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Events on May 11th For Alexandria, VA 22311

Asian Dance with Dakshina/Daniel Phoenix Singh & Company

Dance Place (Washington, DC)
Sunday, May. 11 2008 @ 7:00pm
Full Price: $20.00 - $22.00   Our Price: $10.00*
Rated: 3.6 stars
In celebration of Asian Pacific Islander Month, Dakshina/Daniel Phoenix Singh & Company will perform two new works. Dakshina, an emerging DC-area dance company, presents modern dance and classical Indian dance, such as Kathak and Bharata Natyam, side by side.  Learn More

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

Imagination Stage - Lerner Theatre (Bethesda, MD)
Sunday, May. 11 2008 @ 12:30pm
Sunday, May. 11 2008 @ 3:30pm
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

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

Washington Walks Georgetown (Washington, DC)
Sunday, May. 11 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

The Stephen Schwartz Project - A World Premiere Musical Revue

MetroStage (Alexandria, VA)
Sunday, May. 11 2008 @ 3:00pm
Sunday, May. 11 2008 @ 7:00pm
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

A.R. Gurney's The Dining Room from The Foundry Players

Fellowship Hall at Foundry United Methodist Church (Washington, DC)
Sunday, May. 11 2008 @ 2:30pm
Full Price: $12.00 - $15.00   Our Price: $6.00 - $7.50*
Rated: 2.0 stars
How have we changed in the past 100 years? And, if you had to pick one thing to symbolize that change, what would it be? Playwright A.R. Gurney (Love Letters) attempts to answer these questions with a play set in a dining room, with 57 characters portrayed by six actors, throughout the course of a day.  Learn More

Translations: Irish Drama by Brian Friel

Church Street Theater (Washington, DC)
Sunday, May. 11 2008 @ 2:00pm
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

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

Black Box Theatre (Indian Head, MD)
Sunday, May. 11 2008 @ 3:00pm
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

D.C. Premiere of ANIMA from Doorway Arts Ensemble

Mead Theatre Lab at Flashpoint (Washington, DC)
Sunday, May. 11 2008 @ 3:00pm
Sunday, May. 11 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $15.00   Our Price: $7.50*
Rated: 2.0 stars
ANIMA shows the devastating consequences of living one's life for someone else. Ella struggles to free herself from an abusive relationship with Vlad, a parasite reliant on her for his emotional survival. When James, a shaken Iraq war veteran, arrives at Ella and Vlad's apartment needing a place to stay, a bloody power struggle explodes on stage.  Learn More

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

Folger Theatre (Washington, DC)
Sunday, May. 11 2008 @ 7:00pm
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

Camus' Thriller The Plague, Adapted for the Stage

Warehouse Theater (Washington, DC)
Sunday, May. 11 2008 @ 3:00pm
Full Price: $25.00 - $30.00   Our Price: $12.50 - $15.00*
Rated: 2.6 stars
French-Algerian author, philosopher and journalist Albert Camus wrote The Plague in 1947. Set in the French North African city of Oran in 1942, the story describes an entire population engaged in a moral struggle as an unknown pandemic rapidly sweeps through the entire city. Washington playwright Otho Eskin has adapted this chilling thriller for the stage.  Learn More

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

Theater J at Goldman Theater (Washington, DC)
Sunday, May. 11 2008 @ 3:00pm (Preview)
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)
Sunday, May. 11 2008 @ 2:00pm
Full Price: $25.00 - $60.00   Our Price: $10.00 - $30.00*
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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

Award-Winning Drama Intimate Apparel at Atlas Performing Arts Center

Atlas Performing Arts Center (Washington, DC)
Sunday, May. 11 2008 @ 2:00pm
Full Price: $33.00 - $35.00   Our Price: $16.50 - $17.50*
Rated: 3.7 stars
African Continuum Theatre presents Lynn Nottage's award-winning drama Intimate Apparel. A woman discovers her passion in the face of overwhelming racial, economic and social pressures to submit to spinsterhood. In 1905 New York City, Esther's life as a lingerie maker for the rich is severely limited until she gives flight to the dream of love. The unexpected consequences break her heart but not her spirit.  Learn More

Epic Greek Tragedy The Oresteia from Constellation Theatre Company

Clark Street Playhouse (Arlington, VA)
Sunday, May. 11 2008 @ 3:00pm
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

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