Your guide to the weekend

Staff
Published: October 3, 2008

This weekend it’s all about the stage performance
Symphony, theater and more theater, Prince William has so much culture. See what else is happening

» FUNNY HA-HA: Mistaken identity. Romance. And, a whole lot of laughs. Oscar Wilde’s most famous work “The Importance of
Being Earnest” (which, unless you were an English major, you might remember as ‘that play-within a movie in “Spider-Man 2’”) is coming to the Cramer Center. The characters maintain fake identities to escape social obligation. Wilde’s wit is undeniable. Check it out for yourself. Vpstart Crow’s production starts 8 p.m. Friday at the Cramer Center, 9008 Center St., Manassas. The show runs at 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays through Oct. 18 or 3 p.m. Sunday matinees through Oct. 19. Tickets are $20, $14 for students, seniors, city/county employees. Call 800-660-8580 or visit vpstartcrow.com or boxofficetickets.com.

» SUPER SLEUTH: Who is the world’s greatest detective? Batman? Philip Marlowe? The Bobbsey Twins? How about (sorry, Batman), none of the above? Fiction’s greatest detective takes the stage this weekend for a mystery that’s sure to keep you guessing unless you’re already familiar with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s pipe-smoking sleuth, Sherlock Holmes. Castaways Repertory Theatre presents “The Sign of the Four,” opening Friday at 8 p.m. at the Dr. A. J. Ferlazzo Building, 15941 Donald Curtis Drive, Woodbridge. The show runs Fridays and Saturdays through Oct. 18, with one matinee at 1 p.m. Oct. 11. Tickets are $14, $11 for seniors, students, military and county employees. Matinee is $10. Call 703-508-5418 or visit Castawaystheatre.org.

» CH-ELLO!: The Prince William Symphony Orchestra kicks off its mainstage season with a concert titled “Promenade.” They’re featuring a guest artist, cellist Heleen du Plessis, of South Africa, on Edward Elgar’s “Concerto for Cello.” Also look forward to pieces like Edvard Grieg’s “Suite from Peer Gynt” and Jan Sibelius’s “Finlandia.” The show starts at 8 p.m. Saturday at the Grace E. Metz auditorium, 9950 Wellington Road, Manassas. Tickets are $20, $15 seniors, free for under 21 and teachers.Call 703-659-0103 or visit pwso.org.