This week, our arts critics have recommended the best events in every genre—from Washington Ensemble Theater’s Six Pack Series to Timbrrr! Winter Music Festival to a reading from Geraldine Brooks. See them all below, and find even more events on our complete Things To Do calendar.
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MONDAY
THEATER
The Motherfucker with the Hat
“The Washington Ensemble Theater really wanted to produce The Motherfucker with the Hat, a Tony award-nominated play by the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Stephen Adly Guirgis. Co-artistic director Ali el-Gasseir was attracted to Guirgis’s material because it was ‘dangerous,’ and WET’s attracted to danger, within the context of theater standards, at least. You can expect someone to get naked at a WET show, a promise they’ll keep with this production. Foul mouths abound. Weird reigns.” -Rich Smith (Continues Thurs-Mon)
COMEDY
Collide-o-Scope
Created and hosted by Michael Anderson and Shane Wahlund, Collide-O-Scope is the cavalcade of curated video delights that takes over Re-bar twice a month. The show keeps getting better, with thematic suites, hallucinatory repetition, and inspired guests. And this week, some lucky person will win two tickets to Dina Martina’s spring show.
FOOD & DRINK
Cider & Sirens Dinner
“The Ciders & Sirens dinner features an entirely female roster of chefs and cidermakers. Each of the six courses will showcase the work of a talented local chef de cuisine or sous chef from a local restaurant. … Pace yourself and sip carefully or, like the sailors who were lured into danger by the song of the Sirens in Greek mythology, you may find yourself with a crushing, incapacitating hangover the next day.” -Angela Garbes
