Claptone leans a little more “Phantom of the Opera” than the Bee Gees. (Photo by Maxime FORT)

It’s a long weekend, and that’s worth dancing about. Good thing there are lots of opportunities this weekend, with a two-day disco festival, a day of blues music, and a late-night dance party.

FRIDAY, AUGUST 31

BOOGIE WONDERLAND: In a year that already gave us Mamma Mia!: Here We Go Again the disco gods have smiled upon us again with the first-ever Blisspop Disco Fest in D.C. The two-day event kicks off Friday with German DJ Claptone at the 9:30 Club and British duo Horse Meat Disco at U Street Music Hall. It’s all leading up to a Saturday show from Giorgio Moroder, the Italian “Father of Disco.” (U Street Music Hall, 10 p.m., $15-$20; 9:30 Club, doors 8 p.m., $30; two-day passes available)

SHE MEANS FUNNY BUSINESS: Alice Wetterlund appeared on Silicon Valley for two seasons as Carla, the no-nonsense engineer in the gang of man-children trying to make an app. But she made her biggest impression after she left the show, when she slammed creators of the HBO comedy for enabling star TJ Miller, who has been accused of sexual assault and harassment. Wetterlund’s comedy is similarly no-bullshit: See for yourself at one of her four D.C. shows this weekend. (The Comedy Loft at the Bier Baron, 7:30 p.m. and 9:45 p.m., also performs Saturday, $15)

KNOW YOUR JOE: Learn a little something from the folks who supply your daily IV of caffeine cup of coffee. At this tasting of a few local roasters, find out what that whole pour-over business actually does, and get the skills to taste various roasters like a real expert. Starbucks who? (A Baked Joint, 6 p.m.-7 p.m., FREE

MORE: Alison Wonderland (Echostage, 9 p.m., $33:50, also performs Saturday), Light Beams (Kennedy Center Millennium Stage, 6 p.m., FREE), Movie Night: Sputnik (Goethe-Institut, 6:30 p.m., FREE)

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 1

MAKES YOU THINK: Hasan Minhaj made a splash in 2017 when he hosted the White House Correspondents Dinner, but in his latest round of stand-up shows, politics isn’t his game. “I have no desire … to chase covfefe,” he told the Associated Press earlier this summer. Instead, find him using his time on stage to make sense of the immigrant experience and his place in America. (Charles E. Smith Center, 9 p.m., $5-$10)

ALL BOOKED UP: Ah, late summer. The perfect time of year to scurry toward the nearest source of air conditioning to commune with your fellow nerds. There’s no better place for that than the annual National Book Festival, featuring talks, book sales, and signings with authors of young adult books, nonfiction works, graphic novels and more types of good old fashioned print media. This year’s fest includes such library A-listers as Amy Tan, Dave Eggers, former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, and U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor. Here’s our guide for how to make the most of it. (Walter E. Washington Convention Center, 9 a.m.-7:30 p.m., FREE)

GET SPORTY: Zip up your puffer jackets and head out to the Pike and Rose Mall in North Bethesda to celebrate the opening of a new Uniqlo store. We’re not gonna lie and tell you that this all-white storefront of minimalist cotton-ish pieces is any different from the rest of them, but at least this one will be giving out free Kung Fu Tea during its first weekend. (11853 Grand Park Ave, Bethesda, free Kung Fu tea through Sunday)

MORE: Labor Day Weekend Music Festival (Lincoln Theatre, Saturday and Sunday 7 p.m., FREE), Page to Stage New Play Festival (Kennedy Center, 10 a.m.-7 p.m., FREE), Capitol Steps (Ronald Reagan Building, 7:30 p.m., $36)

(Photo by Joe Flood)

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 2

DANCE LIKE YOU DON’T HAVE WORK TOMORROW: Our founding fathers of Labor Day (uh, looks like the American Federation of Labor, we guess?) wouldn’t want you to spend your long weekend “getting a jumpstart on the week” or—god forbid—meal prepping. Set yourself up for an all-day hangover and Netflix binge tomorrow with a late-night dance party at Showtime. DJ Diaspora will be spinning disco, jazz, house, and Latin tunes, so come with your dancin’ shoes on. (Showtime Bar, 10 p.m.-1:30 a.m., free entry)

NEW (FASHION) RULES: The whole “No wearing white after Labor Day” rule may have been debunked, but it’s a pretty good excuse for a party. At the Donovan Hotel rooftop’s “Wear Your Whites” party, guests … well, you get it. There’ll be music, food, and drink specials all night—at least they provide refreshment, and sustenance, unlike some all-white-attire parties we know. (DNV Rooftop, 7 p.m.-1 a.m.)

HEAR IT HERE FIRST: D.C.’s Alliance for New Music-Theatre is hearkening back to the days of radio plays (think “The War of the Worlds”) in its collaboration with The Line hotel. The organization’s musical play “Women of Troy: Voices From Afghanistan,” sets Euripides’ wartime play in modern-day Afghanistan. You can check the play out in person on the front steps of The Line, or hear it from home as it’s streamed live on the hotel’s Full-Service Radio. (The Line, 2:30 p.m., FREE)

MORE: Syria Fest (Pennsylvania Ave. between 12th and 14th streets NW, 11 a.m.-7 p.m., FREE, Free Community Day (National Museum of Women in the Arts, noon-5 p.m., FREE), Birds for Eyes (Pie Shop, 8:30 p.m.-11:30 p.m., FREE)

Blues harmonica musician Charlie Sayles performs in Dupont Circle. (Photo by Elvert Barnes)

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 3

WORKPLACE DRAMA: Two years after Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ An Octoroon at Woolly Mammoth became the talk of D.C.’s summer, the District native returns to the company with another biting satire. Gloria studies the lives of bored, overworked publishing assistants before, during, and after a shocking event in their office. The play received raves in its previous productions in New York, London, and Chicago, but be warned: There’s a sequence of intense violence that Woolly warns some theatergoers might find disturbing. (Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, through Sept. 30, various times, $20-$75)

DANCE THE BLUES: Traditionally, the DC Blues Festival has been held at Carter Barron Amphitheatre— a “very undanceable space,” as this year’s event page notes. This year, at the Wunder Garten, there will be plenty of room to groove to performances from Memphis Gold, Charlie Sayles, and more. The bar will be open, and food trucks and lawn games will be on deck. (Wunder Garten, 2 p.m.-7 p.m., FREE

TUNE OUT THE WORLD: The Sunday scaries have been postponed to Monday this week. Push them off a little further by sweating it out at a dance class from Crankin Fitness. You’ll squat, twerk, and stomp to blaring hip-hop and R&B, which won’t leave you any headspace to think about that huge project you need to tackle this week. (Anacostia Park Roller Skating Pavilion, 7 p.m.-8 p.m., $5 for one class, $20 for five)

MORE: Made in the District (Big Chief, 2 p.m.-9 p.m., FREE-$15), The Maryland Renaissance Festival ( 1821 Crownsville Rd. Annapolis, MD 21401, 10 a.m.-7 p.m. $8-$19)