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Events on April 17th For Alexandria, VA 22311

Dinner Cruise Past the National Monuments: Candlelight Dinner & Dancing

Dandy Dinner Boat at The Strand (Alexandria, VA)
Thursday, Apr. 17 2008 @ 6:30pm
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

Enjoy Shopping & Freebies at Shecky's Girls Night Out

DAR Constitution Hall (Washington, DC)
Thursday, Apr. 17 2008 @ 5:00pm
Full Price: $25.00   Our Price: $12.50*
Rated: 2.2 stars
America's favorite shopping party, Shecky's Girls Night Out, returns to DC! Shop the latest trends in emerging fashion and accessories, sip delicious complimentary cocktails, sample fabulous products and services, and score Shecky's famously overstuffed Goodie Bags. It'll be your best girl's night out of the season!  Learn More

Mystery School: Mysticism of Native Americans & Australian Aborigines

Woman's National Democratic Club (Washington, DC)
Thursday, Apr. 17 2008 @ 7:00pm
Full Price: $100.00   Our Price: $50.00*
Rated: 3.5 stars
Mysticism is not just for the religious or the devoutly spiritual. This workshop is a 21st-century version of the ancient tradition of mysticism. Dedicated to the examination of the world's mysticism and the plethora of great masters and spiritual paths, students will study original texts and traditional mystical exercises, and deepen their awareness about "frontier science" processes.  Learn More

Kander & Ebb's Musical Kiss of the Spider Woman at Signature Theatre

Signature Theatre (Arlington, VA)
Thursday, Apr. 17 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $45.00 - $69.00   Our Price: $20.00 - $34.50*
Rated: 3.2 stars
Winner of the Tony Award for Best Musical, Kiss of the Spider Woman weaves a distressing tale of persecution into a dazzling theatrical web. It's the story of two men—a window dresser and a socialist rebel—forced to share a jail cell in Argentina. Each man comes to find comfort in the other's company as the line between reality and fantasy blurs.  Learn More

Am I Black Enough Yet? — A Thoughtful Comedy at Theatre on the Run

Theatre on the Run (Arlington, VA)
Thursday, Apr. 17 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $10.00 - $25.00   Our Price: $5.00 - $12.50*
Rated: 3.4 stars
No matter who you are, for one night you get to be African American in Am I Black Enough Yet?, Clinton Johnston's touching, thoughtful and hysterically funny look at the state of Blackness in America.  Learn More

Federico García Lorca's Bodas De Sangre (Blood Wedding)

GALA Hispanic at Tivoli Theatre (Washington, DC)
Thursday, Apr. 17 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $30.00 - $34.00   Our Price: $15.00 - $17.00*
Rated: 3.2 stars
This passionate story of young lovers trapped by the repressive traditions of Andalusia is underscored with song, chant and powerful symbolism. Mel Rocher and guest artists from Spain lead a stellar cast. Federico García Lorca was one of the most critically acclaimed Spanish poets of the 20th century, famous not only for his poems and plays, but also as an early martyr of the Spanish Civil War.  Learn More

Arthur Miller's The Price Starring Robert Prosky at Theater J

Theater J at Goldman Theater (Washington, DC)
Thursday, Apr. 17 2008 @ 7:30pm
Full Price: $15.00 - $50.00   Our Price: $7.50 - $25.00*
Rated: 3.6 stars
This scorching, three-time Tony Award nominee for drama features DC treasure Robert Prosky alongside his two sons for the first time on a DC stage. Gregory Solomon is hired to assess a family's possessions in the wake of a father's death. Two brothers' long-repressed dreams, desires and resentments bubble to the surface as The Price explores the legacy of choices that have made for a terrible injustice.  Learn More

Lord of the Flies, A Stage Play Based on the Acclaimed Novel

Round House Theatre - Bethesda (Bethesda, MD)
Thursday, Apr. 17 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $50.00 - $60.00   Our Price: $25.00 - $30.00*
Rated: 3.0 stars
William Golding's Lord of the Flies is the dramatic tale of a group of schoolboys who have survived a plane crash on a deserted island. Before long, this well-behaved group descends into savagery and becomes a bloodthirsty, murderous tribe.  Learn More

Hairspray: Hit Musical at the Warner Theatre

Warner Theatre (Washington, DC)
Thursday, Apr. 17 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $38.50 - $70.00   Our Price: $19.25 - $35.00*
Rated: 3.5 stars
The Warner Theatre presents Hairspray, the hit musical which won eight Tony Awards in 2003 and inspired a major motion picture. Set in 1960s Baltimore, the film tells the story of Tracy Turnblad, a misfit teenager who becomes a local celebrity by dancing on TV's Corny Collins Show.  Learn More

Bad Dates - a Good Comedy from Olney Theatre Center

Olney Theatre Center - Mulitz-Gudelsky Theatre Lab (Olney, MD)
Thursday, Apr. 17 2008 @ 7:45pm
Full Price: $43.00   Our Price: $21.50*
Rated: 2.0 stars
Walk a mile in Haley Walker's shoes — all 600 pairs! This divorced single mom moves from Texas to New York and reenters a dating scene more daunting than breaking-in a new pair of stilettos. A string of rotten romances, Tibetan Buddhists and even the Romanian Mafia all get in the way of finding Mr. Right. Is Jimmy Choo the only man fit for Haley?  Learn More

Brecht's The Good Woman of Setzuan: Revolutionary German Playwright's Surreal Comedy

Clark Street Playhouse (Arlington, VA)
Thursday, Apr. 17 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $20.00   Our Price: $10.00*
Rated: 3.2 stars
Constellation Theatre Company presents The Good Woman of Setzuan, a comic fantasy by German playwright Bertolt Brecht (The Threepenny Opera, Mother Courage and Her Children). Three gods descend to earth in search of one good person and discover that kindness and compassion don't pay the rent. Shen Te, a kind and generous prostitute, is driven to disguise herself as the shrewd and unethical male businessman Shui Ta in order to navigate the demands of love, family and hungry neighbors.  Learn More

Smokey Joe's Cafe: Rock & Roll Music of Leiber & Stoller

Bethesda Theatre (Bethesda, MD)
Thursday, Apr. 17 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $50.00 - $55.00   Our Price: $25.00 - $27.50*
Rated: 2.3 stars
The longest running musical revue in the history of Broadway! Smokey Joe's Cafe has nearly 40 hits by Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, including "On Broadway," "Jailhouse Rock," "Hound Dog," "Fools Fall In Love" and "Stand By Me."  Learn More

Amnesia Curiosa, Part of the Rainpan 43 Festival, at The Studio Theatre

The Studio Theatre - Mead Theatre (Washington, DC)
Thursday, Apr. 17 2008 @ 7:30pm
Full Price: $39.00 - $41.00   Our Price: $18.50 - $20.50*
Rated: 2.9 stars
Inside the nation's oldest surgical amphitheatre, physical theatre artists Geoff Sobelle and Trey Lyford, creators of the New Vaudeville comedy sensation all wear bowlers, unearth a museum of absence and artifact where the paranormal is normal and the line between docent and exhibit becomes increasingly blurred.  Learn More

The Man of La Mancha, the Award-Winning Broadway Classic

Atlas Performing Arts Center (Washington, DC)
Thursday, Apr. 17 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $40.00 - $45.00   Our Price: FREE - $22.50*
Rated: 3.2 stars
The story of Don Quixote is one of hope over improbability. A romantic, Don Quixote tries to live in a heroic age when knights in shining armor rescue ladies in distress. Based on Cervantes' Don Quixote, The Man of La Mancha is a modern telling of this 17th-century classic of literature and is the winner of five Tony Awards.  Learn More

The Stephen Schwartz Project - A World Premiere Musical Revue

MetroStage (Alexandria, VA)
Thursday, Apr. 17 2008 @ 8:00pm
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

Translations: Irish Drama by Brian Friel

Church Street Theater (Washington, DC)
Thursday, Apr. 17 2008 @ 8:00pm (Preview)
Full Price: $30.00   Our Price: $15.00*
Rated: 3.2 stars
Translations, often considered the literary masterwork of Irish playwright Brian Friel (Dancing at Lughnasa), is set in the politically charged landscape of early 1800s Ireland. The inhabitants of a small town in County Donegal feel the repercussions as British engineers come through town to Anglicize place names.  Learn More

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