What's on in Washington this weekend
Washington · Fri, Oct 30 – Sun, Nov 1 · 73 confirmed · 88 unconfirmed · times ET73 confirmed listings in Washington, DC for Fri, Oct 30 – Sun, Nov 1, plus 88 not confirmed yet: Concert 28 · Film 8 · Sports (TV) 5 · Family 5 · Sports 4 · Activities & outdoors 4 · Nightlife 4 · Other 4 · Local event 3 · Classes & workshops 2 · Seasonal 2 · Festival 1 · Fair & market 1 · Theater & Broadway 1 · Specials 1.
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FridayOct 30
All day · 1 listing
1:00 PM
"French Impressions" Paintings by Barbara Mandel
12 PM – 2 PM · 2 listings
12:00 PM
Family Fun Fridays
12:00 PM
Living Room: Duncan Phillips's Support of Avery, Gottlieb & Rothko
2 PM – 4 PM · 1 listing
2:00 PM
Talks & Conversations: Book Talk: Colorstruck! Painting, Pigment, Affect
4 PM – 6 PM · 2 listings
5:00 PM & 7:00 PM & 9:00 PM
Drunk Shakespeare: Drunk Dracula (21+ Event)
5:00 PM
Mystery Mansion
6 PM – 8 PM · 17 listings
6:00 PM
Earlybirds Club (21+)
6:00 PM
Hidden in Plain Sight: The Story of Odessa Madre
Doors 6:00 PM
Jukebox the Ghost: HalloQueen
6:30 PM
Tagliatelle & Pesto: Roll, Toss & Taste
7:00 PM
Boy Harsher
7:00 PM
Boy Harsher
7:00 PM
Cabin in the Woods
Doors 7:00 PM
Girls Rock! Halloween
7:00 PM
Hudson Westbrook
7:00 PM
Seven Black Minutes: Halloween
7:00 PM
Washington Wizards vs. Charlotte Hornets
7:00 PM
Wizards v Hornets
7:30 PM
Art Garfunkel - What a Wonderful World Concerts
7:30 PM
Mamma Mia!
7:30 PM
The Washington Ballet's Go-Go 50
7:30 PM
Walter Beasley
7:30 PM
Young Frankenstein (1974)
8 PM – 10 PM · 10 listings
8:00 PM
An Evening with Mike Dawes
8:00 PM
Boy Harsher
8:00 PM
Charlie Wilson
8:00 PM
Diabla w/ Aphellion, Eyecatcher, Mass Ego
8:00 PM
Founder's Day: Attacca Quartet
8:00 PM
Harbour
8:00 PM
Merrily We Roll Along (Appropriate for mature teens and up. Children under 6 are not admitted at Signature)
8:00 PM
White Ford Bronco
8:30 PM
A Dose of Dupas Presents: The Poetry Takeover
9:30 PM
Halloween
10 PM – 12 AM · 5 listings
Doors 10:00 PM
Bassvictim
10:00 PM
Eli Brown - Panic Attack Tour
Doors 10:00 PM
Hoochie Daddy: A Queer Halloween Dance Party
10:00 PM
Hoochie Daddy: Halloween Edition
10:30 PM
LOFT LATE NIGHT: MIXED BUSINESS
Time not listed · 10 listings
TBD
DC's Best Showcase
TBD
Fireside Friday at the Stacks
TBD
Gods & Dances
TBD
Halloween Bar Crawl Cleveland Park
TBD
HEAVENS TO BETSY
TBD
Mary Voutsas: Gods & Dances
TBD
Night of the Living SHRED
TBD
Rodeo Parade
TBD
Underground Comedy at Hotbed
TBD
World Lemur Day
SaturdayOct 31
8 AM – 10 AM · 3 listings
8:00 AM
Falls Church Farmers Market at City Hall
9:00 AM
Freshfarm Farmers Market
9:30 AM
Outdoor Cathedral Yoga
10 AM – 12 PM · 7 listings
10:00 AM
Gourd-geous Discoveries
10:00 AM
Spooky Family Fun Day
10:00 AM
The World & Me: Bat Week Extravaganza with special guests…Arachnids!
11:00 AM
Halloween Masquerade with Rocknoceros
11:00 AM
Rocknoceros - Under 18 must be accompanied by parent or guardian
11:30 AM
Barnes and Noble: Saturday Storytime
11:30 AM
The Rock and Roll Playhouse plays the music of David Bowie
12 PM – 2 PM · 6 listings
12:00 PM
A Weekend of Tarot, Tattoos & Talismans at Shelter
12:00 PM
Dog Costume Contest – Silver Spring
12:00 PM
Maryland Terrapins Football vs. Illinois Fighting Illini Football
12:30 PM
Carillon Recital
1:00 PM
Angels & Monsters Tower Climb
1:00 PM
Hocus Pocus
2 PM – 4 PM · 8 listings
2:00 PM
All The World's a Stage
2:00 PM
Films: Frederick Wiseman's Titicut Follies and A Couple
2:00 PM
Halloween Spooktacular Trick-Or-Treat
2:00 PM
Howard at North Carolina Central
2:00 PM & 7:30 PM
Mamma Mia!
2:00 PM
Merrily We Roll Along (Appropriate for mature teens and up. Children under 6 are not admitted at Signature)
2:00 PM & 7:30 PM
The Washington Ballet's Go-Go 50
3:00 PM & 5:00 PM & 7:00 PM & 9:00 PM
Drunk Shakespeare: Drunk Dracula (21+ Event)
4 PM – 6 PM · 2 listings
4:00 PM
Mosaic Halloween Spooktacular
4:00 PM
The Lost Boys
6 PM – 8 PM · 9 listings
Doors 6:00 PM
THE ARMY, THE NAVY: THE FAKE BRAVE TOUR 2026
7:00 PM
John Summit CTRL ESCAPE Arena Tour
7:00 PM
Madds Buckley
Doors 7:00 PM
Night of 1000 Taylors: Halloween Party & Costume Contest ft. The Fearless Eras
Doors 7:00 PM
The Rocky Horror Picture Show - Halloween Spectacular with Live Shadow Cast!
7:00 PM
Trick or Treat
7:00 PM
Whiskey & History: Ghosts
7:30 PM
Blake Whiten
7:30 PM
Judah & the Lion
8 PM – 10 PM · 7 listings
8:00 PM
CHOPTEETH AFROFUNK BIG BAND
8:00 PM
Evilive "3 PITS from HELL!" Misfits cover show w/ "Special Guests"
8:00 PM
The Gathering Gloom: A Tribute to The Cure
8:00 PM
The Speaks + Crash Boom Bang: Spooky Halloween Party! (with Kill for Sushi)
8:00 PM
Yebba
9:00 PM
Nikita, The Wicked [GLOW OFF:SITE] (Halloween Night)
9:00 PM
Nikita, The Wicked by Club GLOW
10 PM – 12 AM · 9 listings
10:00 PM
2000's Night
10:00 PM
Femme Fatale
10:00 PM
Gasolina and Ghosts
10:00 PM
Halloween: Lineup TBA
10:00 PM
John Summit (21+)
Doors 10:00 PM
Monster Mash(ups) Halloween Dance Party ft. DJ P.Vo
10:00 PM
PROMISCUOUS HALLOWEEN: A SPOOKY 2000's CLUB BANGERS THROWBACKS PARTY
10:00 PM
The Evil Dead
11:00 PM
Holywatr: Deo Gratias Tour
Time not listed · 16 listings
TBD
Coco Live-to-Film Concert
TBD
Dupont Circle Fall Festival
TBD
Dupont Circle Fall Festival (Pumpkin Patch and Bluegrass Jamboree)
TBD
EIGHTIES MAYHEM 80's Halloween Dance Party
TBD
Half Street Central Farmers Market
TBD
Halloween Double Feature: Rocky Horror + Drag Show
TBD
Halloween film screening (Three 17th-century witches resurrected in Salem)
TBD
Halloween Free Show
TBD
Halloween Showcase
TBD
Halloween showcase: Fight Night Live
TBD
National Symphony Orchestra Family Concert: Halloween Spooktacular
TBD
Navy Yard DC Halloween Bar Fest
TBD
Nightmare in Navy Yard
TBD
Revitalized Hirshhorn Sculpture Garden Reopening
TBD
Rodeo Parade
TBD
Screening with Orchestra: Coco
SundayNov 1
10 AM – 12 PM · 1 listing
10:00 AM
Hike with a Naturalist
12 PM – 2 PM · 2 listings
12:00 PM
Day of the Dead Party Featuring HipHopMcDougal – Rockville
12:00 PM
Talks & Conversations: Finding Ecstasy: Author Ivy Pochoda and Artemisia Gentileschi's Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy
2 PM – 4 PM · 9 listings
2:00 PM & 7:30 PM
All The World's a Stage
2:00 PM & 7:30 PM
Mamma Mia!
2:00 PM & 7:30 PM
Merrily We Roll Along (Appropriate for mature teens and up. Children under 6 are not admitted at Signature)
2:00 PM
The Washington Ballet's Go-Go 50
3:00 PM
Celebracion Dia de los Muertos at The Wharf
3:00 PM
Celebración Día de los Muertos at The Wharf
3:00 PM
Undertale – The Determination Symphony World Tour (second show)
3:30 PM
Capitals vs Wild (Youth Hockey Day)
3:30 PM
Washington Capitals vs. Minnesota Wild
4 PM – 6 PM · 4 listings
4:00 PM
Sunday Concert: Nikolaj Hess Trio
5:00 PM & 7:00 PM
Drunk Shakespeare: Drunk Dracula (21+ Event)
5:00 PM
Mary in Ecstasy at NGA
5:00 PM
Washington Spirit vs. Chicago Stars FC
6 PM – 8 PM · 9 listings
Doors 6:30 PM
Pretty Sick
7:00 PM
Eva Ayllon with special guest Daniela Darcourt
7:00 PM
Film screening: Powwow People
Doors 7:00 PM
Maggie Koerner "Upstate Tour"
7:00 PM
RaiNao: Marcria tour
Doors 7:00 PM
She Wants Revenge
7:00 PM
Sunday Night Trivia at Lost Generation Brewing Company
Doors 7:00 PM
Undertale – The Determination Symphony World Tour
7:30 PM
Dweezil Zappa DZ20: Like Father, Like Son
8 PM – 10 PM · 5 listings
8:00 PM
Girl Girl w/ Fake Radio, My Mandy
8:00 PM
Rainao: Marcriá tour
8:00 PM
The Nth Power
8:20 PM
Washington Commanders vs. Eagles
8:20 PM
Washington Commanders vs. Philadelphia Eagles
Time not listed · 3 listings
TBD
Screening with Orchestra: Coco
TBD
Underground Comedy at Hotbed
TBD
Washington Bridal & Wedding Expo Fall 2026
Running all month
Fri, Oct 23 – Fri, Nov 6
Ms. Americana: Historical Paintings by American Women Artists
Sun, Oct 25 – Sun, Nov 1
Merrily We Roll Along
Sun, Oct 25 – Sun, Nov 1
Merrily We Roll Along
Tue, Oct 27 – Sun, Nov 8
Hundred Days
Tue, Oct 27 – Sun, Nov 15
Mamma Mia!
Tue, Oct 27 – Sun, Nov 1
The Fruits of Our Labor
Sun, Nov 1 – Mon, Nov 30
Live Local Falls Church Challenge
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Big events in Washington
Mar 20 – Apr 11, 2027
National Cherry Blossom Festival
Expected Sat, May 1, 2027
Around the World Embassy Tour (Passport DC)
Sun, Jul 4, 2027
Fourth of July on the National Mall
Sat, Aug 21, 2027
Library of Congress National Book Festival
Sun, Oct 10, 2027
Army Ten-Miler
Expected Sun, Oct 31, 2027
Marine Corps Marathon
Date not listed yet
Capital Pride
Date not listed yet
Mubadala DC Open tennis tournament
Date not listed yet
National Christmas Tree Lighting
Date not listed yet
Smithsonian Folklife Festival
Nature near Washington
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal towpath
Cherry blossoms at the Tidal Basin
Theodore Roosevelt Island
Rock Creek Park
Great Falls Park
Harpers Ferry National Historical Park
Old Rag Mountain
Shenandoah National Park and Skyline Drive