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The Week of April 28th For Alexandria, VA 22311

The Challenge of Climate Change, with National Geographic Executive Editor Dennis Dimick

National Geographic's Grosvenor Auditorium (Washington, DC)
Monday, Apr. 28 2008 @ 7:30pm
Full Price: $10.00   Our Price: $5.00*
Rated: 2.0 stars
Melting glaciers and ice caps, cataclysmic storms, rising seas, and longer, hotter summers have fueled concerns that our planet is warming, and prompted heated debate among politicians, scientists, journalists and ordinary citizens. In this special presentation, National Geographic Executive Editor Dennis Dimick will summarize the data, explaining climate change in layman's terms, and offer ideas on what we can do to reverse the trends.  Learn More

Dinner Cruise Past the National Monuments: Candlelight Dinner & Dancing Outdoor Events

Dandy Dinner Boat at The Strand (Alexandria, VA)
Tuesday, Apr. 29 2008 @ 6:30pm
Wednesday, Apr. 30 2008 @ 6:30pm
and 2 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

Duke Ellington's Birthday Celebration Concert with Duke Ellington School of the Arts

Ellington Theatre (Georgetown, DC)
Tuesday, Apr. 29 2008 @ 7:30pm
Full Price: $15.00   Our Price: $7.50*
Rated: 3.8 stars
The Duke Ellington Arts' outstanding jazz faculty and renowned student jazz orchestra, the New Washingtonians, present a concert that's sure to induce toe tapping and finger snapping! Featuring percussionist Francis Thompson, trombonist Dupor Georges, trumpeter Eric MacMillan, guitarist Isaac Daniels, Jr., and saxophonist Davey Yarborough (whose music is heard in The Cosby Show theme).  Learn More

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

The Old Post Office Pavilion (Washington, DC)
Wednesday, Apr. 30 2008 @ 10:00am
Full Price: $40.00   Our Price: $20.00*
Rated: 3.8 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

Improv 101 - Learn with DC's Premier Instructor

Felix Lounge (Washington, DC)
Wednesday, Apr. 30 2008 @ 7:00pm
Full Price: $25.00 - $30.00   Our Price: $12.50 - $15.00*
Rated: 4.0 stars
Join Professionals in the City for a private and much sought-after 3-hour class covering the basics of improv. The instructor, Shawn Westfall, is currently the exclusive instructor of improvisational comedy at the DC Improv, where he's taught a number of wildly popular improv classes. This class will help improve your confidence when it comes to public speaking and presence......while you're having fun, laughing and meeting new people!  Learn More

Exciting Embassy Row Walking Tour

Dupont Circle Metro Station (Washington, DC)
Wednesday, Apr. 30 2008 @ 5:30pm
Friday, May. 2 2008 @ 5:30pm
Saturday, May. 3 2008 @ 11:00am
Full Price: $20.00   Our Price: $10.00*
Rated: 2.9 stars
From around 1890 until the Great Depression, Embassy Row was an exciting world of pleasure, leisure, scandal, and competition. This walking tour will take you along the outside of the houses of the ladies of the old guard of Washington circa 1910. You'll see the architecture and hear stories of ladies such as Alice Roosevelt Longworth, eldest daughter of Theodore Roosevelt, often called "the other Washington Monument."  Learn More

Dupont Circle Art Gallery Tour: Explore Several Galleries in One Night

Studio Gallery (Washington, DC)
Wednesday, Apr. 30 2008 @ 6:30pm
Full Price: $20.00   Our Price: $10.00*
Rated: 3.0 stars
Professionals in the City has arranged this special evening for those who appreciate fine art in all its forms. Join other professionals in private, inspiring tours of the Dupont treasures—see the latest in painting, sculpture and electronic media, and you'll never view art in quite the same way again. Whether you're a beginner or a connoisseur, this event is for you!  Learn More

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

Theatre on the Run (Arlington, VA)
Thursday, May. 1 2008 @ 8:00pm
Friday, May. 2 2008 @ 8:00pm
and 2 more dates.
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

The Stephen Schwartz Project - A World Premiere Musical Revue

MetroStage (Alexandria, VA)
Thursday, May. 1 2008 @ 8:00pm
Friday, May. 2 2008 @ 8:00pm
Saturday, May. 3 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

Translations: Irish Drama by Brian Friel

Church Street Theater (Washington, DC)
Thursday, May. 1 2008 @ 8:00pm
Friday, May. 2 2008 @ 8:00pm
Saturday, May. 3 2008 @ 8:00pm
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

D.C. Premiere of ANIMA from Doorway Arts Ensemble

Mead Theatre Lab at Flashpoint (Washington, DC)
Thursday, May. 1 2008 @ 8:00pm
Friday, May. 2 2008 @ 8:00pm
Saturday, May. 3 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

Camus' Thriller The Plague, Adapted for the Stage

Warehouse Theater (Washington, DC)
Thursday, May. 1 2008 @ 8:00pm
Friday, May. 2 2008 @ 8:00pm
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

Singles Wine-Tasting Mixer from Washington Wine Academy

Touchstone Gallery (Washington, DC)
Thursday, May. 1 2008 @ 7:00pm
Full Price: $25.00   Our Price: $15.00*
Rated: 1.3 stars
Enjoy a wine tasting as you meet other single professionals in the heart of the DC business district. Washington Wine Academy is hosting a Wine Singles event that will showcase a variety of wines from around the world in single bottle quantities to make this a truly interactive tasting experience. Tastes will be poured all evening from a wide selection of wines.  Learn More

Levine Presents Brahms Birthday Bash: An All-Brahms Chamber Concert

Atlas Performing Arts Center (Washington, DC)
Thursday, May. 1 2008 @ 7:30pm
Full Price: $10.00   Our Price: FREE*
Rated: No ratings yet
Celebrate the 175th anniversary of the birth of the great Romantic composer and pianist Johannes Brahms. Concert highlights will include his Violin Sonata in A Major, Opus. 100; Cello Sonata in F Major, Opus 99; and the Piano Quintet in F minor, Op. 34. With Mary Findley and Susan Fuller (violin); Pablo Saelzer (viola); Vasily Popov (cello); and Ralitza Patcheva (piano).  Learn More

Salsa Lessons, Mixing, Mingling & More for Cinco de Mayo

The Salsa Room (Arlington, VA)
Friday, May. 2 2008 @ 7:30pm
Full Price: $10.00 - $12.00   Our Price: $5.00 - $6.00*
Join Professionals In The City as they celebrate Cinco de Mayo with an exciting evening of salsa lessons, giveaways, a live band, and lots of professionals to mix and mingle with! Beginners and intermediate dancers are welcome at this event, and you don't need to bring a partner. An expert dance instructor will guide you step-by-step—and the JCJ Band is known for driving crowds into a salsa frenzy.  Learn More

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

Fellowship Hall at Foundry United Methodist Church (Washington, DC)
Friday, May. 2 2008 @ 8:00pm
Saturday, May. 3 2008 @ 8:00pm
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

The Duke Ellington School of the Arts Concert Choir and Female Ensemble's Spring Sing

Ellington Theatre (Georgetown, DC)
Friday, May. 2 2008 @ 7:30pm
Full Price: $15.00   Our Price: $7.50*
Rated: 4.0 stars
The Duke Ellington School of the Arts Concert Choir and Female Ensemble present an evening of choral music. The much-honored choirs will offer a wide variety of music, including selections from their recent performance of Porgy and Bess at Strathmore Concert Hall. The Female Ensemble was recently featured on the Millennium Stage at the Kennedy Center.  Learn More

Drummer-Composer Nasar Abadey and Supernova at Twins Jazz

Twins Jazz (Washington, DC)
Friday, May. 2 2008 @ 11:00pm
Saturday, May. 3 2008 @ 11:00pm
Full Price: $15.00   Our Price: $7.50*
Rated: No ratings yet
Drummer and composer Nasar Abadey is the founder, leader and driving force of Supernova. He has performed with Dizzy Gillespie, Ella Fitzgerald, Bobby Hutcherson and many other luminaries. Joining Abadey at Twins Jazz will be alto and soprano saxophonist Joe Ford, tenor saxophonist Gary Thomas, bassist James King and pianist Allyn Johnson.  Learn More

Washington Wizards vs. Cleveland Cavaliers in the NBA Playoffs

Verizon Center (Washington, DC)
Friday, May. 2 2008 @ 7:00pm (Game 6)
Full Price: $57.00   Our Price: $30.00 - $40.00*
Rated: 3.7 stars
The Washington Wizards have made the NBA's postseason, and they'd like to thank Goldstar's members for their support throughout the season with a special discount offer on playoff tickets. See Gilbert Arenas, Caron Butler, Antawn Jamison, and the Wizards take on Lebron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers in the most important games of the year.  Learn More

Country-Rock Icons Dan Hicks & The Hot Licks at The Barns at Wolf Trap

The Barns at Wolf Trap (Vienna, VA)
Friday, May. 2 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $22.00   Our Price: $11.00*
Rated: 2.7 stars
The original creator of "folk jazz" brings his own brand of western swing revival music to Wolf Trap's Barns stage. Country-rock icons Dan Hicks & The Hot Licks started performing in the late '60s, with witty, lively concoctions of folk, country, western bluegrass, call-and-response vocals, swing, and even gypsy jazz. Their innovation shaped music from progressive country to western swing revival and cemented them as an offbeat icon to millions.  Learn More

1920s Drama These Shining Lives at Centerstage

Centerstage - Head Theater (Baltimore, MD)
Friday, May. 2 2008 @ 8:00pm
Saturday, May. 3 2008 @ 8:00pm
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

Award-Winning Drama Intimate Apparel at Atlas Performing Arts Center

Atlas Performing Arts Center (Washington, DC)
Friday, May. 2 2008 @ 8:00pm
Saturday, May. 3 2008 @ 2:00pm
Saturday, May. 3 2008 @ 8:00pm
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

CrossCurrents Dance Company at the Dance Place

Dance Place (Washington, DC)
Saturday, May. 3 2008 @ 8:00pm
Full Price: $20.00 - $22.00   Our Price: $10.00*
Rated: 4.0 stars
CrossCurrents Dance Company comes to the Dance Place. Revealing the strength of our human stories through the language of dance, CrossCurrents seeks to frame and capture the intricate web of shared experiences that connect us to each other and to our larger communities.  Learn More

Hilarious and Adventurous Fun In the City: Scavenger Hunt!

Alero Mexican Restaurant (Washington, DC)
Saturday, May. 3 2008 @ 11:00am
Full Price: $20.00 - $25.00   Our Price: $10.00 - $12.50*
It's a day of scouring the city on a fun and funny scavenger hunt! Nothing brings strangers together like a mission—so Professionals In The City has created a super-secret list of objects, situations and goals to find and reach! Exercise, creativity, prizes, new friends and more—a great teambuilding activity and a perfect way to make lots of new friends!  Learn More

Evening Margarita Cruise on the Potomac Outdoor Events

Washington Harbor (Washington, DC)
Saturday, May. 3 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

Relive History with the Lincoln Assassination Walking Tour Outdoor Events

Andrew Jackson Memorial (Washington, DC)
Saturday, May. 3 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

Baltimore Four-Minute Dating Singles Party at Mad River

Mad River Bar and Grille (Baltimore, MD)
Saturday, May. 3 2008 @ 7:30pm
Full Price: $20.00   Our Price: $10.00*
Enjoyment and excitement is the name of the game at this four-minute dating event. Every four minutes, you'll go off on the next round with a new professional of the opposite gender to meet and chat with. This rapid-fire conviviality will continue until the final round. By then you will have met and gotten to know a whole roomful of new friends.  Learn More

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

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

Annapolis Crab Feast & Pub Crawl on The Keg Bus Outdoor Events

Clarendon Metro Station (Arlington, VA)
Saturday, May. 3 2008 @ 11:00am
Full Price: $45.00   Our Price: $22.50*
Rated: 2.9 stars
Hop aboard the Keg Bus and party your way to Annapolis! The weather is warming up, so it's a perfect opportunity to indulge in a crab feast, good beer, scenic views and the chance to get out of town for the afternoon. The Keg Bus has taken care of all the arrangements, so all you have to think about is your appetite and thirst! Departure is from Arlington.  Learn More

Bread And Roses Feminist Singers' 30th Anniversary Concert: After All These Years

Capitol Hill Arts Workshop (Washington, DC)
Saturday, May. 3 2008 @ 3:00pm
Full Price: $20.00   Our Price: $10.00*
Rated: No ratings yet
Bread & Roses Feminist Singers, the DC Metro area's only feminist chorus, celebrates their thirtieth anniversary in this concert. Featuring pieces from the chorus's past and present, this concert will thrill audiences with songs featuring themes of peace, voting rights, friendship, love, family, unionization, fighting against social restrictions, perseverance, humor, and more.  Learn More

The Sippy Cups - A Rock & Roll Extravaganza for Families

National Geographic's Grosvenor Auditorium (Washington, DC)
Saturday, May. 3 2008 @ Noon
Saturday, May. 3 2008 @ 3:00pm
Full Price: $16.00   Our Price: $8.00*
Rated: 4.0 stars
Described by the San Francisco Chronicle as "every parent's favorite kid rock band and quite possibly the illegitimate offspring of The Cat in the Hat and Joey Ramone," the Bay area-based Sippy Cups blend imaginative originals, cult-rock favorites from groups like the early Pink Floyd, exciting visuals, puppets, aerial feats, and juggling into an unforgettable whirlwind of a show that appeals to everyone.  Learn More

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