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The Week of May 19th For Washington, DC 20201

Dinner Cruise Past the National Monuments: Candlelight Dinner & Dancing

Dandy Dinner Boat at The Strand (Alexandria, VA)
Monday, May. 19 2008 @ 6:30pm
Tuesday, May. 20 2008 @ 6:30pm
and 3 more dates.
Full Price: $86.00   Our Price: $51.60*
Rated: 3.2 stars
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 while enjoying a five-course meal by candlelight, followed by dancing on the ship's elegant marble dance floor.  Learn More

Epic Greek Tragedy The Oresteia from Constellation Theatre Company

Clark Street Playhouse (Arlington, VA)
Monday, May. 19 2008 @ 8:00pm
Thursday, May. 22 2008 @ 8:00pm
and 2 more dates.
Full Price: $20.00   Our Price: FREE - $10.00*
Rated: 2.9 stars
The only surviving Greek trilogy unites Clytemnestra, Agamemnon, Orestes, Electra and The Furies in an epic story of war, love, vengeance, justice and mercy. The tragic chain of murder and sacrifice ends in the birth of a justice system and the triumph of compassion. Powerful imagery, live music and a cast of 29 bring this adaptation of the archetypal Greek drama to life in one dynamic evening.  Learn More

The School For Scandal: Sheridan's Uproarious Comedy at the Folger Theatre

Folger Theatre (Washington, DC)
Tuesday, May. 20 2008 @ 7:30pm
Wednesday, May. 21 2008 @ 7:30pm
and 4 more dates.
Full Price: $25.00 - $55.00   Our Price: $12.50 - $27.50*
Rated: 2.6 stars
The Folger Theatre presents Richard Brinsley Sheridan's classic The School For Scandal. This witty comedy of manners, which concerns a young wife who gets entangled in the schemes of Lady Sneerwell and her cadre of gossips, is a hilarious and scathing portrait of high society.  Learn More

Capital Sites Bike Tour: See the White House, Washington Monument and More

The Old Post Office Pavilion (Washington, DC)
Wednesday, May. 21 2008 @ 10:00am
Full Price: $40.00   Our Price: $20.00*
Rated: 3.5 stars
This tour takes you from one end of the National Mall to the other, featuring the Lincoln Memorial, White House, Washington Monument, Supreme Court, Union Station, the Capitol, and much more. It's an easy 7-8 mile ride that lasts about three hours, with the price of bike rental, helmet, bottled water and a snack included.  Learn More

John Eaton and Friends: Pianist and DC Institution Plays Classic Jazz

JCC of Greater Washington (Rockville, MD)
Wednesday, May. 21 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $44.00   Our Price: $22.00*
Rated: 3.8 stars
Considered one of the foremost interpreters of American music, Washington legend John Eaton is a pianist, vocalist, musicologist and humorist - and one of America's true musical treasures. Mr. Eaton and guests will perform music from the vast treasure trove of American popular song and jazz. Featured composers include Cole Porter, George Gershwin, Fats Waller, Hoagy Carmichael, Duke Ellington, and Harold Arlen.  Learn More

Richard Strauss' Elektra: Washington National Opera at the Kennedy Center

Kennedy Center Opera House (Washington, DC)
Wednesday, May. 21 2008 @ 7:30pm
Saturday, May. 24 2008 @ 7:00pm
Full Price: $68.00 - $225.00   Our Price: $34.00 - $112.50*
Rated: 2.9 stars
A royal family destroyed by conspiracy, madness, and vengeance is the setting for Washington National Opera's riveting Elektra. Richard Strauss' modernist masterpiece stars Susan Bullock, whose performance in the title role has been hailed a triumph by critics around the world. Under the baton of WNO Music Director Heinz Fricke, you'll be electrified as Elektra avenges her father's death.  Learn More

Drafthouse Comedy Challenge: Top Local Stand-Ups Compete

Arlington Cinema N Drafthouse (Arlington, VA)
Wednesday, May. 21 2008 @ 7:30pm (Round 1)
Full Price: $7.00 - $10.00   Our Price: FREE - $5.00*
Rated: 3.4 stars
The Arlington Drafthouse presents the Drafthouse Comedy Challenge, a stand-up competition. Twenty-four of the best up-and-coming local comics will bring their best material and go head to head; the winner of the finals will receive $1500 in cash and two upcoming feature spots at the club.  Learn More

David in Shadow and Light: Modern Musical Retelling of the Tale of King David

Theater J at Goldman Theater (Washington, DC)
Wednesday, May. 21 2008 @ 7:30pm
Thursday, May. 22 2008 @ 7:30pm
Saturday, May. 24 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $25.00 - $55.00   Our Price: $12.50 - $27.50*
Rated: 2.6 stars
This epic musical traces King David's astonishing trajectory from boy shepherd to superstar ruler to aging king as he wrestles with the lowest and purest of human impulses. A visually stunning production, it incorporates thrilling dance sequences and a postmodern frame through which audiences can identify with the triumphs and travails of one of the most complex and charismatic figures in biblical history.  Learn More

1920s Drama These Shining Lives at Centerstage

Centerstage - Head Theater (Baltimore, MD)
Wednesday, May. 21 2008 @ 1:00pm
Saturday, May. 24 2008 @ 2:00pm
Full Price: $25.00 - $60.00   Our Price: $10.00 - $30.00*
Rated: No ratings yet
This world premiere by Melanie Marnich, a bright new voice in American theater, takes place in the 1920s. The women of the Radium Dial Company have found steady work in comfortable conditions at extraordinary pay—but over time, their apparent good fortune gives way to a crippling reality.  Learn More

The History Boys: Tony Award-Winning Comedy at the Studio Theatre

The Studio Theatre (Washington, DC)
Wednesday, May. 21 2008 @ 7:30pm
Thursday, May. 22 2008 @ 7:30pm
and 2 more dates.
Full Price: $39.00 - $46.00   Our Price: $19.50 - $23.00*
Rated: 3.3 stars
The 2006 Tony Award winner for Best Play, The History Boys, comes to DC. Alan Bennett's sharply funny and touching comedy goes inside the world of a British boys' school, where two teachers become rivals for the minds and hearts of eight unruly students. Founding Artistic Director Joy Zinoman re-imagines this warm, brilliant and epic play.  Learn More

Makeup 101: Learn Makeup Tips and Tricks

Post Massachusetts Avenue - Club Room (Washington, DC)
Wednesday, May. 21 2008 @ 7:30pm
Full Price: $30.00   Our Price: $15.00*
Are you confident that you're putting your best face forward on all occasions? Intimidated by all the brushes and paints in your cosmetics bag? Yearning for a new look? This seminar will teach you about warm versus cool colors, different types of foundation available, tricks of the trade used to apply makeup, and more.  Learn More

The Stephen Schwartz Project - A World Premiere Musical Revue

MetroStage (Alexandria, VA)
Thursday, May. 22 2008 @ 8:00pm
Friday, May. 23 2008 @ 8:00pm
Saturday, May. 24 2008 @ 3:00pm
Full Price: $35.00 - $40.00   Our Price: $17.50 - $20.00*
Rated: 3.1 stars
The Stephen Schwartz Project is a new musical revue featuring the songs of award-winning composer-lyricist Stephen Schwartz. Celebrate the work of one of Broadway's most acclaimed writers with "Wicked" new musical arrangements from Broadway and regional favorites Pippin, Godspell, Children of Eden and The Baker's Wife, plus the award-winning films Prince of Egypt, Pocahontas and more...all at MetroStage.  Learn More

National Geographic Live! Presents Afghanistan: Voices of Cultural Preservation

National Geographic's Grosvenor Auditorium (Washington, DC)
Thursday, May. 22 2008 @ 6:30pm
Full Price: $18.00   Our Price: $9.00*
Rated: 3.2 stars
To celebrate the opening of the exhibition Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul, National Geographic Live! will present a panel discussion on the ongoing efforts to preserve Afghanistan's rich yet still endangered cultural heritage. Participants represent a cross-section of disciplines and experiences.  Learn More

Wine Tasting Flight of the Whites Explores Italy's Small Vineyards

Z Lounge (Washington, DC)
Thursday, May. 22 2008 @ 6:00pm
Full Price: $40.00   Our Price: $30.00*
Rated: 2.5 stars
Lorenzo Gatteschi, second-generation winemaker from Italy, will lead guests on a journey of Italy's best kept secret: small family-owned vineyards. These distinct and innovative wines come from all the regions of Italy. From Bologna to Sicily, discover what constitutes Prosecco, how wines are graded, and the extraordinary stories that make these vineyards unforgettable. Wines will be paired with assorted antipasti.  Learn More

Closing Time, American Premiere of a Modern Drama Set in Belfast

Theatre on the Run (Arlington, VA)
Thursday, May. 22 2008 @ 8:00pm
Friday, May. 23 2008 @ 8:00pm
Saturday, May. 24 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $20.00   Our Price: $10.00*
Rated: 3.1 stars
A run-down pub/hotel in Belfast acts as a refuge for the drinkers who stop there—including the owners. This is a day like many before it, yet different, as the people who gather realize that sometimes they must face up to the truth. Closing Time is a tender and comic portrait of love, dignity and emotional damage.  Learn More

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring: Hit Movie in HD, with Live Musical Score

Filene Center (Vienna, VA)
Thursday, May. 22 2008 @ 8:30pm
Full Price: $45.00 - $55.00   Our Price: $22.50 - $27.50*
Rated: 3.7 stars
Wolf Trap presents The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring in a U.S. premiere live score production. The acclaimed film will be presented on a huge HD screen, and the Filene Center Orchestra, the City Choir of Washington and the World Children's Choir will perform Howard Shore's epic score. One of the grandest orchestral scores in film history, Shore's work won Oscar and Grammy Awards in 2002.  Learn More

Chita Rivera and George Hearn in Kander & Ebb's Musical The Visit

Signature Theatre (Arlington, VA)
Thursday, May. 22 2008 @ 8:00pm (Preview)
Friday, May. 23 2008 @ 8:00pm (Preview)
Saturday, May. 24 2008 @ 2:00pm (Preview)
Full Price: $61.00 - $71.00   Our Price: $30.50 - $35.50*
Rated: 3.7 stars
Two-time Tony winners and Broadway legends Chita Rivera and George Hearn star in this new musical based on one of the 20th century's great plays. Driven from her hometown in disgrace as a teenager, Claire grows to become the richest woman in the world. Many decades later, she returns to her downtrodden hometown, where she faces much more than she expected.  Learn More

Evening Margarita Cruise on the Potomac

Washington Harbor (Washington, DC)
Friday, May. 23 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $30.00   Our Price: $15.00*
Spectacular views, good friends, food and a cash bar. This one-hour cruise along the Potomac passes the beautiful views of the most exquisite monuments and memorials in D.C: the Kennedy Center, the Key Bridge, the Memorial Bridge, the Washington Monument, the Jefferson Memorial, the U.S. Capitol, the Lincoln Memorial, and more! See D.C. with these architectural tributes to American history, our national heroes, and our way of life.  Learn More

Jazz Vocalist Joanna Pascale w/Special Guest Tim Warfield on Sax

Twins Jazz (Washington, DC)
Friday, May. 23 2008 @ 11:00pm
Saturday, May. 24 2008 @ 11:00pm
Full Price: $18.00 - $20.00   Our Price: $9.00 - $10.00*
Rated: 3.2 stars
A highly sophisticated singer, Joanna Pascale relishes the more obscure standards from the 1920s-1960s and has a working repertoire of over 400 songs. Her vivid interpretations of the Great American Songbook are endowed with a spry sense of swing and romantic grace. Joanna's latest album, When Lights Are Low, showcases her approach to the timeless standards of American music.  Learn More

A Venture Back in Time to Historic DC with the Georgetown Walking Tour

Washington Walks Georgetown (Washington, DC)
Friday, May. 23 2008 @ 10:00am
Full Price: $10.00   Our Price: $5.00*
Rated: 3.6 stars
A walk through Washington's tony Georgetown neighborhood is a venture through time—of 200-year-old mansions and their eccentric owners, of fortunes in trade won and lost, of marvelous architecture from Federal to Victorian, of the once-bustling freedman community Herring Hill, of political intrigue, of green preservation and urban renewal. This two-hour, two-mile tour winds up in Georgetown's shopping and restaurant district just in time for lunch.  Learn More

Duke Ellington Opera Workshop: Scenes from Lakmé, Madama Butterfly, Don Giovanni

Ellington Theatre (Georgetown, DC)
Friday, May. 23 2008 @ 7:30pm
Full Price: $15.00   Our Price: $7.50*
Rated: 3.6 stars
Students at the Duke Ellington School of the Arts perform fully staged and costumed scenes from three operas in this popular annual event. Delibes' Lakmé is about a British soldier who falls in love with a princess in India; Puccini's Madama Butterfly tells a similar story set in Japan. Mozart's Don Giovanni tells the famous story of Don Juan.  Learn More

Off-Broadway Hit Gutenberg! The Musical! at Black Box Theatre

Black Box Theatre (Indian Head, MD)
Thursday, May. 22 2008 @ 8:00pm
Friday, May. 23 2008 @ 8:00pm
Saturday, May. 24 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $18.00   Our Price: $9.00*
Rated: 2.7 stars
In this two-man musical spoof, a pair of aspiring playwrights perform a backers' audition for their new project: a big, splashy musical about printing press inventor Johann Gutenberg (not actor Steve Guttenberg!). The show was recently nominated for the 2007 Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Musical and for Outstanding New Off-Broadway Musical by the Outer Critics Circle.  Learn More

WWII: Washington at War Walking Tour by Mobile Tours

John J. Pershing Statue (Washington, DC)
Friday, May. 23 2008 @ 7:00pm
Full Price: $10.00 - $20.00   Our Price: $5.00 - $10.00*
Rated: 3.5 stars
In 1941, millions of Americans began to descend on Washington to aid the new war effort. The city would never be the same. This walking tour tells the story of the remarkable, often haphazard, transformation of Washington from a sleepy southern town into a wartime global capital. Step back in time and learn about government girls (10 for each guy), segregation, Hollywood stars, alphabet cities, bunkers, and secret spies.  Learn More

Movable Feast - A Taste of DC: Walking and Subway Tour

Archives-Navy Memorial Metro Station (Washington, DC)
Saturday, May. 24 2008 @ 1:30pm
Full Price: $15.00   Our Price: $7.50*
Rated: 3.4 stars
Come along on this three-hour nibble-and-nosh fest that celebrates locally grown and locally invented edibles. Hear tales of gastronomic history, visit Washington's former market neighborhood, then hop the Metro to visit two of DC's most famous drop-in eateries. Taste a "half-smoke," then have dessert at a bakery/café founded by DC's current Food Network celebrity.  Learn More

Doubles Tennis For Single Professionals in Fairfax

Fairfax Racquet Club (Fairfax, VA)
Saturday, May. 24 2008 @ 7:15pm
Full Price: $30.00 - $35.00   Our Price: $15.00 - $17.50*
Rated: 2.2 stars
Professionals in the City hosts a Saturday Night Singles Tennis Party. Join fellow singles from the DC metro area to play, eat and socialize — with the possibility of finding your special someone right on the court. Whether you're a pro or just a beginner, during each heat, you will be matched with other area singles for games and fun.  Learn More

Relive History with the Lincoln Assassination Walking Tour Halloween Events

Andrew Jackson Memorial (Washington, DC)
Saturday, May. 24 2008 @ 7:00pm
Full Price: $10.00   Our Price: $5.00*
Rated: 3.4 stars
It was a night that changed the history of a nation forever. Journey back in time with your guide to learn about the three-pronged attack designed to decapitate the U.S. Government. Shrouded in mystery, intrigue and conspiracy, the assassination of Abraham Lincoln has long fascinated Americans. Come along on this family friendly tour to meet the characters, walk the streets and see the buildings where this great drama played out.  Learn More

Looking for Roberto Clemente: A New Rock Musical About Baseball and Heroes

Imagination Stage - Lerner Theatre (Bethesda, MD)
Saturday, May. 24 2008 @ 12:30pm
Saturday, May. 24 2008 @ 3:30pm
Saturday, May. 24 2008 @ 7:00pm
Full Price: $14.00 - $20.00   Our Price: $7.00 - $10.00*
Rated: 3.6 stars
It's Pittsburgh, 1972, and legendary baseball player Roberto Clemente is at the top of his game. Sam Kowalski and the other neighborhood baseball-playing kids are competing for the chance to meet Clemente in person. But it's their hero's actions off the field that teach the kids about what is important in life.  Learn More

Tony Award-Winning Dark Comedy The House of Blue Leaves

Gunston Arts Center (Arlington, VA)
Saturday, May. 24 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $17.00   Our Price: $5.00 - $8.50*
Rated: 2.0 stars
This sharp-witted black comedy is a biting commentary about our society's cancerous obsession with celebrity, from the award-winning playwright of Six Degrees of Separation. Trapped in a Queens apartment, zookeeper Artie dreams of becoming a Hollywood composer, but he's surrounded by a mentally deranged wife (Bananas), a mistress (Bunny), and a son who's AWOL from the army and plotting to kill the Pope on his visit to New York.  Learn More

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