MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 11
NIGHT MARKET PARTY: Spend your Monday happy hour at Electric Cool Aid’s night market party. The market will showcase all sorts of vendors selling crafts like seasonal jewelry and spooky candles. And the bar’s signature frozen drinks are buy one get one free from From 5 to 6 p.m.! (Electric Cool Aid; 5 p.m.; FREE)
COMEDY FESTIVAL: DC Comedy Festival kicks off this week. From Monday to Friday, more than 100 comedians will perform as part of the fifth annual festival. This first event features New York comedian Sherrod Small. (Dupont Underground; 7 p.m.; $28.52)
HARRY POTTER TRIVIA: Test your wizarding world knowledge with Harry Potter trivia. This event will focus exclusively on the Sorcerer’s Stone book but in the future you’ll be able to test your knowledge of the series’ other installments. (The Board Room; 7 p.m.; FREE)
MY MAMA AND THE FULL SCALE INVASION: Ukrainian playwright Sasha Denisova’s new play explores the present-day war and global crisis in Ukraine. Inspired by online chats with her mom, Denisova weaves a tale that gives the audience a taste of the frontlines of Russia’s invasion. The show will run until October 8. (Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company; 8 p.m.; $5+)
MORE: Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamps / Teething Veils (Rhizome DC; 7 p.m.; $10), Andrew Yang and Stephen Marche (Politics and Prose on Connecticut Ave, 7 p.m.; FREE), Profs and Pints: The Drug Legalization Debate (Penn Social; 6 p.m.; $14.31), Greta Van Fleet (Capital One Arena; 7:30 p.m.; $49.50+)
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12
THE ORGASM GAP: More than 90 percent of men—but just 65 percent of women— experience orgasm from heterosexual sex. Brittany Dernberger, a professorial lecturer at George Washington University who teaches a class on the sociology of sex and gender, explains what accounts for the difference. (Penn Social; 6 p.m.; $14.31)
KING OF THE YEES: After the success of “Cambodian Rock Band,” Playwright Lauren Yee is already onto her next project. King of the Yees is semi-autobiographical comedy about Yee’s own father (which she didn’t tell him about). The show runs until October 22. (Signature Theatre; 8:30 p.m.; $40+)
NOMA NIGHTS: It’s the last “Noma Night” of the year. This month’s Tuesday Concert series will spotlight Andy B Music. (Alethia Tanner Park; 6:30 p.m.; FREE)
MORE: MisterWives and Bishop Briggs (The Anthem; 7:30 p.m.; $37.50+), $uicideboy$ present Grey Day Tour 2023 (Capital One Arena; 6:30 p.m.; $25.50),Eddie Izzard (The Warner Theatre, 8 p.m.; $54+), DC Comedy Festival Day 2 (Dupont Underground; 8 p.m.; $20+)
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13
PERFECTLY ACCEPTABLE: George Mason University’s Fenwick Gallery will be showing a new exhibit, starting September 13. Perfectly Acceptable features work from Chicago-based small press comics publisher Perfectly Acceptable Press. The opening reception and artist talk is on Wednesday, but the exhibit will be on display until November 18. (Fenwick Gallery; 1 p.m.; FREE)
ESPEJOS: CLEAN: In Vancouver-based playwright Christina Quintana’s latest work, two women from very different worlds end up at the same Mexican resort and are forced together by unusual circumstances. The play, which has been performed across North America, is performed in English and Spanish with supertitles in both languages. (Studio Theatre; 7:30 p.m.; $90+)
MOVIES IN THE PARK: Summer may be drawing to a close but it’s still warm enough for free outdoor movies! This Wednesday, Milian Park will be playing Coco at 7:20 and Alethia Tanner Park will show In the Heights at 7:30. (various locations; various times; FREE)
MORE: Lauren Groff (Politics and Prose Connecticut Avenue; 7 p.m.; FREE), Naomi Klein in conversation with Ryan Grim (GWU Amphitheater; 7 p.m.; $40+), Duran Duran (Capital One Arena; 7 p.m.; $27+), Candlelight: A Tribute to Queen and More (Howard Theatre; 6:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m.; $45+), The Glorious Sons (9:30 Club; 7 p.m.; $25+), Rocky in Concert with Baltimore Symphony Orchestra (Merriweather Post Pavillion; 7:30 p.m.; $25+)
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 14
DANCING THE TWIST IN BAMAKO: Enjoy the last showing of the Film on the Green series. Dancing the Twist in Bamako will be in French, but have English subtitles. (Anacostia Park; 7 p.m; FREE)
OKTOBERFEST: The beloved beer festival kicks off this weekend and local breweries are starting the festivities early. Atlas Brew Works in Navy Yard will have a two hour open bar, as well as German staples like brats and pretzels (Atlas Half Street Brewery; 6 p.m.; $35)
MORE: Coffee & Collections: Paper Records of the Harlem Renaissance (Anacostia Community Museum; 11 a.m.; FREE), Mind Game showing (Suns Cinema; 7 p.m.; $12), Flower Lab, Music and Mocktails (Joan Hisoaka Gallery; 6 p.m.; $45), The Life of a Poet (Hill Center; 7 p.m.; $10), Anexis + NeenFleezy + Sec (The Pocket; 7 p.m.; $15+), Tomokie’s Cup / Digital Negative / Industrial Grade Acid (Rhizome DC; 7 p.m.; $10+), Cody Rigsby (Virtual; 7 p.m.; $12), Liminal (Salve Regina Gallery; 5 p.m.; FREE)
