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Week of December 15
Holiday Newsletter Recommendations;
January Ticketed Events with John Green,
Zbigniew Brzezinski, and Jodi Kantor;
Even More Reasons to Shop Locally
Popular Destinations
Click a link below to skip down to the relevant section
Upcoming Events • Offsite Events
Children and Teens •
Music
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Store Holiday Hours
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Our daily hours are:
Monday - Saturday, 9 a.m. to 10 p.m.
Sunday, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Holday Hours:
Sunday, December 18, we will stay open an extra hour until 9 p.m.
Saturday, December 24, Christmas Eve we will close at 5 p.m.
Saturday, December 31, New Year's Eve we will close at 5 p.m.
P&P will be closed all day:
Christmas Day, Sunday, December 25
New Year's Day, Sunday, January 1
Our regular hours will resume on Monday, January 2 and our daily author events will resume on Thursday, January 5 at 7 p.m. when we host Roger Rosenblatt for Kayak Morning.
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The Scoop from Brad and Lissa
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 Authors attack Amazon's "scorched-earth capitalism"
The holiday season is meant to usher in a spirit of generosity and good cheer, but every Christmas has its Grinch. This year, it’s Amazon.com. The on-line giant used the Christmas season to launch its latest gambit aimed at luring customers away from bricks and mortar businesses. For one day earlier this month, Amazon invited customers to visit local businesses and, using the Amazon price-check app, scan product prices. Participants then received a five percent credit up to $5 on Amazon purchases.
Previously in this column we have weighed in on the unfair business advantages Amazon enjoys by avoiding collection of sales tax. We have noted the many ways in which independent, community-based businesses like Politics & Prose differ from Amazon (real browsing opportunities, real advice from expert booksellers, real events featuring current authors, real sense of community). This month we are pleased to see that the blowback to Amazon’s new tactic has been swift and eloquent.
Here are two samples, one an op-ed by screenwriter and novelist Richard Russo in The New York Times on December 13, the other an open letter to Amazon founder Jeff Bezos from Oren Teicher, the CEO of the American Booksellers Association, which represents more than 1,600 independent bookstores. Russo’s column includes comments from many well-known authors, including Ann Patchett, Scott Turow, Stephen King, and Tom Perotta; please read it by clicking this link.
And here is the open letter to Bezos:
Dear Jeff Bezos,
We’re not shocked, just disappointed.
Despite your company’s recent pledge to be a better corporate citizen and to obey the law and collect sales tax, you created a price-check app that allows shoppers to browse Main Street stores that do collect sales tax, scan a product, ask for expertise, and walk out empty-handed in order to buy on Amazon. We suppose we should be flattered that an online sales behemoth needs a Main Street retail showroom.
Forgive us if we’re not.
We could call your $5 bounty to app-users a cheesy marketing move and leave it at that. In fact, it is the latest in a series of steps to expand your market at the expense of cities and towns nationwide, stripping them of their unique character and the financial wherewithal to pay for essential needs like schools, fire and police departments, and libraries.
But maybe we’ve misunderstood.
Even though you’ve spent millions on lobbyists, fired affiliates in seven states, and threatened to shut warehouses to avoid collecting sales tax, maybe you really mean it now when you say you support a level playing field.
It’s up to you to show us.
In the meantime, indie retailers remain the heart of countless communities—offering discovery, energy, support, and unique experiences. See you on Main Street.
Sincerely, Oren Teicher, CEO, American Booksellers Association
Finally, David Cohen, Carla's husband, provides his report on the response by bookstore owners in San Francisco, and his thoughts on the matter. Click here to read his news.
-- Brad and Lissa
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Announcing Three Ticketed Events
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Friday, January 13, 7 p.m.
 Politics & Prose hosts
John Green
The Fault in Our Stars (Dutton, $17.99)
at the Hyatt Regency Bethesda
7400 Wisconsin Ave, Bethesda, MD
(Metro: Bethesda)
The Fault in Our Stars is a novel about teens dealing with terminal illnesses. It features Green’s first female narrator, 16-year-old Hazel Grace Lancaster, who is battling thyroid cancer, though a new medicine has given her a few more years. When she meets Augustus Waters at Cancer Kid Support Group, her feelings for him make her situation even more heartbreaking. This bold and insightful book by the winner of a Printz Award, a Printz Honor, and the Edgar Award, takes readers through a gamut of emotions. Ages 14 and up.
Click here to check out this video blog by John Green. He and his brother Hank (a musician) are traveling around the country supporting independent bookstores, and he mentions Politics & Prose!
Books and tickets can be pre-ordered and pre-purchased now. These tickets are going fast, so order now! To participate in this event, each person attending must pre-purchase the book and a $5 admission ticket from Politics & Prose. Tickets are not sold separately.
The Fault in our Stars will be released on January 10, 2012. You may collect your books and tickets at Politics & Prose January 10 - 12 or at the event on January 13. Purchase the book with an event ticket by clicking here, or call the store at 202-364-1919. If you are not attending the event, you may call the store or click here to pre-order the book without a ticket and get a copy signed by John Green!
Thursday, January 12, 7 p.m.
 Politics & Prose hosts
Jodi Kantor
The Obamas (Little, Brown, $29.99)
at Sixth & I Synagogue
600 I Street, NW
(Metro: Gallery Place - Chinatown)
A Washington correspondent for The New York Times, Kantor has been covering the Obamas since 2007. Her portrait of the First Family is a detailed look at what residence in the White House has meant for their personal lives, their public roles, their work, and their hopes.
This event will take place at Sixth & I Synagogue and is ticketed. Two tickets come free with each purchase of the book ($29.99) or tickets can be purchased separately for $8 each in advance of the event ($10 on the day of). Jodi Kantor will appear in conversation with David Brooks. Click here to pre-order the book and/or tickets.
Sunday, January 29, 3 p.m.
 Politics & Prose hosts
Zbigniew Brzezinski
Strategic Vision: Strategic Vision: America and the Crisis of Global Power (Basic Books, $26)
at Sixth & I Historic Synagogue
600 I Street NW
(Metro: Gallery Place - Chinatown)
In his latest book, the former National Security Advisor looks back to the optimism following the fall of the Communist bloc and outlines a strategy by which the United States can reassert its position of strength. His analysis focuses on the changing distribution of global power and America’s place in that new arrangement, especially in relation to China.
Two tickets come free with each purchase of the book ($26) or tickets can be purchased separately for $10 each in advance of the event ($12 on the day of). Zbigniew Brzezinski will appear in conversation with his daughter, Mika Brzezinski. Click here to pre-order the book and/or tickets.
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Holiday Newsletter
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The P&P 2011 Holiday Newsletter and the Children and Teens' Department 2011 Favorites are our suggestions for reading and gift-giving. Politics & Prose members receive discounts on everything featured in the newsletter until the end of December. In last week's email, we highlighted our top ten favorite books of the year - five novels and five non-fiction titles.
This week we offer more recommendations, some of our own and some by our knowledgeable staff. Our booksellers help make our store great because they help you find the books that you want to read. Here are several that we are eager to share with you . . . including one of Barbara Meade's favorites.
Margaret Marcus was a secular Jew in Mamaroneck, N.Y., before she grew fascinated with Islam and moved to Pakistan in 1962, taking the name Maryam Jameelah and becoming one of the pre-eminent Islamic voices, writing blistering critiques of Western materialism and secularism. Deborah Baker, who discovered the archive of Marcus’s papers in the New York Public Library, carefully reconstructs Marcus's life after she reached Lahore, using letters Marcus sent to her parents and articles she published in Islamic magazines. In The Convert: A Tale of Exile and Extremism (Graywolf, $23), Baker assembles the pieces of a singularly perplexing life that has proven stranger than fiction. Baker delivers not just a riveting and disturbing biographical account but an illuminating tale about the meeting of West and East and the role of women under orthodox Islam. Bradley Graham
Truth in advertising: I grew up in Berkeley and, from Chez Panisse’s beginnings in 1971, my parents were great fans—and great friends—of Alice Waters and her restaurant. My mother, a food writer and critic in the Bay Area, spent every Bastille Day in the Chez Panisse kitchen peeling garlic for the restaurant’s annual July 14th celebration. When my mother died in 2006, Alice touchingly invited my dad to dine at the restaurant any time, even without his wife (he had celebrated many birthdays at Chez P, and on each occasion the menu mysteriously included his two favorite items: duck for the main course, and a lemon tart for dessert). Over the years, Alice has used her Chez Panisse Foundation to champion the Edible Schoolyard and other efforts to bring healthy, sustainable food to communities across the country. Indeed, the restaurant’s 40th anniversary celebrations last August raised funds for these projects. This beautiful book, 40 Years of Chez Panisse: The Power of Gathering (Clarkson Potter, $55) by Alice Waters and Friends, which includes a foreword by Calvin Trillin and an afterword by Michael Pollan, tells the story of Chez Panisse through photos, recollections, and the iconic posters that artist David Lance Goines made for the restaurant over many years. More than a collector’s item, this is a lively celebration of Chez Panisse and its revolutionary role in making local, seasonal, and sustainable food a building block of community—and gathering—across our country. Lissa Muscatine
I first read and admired David Lodge’s work twenty-five years ago in his laugh-aloud satirical novel of academia and political correctness, Nice Work. In A Man of Parts (Viking, $26.95), his new fiction based on the life of H.G. Wells, Lodge applies his creative license to substantial biographical research. His subject, known for the science-fiction classics The War of the Worlds and The Time Machine, was a short, dumpy man with a squeaky voice— none of which deterred an active sex life. An early Fabian, Wells was also an unabashed advocate of Free Love and during his quarter-century-long marriage had numerous affairs; his lovers included birth-control advocate Margaret Sanger and author Rebecca West, by whom he had a son, the novelist Anthony West. Such colorful material, with its many ménages à trois, filtered through Lodge’s rich imagination, makes for some very funny scenes and also presents a vivid intellectual portrait of Edwardian London and the period leading up to World War I. Barbara Meade
You have asked, so we are letting you know. . . Essential Pepin, A History of the World in 100 Objects, and Jacqueline Kennedy: Historic Conversations on Life with John F. Kennedy are all in stock. Call us at 202-364-1919 or click the links to order online. We can handle giftwrapping and shipping, and help make your holidays happen.
Click here to read more of our fabulously well-read booksellers' reviews of books you won't want to miss.
And don't forget, P&P members receive discounts on all of our suggested gifts in the Holiday Newsletter all month long. Click here to download the pdf or visit the store to pick up your copy. Take a look at the entire publication; there is something for everyone!
Still don't know what to give? Feel like being more extravagant? Try one of our subscription book programs for your favorite reader or book collector. The Signed First Editions Club or the Book-a-Month Program let you to rely on our superb choices and suggestions all year long! And we send selections to readers of all ages!
- Brad, Lissa, and Barbara
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Caroling with the Washington Chorus
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Thursday, December 15, 5 p.m.
 Caroling with the Washington Chorus
Join us for holiday caroling with members of the award-winning Washington Chorus led by assistant director John Bohl. The Chorus will sing at P&P to provide a preview of its five Christmas concerts, Julian Wachner conducting, at the Kennedy Center and Strathmore. The 2010 CD, Christmas with the Washington Chorus (Dorian, $16.99) is also available. Click for information about the concerts. Bring the whole family!
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Book Notes
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Two more reasons to shop with Politics & Prose online - Updates to our website
Not only do we offer our recommendations, digital books at prices comparable to the big guys, and personal care with your orders by the same people you see in the store, but now there are two more new conveniences. . .
Stored credit card information for ease of checkout
Our website now provides the option of storing your credit card information so that you no longer need to tediously enter your card number every time you shop with us online. Because we use a secure, third-party, card authorization gateway, our site is protected to the degree that even our employees cannot see your card number. You also have the option of adding or deleting your credit card information at https://www.politics-prose.com/user
Introducting the "Beta" Wishlist Feature
With the holidays now in full swing, we are pleased to introduce the P&P wishlist! This is also a great feature for birthdays, school libraries, wedding registries, and baby showers. Or use it to keep track of a collection of books that you might like for a rainy day.
An "Add to Wish List" button now appears alongside the "Add to Cart" button on product pages and book lists on our website. When you are logged into your online P&P account, pressing this button will add the book to your wishlist. This option includes these features:
* Users can email their wishlist to friends and family, along with a custom message.
* The wishlist supports product quantities - useful for schools or charitable organizations which might want more than one of each item on a list.
* When another user makes a purchase for you from your wishlist, the list is updated. If the quantity of the product purchased equals the quantity desired, the item is marked as "Fulfilled" on the list, and the add to cart button is removed.
* Users can search for wishlists by email address.
Because this is the "Beta" format, we look forward to future updates:
* Google eBooks can not be added to wishlists at this time. Google eBooks on wishlists will require support for gifting ebooks, which we plan to implement in 2012. In the meantime, giving eBooks as gifts can be accomplished with a Politics & Prose Gift Card.
* Only 1 wishlist per user. (You do have the option of creating additional usernames and wishlists if you have multiple email addresses.)
* The "Add to Wish List" button will not appear in search results. You have to click the book from the search results to look at the detailed book page and then add it to your wishlist.
* You will not be notified when something is purchased from your list.
- Andrew Getman
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Supporting the Community
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Book Angels for Unity Health Care Pediatrics
Every winter Politics & Prose invites you to participate in our annual Book Angel Program.
This year, we are collecting new books to donate to pediatric patients at Unity Health Care. Unity Health Care, Inc. operates a network of 30 sites and provides primary and specialty healthcare services to underserved populations throughout D.C., including 13 community health centers, and two school-based centers. Unity has a strong commitment to the promotion of literacy and serves approximately 18,000 pediatric patients from birth to 18 years old.
The Book Angel Program runs through December 31, 2011. Each book that is purchased for Unity Health Care is discounted 20%. Take a look at the display in the children's department or click here for a selection of suggested books. If you shop online, please indicate in the order comments field if you are donating a book to Unity Health Care Pediatrics.
Holiday Gift-wrapping
Our ongoing relationship with the Washington Literacy Council continues this holiday season. WLC volunteers will be in the store every day from Thanksgiving to Christmas, from open until close, offering a selection of attractive holiday-themed wrapping papers. The service is free, but donations to support the work of the organization are welcome. For volunteer opportunities (wrapping, or otherwise) please contact Cheryl Kariya at wlcreads@gmail.com.
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Sideline of the Week
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American Christmas Cards 1900-1960 (Bard Center, $40) is a survey of Christmas cards from the first half of the twentieth century. These “little messengers of goodwill” are artifacts representing the vast iconography of Christmas cards and providing a greater understanding of Christmas culture and the larger American Culture. Here at Politics & Prose we are proud to continue this tradition of the American Christmas card with our wide selection of holiday paper goods. Ranging from wacky to wondrous, our Christmas cards, like America, are unique, diverse, and always interesting.
- Mark Moran
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Graphic Novels
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These two special, limited-edition, collector's items are in stock now. And when they are sold out, they're gone and we can't restock. Don't wait! Call us or place your order online today!
The Eyes of the Cat by Alexandro Jodorowsky and Moebius (Humanoids, $69.95)
This gorgeous, super-oversized limited edition by two European comic gods is the perfect way to round out your year of graphic novels. Jodorowsky and Moebius’ first collaboration is given a truly worthy treatment by Humanoids Inc., with ample dimensions to show off this single panel per page story. The black and white art combined with the colored paper stock make this amazing collection more of an art book than graphic novel, however for true fans of the mystic unknown it is well worth the price of admission. Don’t just read this book, experience it.
Bone Full Color One Volume Edition, by Jeff Smith and Steve Hamaker (Cartoon Books, $150)
Finally!! The long awaited full color one volume edition of Bone is here! For you who have only read the black and white complete edition, now is your time to experience Jeff Smith’s epic like you never have before. If you don’t believe me just turn to page 596 and see how Steve Hamaker’s impeccable colors transform an already intense scene into a moment that will stay with you forever. Hardcover, beautiful slip case, and a fancy ribbon to mark your progress makes this the perfect book to curl up with this winter.
Click here for more suggestions from the Graphic Novel Department.
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From the Children and Teens' Department
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 Children's Books of the Week
(20% off for everyone through December 21)
A young boy follows his father from tree to tree, watching him collect tears of sap to sell at the market. Finally, the boy is allowed to collect a tear himself. Carefully, he pulls the fist-size drop of sap from the tree and carries it to the spice merchant’s shop, where three wise men are searching for a gift for a baby who has just been born. The boy’s myrrh is The Third Gift (Clarion, $16.99), the perfect complement for the wise men’s gold and frankincense. Linda Sue Park imagines another side to the Christmas story in this picture book illustrated by Bagram Ibatoulline. Ages 4 and up. - Dana Chidiac
Author Michael J. Rosen and pop-up artist Robert Sabuda celebrate the eight nights of Chanukah in Chanukah Lights (Candlewick, $34.99). Each page in this expertly constructed pop-up book explores a segment of Jewish history, from the lights of the Temple to the dark of the shtetl, from the tenements of New York to the olive groves of the Promised Land. In each image, the light of a menorah in a window stands for the hope and faith of the Jewish people. Ages 5 and up. - Dana Chidiac
Read about - and buy - more of our favorite books for children and teens by clicking here.
Click here to see the Children and Teens' Department 2011 Favorites.
Story Hour
The Politics & Prose story hour with BearSong and his guitar offers storytelling and music for children from birth to 5 years old. Story hour is on hiatus during the holiday season.
It will resume on Monday, January 9 at 10:30 a.m. in the Children's Department.
Click here to sign up to receive email updates. We will inform you of special story hours, changes or cancellations.
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Markdown Books
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Anything Tracy Kidder writes about will be fascinating and important. In his recent Strength in What Remains: A Journey of Remembrance and Forgiveness the master of nonfiction narrative tells the life story of his friend, Deogratias. A medical student in Burundi in the early 1990s, Deo was forced to flee his home when war broke out. Traumatized, he arrived in New York with $200, got a delivery job, and slowly made his way in his new country, eventually attending Columbia University and becoming a doctor. As Kidder traces Deo’s experiences in Africa and America, he paints a picture of remarkable courage. Available in hardcover, $6.98.
Of the many stories of the war in Afghanistan, that of The Dressmaker of Khair Khana is one of the most unlikely and inspiring. Told by the former ABC news reporter Gayle Tzemach Lemmon (who is currently a fellow and deputy director of the Women and Foreign Policy Program at the Council on Foreign Relations), this book focuses on Kamila Sidigui, a young Afghani woman living in Kabul. A teacher until the Taliban made that impossible, she took up sewing to support her family and built a thriving business. Lemmon’s book charts her determination as well as the obstacles she faced; this is a rare, intimate look at women in a strife-torn land. Available in hardcover, $5.98.
Michael Ondaatje drew on his early experiences for his new autobiographical novel, The Cat’s Table. For a look at the life that has inspired so much of his evocative fiction, read Running in the Family, Ondaatje’s 1982 memoir about his native Sri Lanka. As much family history as it is illuminating travelogue, this book bears Ondaatje’s signature lyrical prose (as well as wonderful samples of his poetry; the novelist is also an accomplished poet) and his nonlinear narrative style. He tells the stories of his grandparents and, especially, of his father, and interweaves the lives with full-hearted descriptions of the landscape they inhabited. Available in paperback, $5.98.
Please call us at 202-364-1919 or stop by the store to shop for these and other discounted titles.
Laurie Greer
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Music News
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BEST OF THE YEAR/CD GIFT GUIDE
Some of my favorite CDs of the year (see link here).
TICKET RAFFLE FOR MATT WILSON’S CHRISTMAS
TREE-O AT THE ATLAS
 The Atlas Performing Arts Center is giving Politics & Prose customers a chance to win pairs of tickets to what will be a fun holiday jazz show by Matt Wilson’s Christmas Tree-O.
Also, any Politics & Prose customer readers can get $5 off the regular ticket price.
Use code Matt20 when ordering tickets. Tickets: www.atlasarts.org or 202.399.7993 ext. 2
The concert is next Wednesday, December 21, at 8 p.m., at the Atlas near 13th & H Streets, N.E.
Matt Wilson’s Christmas Tree-O (Palmetto) was my favorite Christmas album last year. Drummer Matt Wilson and his “Tree-O” (with reedman Jeff Lederer and bassist Paul Sikivie) came up with some of the wittiest arrangements of holiday favorites. Every cut is a winner, from the beloved chestnuts to lesser known treats (“Happy Xmas [War is Over]” and “Mele Kalikimaka”).You can see and hear Matt and the Tree-O play a fun NPR Tiny Desk Concert:
http://www.npr.org/2011/01/04/132118091/matt-wilsons-christmas-tree-o-tiny-desk-concert .
Matt also appears on a very fine recent album with pianist Myra Melford and bassist Mark Dresser (collectively known as Trio M) called The Guest House (Enja, $15.98).
To enter, please email: agoldinger@politics-prose.com with ATLAS in the subject field.
NEW
Pink Martini, A Retrospective (Heinz Records, $17.98) – Pink Martini follows up their newest project, 1969 with a greatest hits compilation. The 21 tracks cover the entire history of the band (with its charismatic lead singer, China Forbes), and includes seven unreleased tracks. The album comes packaged in a slim hardback book full of photographs by Martini leader and arranger Thomas Lauderdale—perfect for holiday gifts.
Richard Thompson, Strict Tempo! (Omnivore Recordings, $15.98) – Singer, songwriter (and superb guitarist) Richard Thompson recorded Strict Tempo! thirty years ago: an all-instrumental album of “traditional & modern tunes for all occasions.” There are Irish, English, and Scottish reels, jigs, slow airs, polkas, and strathspeys, a Moroccan tune, and rocking version of Ellington’s “Rockin; in Rhythm”—all played on a variety of mandolins, acoustic and electric guitars, banjos, and dulcimers. The album’s been out of print for many years, so it’s time to enjoy this anniversary edition.
Adele, Live at Royal Albert Hall (Columbia, DVD & CD, $20.99) – The music phenomena of 2011 is undoubtedly Adele, with her mega-selling breakthrough CD, 21. The new DVD/CD package features a full 90-minute concert from September 22, and includes her hits and two cover songs.
LOCAL HOLIDAY MUSIC
 Last week, WETA-FM featured the new CD from the Washington Saxophone Quartet, Tis the Season ($15), which we are now carrying.
Please also check out Christmas albums from local acts Last Train Home, the Washington Chorus, the Folger Consort, Linn Barnes & Allison Hampton, and the new Jennifer Cutting (see descriptions in my Holiday Music feature… http://www.politics-prose.com/music/music-news#more_christmas ).
Click here to view a complete catalog of Holiday Music 2011, with reviews of my all-time favorites, favorites from recent years, and a few Hanukkah suggestions.
Click here for more news and reviews. Please call us at 202-364-1919 or email me at agoldinger@politics-prose.com to order these CDs.
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Book Groups
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P&P's book groups meet monthly and are free and open to the public.
Thursday, December 15, 7:30 p.m.
Fascinating History Book Group
The Island at the Center of the World, by Russell Shorto
January 26 selection: Empires of the Indus: The Story of a River, by Alice Albinia
Monday, December 19, 7:30 p.m.
Memoirs of Africa
The House at Sugar Beach, by Helene Cooper
January 16 selection: Lose Your Mother, by Saidiya Hartman
Wednesday, December 21, 12 noon
Daytime Book Group
The Elephant's Journey, by José Saramago
In December the group will meet out of the store at noon.
Email co-ops@politics-prose.com or call 202.364.0100 for details.
January 18 selection: Middlemarch by George Eliot, Books 1-4
Click here to learn more about participating in these or other Politics & Prose book groups.
To receive monthly updates about suggestions for private book groups as well as book groups at Politics & Prose, click here to add "Monthly Book Group Recommendations and News" to your mailing lists!
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P&P Customers Are Also Invited To . . .
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Politics & Prose sells books at many book signing parties and events. The events below are open to the public; however, reservations and tickets should be acquired from the hosting organization. Please contact offsite@politics-prose.com if you are planning an event and would like us to supply the books.
Thursday, December 15, 7:30 p.m.
Friendship Heights Village Center
4433 S. Park Avenue, Chevy Chase, MD
Ron Nessen
Making the News, Taking the News: From NBC to the Ford White House (Wesleyan, $27.95)
Mr. Nessen covered the major national events of the 1960s and '70s for NBC News, completing five tours as a war correspondent in Vietnam and later as a White House correspondent during the Johnson administration. From 1974 to 1976, he served as press secretary to President Ford. In his new book the veteran reporter gives his eyewitness account of events-both behind the scenes and in front of the cameras that shaped and altered America during two critical decades. Mr. Nessen is the journalist-in-residence at the Brookings Institution.
Please sign up in advance for this free event by calling the Village Center at 301-656-2797. Copies of the book, provided by Politics & Prose, will be available for purchase.
Now through January 7, 2012
Shakespeare Theatre Company
Sidney Harman Hall
610 F St., NW
Much Ado about Nothing
Directed by Ethan McSweeny
'Tis the season for holiday cheer, a special date with a loved one, an outing with friends and great theatre at the Shakespeare Theatre Company! Much Ado about Nothing is the ultimate battle of the sexes, Shakespeare style, where young lovers woo and old enemies fight (before finding their true loves). Set against a backdrop of hot and sultry 1930s Cuba, passions and temperatures will rise this winter at Sidney Harman Hall in this classic tale of love and wits.
P&P patrons receive 10% off tickets. Click here to purchase or call the Box Office at 202.547.1122, option 1 with promo code: POLITICSPROSE.
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