT ThE MUSiCaL— elton John penned the tunes for this 2009 tony award-winning musical, based on the film (12/13-1/15/12, opera House) • aNN: aN aFFECTioNaTE PorTraiToF aNN riChardS — this one-woman show about the late texas politician is a showpiece as well for its star, Holland taylor (12/17-1/15/12, eisenhower) • La CaGE aUX FoLLES — the much-heralded, richly intimate revival of the spectacular Jerry Herman musical. Starring George Hamilton and christopher Sieber (1/17-2/12/12, eisenhower) • GyPSiES — the love, tensions and conflicts of Gypsies in the Hungarian countryside are chron-icled in this electrifying work from the famed Katona Jozsef theatre company (3/15-3/17/12, eisenhower) • CoME FLy aWay — ay — ay a tribute to the music of Frank a tribute to the music of Frank aSinatra from the great choreographer twyla tharp (4/18-4/29/12, eisenhower) • PaL JoEy — a new Kennedy a new Kennedy a center production of the Rodgers & Hart clas-sic, directed by christopher ashley and featuring such classics as “Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered” (6/2-7/1/12, eisenhower) • MEMPhiS — the 2010 tony-winning musical about a white radio DJ who, in the 1950s, tries to help a black club singer make it big (6/12-7/1/12, opera House) • ThE addaMSFaMiLy — the world of Gomez, Morticia and lurch are brought to life in this dark, comic musical (7/10-7/29/12, opera House)

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METro STaGE1201 north Royal St.alexandria703-548-9044metrostage.org

SavaGE iN LiMBo — John patrick Shanley’s brutal classic (now to 10/16) • aBroadWay ChriSTMaS CaroL — Michael Sharp directs Kathy Feininger’s cross between the Dickens classic and paro-dies of classic show tunes (11/17-12/18) • JoSEPhiNE ToNiGhT — Maurice Hines directs and choreographs this musical biography of legend Josephine Baker. With music by Wally Harper (1/26-3/18/12) • BE CarEFUL! ThE SharkS WiLLEaT yoU! — Jay alvarez recounts his fam-ily’s gripping escape from cuba in 1964 in this one-man show (4/4-4/22/12) • PLayiNG SiNaTra — a brother and sister a brother and sister ashare an unhealthy obsession for ol’ Blue eyes (5/10-6/17/12)

NaTioNaL ThEaTrE1321 pennsylvania ave. ave. a nW202-628-6161nationaltheatre.org

JErSEy BoyS — the much-anticipated return Washington, D.c., engagement of the tony, Grammy and olivier award-winning hit musical that tells the story of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons (11/10-1/7/12)

oLNEy Ty Ty hEaTrE CENTEr2001 olney-Sandy Spring Roadolney, Md.301-924-3400olneytheatre.org

WiTNESS For ThE ProSECUTioN — an adaptation of agatha christie’s short story (9/28-10/23) • ThE SoUNd oF MUSiC— olney solves that Maria problem with a large-scale production (11/16-1/1/12) • yoU’rE a Good MaN, CharLiEBroWN — Based on the comic strip Peanuts, the musical has a timeless, innocent quality — and a handful of show stopping numbers (“Suppertime,” “Happiness”) (2/22-3/18/12) • ThE 39 STEPS — Four actors play over 150 in this comedic adaptation of Hitchcock’s famous thriller. in it, a suave, somewhat bored englishman who naively agrees to date a mysterious woman he meets at the theatre and finds himself in a world of spies and adventures. (4/18-5/14/12) • SLEUTh — a wealthy mystery novelist a wealthy mystery novelist a

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invites his wife’s lover to his elegant, yet isolated country estate for a game of cat and mouse. We won’t spoil the surprise for those who’ve never seen it, but even if you know whodunit, Sleuth remains one of the best thrillers ever conceived for the stage (6/13-7/12/12) • LiTTLE ShoPoF horrorS — Fun with singing man-eating plants (8/1-8/26/12) • ThE royaLFaMiLy — Filled with conflict and chaos, y — Filled with conflict and chaos, ythis lively drama brings smiles to those who relate to the dysfunction of family life (9/26-10/21/12) • CiNdErELLa — the Rodgers and Hammerstein take on the enchanting fairy tale (11/14/12-1/6/13)

rEP STaGE10901 little patuxent parkwaycolumbia, Md.443-518-1500repstage.org

or — liz Duffy adams’ 2009 off-Broadway hit touches on the free love of the 1660s and is based on real life playwright aphra Behn and her roman-tic romps through Restoration england. Directed by Michael Stebbins (now to

9/18) • ThE PoE ShoW — W — W tony tsendeas, a nationally recognized interpreter of edgar allan poe’s writings, shares words and works by the master of the macabre (10/21-24) • BarryMorE — actor John Barrymore rents a Broadway theatre in 1942 — one month prior to his death — as he prepares to make a comeback to the stage. By William luce. Starring nigel Reed (10/26-11/13) • hoLidaySoN iCE — David Sedaris’ caustic holiday essays are brought to life. ‘tis the season for pessimism (12/16-19) • yELLoWMaN—Dael orlandersmith’s 2002 pulitzer prize finalist for drama details the rela-tionship between eugene, a fair-skinned black man, and alma, a dark-skinned black woman, as they struggle with issues of intraracial prejudice, domes-tic violence, and young love. Directed by Kasi campbell (2/8-2/26/12) • LaSMENiNaS — Set in the court of France’s louis XiV, lynn nottage’s drama is an irreverent and incisive reconsideration of the historical scandal involving Queen Marie-therese and a unique gift from africa (4/18-5/6/12)


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StageroroUNUNdd hohoUSE TUSE ThhEEaaTTrrEE4545 east-West HighwayBethesda, Md.240-644-1100roundhousetheatre.org

FahrENhEiT 451 — Bradbury’s master-piece about a future without books comes chillingly to life in an adaptation by the legendary author himself (now to 10/9) • rEENTry — an unflinching look at the lives of Marines returning

from iraq and afghanistan. Based on interviews with privates and colonels, combat vets and clerks, and one par-ticularly memorable family. Directed by KJ Sanchez (10/18-30) • PridE aNd PrEJUdiCE — Jane austen’s world of des-perate spinsters, determined bachelors, nosy neighbors, embarrassing relatives, and a smarmy cad or two is brought to life in this adaptation directed by Blake Robison (11/23-12/31) • NEXT FaLL — this

award-winning play by Geoffrey nauffts weaves a tale about two men in love, two parents in denial, and two friends on speed dial (2/1-2/26/12) • CroWN oFShadoWS: ThE WakE oF odySSEUS — agripping, modern take on the odyssey uses contemporary language and lean-ings to paint a chilling portrait of the family the warrior leaves behind. aWorld premiere written by Jason Gray platt. Directed by Blake Robison (4/11-5/6/12) • doUBLE iNdEMNiTy — When y — When yhard-boiled Walter Huff meets femme fatale phyllis nirlinger, the wife of one of his wealthy clients, he quickly realizes that she wants to get rid of her husband — and decides to help her do it. an adap-tation of the legendary novel by James cain (5/30-6/24/12)

ShakESPEarE ThEaTrE CoMPaNyHarman center for the arts610 F St. nWlansburgh theatre450 7th St. nW202-547-1122shakespearetheatre.org

ThE hEir aPParENT — David ives adapts Jean-Francois Regnard’s 1708 master-piece. Starring Floyd King and directed by Michael Kahn (now to 10/23, lansburgh) • FELa! — the story of leg-endary nigeran musician Fela Kuti, directed and choreographed by Bill t. Jones (now to 10/9, Harman Hall) • ThE BoyS FroM SyraCUSE — Based on Shakespeare’s Comedy of Errors, this Rodgers and Hart musical includes such well-known songs as “Falling in love with love” (11/4-6, Harman Hall) • kraPP’S LaST TaPE — John Hurt stars in Beckett’s masterpiece about a man who annually records a tape recounting his past year (11/29-12/4, lansburgh) • MUCh ado aBoUT NoThiNG — ethan McSweeny directs Shakespeare’s frothy comedy (12/25-1/1/12, Harman Hall) • TWo GENTLEMEN oF vEroNa (a roCk oPEra) — With a book by John Guare and music by Galt MacDermot (Hairand music by Galt MacDermot (Hairand music by Galt MacDermot ( ), Hair), Hairthis infrequently staged musical was a big hit of the ‘70s (1/27-1/29/12, Harman Hall) • ThE TWo GENTLEMEN oF vEroNa — Shakespeare’s earliest romantic comedy centers on a love triangle. Directed by p.J. paparelli (1/17-3/4/12, lansburgh) • PETrUShka — puppeteer Basil twist brings his 2001 work of puppetry and magic to involving the tragic love story

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by adam Gwon and direction by Joe calarco (now to 10/16, Max) • SWEETTEa: BLaCk Gay MEN oF ThE SoUTh — e. patrick Johnson’s one-man show based on his critically-acclaimed book explores the southern black gay community (now to 10/9, ark) • SaTUrday NiGhT — a 1953 a 1953 ahidden gem by Stephen Sondheim, the show will get a concert staging (10/29-30, Max) • a SECoNd ChaNCE — a World a World apremiere of an new musical about find-ing love when you are least looking for it (11/15-12/11, ark) • hairSPray — Robert ray — Robert rayaubrey Davis will take on the role of edna turnblad in this production of the effervescent musical by Marc Shaiman. eric Schaeffer directs (11/21-1/29/12, Max) • rEaLLy rEaLLy — paul Downs colaizzo’s new drama pushes the edges and embraces the harsh reality of today’s youth. Directed by Matthew Gardiner (1/31-3/25/12, ark) • BroThEr rUSSia— a World a World a premiere musical by John Dempsey and Dana Rowe, directed by eric Schaeffer, about a comically fourth-rate Russian theatre troupe that sets up

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of three puppets at a Russian carnival (3/16-3/25/12, lansburgh) • STraNGEiNTErLUdE — Michael Kahn directs eugene o’neill’s controversial, pulitzer prize-winning drama about love and deception (3/27-4/29/12, Harman Hall) • ThE SErvaNT oF TWo MaSTErS — carlo Goldoni’s magical comedia dell’arte mas-terpiece. Directed by christopher Bayes (5/15-7/1/12, lansburgh) • ThE MErry WivES oF WiNdSor — Stephen Rayne directs this classic Shakespearean come-dy centering around the romantic foibles of Falstaff (6/12-7/15/12, Harman Hall)

SiGNaTUrE ThEaTrE4200 campbell ave. ave. aarlington, Va. 703-820-9771signature-theatre.org

ThE hoLLoW — a chilling musical reina chilling musical reina -terpretation by Matt conner of the clas-sic thriller The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. Directed by eric Schaeffer (now to 10/16, Max) • ThE Boy dETECTivE FaiLS— a detective tries to solve the murder a detective tries to solve the murder aof his younger sister. Music and lyrics

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• ChriS hardardWWiiCCk, Jok, JoNNah ah rray aay aNNd d MaTT Mira — nerdist podcast live!, a night of comedy (11/6) • BLiNd PiLoT(11/6) • CoLd War kidS (11/7-8) • MoE.(11/11-12) • FiTZ aNd ThE TaNTrUMS(11/13) • MaNChESTEr orChESTra W/ThE dEEr hUNTEr (11/14) • TiNariWEN& arChiTECTUrE iN hELSiNki (11/15) • oWL CiTy (11/16) • y (11/16) • y PETEr MUrPhy & ShE WaNTS rEvENGE (11/16) • MikEdoUGhTy aNd hiS BaNd FaNTaSTiC(11/17) • TraMPLEd By TUrTLES (11/18) • SUPEr diaMoNd (11/19) • ThE kookS(11/20) • ThE SMokEr’S CLUB ToUr ParTdEaUX 2011: METhod MaN, BiG k.r.i.T., SMokE dZa — a rap-lovin’ stoner’s a rap-lovin’ stoner’s adelight (11/21) • ThE airBorNE ToXiCEvENT (11/22) • hoLy GhoST! W/JESSiCa 6 (11/23) • STaTE radio (11/25) • ThEy MiGhT BE GiaNTS (11/26) • JUkEBoX ThEGhoST (12/1) • dark STar orChESTra— Recreating the Grateful Dead experience (12/2-3) • vNv Nav Nav TioN(12/6) • BEady EyE (12/8) • JaNE BirkiN(12/9) • CiTy aNd CoLoUr (12/10) • ThEPiETaSTErS & ThE SLaCkErS (12/16) • virGiNia CoaLiTioN (12/17)

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aTari TEENaGE rioT (9/17) • CLaP yoUr haNdS Say yEah (9/17) • MoLoTov(9/18) • GirLS (9/19) • PEPPEr & ThEEXPENdaBLES (9/20) • PETEr hook aNd ThE LiGhT W/dJ STErEo FaiTh — the former Joy Division and new order bassist will perform with his new band Joy Division’s album The Closer(9/21) • MaTES oF STaTE (9/21) • ELBoW(9/22) • ThE hEad aNd ThE hEarT W/Thao WiTh ThE GET doWN STay doWN(9/23) • kyUSS LivES! (9/24) • MaSoNJENNiNGS (9/25) • FoSTEr ThE PEoPLE(9/26) • MaTT NaThaNSoN W/vaNESSa CarLToN — a folk-rock concert that a folk-rock concert that asome would walk “a thousand Miles” to see (9/27-28) • MoGWai (9/29) • ThEBridGE (9/30) • dEErhooF (10/1) • daSraCiST (10/1) • ThEoPhiLUS LoNdoN(10/3) • BEN harPEr (10/4-5) • ThEBaNGLES — all the cops in the donut shop say, “the ‘80s hitmakers are still around?” (10/6) • TraNS aM & LES Savy Fav (10/7) • Fav (10/7) • Fav roBErT raNdoLPh aNd ThEFaMiLy BaNd (10/8) • JaMES BLakE — arising British electronic artist (10/9) • BoyCE avENUE (10/10) • LadyTroN W/vhS or BETa (10/11) • Uh hUh hEr — the electro-rock duo featuring the L Word’s leisha Hailey returns after a spring concert (10/12) • rJd2 & iCEBird(10/12) • LiSa haNNiGaN — an unforget-

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(10/7) • ChriS SMiThEr — a ‘60s blues a ‘60s blues arevivalist (10/8) • SaM BUSh — Grammy-winning artful mandolin player (10/12) • ENTEr ThE haGGiS — toronto-based celtic rock band known for its unfor-gettable ballads and punk-rock beats (10/13) • ChaiSE LoUNGE — a collective a collective aof the area’s best jazz musicians, includ-ing vocalist Marilyn older, reviving ‘60s-era big band music (10/15) • NoEL“PaUL” STookEy — the paul of peter, paul & Mary (10/16) • oLLaBELLE — levon Helm’s daughter amy leads this bluegrass/blues/gospel group (10/20) • BaTTLEFiELd BaNd — traditional Scottish folk (10/21) • JESSE WiNChESTEr (10/22) • FoSTEr & LLoyd — High energy country-rock duo, back together after 20 years apart (10/26) • SoNNy LaNdrETh — Blues slide guitarist (10/27-28) • CiviL War voiCES — a Barter a Barter a theatre production, weaving true stories with traditional music to offer a new look at one of the most divisive eras in american history (11/2)]]] • GirLyMaN — a sweet and sensia sweet and sensia -tive queer quartet of three girls and a boy in the acoustic-leaning folk-pop harmony style reminiscent of the indigo Girls and

paul Simon (11/3) • LiviNGSToN TayLor(11/4-5) • daLa — canadian acoustic-folk duo (11/9) • EriC BraCE & LaST TraiNhoME — a night of country and roots-a night of country and roots-arock (11/10) • roBErT BELiNić — this croatian guitarist makes his Wolf trap debut as part of the venue’s Discovery Series (11/11) • ThE BoBS — an a cappellagroup (11/12) • MELiSSa MaNChESTEr — Her soaring voice gave flight to such ‘70s masterpieces as “Don’t cry out loud,” “Midnight Blue” and “through the eyes of love” (11/17) • CaTiE CUrTiS W/MEG hUTChiNSoN — a folk rock goddess a folk rock goddess aand a fellow acoustic songwriter (11/18) • ThE GraNdSoNS — D.c.-based party music quartet performs for one of several nights at the Barns this season when patrons are encouraged to dance (11/25) • JohN EaToN — Jazz pianist offers a lec-ture and performance, “indiana on our Minds” (11/26) • CarBoN LEaF — celtic-influenced Virginia rock band, making its Barns debut (1/6-1/7/12) • PaUL CEBar & ThE MiLWaUkEEaNS — World music dance band performs for one of several nights at the Barns this season when patrons are encouraged to dance (1/14/12)

BLaCk CaT1811 14th St. nW202-667-4490blackcatdc.com

ThE LEMoNhEadS — twenty-five years into its career, evan Dando’s alt-rock band will perform its major-label debut, 1992’s It’s A Shame About Ray, in its entirety (10/7) • TUNE-yaE-yaE-y rdS — two shows from this capitalization-crazed, npR-loving band (10/8) • har Mar SUPErSTar — porn legend Ron Jeremy is the improbable physical inspiration for this white R&B performer, who often appears nearly nude (10/11) • ThEdaMNEd — a 35th anniversary concert a 35th anniversary concert afor the British punk band, who helped pioneer the goth genre (10/23) • WEWErE ProMiSEd JETPaCkS — a promising a promising aname for this new Scottish band, at the least (10/27) • M83 — popular French electronic shoegazing band (10/28) • ThESoUNdS W/NaTaLia kiLLS — it’s a crime that more people don’t know Blondie-esque Swedish pop-rockers the Sounds; British singer natalia Kills was an open-ing act for Robyn (11/5) • TaNdoori kNiGhTS — King Khan and Bloodshot Bill

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Pop Musicmake up this canadian punk band (11/15) • PhaNToGraM (11/16) • FU MaNChU — this “stoner rock” band from california will perform its 1996 album In Search Of… in its entirety (11/17) • JoE LaLLy (11/20) • ThE radio dEPT — Swedish dream pop band (11/22)

BLaCk FoX LoUNGE1723 connecticut ave. ave. a nWblackfoxlounge.com

aLEX vaNS (9/17, 10/29, 11/19) • Mark WaLTEr BraSWELL’S Two Guys…Become Interns — Mikey Interns — Mikey Interns cafarelli and paul Scanlan play D.c. interns in this funny and touching new musical revue, with accompaniment by Jason Solounias, performed on Mondays (9/19, 9/26, 10/3, 10/10) • harriS FaCE — alternative folk singer/guitarist (9/22) • Gay MEN’SChorUS oF WaShiNGToN — the GMcW hosts a monthly open-mic night at Black Fox (10/13, 11/10, 12/8) • BrETT raNdELL— singer/songwriter (10/15) • ToM GoSSaNd GaLaCTiCa — the popular local folk troubadour tom Goss performs with Jeffrey Johnson’s drag alter-ego, a Super

agent; will Goss don drag too? (10/21-22) • raChEL PaNay W/ThE CLEvELaNd Park JaZZ qUarTET (10/24, 11/14, 11/28, 12/12, 12/26)

ThE BirChMErE3701 Mount Vernon ave.ave.aalexandria , Va.703-549-7500birchmere.com

MarShaLL CrENShEW — a ‘30th a ‘30th aanniversary tour’ with the Bottlerockets (9/16) • rahSaaN PaTTErSoN — a Stevie a Stevie aWonder-styled R&B singer (9/17) • kENNy G — a rare acoustic duo pera rare acoustic duo pera -formance between the easy-listening tenor saxophonist and pianist Robert Damper (9/18) • vaN hUNT (9/20) • rENaiSSaNCE — British prog-rock band performs the albums Turn of the Cars and Scheherazade and Other Stories in their entirety (9/22) • MELiSSa FErriCk W/ria MaE — the lesbian folker and past capital pride performer returns to support her new album Still Right Here(9/24) • X — Band will show its film The Unheard Music and then perform

its entire album Los Angeles as well as other hits (9/27) • STaFF BENda BiLiLi — Street musicians from the Democratic Republic of congo (9/28) • Mary ChaPiNCarPENTEr — after Hurricane irene can-celled her Wolf trap show, carpenter arranged with the Birchmere to perform for two nights in the intimate venue; you might say irene was a blessing-in-dis-guise in this instance (10/3-4) • hErMaN’ShErMiTS FEaTUriNG PETEr NooNE (10/8) • SPiN doCTorS — the ‘90s hitmakers perform Pocket Full of Kryptonite in its entirety (10/9) • STEPhEN STiLLS (10/10) • BoyZ ii MEN (10/11-12) • karLa BoNoFF(10/14) • kEiko MaTSUi (10/17) • BaaBa MaaL (10/19) • ChELy WriGhT W/LUCy WaiNWriGhT roChE — a night of capa night of capa -tivating country from the out Wright, plus, with opener Roche (half-sister to Rufus and Martha) a side of sweet folk (10/20) • BELLy horror (10/21) • SUEdE& viCkiE ShaW — W — W the lesbian cabaret artist Suede is a stunning performer, and she’ll perform a show with lesbian standup comedian Vickie Shaw (10/22) • MaTThEW SEW SEW WEET — Sweet tours to cel-ebrate the 20th anniversary of his album

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Pop MusicGirlfriend, which he’ll perform in its entirety, plus new tunes from Modern Art (10/26) • david CaSSidy (10/30) • ray MaNZarEk & roBBy kriEGEr oF ThE doorS— Jim Morrison was unavailable (10/31) • raChaEL yayay MaGaTa — the northern Virginia native returns for a hometown show (11/1) • aNThoNy david (11/2) • dELBErT MCCLiNToN (11/4) • oLETa adaMS— “Get Here” if you can (11/5) • ShELBy LyNNE (11/8) • MiChaEL FraNkS (11/10) • dar WiLLiaMS (11/11-12) • MEShELLNdEGEoCELLo — the bisexual folk/funk singer/songwriter, raised in D.c., will sing about the Weather (11/15) • ThEriPPiNGToNS FEaTUriNG rUSS FrEEMaN(11/17) • kELLy WiLLiS & BrUCE roBiSoN(11/18) • ThE WhiSPErS (11/20) • ToWEr oF PoWEr (11/21) • kENNy “BaByFaCE” EdMoNdS (11/22-23) • a PETEr WhiTEChriSTMaS (12/1) • FoUr BiTChiN’ BaBES(12/2-3) • ovEr ThE rhiNE — Holiday Show (12/4) • aMEriCa & JiM MESSiNa— Holiday Harmony tour (12/5-6) • JarS oF CLay (12/8) • vaNiLLa FUdGE(12/9) • 1964: ThE TriBUTE — all about the Beatles (12/10) • avEry SUNShiNE & TriNa BroUSSard (12/11) • dWELE (12/15)

• PiECES oF a drEaM (12/17) • JakEShiMaBUkUro (12/20) • JEWMoNGoUS FEa-TUriNG SEaN aLTMaN (12/21) • SoUThSidEJohNNy & ThE aSBUry JUkES (12/29) • 15Th aNNUaL haNk WiLLiaMS TriBUTE — among those performing in this tribute are cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer, Bill Kirchen, Robin & linda Williams & their Fine Group! (12/30)

BLUES aLLEy1073 Wisconsin ave. ave. a nW202-337-4141bluesalley.com

MiTCh WiNEhoUSE — Jazz vocals from the late amy’s dad; maybe he’ll cover a tune or two of hers? (9/20) • Maria MULdaUr — Roots and blues singer, best known for her seductive ‘70s hit “Midnight at the oasis” (10/4) • JoNaThaN BUTLEr— Grammy-nominated South african “soul jazz” performer (10/13-16) • JaCqUi NayLor — “Billie Holiday’s inflections and a touch of June christy,” hometown paper the San Francisco Examiner says of naylor (10/19) • JaMES CoTToN - a blues a blues aharmonica legend (10/28-29)

CLariCE SMiTh PErForMiNG arTS CENTErUniversity of Marylandcollege park, Md.301-405-aRtSclaricesmithcenter.umd.edu

arTUro TaPPiN & ErNEST raNGLiN — tappin, “the smoothest saxophonist the caribbean has to offer,” performs with Ranglin, the Jamaican guitarist who helped birth the ska genre in this concert presented by the american Foundation for the University of the West indies (9/23) • JaMES FarM — a boundary-a boundary-apushing jazz quartet led by saxophonist Joshua Redman and also featuring pia-nist aaron parks, bassist Matt penman and percussionist eric Harland (9/25) • aNda UNioN — a Mongolian folk a Mongolian folk aensemble championing magical tunes all-but lost during china’s tumultuous past (9/30) • UMd JaZZ: BiG BaNd PrE-haLLoWEEN SCrEaM — the UMD Jazz ensemble, UMD Jazz lab Band and University Bands team up for a spooky, spirited night of music (10/24) • WaTEr iS riSiNG (11/4) • NEW york FESTivaL oFSoNG: MaNNiNG ThE CaNoN: SoNGS oF Gay

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LiFE — a musical exploration of a gay a musical exploration of a gay aman’s experience, as told through the “gay songs” of cole porter, leonard Bernstein, William Bolcom and more (11/15) • WiNTEr BiG BaNd ShoWCaSE— the UMD Jazz ensemble, UMD lab Jazz Band and University Jazz Band offer a swinging concert of clas-sic and contemporary jazz works (12/7) • ovErToNE qUarTET — a supergroup a supergroup aof jazz musicians all acclaimed as solo artists, including bassist Dave Holland, pianist/composer Jason Moran, saxo-phonist chris potter and drummer eric Harland (2/12/12)

dar CoNSTiTUTioN haLL1776 D St. nW202-628-4780dar.org/conthall

iL voLo — pop-opera trio of three italian teenagers (10/5) • SCrEaM ToUr - ThENEXT GENEraTioN — a night of up-a night of up-aand-coming rappers and hip hop acts, including Mindless Behavior, Diggy, new Boyz, Jacob latimore, Hamilton park and oMG Girlz (10/9) • kUrTiSBLoW — From the new to the old, one W — From the new to the old, one Wof rap’s first stars stops at constitution Hall (10/13) • dUraN dUraN — British pop-rockers tour in support of last year’s All You Need Is Now (10/16) • STiNG — all these decades later, he’s still the King of pain (10/29) • 3 doorSdoWN — Mississippi grunge rock (11/13) • Tori aMoS — the quirky pop pianist tours in support of Night of Hunters, a classical-tipped song cycle that should be as appealing to fans as it is ambitious in scope (12/5)

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JiM Ward W/BraNdoN BUTLEr — the founding member and guitarist of at the Drive-in as well as Sparta and Sleepercar frontman, Jim Ward now steps out solo; he’s joined by D.c.’s Brandon Butler, once a member of emo band Boys’ life B(9/20) • dEad MEadoW— a D.a D.a c.-based indie band, with Fugazi connections, performs an all Hallows’ eve show; now that’s spooky (10/31)

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Pop MusicFiLLMorE SiLvEr SPriNG8656 colesville RoadSilver Spring, MD301-960-9999fillmoresilverspring.com

Mary J. BLiGE — the area’s newest concert venue, owned by live nation, launches with a bang (9/15) • BrUCE iNThE USa — a tribute band to a tribute band to a the Boss (9/16) • JohN LEGENd — He may not yet live up to his name, but John legend has certainly become a celebrated R&B heavyweight (9/17) • MoS dEF & TaLiBkWELi arE BLaCk STar — a decade later, a decade later, athe two underground rappers re-team in this Rock the Bells production (9/18) • BLoNdiE — Debbie Harry and com-pany are back (9/20) • BriNG ME ThEhoriZoN W/ParkWay drivE, arChiTECTS, WhiLE ShE SLEEPS, dEEZ NUTS (9/23) • PriMUS — (9/24) • ChEaP TriCk — Do you still want them? (9/27) • WMZqhoMEGroWN CoUNTry MUSiC SPoTLiGhTW/JohN LUSkEy, JULiENNE irWiN (9/28) • PrETTy LiGhTS W/NiT GriT (9/29) • ThEPSyChEdELiC FUrS & ToM ToM CLUB — the new wave “pretty in pink” band tours with the “Genius in love” husband-and-

wife duo, former members of the talking Heads (9/30) • GEorGE ThoroGood & ThEdESTroyErS (10/2) • LEvoN hELM (10/3) • JoE JoNaS & Jay SEaN — the cute Jonas Brother, taylor Swift’s former boy-friend, tours with the cute British rapper (10/5) • TrEy aNaSTaSio BaNd — trey anastasio is still phish-ing, now as part of a 10-piece eponymous band (10/13) • BLUE oCToBEr — texas rock (10/14) • yNGWiE MaLMSTEEN — Swedish heavy metal guitarist (10/15) • Mayday ParadE— We are the in crowd, you Me at Six, there for tomorrow, the Make (10/16) • BUSh & ChEvELLE W/FiLTEr (10/17) • 3 GUiTar hEroES — Michael Schenker, Uli Jon Roth & leslie West (10/18) • J.CoLE— a newcomer in Jay-Z’s posse, J.a newcomer in Jay-Z’s posse, J.a cole tours to support his debut set, Cole World: The Sideline Story (10/19) • NEvEr ShoUT NEvEr - plain White t’s, a Rocket a Rocket ato the Moon, Fake problems, carter Hulsey (10/20) • yoNdEr MoUNTaiNSTriNG BaNd — colorado-based progres-sive bluegrass (10/21) • MoBy — Glow presents a DJ night with the electronica artist, touring in support of Destroyed (10/26) • STS9 (SoUNd TriBE SECTor 9)

(10/27) • BETWEEN ThE BUriEd aNd ME W/aNiMaLS aS LEadErS, TESSEraCT — Saints & Sinners tour, in time for Halloween(10/28) • ChroMEo — French-canadian electro-funk duo (10/29) • ZiGGy MarLEy — Bob’s oldest son and “Melody Maker” carries on his father’s brand of reg-gae (10/30) • ChriS yoUNG W/ThE dirTdriFTErS (11/2) • aNThraX & TESTaMENTW/dEaTh aNGEL (11/6) • MaC MiLLEr W/PaC div, CaSEy vEGGiES (12/1) • ThE dEviLWEarS Prada W/WhiTEChaPEL, ENTEr Shikari, For Today (12/9)

ioTa CaFE2832 Wilson Blvd.arlington, Va.703-522-8340iotaclubandcafe.com

ThE 9 SoNGWriTErS SEriES — local song-writers Justin trawick, andy Zipf, tom o’connor, owen Danoff, allison Bruno, Zachary J., adam Bruno, nita chawla, Sara Slowinski (9/26) • JUNiPEr LaNE(10/8) • ThE rUiNS W/BLaME iT oN JaNE(10/9) • Bio riTMo (10/27)

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BaCh SiNFoNiatakoma ppark/Silver Spring performing erforming arts center Silver Spring, Md.Silver Spring, Md.301-362-6525301-362-6525bachsinfonia.org bachsinfonia.org

SUoNi BELLi: iNSTrUMENTaL WoNdErSoF ThE iTaLiaN BaroqUE — a journey a journey ainto the italian Baroque with a concert of grand instrumental works from the heart of italy: rarely heard master-pieces of albinoni, Dall’abaco and abaco and aalessandro Scarlatti, a virtuosic trum-pet sonata by torelli and two works by Vivaldi (10/15) • aNNUaL ChaMBEr PErForMaNCE:ThE BaCh ProJECT — experience the soaring beauty of Baroque and classical period flutes and violoncello of the Bach project in a program that will transport you to 18th-century France and Germany (1/28/12) • yoUdECidE: BaCh’S aUdiTioN aT LEiPZiG — in 1722, the leipzig town council held auditions to fill the post of cantor. Johann christoph Graupner won the audition, but Bach received the appointment after Graupner’s employer would not release him from his duties. this program explores the audition works heard by the people and leipzig town council, conclud-ing by tallying audience votes to see who should have received this coveted

position (3/31/12) • ThE BohEMiaNBaroqUE:ZELENka — the first hearing in

north america of the complete cycle of works by Jan Dismas Zelenka,

whose rich and colorful output rep-resents an absolute pinnacle of high Baroque art equal to that of his bet-ter known european contemporaries (5/5/12)

BaLTiMorE SyMPhoNy orChESTra410-783-8000bsomusic.org

MahLEr’S Resurrection — Marin Resurrection — Marin Resurrectionalsop conducts the BSo along with soprano layla claire, mezzo-soprano Susan platts and the Baltimore choral arts Society in a performance of Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 (9/15-17) • TChaikovSky aNd dvorák — Marin alsop conducts the BSo and 29-year-old cellist alisa Weilerstein in a program of tchaikovsky’s grip-ping Symphony No. 6, “Pathétiqueand Dvorák’s Cello Concerto plus a world premiere of James lee iii’s Chuphshah! Harriet’s Drive to Canaan, about Harriet tubman’s yearning for emancipation (9/23-25) • GUTiErrEZPLayS MoZarT — yan pascal tortelier conducts the BSo and cuban pia-nist Horacio Gutierrez in a program

of Sibelius and of Sibelius and elgar in addition to Mozart’s sunny and charming Mozart’s sunny and charming Piano Concerto No. 19Concerto No. 19 (10/1-2) • ThE MUSiCoF ELToN JohN aNd MorE — Broadway star (star (Movin’ Outstar (Movin’ Outstar ( ) and pianist Michael Movin’ Out) and pianist Michael Movin’ Outccavanaugh performs some of the piano man’s greatest hits in this BSpiano man’s greatest hits in this BSoSuperSuperpops concert Series (10/13-16) • MoZarT aNd dEBUSSy — y — y new york’s Mostly Mozart Festival Director Mostly Mozart Festival Director louis llangrée conducts the BSo and violinist James James ehnes in a performance that’s an indirect tribute to France, with an indirect tribute to France, with two works by Frenchman Debussy two works by Frenchman Debussy and Mozart’s and Mozart’s Symphony No. 31, “Paris”“Paris” (10/20-22) • “Paris” (10/20-22) • “Paris” raChMaNiNoFF’SThirdThird — Vasily Third — Vasily Third petrenko conducts the BSBSo and pianist Barry Douglas in a program that also includes Rimsky-program that also includes Rimsky-Korsakov’s Korsakov’s Capriccio Espagnol and lliszt’s Piano Concerto No. 1 (10/28-30) • ESSENTiaLLy aMEriCaN — Baritone William Sharp in a program of William Sharp in a program of aamerican composing legends, includ-ing ing aaron copland’s Appalachian SpringSpring and George Gershwin’s Spring and George Gershwin’s Spring An American In ParisAmerican In Paris (11/10-13) • JoaNoF arC aT ThE STakE — on the cusp of the 600th anniversary of Joan of of the 600th anniversary of Joan of aarc’s birth, Marin alsop conducts a performance of the arguably the a performance of the arguably the most powerful depiction of her tramost powerful depiction of her tra-vails, Honegger’s 1935 Jeanne d’Arc au Bûcher; the BSo is joined by the Morgan State University chorus, peabody Hopkins chorus and peabody children’s chorus, in a pre-carnegie Hall concert (11/17-18) • haNdEL’SMessiah — Messiah — Messiah edward polochick conducts and plays the harpsichord along with soprano Karen clift, mezzo-soprano Krisztina Szabó, tenor nicholas phan, baritone Stephen powell and the concert artists of Baltimore Symphonic chorale in this holiday special (12/2-3) • hoLiday CirqUE dELa SyMPhoNiE — Holiday favorites from the BSo while contortionists and juggling acts offer an awe-inspiring performance as the circus meets the symphony (12/7-11) • JakE EvErLy aNd ThE BroThErS GErShWiN — Jake everly conducts the BSo Superpops, along with pianist Stewart Goodyear and Broadway star Judy Mclane (1/5-1/8/12) • iTZhak PErLMaN — the famous conductor and violinist joins the BSo to perform Vivaldi, Mozart and Brahms; it doesn’t get much more mass-appeal than that (1/12-1/15/12)

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• TChaikovSky’S First Piano Concerto— pianist olga Kern in a program that also includes Ravel’s Boléro and Strauss’s Also Sprach Zarathustra(1/19-1/22/12) • LIFE: A Journey Through Time — Marin Through Time — Marin Through Time alsop con-ducts a performance of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 6 “Pastoral” as well as the philip Glass piece that gives the program its title (1/27-1/29/12)

BarNS aT WoLF TraP1645 trap RoadVienna, Va.703-255-1900wolf-trap.org

ThE ahN Trio — the chamber trio kicks off Wolf trap’s annual Discovery Series in a celebration of Founder’s Day with a new Wolf trap co-com-mission, BraziliAHN (10/14) • BraziliAHN (10/14) • BraziliAHN EaSTCoaST ChaMBEr orChESTra (ECCo)— a 17-piece chamber orchestra of a 17-piece chamber orchestra of ayoung musicians, part of Wolf trap’s Discovery Series (2/3/12)

CLariCE SMiTh PErForMiNG arTS CENTErUniversity of Marylandcollege park, Md.301-405-aRtSclaricesmithcenter.umd.edu

UMd WiNd orChESTra — “Music from prague” honors czech-born com-poser Karel Husa, to celebrate his 90th birthday (9/29) • UMd SyMPhoNy orChESTra & LEFT BaNk qUarTET — a“Mountaineers” concert, featuring a performance of Schoenberg’s Concerto for String Quartet, Ruggles’s Marching Mountains, Sibelius’s Symphony No. 2 and “an unexpected prelude” (9/30) • rEFLECTioNS FroM ThE kEyBoard: ThE LiSZT CoNNECTioN — With the international piano archives at Maryland, five pianists present a selec-tion of Franz liszt’s piano works in celebration of his bicentennial (10/2) • UMd SyMPhoNy orChESTra (10/28) • UMd WiNd orChESTra (11/4) • TakáCSqUarTET — a program of Janácek, a program of Janácek, aBritten and Ravel, all 20th-century masters who pushed the boundar-ies of classical music while retaining the lush melodic qualities of ear-lier eras (11/12) • MaryLaNd oPEra STUdio: MENoTTi’S Amelia al Ballo aNd PUCCiNi’S Il Tabarro (11/19-22) • UMdChaMBEr SiNGErS & U ChoraLE (11/20)

• aNNUaL kaLEidoSCoPE oF BaNdS — the UMD Wind ensemble, UMD Wind orchestra, University Band, community Band and Mighty Sound of Maryland Marching Band team up to honor music with a special significance in this country’s history, 150 years after the civil War began (12/9)

CooLidGE aUdiToriUMaT ThE LiBrary oF CoNGrESSthomas Jefferson Building 10 First St. Se202-707-8000loc.gov/concerts

FraNZ LiSZT BiCENTENary ProJECThiGhLiGhTS: LoUiS LorTiE — the cel-ebrated pianist performs liszt’s monu-mental suites Années de Pèlerinage [Years of Pilgrimage]: Deuxième Année and Troisième Année (10/19); MarTiNBrUNS & ChriSToPh haMMEr — Swiss baritone and fortepiano expert offer a recital evoking the intimacy of a Hausmusik evening in liszt’s day (10/22); BarTók aNd ThE LiSZT LEGaCy: SoLoiSTS FroM ThE BUdaPEST FESTivaLorChESTra, W/PiaNiST JENć JaNdó — the national Symphony orchestra’s former conductor iván Fischer leads the Budapest Festival orchestra in a chamber concert tracing liszt’s musical legacy in another towering Hungarian composer (10/25) • daNiELhoPE — Violinist Hope is joined by several other instrumentalists in East Meets West, which begins and ends in india and nods to the famous yehudi Menuhin/Ravi Shankar collabora-tion (10/28) • FoUNdEr’S day CoNCErTWiTh GENova & diMiTrov — Hailed for rov — Hailed for rovtheir technique and excitement, the Bulgarian-born pianists offer a concert of showstoppers (10/29) • MoZarTPiaNo qUarTET — German group known for its passion and technical brilliance (11/4)

d.C.’S diFFErENT drUMMErS202-403-3669dcdd.org

arChiTECTS oF MUSiC — DcDD’s Fall concert features guest pianist anna Maria Raffaella and music by Respighi, eric Whitacre, Kenneth alford, JS Bach and liszt (11/5, columbia Heights educational campus) • hoLiday PriSM CoNCErT - Featuring Dc Swing!

and other DcDD small ensembles (12/11, columbia Heights educational campus)

FairFaX SyMPhoNy orChESTra703-563-1990fairfaxsymphony.org

WiLLiaM BoUGhToN aNd kariNa CaNELLakiS — Boughton conducts the FSo in its season opener featuring guest violinist canellakis performing chausson and Saint-Saëns, though the focus is on John corigliano’s Three Hallucinations, taken from the score for Ken Russell’s film Altered States and Hector Berlioz’s Symphonie Fantastique (9/17) • aLTUraS dUo aNd JaviEr FaríaS — alturas Duo special-izes in the indigenous music of South america and the group joins the FSoto perform a world premiere of a dou-ble concerto by chilean Farias, a com-poser for classical guitar music (10/22) • yoLaNda koNdoNaSSiS — the musical dynamo performs argentinian alberto Ginastera’s exotic, colorful Harp Concerto in a program with the FSothat also includes Mozart, Schubert and Samuel Barber (11/22)

FoLGEr CoNSorTFolger elizabethan theatre201 east capitol St. Se202-544-7077folger.edu

a NEW SoEW SoEW NG: CELEBraTiNG ThE 400Th aNNivErSary oF ThE kiNG JaMES BiBLE — the Washington national cathedral’s cathedra chamber choir joins the Folger consort in its season opener, with music inspired by the visionary, world-changing translation of the Bible by King James (9/30-10/2) • o MaGNUMMySTEriUM: ChriSTMaS MUSiC FroMrENaiSSaNCE SPaiN — a vocal ensemble a vocal ensemble afeaturing soprano Rosa lamoreaux and baritone William Sharp, the wind ensemble piffaro, the Renaissance Band and an organist present holiday music from the 16th-century Spanish Golden age (12/9-18)

Gay MEN’S Cay MEN’S Cay horUS oF WaShiNGToN, d.C.202-293-1548gmcw.org

rEd & GrEENE, FEaTUriNG ELLEN GrEENE— Broadway’s original audrey from Little Shop of Horrors joins the chorus

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for its annual holiday show and season kick-off (12/16-18, lisner auditorium) • ThE kidS arE aLL riGhT — pittsburgh’s performing arts troupe Dreams of Hope joins the chorus in a celebration champi-oning gay equality for youth and adults, featuring powerful songs and stories from lGBt youth and allies (2/18/12, lisner) • The Rocky Horror Show — The Rocky Horror Show — The Rocky Horror Show an all-male version of the wild, gender-bending cult musical, produced by spe-cial arrangement with Samuel French (3/16-3/18/12, lisner) • ToGEThEr aGaiN— the chorus’s ensembles potomac Fever and Rock creek Singers join forces for an entertaining evening of songs (4/21/12, new york avenue avenue a presbyterian church) • hEarT ThroBS — a showcase a showcase aof adoring men in music, conjuring a “teenage Dream” or twenty, from your first fantasy dream date to a boy band crush (6/2-6/3/12, lisner)

kENNEdy CENTEdy CENTEdy r202-467-4600kennedy-center.org

MaThiaS haUSMaNN — Vocal arts Dcpresents baritone Hausmann, known for his versatility and artistic charisma (10/12) • NEW york FESTivaL oF SoNG — “Songs for one and all: an evening of Solo Song cycles and Vocal Quartets,” in this program presented by Vocal arts Dc (10/22) • Tokyo STriNG qUarTET — Kicking of the Fortas chamber Music season with Mozart, Szymanowski and Dvorak (10/26) • ThE orioN STriNGqUarTET — a program of Bach, Schubert, a program of Bach, Schubert, aWebern and Brahms (11/1) • kENNEdy CENTEr ChaMBEr PLayErS — Violinist nurit Bar-Josef, cellist David Hardy and pianist lambert orkis offers a pro-gram of Bach and Mendelssohn (11/6) • aUGUSTiN hadELiCh — noted violinist offers a recital, accompanied by pianist Rohan de Silva, of Beethoven, poulenc, Zimmermann, Brahms and Sarasate (12/7) Lydia TEUSChEr — Up-and-coming German soprano, presented by Vocal arts Dc (1/26/12)

NaTioNaL PhiLharMoNiCMusic center at Strathmore5301 tuckerman lanen. Bethesda, Md.301-493-9283nationalphilharmonic.org

CoriGiLiaNo’S rEd vioLiN CoNCErTo aNd BEEThovEN’S SyMPhoNy No. 9 — the first woman to lead a major U.S. orchestra, Buffalo philharmonic’s Joann Falletta makes her debut conducting the national philharmonic with violinist Michael ludwig, soprano esther Heideman, mezzo-soprano patricia Miller, tenor John aler and bass Kevin Deas (10/1-2) • aLL BEEThovEN — piotr Gajewski con-ducts the orchestra with pianist piotr paleczny (11/5-6) • WoMEN PioNEErS — Former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine albright hosts this charity-benefiting concert with violinist chee-yun, soprano audrey elizabeth luna, mezzo-soprano Magdalena Wór, tenor Robert Baker and baritone Jordan Shanahan (11/12) • haNdEL’S Messiah — Stan Messiah — Stan Messiah engebretson conducts this signature holiday piece (12/10-11)


dakShiNa daNCE Co.202-247-1292dakshina.org

ThE arT oF PEaCE SiTar CoNCErT FEaT. aLiF LaiLa — this annual concert com-memorates Mahatma Gandhi’s birth-day and contributions to peace (10/2, Westminster presbyterian church) • LEELa SaMSoN’S SoLo PErForMaNCE — performing as part of the 8th annual Fall Festival of indian arts (10/7, lincoln theatre) • kaLakShETra PErForMS SaMSoN’S Spanda — performing as part of the Fall Festival of indian arts (10/8, lincoln)

daNCE PLaCE3225 8th St. ne202-269-1600danceplace.org

BoWEN MCCaULEy daNCE — among those “who have helped transform Washington into one of the nation’s liveliest centers for the performing arts,” says Washingtonian (10/1-2) • STEP iT UP dC — Dance place Step team offers dance workshops for the whole family followed by an informal performance (10/7) • daNa Tai SooNBUrGESS & CoMPaNy — y — y premiering Becoming American, examining the processes surrounding acculturation into our multifaceted american land-scape (10/14-16) •daNCE EXChaNGE— in Hammock, Dance exchange artists Sarah levitt and Benjamin Wegman explore and experience rest as a defiant and aggressive act (12/3-4) • EUrEka daNCE FESTivaL (12/9-10) • kWaNZaa CELEBraTioN (12/17-18)

FLaMENCo FEST: FUEGo FLaMENCo viiGala theatre at tivoli Square3333 14th St. nW202-234-7174galatheatre.org

the seventh annual festival includes: Flamenco Algarabía with ana González and José Barrios & company (11/17-20); Flamenco Men with the Flamenco aparicio Dance company (12/3-4)

Joy oF MoTioN202-399-6764joyofmotion.org

daNCE ProJECT – a ChorEoGraPhy ShoWCaSE — Witness cutting-edge and original works presented by novice

and established choreographers (12/3, Jack Guidone theater) • PErCUSSivEdaNCE ProJECT (1/28/12, Jack Guidone theater)


ThE SUZaNNE FarrELL BaLLET — Kennedy center’s resident ballet celebrates its 10th anniversary season by presenting two all-Balanchine programs (10/12-16) • BEiJiNG daNCEThEaTEr — Founded in December 2008, the first contemporary dance troupe in china performs Haze, a full-length work that responds to the economic and environmental crises of early 2009 (10/26-27) • MErCECUNNiNGhaM daNCE CoMPaNy — the beloved company returns to the Kennedy center for the first time since its founder’s death in July 2009, and the last before dissolving later this year (12/2-3) • aMEriCaN BaLLET ThEaTrE— a new version of a new version of a tchaikovsky’s clas-sic The Nutcracker first staged in The Nutcracker first staged in The Nutcracker new york last year (12/7-11)

LiSNEr aUdiToriUM aT GWU730 21st St. nW 202-994-6800lisner.org

SayaT Nova daNCE CoMPaNy — Journey Through Time is a new work from this armenian-american company out of Boston (9/17) • aNaNiaShviLi-raTMaNSky BaLLET GaLa — the world-famous prima Ballerina nina ananiashvili performs three ballets by the acclaimed choreographer alexei Ratmansky (11/6)

MUSiC CENTEr aT STraThMorE5301 tuckerman lanen. Bethesda, Md.301-581-5100strathmore.org

BaLLET hiSPaNiCo — Making its Strathmore debut with a D.c. pre-miere of Espiritu Vivo, a new work cre-ated especially for them by famed cho-reographer Ronald K. Brown (10/28) • CiTydaNCE PrESENTS ChriSToPhEr k. MorGaN & arTiSTS — program includes “Reveal,” a world premiere intended to

celebrate the new cityDance Black Box theater at Strathmore (11/18-20)

ThE WaShiNGToN BaLLET202-362-3606washingtonballet.org

ThE GrEaT GaTSBy — Septime Webre’s y — Septime Webre’s y“crazily ambitious, go for broke,” as the Washington Post put it, is back Washington Post put it, is back Washington Postby popular demand, this time with e. Faye Butler, Will Gartshore, Ryan Johnson and others joining to act out the jazz-age splendor immortalized in F. Scott Fitzgeralds’ story (11/2-6, Kennedy center) • ThE NUTCraCkEr — Septime Webre’s unique twist on the family favorite, set in D.c. with George Washington as the titular figure and King George iii as the Rat King (11/25-27, tHeaRc; 12/1-24, Warner theatre) • TWyTWyTW LaTharP: aLLaMEriCaN— company premiere of this homage to the high priestess of contemporary dance (2/22-2/26/12, Kennedy center)

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vELoCiTy dC daNCE FESTivaLHarman Hall610 F St. nW202-778-1190velocitydc.org

a special partnership between Dance/a special partnership between Dance/aMetroDc, Washington performing arts Society and the Shakespeare theatre company, this festival returns for a third year and expands to four days of world-class dance, performed in three programs: ProGraM a fea-tures anna Menendez and company, assanga Domask, Daniel Burkholder/the playGround, cityDance presents christopher K. Morgan & artists, coyaba Dance theater, Jilliam Boelte/Jordan Gehle/Keira Hart-Mendoza/Sara Hoke, Flamenco aparicio, Jane Franklin Dance, next Reflex Dance collective, the Washington Ballet Studio company and Urban artistry (10/20-21); ProGraM B fea-tures anna Menendez and company, Daniel Burkholder/the playGround, Jilliam Boelte/Jordan Gehle/ Keira Hart-Mendoza/ Sara Hoke, Dakshina/Daniel phoenix Singh, eDGeWoRKS, Flamenco aparicio, peaRSonWiDRiG Dance theater, Runquiao Du, the Washington Ballet and Urban artistry (10/22); and ProGraM C features anna Menendez and company, asanga Domask, Daniel Burkholder/the playGround, cityDance presents christopher K. Morgan & artists, coyaba Dance theater, Jilliam Boelte/Jordan Gehle/ Keira Hart-Mendoza/Sara Hoke, Dakshina/Daniel phoenix Singh, Flamenco aparicio, Jane Franklin Dance, the Washington Ballet Studio company and Urban artistry (10/23)

WaShiNGToN PErForMiNG arTS SoCiETy202-833-9800wpas.org

CoMPaNy | E — paul Gordon emerson’s new world dance company ofers NEXT:Israel, a celebration of chore-ographers with deep roots in israeli’s Gaga dance style (2/25/12, Harman center for the arts) • SavioN GLovEr(3/30-3/31/12, Warner theatre) • pilobolus (3/11-3/12/12, Harman Hall)

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arThUr M. SaCkLEr GaLLEry1050 independence ave. SWave. SWa202-633-4800asia.si.edu

LUXUry arTS oF ThE SiLk road — exceptional examples of arts and crafts from along the Silk Road in the central asian desert (opening 11/5) • SaNGGaM: ThE korEaN arT oF CEraMiCiNLay — the Freer’s Korean gallery reopens with an exhibition embody-ing the evolution of the distinctive Korean ceramic decoration known as Sanggam (opening 11/5) • ChiNESECEraMiCS: 10Th–13Th CENTUry — ry — ry two dozen chinese ceramics from the Freer collection highlight the glazes and the skills of artisans in the Song dynasty of nearly 1,000 years ago (opening 11/5)

arTiSPhErE1101 Wilson Blvd.arlington, Va.703-875-1100artisphere.com

daTa/FiELdS — a new media exhibition a new media exhibition ain which the viewer/listener becomes another connection in the flow and transfer of data, with works by caleb coppock, Mark Fell, andy Graydon, Ryoji ikeda and France Jobin. (9/22-11/27, terrace Gallery) • viCTor EkPUk — a mobile gallery featuring a mobile gallery featuring athis alexandria artist in the process of creating original art for an arlington county bus in the program of “art on the art Bus” (9/24-10/23, Works-in-progress Gallery) • CoNTraSTS By

aNdrEW ZiMMErMaNN — an exhibition of landscape photographs made in the colorado Front Range (9/27-11/12, Mezz Gallery) • roBErT hoFFMaN — the largest collection of handcrafted harmonica cases in the world, over 350 co-designed by “Hoff” with artists from a variety of mediums (11/15/11-1/28/12, Mezz Gallery) • aT hoME iNvirGiNia — Fine handmade objects for the home from the artisans center of Virginia (12/8/11-1/8/12, terrace)

CorCoraN GaLLEry oF arT500 17th St. nW202-639-1700corcoran.org

GordoN ParkS: PhoToGraPhS FroMThE CoLLECTioN — the Farm Security administration and Life photographer pioneered the journalistic style of engaging viewers in important issues through the eyes of an individual or family (10/1-1/16/12) • 30 aMEriCaNS— a wide-ranging survey of works by a wide-ranging survey of works by amany of the most important african-american contemporary artists of the last three decades, including nina chanel abney, Jean-Michel Basquiat, abney, Jean-Michel Basquiat, anick cave, Renée Green, David Hammons, Glenn ligon and purvis young. (10/1-2/12/12) • haNk WiLLiSThoMaS: STraNGE FrUiT — Running concurrently with 30 Americans is this group of approximately 12 new photographs and video works by this african-american artist who explores the presentation and the perception of

the black body (10/1-2/12/12) • NoW aTNiGhT aNNUaL FUNdraiSEr W/dJ SPooky— celebrated down-tempo electronica producer DJ Spooky will spin tunes and offer video projections (10/21)

FoLGEr ShakESPEarE LiBrary201 east capitol St. Se202-544-7077folger.edu

ThE ShakESPEarE LiBrary (ongoing) •MaNiFoLd GrEaTNESS: ThE CrEaTioN aNd aFTErLiFE oF ThE kiNG JaMES BiBLE — exhibit tells the little-known story of one of the most widely read and print-ed books in the history of the english language, marking its 400th anniver-sary in 2011 (9/23-1/15/12)

hirShhorN MUSEUM & SCULPTUrE GardENindependence avenue and Seventh avenue and Seventh aStreet SW202-633-1000hirshhorn.si.edu

aNdy WarhoL: ShadoWS 1978 — comprising 102 silkscreened and hand-painted canvases featuring distorted photographs of shadows generated in the famed popart artist’s studio (9/25-1/15/12) • dirECTioNS: EMPirE — the empire State Building as seen by andy Warhol, Douglas Gordon and Wolfgang Staehle (11/10-2/26/12) • hirShhorN360-dEGrE ProJECTioN By doUG aiTkEN— concurrent with the Suprsensorialexhibit, aitken will transform the

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Hirshhorn’s iconic circular building into a 360-degree panoramic cinematic space (every night in Spring 2012) • ai WEiWEi: aCCordiNG To WhaT? (10/12-2/13) • arT aNd dESTrUCTioN (2013)

LiBrary oF CoNGrESS10 First St. Se202-707-8000loc.gov/events

i LovE LUCy: aN aMEriCaN LEGENd — a special exhibit of items from the a special exhibit of items from the alucille Ball and Desi arnaz collection (now-1/28/12, James Madison Building) • To kNoW WiW WiW SdoM aNd iNSTrUCTioN: ThE arMENiaN LiTErary TradiTioN — commemorating the 500th anniversary of the first armenian printing press and book at Venice in 1512, and the designation of yerevan, armenia, as UneSco’s Book capital of the World in 2012 (opening 4/19/12)

LoNG viEW GaLLEry1234 9th St. nW202-232-4788longviewgallery.com

ThoMaS BUrkETT — Containment and Diversion portrays the damming, diverting and polluting of water, life’s most vital substance (now-10/2) • CLydE FoWLEr (10/6-11/6) • aMy GENSEr(11/10-12/11) • hoLiday GroUP ShoW(12/15-1/15/12) • MikE WEBEr (1/19-2/19/12) • ToNy SavoiE (2/17-3/25/12)

MaNSioN aT STraThMorEFirst Floor Galleries and Gudelsky Gallery Suite 5301 tuckerman lanenorth Bethesda, Md.301-581-5100strathmore.org

BUiLdiNG BridGES NoT FENCES — exploring the journey from traditional to digital media, as well as the aesthetic bridge that photojournalism builds between cultures, with works by Bruce Barnbaum, Dean Kessmann and Bruce McKaig (9/24-11/5) • iNTErNaTioNaLEXhiBiTioN oF FiNE arT iN MiNiaTUrE— intricately detailed works of art, painstakingly produced in miniature (11/19-12/30)

NaTioNaL BUiLdiNG MUSEUM401 F St. nW202-272-2448nbm.org

UNBUiLT WaShiNGToN — Featuring unrealized proposals for noteworthy architectural and urban design projects in Washington, D.c., from the 1790s to the present (11/19-Spring 2012) • hoUSE & hoME — a long-term exhibia long-term exhibia -tion tours houses both familiar and surprising, through past and present, challenging our ideas about what it means to live at home in america (opening 4/28/12)

NaTioNaL GaLLEry oF arT3rd Street and constitution ave. ave. a nW202-737-4215nga.gov

WarhoL: hEadLiNES — Featuring works that the famed gay artist created large-ly on headlines from tabloid news, doc-umenting his ahead-of-the-curve fas-cination with sensational news (9/25-1/2/12) • PiCaSSo’S draWiNGS, 1890-1921: rEiNvENTiNG TradiTioN — presenting the dazzling development of picasso’s drawings over a 30-year period—from the precocious academic exercises of his youth in the 1890s to the virtuoso works of the early 1920s, including the radical innovations of cubism and col-lage (2/5-5/6/12)

NaTioNaL GEoGraPhiC MUSEUM1145 17th St. nW202-857-7700nationalgeographic.com

BiG CaTS: vaNiShiNG iCoNS — photographs showcase the grandeur and plight of the world’s big cats – lions, tigers, cheetahs, leopards, jag-uars, snow leopards, clouded leopards and mountain lions (9/24-4/8/12) • aNiMaL GroSSoLoGy — y — y experience some of the slimiest, stinkiest and downright yuckiest creatures on earth (9/26-1/2/12) • oCEaN SoUL: PhoToGraPhS By BriaN SkErry — crafted with an artist’s deft applica-tion of color, light, and layout, images from award-winning photojournalist Brian Skerry reveal the beauty of the sea’s natural moments (10/5-1/2/12) • aNGLo-SaXoN hoard: GoLd FroMENGLaNd’S dark aGES — the only U.S. appearance of the largest hoard of

anglo-Saxon gold ever discovered (10/29-3/4/12)

NaTioNaL MUSEUM oF ThE aMEriCaN iNdiaNindependence avenue and 4th Street avenue and 4th Street aSW202-633-1000nmai.si.edu

iNdiviSiBLE: aFriCaN-NaTivE aMEriCaNLivES iN ThE aMEriCaS — this 20-panel banner exhibition focuses on the inter-actions between african american and native american people, espe-cially those of blended heritage (now-2/2/12) • a SoNG For ThE horSENaTioN — presenting the epic story of the horse’s influence on american indian tribes beginning with the return of horses to the Western Hemisphere by christopher columbus to the pres-ent day (10/29-1/7/13) • BEhiNd ThESCENES: ThE rEaL STory oF qUiLEUTEWoLvES — Bringing together rare works of art as a counterpoint to the supernatural storyline of the popular twilight saga (1/13-9/9/12)

NaTioNaL PorTraiT GaLLEryF and 8th Streets nW202-633-1000npg.si.edu

SEEiNG GErTrUdE STEiN: FivE SToriES— Featuring more than 50 artifacts and 100 works by artists from across europe and the U.S. detailing Stein’s life and work as an artist, collector and distinctive style-maker (10/14-1/22/12) • ThE BLaCk LiST: PhoToGraPhS By TiMoThy GrEENFiELd-SaNdErS — the Black list project is a photographic exhibit and documentary featur-ing portraits of prominent african americans (10/28-4/22/12)

ThE oLd PriNT GaLLEry1220 31st St. nW202-965-1818oldprintgallery.com

day iNTo NiGhT: WorkS By EMiLy TrUEBLood — the prints chosen for Day into Night are inspired by the bold, graphic lines of city architecture • WoodCUTS By iLSE SChrEiBEr-NoLL— a selection of woodcuts by the a selection of woodcuts by the aGerman-american artist based off the

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writings of German playwright and activ-ist Bertolt Brecht (9/23-10/23)

ThE PhiLLiPS CoLLECTioN1600 21st St. nW202-387-2151phillipscollection.org

ThE kLEE rooM — the phillips re-creates its Klee Room, the first room dedicated exclusively to paul Klee’s work by a museum (9/29-12/31) • dEGaS’S daNCErSaT ThE BarrE: PoiNT aNd CoUNTErPoiNT — Bringing together about 30 works from some of the world’s finest collections, the exhibition traces ballet in edgar Degas’s art from the 1870s to 1900 (10/1-1/8/12) • EyE To EyE: JoSEPh MarioNi — Fifteen recent glowing monochrome paintings by modernist Marioni are displayed with the artist’s selection of 30 works from the phillips collection in his first D.c. exhibition (10/22-1/29/12)

ProJECT 4 GaLLEry1353 U St. nW #302202-232-4340project4gallery.com

ELLiNGToN roBiNSoN: iN qUEST oF ThESUN — a solo exhibition of new work by a solo exhibition of new work by aD.c. artist exploring the ways by which people reach their physical and socio-economic location (now-10/15) • aGNESBoLT — a mixed-media show exploring a mixed-media show exploring athe distinction between artist and art col-lector (10/22-11/26)

SMiThSoNiaN aMEriCaN arT MUSEUM8th and F Streets nW202-633-7970americanart.si.edu

SoMEThiNG oF SPLENdor: dECoraTivEarTS FroM ThE WhiTE hoUSE — exploring the history of the decorative arts in the nation’s foremost home with 95 objects from the permanent collection of the White House (10/1-5/6/12) • iNvENTiNG a BETTEr MoUSETraP: PaTENT ModELS FroMThE roThSChiLd CoLLECTioN — Featuring 32 models illustrating the wide variety of 19th-century patented inventions submit-ted by inventors from across the United States (11/11-11/3/13) • MULTiPLiCiTy — y — ythe concept of making multiple images from the same matrix has been integral to printmaking, and each impression is considered to be an original work of art; 83 works by contemporary artists will be on display (11/11-3/11/12) • ThE arT oF

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vidEo GaMES — one of the first exhibi-tions to explore the forty-year evolution of video games as an artistic medium, with a focus on striking visual effects and the creative use of new technologies (3/16-9/30/12) • aFriCaN aMEriCaN arT iNThE TWENTiETh CENTUry — ry — ry a selection of a selection of apaintings, sculpture, prints, and photo-graphs by 43 black artists who explored the african-american experience from the Harlem Renaissance through the civil Rights era and the decades beyond (4/27-9/3/12) • 40 UNdEr 40: CraFTFUTUrES - Featuring 40 artists born since 1972, when the Smithsonian american art Museum’s Renwick Gallery opened (6/20/12-2/3/13)

ThE TEXTiLE MUSEUM2320 S St. nW202-667-0441textilemuseum.org

SECoNd LivES: ThE aGE-oLd arT oFrECyCLiNG TEXTiLES — exhibition high-lights the ways people in various cultures ingeniously have repurposed worn but precious fabrics to create beautiful new

textile forms (now-1/8/12) • WEaviNGaBSTraCTioN: kUBa TEXTiLES aNd ThEWovEN arT oF CENTraL aFriCa — the first exhibit in the U.S. to showcase the artistic inventiveness and graphic power of Kuba ceremonial dance skirts within a wide-ranging survey of Kuba design, which emerged in the early 17th century in what is now the Democratic Republic of congo (10/15-2/12/12) • draGoNS, NaGaS aNd CrEaTUrES oF ThE dEEP — Welcoming 2012 as the east asian calen-dar’s year of the Dragon, this exhibition presents a global selection of textiles depicting dragons and related fantastical creatures of legend (2/3-1/6/13)

ToUChSToNE GaLLEry901 new york ave. ave. a nW202-347-2787touchstonegallery.com

Mary LyNCh & LoU GaGNoN (now-10/2) • STEvE aLdErToN & LESLiE JohNSToN(10/5-30) • aNThoNy dorTCh Jr. — The Privileged Series presents in mixed-media the underbelly of the upper class (11/4-6) • riMa SChULkiNd — Eclipsed By The Cloud: The Detritus of Obsolescent

Technology presents six-foot sculptures of welded steel armatures (11/31-12/24)

WaShiNGToN PriNTMakErS GaLLErypyramid atlantic art center8230 Georgia ave.ave.aSilver Spring301-273-3660 washingtonprintmakers.com

9/11 TENTh aNNivErSary: arTiSTS’ rEaCTioNS — a selection of prints a selection of prints aby WpG artists that were created in response to the world-changing event (now-9/25) • WiThoUT rESErvaTioNS: aNNE MCLaUGhLiN — new images created by experimenting with clay and gelatin monoprints and the addition of gem-stones and beads (9/28-10/30) • doodLEdiGiT doT: MiChaEL haGaN — exploring intersections of hand-pulled printing with other graphic processes including drawing, photography, commercial print-ing and textile patterns (9/28-10/30) • havEN: PaULiNE JakoBSBErG (11/2-27)


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Comedy, Spoken Word, Discussions, Multi-media, Tastings, Tours, Etc.

aFi SiLvEr ThEaTrE8633 colesville RoadSilver Spring301-495-6720afi.com/Silver

oPEra iN CiNEMa — landmark produc-tions from some of the most venerable opera houses in europe, including: alive recording of la Scala’s La TraviaTawith angela Gheorghiu, Ramón Vargas and Roberto Frontali (9/24) • a live a live asimulcast from the Royal opera House of FaUST with angela Gheorghiu, Vittorio Grigolo, Rene pape and Dmitri Hvorostovsky (9/28; rebroadcast 10/1)

arLiNGToN CiNEMa N’ draFThoUSE2903 columbia pikearlington703-486-2345arlingtondrafthouse.com

ThE MariJUaNa-LoGUES LivE — an entertaining 90-minute show about life with (and without) marijuana, which is not included with ticket price (9/30, 10/1) • Brad GarrETT — Everybody Loves Raymond star does standup Loves Raymond star does standup Loves Raymond(10/18-19) • BriaN PoSEhN — Known for his deadpan delivery and evoca-tions of the stoner mentality, this char-acter actor has been seen on nBc’s

Just Shoot Me and comedy central’s The Sarah Silverman Program (10/22) • haL SParkS — Former host of e! television’s talk Soup but best known as Michael on Showtime’s Queer as Folk, cutie Hal Sparks offers two nights of stand-up (11/4-5)

ThE BirChMErE3701 Mount Vernon ave.ave.aalexandria703-549-7500birchmere.com

PaULa PoUNdSToNE — longtime stand-up comic, self-proclaimed “virginish” and “asexual,” is these days usually the funniest person on npR’s amus-ing weekend news quiz show Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me! (10/15) • kaTECLiNToN — lesbian comic offers a night of standup, which she’s calling “the Glee party” (11/19) • a JohN WaTErSChriSTMaS — the gay filmmaker returns for his annual show (12/18)

dar CoNSTiTUTioN haLL1776 D St. nW202-628-4780dar.org/conthall/

MarTha STEWarT — the Smithsonian presents this discussion of the legend-ary homemaker-entrepreneur on her influences and inspirations (11/17)

dC iMProv1140 connecticut ave. ave. a nW202-296-7008dcimprov.com

LoNi LovE — the funniest guest on Chelsea Lately returns for a weekend of standup (9/29-10/2) • dC iMProv aUdiTioN ShoWCaSE — ten local come-dians showcase the for the bookers of the club (10/6) • BoBBy LEE — the unforgettable MAD TV comic (10/7-9) MAD TV comic (10/7-9) MAD TV• davE aTTELL (10/20-23) • STEvE-o — the Jack-Ass prankster stops in town on his “entirely too much information tour” (12/1-4)

FiLLMorE SiLvEr SPriNG8656 colesville RoadSilver Spring, MD301-960-9999fillmoresilverspring.com

LEWiS BLaCk — Hilariously cranky comic returns for a hometown show and the first to christen the Fillmore Silver Spring for comedy (10/23)

FoLGEr ShakESPEarE LiBrary201 east capitol St. Se202-544-7077folger.edu

ELiZaBEThaN GardEN ToUrS — Docents offer tours of the Folger garden, inspired by herbal references in Shakespeare’s plays and also incor-porating plants popular in his time, plus a knot garden and Shakespearean statues by american sculptor Greg Wyatt (9/19, 10/17) • PEN/FaULkNEr GaLa: “ThE WriTiNG oN ThE WaLL” — David Remnick, Karen Russell, andrew Sullivan, James McBride, Kyoto Mori and other luminaries read original pieces focused on the theme of “the Writing on the Wall (9/26) • kJv iv iv N ThE USa: ThE kiNG’S BiBLE iN a CoUNTry WiThoUT a kiNG — Jill lepore, a New Yorker contributing writer, disNew Yorker contributing writer, disNew Yorker -cusses the influence of the King James Version of the Bible in the United States (9/29)

Ford’S ThEaTrE511 10th St. nW202-347-4833fordstheatre.org fordstheatre.org fordstheatre.org

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Parade, of which Ford’s will produce this season, discusses growing up in a racially and socially tense South with Jewish historian and author eli evans, moderated by pulitzer prize-winning journalist cynthia tucker as part of the lincoln legacy project (10/10) • FaNNiNG or diFFUSiNG ThE FLaMES: hoWThE MEdia iNFLUENCES ThE NaTioNaLdiaLoGUE aBoUT diFFErENCE — the Washington Post’s eugene Robinson will be on a panel examining the media’s power in shaping the national conversa-tion regarding diversity as part of the lincoln legacy project (10/17)

hiLLWood MUSEUM & GardENS4155 linnean ave. ave. a nW202-686-5807hillwoodmuseum.org

NUiT dE La ModE (NiGhT oF STyLE) & arTaLL NiGhT — Hillwood teams up with alliance Française de Washington and art Soirée for an evening of fashion, cul-ture and art, including an outdoor fash-ion show , a Franco-Russian-american soirée outdoors with a DJ and tours of

Hillwood’s collection of French and Russian art (9/24)


koJo NNaMdi aNd ThE Splendid Table — the sharp Wahe sharp Wahe sharp W MU 88.5 talk show host engages in a conversation with lynn Rossetto Kasper and Sally Swift, the host and producer respectively of npR’s The Splendid Table food program; good times (9/23) • FErraN adrià WiTh JoSé aNdréS: iN CoNvErSaTioN — D.c.’s most inter-nationally celebrated chef José andrés sits down with his mentor, perhaps this generation’s most celebrated chef in the world, late of Spain’s el Bulli restaurant (9/29) • david SEdariS — Humorist and essayist makes what’s become an annual stop at lisner, to answer questions and discuss his writings, including last year’s work of fiction, Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk: A Modest Bestiary, a collection of fables (10/17) • MySTEry SCiENCE ThEaTEr 3000’S CiNEMaTiC TiTaNiC — creator Joel

Hodgson and original cast of the televi-sion show return for more movie riffing, this time focused on the 1976 horror film Rattlers, in which a herpetologist teams up with a war photographer to uncover the mystery behind a spate of killer rattlesnake attacks (10/27)

NaTioNaL GEoGraPhiC LivE!1600 M St. nW202-857-7700nglive.org

MUSiC oN…PhoToGraPhy SEriES: hENry roLLiNS — D.c. native and lGBt ally punk rocker and spoken word artist presents his full-color photographs, published in Occupants (10/7) • PaTTiEBoyd — Former wife of George Harrison and eric clapton, Boyd documented the musical events of her life in photographs (10/12) • ThE BiG idEa: EXPLoriNG ThEEdGE oF EXiSTENCE — nobel laureate John Mather and national Geographic explorer-in-Residence discuss how technology is expanding the limits and unlocking mysteries of the known uni-verse (12/14)

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rioT aCT CoMEdy Tdy Tdy hEaTEr801 e St. nW202-697-4900riotactcomedy.com

JaSoN STUarT — the gay comedic actor stops for a run of standup (11/17-20)

STraThMorE5301 tuckerman lanenorth Bethesda, Md.301-581-5100strathmore.org

MiChaEL PoLLaN — the best-selling author of In Defense of Food: An Omnivore’s Solution shares his common-sense advice and insight about food con-sumption and the food industry (10/26) • MaSTErS oF iLLUSioN LivE — experts from the popular television show offer a magic show live and in real time, with exotic animals, dancers, escapologists, comedy, quick-change artists and sleight of hand (11/19-20)

vEriZoN CENTEr601 F St. nW202-628-3200verizoncenter.com

CirqUE dU SoLEiL — the Quebecois cir-cus comes back to town to present its 15-year-old show Quidam, focused on a the surrealistic daydreams of a young, jaded girl (11/16-20) • WWE raW WorLd ToUr — KMaRt presents this staged wrestling spectacle featuring hunky actor Jon cena and a bunch of others whose names are foreign to us. cM punk? the Miz? the Divas? oh wait, that sounds promising, as long as they sing while they grapple (12/29)

WarNEr ThEaTrE513 13th St. nW202-783-4000warnertheatre.com

JoE roGaN — a martial artist, activist and a martial artist, activist and acommentator for the Ultimate Fighting championship, Rogan, best known as a host of nBc’s old Fear Factor show, presents a night of standup (9/30) • WEird aL yayay NkoviC — is it a sign of the apocalypse that yankovic is still around? Well, if nothing else it’s time for the alpocalypse tour (10/19) • ThiCh NhaThaNh — Vietnamese Buddhist monk and peace activist (10/28)


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back. it may sound tepid, but timur Bekmambetov, who produced the film, has a knack for visually intense action. Starring emile Hirsch and olivia thirlby. (12/23)

ThE GirL WiTh ThE draGoN TaTToo — With David Fincher at the helm, the first english-language adaptation of Steig larsson’s best-selling “Millenium series” seems absolutely destined for acclaim. the gist: a disgraced journala disgraced journala -ist (Daniel craig) enlists the help of a troubled computer hacker (Rooney Mara) to track down a missing woman. (12/21)

MiSSioN: iMPoSSiBLE — GhoST ProToCoL— there’s not much territory left to cover in Mission — Impossible that will surprise you. the impossible Mission Force disavows agents, a weapons spe-cialist makes a pithy comment, tom cruise runs a lot, and everything goes boom. But here’s something compel-ling — Ghost Protocol is Ghost Protocol is Ghost Protocol pixar whiz Brad Bird’s first swing at live-action directing. (12/21)

WE BoUGhT a Zoo — cameron crowe brings his unique brand of sentimental-ism to a memoir about a family who bankrupted themselves buying a dilapi-dated zoo in the english countryside. Starring Matt Damon, thomas Hayden church, and Scarlett Johansson. (12/23)

EXTrEMELy Ly Ly oUd aNd iNCrEdiBLy CLy CLy oSE — twee alert! this adaptation of a Jonathan Safran Foer novel about a boy who loses his father on 9/11, then searches new york city to find a lock box that fits his dad’s abandoned key may clog your arteries with quirk. With tom Hanks, thomas Horn, and Sandra Bullock. (12/23)

iN ThE LaNd oF BLood aNd hoNEy — y — yangelina Jolie’s directorial debut depicts a love story set against the reli-gious and ethnic conflict of the Bosnian War. interestingly enough, the film was made using only actors local to the region. (12/23)

War horSE — after three years away from the director’s seat, Spielberg sure has got a busy season ahead of him. Set in england in World War i, he’s also directing this family drama about a boy who loses his beloved horse to war cavalry forces, then sneaks off to bring him home. (12/23) l

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its tents in the countryside and wows the local farmers with rock-fueled adaptations of tolstoy and Dostoevsky (3/6-4/15/12, Max) • God oF CarNaGE— yasmina Reza’s play about upper-middle-class Brooklyn couples meet to discuss an incident of playground vio-lence between their sons won the 2009 tony for Best play (4/10-6/24/12, ark) • XaNadU — Matthew Gardiner takes the helm of this zany send-up of the 1980 film. With book by Douglas carter Beane and music and lyrics by elo’s Jeff lynne (5/8-7/1/12, Max)

STUdio ThEaTrE1501 14th St. nW202-332-3300studiotheatre.org

ThE haBiT oF arT — Benjamin Britton is having trouble with his latest opera, and seeks out his collaborator, poet W. H. auden, after a twenty-five year separation in alan Bennett’s newest play. Starring ted van Griethuysen, paxton Whitehead and Randy Harris. Directed by David Muse (now to 10/16, Metheny) • LUNGS — in a time of global anxiety, terrorism, and erratic weather, a couple tries to face their future in Duncan Macmillan’s cham-ber drama (9/28-10/16, Milton) • ThEGoLdEN draGoN — a kaleidoscopic a kaleidoscopic alook at a globalized world by Roland Schimmelpfennig, one of Germany’s most innovative and adventurous writ-ers. Five actors cross age, race, and gender to play fifteen characters in this vicious, poetic, and surprisingly mov-ing investigation of how intertwined our lives really are (11/2-12/11, Mead) • BUST — lauren Weedman performs her one-woman show, a mostly autobio-graphical play based on her experiences working as a volunteer advocate in a Southern california prison for women (11/30-12/18, Stage 4) • TiME STaNdSSTiLL — a gritty and compelling story a gritty and compelling story a

from pulitzer prize-winner Donald Margulies, questioning whether certain desires and images can ever really be erased. Starring Holly twyford (1/4-2/12/12, Metheny) • aSTro Boy aNd ThE God oF CoMiCS — a highly visual, a highly visual, aretro-sci-fi performance about the 1960s animation series astro Boy and its creator osamu tezuka. the high/low-tech multimedia extravaganza, featuring on-stage drawing, interac-tive video, and 1960s-style animation is being created for Studio 2ndStage (2/15-3/11/12, Stage 4) • SUCkEr PUNCh — Kinetic, comedic, and emotionally bruising, Roy Williams’s masterwork blasts open the experience of being young, black, and ambitious in 1980s london (2/29-4/8/12, Mead) • ThE BiGMEaL — the arc of a family’s experience from a single restaurant table at a chain restaurant (4/25-5/20/12, Milton) • BaChELorETTE — ten years out of high school, three unhappy friends show up not-quite-invited to their classmate’s luxe hotel room the night before her wedding and chaos ensues (5/23-7/1/12, Mead) • ThE aNiMaLS aNd ChiLdrENTakE To ThE STrEETS — a charming, a charming, aghoulish, and otherworldly little show from acclaimed london company 1927 (6/13-7/1/12, Metheny) • BLoody BLoody aNdrEW JaEW JaEW CkSoN — Keith alan Baker directs this rowdy and irrever-ent musical that imagines president andrew “old Hickory” Jackson as a rock star (7/11-8/5/12)

SyNETiC ThEaTErcrystal cityarlington, Va.800-494-8497synetictheater.org

MaCBETh— a revival of the company’s a revival of the company’s asilent, award-winning Macbeth (now to 10/2) • oThELLo — a revival of the coma revival of the coma -pany’s silent, award-winning Othello(10/19-11/6) • roMEo aNd JULiET — arevival of the company’s silent, award-winning... well, you get the picture (11/25-12/23) • GENESiS rEBooT — Ben and peter cunis penned this paly in which a lone angel ponders the ques-tion, what would happen if everything started over? (2/9-3/4/12) • a LiGhT iNThE darkNESS — a decadent, surreal a decadent, surreal aand blasphemous mixture of physi-cal theatre, mime and modern dance from the czech Republic (3/8-3/25/12)

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• ThE TaMiNG oF ThE ShrEW — EW — EW the lat-est in the company’s signature “Silent Shakespeare” series (3/31-4/22/12) • hoME oF ThE SoLdiEr — this World premiere text-based play commemorates the heroism of our armed forces (5/23-7/1/12)

ThEaTrE J1529 16th St. nW800-494-8497theaterj.org

iMaGiNiNG MadoFF — Unrepentant ponzi-schemer Bernard Madoff sets the record straight from his prison cell, recount-ing an all-night study session with Holocaust survivor, poet, and invest-ment client, Solomon Galkin. Featuring Rick Foucheux, Mike nussbaum and Jennifer Mendenhall (now to 9/25) • aFTEr ThE FaLL — arthur Miller’s most personal play explores one man’s quest to make peace with history, both his own and the tumultuous world around him. Directed by Jose carrasquillo. With Mitchell Hébert and Jennifer Mendenhall (10/26-11/27) • ThE rELiGioN ThiNG — Mo and Brian are a picture-perfect D.c. couple. But when Mo’s best friend patti announces she’s found Jesus and is putting her own career on hold, Mo must take a closer look at the harder truths surrounding her own marriage. a World a World a premiere comedy by Renee calarco. Directed by Joe calarco. Featuring Will Gartshore (1/4-1/29/12) • ELECTiLE dySFUNCTioN: ThEkiNSEy SiCkS For PrESidENT! — Subtitled “Because Sometimes it’s Hard Being a Republican,” this is the official launch of the Kinsey Sicks’s campaign to become the first Dragapella Beautyshop Quartet to win the Republican nomi-nation for president (2/4-2/19/12) • NEW JErUSaLEM: ThE iNTErroGaTioN oF BarUCh dE SPiNoZa — the return of theater J’s 2010 hit production, a liter-ate, suspenseful retelling of the story of the 1656 interrogation of philosopher Baruch De Spinoza. By David ives (2/29-4/1/12) • ThE WhiPPiNG MaN — in 1865, two newly-freed slaves and the son of their former master — a Jewish confederate soldier who has retreated to the burnt remains of his home and celebrate an unconventional passover Seder (4/18-5/20/12) • ThE hiSTory oF iNvULNEraBiLiTy — David Bar Katz’s play y — David Bar Katz’s play ylooks at the Jewish creator behind the legend of Superman (6/6-7/8/12)

WaShiNGToN iMProv Trov Trov hEaTErSource1835 14th St. nW202-204-7770washingtonimprovtheater.com

FaLL iNTo WiT! — our premiere comic improv troupe presents a series of shows from all six of its ensembles. includes the popular iMusical (now to 10/8) • haroLd NiGhT — each tuesday is a demonstra-tion and experimentation in the world-famous long form technique, Harold (tuesdays through 9/27) • classes throughout the fall (check the website for schedule)

WSC avaNT Bardartisphere Black Box1101 Wilson Blvd.arlington, Va.703-418-4808wscavantbard.org

haPPy dayS — Jose carrasquillo directs Samuel Beckett’s masterpiece (now to 9/28) • ThE MiSToriCaL hySTEry oFhENry (i)v — v — v a one-evening adaptation a one-evening adaptation aof Shakespeare’s history plays Henry IV, Parts One and Two. adapted and directed by tom Mallan (11/3-12/4) • LES JUSTES— a new adaptation of a new adaptation of a albert camus’s eerily relevant exploration of politically-motivated violence (2/9-3/11/12) • SPriNGrEP. 2012 — the Greek masterpiece The Bacchae by euripides is paired with Sam Shepard’s The Tooth of Crime — an interesting rotating rep if ever there was (5/10-7/1/12)

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a BriGhT NEW BoiEW BoiEW SE — in the parking lot of a mega craft store in idaho, someone is summoning the Rapture. John Vreeke directs this comedy by Samuel D. Hunter (10/10-11/6) • SPoiLEr aLErT: EvEryBody diES — chicago’s the Second city pays a visit with their unique brand of off-the-wall improve humor in this World premiere (12/6-1/8/12) • CiviLiZaTioN(aLL yoU CaN EaT) T) T — Six hungry city-dwellers scramble for sustenance in this scathing satire of american enterprise and ingenuity by Jason Grote. Directed by Howard Shalwitz (2/13-3/11/12) • ariaS WiTh a TWiST — When aliens abduct a large drag queen and drop her

in a teeny Garden of eden, will she have room to fall from grace? cabaret sensa-tion Joey arias and obie award-winning puppeteer Basil twist team up to tell the tale (4/4-5/6/12) • Mr. BUrNS, a PoST-ELECTriC PLay — in anne Washburn’s vision of post-apocalyptic america, survivors invent a new entertainment industry from the ashes of the old. Steven cosson directs and J. Michael Friedman provides music for this World premiere (5/28-7/1/12) l

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ThE MovEMENT, ThrEE LEGGEd FoX (9/18) • aN EvENiNG WiTh ThE JohN JorGENSoNqUarTET (9/23) • BarEFooT TrUTh + JaMiEkENT (9/30) • ThE Good TiME ToUr — Ben Rector, Graham colton (10/1) • TFdiToUr — feat. tony lucca, Jay nash, Matt Duke w/Benny Marchant (10/5) • TyLEr raMESy (oF BaNd oF horSES) (10/11) • ThEMiLk CarToN kidS, GaBy MorENo (10/21) • ThE CiviL WarS W/MiLo GrEENE — i.M.p. and Jammin’ Java team up to present a night of appealing folk pop at the lincoln theatre, with a concert by a co-ed duo and a co-ed quintet, respectively (10/23, lincoln theatre)

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a&W WMZq FaLL FEST FEaT. Brad PaiSLEy — kick-off fall with this country concert featuring the country pretty boy plus Blake Shelton, Jerrod neimann, edens edge, Sunny Sweeney and the JaneDear Girls (9/24) • ZaC BroWN BaNd — Where southern rock meets country, you’ll find this “chicken Fried” band; Sonia leigh and nic cowan open (10/15)


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continued...this year featuring: aaroN LaZar (10/8); EUaN MorToN (10/28); aLEXaNdra SiLBEr (12/2); EMiLy SkiNNEr (4/13/12) • STEvE WiLSoN — Saxophonist performs from the seminal 1950 charlie parker recording Bird with Strings (10/7-8) • roy hayNES — nea Jazz Master nea Jazz Master neaperforms on drums with his Fountain of youth Band, featuring musicians a fraction of his age scrambling to keep up with his energy (10/14) • MoNk’SdrEaM: FiFTy yEarS FrESh — pianist Benny Green celebrates the 50th anniversary of thelonious Monk’s historic recording, along with bassist peter Washington, drummer Kenny Washington and saxophonist Donald Harrison (10/21) • rUSSELL MaLoNE — aself-taught guitarist performing at the Kennedy center Jazz club for the first time in more than six years (10/22) • dJaNGo rEiNhardT FESTivaL aLL-STarS— all previous Kennedy center per-formances of this group, known for its natural chemistry and virtuosity, have sold out (10/29) • SWiNG, SWiNG, SWiNG FESTivaL, iNCLUdiNG ThE FoL-LoWiNG EvENTS: JaZZ oN ThE ELEvENS: a TriBUTE To BiLLy TayLor — Ramsey lewis, toshiko akiyoshi, Danilo pérez, Geri allen, terrence Blanchard, chip Jackson, Winard Harper, christian Sands and Howard University’s afro Blue pay tribute to the late Billy taylor, Kennedy center’s artistic advisor for jazz (11/11); MaNhaTTaN TraNSFEr W/JoN hENdriCkS — A cappella delights(11/20) • TiErNEy SUTToN — a three-a three-atime Grammy nominee for Best Jazz Vocal album (12/2) • NPr’S A Jazz Piano Christmas — a Kennedy a Kennedy a center holiday tradition, featuring top jazz pia-nists eddie palmieri, Barry Harris and alfredo Rodriguez performing their favorite holiday songs (12/10) • JaNEMoNhEiT — one of the top female jazz vocalists working today (12/17) • a JaZZNEW yEar’S EvE W/PaTTi aUSTiN — the superstar jazz vocalist will showcase her distinct interpretation of of the music of Duke ellington (12/31)

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hFSTivaL 2011 & ThE avETT BroThErS— Rock festival of a folk-brewed intense orientation, including Flogging Molly, Gin Blossoms, Minus the Bear, Diana Birch and the local Justin trawick Group (9/17) • FLEET FoXESW/ThE WaLkMEN — Fleet Foxes offer baroque rock, inspired by Bob Dylan and the Beach Boys, while the D.c.-bred Walkmen are more new-wave-influenced (9/23) • JaSoN MraZ W/CoLBiE CaiLLaT — “i’m yours,” the happy-popper Mraz chirps; “all of you,” caillat responds (9/24) • WiLCo W/NiCk LoWE (9/25) • ray LaMoNTaGNEaNd ThE Pariah doGS W/BraNdi CarLiLE, daWN LaNdES — We’re coming just to hear lesbian folk rocker Brandi carlile (9/29) • WPoC SUNday iN ThE CoUNTry & JoSh TUrNEr (10/16)


JoN aNdErSoN aNd riCk WakErMaN— the voice and sound of the classic lineup of legendary rock band yeS (10/23) • yayay MaTo: drUMMErS oF JaPaN— a Japanese a Japanese a taiko drumming group of 17-members strong, yamato returns to lisner with a new program, Gamushara(11/20) • david GarrETT — the Birchmere presents a concert at lisner of the German-born classical crossover violinist (2/3)

MUSiC CENTEr aT STraThMorE5301 tuckerman lanenorth Bethesda301-581-5100strathmore.org

kEB’ Mo’ — part of the celebrating american composers series, Grammy-winning singer-songwriter and guitarist Ke’ Mo’ offers blues in the great Delta tradition (12/15) • Brad LiNdE ENSEMBLE aNd LEE koNiTZ— D.c.’s own linde is joined by leg-endary saxophonist lee Konitz (9/22, Mansion) • MadELEiNE PEyroUX W/NELLiE MCkay — part of celebrating american composers series, Madeleine

peyroux is touted for her reinvention of familiar early american blues and jazz tunes, while McKay is known for a punky, playful approach to jazz and cabaret (9/30) • BryaN FErry W/ThEPhENoMENaL haNdCLaP BaNd — one of electronica’s most influential art-ists (former leader of Roxy Music), with one of music’s best-named bands; sounds phenomenal, indeed (10/3) • PaT METhENy W/Larry GrENadiEr — pat Metheny returns to Strathmore after selling out his concert last time; this time, jazz double bassist larry Grenadier opens in a concert co-presented by Blues alley, part of Strathmore’s celebrating american composers series (10/4) • LiNda EdEr— the celebrated Broadway star brings her seven-piece band to Strathmore for a night of eclectic music, from show tunes, to roots to pop (10/6) • iNdiGo GirLS — lesbian folk rock duo indigo Girls goes high society with a Strathmore debut, in support of latest cD Beauty Queen Sister (10/9) • Beauty Queen Sister (10/9) • Beauty Queen Sister CrEoLEChoir oF CUBa — a voice-and-percusa voice-and-percusa -sion choir made up of cuban descen-dants of Haiti, the creole choir blends ancient traditions with gospel and folk (10/19) • BLiNd BoyS oF aLaBaMa — together more than 70 years, the mul-tiple Grammy-winning Blind Boys choir offers gospel from traditional to con-temporary (10/21) • iNdia.ariE aNd idaNraiChEL — the charming contemporary soul singer india.arie joins forces with israeli world-music artist idan Raichel for Open Door, a cross-genre collec-tion of songs in english and Hebrew (10/22) • FUNk ark — this D.c.-based world funk ensemble draws on influ-ences from the african and latin funk/dance music scenes of the ‘60s and ‘70s and the result is a gritty and soulful mix of inspired afrobeat and big bang funk (11/4, Mansion) • BéLa FLECk aNd ThE oriGiNaL FLECkToNES — part of the celebrating american composers series, Grammy winner Béla Fleck and his three musical cohorts offer what npR calls a “limitless musical uni-verse,” ranging from bluegrass to bepop (11/7) • aNN haMPToN aNd LiZ CaLLaWay — Boom! is a revue of Broadway and pop from these tony-nominated sisters, champions of the american songbook (11/13) • TUrTLE iSLaNd qUarTET — two-time Grammy-winning quartet and its founder David Balakrishnan

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offer music by Jimi Hendrix, as well as a Balakrishnan composition inspired by Hendrix (11/18, Mansion) • CLaSSiCaLBUMS LivE: ThE BEaTLES’ Abbey Road — Musicians meticulously re-create the Fab Four’s last studio recording (11/25) • LyNN hoLLyFiELd — Sultry singer-songwriter offers original songs spanning genres of contemporary folk, blues, pop and jazz (11/30, Mansion) • SkaGGS FaMiLy ChriSTMaS — country superstar Ricky Skaggs marshals his fam-ily and those of his in-laws, bluegrass masters the White family, for a night of twangy tinsel tunes (12/1) • davE koZaNd FriENdS ‘SMooTh JaZZ ChriSTMaS’— the gay smooth-jazz master Dave Koz recruits friends to re-create classic holiday tunes (12/5) • JiM BriCkMaN: aChriSTMaS CELEBraTioN — adult con-temporary pianist and special guests weave together new and traditional holi-day favorites (12/7) • david BaSS (12/7, Mansion) • raMSEy LEWiS — Jazz legend revisits his classic ‘70s album The Sun Goddess with his electric band (12/9) • PiNk MarTiNi — will npR’s gay reporter ari Shapiro perform once again with the portland, ore.-based jazz/cabaret col-lective when they stop in town? (12/12) • BohEMiaN CavErNS JaZZ orChESTra — Strathmore welcomes the U Street jazz institution’s house band for “a Bohemian a Bohemian achristmas,” including the adaptation of the “nutcracker Suite” by Duke ellington and his gay right-hand man Billy Strayhorn (12/18, Mansion) • ThE MUSiCPiLGriM Trio — trio offers an assortment of Jewish music, from israeli to Klezmer to Freilakhs to yiddish (12/21, Mansion)

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MUSiC oN…STaGE SEriES: CaNZoNiErEGrECaNiCo SaLENTiNo — one of italy’s best world bands, combining tender love songs to pagan dances (10/6) • SUSSaNdEyhiM — this iranian singer offers music drenched in ritual and mystery (10/27) • haLLoWEEN FUN WiTh ThEJiMMiES — new york-based kiddie rock band, with clever, creative music to get kids rocking, and in costume (10/29) • ThE rhyThM road: aMEriCaN MUSiCaBroad — jazz ensemble paul Beaudry

& pathways and gospel act the Melvin Williams Group perform (12/1)

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ENriqUE iGLESiaS W/PiTBULL aNd PriNCEroyCE — tonight they’re loving you, and you’ll like it (9/27) • viCENTE FErNáNdEZ— Mexican singer Vicente Fernández is known as the king of ranchera music (10/30) • ChriS ToMLiN aNd LoUiE GiGLio W/ChriSTy NoCkLES — a night of contema night of contema -porary christian music (11/4) • aMEriCaNFrEEdoM FESTivaL FEaTUriNG daUGhTry— Former American Idol hottie chris Daughtry leads his band in an annual concert saluting and benefiting veter-ans of america’s armed forces (11/12) • aNdrE riEU — Dutch violinist leads the 60-piece, waltz-playing Johann Strauss orchestra (11/19)

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orChESTraL MaNoEUvrES iN ThE dark(9/19) • MaC MiLLEr — is he the next Justin Bieber? Well, the 18-year-old pittsburgher is gaining a lot of buzz (9/27) • STEPhEN MaLkMUS aNd ThEJiCkS (9/29) • roLL iT ovEr & dEaTh iS a dioLoGUE (9/30) • ThE yoUNG dUBLiNErSW/CroSSiNG CELTiC, doWN hoLLoW (10/11) • LiSa haNNiGaN (10/12) • ThE aP ToUr (10/14) • arCTiC MoNkEyS (10/15) • CirCa SUrvivE (10/18) • ThE dirTy hEadS & GyMCLaSS hEroES (10/19) • ThE JayhaWkS(10/20) • aNi diFraNCo W/aNaiS MiTChELL— a must-see concert with the famous a must-see concert with the famous apunk goddess DiFranco and Mitchell, one of the most ambitious indie upstarts around (10/22) • NEW FoEW FoEW UNd GLory (10/23) • MaT kEarNEy (10/24) • y (10/24) • y LUCiNda WiLLiaMS — another folk-rock goddess returns (10/26) • BUTCh WaLkEr aNd ThE BLaCk WidoWS (10/27) • iMMorTaLTEChNiqUE (10/30) • oPETh (11/1) • BUddy

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GUy (11/5) • MarSha aMBroSiUS — the former Floetry member tours in sup-port of her solo debut, Late Nights and Early Evenings (11/6)

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SUZy BoGGUSS — longtime country crooner tours in support of her latest album Sweet Danger (9/23) • Sweet Danger (9/23) • Sweet Danger hiroShiMa— Jazz influenced by sounds from asia, latin america and black america (9/24) • kyLEr ENGLaNd & JiM BoGGia PLUS rUUT (9/25) • X — punk rock from los angeles (9/26) • SEaN MCCaNN(oF GrEaT BiG SEa) & ThE CoMMiTTEd — celtic rock (9/27) • SCoTT kirBy BaNd (9/28) • PhiL vaSSar — one of nashville’s most prolific and versatile stars (9/29) • STaNLEy JordaN — Jazz guitarist (9/30) • LiviNGSToN TayLor (10/1) • iMELda May — charming irish rockabilly (10/2) • kEiko MaTSUi — Japanese-born jazz pianist, composer and producer (10/16) • BLiNd BoyS oFaLaBaMa (10/18) • oLLaBELLE (10/21) • diCk daLE — named one of Rolling Stone’s “100 greatest guitarists of all time” (10/22) • david BroMBErGqUarTET (10/23) • LiTTLE rivEr BaNd (10/24) • ThE TUBES (10/25) • SoNNy LaNdrETh (10/26) • MaTThEW SEW SEW WEET— 20th anniversary Girlfriend tour (10/27) • JESSiCa LEa MayFiELd (11/20) • SPyro Gyra (11/20) • BELL X1 — Billed as ireland’s most popular rock band after, well, you know (11/21) • ToWEr oF PoWEr (11/22) • Larry GrahaM & GrahaM CENTraL STaTioN — a founda founda -ing father of modern funk, as a bass player for Sly & the Family Stone (11/28) • hard TravELErS (12/17) • JiM MESSiNa — performing hits from loggins & Messina, Buffalo Springfield & poco (12/18) • ThE MUSiC oF aBBa — aRRiValValV is the official aBBa show a show aapproved by Björn Ulvaeus and Benny andersson, supervised by aBBa’s clothing designer owe Sandstrom, and backed up by aBBa original musicians a original musicians a(1/10/12)

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FaNG iSLaNd — post-punk band making musical “collages,” generally lacking in verses or choruses (9/21) • daLEEarNhardT Jr. Jr. — Filter says this band offers “a disarmingly beautiful mix of vocal harmony pop alongside blippy electronic beats” (9/22) • WE arEaUGUSTiNES — a Brooklyn-based band a Brooklyn-based band awhose soaring sound is reminiscent of early U2, Bruce Sppringsteen or the national (9/25) • dELEoN — Brooklyn-based band that plays what it calls “15th century Spanish indie rock” (10/13) • Boy & BEar — australian folk rock quintet (10/18) • LioNiZE — a merger of a merger of astoner-rock, funk and reggae (11/4) • ThE FLiNG — orchestral pop (11/10)

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CaNT — Grizzly Bear’s chris taylor (10/28) • MooNFaCE — Spencer Krug from Wolf parade/Sunset Rubdown (10/29) • Jay BraNNaN — exquisite gay folk, by the stunning Jay Brannan, who first gained notoriety for appearing naked in the film Shortbus (11/18)

SiXTh & i hiSToriC SyNaGoGUE600 i St. nW202-408-3100sixthandi.org

LaUra MarLiNG W/aLESSi’S ark — new British folk-rock that has the New York Times swooning, among others (9/27)• aLEXi MUrdoCh — truly indie (as in self-released) folk-pop heralded by npR, Rolling Stone and more recently film director Sam Mendes, who includ-ed Murdoch’s tunes alongside the Velvet Underground, Bob Dylan and George Harrison on the soundtrack to 2009’s Away We Go (10/18)

ThE STaTE ThEaTrE220 north Washington St.Falls church703-237-0300thestatetheatre.com

roGEr CLyNE & ThE PEaCEMakErS — the alt-country band responsible for the catchy theme song to Fox’s King of The

Hill (9/25) • MiSSTaLLiCa — an “all chick tribute to Metallica” (9/29) • ThE FiGhTiNG JaMESoNS — performing irish rock’s greatest hits (10/1) • ThEGoUrdS — a self-described good-a self-described good-atime, honky-tonkin’ band (10/6) • aTErCioPELadoS (10/7) • BLUE oySTEr CULT (10/9) • haNSoN — MMMBop, they’re still here! (10/19) • still here! (10/19) • still GiaNMarCo — Guapo latin rock (10/20) • PaPadoSio— asheville, n.c.-based experimental electronica band (10/27) • ThE royaLFaMiLy BaLL FEaT. SoULivE aNd LETTUCE(11/4) • hErE CoME ThE MUMMiES(11/10) • JohN BroWN’S Body (11/12) • LEoN rUSSELL — the revered rock and roller returns to the State theatre for a second year in a row, a year after his joint album with elton John won him the old-timer some new fans (11/22) • ThE NiGhThaWkS aNd SkiP CaSTro BaNd (11/25) • aPPETiTE For dESTrUCTioN — atribute to Guns n Roses (12/1)

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MoNika hErZiG — pianist performs from her latest release, Come With Me (10/4) • MiChELLE WEBB’S kiNG koNG — Webb is a D.c.-based guitarist/mandolinist and oud player who, with her quintet, fuses traditional african and arabic music with modern jazz harmonies(10/20) • kEiTh kiLLGo (10/21-22) • GLENN CryTZEr aNd hiS SyNCoPaTorS— considered by some as the premiere swing-era jazz band, this Seattle-based band focuses on the swinging music from nearly 100 years ago (10/23) • MiChaEL ThoMaS qUiNTET — Grammy-nominated energetic band devoted to the rich tradition of jazz, from hard-bob to blues (11/11) • kENNy WErNEr(11/18) • d WiLSoN — called the “ghost of Billie Holiday” by her hometown Baltimore Sun, soul-jazz singer Denine Wilson was featured in the last season of HBo’s The Wire (11/20)

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ChriS BroWN W/kELLy roWLaNd — t-pain and tyga are also on the bill, but it’s the dance-oriented pop of Brown and Rowland that most appeals (9/17)

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• Jay-Z & kaNyE WEST — Watch the throne tour, in support of the two rap heavyweights’ recent joint album (11/3) • Foo FiGhTErS — Dave Grohl has come along way since his days in nirvana, and before that, his teenage years in D.c. as a regular at the 9:30 club; now the 9:30’s parent company, i.M.p. presents a concert by his latest hit rock band at the biggest venue in town (11/11) • aNdrEa BoCELLi W/aNNa MariE MarTiNEZ aNd hEaThEr hEadLEy — y — y the blind italian classical crossover artist (12/2)

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ELviS CoSTELLo aNd ThE iMPoSTErS (9/29) • NaTaLiE CoLE — Still touring in support of Still Unforgettable, her second duets album with her legendary dead father(10/13) • ToNy BENNETT — legendary crooner tours in support of his new duets set, most notably featuring the last song recorded by the late amy Winehouse (10/14) • ESPEraNZa SPaLdiNG — the Grammy winner for Best new artist deserves thanks for keeping Justin Bieber from the accolade, and praise for her modern twist on classically steeped music (10/16) • drEaM ThEaTEr W/TriviUM — Heavy metal (10/17) • LEdiSi — the Birchmere presents a show at the Warner from this neo-soul songstress (10/21) • JaCkSoN BroWNE - a solo acousa solo acousa -tic performance from the studious ‘80s hitmaker (10/23) • TEdESChi TrUCkS BaNd — Florida-based blues-rock band former-ly known as the Derek trucks & Susan tedeschi Band, named after its leaders, a husband and wife (10/28)


aUdra MCdoNaLd — the Broadway star performs selections from the Great american Songbook (10/4, Kennedy center) • SoNNy roLLiNS — tenor saxophonist performs as part of the Jazz legends Series (10/10, Kennedy center) • SWEET hoNEy iN ThE roCk— Famous harmonizing gospel group offers tributes to odetta, nina Simone and Miriam Makeba (10/22, Warner theatre) • SUZaNNE vEGa — “luka” and “tom’s Diner” are just two of this folk-poppers’ gems (11/19, Sixth & i Historic

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NaTioNaL SyMPhoNy orChESTraKennedy center concert Hall202-467-4600kennedy-center.org

SEaSoN oPENiNG BaLL CoNCErT WiTh JoShUa BELL aNd ThoMaS haMPSoN — christoph eschenbach conducts the nSo and violinist Bell and baritone Hampson in a program of Dvorak, Bruch, copland and Ravel (9/25) • BEEThovEN’S Symphony No. 8 WiTh orFF’S Carmina Burana — Rafael Carmina Burana — Rafael Carmina BuranaFruhbeck de Burgos conducts the nSo, the choral arts Society of Washington, the children’s chorus of Washington and several soloists in this dramatic program (9/29-10/1) • MUSSorGSky’SNight on Bald Mountain — John Night on Bald Mountain — John Night on Bald MountainStorgårds makes his nSo debut con-ducting violinist Gidon Kremer in a program that also includes Sibelius, liadov and nielsen (10/6, 10/8-9) • NSo PoPS’ SEaSoN oPENEr WiTh rEBECCa LUkEr — Steven Reineke conducts the nSo pops and tony-nominee luker in “Some enchanted evening: the Music of Rodgers and Hammerstein” (10/13-15) • LoriN MaaZEL — the famed con-ductor leads the nSo in a program of Berlioz, Grieg and Mussorgsky/Ravel, along with pianist Simon trpceski, making his nSo debut (10/27-29) • STraviNSky’S SUiTE FroM The Firebird— oliver Knussen conducts the nSoand pianist peter Serkin in a program that also includes the first nSo per-formances of Shepherd’s Wanderlust, Messiaen’s Le Réveil des oiseaux and ’s Le Réveil des oiseaux and ’s Le Réveil des oiseauxBenjamin’s Duet (11/3-5) • Duet (11/3-5) • Duet LEoNard SLaTkiN — the famed former nSoconductor returns to lead a program of Saint-Saens, Rachmaninoff and a debut from anna clyne, with cellist Gautier capuçon (11/10-12) • haNdEL’S Messiah— Matthew Halls makes his debut as nSo conductor, along with soloists and the University of Maryland concert choir, all performing the holiday tradi-tion (12/15-18)

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Synagogue) • ChriS BoTTi — celebrated contemporary jazz trumpeter (2/17/12, Kennedy center)

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SohEiL NaSSEri — one of new york’s most acclaimed young musicians takes on one of the most difficult classics in the piano repertoire, Beethoven’s Hammerklavier Sonata (10/6, the Mansion) • GrEaT NoiSE ENSEMBLE— part of the celebrating american composers series, the challenging D.c. new music ensemble presents a program of works composed around the turn of the 21st century, or in other words, now (10/14, Mansion) • CLaSSiCaL MUSiC: ThE ivES ProJECT— Strathmore hosts a project to help make american composer charles ives better known, through a series of music, readings and performance. Highlights include: PoST-CLaSSiCaLENSEMBLE WiTh PiaNiST JErEMy dENk, BariToNE WiLLiaM SharP aNd aCTor FLoyd kENG (11/3, Music center); BEEThovEN aNd ivES W/PiaNiST JErEMy dENk aNd rEadEr WiLLiaM SharP (11/4, Music center); JaCk qUarTET: ivES aNd oThEr iNNovaTorS (11/5, Mansion); aMSTEL SaXoPhoNE aNd NEW CEW CEW ENTUry SaXoPhoNE qUarTETS — part of the celebrating american composers series, these two ensembles team up to reveal new depths of versatility in the saxophone (11/20, Mansion) • JENNy LiN — part of the celebrating american composers series, pianist lin ventures thorugh the american Songbook with piano versions of classic jazz and show tunes (12/1, Mansion)

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iN SoLo FLiGhT — canadian soprano agnes Zsigovics and counter-tenor Daniel taylor join organ soloist Scott Dettra for a concert of solo virtuosity (11/6) • ChriSTMaS iN LEiPZiG — Music of Bach and his contemporaries to get you in the holiday spirit (12/4)


GiL ShahaM — part of WpaS’s celebrity

Series, the violinist Shaham performs Schubert, Bach and Franck accompa-nied by pianist inon Barnatan (10/30, Strathmore) • MaroUaN BENaBdaLLah— Featured pianist in the Hayes piano Series and winner of the 2009 acF international piano competition (11/5, Kennedy center) • GarriCk ohLSSoN— part of WpaS’s piano Masters Series, known for his virtuoso with chopin (11/8, Strathmore) • orChESTrErévoLUTioNNairE ET roMaNTiqUE(11/19, Kennedy center) • kaThryNSToTT — english pianist, part of the Hayes piano Series (12/3, Kennedy center) • WhaT MakES iT GrEaT? WiTh roB kaPiLoW - Beethoven’s W - Beethoven’s W Sonata No. 23, “Appassionata” is next in the series, with pianist yuliya Gorenman (12/4, national Museum of natural History) • orioN WEiSS — Hayes piano Series (1/7/12, Kennedy center) • JoShUa BELL — Few classical musicians attain the mainstream celebrity status of this violinist (1/23/12, Kennedy center)

WaShiNGToN NaTioNaL oPEraKennedy center opera House202-295-2400dc-opera.org

ToSCa — puccini’s Tosca stands as one of the most popular operas of all time, marked by virtuosity, drama and musi-cal perfection that virtually define the art form of opera (now-9/24) • oPEra iN ThE oUTFiELd: ToSCa — a free, live a free, live abroadcast (9/22, nationals park) • LUCia di LaMMErMoor — the perfect complement to Donizetti’s dazzling bel canto score, acclaimed director Davidalden’s dark and edgy production of Lucia di Lammermoor is “a mag-nificent conception,” evoking “some haunted, dream-like early Victorian limbo,” according to london’s The Daily Telegraph) (11/10-19) • CoSi FaNTUTTi — in Mozart’s game of love and seduction, two young men wager that their fiancées will remain faithful, even when tempted (2/25-3/15/12) • PLáCido doMiNGo CELEBriTy SEriES: aNGELa GhEorGhiU — Making her Wno debut, Romanian soprano angela Gheorghiu will dazzle with her magnificent voice and stage presence (3/3/12)

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SEPTEMBER 15 - 22, 2011either man standing on stage. (A stage that, it must be added, looks fantastic.) She’s a forgotten victim — she didn’t lose millions, but she struggles to accept her role in stealing it. Of course, a play about Bernie Madoff must live and die by its depiction of Bernie Madoff. In doing so, Margolin plunges into depths of his life not considered, using means unexpected. Imagining Madoff is not a complete portrait of the man, nor a how-to account of his theft. But when it’s over, an incomprehensible man fits better into focus. To Sept. 25. The Aaron & Cecile Goldman Theater, Washington, D.C.’s Jewish Community Center, 1529 16th St. NW. Tickets are $30 to $55. Call 202-518-9400 or visit washingtondcjcc.org. (Chris Heller)

NaTioNaL GEoGraPhiC’S aLL roadS FiLM FESTivaLThe National Geographic’s All Roads Film Festival showcases indigenous- and minority-culture film, photography and music, this year with 47 cultures from 24 different countries represented. The festival includes a photography exhibit plus a Global Groove Dance Party on Saturday, Sept. 17, with local DJs Dave Nada and DJ Underdog, internationally known for Moombahton, a genre merging house music with reggaeton. Among the films of LGBT interest are two Friday, Sept. 16: A screening and discussion of Negar Azarbayjani’s Facing Mirrors, about a the struggles of a transgender male in Iran; and a screening and discussion of Katie Wolfe’s Kawa, about a man in New Zealand who comes out as gay among his Maori family. The festival runs through Sunday, Sept. 18. Most events take place at National Geographic Society’s Gilbert H. Grosvenor Auditorium, 1600 M St. NW. Tickets to each film are $10, and a festival pass, including entry to the dance party, runs $100. Call 202-857-7700 or visit nglive.org.

SToP kiSSHHHHHHolly Twyford, one of Washington’s best actresses, makes an incredibly auspicious debut as director with Stop Kiss, and the production as a whole sup-ports No Rules Theatre Company’s Helen Hayes Award this year for outstanding emerging company. Everything seems effortless here — as if it were real life, not put-on — from Tony Cisek’s naturalistic set to especially Rachel Zampelli and Alyssa Wilmoth performances as the leads, two late-blooming adult women. They give such casual performances, and exude such real chemistry, that the audience almost feels like it’s intruding on their budding relationship. Of course, the plot does intrude on their relation-ship in Diana Son’s bittersweet play, about a violent gay-bashing and the society that fosters such hate through ignorance and shame. A first kiss is meant to be memorable, but not like this. Fifteen years after it was written, Stop Kiss is as timely as ever — an unfortunate reality, but at least it is wonderful as fiction. To Oct. 2. The H Street Playhouse, 1365 H St. NE. Tickets are $10 to $25. Call 336-462-9182 or visit norulestheatre.org. (Doug Rule)

TayLor dayNE aT dELaWarE PridE FESTivaLTell it to your heart: Taylor Dayne headlines this year’s Delaware Pride, held in Rehoboth Beach this

SPotLiGhthiLLWood’S Gay day Activities at the 10th annual Gay Day at Hillwood include an LGBT family garden party with Rainbow Families, “Punch on the Portico,” exclusive peeks into rooms not usually open to the public, vin-tage cars from Straight Eights and square dancing from DC Lambda Squares. Saturday, Sept. 17, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Hillwood Estate, 4155 Linnean Ave. NW. Tickets are $15. Call 202-686-5807 or visit HillwoodMuseum.org.

hoPE oPEraSNow in its third year, some of the D.C. theater community’s leading lights – those associated with Woolly Mammoth, Rorshach and the InSeries, among others – have teamed up for five serialized shows running for six weeks. Each week, the five shows are presented in 15-minute episodes ending in a cliffhanger — and preceded by a here’s-what-you-missed introduction, so no one is lost. The audience then votes for their favorite serial, with charities, including Helping Individual Prostitutes Survive, Planned Parenthood Metro DC and the Washington Literary Council, receiving funds according to popu-larity. Every Monday at 8 p.m. through Oct. 10. Comedy Spot at the Ballston Mall, 4238 Wilson Blvd. Arlington Tickets are $12 per show or $50 for all five. Visit www.myspace.com/hopeoperas.

iMaGiNiNG MadoFFHHHHHRick Foucheux portrayal of Bernie Madoff, the Ponzi-scheming crook thrown into the spotlight of Theater J’s production, is a lot of things. But it isn’t sorry. “Fuck you!” he screams in a particularly heat-ed moment in the play. “Fuck you all who wanted to punish me!” From the mind of playwright Deb Margolin, the 90-minute drama is neither an investi-gation of Madoff’s billion-dollar fraud or his motiva-tions for doing it. Instead, it narrows onto a fiction-alized conversation between Madoff and Soloman Galkin (Mike Nussbaum), a Holocaust-surviving rabbi who praises the investor as a mensch before he loses everything. (Galkin’s character bears more than a passing ethical resemblance to Elie Wiesel, whose threatened lawsuit forced Margolin to remove his name from the play and delayed it from opening at Theater J last year.) Casting Madoff a man of reli-gion against seems like a surefire way to draw out his demons, pititng light against dark, cynicism against morality. And when Imagining Madoff reaches its climax — as the two men dig into each other while debating the story of Abraham — the strategy illu-minates the monstrous shadows in his life. Madoff, in a fit of rage, comes close to breaking Galkin’s faith in trust by telling him his truth. The moment is an emotionally deafening one; when Madoff realizes what he was about to do, his aghast silence somehow manages to be both humanizing and demonic. Off-stage, a secretary (Jennifer Mendenhall) paints in the after effects of Madoff’s crime during a testimony at an SEC hearing. Mendenhall does wonders with the character, who only appears in snippets yet man-ages to seem more wholly human and normal than

Saturday, Sept. 17. Also on tap: Jonny McGovern with Calpernia Addams, Pepper Mashay and Jade Esteban Estrada as the emcee. Saturday, Sept. 17, from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Gordons Pond State Park, North Shores, Rehoboth Beach, Del. Tickets are $7. Visit delawarepride.org.

ThE FraNk kaMENy PaPErS aT ThE LiBrary oF CoNGrESSHistorian John Earl Haynes will lead a gallery talk on the two items from the papers of gay rights icon Frank Kameny on display in the Library of Congress’s exhibit “Creating the United States.” Monday, Sept. 19, at 12 p.m. Jefferson Building, Second Fl. The Library of Congress, 101 Independence Ave. SE United States” Exhibit. Visit thedccenter.org to learn more.

ThE ThEaTrE LaB’S hoNorS aCTiNG CoNSErvaToryThe Theatre Lab will hold an informational meet-ing for interested students in the Honors Acting Conservatory, a one-year professional training pro-gram with courses taught by some of Washington’s leading theater professionals. Meeting is set for Monday, Sept. 19, at 6 p.m. The Theatre Lab, 733 8th St. NW. Call 202-824-0449 or visit theatrelab.org.

StaGeay, CarMELa! BENEFiT For LaTiNo GLBT hiSTory ProJECTGALA Hispanic Theatre presents ¡Ay, Carmela!, about a vaudeville comedy duo who have fallen into the hands of Franco’s fascist troops during the Spanish Civil War and are forced to perform their show. José Sanchis Sinisterra’s play is a heart-breaking portrayal of love and loss and a poignant testimony to the inhumanity of war. To Oct. 9. GALA Theatre at Tivoli Square, 3333 14th St. NW. Tickets are $20 to $38. Call 202-234-7174 or visit galatheatre.org.

haPPy daySWSC Avant Bard opens its new season and first with its new name — it was formerly known by the less-dynamic and more-limiting name the Washington Shakespeare Company — with the 50th anniver-sary production of Samuel Beckett’s masterpiece Happy Days. Jose Carrasquillo directs. To Sept. 25. Artisphere’s Black Box Theatre, 1101 Wilson Blvd. Arlington. Tickets are $25 to $35. Call 703-875-1100 or visit artisphere.com.

SWEET TEa: BLaCk Gay MEN oF ThE SoUThAuthor, scholar and performer E. Patrick Johnson stars in this one-man show about the percep-tions, angst, triumphs and vulnerabilities of being black and gay in the South. The show is based on Johnson’s critically acclaimed book and his inter-views with more than 70 Southern black gay men of all ages. Rajendra Maharaj directs. To Oct. 9. Signature Theatre’s Ark Theatre, 4200 Campbell Ave., Arlington. Tickets are $40. Call 703-820-9771 or visit signature-theatre.org.


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improviser Luke Stewart; and the avant-garde band Music from the Film. Thursday, Sept. 15, at 8 p.m. The Mansion at Strathmore, 5301 Tuckerman Lane, North Bethesda. Tickets are $12. Call 301-581-5100 or visit soniccircuits.org.

eLSeWhereFoLLiES oN BroadWayKennedy Center’s big-budget, big-selling revival of Stephen Sondheim’s Follies this spring is now in previews of a limited engagement run on Broadway. In a four-and-a-half star review of the original pro-duction, Metro Weekly’s Jonathan Padget said the revival is “a jaw-dropping testament to the talent that went into creating Follies four decades ago and the talent that has gone into bringing it once again to magnificent life.” That talent includes Bernadette Peters, Jan Maxwell, Elaine Paige and on and on. Marquis Theatre, 1535 Broadway, New York. Call 212-382-0100 or visit ticketmaster.com.

JoaN E. BirrEN’S PhoToGraPhS aT LESLiE/LohMaN GaLLEryNew York’s Leslie/Lohman Gay Art Foundation presents an exhibit in its gallery of three of the past generation’s most prominent lesbian photographers, coupled with a few photographs from contempo-rary lesbian photographers including Catherine Opie and Cass Bird. “Lesbians Seeing Lesbians: Building Community in Early Feminist Photography” features the work of Florida’s Tee A. Corinne, Hawaii’s Cathy Cade and D.C.’s Joan E. Birren, or JEB. Now to Oct. 22. Leslie/Lohman Gallery, 26 Wooster St. New York. Call 212-431-2609 or visit leslielohman.org. l

danCePEarSoNWidriG daNCEThEaTErSara Pearson and Patrik Widrig’s company presents a world premiere of “Sayonara, Dear,” inspired by the final love affair of Pearson’s 86-year-old mother, and a work-in-progress with Japanese/Peruvian composer Pauchi Sasaki. Saturday, Sept. 17, at 8 p.m., and Sunday, Sept. 18, at 7 p.m. Dance Place, 3225 8th St. NE. Tickets are $22. Call 202-269-1600 or visit danceplace.org.

ThE SayaT Nova daNCE CoMPaNy oF BoSToNThe Armenian-American troupe Sayat Nova Dance Company, named after an 18th century Armenian troubadour, offers a new program to celebrate its 25th anniversary, “Sayat Nova: Journey Through Time.” The program is presented by the Women’s Guild of St. Mary Armenian Apostolic Church. Saturday, Sept. 17, at 7 p.m. Lisner Auditorium, The George Washington University, 730 21st St. NW. Tickets are $35 to $45. Call 202-994-6800 or visit lisner.org.

aBoVe & BeyondSoNiC CirCUiTS FESTivaLThe Sonic Circuits Festival, held every year at Strathmore, celebrates the weird space that falls between what some call music and what some call noise. Performers this year include: Korean-American cellist/composer Okkyung Lee; Annette Krebs+Violet, a sound-artist duo of German Annette Krebs and D.C.’s Jeff Surak; Unmediated: Movement and Sound, a collaboration among local multi-media dance artists Sharon Mansur and Daniel Burkholder with computer musician Cory O’Brien and jazz

MuSiChFSTivaL 2011 The Avett Brothers lead a lineup that includes many genuine-article-type rock acts, playing their hearts out performing folk-inspired, gritty tunes filled with honesty and earnestness: Flogging Molly, Gin Blossoms, Diane Birch, Middle Distance Runner and the Justin Trawick Group among them. Saturday, Sept. 17. Doors at 10 a.m. Merriweather Post Pavilion, 10475 Little Patuxent Parkway, Columbia, Md. Tickets are $35 to $50. Call 800-551-SEAT or visit merriweathermusic.com.

ThE LoW aNThEMBen Knox Miller, Jeff Prystowsky and Jocie Adams — all students of classical composition — combine folk and blues arrangements with chamber music and even gospel. The Rhode Island band creates often melancholic music: quiet, intimate, full of long-ing, and often hauntingly beautiful. Thursday, Sept. 15. Doors at 7 p.m. Nightclub 9:30, 815 V St. NW. Tickets are $20. Call 202-265-0930 or visit 930.com.

yoUSSoU N’doUrSinger and percussionist Youssou N’Dour is one of the most celebrated African musicians in history, mixing traditional Senagalese mbalax with eclectic influences ranging from Cuban samba to hip hop, jazz, and soul. He’ll perform as part of the celebra-tion of the 50th Anniversary of the Peace Corps. Wednesday, Sept. 21, at 6 p.m. Kennedy Center Millennium Stage. Tickets are free but required and will be distributed beginning at 4 p.m. day of the performance. Call 202-467-4600 or visit kennedy-center.org.


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it’S KinD oF aMaZinG short films aren’t more popular. the barriers that stand in the way of feature-

lengths — namely, cash, the crazy expensive cameras that cash buys, and the distribution costs that turn any leftover cash into debt mountains — are all but removed. So why, with the youtube way we live now, aren’t shorts more dominant?

Maybe it’s the same rea-son why poetry has yet to see a twitter bump — the practice of making quick work of images and words to convey a message isn’t just economical, it’s damn hard. that difficulty gets magni-fied on its way to the audience; all but the most straightforward of short films demand introspection that outweighs the fast act of, you know, actually watching the thing.

there has to be meaning behind a 10-minute film. otherwise, why watch?

take the collection of nine lGBt films selected for the Dc Shorts Film Festival, which closes this weekend. Within the group, there’s a sardonically delightful spoof on religion (Purgatory Inc.), a quirky story about love and for-tune cookies (My Good Fortune), a good old-fashioned fairy tale (Brookton Hollow), and a fright-eningly stoic take on a bigoted islamic patriarch (The Binding of Ishmael). While some, obviously, are more lighthearted than others, that’s a lot of topic to consider.

Boris Kievsky’s Purgatory Inc. coyly slides its weight through an admittedly wry premise — a paper-pushing clerk in a dark void processes new entrants to purgatory, as an unseen corpo-

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rate overseer watches. When christopher (patrick cavanaugh) appears after what looks like an unfortunate rafting accident, the clerk employs some crafty filing tricks to get him into episcopalian Heaven rather than christian Hell. there’s no homophobia in purgatory, but plenty of ways to game the system. it’s a witty approach to a touchy subject that manages to tickle religion without lecturing — unlike God’s Pub, a more ambitious short also being screened at the festival that loses itself in vindication.

in My Good Fortune, a new york tough guy (writer-director David Marshall Silverman) treks down to Georgia to convince a gay fortune-cookie writer (Randy Havens) to go back to work. the characters lean a tad toward ste-reotypes and the premise seems awfully ridiculous, but some-thing within it clicks — My Good Fortune has a take on love and relationships that’s pitch-perfect for the genre. it sticks with you, even when there’s nothing left to see.

then there’s Brookton Hollow, a rhyming-coupleted story about a lonely boy (christopher Hills) and his only friend, a cow who transforms into a person every night. Writer-director Joshua Smith nails the fairy-tale tone, providing just enough detail to create attachment and empathy for the boy’s plight. He knows he’s different, but he can’t confide in his stoic father. the cow-boy is his freedom, his opportunity to be himself — and when threatened, he’s willing to risk everything to keep that freedom.

But, taofik Kolade’s The Binding of Ishmael serves as a reminder that risk can be deadly. the Singapore short opens in a car, following azim as his father lectures him about the Quran and the need to obey its teachings. His absolute faith is alarming, more so when azim unwittingly aids in the killing of his gay brother. While Kolade’s message is obvi-ous and beautifully executed, its depth is what carries through

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aDaptation iS a funny thing. What worked so shame-lessly and wonderful-

ly for adaptor David ives in the Shakespeare theatre company’s production of The Liar two sea-sons ago feels like way too much of a good thing in his latest re-invention, Regnard’s The Heir Apparent.

a barely-faithful take on this 18th century comedy of a young and impecunious nephew trying to wheedle a fortune out a thor-oughly crotchety old uncle, there is far more here to make the wit-challenged guffaw on their gum (yes, they are the ones chomping away in the dark like they think all theater is “home” theater) than there is for those in need of the wry and dry. and it’s not the diar-rhea jokes that grate (never met one i didn’t like), it’s ives’ frantic

dependence on SNL-style modern reference as well as his hideous nods to Vaudeville.

it’s almost enough to make one ask why we cower so from touch-ing the words of Shakespeare’s comedies — expecting audiences to just deal with it — when at some indeterminate later date it seems a-okay, indeed preferable, to genetically modify plays into these new and improved states of accessibility.

Still, even with his over-zeal-ous representation of all that is smugly new, ives nevertheless (and perhaps despite himself) shows much evidence of an ironic wit. and there is perhaps no one better to deliver it in the role of the ancient but formidable uncle Geronte than the pricelessly won-derful Floyd King. the keeper of flawless comedic timing and a gentle but persistent aura of irony,

Floyd gets endless mileage from Geronte. yet, even as he delivers the best laughs of the night, see-ing Floyd’s noble face in serious repose amid ropes of bedraggled hair, one can’t help but long to see him in a leading dramatic role.

Geronte (and thus Floyd) fea-ture more in the first act, and there is far more time in act two in the company of the young quar-tet of actors who conspire, ever more frenziedly, to ensure that Geronte’s nephew eraste inherits the old man’s estate. the two for whom it comes easiest are carson elrod, playing crispin, a manser-vant, and Kelly Hutchinson as lisette, Geronte’s long-suffering maid and crispin’s girlfriend. though elrod doesn’t bring the nuance of experience, he does bring tremendous energy and some verve as he plays all man-ner of dress-up to fool Geronte. Hutchinson tends towards a dis-tracting actorly vocal huskiness, but once in the swing of things, she offers a piquant edge to her earthy one-liners.

less effective is a slightly squashed Meg chambers Steedle as isabelle, eraste’s paramour and the fleeting target of Geronte’s crusty attentions. chambers Steedle knows what she needs to do but can’t quite revel in it. as eraste, andrew Veenstra has the opposite problem: he has the chutzpah but doesn’t quite know how to work it. perhaps these are issues that will resolve with time and experience, but the uneven-ness of this quartet — which car-ries so much of ives’ more heavy-handed loa — is unable to make a silk purse out of the proverbial pig’s ear. and there is a pig’s ear. literally.

Keeping her well-bustled end up is a determined-to-enjoy-it nancy Robinette as isabelle’s grasping mother Madame argante. always a comic joy, Robinette nails her one-liners with style and energy, but it’s actors like her and King who make one desperate to see what they would have made of the challenges and comic glories of the original play. Understated

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a peRFect Balance between elegant aus-terity and a swiftly-rendered, passionate

tale of hearts, pure and not so pure, the Washington national opera’s Tosca is everything a tra-ditional production should be. in fact, it’s everything any thought-fully directed and produced opera should be: a fully imagined world in which we are free to relish the music of the human heart. like a classical painting viewed in the recesses of an old museum, this is a production that transports. thanks to director David Kneuss, we have puccini’s antique dream, as dark as it is beautiful.

Bringing us the songs of the soul is a seriously effervescent patricia Racette in the title role. capturing tosca’s feisty nature

and the honest heart beneath without the slightest hint of affec-tation, Racette gives us a living, breathing woman of substance. Racette is eminently fresh and convincing, and when she sings, she captures puccini’s idylls of love and loss with heartbreaking power in a voice that is as beauti-fully fluid as it is golden. to hear Racette is to savor an astonishing mix of passion and skill. and to see her throw herself from the battlements like some fantastic diver in search of oblivion is to see a consummate artist.

instantly enamored of this fascinating tosca is the poison-hearted Baron Scarpia, who dis-covers her while searching for an escaped political prisoner. Determined to have her (at least for a night), he begins a cam-

paign to separate her from her lover, the painter cavaradossi. Quickly detaining him for aiding the fugitive, Scarpia traps tosca in his chambers while he tortures cavaradossi within earshot. in agony, tosca only briefly accedes to Scarpia’s wishes before turning to violence. yet even as she engi-neers safe carriage for herself and cavaradossi, the Baron’s influ-ence survives just long enough to part the lovers forever.

a phenomenal actor, bass-baritone alan Held delivers a spectacularly nuanced and cred-ible Scarpia. Despite Racette’s wattage, it is hard to drag one’s eyes from Held, even as he waits in repose. a voice of molten rock, Held gives his Scarpia a vocal relentlessness that echoes his insatiable drive for power. at the end of act one, he captures bril-liantly Scarpia’s internal dialogue as it moves with and against the magnificent swells of puccini’s evocation of the church assem-bling for the Te Deum.

this scene itself is emblem-atic of the elegant restraint of the production. Building visually what puccini builds musically, the subtlety of image and timing is such that, when the composition is finally complete, the emotional and musical climax is enough to make a bishop’s teeth rattle.

With their great chemistry and fine craft, Racette and Held carry the show. More of a conundrum is tenor Frank porretta as the sin-cere, beleaguered cavaradossi. presenting rather like a stalwart of the nypD, porretta gives his painter an appealing gruffness. although he looks genuinely taken with tosca, there is not quite enough of the noble vulner-ability necessary for the eventual pathos of the unfolding tragedy of their love.

With a pleasing top register, porretta sings with expressive power to start but things take a turn for the worse after a par-ticularly realistic off-stage scream during the torture scene. as the blood-curdling howl emanates

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from the wings, one has to wonder if it hurts (the scream, that is, not the torture). thus, it isn’t surprising when porretta subsequently, briefly, goes hoarse dur-ing E lucevan le stelle, the deeply beauti-ful, cantorally mournful aria in which cavaradossi longs for tosca as he awaits execution. pacing himself thereafter, porretta does recover.

conducting, placido Domingo draws much passion from the Wno orchestra, even if there are occasional moments of less than crystalline focus. of course, the staging of this particular production with these particular stars was set by Domingo himself (as artistic and General Director) some time ago. yet even as this remains more legacy than promise, it has set the bar delightfully high for the new management.

Editor’s Note: The Washington National Opera presents Opera in the Outfield, a free live opera broadcast of Puccini’s tosca at Nationals Park. Open to the pub-lic. Reservations are encouraged but not required. Seating in the stands and on the outfield grass will be available for walk-ins at the event. Registration for reserved seating closes on Monday, Sept. 19 at 11:59 p.m. Visit http://www.kennedy-center.org/wno/outreach/simulcast/index.cfm l

after the credits. “He killed me first,” the father says to

azim as The Binding of Ishmael ends. that moment — the weight, sadness, and shock of it all — is a reminder of what short film can accomplish. an instance that lingers for hours, a purpose beyond entertaining image and sound, an honest feeling that you can’t ignore. it’s what short film is all about. l

and staying well clear of the Vaudevillian abyss, clark Middleton brings an engag-ing color to his Scruple, the lawyer caught in the middle of the shenanigans.

and yet, even as some percentage of an audience will get nothing more than a pleasing chuckle or two at the drier exchanges and asides in the first act, there are plenty more who will find eraste yelling “tennessee!” yet again, hilarious. Director Michael Kahn knows his crowd and he embraces ives’ highs and lows with a cracking pace and a mood that keeps everybody feeling like they’re in on the joke. if only that joke was funnier. l

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listingsDestinations on page 121

Thursday, 09.15.11

Annie’s4@4 Happy Hour, 4pm-7pm • $4 Small Plates, $4 Stella Artois, $4 House Wines, $4 Stolichnaya Cocktails, $4 Manhattans and Vodka Martinis • Upstairs open 5-10pm

BAnAnA CAféPiano Bar Happy Hour, 4-7:30pm • $3 rail mar-garitas, rail drinks and domestic beers • $3.95 Cuervo margaritas • Chuck Smith on piano, 7:30pm-close • $3 off Mojitos after 7:30pm

CoBAlt/30 Degrees2-4-1 Happy Hour, 4-7pm • Best Package Contest hosted by Lena Lett and Ba’naka, Midnight • $200 in prizes • $2 Rail Cocktails, 9-11pm • DJ MadScience • DJ Chord Bezerra • No Cover • 21+

DC eAgleOpen 4pm • Power Hour: $1 off Rail and Domestic, 4-6pm • Gear Night: Men in full gear get extra spe-cials, 2nd floor • Leather, Shirtless, Uniform, Hanky Code Specials • Beer Bar: Beltway Bears

DiK BArHappy Hour, 4-9pm • Rail Drinks and Select Beers, $3 • Absolut and Premium Beers, $4

fireplACeRail Vodka $2, 9-11pm • VJ Dina Valentine, downstairs • DJ Brooklyn, upstairs

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phAse 1Karaoke starting at 7pm • DJ LS or Drag King hosted • 21+ • No cover

pW’s sports BAr9855 Washington Blvd. NLaurel, Md.301-498-4840Karaoke in the Lounge

ZiegfelD’s/seCretsShirtless men drink free (rail & domestic), 10-11pm and Midnight to 12:30am • All nude male dancers • Dancing w/ DJ tim-e, 9pm-close • Cover

Friday, 09.16.11

Annie’s4@4 Happy Hour, 4-7pm • $4 Small Plates, $4 Stella Artois, $4 House Wines, $4 Stolichnaya Cocktails, $4 Manhattans and Vodka Martinis • Upstairs open 5-11pm

BAnAnA CAféPiano Bar Happy Hour,

green lAnternHappy Hour, 4-9pm • Shirtless Men Drink Free, 10-11pm • “Best Of” Contest, 11:30pm • DJ Back2bACk

hippo1 W. Eager St.Baltimore, Md.Hip Hop in dance bar, 10pm • DJ Kuhmeleon

Jr.’sHappy Hour, 5-8pm • $15 All You Can Drink Rail Highballs and Domestic Drafts ($22 upgrade for a step-up from rail) • $3 Rail Vodka Highballs, $2 JR.’s drafts, 8pm to close • Rockin’ Retro Night

nellie’s sports BArActive Duty Military Night • Beat The Clock Happy Hour — $2 (5-6pm), $3 (6-7pm), $4 (7-8pm) • Buckets of Beer $15

numBer nine1435 P St. NWHappy Hour: 2 for 1 Drinks, 5-9pm • No Cover

4-7:30pm • $3 rail mar-garitas, rail drinks and domestic beers • $3.95 Cuervo margaritas • Gordon Kent on the Piano, 8:30pm-12:30am

CoBAlt/30 Degrees2-4-1 Happy Hour, 4-7pm • DJ Joe Gauthreaux • DJ Keenan • Free vodka drinks, 11pm-midnight • Doors at 10pm • $8 • 21+

DC BeAr Crue@TownBear Happy Hour, 6-11pm • $3 Rail, $3 Draft, $3 Bud Light, $7 Pitchers • Free Pizza, 7pm • DJ Christian Gerard • Hosted by Charger Stone • No cover before 9:30pm • 21+

DC eAglePower Hour, $1 Off Rail and Domestic, 4-6pm • People in Leather, Uniform or Rubber get free Kamikazes, 9pm-midnight • Beer Bar: SigMa


freDDie’s BeACh BArCrazy Hour, 4-8pm • Karaoke, 9pm

green lAnternHappy Hour, 4-9pm • All-U-Can-Drink Smirnoff Buffet, $16, 10pm-11:30pm • Fahrenheit with DJ Susan Morabito, 9pm •

hippoBaltimore, Md.Josie Foster and Mother LISA present an AIDS Awareness Beneift Show • Doors at 10pm • Show at 11pm • Karaoke in Karaoke Bar, 9pm-2am • Kristin Chenoweth CD Promo • Doors at 10pm

Jr.’s$6 Cornita Buckets and $4 Skyy Highballs, 9pm-close • $6 Red Bull and Vodka, $4 Corona all night

nellie’s sports BArDJ Della Volta • Videos, Dancing • Beat The Clock Happy Hour — $2 (5-6pm), $3 (6-7pm), $4 (7-8pm) • Buckets of Beer $15


phAse 1DJ Luz • Dancing, 9pm-close • $5 cover • 21+

pW’s sports BAr9855 Washington Blvd. NLaurel, Md.301-498-4840Drag Show in lounge • Half price burgers and fries

toWnDownstairs: DJ BacK2bACk • Upstairs: DJ Wess • Doors open 10pm • Drag Show starts at 10:30pm • Hosted by Lena Lett and featuring Tatianna, Shi-Queeta-Lee, Jessica Spaulding

Deverreoux and Ba’Naka • $3 rail drinks from 10-11pm • For 21+, $5 from 10-11pm and $10 after 11pm • For 18-20, $10 all night

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BAnAnA CAféPiano Bar Happy Hour, 4-7:30pm • $3 rail mar-garitas, rail drinks and domestic beers • $3.95 Cuervo margaritas • Gordon Kent on the Piano, 8:30pm-12:30am

CoBAlt/30 DegreesBare: Ol’ Skook Edition (Ladies Night), 10pm • DJ Rosie and DJ Keenan • $7 before midnight, $10 after • 21+

Born in Hagerstown, Md., and now a stylist/cosmetologist in Frederick, Md., Jesse can deal with the smaller-town vibe. One sure release is the frequent trips to Puerto Rico, where his boyfriend was once stationed with the Coast Guard. Still, his neck of the woods is changing for the better. “There are more openly gay people, ranging from 19-year-old clubby boys to married with kids,” says the 26-year-old. “And lots of lesbians out in the country.” When he makes it into D.C., Jesse likes to hit Town and Ziegfeld’s/Secrets. He even tried shaking his own naked moneymaker back when Wet was around and offering amateur night. “In the moment, I was glad. At least I was brave enough to do it.”

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DC eAgleHappy Hour Leather Specials • Power Hour $1 off Rail and Domestic, 4-6pm • Club Night: ASGRA


freDDie’s BeACh BArDiner Brunch, 10am-3pm • Crazy Hour, 4-8pm • Karaoke and/or live enter-tainment, 9pm

fuego@Aqua1818 New York Ave. NELive performances by Gigi Paris Couture • $3 Vodka & Miller Lite until 11:30pm • Male Dancers • Shooter Boys • Free private park-ing • Cover

green lAnternHappy Hour, 4-9pm with Beat the Clock Specials on Rolling Rock and Rail

Vodka starting at 50 cents • All-U-Can-Drink Bacardi Buffet, $18, 10pm-2am • Slippery When Wet Black Out Party, 10pm

hippoBaltimore, Md.DJ Joey-O • Dance bar open, 10pm • Karaoke, 10pm-2am

Jr.’s$3 Coors Light, $4 vodka highballs, $6 Red Bull and Vodka, all day and night • Showtunes from 4-9pm

nellie’sZing Zang Bloody Marys, Nellie Beer, House Rail Drinks and Mimosas, $4, 11am-5pm • Buckets of Beer, $15


phAse 1DJ LS • Dancing, 9pm-close

pW’s sports BAr9855 Washington Blvd. NLaurel, Md.301-498-4840Karaoke in the lounge • Charity Bingo with Cash Prizes 3rd Sat. of Every Month

toWnThe Red Party • Please wear Red • Upstairs: Abel • Downstairs: DJ Wess • The Ladies of Town at 10:30pm • Hosted by Lena Lett and featuring Tatianna, Shi-Queeta-Lee, Jessica Spaulding Deverreoux and Ba’Naka • $3 rail drinks, 10-11pm • $8 from 10-11pm and $12 after 11pm • 21+

ZiegfelD’s/seCretsAll nude male dancers • The Ladies of Illusion host-ed by Ella Fitzgerald, first show at 11pm • DJ Spyke in Ziegfelds • Cover

What’s on your nightstand?

An iPhone char-ger, lamp from

Ikea and a giant purple glass vase.

Where do you keep the

condoms? In the underwear

drawer.

What are your television favorites?Anything reality. I love Mad Men, Modern Family. And reruns of Will & Grace and Absolutely Fabulous.

how many times have you said, “i’m totally Karen” or “totally Patsy”? As far as acting and looking, I am totally Patsy.

What superhero would you be? Rogue. She could fly, she was super strong, and she had the sexy platinum streak in her hair. I had one for a while.


sunday, 09.18.11

BAnAnA CAféPiano Bar Happy Hour, 4-7:30pm • $3 rail mar-garitas, rail drinks and domestic beers • $3.95 Cuervo margaritas • Karaoke, 6:30pm-close • Emceed by Zoe

CoBAlt/30 DegreesPopLife: 5 Decades of Pop Hits, 7pm • DJ MadScience • $4 rail drinks, $4 Miller Lites, $4 Jameson shots • No Cover • 21+

DC eAgleOpen 1pm for Redskins/Cardinals Game • Men in jerseys get com-plimentary Schnapps with each order until midnight • Highwaymen TNT Meeting, 4pm and Cookout, 5pm DiK BArHappy Hour, all night • Rail Drinks and Select

Beers, $3 • Absolut and Premium Beers, $4

freDDie’s BeACh BArChampagne Brunch Buffet, 10am-3pm • Crazy Hour, 4-8pm • Drag Show host-ed by Destiny B. Childs, featuring performances by a rotating cast, 9pm • Karaoke follows show • No cover

green lAnternHappy Hour, 4-9pm with $3 Smirnoff (all flavors) • Trailer Park Karaoke with Mama, 9:30pm • Bears Can Dance, 5pm

hippoBaltimore, Md.Eager Street Saloon, open 4pm-2am

Jr.’s$2 SKYY Highballs and $2 Coors Light, all day and night

nellie’sDrag Brunch, hosted by Shi-Queeta-Lee, 11am-

3pm • $20 Brunch Buffet • House Rail Drinks, Zing Zang Bloody Marys, Nellie Beer and Mimosas, $4, 11am-close • Buckets of Beer, $15 • Guil-Tea dance by DJ Shea Van Horn

numBer nine1435 P St. NWHappy Hour: 2 for 1 Drinks, 5-9pm • No Cover • num-berninedc.com

omegAChurch Lady Bingo with Chanel Devereux • Doors at 7pm • $3

phAse 1Live Music all night • $3.50 Coronas and Bud Lights • Drag King show every second Sunday, 9pm

pW’s sports BAr9855 Washington Blvd. NLaurel, Md.301-498-4840Happy Hour all night

ZiegfelD’s/seCretsRetro Night • Retro videos • Complimentary drinks with trivia quiz • All nude male dancers upstairs in Secrets • Drink and Beer specials • Cover

monDAy, 09.19.11

Annie’s4@4 Happy Hour, 4-7pm • $4 Small Plates, $4 Stella Artois, $4 House Wines, $4 Stolichnaya Cocktails, $4 Manhattans and Vodka Martinis

BAnAnA CAféOpen Mike, 7pm-close • Emceed by Zoe • $3 off all Mojitos after 7:30pm

CoBAlt/30 Degrees2-4-1 Happy Hour, 4-7pm • Happy Hour, $1 rail drinks, $2 beers, $5 call drinks, 4-7pm • $3 rail drinks and beers, $5 call drinks, 7-10pm • Martini Mondays, 10pm • $5 any martini • 21+ • No cover

DC eAgleOpen 4pm • New Specials • Monday Night Football • $1 Drafts (Bud and Bud Light)

DiK BArHappy Hour, all night • Rail Drinks and Select Beers, $3 • Absolut and Premium Beers, $4

freDDie’sCrazy Hour, 4-8pm • Karoke, 9pm

green lAnternHappy Hour, 4pm-close • Karaoke, 9:30pm • Beer Pong, 8pm-Midnight • $8 Pitchers and $2 Drafts (Upstairs)

hippoHippo Saloon, 4pm-2am

Jr.’sHappy Hour 4 to 9pm • Buy 1 get 1 free on rail, Skyy highballs, domestic bottles and draft beer • Showtunes Songs & Singalongs, 9pm-close •

DJ Jamez • $3 Pints and $6 Absolut Highballs

nellie’s sports BArBeat The Clock Happy Hour — $2 (5-6pm), $3 (6-7pm), $4 (7-8pm) • Buckets of Beer $15 • Poker Texas Hold’em, 8pm


pW’s sports BAr9855 Washington Blvd. NLaurel, Md.301-498-4840Buzztime Trivia competi-tion • 75 cents off bottles and drafts

tuesDAy, 09.20.11

Annie’sHappy Hour, 4-7pm • $4 Stella Artois, $4 House Wines, $4 Stolichnaya Cocktails, $4 Manhattans and Vodka Martinis

What would you serve? The meat dress?

I make a killer tiramisu. It’s easier to talk to people over dessert than

raw meat.

how would you describe your dream guy?

This sounds totally sappy, but my boyfriend. He’s not really

afraid to do anything.

define good in bed.If my legs feel like Jell-O afterward,

that’s a good time.

Who should star in a movie about your life?Adam Levine.

Who was your first celebrity crush?Richard Gere in Pretty Woman. I was probably 8.

Who gets on your nerves? People who are really simple, really small-minded. People afraid of change.

Who’s your greatest influence?Definitely my parents.

And now my boyfriend.

Pick three people, living or dead, who you think would make the most

fascinating dinner guests imaginable.

My late grandfather and great aunt, both because I would love to see and

hear of they are proud of me as an adult. And Lady Gaga.

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Wed., 09.21.11

Annie’sHappy Hour, 4-7pm • $4 Stella Artois, $4 House Wines, $4 Stolichnaya Cocktails, $4 Manhattans and Vodka Martinis

BAnAnA CAféHappy Hour, all night • Gordon Kent on the Piano, 7:30pm-close

CoBAlt/30 Degrees2-4-1 Happy Hour, 4-7pm • $3 rail drinks and beers, $5 call drinks, 7-10pm • Vogue Battle Round 3, 10pm • DJ Sean Morris • $100 prize to the winner • $5 Absolut • $4 Jameson • $7 Long Island Iced Tea • No Cover • 21+

DC eAgleOpen 4pm • Power Hour $1 off Rail and Domestic, 4-6pm • 2-4-1 Rail and Domestic Specials, 9pm-midnight

BAnAnA CAféPiano Bar Happy Hour, all night • $3 rail margaritas, rail drinks and domestic beers • $3.95 Cuervo mar-garitas • Gordon Kent on the Piano, 7:30pm-close

CoBAlt/30 Degrees2-4-1 Happy Hour, 4-7pm • $3 rail drinks and beers, $5 call drinks, 7-10pm • Treatment (newest pop) in 30 Degrees, 10pm • DJ Kuhmeleon • DJ Erik Lars Evans • 2-4-1 rail drinks • 21+ • No cover

DC eAgleOpen 4pm • $2 Rail and Domestic, 4pm-midnight • APA Pool League, 7:30pm


freDDie’s BeACh BArCrazy Hour, 4-8pm • Karaoke, 9pm

green lAnternHappy Hour Prices, 4pm-close • FUK!T Packing Party, 7-9pm

hippoBaltimore, Md.Showtune Video Madness, 8:30pm-12:30am • VJ Ben Ryland Farewell Party • Barbra Streisand CD Promo and Rock of Ages Theatre Ticket Giveaway • Best of Hollywood and Broadway Showtunes

Jr.’s25th Anniversary Celebration • Private Party, invite only, 7-9pm (talk to your favorite bartender to find out how to get an invite) • Win tickets to sports game, an iPad and other surprises • Bar opens to public at 9pm • Open Bar on Rail Vodka and JR.’s drafts, 10-11pm • In support of DADT if you have a military ID, you get open bar on anything, 10-11pm • Music Videos from the past 25 years

nellie’s sports BArBeat The Clock Happy Hour — $2 (5-6pm), $3 (6-7pm), $4 (7-8pm) • Buckets of Beer $15 • Drag BINGO hosted by Shi-Queeta Lee, 8pm

omegAHappy Hour, 4-9pm • Bear Encounters • $2 Drafts and $5 Cosmos • Real Men of Omega, 9:30pm

pW’s sports BAr9855 Washington Blvd. NLaurel, Md.301-498-484075 cents off bottles and drafts • Movie Night

DiK BArHappy Hour, 4-9pm • Rail Drinks and Select Beers, $3 • Absolut and Premium Beers, $4 freDDie’s BeACh BArCrazy Hour, 4-8pm • Drag Bingo, 8pm • Karaoke, 10pm

green lAnternHappy Hour Prices, 4pm-Close • POZ DC Happy Hour, 9pm-Midnight (Upstairs)

hippoBaltimore, Md.Gay Bingo, 8:30pm • Proceeds benefit GLCCB • David Guetta CD Promo Event • Cash prizes and Progressive Cash Jackpot Game

Jr.’sHappy Hour 4 to 9pm • Buy 1 get 1 free on rail, Skyy highballs, domestic bottles and draft beer • 1st and 3rd Wednesday of every month is Trivia Night

nellie’s sports BArBeat The Clock Happy Hour — $2 (5-6pm), $3 (6-7pm), $4 (7-8pm) • Buckets of Beer $15 • SmartAss Trivia, 8pm


pW’s sports BAr9855 Washington Blvd. NLaurel, Md.301-498-4840Free Pool • 75 cents off Bottles and Drafts

ZiegfelD’s/seCretsNew Meat Night • Dancer auditions • Happy Hour Prices, all night • All nude male dancers • DJ tim-e, 9pm-close • Drink and Beer Specials • Cover l

if your home was burning, what’s the first thing you’d

grab while leaving?My dogs — a toy poodle and a minia-

ture schnauzer — Guapo and Chico.

What’s your biggest turn-on?A good bulge.

What’s your biggest turn-off?Poor hygiene and arrogance.

What’s the most unusual

place you’ve had sex? On top of a dryer.

What position do you play in the big baseball game of life?Catcher. But I’ve definitely played the field.

What kind of animal would you be?Maybe a macaw, so I could fly. And it’s colorful and tropical.

state your life philosophy in 10 words or less.Put out good karma and good things will happen. l


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The 18th & U Duplex Dinerthrows a Grand Opening Party —

but don’t worry, not much has changedat the institution

By Doug Rule

Kevin Lee photographed by Todd Franson at the Duplex Diner on Friday, September 9

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I WAS ALWAYS SHYING AWAY FROM THE word ‘change,’” says Kevin Lee regarding his philosophy as the new owner of the 18th & U Duplex Diner.

A bartender and server at the venerable Adams Morgan institution for nine years, Lee probably couldn’t have changed much if he had wanted to. In recent months, he relates, “I’m not kidding when I tell you I received 100-plus emails, good and bad [from customers].”

Don’t get rid of the meatloaf, the customers demanded. Or the burger. Or the broccolini salad. Do

something about crowd flow. And for god’s sake, “Don’t touch the Madonna bathroom! Don’t do anything with it.”

Lee laughs about “the holy shrine” to the gay icon, and reassures that he only plans to make one change to it, a “sort-of silly but really fun addition.” It will be revealed this Saturday, Sept. 17, during the Duplex’s Grand Opening Party, with DJ Shea Van Horn. The venue has been in a “soft opening” mode for the past month.

The Duplex Diner has been a fixture in D.C.’s gay nightlife for 13 years. Eric Hirshfield opened it in 1998 — or a couple years after Lee, a Miami native, had moved to D.C. on the advice of his gay brother. A German Literature major at the University of Michigan, Lee ended up getting a Master’s in international relations and economics from SAIS. But Lee started bartending part-time at Duplex, and then — of all things — he started landscaping after a couple diner regulars recruited him for work. To this day Lee still owns a landscap-ing company with his domestic partner, Holger — and he has yet to work in the international realm. “Life can lead you in funny directions,” he marvels.

“Initially when I asked Eric [if he’d sell],” says Lee, “it was fantasy on my part and a little out of the blue for him.” But Hirshfield, once a civil engineer, was ready. “Eric has been incredibly helpful and supportive, one of our biggest cheerleaders through the process,” says Lee. By “our,” Lee means he and Holger, who he says is more of a “silent partner” in the restaurant.

Lee notes that pretty much the whole staff has stayed on during the switch. And why not? He’s worked with most employees for five-plus years. “We’re like a family,” he says.

And the family that eats together... Lee has kept all of the popular items on the menu, and only added new options with a focus on “fresh” ingredients — “We have very few frozen products,” he notes, other than the obvious Tater Tots and French fries. He also dropped the tuna and swordfish dishes in favor of more “sustainable” fish options, including trout and wild salmon. And he added a few Southern touches — fried-green tomatoes, shrimp and grits — in part a reflection of new chef Mark Mulvey, who previ-ously worked in Charleston, S.C. The restaurant will also start serving Sunday brunch next month.

“People come here for comfort food and drinks,” notes Lee. And that won’t change. The bar now serves a whole host of “squeezes,” or vodka drinks with fresh citrus, from oranges to limes. “The Lemon Squeeze has taken on a life of its own,” Lee laughs, referring to the bar’s longstanding popular drink.

“It’s a really special environment here,” he says. “There were just a few things that needed to be addressed, to make the experi-ence better.”

The Grand Opening Party with DJ Shea Van Horn is this Saturday, Sept. 17, starting at 9 p.m., at the 18th & U Duplex Diner, at 2004 18th St. NW . Call 202-265-9599 or visit duplexdiner.com l

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delay, Franco has officially “withdrawn,” so we can all breathe a sigh of relief (no offense to the duo, but I don’t believe either was ideally cast in this play). That doesn’t mean that Tennessee Williams will not be represented on Broadway this season. We already told you about the upcoming production of A Streetcar Named Desire slated to star Blair underwood this spring. Now we can tell you that nicole ari Parker will play Blanche and daphne rubin-Vega will play Stella. The revival is being produced by Front Row Productions, the same people who produced the all-black version of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof in 2008. Next up, Kathleen Turner as Rosa Parks....

JONAS SUCCEEDS... You all know that darren Criss will take over the lead in How To Succeed in Business for three weeks once daniel radcliffe departs on January 1. But who will replace Criss? nick Jonas, that’s who — and he’ll stick around till June. This marks Nick’s return to the Great White Way after playing roles in Annie Get Your Gun, Beauty and the Beast, and Les Miserables. I always had a feeling he was a thespian....

BIEBER FEVER... Of course, some people who like their boys a bit…well, younger. Perhaps even pre-pubescent. Take Bravo’s andy Cohen (who is in the running to replace regis). When asked by Vanity Fair if he believed selena Gomez and Justin Bieber are really in a relationship or if it’s just a publicity stunt, he said, “Who wouldn’t want

to date Justin Bieber? I have Bieber fever!” We also hear that Andy got a seven-figure advance from book publisher Henry Holt to write his memoirs. Is there really an audi-ence for this? It’s not like he’s one of the Real Housewives....According to people in the know, susan Lucci will not be joining All My Children when it moves online. We hear that the diva was offered a contract identical to the one she currently enjoys. However, she allegedly wanted more money, less hours, and the guarantee of a role on a TV show that people might actu-ally watch. Since the company taking on the soap also produces Royal Pains for USA, she might be barking up the wrong tree. I should mention that erika slezak, Ted King, Michael easton and Kassie dePaiva will all join the online version of One Life To Live....

PRISON BOD... Some people on the Fan Forum at BillyMasters.com were discussing Tom hardy in the film Bronson. Hardy, best known for his role in Inception, really went out of his way to transform his body to portray one of Britain’s most notorious prisoners. While it was an impressive acting job (which won him the British Independent Film Award for Best Actor), most of my readers were taken with his body – every inch of which is on display. One person quipped, “There’s nothing like a naked mus-cular man being subdued by prison guards.” Well, if that isn’t a stellar recom-mendation, I don’t know what is....

ASK BILLY... Corey in London asks, “I just went to West End Bares — which is like Broadway Bares in the States. LOVED IT! What do you know about the hot guy from Priscilla? Amazing bod!!” I had forgotten West End Bares was last week. This event was the brainchild of my dear friend, darren Carnall. It started last year when he was in the cast of the West End production of Legally Blonde — which was directed by Jerry Mitchell, who started Broadway Bares. This inspired Darren to orga-nize West End Bares and raise money for the Make a Difference Trust (similar to Broadway Cares). Last year was such a huge hit, it returned this year to London’s Café de Paris and raised in excess of $70,000. Amongst the hunky participants was Oliver Thornton — one of the sexy stars of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert. He plays the same part nick adams is doing on Broadway and with all due respect to the lovely Nicky, Oliver is indeed amazing.

When Brits are show-ing off their West Ends, it’s definitely time for me to end yet another column. It’s been a while since I played I’ll Show You. These days, it seems you’ve won when you have to change your mari-tal status on Facebook to “Single” and your part-ner’s page is blocked. But that’s OK because you can always see BillyMasters.com, the site that’s always available. To take advan-tage of my availability, just send an e-mail to [email protected] and I promise to get back to you before my dinner date with Carol Channing.... l

CHEYENNE WEDS... Sometimes we rush to get a story out and then something happens that I wish I could have included. Such is the case with a recent item that men-tioned sexy Cheyenne Jackson. Within hours of filing my report, Cheyenne was in the Hamptons getting married to his longtime partner, Monte Lapka. Last summer, the couple had registered as domestic partners and had a commitment cer-emony. But with gay mar-riage now legal in New York, there weren’t any obstacles to a real wed-ding. He shared the news via Twitter (of course) by saying, “It’s official, after 11 years together, Zora’s no longer a bastard. Just married the best man I’ve ever known.” By the way, Zora is the couple’s dog — who they often refer to as their daughter. She has Cheyenne’s eyes....

BROADWAY HUGH... Sometimes I’m psychic. I reported that hugh Jackman was considering a limited Broadway run of his solo concert. Hours after my story hits the street, it was confirmed. From October 25 through December 20 (a date I’m sure is not cast in stone), Jackman will appear with an 18-piece orchestra at Broadway’s Broadhurst Theater....

WILLIAMS ON AND OFF... I certainly didn’t predict the next item, but I’m sure glad it’s true. The proposed Broadway revival of Sweet Bird of Youth has been “postponed” — which hopefully means scrapped entirely. The production was supposed to star nicole Kidman and James Franco. Given the


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[e]very day our young people…

they’re bombarded with‘homosexuality is normal and natural.’

it’s something they have to deal with every day. Fortunately we don’t have to deal with a terrorist attack every day,and that’s what i mean.

— Oklahoma Republican state legislator SaLLy kErN, already infamous for her anti-gay comments,making her claim that homosexuality is more dangerous to the nation than terrorism.

(Right Wing Watch)

i like the diversity that my children are exposed to every day. i love the way their brains work.Joe turns to me the other day and says, ‘one day, i will have a girlfriend.

But i might have a boyfriend. if i’m gay.’He’s 7!

— Actress kaTE WiNSLET recounts a conversation with her son about being straight or gay.(V Magazine)

“My mother didn’t raise me like this.i would really like to apologize to the victim.

— TEoNNa BroWN, the 19-year-old who attacked a transgender woman, Chrissy Lee Polis,in April at a McDonald’s restaurant northeast of Baltimore. Brown was sentenced to five years in prison for the attack.

(Baltimore Sun)

We want the public to

take another look at the Republican partyand our policies. … it’s fair to say we’re more centrist.

— Oregon GOP spokesman GrEG LEo on the state party’s decisionto remove a number of anti-gay provisionsfrom the party’s platform.

(The Oregonian)

i love attention, but

that’s the kind of drama i just can’t handle.”— kyLE rookEr, 14, one of the plaintiffs in a lawsuit against his Minnesota school district for failing to protect students from

anti-gay harassment. Rooker, who likes to wear sparkly scarves, has been harassed in locker roomsand was once urinated on while using a restroom stall.

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