On New Year's Eve, we went to celebrate at a handful of spots around DC, including with Woolly and The Second City at Woolly Mammoth Theatre.

Guests enjoyed a performance of The Second City’s Black Side of the Moon, featuring an open bar, tasty treats, music by DJ Q and a champagne toast to ring in 2017. We snapped JES Professional Services' Julie Eaton Shopp with Woolly Mammoth's Sarah Peterson.

Black Side of the Moon features an all-African-American cast of The Second City’s smartest and most audacious sketch and stand-up artists. It breaks down and deconstructs the present American moment through comedy. Here, PANOPLY's Valerie Srinivasan with Raj Srinivasan.

Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company serves an essential research and development role within American theater. Plays premiered at Woolly have gone on to productions at more than 200 theaters in 39 states and 12 countries. This track record has established Woolly as a national leader in the development of new plays. Here, DC Council member David Grosso with Center for Health and Gender Equity president Serra Sippel.

Here are cast members from The Second City: Dewayne Perkins, Torian Miller and Sonia Denis.