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Altar Boyz: DC Premiere of the Off-Broadway Smash Musical

Bethesda Theatre (Bethesda, MD)
Saturday, Oct. 11 @ 2:00pm
Sunday, Oct. 12 @ 2:00pm
and 10 more dates.
Full Price: $40.00 - $55.00   Our Price: $20.00 - $27.50*
Rated: 3.1 stars
Altar Boyz, the new musical comedy and critically acclaimed hit of the New York Musical Theatre Festival, is the hilarious account of a struggling Christian boy-band (with one nice Jewish boy) looking for their big break in the Big Apple. With angelic voices, sinfully spectacular dancing and a touching story, Altar Boyz will rock the masses of all denominations!  Learn More

How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents: New Play based On Best-Selling Book

Round House Theatre - Bethesda (Bethesda, MD)
Sunday, Oct. 12 @ 3:00pm
Full Price: $55.00   Our Price: SOLD OUT*
Rated: 3.1 stars
Round House Theatre presents the world premiere of How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents. Based on Julia Alvarez' critically acclaimed, best-selling novel, Karen Zacarias' play follows four sisters who emigrate from the Dominican Republic to New York in 1960, and must adjust to a new life and a new culture.  Learn More

Romeo and Juliet: Shakespeare Theatre Company's All-Male Production

Sidney Harman Hall (Washington, DC)
Friday, Oct. 17 @ 8:00pm
Saturday, Oct. 18 @ 2:00pm
Saturday, Oct. 18 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $67.75 - $74.75   Our Price: $33.75 - $37.25*
Rated: 3.3 stars
Shakespeare Theatre Company performs Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. This production of the classic tale of star-crossed lovers features an all-male cast, mirroring the theatre companies of Elizabethan England.  Learn More

Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part I at Folger Theatre

Folger Theatre (Washington, DC)
Sunday, Oct. 12 @ 2:00pm (Preview)
Sunday, Oct. 12 @ 7:00pm (Preview)
Wednesday, Oct. 15 @ 7:30pm
Full Price: $35.00 - $39.00   Our Price: $17.50 - $19.50*
Rated: No ratings yet
The Folger Theatre presents Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part I. This great history play depicts young Prince Hal, torn between his duty to England and carousing at the tavern with Falstaff (The Wire's Delaney Williams). Meanwhile, the King (Rick Foucheux) faces a rebellion led by Henry "Hotspur" Percy.  Learn More

Citizen Josh: Josh Kornbluth's Hilarious, Insightful One Man Show

Arena Stage - Crystal City (Arlington, VA)
Saturday, Oct. 11 @ 8:00pm
Sunday, Oct. 12 @ 2:00pm
and 15 more dates.
Full Price: $37.00   Our Price: $19.50*
Rated: No ratings yet
Josh Kornbluth's latest one-man show Citizen Josh comes to the Arena Stage in Crystal City. Troubled by the 2004 Presidential election, the acclaimed monologist of Red Diaper Baby, Love and Taxes, and Ben Franklin Unplugged set out to explore participatory democracy in America, with hilarious and insightful results.  Learn More

Vaclav Havel's Dark Comedy Temptation at Constellation Theatre Company

Source Theatre (Washington, DC)
Sunday, Oct. 12 @ 3:00pm
Thursday, Oct. 16 @ 8:00pm
and 7 more dates.
Full Price: $20.00   Our Price: $10.00*
Rated: No ratings yet
Black magic seeps into a conservative science institute in this provocative retelling of the Faust story by revolutionary and first Czech Republic President Václav Havel. This dark comedy exposes ambition, desire and political deception in a world populated by a demon, a dancer, a secret messenger and a team of seductive scientists.  Learn More

Precipice Improv Theater: A Full-Length Improvised Play

Writer's Center (Bethesda, MD)
Saturday, Oct. 11 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $15.00   Our Price: FREE - $7.50*
Rated: 2.6 stars
Precipice Improv Theater creates original, never-seen-before and never-to-be-seen again, totally improvised plays from audience suggestions. They take your suggestions for contrasting locations and weave them into an entire comic play in real time before your eyes.  Learn More

La Edad de la Ciruela (The Aging of the Plum) from GALA Hispanic Theatre

GALA Hispanic at Tivoli Theatre (Washington, DC)
Saturday, Oct. 11 @ 8:00pm
Sunday, Oct. 12 @ 3:00pm
Full Price: $32.00 - $36.00   Our Price: $16.00 - $18.00*
Rated: 2.9 stars
A fantastic journey through the memories of two sisters who, with humor and tenderness, reveal three generations of women as they liberate themselves from a world bound by tradition. Playing poetically with elements of time and aging, playwright Aristides Vargas evokes Latin American magical realism at its best. Performed in Spanish with English surtitles.  Learn More

Busytown, Musical Based on Richard Scarry's Picturebook

Imagination Stage - Lerner Theatre (Bethesda, MD)
Saturday, Oct. 11 @ 3:30pm
Thursday, Oct. 16 @ 10:30am
Full Price: $14.50 - $16.50   Our Price: $7.25 - $8.25*
Rated: 3.7 stars
"Big day today!" is how the characters greet each other in Busytown, Richard Scarry's vividly drawn world. As the day unfolds, Grocer Cat, Stitches the Tailor and Alfalfa the Farmer tell of their jobs in silly songs and scenes. Young children will love seeing their favorite animal characters brought to life while older siblings will enjoy this tuneful trip down memory lane.  Learn More

Take Me Away: Biting, Funny Irish Play from Solas Nua

Mead Theatre Lab at Flashpoint (Washington, DC)
Saturday, Oct. 11 @ 8:00pm
Sunday, Oct. 12 @ 3:00pm
and 4 more dates.
Full Price: $20.00   Our Price: $10.00*
Rated: No ratings yet
Solas Nua presents the US premiere of Gerald Murphy's Take Me Away. Set amid the chaos of modern-day Ireland, it's the tale of three troubled brothers, whose lives are thrown into further disarray by their mother's mysterious illness. This brilliant dark comedy was a huge hit at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.  Learn More

Muslim and Christian Friendship Under Attack in Host and Guest

Rosslyn Spectrum Theatre (Arlington, VA)
Thursday, Oct. 16 @ 8:00pm
Friday, Oct. 17 @ 8:00pm
and 10 more dates.
Full Price: $35.00 - $40.00   Our Price: $17.50 - $20.00*
Rated: 1.8 stars
Host and Guest centers around two men, one Muslim and one Christian, who befriend each other despite their cultures' long-standing hatred. The people from both of their Georgian villages punish them violently for their friendship, and the entire community is shattered by war. The conflict between individual morality and ancient community prejudices causes the central tragedy of this moving piece.  Learn More

Steve Martin's Play The Underpants at Olney Theatre Center

Olney Theatre Center - New Mainstage (Olney, MD)
Wednesday, Oct. 15 @ 8:00pm
Saturday, Oct. 18 @ 2:00pm
Full Price: $43.00   Our Price: $21.50*
Rated: 2.6 stars
Olney Theatre Center presents The Underpants, a comedy written by legendary comedian Steve Martin. Based on German playwright Carl Strenheim's Die hose, The Underpants tells the story of a young couple who become the center of attention in town when the wife's bloomers fall down during a parade for the king.  Learn More

Second Line: Drama of Love and Social Upheaval

Atlas Performing Arts Center (Washington, DC)
Wednesday, Oct. 15 @ 8:00pm
Thursday, Oct. 16 @ 8:00pm
and 9 more dates.
Full Price: $20.00 - $25.00   Our Price: $10.00 - $12.50*
Rated: No ratings yet
Spanning a 20-year period of tumultuous social change, Seret Scott's Second Line is the story of two black college students whose lives are shaped by the stormy events of the 1960s and '70s. Bennie and JoJo are in love, but their commitment is tested by the upheaval of the civil rights movement and Vietnam.  Learn More

World Premiere Drama Honey Brown Eyes from Theater J

Theater J at Goldman Theater (Washington, DC)
Wednesday, Oct. 29 @ 7:30pm
Thursday, Oct. 30 @ 7:30pm
and 18 more dates.
Full Price: $42.00 - $55.00   Our Price: $21.00 - $27.50*
Rated: No ratings yet
Theater J presents Honey Brown Eyes, a world premiere drama set in Bosnia in 1992. In two kitchens, two soldiers recover a little of what they've lost during the war. A Serbian soldier confronts a woman he might have known and is faced with a terrible choice, while a member of the Bosnian resistance takes refuge in what he thinks is an abandoned apartment.  Learn More

Existential Comedy This Perfect World from Charter Theatre

Theatre on the Run (Arlington, VA)
Saturday, Oct. 11 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $28.00   Our Price: $14.00*
Rated: 2.8 stars
Alan is having some problems. Is that the lake in the living room? Who is that man filming company headquarters? And why is his sister such a... you know? Join Alan in his watery world as he tries to figure it all out.  Learn More

Dark Comedy Boom at Woolly Mammoth Theatre

Woolly Mammoth Theatre (Washington, DC)
Wednesday, Nov. 5 @ 8:00pm
Thursday, Nov. 6 @ 8:00pm
and 6 more dates.
Full Price: $26.00 - $45.00   Our Price: $13.00 - $22.50*
Rated: No ratings yet
A grad student's personal ad lures a randy journalism coed to his subterranean lab, where he studies fish sleep cycles for signs of the apocalypse. Will their "intensely significant coupling" lead to another big bang, or is mankind's fate in the hands of someone watching from outside the fishbowl?  Learn More

House Upon a Rock: Satirical Comedy at DC Arts Center

District of Columbia Arts Center (Washington, DC)
Friday, Oct. 17 @ 7:30pm
Saturday, Oct. 18 @ 7:30pm
and 3 more dates.
Full Price: $12.00 - $15.00   Our Price: $6.00 - $7.50*
Rated: No ratings yet
The Starving Artist Theatre presents House Upon a Rock, a satirical comedy poking fun at the complexities of modern life. A couple's attempt to find happiness meets with troubles ranging from the collapsing housing market to reality TV.  Learn More

Cinderella and Her Sisters - Live Theater for Kids

Olney Theatre Center - Mulitz-Gudelsky Theatre Lab (Olney, MD)
Friday, Oct. 17 @ Noon
Full Price: $15.00   Our Price: $7.50*
Rated: No ratings yet
As part of their Family Entertainment Series, Olney Theatre Center presents Cinderella and Her Sisters. The production features three international adaptations of the beloved fairytale: The Little Red Fish and the Golden Clog (Iraq), Little Burnt Face (Native American) and Maria La Cenicienta (Chile).  Learn More

President Harding is a Rock Star: Glam-Rock Musical About 29th President

District of Columbia Arts Center (Washington, DC)
Thursday, Oct. 30 @ 7:30pm
Friday, Oct. 31 @ 7:30pm
and 6 more dates.
Full Price: $18.00   Our Price: $9.00*
Rated: No ratings yet
Landless Theatre Company presents the Washington premiere of President Harding is a Rock Star. Written by Seth Jarrow, the Obie Award-winning playwright behind A Very Merry Unauthorized Children's Scientology Pageant, this absurd musical chronicles the meteoric rise and scandal-plagued downfall of President Warren G. Harding in glam-rock style, complete with gambling, adultery, and giant poisonous crabs.  Learn More

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