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Emmy Award-winning stand-up comic Judy Gold presents Mommy Queerest. The follow-up to her hit one-woman show 25 Questions for a Jewish Mother features tales from her life as a lesbian comedian and mother of two boys, plus original music. Gold's credits include stand-up specials on Comedy Central, HBO and LOGO. Learn more...

Theater Alliance presents Black Nativity at the H Street Playhouse. The show uses scripture, verse, music and dance to tell the original story of the Nativity. Based on the Gospel of St. Luke, combined with the poetry of Langston Hughes, this song-play touches a special chord in the hearts of all. Learn more...

In her tribute to Pearl Bailey, award-winning singer/actor Roz White has chosen many of Pearl Bailey's 16 Most Requested Songs, which she recorded for Columbia Records at the height of her career (including "St. Louis Blues," "Baby It's Cold Outside" and "The Hucklebuck") and built an evening of marvelous music and memorable stories. Learn more...

Spanning the years 1880 to 1927, this lyrical masterpiece concerns the lives, loves, and heartbreaks of three generations of show folk on the Mississippi. Show Boat is a sweeping tale of enduring love and devastating hatred, illuminating through unforgettable music the cruelty of prejudice -- and the beauty of romance, featuring such beloved songs as "Make Believe," "Bill," "Can't Help Lovin 'Dat Man," and "Ol' Man River." Learn more...

The Washington Wizards present a special ticket package that includes two upper-level tickets to each of three marquee games, including contests against Kobe Bryant and the World Champion Los Angeles Lakers, Dwight Howard and the Orlando Magic, and Tim Duncan and the San Antonio Spurs. Each package also comes with a replica Gilbert Arenas home jersey. Learn more...

This irresistible musical takes you inside the legend of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. Arthur's dream of creating a utopian kingdom is complicated by love for his new Queen, Guinevere, and friendship with his favorite knight, Lancelot. This ravishing story of passion, chivalry, and betrayal has a gorgeous score that includes "If Ever I Would Leave You," "What Do the Simple Folk Do?," and, of course, "Camelot." Learn more...

Folger Theatre presents Shakespeare's romantic comedy Much Ado About Nothing, set in the colorful Caribbean. In this clever classic, reluctant lovers Beatrice and Benedick conceal their attraction behind a war of wit. Learn more...

Gilbert Arenas and the Washington Wizards host Andre Iguodala and the Philadelphia 76ers at the Verizon Center. The first 5,000 fans through the doors will receive a free Wizards fleece blanket. Learn more...

Arena Stage presents an innovative staging of the classic musical The Fantasticks. This production of the timeless musical whose original off-Broadway run lasted 42 years is set in an abandoned amusement park, and features astonishing feats of illusion. The romantic tale of a young couple and their meddling fathers features the beloved songs "Try to Remember" and "Soon It's Gonna Rain." Learn more...

The Kennedy Center's own music man, Marvin Hamlisch, strikes up the band for a review of Meredith Willson's work beginning with a medley of the songwriter's best-known tunes. After the intermission, a line-up of Broadway stars led by Rebecca Luker as Marian the Librarian, Patrick Cassidy as Harold Hill, and Shirley Jones as Mrs. Paroo sings the beloved songs of The Music Man including "Seventy-six Trombones," "My White Knight" and many more. Learn more...

Professionals in the City brings in male and female experts in all aspects of social dynamics to teach this course for women on how to get the man you really want. You'll learn skills like how to create a sexy, confident image, how to begin a conversation, how to touch a man in a way that shows you're interested, how to keep a man, how to climb the "commitment ladder," and much more. Learn more...

In this fascinating and useful class, you'll learn how to identify certain types of challenging and deceptive individuals (dates, co-workers, bosses... anyone!). You will gain a strategic advantage in both your professional and personal life as you strengthen your ability to assess the motivations of others as well as their strengths and weaknesses. Learn more...

Washington Improv Theater presents a holiday season full of long-form improv. The lineup includes the eighth annual installment of Seasonal Disorder, house team onesixtyone's hilarious and completely improvised exploration of holiday insanity. They're also featuring top WIT shows and teams like Caveat, Jackie, JINX, iMusical and many more. See below for details. Learn more...

Attention jet-setters, ex-pats, globetrotters and world citizens: it's four-minute dating with an international emphasis! You don't have to be international to attend this event, you just have to have the desire to meet single international professionals. Intimate, fun, lighthearted and a great low-pressure way to meet interesting new people, at the luxurious and fashionable Zen Bistro! Learn more...

In this touching coming-of-age story that won 4 Tony Awards and a Pulitzer Prize, two brothers are left to fend for themselves in a dysfunctional household with their formidable immigrant grandmother, sweet but simple-minded aunt and a hoodlum of an uncle. This classic American tale is simultaneously comic and poignant. Learn more...

For the Halloween season, as well as the 200th anniversary of Edgar Allan Poe's birthday, Scena Theatre presents a Poe Double Feature: the horror classic The Fall of the House of Usher, a story of insanity and premature burial, and the gothic masterpiece The Tell-Tale Heart, a suspenseful monologue by a murderer re-counting and reliving his terrible deed. Learn more...

Keegan Theatre opens their season with Of Mice And Men, John Steinbeck's stage adaptation of his classic novel. It's the tragic tale of George and Lennie, two displaced ranch hands seeking employment and a better life in Depression-era California. Learn more...

All the world's a stage as Shakespeare Theatre Company presents a colorful, unique, wildly entertaining production of As You Like It. Director Maria Aitken, best known for her work on Broadway's Tony-winning The 39 Steps, sets the story of the irrepressible Rosalind's quest for love and freedom against the backdrop of Hollywood's Golden Age. Learn more...

Potomac Theatre Company presents this family musical adaptation of Miracle on 34th Street, written by Meredith Willson (The Music Man). A white-bearded gentleman claiming to be the real Santa Claus spreads a wave of love throughout New York City, convincing a divorced, cynical single mother, her somber young daughter and the entire state of New York that Santa Claus is no myth. Learn more...

Tired of hitting the bar scene only to find yourself at the same old places, seeing the same old types of people? Professionals in the City will take you to some of the hottest places in the Penn Quarter -- the types of places you may have never known existed, but which you will be proud to take your friends to and recommend to your office mates. Learn more...

Medieval Times is an exciting, family-friendly dinner attraction inspired by an 11th century feast and tournament. Guests are served a four-course banquet and cheer for one of six knights as they compete in the joust and other tests of skill. Expect lots of jousting, swordsmanship, thrilling hand-to-hand combat, and displays of extraordinary horsemanship as part of an exciting story set in Medieval Spain. Learn more...

Last year, Canadian couple Colin and Julie Angus set out from Scotland on a 7,000-kilometer journey to Syria. Named 2006 Adventurers of the Year by National Geographic Adventure for their human-powered, global circumnavigation, this intrepid pair once again tested the limits of human-powered travel. Hear the story, as told in their new book Rowed Trip: From Scotland to Syria by Oar. Learn more...

Angela Hewitt is internationally acclaimed as one of the world's greatest interpreters of Bach. Named Gramophone's Artist of the Year, her eleven-year project to record J.S. Bach's complete keyboard works was met with superlatives from critics around the world. In this concert at Strathmore, she'll play Bach's Goldberg variations. Learn more...

Considered Jonson's best comedy, The Alchemist follows the antics of three con-artists: Subtle, Face and Dol. When the gentleman Lovewit flees England to avoid the Plague, the trio set up headquarters in his home and set about exposing the social ills of their fellow Londoners. Learn more...

The Verizon Center hosts the 15th Annual BB & T Classic. This double-header showcase of top college basketball teams features a match between co-host Maryland and 2009 Final Four participants Villanova. The other co-host school, George Washington University, hosts Navy in the first game. Proceeds benefit the Children's Charities Foundation. Learn more...

The PEN/Faulkner Foundation presents readings by noted and emerging authors. Critically acclaimed writers read from their novels, short stories, poetry and more at these intimate events, which bring together writers and readers to celebrate and explore the creative process. See below for a full schedule. Learn more...

The Folger Shakespeare Library presents its annual tribute to Emily Dickinson. Lucie Brock-Broido, director of poetry in the School of the Arts at Columbia University, reads selections from her book The Master Letters, inspired by three mysterious, unsent letters written by Dickinson and found after her death. The post-reading reception features black cake made from Dickinson's own recipe. Learn more...

Celebrate the holidays with the National Philharmonic Chorale and a superb cast of soloists who present the world's most popular choral work, Handel's Messiah. Enjoy such favorites as "The Glory of the Lord" and the "Hallelujah Chorus," in an annual concert The Washington Post has called "impressive" and "splendidly rich-toned." Learn more...

Whether you're a stay-at-home mom who wants to be PTA President or Senior Vice President of an international firm trying to "juggle it all," this seminar will teach you the personal branding principles that are essential to success. Learn how to create a strong personal brand that radiates your authentic self and sends the world a signal that you mean business. Learn more...

In this unconventional play, set in various locations around the Woolly Mammoth Theatre, a crotchety East German Chancellor watches a play when students suddenly riot and the profiteers swoop in. Amid the chaos, two women launch a madcap chase to save an abandoned baby and outrun the vultures of both communism and capitalism. Their journey through Woolly's entire building comes full circle back to the stage -- but can a disgraced artistic director help them reset the nation's moral compass? Learn more...

Saxophonist Sonny Rollins plays at the Kennedy Center. A true jazz legend, the "Saxophone Colossus" has been redefining the instrument's possibilities for over 60 years with his ever-changing style and electrifying solos. His many honors include a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. Learn more...

Forum Theatre presents the second of Tony Kushner's two-part Angels in America epic: Angels in America: Perestroika. In Reagan-Era New York City, a colorful array of characters confront the AIDS crisis and questions of morality, community, guilt and forgiveness. This acclaimed play won Tony and Drama Desk Awards, as well as a Pulitzer Prize. Learn more...

The Washington Wizards host the Charlotte Bobcats at the Verizon Center. Led by the resurgent Gilbert Arenas, the Wizards have gotten off to a strong start, and look to be playoff contenders in the NBA's Eastern Conference. Learn more...

Choralis, the acclaimed mixed voice chorus, presents its annual holiday show. A Classic Brass Christmas will also include performances from The Classical Brass Quintet as well as the Choralis Cantus Youth Choirs during a program that includes traditional and modern holiday music, a Christmas carol audience sing-along, and a candlelight procession. Learn more...

Celebrate the holidays with The Nutcracker by BalletNova (formerly The Center Dance Company). Entertaining, magical, and fun, this classic ballet is set in the elegant 1940s and choreographed by Nancie Woods and Caroline Frankil Warren. Learn more...

Solas Nua brings its off-Broadway hit Disco Pigs to Washington D.C. for the first time. Enda Walsh's feverish, disturbing thrill ride of a drama centers on two inseparable friends, Pig and Runt, out celebrating their 17th birthday in the nightclubs of Cork. As events unfold, their unusually intense friendship -- which includes its own made-up language -- is altered forever. Learn more...

An authentic recreation of The Beatles circa their 1964-66 touring years, Come Together utilizes identical period costumes and equipment in a performance filled with hit songs like "She Loves You" and "I Want to Hold Your Hand." Expect numerous costume changes as the act also moves into the band's later period music and even John Lennon solo material. Learn more...

Acclaimed pop/rock trio GrooveLily presents their concert musical Striking 12 at Crystal City's Arena Stage. Co-written by Tony Award-winning playwright Rachel Sheinkin (The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee), Striking 12 tells the story of a grumpy, overworked New Yorker who resolves to spend New Year's Eve alone in his apartment when an unexpected visitor brings some much-needed cheer. Learn more...

A trip to D.C. is incomplete without visiting the legendary Madame Tussauds, which offers a chance to take a photo in an exact replica of the Oval Office or with the First Couple, Barack and Michelle. At this hands-on attraction in the heart of downtown, each visitor is a star among incredibly life-like wax figures of cultural and political icons. Learn more...

The Comedy Zone Revue features some of the East Coast's top touring comics, headlining a bill which includes live jazz from The Old Dominion Trio, plus dancers, magicians, and other variety performers. Learn more...

1st Stage Theater presents Three Days of Rain. In this production of Richard Greenberg's Pulitzer Prize finalist, three talented young actors play characters in the present day, as well as their parents three decades earlier, when three fateful days of rain changed everyone's lives forever. Learn more...

Join Best Tours - DC for a special tour through Arlington Cemetery, our nation's most sacred resting place. You'll see a member of the Honor Guard standing watch at the Tomb of the Unknowns and other sites along the way before venturing onto Fort Myer to get a special behind-the-scenes look at the U.S. Army's last horse unit. Learn more...

Open Top Sightseeing presents a bus tour through our nation's capital. There's no easier way to get to and from all of the D.C. area's most stunning monuments and legendary locations, including the Smithsonian, Lincoln Memorial, White House, Georgetown, Union Station, and much more. Guests can hop on or off the bus at any or all of the 30 stops. Learn more...

Eclipse Chamber Orchestra, under the direction of Sylvia Alimena, presents the Seventh Annual Brandenburg Festival. Over the course of two concerts, they'll play four of Bach's Brandenburg Concertos, plus an assortment of chamber works. Founded by members of the National Symphony Orchestra, the Eclipse Chamber Orchestra features some of Washington's finest chamber musicians. Learn more...

From classic films of the seventies such as The Godfather II to the recent Mission Impossible III, this tour of Washington, D.C. television and movie sites takes you on a journey of the timeline of filming in the nation's capital. The three-hour guided tour takes place on luxury coach buses and is led by actors and actresses who share inside industry information. Learn more...

Terrapin Adventures' zip line ride allows participants to glide through the trees -- 30 feet in the air -- at speeds up to 20 miles per hour. The Terrapin Rangers ensure that guests are safely and securely fastened inside the comfortable climbing harness before the 330-foot-long adrenaline rush begins. Learn more...

Happenstance Theater employs whimsical imagery, physical comedy and live music to engage imaginations of all ages, telling this story of comic misadventures in turn-of-the-century France. Audiences love Mark Jaster and Sabrina Mandel's kinetic humor, playful interaction, musical wit and inventive imagination. Learn more...

Mysterious and colorful, the Shrine of the Immaculate Conception is the largest Catholic church in the USA. Though recently in the news due to the visit in April of Pope Benedict XVI here, the beauty of the Shrine is not as widely known as are other DC landmarks. Don't miss this tour of one of DC's real treasures. Learn more...

Cruise from historic old town Alexandria, Virginia, past the national monuments to Georgetown and back to Alexandria on Nina's Dandy Dinner Cruise. Take in the sights, including Washington's famous cherry blossoms, while enjoying a five-course meal by candlelight, followed by dancing on the ship's elegant marble dance floor. Learn more...