The Washington Post - USA (2022-05-17)

TUESDAY, MAY 17 , 2022. THE WASHINGTON POST EZ RE C5

Television

BROADCAST CHANNELS

5/17/22

7: 00 7: 30 8:0 08 :30 9: 00 9:30 10 :0 01 0: 30 11: 00 11:30

4.1 WRC (NBC) ◆ NBC News ◆ Hollywood ◆ Rock ◆ Mr. Mayor ◆ This Is Us (10:03) ◆ New Amsterdam News ◆ J. Fallon

4.2 WRC (IND) The NannyThe NannyFrasier Fr asier Fr asier Fr asier Roseanne Roseanne Roseanne Roseanne

5.1 WTTG (Fox) Fox 5 ◆ TMZ ◆ The Resident (9:01) ◆ Name That Tune Fox 5 News at 10NewsThe Final

7.1 WJLA (ABC) ◆ Wheel ◆ J’pardy! ◆ Holey Moley ◆ The Chase Who Do You Believe?News ◆ J. Kimmel

9.1 WUSA (CBS) Open Mic ◆ ET ◆ FBI ◆ FBI: International ◆ FBI: Most Wanted 9 News ◆ Late-Colbert

14.1 WFDC (UNI) ◆ La rosa de Guadalupe (8:02) ◆ Soltero con hijas ◆ Mi fortuna es amarte ◆ El último rey: El hijo Noticias ◆ Noticiero

20 .1 WDCA (MNTV)◆ Family Feud◆ FamFeud Fox 5 News^ ◆ FamFeud Fox 5 News^ ◆ Family FeudBig BangBig Bang ◆ Chicago Fire

22 .1 WMPT (PBS)Farm-HarvestOutdoors ◆ Finding Your Roots ◆ Lionel Richie ◆ American Masters ◆ Amanpour

26 .1 WETA (PBS) ◆ PBS NewsHour Finding Your Roots ◆ Lionel Richie ◆ American Masters Amanpour

32 .1 WHUT (PBS) DW News Smart MoneyAmerica ReFramed Mending Walls Afropop: Cultural Exchange World News Poetry

50. 1 WDCW (CW) ◆ black-ish ◆ black-ish ◆ Superman & Lois ◆ Superman & Lois ◆ Seinfeld ◆ Seinfeld Two Men Two Men
66 .1 WPXW (ION) Chicago FireChicago FireChicago FireChicago FireChicago Fire
CABLE CHANNELS
A&E Storage WarsStorage WarsStorage WarsStorage WarsStorage WarsStorage WarsStorage WarsStorage WarsStorage WarsStorage Wars
AMC (5:30) Movie: Under Siege Movie: Gran Torino ★★★ (2008) Movie: O Brother, Where Art Thou? ★★★
Animal Planet North Woods Law North Woods Law: Uncuffed Louisiana LawLone Star Law
BET (6:00) Movie: Drumline ★★★ (2002) The Family Business American Gangster Ms. Pat ShowMartin
Bravo Housewives of NJ The Real Housewives of New JerseyReal Housewives Housewives of NJHousewives
Cartoon Network Gumball Gumball King of Hill King of Hill BurgersBurgersAmerican American American Rick, Morty
CNN Election Night Election Night in America: The Midterm Primaries (Live)
Comedy Central The Office The Office The Office The Office The Office The Office The Office The Office The Office The Office
Discovery Deadliest Catch Deadliest Catch (10:01) Deadliest Catch (11:01) Deadliest Catch
Disney Big City Big City Big City Big City Bunk’dBunk’dBig City Big City Ladybug Ladybug
E! Mod Fam Mod Fam Mod Fam Mod Fam Mod Fam Mod Fam Mod Fam Mod Fam Mod Fam Nightly
ESPN NBA Countdown LotteryNBA Basketball : Boston Celtics at Miami Heat (Live) SportsCenter (Live)
ESPN 2 Cornhole: ACL SuperHole III Prelim 4 USA Teqball Tour Pinball StairsNFL Live
Food Network Chopped Chopped Chopped Supermarket Stakeout Chopped
Fox News Jesse WattersTucker Carlson Tonight Hannity (Live) The Ingraham Angle Gutfeld!
Freeform The Office The Office The Office The Office The Office The Office The Office The Office The 700 Club
FX Movie: The Fate of the Furious ★★ (2017) Mayans M.C. (11:12) Mayans M.C.
Hallmark (6:00) Movie: Love in DesignMovie: Sweet Autumn (2020) Golden Girls Golden Girls Golden Girls Golden Girls
Hallmark M&M Movie: Heart of the Matter (2022) Movie: Love at First Dance (2018) Murder, She Wrote
HBO Hitman’s WifeThe Time Traveler’s WifeMovie: The Survivor (2022) (11:10) Movie: Dying Young
HGTV 100 Day Dream Home Unsellable Houses Unsellable Houses HuntersHunt Intl HuntersHunters Int’l
History Oak Island: Drilling Down Drilling Down The Secret of Skinwalker Lost Gold of the Aztecs The Secret of Skinwalker
Lifetime Castle CastleCastle (10:03) Castle (11:03) Castle
MASN MLB Baseball : New York Yankees at Baltimore Orioles (Live) O’s XtraBallgame Life in Between Gates
MSNBC The ReidOut (Live) All In With Chris HayesMSNBC Prime (Live) The Last Word With 11th Hour
MTV Catfish: The TV Show Teen Mom 2 Help! I’m in a Secret Help! I’m in a Secret Ridiculous Ridiculous
Nat’l Geographic Life Below Zero Life Below Zero Escape the Amazon Primal Survivor Life Below Zero
NBC SportsNet WA (6:00) 106.7 The Fan’s Sports Junkies Command American Ninja Warrior Ninja Warrior
Nickelodeon Movie: The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water SpongeBob Fr iends Fr iends Fr iends Fr iends Fr iends
NWSN On Balance Marni Hughes Dan Abrams Live (Live) Banfield NewsNation
PARMT Two Men Two Men Movie: Four Brothers ★★ (2005) Movie: Top Gun ★★★ (1986)
Syfy Movie: Beetlejuice ★★★ (1988) Movie: Knives Out ★★★ (2019)
TBS MLB Baseball : Houston Astros at Boston Red Sox (Live) MLB Close Sheldon Sheldon
TCM (6:00) Horror of Dracula Movie: The Shop Around the Corner (1940) (9:45) Movie: The Journey ★★★ (1959)
TLC Little People, Big World Welcome to Plathville Little People, Big World Welcome to Plathville (11:08) 90 Day Diaries
TNT NHL Hockey : Tampa Bay Lightning at Florida Panthers (Live) NHL Hockey : St. Louis Blues at Colorado Avalanche (Live)
Travel Beyond the Unknown Beyond the Unknown Beyond the Unknown Beyond the Unknown
TruTV Inside Jokes Inside Jokes Inside Jokes Inside Jokes Inside Jokes Inside Jokes Movie: The Dark Knight ★★★★ (2008)
TV Land Andy Griffith Andy Griffith Raymond Raymond Raymond Raymond Raymond Raymond King King
TV One Cosby Show Cosby Show Living Single Living Single Living Single Living Single Living Single Living Single Living Single Living Single
USA Network Law & Order: SVU WWE NXT (Live) Miz & MrsMiz & MrsMiz & MrsMiz & Mrs
VH1 Movie: 8 Mile ★★★ (2002) Movie: Love Don’t Cost a Thing ★★ (2003)
WNC 8 Got Dirt? Clean Air Gov.Mat. 7News at 6 Sports ABC News News Govt. Matters The National Desk
LEGEND: Bold indicates new or live programs ◆ High Definition Movie Ratings (from TMS) ★★★★ Excellent ★★★ Good ★★ Fair ★ Poor No stars: not rated

TV HIGHLIGHTS

FBI (CBS at 8) The team looks into
the multiple motives in the bakery
shooting of a retired Drug
Enforcement Administration agent.

The Real Housewives of New
Jersey (Bravo at 8) The reunion
continues as the husbands enter
the mix and reveal new secrets and
incite more fissures between
everyone.

Young Rock (NBC at 8) Rocky
takes a new wrestling gig in
Nashville but weighs it against
another life decision; Ata and Miss
Elizabeth go out for a night on the
town.

This Is Us (NBC at 9) The Pearsons
gather to comfort Rebecca.

The Real Housewives of Miami
(Bravo at 9:30) A girls’ trip to the
Hamptons leads to Lisa stirring up
tension and a spat between Nicole
and Alexia.

FBI: Most Wanted (CBS at 10) A
female con artist murders her
latest victims after she posed as a
personal trainer and she goes on
the lam.

Who Do You Believe? (ABC at 10)
The first part in the story of a
mother and her two teenage
daughters where one of the girls
dies after a mysterious shotgun
blast and puts the mother and
surviving daughter at odds.

FINALES

The Resident (Fox at 8) Conrad

looks toward his future; Devon

considers a career path in another

city; Ian deals with a grim medical

diagnosis.

SPECIALS

Katt Williams: World War III

(Netflix) The 50-year-old popular

stand-up returns with a new hour-

long special filmed in Las Vegas.

MINISERIES

Black Gold (Paramount Plus) A

three-part series, produced by

Darren Aronofsky (“Mother!”),

explores oil industry efforts to

suppress information and

knowledge that could have

stemmed the effects climate

change in favor of their bottom line.

LATE NIGHT

Tonight Show/Fallon (NBC at

11:34) Nick Jonas, Mary Lynn

Rajskub, Ella Mai.

Late Show/Colbert (CBS at 11:35)

Ricky Gervais, Tr ombone Shorty.

Late Late Show/Corden (CBS at

12:37) Hannah Einbinder, Lennon

Parham, a performance by the cast

of “Hadestown.”

Late Night/Meyers (NBC at 12:37)

Chelsea Handler, Martha Stewart,

Allegra Hyde.

— Hau Chu

CASEY DURKIN/NBC
Mr. Mayor (NBC at 8:30) In the Season 2 finale, Neil (Ted Danson, above
left, with Mike Cabellon as Tommy) takes on Arpi in the mayoral recall
debate; James discloses news to Mikaela that detours their relationship.

wrights surely have their hands

full as D.C.-area multi-talents —

Secka is well known as a perform-

er; Stoller’s plays include “Easy

Women Smoking Loose Ciga-

rettes” (seen at Signature Thea-

tre). But, in a future draft, they

might consider adding to this

play’s distinctiveness by slightly

expanding the spoken-word el-

ement, were it possible to make

compensating trims elsewhere.

Meshing splendidly with the

poetry is Misha Kachman’s scenic

design, whose stylized, dangling

picture frames find echoes in pro-

jections that flush with colored

light. (Alberto Segarra is the light-

ing designer.) The jewel-tone visu-

als especially complement the ul-

timately gladdening plot twists.

Cynics might see those twists as

unduly feel-good. But if we can’t

imagine reconciliation and under-

standing, how will our world ever

achieve it?

The Joy That C arries You , by Awa

Sal Secka and Dani Stoller. Directed

by Jason Loewith and Kevin McAllister;

costume design, Danielle Preston;

sound, Matthew Nielson; intimacy

choreographer, Sierra Young. About

2½ hours. $59-$79. Through June 12

at Olney Theatre Center, 2001 Olney-

Sandy Spring Rd., Olney. 301-924-

3400. olneytheatre.org.

become sources of stress and divi-

siveness when they visit Shiri’s

well-meaning father and step-

mother (Michael Russotto and Su-

san Rome) for Thanksgiving. An-

other circumstance adds to the

heartache: Alaia is alienated from

her family, including her mother

(Lolita Marie) and stepfather

(James J. Johnson).

Playwrights Secka and Stoller

do a fine job charting their charac-

ters’ relationships through awk-

ward moments, tensions and re-

sentments, parental expectations,

and loyalties and quirks. In one

particularly effective sequence,

brimming with unease and stilted

small talk, Shiri serves coffee to

Alaia’s brother (a fabulous Bru

Ajueyitsi), nervously declaiming

the nondairy creamer options she

has available.

Like the dramatic stretches, the

play’s frequent humor is enjoyably

character-driven and -defining.

Case in point: Shiri’s parents’ ex-

cited commentary as they watch

“The West Wing,” using their

phones to research whether key

cast members are Jewish.

With such scenes, “Joy” glides

satisfyingly along on the level of

naturalistic, well-made play. Ele-

vating the piece above that level is

the spoken-word verse that Alaia

occasionally recites. The play-

BY CELIA WREN

“You are the seas to either side
of me,/ And the buoys in between,”
a poet character named Alaia re-
cites in “The Joy That Carries You,”
a moving, well-crafted and cathar-
tic play now in a world premiere
run at Olney Theatre Center.
The maritime metaphor is Ala-
ia’s tribute to a much-missed rela-
tive, but it also hints at the uplift-
ing vision at the heart of “Joy.”
Co-writers Awa Sal Secka and
Dani Stoller have created a tale in
which romantic and family rela-
tionships strain at the seams,
racked in part by issues of race and
identity. But reconciliation and to-
getherness are also possible, the
play asserts, its conviction as up-
lifting as one of those lyrically
conjured buoys.
Smoothly directed by Jason
Loewith and Kevin McAllister,
and realized by a top-tier cast,
“Joy” centers on lovers Alaia (a
luminous Billie Krishawn) and
Shiri (a persuasive Stoller). The
two women initially seem to be
beautifully in sync: When they go
on a car trip, Shiri knows to pack
Alaia’s must-have snack (brie and
crackers).
But the couple’s different heri-
tages — Alaia is African American
and Shiri, Ashkenazi Jewish —

THEATER REVIEW

At Olney Theatre, ‘Joy’ is e≠usive

TERESA CASTRACANE

Dani Stoller,

left, a nd Billie

Krishawn star

in “The Joy

That Carries

You,” a story of

romance and

family that

incorporates

spoken-word

poetry. The

play runs at

Olney Theatre

Center through

June 12.

THEATRE

AddedShows:

Tue, 5/17at 5PM

Wed, 5/18at 5PM

Mon,5/30at 8PM

Thu,6/2 at 5PM

Tickets

Available

at the

Box Office

TheKennedyCenter

TheaterLab

StudentRush

TicketsAvailable

Tickets:202-467-4600

Groups:202-416-8400

http://www.shearmadness.com

Everybody’sfavoritecomedywhodunitis backin town

and ready withfresh and funnynewlaughsand newclues.

We can’twait to see you."Shrieksof laughternightafter

nightat the KennedyCenter." (WashingtonPost)

RegularSchedule:

Tuesday–Fridayat 8

Saturday at 6&9

Sundayat 3&7

ShearMadness

The KennedyCenter

TheaterLab

MUSIC

Familyfriendly

entertainmentfor

musicloversof all

agesand musical

tastes.

$30-40+free

events

Variousvenuesthroughout

Middleburgand Upperville,Virginia.

HuntCountryMusicFestival.org

3-DayLiveMusicalExtravaganzain Middleburg, VA -

Acclaimedvocalistsand musiciansincludingQuinTango,

the WashingtonSaxophoneQuartet,musiciansfrom the

LoudounSymphonyOrchestra,the IllinoisArtsDuo,opera

starssingingspiritualsand arias,plusayouthmusic

competition.Enjoyfree live street entertainment,walking

toursof Middleburg’shistoricsites,deliciousfood,wine

and warmVirginia huntcountryhospitality.

May20-22, 2022

HuntCountry

MusicFestival

# .$ -) -# $/ &2 +-, ** +,

  .(2 $( +-,  -2&   &$( . ,
  ())(  )(2 $( -2&   &$( +$2
  ())(

 . ,2 $( -2&   &$( )(
  ())(   ( ,2 $( -2&   &$( . ,
  ())(  #.+,2 $( -2&   &$(  
  ())(

 #.+,2 $( 1*+ ,,  &$(  
  ())(  +$2 $(  % (  &$( . ,
  ())(  -.+2 $( -2&   &$( +$2
  ())(

)+ $(!)+'-$)( ).- / +-$,$("
 &&

 2')( )2 +          )+ $)& $ (,        



) + #  + *+ , (--$/ 
 &&

   | ".$ -)+-,0,#*),-)' 16-2898