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2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY
Capital Classics, the hump-day alternation at Landmark’s afresh refurbished West End Cinema, launches its winter division with Stanley Kubrick’s ablaze brainwork on man and the abstruse universe. The 1968 abstracted adventure appearance Oscar-winning appropriate furnishings and a thoughtful, additional calligraphy by the administrator and Arthur C. Clarke. Happy Hour-priced beer and wine from 4 to 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 8, at 1:30, 4:30, and 7:30 p.m. Landmark’s West End Cinema, 2301 M St. NW. Tickets are $12.50. Call 202-534-1907 or visit landmarktheatres.com.
A BAD MOMS CHRISTMAS
Releasing aloof afterwards Halloween and weeks afore Thanksgiving, we accept a Christmas-themed aftereffect to 2016’s decidedly entertaining Bad Moms. Mila Kunis, Kristen Bell, and Kathryn Hahn acknowledgment as the rule-breaking moms who debris to be “perfect,” abandoned this time they’re abashed by their own mothers (Christine Baranski, Cheryl Hines and Susan Sarandon) visiting for the holidays. If it can bland over some of the cracks of the aboriginal film, it could be good, if early, blithe fun. Now playing. Breadth theaters. Visit fandango.com. (Rhuaridh Marr)
AUSTIN POWERS: INTERNATIONAL MAN OF MYSTERY
The 20-year-old aboriginal James Bond bluff from Mike Myers and co-starring Elizabeth Hurley spawned two blockbuster sequels and a accomplished bag of quotes. It’s the additional in a new account alternation from Virginia’s Alden Theatre, aggressive by the Rocky Horror Picture Show, in which “audience accord is required.” There will be a $5 prop bag to advice added act out scenes as able-bodied as contests — additional chargeless popcorn! Friday, Nov. 3, at 7 p.m. Old Firehouse, 1440 Chain Bridge Rd. Mclean, Va. Tickets are free. Call 703-790-0123 or visit mcleancenter.org/alden-theatre.
BLADE RUNNER 2049
★★★★★
Blade Runner 2049 is not abandoned one of the best greatly intelligent, emotionally resonant, viscerally thrilling, and awe-inspiring attractive films of 2017, it is, hands-down, the greatest aftereffect in the history of cinema. I won’t go so far as to say that the cine surpasses Ridley Scott’s original, a masterpiece of science fiction cinema, but it comes appealing abuse close. Directed by Denis Villeneuve, who helmed aftermost year’s analogously admirable and cerebral Arrival, Blade Runner 2049 magnificently dovetails with the aboriginal film, furthering its anecdotal in agency that are by turns surprising, unpredictable, akin rapturous. Throughout the film, Villeneuve pays admiration to Scott’s artful and appearance by including reflections of bouncing baptize on walls and clear-cut raincoats. Blade Runner 2049 and its antecedent are both, essentially, movies about the chase for identity. They’re about what it agency to accept a anatomy — and whether or not a anatomy (as able-bodied as love) can abide if its case has been bogus from an accumulation line. There is affluence of agitative actuality in both Blade Runner movies, but the aftereffect takes things several notches further, the aftereffect actuality a blur with a added accurate faculty of purpose and far beneath abstracted ambiguity. Now playing. Breadth theaters. Visit fandango.com. (Randy Shulman)
IN THIS OUR LIFE
Inspired in allotment by Feud, Ryan Murphy’s alternation on FX, the Hill Center’s blur and altercation alternation “Davis & Crawford, A Fabulous Rivalry” alternates amid accurate focuses on Bette Davis and Joan Crawford. Hosts New Yorker writer Margaret Talbot and “Movie Mom” blur analyzer Nell Minow best one affected alternative per diva, including this 1942 ball directed by John Huston, starring Bette Davis and Olivia de Havilland as sisters. Sunday, Nov. 5, at 4 p.m. Hill Center, Old Navy Hospital, 921 Pennsylvania Ave. SE. Free, but allotment recommended for affirmed seating.. Call 202-549-4172 or visit HillCenterDC.org.
LBJ
Rob Reiner’s affectionate account of Lyndon Baines Johnson is absolute abundant in the casting of Stephen Spielberg’s Lincoln in its account of a admiral arch a authoritative allegation for ancestral equality. Woody Harrelson gives what critics accept alleged a admirable achievement as the Senate Majority Leader angry Vice President, who eventually becomes Admiral and endeavors to backpack on the civilian rights bequest of his assassinated antecedent John F. Kennedy (Jeffrey Donovan). Jennifer Jason Leigh plays adherent wife Lady Bird while Michael Stahl-David is LBJ’s adversary, Attorney Accepted Bobby Kennedy. Opens Friday, Nov. 3. Breadth theaters. Visit fandango.com.
SUSPICION
Joan Fontaine snagged the Best Actress Oscar for her role in Alfred Hitchcock’s 1941 thriller, authoritative her the abandoned actuality to win an acting Oscar in a Hitchcock-helmed film. The blur screens as allotment of the month-long Joan Fontaine Bazaar alternation at AFI, and finds Fontaine marrying absorbing playboy Cary Grant and advancing to affliction it. Suspicion is belled for not catastrophe the way Hitchcock wanted. Saturday, Nov. 4, and Sunday, Nov. 5, at 11:05 a.m., and Tuesday, Nov. 7, at 7 p.m. AFI Silver Theatre, 8633 Colesville Road, Silver Spring. Tickets are $13 accepted admission, or $10 for matinee screenings. Call 301-495-6720 or visit afi.com/Silver.
THE GOLD RUSH
As allotment of its month-long Silent Cinema Showcase, AFI screens a 1925 Charlie Chaplin archetypal while the Columbia Orchestra offers animate agreeable accompaniment. The Gold Rush follows Chaplin artlessly barrier from one crisis to accession in accustomed banana routines — gluttonous ambush from a blizzard, actuality pursued by a annoyed bear, and somehow artifice afterlife to the audience’s delight. Saturday, Nov. 4, at 7:30 p.m., and Sunday, Nov. 5, at 2 p.m. AFI Silver Theatre, 8633 Colesville Road, Silver Spring. Tickets are $20, or $125 for a Silent Cinema All-Access Pass. Call 301-495-6720 or visit afi.com/Silver.
THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW
Landmark’s E Street Cinema offers its account run of Richard O’Brien’s affected classic, billed as the longest-running midnight cine in history. Landmark’s showings appear with a animate adumbration casting from the Sonic Transducers, acceptation it’s akin added alternate than usual. Friday, Nov. 10, and Saturday, Nov. 11, at midnight. Landmark’s E Street Cinema, 555 11th St. NW. Call 202-452-7672 or visit landmarktheatres.com.
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THOR: RAGNAROK
Conspicuously absent from 2016’s Captain America: Civilian War, Thor (Chris Hemsworth) allotment in his third standalone blur to acquisition himself trapped in antagonistic action with Hulk (Mark Ruffalo), a action he charge somehow win afterwards his brand bang in adjustment to accomplish it aback home in time to stop an approaching apocalypse, address of Hela (Cate Blanchett), the goddess of death. Hemsworth may accept absent his continued beard (and he’s all the added handsome for it), but he’s acquired Blanchett, Jeff Goldblum, and Karl Urban as co-stars in the process. Not a bad trade. Opens Friday, Nov. 3. Breadth theaters. Visit fandango.com. (RM)
TWO BLUE LINES
Voices from the Holy Acreage offers the third in a free, four-part blur alternation sponsored by 15 breadth churches and beforehand organizations and presented at a accelerating Christian abbey in Gaithersburg. Tom Hayes spent 25 years analytical the animal and political bearings of the Palestinian bodies to make Two Blue Lines. The 2015 documentary explores the amorous altercation amid Israeli citizens about their government’s occupation, cautiously splicing calm dueling creeds with a aftereffect that is absorbing and clashing the far added attenuated appearance American audiences are acclimated to. A chastened altercation follows. Sunday, Nov. 5, at 2:30 p.m. Christ the Servant Lutheran Church, 9801 Centerway Road, Montgomery Village, Maryland. Call 301-977-0285 or visit voicesfromtheholyland.org.
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A LITTLE PRINCESS SARA CREWE
The affiliated brace of artisan Matt Conner and artisan Stephen Gregory Smith teamed up with book biographer Ellen Selby on a new agreeable adjustment of the children’s atypical by Frances Hodgson Burnett. Presented by Aesthetic Cauldron’s Learning Amphitheater Ensemble and directed by Selby and the apprentice Virginia amphitheater company’s Laura Connors Hull, A Little Princess Sara Crewe takes abode at Miss Minchin’s School for Girls, capturing the spirit of the atypical and its address to the adeptness of imagination. Opens Friday, Nov. 3. To Nov. 19. ArtSpace Avalanche Church, 410 South Maple Ave. in Avalanche Church. Tickets are $20 to $30. Call 703-436-9948 or visit creativecauldron.org.
A SHORT SERIES OF DISAGREEMENTS PRESENTED HERE IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER
British comedian/monologist Daniel Kitson has become a mainstay at the Edinburgh Anniversary Fringe and has won acclamation in the U.K. and Australia for “story shows” that are accompanying funny and thoughtful, cool and serious, affluent with altruism and riddled with frustration. He brings his one-man appearance to Studio X. Previews alpha Thursday, Nov. 2. Runs to Nov. 25. Studio Theatre, 1333 14th St. NW. Call 202-332-3300 or visit studiotheatre.org.
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AN ACT OF GOD
Tom Adventure is the all-powerful one in a ball by David Javerbaum, based on the Daily Show writer’s book The Aftermost Testament: A Memoir by God. Adventure shares the date with Evan Casey and Jamie Smithson as archangels Michael and Gabriel, allowance God actualize an absolutely new set of Ten Commandments. To Nov. 26. Signature’s Ark Theatre, 4200 Campbell Ave. Arlington. Call 703-820-9771 or visit sigtheatre.org.
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ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA
★★★
Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra is an absorbing animal: not absolutely absolute drama, not absolutely lover’s tragedy. The already baby Folger Theatre goes super-intimate by staging the assembly in-the-round and the acquaintance gives the comedy personality. In administrator Robert Richmond’s comfortable amphitheater are a absolute Antony and Cleopatra. They may bear admirable and admirable language, they may go to war or die by asp, but they are afterwards question, living, breath bodies who smirk, cuddle, and lose their tempers. A arresting Cleopatra, Shirine Babb exudes the all-important aspect in the attractive apparel of Mariah Hale. Babb is the acumen to see this production. The abandoned affliction is that the revolving date is not activated during her afterlife arena so that added of the admirers can see her animate face as she chooses her fate. To Nov. 19. Folger Theatre, 201 East Capitol St. SE. Tickets are $35 to $79. Call 202-544-7077 or visit folger.edu. (Kate Wingfield)
ARE YOU NOW OR HAVE YOU EVER BEEN…
MetroStage presents Carlyle Brown’s fictionalized glimpse into the apperception of Langston Hughes during the communist-purging McCarthy era, aback the abundant artisan was alleged to affirm on the Hill about his bellicism and accessible Communist ties. Marcus Naylor stars as Hughes and Michael Aciculate as Joe McCarthy in this appropriate comedy featuring an aboriginal dejection account by William Knowles. Directed and choreographed by Thomas W. Jones II. Closes Sunday, Nov. 5. MetroStage, 1201 North Royal St., Alexandria. Tickets are $55 to $60. Call 703-548-9044 or visit metrostage.org.
ASSASSINS
It’s not every year you get to see this lesser-known Tony-winning Stephen Sondheim show, but if you absent the contempo Pallas Theatre Collective production, you’re in luck. Virginia’s NextStop Theatre Aggregation offers its own adjustment of the revue-style account of attempted presidential murderers, with Bobby Libby as Lincoln’s analgesic John Wilkes Booth, Mikey Cafarelli as John Hinckley (Reagan), Alex Zavistovich as Samuel Byck (Nixon), Brice Guerriere as Giuseppe Zangara (FDR), Katie McManus as Sarah Jane Moore (Ford), Jaclyn Adolescent as Squeaky Fromme (Ford), and John Sygar as Lee Harvey Oswald (JFK) and the show’s Balladeer. To Nov. 12. NextStop Theatre, 269 Sunset Park Drive, Herndon, Va. Tickets are $20 to $60. Call 866-811-4111 or visit nextstoptheatre.org.
EMILIE: LA MARQUISE DU CHÂTELET DEFENDS HER LIFE TONIGHT
★★★
Contrary to the title, the Marquise (Sara Barker) does not avert her life, as a scientist might, so abundant as she narrates it, like an author, in administrator Rick Hammerly’s absurd estimation of Lauren Gunderson’s active drama. It’s the arcane ancillary of the absolute Émilie du Châtelet, a adeptness scientist, mathematician and philosopher who, in the aboriginal 18th-century, appear assignment that afflicted the blueprint anecdotic one of the axiological laws of physics — arduous Newton and the world’s rules about women in science. Emilie is best afire aback relaying the Marquise’s angelic acrimony that such abstruse and allegedly astute men as her adolescent scientists adeptness be about butterfingers of demography her assignment actively abandoned because of her sex. To Nov. 12. Gunston Arts Center, 2700 South Lang Street, Arlington. Tickets are $10 to $35. Call 703-418-4804, or visit avantbard.org. (Andre Hereford)
INTIMATE APPAREL
Dawn Ursula brilliant in this turn-of-the-century account about a accomplished African American clothier and the affair she shares with a Jewish bolt merchant. Lynn Nottage’s play, aggressive by a accurate story, gets a assembly in Baltimore directed by Tazewell Thompson and featuring Beth Hylton, Drew Kopas, Steve Polites, Bueka Uwemedimo, Jenn Walker, and Jade Wheeler. To Nov. 19. Everyman Theatre, 315 West Fayette St. Baltimore. Tickets are $10 to $65. Call 410-752-2208 or visit everymantheatre.org.
MANIFESTO! A THEATRICAL DADA DIVERSION
The latest devised amphitheater allotment from the Helen Hayes Award-winning affiliation Happenstance Amphitheater is congenital on argument from absolute manifestos — from the Capitalist to the Communist — for a appearance that the Washington City Paper reviewed as “a adorable caper through the surreal.” Set during wartime at the surrealist Cabaret ReVoltaire endemic by Madam Proprietor and operated by Middle-Man and the New Girl, the casting includes Happenstance’s husband-and-wife leaders Mark Jaster and Sabrina Mandell, as able-bodied as Gwen Grastorf, Sarah Olmsted Thomas, Alex Vernon and Mark Winch. Now to Nov. 12. Baltimore Theatre Project, 45 West Preston St. Baltimore. Tickets are $15 to $25, except for all Thursdays, which are Pay-What-You-Can performances. Call 410-752-8558 or visit theatreproject.org.
MEAN GIRLS
Tina Fey’s hit blur adapted as a agreeable and the hottest acceptance in boondocks — abnormally aback its stop at the National Theatre is a attack above-mentioned to its Broadway debut, set for the spring. Fey has accounting the show’s book with music by her bedmate and 30 Rock composer Jeff Richmond and lyrics by Nell Benjamin (Legally Blonde). Casey Nicholaw (The Book of Mormon) directs. In previews. Runs to Dec. 3 at The National Theatre, 1321 Pennsylvania Ave. NW. Tickets are $48 to $128, however, the National will authority a acceptance action afore anniversary show. Individuals may abide their names at the box appointment to win up to two tickets at $25 each. Twenty action seats will be accessible for anniversary performance, with names fatigued 90 account above-mentioned to the show. Call 202-628-6161 or visit thenationaldc.org.
OUR TOWN
The townspeople become Japanese-style puppets in Aaron Posner’s aberrant booty on the seminal archetypal by Thornton Wilder. John Hudson Odom (Angels in America) stars as the allegorical Date Manager in a assembly affectionate to the calligraphy and accustomed by the Wilder Ancestors Estate, featuring aloof seven actors, who dispense and breathing the puppets. To Nov. 12. Mulitz-Gudelsky Theatre Lab, 2001 Olney-Sandy Bounce Road, Olney, Md. Call 301-924-3400 or visit olneytheatre.org.
SAFE AS HOUSES
Pinky Swear Productions formed with author Natalie Piegari for over a year to beforehand a ball exploring the cull of ancestors and nature. Megan Behm directs this comedy about a check ancestors advancing a burghal abode for a agitated storm and chief on whether they should delay it out. A beating at the aperture complicates things further, as the accomplished comes calamity in. To Nov. 11. Trinidad Theatre at Basic Fringe, 1358 Florida Ave. NE. Tickets are $35. Call 866-811-4111 or visit pinkyswear-productions.com.
SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE
Blake Robison directs a assembly of Lee Hall’s adjustment of the blue Oscar-winning blur from 1998, both riffing on and adulatory the Bard. Nicholas Carriere stars as Will amid a ample casting including Avery Glymph, Jefferson A. Russell, Liz Daingerfield, and Naomi Jacobson as Queen Elizabeth. To Nov. 26. Baltimore Center Stage, 700 North Calvert St., Baltimore. Call 410-332-0033 or visit centerstage.org.
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THE BOOK OF MORMON
Written by South Park‘s Trey Parker and Matt Stone, the angrily funny, adventurous musical, which won a whopping nine Tony Awards, is both acid bend in abominable actuality yet acceptable in style. The Book of Mormon may braid in abrupt and annoying artifice twists and scenes as able-bodied as aback acutely avant-garde sensibilities about life, adeptness and organized religion. Yet it still hews to the accepted agreeable mold, from afresh agreeable curve and lyrics, to bouncy sing-along accumulation anthems, to aciculate accumulation choreography, including a tap number. To Nov. 19. Kennedy Center Opera House. Tickets are $59 to $250. Call 202-467-4600 or visit kennedy-center.org.
THE PAJAMA GAME
In an abnormal twist, aesthetic administrator Molly Smith turns over administering reins for this season’s Golden Age Agreeable to Alan Paul, who has accurate his animation with musicals at Shakespeare Theatre Company. Choreographer Parker Esse joins to try to arouse absorption in this archetypal battle-of-the-sexes. In previews. To Dec. 24. Mead Center for American Theater, 1101 6th St. SW. Call 202-488-3300 or visit arenastage.org.
VICUNA & AN EPILOGUE
Mosaic Amphitheater Aggregation presents the Trump-inspired banter by Jon Robin Baitz (Other Desert Cities), the gay author assaulted by a Trump adherent afterwards the inauguration. The assignment has been adapted to accommodate brainwork on the assault. Now to Nov. 26. Atlas Assuming Arts Center, 1333 H St. NE. Call 202-399-7993 or visit mosaictheater.org.
ALCINA
The Washington National Opera presents its first-ever staging of Handel’s adept bizarre opera, with world-class articulate talents led by Angela Meade as the sorceress accomplished in the art of seduction, who avalanche casualty to the attraction of adulation in the acreage of illusion. In Italian with English supertitles. Performances activate Saturday, Nov. 4, at 7 p.m. To Nov. 19. Kennedy Center Eisenhower Theater. Tickets are $69 to $195. Call 202-467-4600 or visit kennedy-center.org.
ATTACCA QUARTET
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This cord quartet may be young, but the Washington Post has already accepted them for advancing “very abutting to epitomizing the cord quartet ideal: four conspicuously abandoned players with the adeptness to allege eloquently in one voice.” In a acknowledgment to the acoustically affluent Barns at Wolf Trap, Attacca performs a affairs featuring Haydn, Beethoven, and Ippolito. Sunday, Nov. 5, at 3 p.m. 1635 Trap Road, Vienna. Tickets are $40. Call 877-WOLFTRAP or visit wolftrap.org.
BELA FLECK & ABIGAIL WASHBURN
The allegorical banjo virtuoso, who has been nominated in added categories than anyone in Grammy history, allotment to the breadth for accession concert with his wife, additionally a well-regarded banjo amateur and vocalist. Fleck and Washburn abide to bout in abutment of their self-titled 2016 Grammy-winning album. Tuesday, Nov. 7, at 7:30 p.m. The Birchmere, 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria. Tickets are $49.50. Call 703-549-7500 or visit birchmere.com.
COLD SPECKS W/LA TIMPA, BE STEADWELL
There’s a folky affection to the music Ladan Hussein makes beneath the alias Algid Specks, a appearance that has been dubbed “doom-soul.” The Somali-Canadian changeable artisan tours with Nigerian-Canadian “dream-pop” artisan LA Timpa, who produced several beforehand on Algid Specks’ new album Fool’s Paradise, and additionally “queer-pop” artisan Be Steadwell. In accession to application a bend pedal for articulate layering, Steadwell sings, raps and beatboxes in her intriguing, memorable compositions, including the candied adulation letter to her D.C. hometown, “Not Gonna Move to New York.” Friday, Nov. 3. Doors at 8 p.m. Atramentous Cat, 1811 14th St. NW. Tickets are $13 in advance, or $15 at the door. Call 202-667-4490 or visit blackcatdc.com.
CYNTHIA ERIVO
As allotment of her Voices series, Renee Fleming presents a British powerhouse, accepted from her Tony-winning about-face as Celie in the 2015 Broadway awakening of The Color Purple. Added recently, she captivated on TV via her arrangement of “The Impossible Dream” at the contempo Kennedy Center Honors and dueting with John Legend in “God Abandoned Knows” beforehand this year at the Grammy Awards. Saturday, Nov. 4, at 2 and 7 p.m. Kennedy Center Terrace Theater. Tickets are $49 to $69. Call 202-467-4600 or visit kennedy-center.org.
DC DIFFERENT DRUMMERS FALL CONCERT
“Once Upon A Time…” is the appellation of this year’s abatement concert by the Capitol Pride Symphonic Band, assuming music aggressive by abundant works of literature. The affairs includes pieces of altered eras and styles. Saturday, Nov. 4, at 7 p.m. Abbey of the Epiphany, 1317 G St. NW. Tickets are $20. Call 202-269-4868 or visit dcdd.org.
JACQUES BREL: SONGS FROM HIS WORLD
Steven Scott Mazzola directs this In Alternation cabaret of songs by the Belgian adept of avant-garde “chanson,” featuring a casting of four singers accompanied by music administrator Reenie Codelka. Bryon Jones, Fleta Hylton, Simon Charette, and Brian J. Shaw will sing assorted Brel classics, including “Ne Me Quitte Pas,” “Amsterdam,” and “Marieke,” abounding of which became all-around hits through renditions by Frank Sinatra, Nina Simone and Ray Charles, amid others. In French with English supertitles. Performances alpha Saturday, Nov. 4, at 8 p.m. Weekends to Nov. 19. Source Theatre, 1835 14th St. NW. Tickets are $20 to $43. Call 202-204-7741 or visit inseries.org.
JAZZMEIA HORN
A applesauce diva originally from Dallas, Horn is bound arising as one of the genre’s best new talents, acceptable acclaimed titles in the process, including the 2013 Sarah Vaughan International Applesauce Articulate Competition and the 2015 Thelonious Monk Institute International Applesauce Competition. Afterwards a headlining concert at the Kennedy Center aftermost winter, Horn allotment to the breadth for two shows at Georgetown’s acclaimed applesauce haven. Monday, Nov. 13, at 8 and 10 p.m. Dejection Alley, 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. Tickets are $25, additional $12 minimum purchase. Call 202-337-4141 or visit bluesalley.com.
JOSHUA BELL
A account by one of classical music’s best accepted violinists, who performs with accessory by Alessio Bax on piano. Sunday, Nov. 5, at 4 p.m. Music Center at Strathmore, 5301 Tuckerman Lane, North Bethesda. Tickets are $90 to $125. Call 301-493-9283 or visit nationalphilharmonic.org.
KISHI BASHI W/TALL TALL TREES “Sometimes my music is appealing nonsensical, and that’s apparently because I’m aloof admiring to the sounds of the words,” K. Ishibashi told Metro Weekly a few years back, apropos to the music of his playfully eponymous orchestral-rock act Kishi Bashi. The Japanese-American singing violinist is frequently whimsical, authoritative capricious music aloof the appropriate ancillary of asinine — and focused on fun. A assistant with Regina Spektor, Sondre Lerche and Of Montreal, the artisan has continued fabricated music in the appearance of Electric Light Orchestra — and that’s never been added accurate than on aftermost year’s Sonderlust, featuring the play-on-words distinct “Can’t Let Go, Juno.” Kishi Bashi afresh allotment to Sixth & I with Mike Savio, the adept fiddler accustomed as “a avant-garde in the apple of beginning and consciousness-expanding banjo music” — and his achievement as Alpine Tall Trees lives up to that billing. Savio performs in Kishi Bashi as able-bodied as an aperture act. Monday, Nov. 6, at 8 p.m. Sixth & I Historic Synagogue. 600 I St. NW. Tickets are $22 in advance, or $25 day of. Call 202-408-3100 or visit sixthandi.org.
NEW YORK FESTIVAL OF SONG: PASSION OF LEONARD BERNSTEIN
Leonard Bernstein, who is accepted to accept had macho lovers throughout his life, composed “To What You Said,” a gay acclamation featuring autograph by Walt Whitman, as allotment of his Songfest: A Cycle of American Poems for Six Singers and Orchestra. The assignment will be performed as allotment of a new all-Bernstein affairs by Steven Blier and Michael Barrett, both Bernstein protégés and co-artistic admiral of the New York Anniversary of Song. The pianists will be abutting by percussionists Barry Centanni and Taylor Goodson in an advisory accolade to the allegorical composer’s adeptness in autograph for the animal articulation and featuring six advancing vocalists: acute Chelsea Shephard, mezzo-sopranos Annie Rosen and Lucia Bradford, tenor Miles Mykkanen, baritone Justin Austin and bass Adrian Rosas. The concert in the Kennedy Center’s anew adapted Terrace Amphitheater opens the 27th division of Articulate Arts DC, an alignment accustomed as the abandoned one of its affectionate abandoned adherent to presenting classical articulation recitals, burnishing D.C.’s appellation as the choral basic of America. Sunday, Nov. 5, at 2 p.m. Kennedy Center Terrace Theater. Tickets are $50. Call 202-467-4600 or visit vocalartsdc.org.
THE DAVE KLINE BAND, VERONNEAU
At its added affectionate cabaret space, Strathmore offers a advertise of two bounded acts creating aboriginal agitative music from about the globe. Both the Dave Kline Band, a fiddle-fueled bluesy bedrock act cartoon afflatus from the U.K., Colombia, Haiti and Senegal, and the globally aggressive applesauce bandage led by Canadian diva Lynn Veronneau, accomplish a bifold bill to bless the absolution of new albums. Saturday, Nov. 11, at 8 p.m. Amp by Strathmore, 11810 Admirable Park Ave. North Bethesda. Tickets are $25 to $35. Call 301-581-5100 or visit ampbystrathmore.com.
WASHINGTON JEWISH MUSIC FESTIVAL
Tararam, accepted as “Israel’s Stomp,” bliss off the 11-day anniversary on Thursday, Nov. 2, at 7:30 p.m. Amid added highlights this year, all of which booty abode at the Edlavitch DCJCC unless contrarily noted: Renowned cellist Amit Peled in “Journey with my Jewishness,” and the “Bimah to Broadway to Beltway” cabaret featuring three of the area’s arch changeable cantors, both on Sunday, Nov. 5; Yasmin Levy & the Klezmatics on Tuesday, Nov. 7, at the Music Center at Strathmore; and a Closing Night concert by Nomadica featuring some of Toronto’s finest musicians and focused on adulatory and fusing the music of Arabs, Roma, and Jews, on Sunday, Nov. 12. Edlavitch DCJCC, 1529 16th St. NW. Tickets are $8 to $35, or $75 for a Anniversary Pass. Call 202-777-3250 or visit wjmf.org.
THE MARTIAL ARTISTS AND ACROBATS OF TIANJIN
A thrilling, anesthetic affectation of above abilities in acrobatics, bazaar acts, illusions and aggressive arts is on the bill, as added than 100 performers from China booty the stage, accompanied by acceptable Chinese music. Friday, Nov. 3, at 8 p.m., and Saturday, Nov. 4, at 2 and 8 p.m. George Mason University Center for the Arts, 4373 Mason Pond Drive, Fairfax. Tickets are $30 to $50. Call 888-945-2468 or visit cfa.gmu.edu.
PAUL MOONEY & MARSHA WARFIELD: TRIBUTE TO DICK GREGORY
Last year, Mooney performed with Gregory, one of the aboriginal atramentous comedians to accretion acceptance with predominantly white audiences. Now Mooney, accepted for common appearances on Chappelle’s Show as able-bodied as allowance to ascertain Robin Williams and Sandra Bernhard, amid others, allotment to the Howard Theatre, this time for a accolade to Gregory, who died this accomplished August. Mooney is abutting by Warfield, best accepted as the tough-talking, common bailiff Roz Russell on NBC’s ’80s sitcom Night Court, who abandoned afresh came out as a lesbian. The two comedians accept Richard Pryor in common: Mooney acclimated to be a biographer for the backward banana adeptness while Warfield was an ensemble affiliate on the The Richard Pryor Show. Saturday, Nov. 4, at 7:30 and 10:30 p.m. The Howard Theatre, 620 T St. NW. Tickets are $49.50 to $89.50, additional $10 minimum per actuality at all tables. Call 202-588-5595 or visit thehowardtheatre.com.
PAULA POUNDSTONE
The longtime standup comic, self-proclaimed “virginish” and “asexual,” is the funniest panelist on NPR’s anxiously funny weekend account quiz show Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me! Poundstone allotment for accession weekend run of shows at the Birchmere. But hurry: Tickets are already awash out for the Saturday date. Friday, Nov. 10, through Sunday, Nov. 12, at 7:30 p.m. The Birchmere, 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria. Tickets are $49.50. Call 703-549-7500 or visit birchmere.com.
UPRIGHT CITIZENS BRIGADE
Like the funniest extroverts at the party, the ad-lib affiliation Upright Citizens Army riffs on D.C. and audience-members alike. The army has abounding acclaimed alumni, including Amy Poehler and Ed Helms. Sunday, Nov. 12, at 7 p.m. Sixth & I Historic Synagogue. 600 I St. NW. Tickets are $20 in advance, or $25 day-of show. Call 202-408-3100 or visit sixthandi.org.
DAN ARIELY
The world-renowned economist explores the axiological applesauce of claimed accounts in Dollars and Sense: How We Misthink Money and How to Spend Smarter. Partnering with caper and biographer Jeff Kreisler, the Duke University assistant examines the complication of how money makes us feel and how banking attitude drives our accomplishments whether we apprehend it or not. Thursday, Nov. 9, at 7 p.m. Sixth & I Historic Synagogue. 600 I St. NW. Tickets are $22 in advance, or $25 day of. Call 202-408-3100 or visit sixthandi.org.
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AMERICAN DEMOCRACY: A GREAT LEAP OF FAITH
In backward June, the Smithsonian’s American History building opened this affectation of arresting artifacts highlighting the history of aborigine participation, agitation and accommodation from the nation’s accumulation to today. The American agreement is still alive, if not altogether able-bodied at the moment, but it has endured asperous times afore and this exhibition highlights the assorted agency in which arch abstracts accept strived to accomplish the country “a added absolute union.” Objects accommodate Thomas Jefferson’s carriageable board he acclimated to abstract the Declaration of Independence, the inkstand Abraham Lincoln acclimated to abstract the Emancipation Proclamation, and the table on which Elizabeth Cady Stanton wrote the Declaration of Sentiments. Ongoing. National Building of American History, 14th St. and Constitution Ave. NW. Call 202-633-1000 or visit americanhistory.si.edu.
ARTECHOUSE: SPIRIT OF AUTUMN
Founded beforehand this year by Sandro Kereselidze and Tatiana Pastukhova of accident assembly aggregation Art Soiree, the agenda art museum, abreast the Mandarin Oriental auberge in Southwest D.C., is committed to showcasing assignment at the circle of art and technology. Its latest immersive, alternate accession offers a abstracted escape into a Abatement amphitheater application a advanced bump arrangement with bank cartoon powered by A-Blok and attic projections by Noirflux. In the evening, the projected autumn mural changes with the ambience sun, ushering in the nighttime. Now to Nov. 5. ArTecHouse in the Portals, 1238 Maryland Ave. SW. Tickets for 60-minute, timed-entry sessions are $8 daytime admission, $20 for black (drinks awash separately). Visit artechouse.com.
DEL RAY ARTISANS: UNDER $100
Members present artworks priced at $100 or beneath that can go home at the time of acquirement in this anniversary exhibition — with new works on affectation all ages long. Aperture accession is Friday, Nov. 3, from 7 to 9 p.m. Runs through Nov. 26. Del Ray Artisans Gallery, 2704 Mount Vernon Ave. Alexandria. Call 703-731-8802 or visit thedelrayartisans.org.
LEONARD BERNSTEIN AT 100
The Grammy Building has organized a traveling exhibition commemorating the great, backward bisexual American artisan and conductor, premiering it at the Kennedy Center as one alpha to a year-long bazaar celebration. Accustomed as the best absolute attendant of Bernstein’s activity and career, the exhibition contains over 150 artifacts, including photographs, claimed items, papers, scores, correspondence, costumes, furniture, and films. Displayed items accommodate one of Bernstein’s batons, his aboriginal piano, his New York Philharmonic belvedere and a affairs from his 1943 acceptance with the orchestra, and the board from which he composed West Ancillary Story along with handwritten account bedding for that iconic musical’s “America,” “Tonight” and “Maria.” There are additionally alternate displays, acceptance visitors acceptance into his aesthetic apperception and bequest — from a alert bar to analyze some of his best acclaimed works, to a articulate berth alms a adventitious to sing the advance in West Ancillary Story, to a affection acceptance one to about footfall into Bernstein’s administering shoes and advance a symphony. Closes Sunday, Nov. 5. Kennedy Center Terrace Gallery. Free. Call 202-467-4600 or visit kennedy-center.org.
PAINTING SHAKESPEARE
An analysis into how Shakespeare’s words accept aggressive beheld artists, as apparent in pictures, oil sketches and paintings from the Folger’s collection. Why is there beheld art in a library? Because collectors Henry and Emily Folger accepted that it takes added than books and manuscripts abandoned to accept Shakespeare and his era. On affectation through Feb. 17. Folger Shakespeare Library, 201 East Capitol St. SE. Call 202-544-7077 or visit folger.edu.
SUPERFIERCE: ART OF RESISTANCE
According to statistics from the National Endowment for the Arts, while about 51 percent of beheld artists are women, beneath than 5 percent are represented in above museums about the world. Maggie O’Neill started the alignment SuperFierce as a abutment arrangement to advice connect, inspire, coach and affectation adolescent changeable artists. Its 2017 exhibition appearance over 30 changeable artists, called by a console of bounded beheld art experts, and including, amid others, Behnaz Babazadeh, Kimberly Cunningham, Lana Gomez, Linda Hesh, Akemi Maegawa, Anne Marchand, Cara Peterson, Caitlyn Price, Amber Robles-Gordon, and Antonia Tricarico. Closes Saturday, Nov. 4. Blind Whino, 700 Delaware Ave. SW. Call 202-554-0103 or visit superfierce.org.
SUPERSIZED: DISH UP
The Ceramic Guild stuffs the Scope Gallery with ceramics big and tall, all with a focus on bistro and dining and the Thanksgiving holiday. Expect all address of confined platters, bowls and gravy boats. In affiliation with the Art League’s Tabletop show. Opens Monday, Oct. 30. To Nov. 26. Scope Gallery in Torpedo Factory Art Center, 105 North Abutment St. Alexandria. Free. Call 703-838-4565 or visit torpedofactory.org.
THE ARTIST’S PROCESS: LANDSCAPE PAINTERS
Sketches and studies created by associates of the Washington Society of Mural Painters will be on affectation in an exhibition focused on the action of painting in the acreage and aggravating to abduction the aspect and important aspects of what adeptness be included in the final work. A cardinal of the final pieces will be apparent alongside the asperous and quick sketches. Aperture accession is Sunday, Nov. 5, at 4 p.m. On affectation through Jan. 7. The Athenaeum, 201 Prince St., Alexandria. Call 703-548-0035 or visit nvfaa.org.
VERMEER AND THE MASTERS OF GENRE PAINTING
A battleground exhibition analytical the aesthetic exchanges amid Johannes Vermeer and his aeon in the 17th century, aback they accomplished the acme of their abstruse adeptness and ability of depictions of circadian life. Quiet scenes advance in clandestine households and featuring affected ladies and gentlemen were amid the best arresting aspects of Dutch painting of this Golden Age, a time of accession and prosperity. In affiliation with the National Gallery of Ireland and the Louvre in Paris, the exhibition appearance 70 works by Vermeer, Gerard ter Borch, Gerrit Dou, Pieter de Hooch, Gabriël Metsu, Frans van Mieris, Caspar Netscher and Jan Steen. Now to Jan. 21. West Building of National Gallery of Art, 4th Street and Constitution Avenue NW. Call 202-842-6716 or visit nga.gov.
CALLE CINCO: GET YOUR TAPAS ON
Learn how to accomplish avant-garde Spanish tapas with chef George Rodriguez in an affectionate restaurant allotment amid in the affectionate alcove aforetime accepted as Conosci. This Sunday afternoon affirmation is allotment of a affable alternation at Michael Schlow restaurants additionally including “Thanksgiving Riggsby Style” with chef Jay Caputo a anniversary later. The tapas class, focused on Barcelona-style hot and algid tapas, pinchos, tortilla Espagnola and churros, is Sunday, Nov. 5, from 3 to 6 p.m. 465 K St. NW. Tickets are $50, including aliment and non-alcoholic beverages. Call 202-629-4662 or visit bit.ly/SchlowRGClasses.
EMPORIYUM
Union Bazaar is a anchorage for foodies year-round, but one weekend every November it becomes a actual foodie’s paradise. In accession to the approved merchants and aliment stalls central the Bazaar proper, over 100 artisans, producers, chefs and restaurants from about the Mid-Atlantic additionally set up booths abaft the bazaar to sample and canvass their latest articles and fares. It’s a acceptable array of appetizing aliment and anxious gifts, for accompany and ancestors — and yourself. A sampling of the added arresting vendors on duke this year include: South Mountain Creamery, Zesty Z Spreads & Condiments, Brother Floyd’s Angelic Pickles, the Bounded Oyster from Baltimore, Tibetan dumplings from D.C.’s Dorjee Momo, “liquor-infused ice cream” from Tipsy Scoop, dog treats from What The Cluck, New York’s Sfoglini Pasta Shop, and Bella Rouge Barbeque. The Emporiyum launches with a 5 Year Birthday Affair on Friday, Nov. 10, from 6 to 8 p.m. The Emporiyum is Saturday, Nov. 11, and Sunday, Nov. 12. Dock5 at Abutment Market, 1309 5th St. NE. Accepted acceptance is $15 for acceptance afterwards 1:30 p.m., $25 for acceptance at 11 a.m. with a adulatory tote bag, or $40 for VIP acceptance at 10 a.m. additional appropriate bites and sips, and a allowance bag; the Friday Birthday affair is $40, or $80 with an All Acceptance Weekend Pass. Call 800-680-9095 or visit theemporiyum.com.
NATIONAL GALLERY’S GARDEN CAFE: WEEKEND BRUNCH
For a boozy brunch a little added aerial adeptness than the average, the National Gallery of Art offers a brunch cafe for $30. Aggressive by the accepted exhibit, Vermeer and the Masters of Genre Painting (see abstracted listing), the selections include: Egg Pancakes with sage-infused maple syrup, Smoked-Fish Platter with whitefish, pickled herring and egg salad, Broiled Free-Range Frenched Chicken with parsley and watercress puree, and White Asparagus Bloom with broiled marble potato, diced egg, pickled turnip, brittle bacon and parsley. There’s additionally a Dutch Cheese Sampler, Vermeer-Inspired Weekly Rotating Soup, and Seasonal Freshly Cut Fruit. Not to acknowledgment Macaroon & Vanilla Pudding, St. Nicholas Slices, Wheat Bread & Hagelslag, Bitter Cookie, and a abounding coffee menu. Oh, and $6 mimosas. Saturdays from 11:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. and Sundays from apex to 4 p.m. National Gallery of Art’s West Garden Court, 4th Street and Constitution Avenue NW. Free. Call 202-842-6716 or visit nga.gov.
NIGHTLIFE
BEST OF BURLESQUE(ER): DOWN AND DIRTY HOLIGAY BLUES
An absolutely anomalous casting aims to get you in the anniversary spirit way too aboriginal in an anniversary assembly of broil and sass, baking caricatural and caper drag. Salem Sirene, Carlita Caliente, Freddy Boi Jonesy, Tempete La Coeur, and Glam Gamz accomplish during a appearance hosted by Dutch Oven and Betty O’Hellno, with “Stage Kitten” Lexie Starre. Friday, Nov. 3. Doors at 9 p.m. Atramentous Cat Backstage, 1811 14th St. NW. Tickets are $15 day-of-show. Call 202-667-4490 or visit blackcatdc.com.
DEEP DONNA
Now that he’s retired the account Otter Crossing affair at the Green Lantern, affair apostle David Brown is channeling his activity in a altered gay administration — from adulatory the barbate anatomy to adulatory the close soul, and the ultimate disco diva. Yes, the name is a advertence to Donna Summer, and her bequest will be explored in the discofied sounds of underground DJs Juana and Strikestone — assuming “heavy disco, b-sides, absent tracks, and abysmal cuts” — additional “live disco articulate performances” by bounded amphitheater actors Danie Harrow and Shayna Blass. Saturday, Nov. 4, starting at 9:30 p.m. Atramentous Cat Aback Bar, 1811 14th St. NW. Tickets are $5. Call 202-667-4490 or visit blackcatdc.com.
THE ASK RAYCEEN SHOW
The sixth division concludes with Rayceen Pendarvis hosting the “Sexy AF Division Finale,” an black of burlesque, animate music, demos and more. Performers accommodate Pussy Noir, Clandestine Tails, Billy Winn and Appealing Boi Drag. In accession there will be award-winning accoutrements for “sexiest outfit, best adult bulletin t-shirt, sexiest body, and best twerking.” Music by DJ Honey. Wednesday, Nov. 8, at 6 p.m. HRC Adequation Center, 1640 Rhode Island Ave. NW. Call 800-777-4723 or visit AskRayceen.com.
THE DC BIG FLEA & ANTIQUES MARKET
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Billed as the Mid-Atlantic’s better aged flea market, it includes booths alms unique, affection antiques for home and office. This is not the flea bazaar of yore, according to promoters, but one area you can acquisition sophisticated, glassy and athletic appliance and designs, from accomplished antiques to best accouterment and handbags to mid-century avant-garde artworks. Saturday, Nov. 4, from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., and Sunday, Nov. 5, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Dulles Expo Center, 4320 Chantilly Shopping Center, Chantilly, Va. Acceptance is $10 for both days. Call 757-961-3988 or visit thebigfleamarket.com.
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