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Events on May 24th For Alexandria, VA 22311

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

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: $35.00   Our Price: $17.50*
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 Outdoor 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

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

Twins Jazz (Washington, DC)
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

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

The Stephen Schwartz Project - A World Premiere Musical Revue

MetroStage (Alexandria, VA)
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

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

Black Box Theatre (Indian Head, MD)
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

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

Folger Theatre (Washington, DC)
Saturday, May. 24 2008 @ 2:00pm
Saturday, May. 24 2008 @ 8:00pm
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

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

Kennedy Center Opera House (Washington, DC)
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

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

Theater J at Goldman Theater (Washington, DC)
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)
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

Epic Greek Tragedy The Oresteia from Constellation Theatre Company

Clark Street Playhouse (Arlington, VA)
Saturday, May. 24 2008 @ 8:00pm
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

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

Theatre on the Run (Arlington, VA)
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 History Boys: Tony Award-Winning Comedy at the Studio Theatre

The Studio Theatre (Washington, DC)
Saturday, May. 24 2008 @ 2:30pm
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

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

Signature Theatre (Arlington, VA)
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

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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