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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...

Following the publication of his latest novel, Under the Dome, celebrated storyteller and bestselling author Stephen King (Just After Sunset, Duma Key, The Stand, The Shining and more than 50 other novels) talks about his career as a novelist, screenwriter and columnist, and discusses his new work with New York Times book critic Janet Maslin. This is a simulcast event, not a live appearance. Learn more...

Join ASCAP's Michael Kerker for an intimate interview with the multi-award-winning NSO Principal Pops Conductor Marvin Hamlisch and performances by Liz Callaway, Kevin Early and Karen Ziemba performing the composer's best. Hamlisch was the composer of A Chorus Line and has hundreds of songs to his credit. 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...

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...

Grammy-nominated singer Joan Osborne headlines a show at Strathmore. Osborne's single "One of Us" was a #1 hit, propelling her 1995 album Relish to triple-platinum status. The evening also features the Holmes Brothers, known for their blend of rock, blues and gospel, and Mississippi heartland singer Paul Thorn. Learn more...

Constellation Theatre Co. presents David Ives' new version of Georges Feydeau's brilliant French farce, A Flea in Her Ear, set in 1920s Paris. A pair of missing suspenders is the catalyst for a wild trip to the Frisky Puss Hotel, where Raymonde Chandebise has set a trap to catch her husband Victor with a lover. Fourteen hilarious characters take part in this spinning vortex of comedy that includes a romp around a revolving bed and the ultimate chase sequence. 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...

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...

Internationally renowned for her remarkable voice and regal aura, Dame Kiri Te Kanawa is one of the great opera divas of our time. Ben Roe, former NPR music director, talks with Dame Kiri about her life and views on music. An audience Q&A and reception will follow the program. 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...

The Studio Theatre presents Adding Machine: A Musical This musical adaptation of Elmer Rice's expressionistic masterpiece tells the story of Mr. Zero, a man whose life is driven into chaos when he's replaced at his job by a mechanical adding machine. This daring, timely and wildly imaginative show earned rave reviews in its recent Off-Broadway premiere. Learn more...

Enjoy a perfect cocktail and some great conversation with other professionals in this "upbeat" atmosphere. Feel free to come by yourself, as you won't be alone for long. By the time this evening comes to a close, you will have made more new professional friends than you ever imagined! Cash bar available. Learn more...

Quiara Alegria Hudes, the Tony-nominated playwright behind the acclaimed musical In The Heights, returns with a new play about a mother-daughter road trip. Teenage Olivia, who lives with her Jewish dad Aaron, receives a surprise visit from her estranged Cuban-born mother Beatriz. Leaving her second husband behind, Beatriz whisks her daughter away on a long-distance car trip to Yellowstone. Along the way, they discover love, understanding, and find out what family really means. Learn more...

Forum Theatre presents the second of Tony Kushner's two-part Angeles 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...

Elmo, Abby Cadabby, Zoe, and Prairie Dawn, along with Muppeteers Kevin Clash, Leslie Carrara-Rudolph, and Fran Brill, join Sesame Street executive producer Carol-Lynn Parente and Sonia Manzano ('Maria') to talk about the show's 40 years of fun and learning. They share clips from the first season in 1969 and scenes from new episodes. After the show, meet the Muppets and have your picture taken with them and their Muppeteers! Learn more...

This seminar is for intelligent, thoughtful guys looking for advice on the dating scene. Professionals in the City invites you to join other professional gentlemen in learning the fine art of meeting, dating and capturing the heart of the ladies; you cannot succeed if you don't know how to approach ladies that grab your attention. 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...

St. Mark's Players presents Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest. One of the wittiest comedies ever written, Earnest follows a pair of bachelors through a web of mistaken identities and elaborate deceptions as they attempt to woo two women whose hearts are set on marrying a man named Ernest. Learn more...

This exciting class will explore numerous aspects of voice-over work for television, film, radio, books-on-tape, documentaries and the Internet. Students will learn how to make the all-important demo, how to be successful and earn a great income. Participants will even have a chance to record a commercial script under the direction of the class producer. Learn more...

Peek into the New York art world where greed and vengeance play with the sanity and lives of everyone involved. Meet Jack, the eccentric painter. Everyone who's ever met Jack has thought about killing him. Vincent, his art dealer, and Anne, the reluctant wife, all get ensnared in plot twists and turns until it's anyone's guess who is to be murdered and who is the murderer. Winner of the 2000 Edgar Award Winner for Best Mystery Play Learn more...

The Dance Place Hip Hop Festival presents Life, Rhythm, Move Project in Retrofuturistic. Created by company founder and choreographer Aysha Upchurch, Retrofuturistic explores themes ranging from time travel to the environment and the relationship between the sexes, all through playful, high-energy hip-hop dance. 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...

The Granulosa Cell Tumour Foundation, New Zealand and The Embassy of New Zealand present A Night at the Anchor Bar - South a charity event for granulosa cell tumor awareness. Enjoy hors d'eourves from the world famous Anchor Bar (Buffalo, NY), silent auction items provided by D.C.'s best dining and shopping destinations, a wine and cheese tasting from some of New Zealand's finest vineyards and creameries, and music by The Latin Jazz Project. Learn more...

Forum Theatre presents Tony Kushner's Angels in America: Millennium Approaches. In Reagan-era New York City, a colorful array of characters confront the AIDS crisis and questions of morality and community. One of the most acclaimed plays of our time, it won Tony and Drama Desk Awards, as well as a Pulitzer Prize. 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...

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 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...

Rockville Musical Theatre presents Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim's West Side Story at the F. Scott Fitzgerald Theatre. The world's greatest love story -- Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet -- takes to the streets of early 1950's New York as two young, idealistic lovers struggle to survive in a world of violence and prejudice. Learn more...

In Series celebrates the Spanish stage tradition of the zarzuela -- a blend of opera, drama and dance -- by combining two 19th century classics into a new work set in the present day D.C. neighborhood of Columbia Heights. Zarzuela on the Avenue uses soaring operatic tunes, clicking castanets and Spanish dance to tell a charming, thought-provoking tale of urban romance and renewal. Learn more...

Washington's Choral Arts Society opens its 45th season with a unique performance at the Kennedy Center. The Original Surround Sound will feature the 180-member chorus positioned in up to eight locations throughout the Concert Hall, literally encircling the audience with sound. The program includes choral music from the past five centuries, and performances by Washington Symphonic Brass. Learn more...

National Philharmonic Guest Conductor Predrag Gosta makes his Strathmore debut in a concert that celebrates Mendelssohn's birth and pays homage to Haydn's passing 200 years ago. The Lord Nelson Mass, named for the British admiral who defeated Napoleon in Egypt and Italy, calls for dramatic soaring runs for the soprano and culminates in a jubilant finale. Rediscovered in the 1980s, Mendelssohn's grand choral Symphony No. 2 was composed to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the invention of printing. 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...

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...

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...

On this guided, narrated walking tour, guests will experience and learn about Old Town Alexandria's historic and architectural significance while strolling through tree-lined streets past stately mansions and charming row houses. The tour includes multiple stops at some of Alexandria's unique family-owned restaurants to sample specially made dishes ranging from Lebanese to tapas to local seafood specialties. Learn more...

This seminar on detecting deception is broken into two parts (sold separately), each taught by Janine Driver who trained with Dr. Paul Ekman, the psychologist whose research on the seven universal emotions and micro expressions inspired the Fox TV show "Lie to Me." Part one explores speech, voice, body and face patterns to determine when someone deviates from their normal behavior in an attempt to deceive. Part two focuses on identifying the seven universal emotions through facial expressions. Learn more...

Lie With Me is a frank and oddly comic story about people who can't seem to help the damage that they inflict upon one another. A lifetime of discretion and collusion is exposed as the family matriarch falls ill. The turmoil unleashed provides a psychologically sexual account of complicity on a scale that leaves no one untouched. Learn more...

The Folger Theatre hosts Perspectives on China: The Perpetual Discovery, an illuminating discussion. Atlantic correspondent James Fallows, Asia Society's Orville Schell, and author Rachel DeWoskin (Foreign Babes in Beijing) discuss the converging histories of Europe and China and how each influenced the other over the centuries. Learn more...

The Levine Jazz Quintet and Swiss jazz vocalist Beat Kaestli continue their three-year collaboration at the beautiful and elegant residence of the Swiss Ambassador, followed by a reception with the artists. Learn more...

Faust is the tale of an old scholar who "sells his soul" to the Devil in exchange for youth and the love of the virgin Marguerite. Faust is a work in the tradition of French Grand Opera and for years the most popular opera in the repertoire. Washington Concert Opera is proud to present the first major production of the opera in Washington in 15 years. Learn more...

Defying easy categorization, the sound of this acclaimed group has deep roots in the richness of Polish tradition, with elements of reggae, blues, African music and dance club flavor to get your heart racing and put your feet in motion. 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...

Enjoy a cruise on the luxurious vessel Odyssey. Cruise down the Potomac River, with unparalleled views of the nation's greatest landmarks, while you enjoy a delicious brunch or a four-course dinner. Later, dance to a wide array of music provided by a live band. Learn more...

The Peabody Chamber Players and conductor Rob Kapilow perform Bach's Double Concerto in D minor in the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History's Baird Auditorium. Rob Kapilow takes listeners inside the music: he unravels, slows down, and recomposes key passages to hear why a piece is so extraordinary. Learn more...

The Carlyle Club, one of the D.C. area's best spots for live music, offers Big Band style jazz and more and fine dining in an art deco-style space with a large stage and dance floor. Learn more...

Step aboard the Spirit ship for unparalleled cruising fun on the Potomac River. Cruise out of Washington's historic waterfront and dine on a delicious lunch or dinner buffet, dance, enjoy live music, and catch breathtaking views of the greatest skyline in the world. Learn more...

Catch live jazz music at Twins Jazz. Located in the heart of the U Street entertainment district, Twins Jazz regularly features the most innovative jazz artists in Washington, plus touring musicians from across the country. This intimate venue and its shows are a long-time favorite of Goldstar's members. Learn more...

The Kevin Locke Native Dance Ensemble performs at the National Museum of the American Indian. Locke is the foremost living master of the indigenous Northern Plains flute, and a skilled dancer and storyteller; in The Drum is the Thunder, The Flute is the Wind, his ensemble will perform traditional dances and music from the Lakota, Ojibwe, Oneida and Comanche nations. Learn more...