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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Watson Adventures presents their Murder at the National Gallery scavenger hunt. The event tells the story of a murdered curator and a multi-million-dollar Rembrandt painting. To piece together the tale and figure out who done it, you'll have to decode the secrets hidden in the museum's many artistic masterworks. 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 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...

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...

The six-piece chamber music group Concertante visits the Smith Theatre for a performance of works by Arnold Schoenberg and Johannes Brahms, as well as Three Rags, a piece by John Novacek specially commissioned by the sextet. Concertante has performed at top venues around the world, collecting critical acclaim wherever they go. 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...

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...

The Washington Balalaika Society plays at Arlington's Kenmore Auditorium. The 60-piece Russian folk orchestra is the greatest of its kind outside Russia. Their program Russian Revelry features authentic Russian folk instruments such as the balalaika, domra and gusli, plus traditional costumes and top international soloists. 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...

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...

This all-inclusive, three-hour culinary adventure from DC Metro Food Tours features an opportunity to experience the diversity of Ethiopian cuisine. Washington D.C.'s Shaw neighborhood is known for its collection of Ethiopian eateries, and this guided walking tour allows participants to sample several of them while learning about the intricate flavors, textures, and colors of Ethiopian cuisine and history. Learn more...