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Tickets on sale to the public tomorrow, May 3 at 10 a.m.!

Get early access to J. PERIOD tix

May 2, 2018 TRR News Music, Music News

J. Period (Billboard #1 album for The Hamilton Mixtape) presents a groundbreaking concert event exploring the relationship between arts and activism through the sound and vibrant language of Hip Hop with an all-star cast of surprise special guests and Hip Hop luminaries. This event celebrates the release of The RISE UP Project, a new album created in partnership with the W.K. Kellogg Foundation that brings influential artists together around social justice themes and community engagement.

Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Presents Moon Taxi

May 2, 2018 TRR News Music, Music News

The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra (BSO) announces the fourth and final performance in its 2017-2018 Pulse concert series: Moon Taxi on May 17, 2018. The concert takes place at the Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall in Baltimore, MD.

Saadiq will make a stop at the Kennedy Center on July 27th

Raphael Saadiq Announces Summer Tour Dates

May 1, 2018 TRR News Music, Music News

Raphael Saadiq just announced his first headline tour dates in several years. The Oscar-nominated and Grammy-winning musician and producer will head out on a seven-city run including headline shows in NYC, Boston, Philadelphia and more, and a performance at Chicago’s Pitchfork Festival (read ‘The Meaning of Soul Music According to Raphael Saadiq’ via the 2017 Pitchfork here). The dates come as he’s set to finish work on his anticipated fifth solo album and first since 2011’s Stone Rollin’. The upcoming shows follow 2017 performances as a headliner at Afropunk Brooklyn, a surprise appearance with A Tribe Called Quest at FYF Fest 2017, and several dates with Maxwell, among other shows. See all upcoming tour dates below and get tix this Friday, May 4 at 10am local time.

Film Screening and Discussion With Anna Deavere Smith Kicks Off Programming for May

May 1, 2018 TRR News Arts & Entertainment, Museums

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture will screen Notes from the Field, an HBO film adaptation of actor and writer Anna Deavere Smith’s one-woman show about the criminal justice system that sends young people from school to prisons. Following the film, which aired earlier this year on HBO, Smith will join Lonnie G. Bunch III, founding director of the museum, for a discussion about the film. The original stage play and the film are the result of 250 interviews, many with people who were incarcerated as teens. Advance Tickets for the Tuesday, May 1, event (7 to 9 p.m.) are sold out, but walk-up tickets are often available for this and other public programs at the museum.

One of Mosaic’s Most Popular Shows Returns for 5 Week Run

Mosaic Theater Company Remounts Helen-Hayes Nominated Hooded: Or Being Black for Dummies

April 26, 2018 TRR News Theatre, Theatre News

The penultimate production of Mosaic Theater Company’s third season will be a remount Hooded: Or Being Black for Dummies, written by local rising star Tearrance Arvelle Chisholm and directed by Mosaic’s Managing Director Serge Seiden with Associate Director Vaughn Ryan Midder. Mosaic’s first production of Hooded: Or Being Black for Dummies is currently nominated for the Charles MacArthur Award for Outstanding Original New Play, which gives DC audiences the rare opportunity to see a nominated production during the same month as the awards.

Tickets On Sale to the General Public Starting Friday, May 4

Fleetwood Mac Announce North American Tour; Visit Capital One Arena March 5, 2019

April 25, 2018 TRR News Music, Music News

Legendary, GRAMMY-award winning band Fleetwood Mac announced today a North American tour, set to kick off in October and travel through 50+ cities, including Washington, D.C. on March 5, ending in Spring of 2019. Produced by Live Nation, the tour will feature the newly announced line-up of Mick Fleetwood, John McVie, Stevie Nicks, and Christine McVie along with newcomers Mike Campbell and Neil Finn.

J Balvin announces North American ‘Vibras Tour; visits EagleBank Arena Oct. 21

April 23, 2018 TRR News Music, Music News

Today multi-platinum, award-winning Colombian superstar and one of the hottest acts in Latin music, J Balvin, is inviting North American fans to vibe with him this fall on his newly revealed Vibras Tour Powered by Buchanan’s Whisky. The news comes on the heels of the recent announcement that his highly-anticipated new album VIBRAS will be released May 25 and is available for presale now.

August Wilson’s TWO TRAINS RUNNING extends due to popular demand

April 11, 2018 TRR News Theatre, Theatre News

August Wilson’s masterpiece drama on the civil rights movement, Two Trains Running, will receive an additional five performances during its run at Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater. Under the direction of Juliette Carrillo and in a co-production with Seattle Repertory Theatre, Two Trains Running now plays through May 6, 2018 on the Fichandler Stage.

All-Star Comic Con Puts Pop Culture on Center Stage

April 9, 2018 TRR News Uncategorized

This June 15-17, the Sheraton Tysons Hotel at Tysons Corner, Virginia will play host to The All-Star Comic Con, a comic, art, gaming and pop culture celebration that aims to break the mold of a regular “comic con” in favor of a more diverse, intimate and dynamic experience.

Several big names in the comic book industry will be at All-Star Con when it debuts in Northern Virginia this summer, including Eisner Award winning and New York Times Best Selling writer Jason Aaron (Thor, Star Wars, Wolverine, Read more

Meet Discovery’s Captain Pike

April 9, 2018 TRR News Television, Television News

Anson Mount has been tapped to play Captain Christopher Pike of the U.S.S. Enterprise in the soon-to-film second season of Star Trek: Discovery. Mount, who was born in Illinois and raised in Tennessee, counts among his many film and television credits Crossroads, Smallville, All the Boys Love Mandy Lane, Lost, Dollhouse, Straw Dogs and Non-Stop, as well as the recent series Hell on Wheels and Inhumans.

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