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Archive for the ‘Performing Arts – Plays & Dance’ Category

March 30th, 2008

Cherry Blossom Gala Dinner Cruise

The National Cherry Blossom Festival Gala Dinner Cruise aboard The Odyssey sets sail with Japanese and American dignitaries and  Japanese cultural performances. Watch the monuments overlooking the Potomac River pass by while dancing to live bands, and enjoying a four-course dinner with open bar.
National Cherry Blossom Festival Gala Dinner CruiseThe OdysseyGangplank Marina, Southwest […]

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March 23rd, 2008

Call me Ishmael…

In the great American novel by Herman Melville, Moby Dick, the possessed and singularly-focused Captain Ahab leads his crew on a suicidal and revengeful hunt for the white whale that took his leg. Leading his crew from the whaling capital of New Bedford around the globe,  in the end, only one sailor is left alive […]

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March 18th, 2008

Chicago City Limits

Created by a few of Chicago’s famous Second City improve and comedy players, Chicago City Limits is one of New York City’s longest-running improvisational comedy revues, having performed over 8,500 shows.
With skits such as “torture the actor”, where one of the cast has to guess an unusual or obscure phrase, supported only by limited clues […]

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March 18th, 2008

Bad Dates…And 600 Pairs of Shoes

In the play Bad Dates, a divorced single mom from Texas moves to the Big Apple and decides to look for romance. We watch a six-week period of Haley Walker’s life unfold in her bedroom as she experiences the up, downs and utterly bizarre life of a New York dater.
Over the course of her reintroduction […]

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March 7th, 2008

Stunning - The American Meting Pot

A married sixteen year young woman is sheltered from American life beyond her local Brooklyn Syrian-Jewish neighborhood.
Lily’s restricted life, with her older husband, is threatened when she befriends an African-American housekeeper who, while showing her a new world outside of her community, also opens her life to new opportunities. But with the new possibilities […]

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February 25th, 2008

Witness for the Prosecution

Leonard, a married American living in post-WW-II London, gets arrested for the murder of a lonely but rich, middle-aged widow. His questionable involvement with her suggests he’s guilty.  It becomes more and more likely that he’s committed this horrible crime when the police discover the infatuated victim made him the beneficiary of her fortune.
Leonard needs […]

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February 19th, 2008

The NYC Ballet Dances Balanchine

At the end of the month, The New York City Ballet will be performing some of their most loved and classic George Balanchine pieces at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC.
George Balanchine is considered one of the greatest choreographers in ballet history.  He first rose to ballet fame, as the choreographer for Ballet Russe and […]

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February 16th, 2008

Think You Can Dance?

Here’s your chance to be the next big television dancing star.  The hit Fox television show, So You Think You Can Dance, is holding open auditions for its fourth season, here in Washington, DC next week.
The show, using the American Idol format, pits great dancers from all styles of dance — ballroom to hip-hop, […]

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February 13th, 2008

Twelve Angry Men

It’s the ultimate jury deliberation story.  A teenage delinquent is accused of stabbing his abusive father to death in a moment of rage.
The twelve-man jury has listened to the testimony of the witnesses, making it seem to be an open and shut case.  They must now decide the boy’s fate, and the death penalty […]

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February 4th, 2008

A Flamenco Fiesta

Over nine days, Washington, DC comes alive with the power and  grace of Flamenco!
Dancers, guitarists and singers invade DC delivering their own special Flamenco passion at the 8th Annual Flamenco Festival at GW University’s Lisner Auditorium.  This year’s festival joins some of flamenco’s greats with some of the upcoming soon-to-be stars. 

Cuatro Esquinas […]

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