The 2019 Maryland Folk Festival returns to the Weinberg Center for the Arts on Saturday, September 28, 2019 at 7:30 PM. Headlining this year is legendary musical artist, Livingston Taylor. Additional acts include local folk musicians Dry Town, The Hazards, Lea & Keith Koan and a performance by The Frederick County Elementary School All-Star Band.
Comedy Central today ordered a 10-episode second season of hit series South Side, the aspirational, scripted comedy set in and around the working-class neighborhood of Englewood on the South Side of Chicago.
Shakespeare Theatre Company will begin its 2019/20 Season with the 2018 Pulitzer Prize Finalist EVERYBODY by Obie Award-winner, MacArthur “Genius” Grant recipient and Washington, D.C.-native Branden Jacobs-Jenkins (An Octoroon, Gloria). This “fun and breezy” (Broadway World) comedy about life (and death) will play at the Lansburgh Theatre (450 7th Street NW) from October 15 through November 17, 2019.
On this edition of the INTERVUE, legendary actor John Travolta takes us on the dark side of being a fan in the upcoming thriller, The Fanatic. Directed by Fred Durst, the film tells the tale of a celebrity-obsessed man named Moose who felt slighted by his favorite movie star, Hunter Dunbar, and embarks on a quest to get a response from the actor. I sat down with John to discuss all sides of being a fan – who he idolized growing up and playing a fanatic whose willing to do anything to meet his idol.
Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater announces the full company for the world premiere of Sharyn Rothstein’s (By the Water, USA Network’s “Suits”) timely tale about one man’s fierce battle to reclaim his right to privacy. Filled with secrets, lies and political backstabbing, Right to be Forgotten centers around a young man’s mistake that haunts him online a decade later. Desperate for a normal life, he goes to extraordinary lengths to cut himself off from his past. In a time when everyone has their own version of the truth and their own way of spreading it, who decides which truths get buried and which live forever online? Directed by Deputy Artistic Director Seema Sueko, Right to be Forgotten runs October 11 – November 10, 2019 in the Arlene and Robert Kogod Cradle.
Comedian Mike Birbiglia will kick off a four-city tour of his hit Broadway play THE NEW ONE at Washington, D.C.’s National Theatre from September 24-29, 2019. The D.C. premiere of MIKE BIRBIGLIA’S THE NEW ONE will also mark the start of the venue’s 2019-2020 Broadway at the National series, which is set to feature an unprecedented 16 productions.
On a beautiful, sunny summer day in August, Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, MD was abuzz in anticipation of a truly jam-packed lineup featuring rock acts spanning the decades. So jam-packed, in fact, that the show bucked convention in bumping up the typical weekday venue showtime by an hour-and-a-half.
From timeless veteran artists such as Beck and Spoon, whose careers date back thirty and twenty-six years, respectively, to Cage the Elephant, who have firmly established themselves on the music scene with an equally impressive repertoire in under half the time, to relative newcomer and presumptive unknown to most in attendance, Sunflower Bean, seeking to state their case for relevance to the early arrivers, the show was bound to produce some unforgettable memories.
The newly established Montgomery County Sports Hall of Fame (MCSHF) will induct its inaugural class on September 13, 2019 in a special ceremony in Silver Spring.
Two Olympic gold medalists, swimmer Katie Ledecky and former gymnast Dominique Dawes, will be joined in the inaugural class by former Redskins’ cornerback Shawn Springs, U.S. National soccer
team great Bruce Murray, legendary high school football coach Bob Milloy and Washington Senator great and baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Walter Johnson who will be inducted posthumously.
Folger Theatre opens the 2019/20 season with 1 Henry IV, Shakespeare’s richly layered coming-of-age tale of power, rebellion, honor, and redemption. The production is directed by Rosa Joshi (co-founder of Seattle’s upstart crow collectivetheater company in Seattle; Henry V and As You Like Itat Oregon Shakespeare Festival), who makes her DC directorial debut at the Folger.
1 Henry IV is on stage from September 3 through October 13, 2019. Tickets are available online at www.folger.edu/theatre or by calling the Folger Box Office at (202) 544-7077.
