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Man Cave
Donald Edwards
Observations from the In-Between
T.R. Kaltreider
At Jordan Faye Contemporary through Oct. 19
Shakespeare Theatre Company has finally settled a dispute with its landlord over its tenancy in the Lansburgh Theatre, the theater company announced last week.
In a release sent Friday after…
Immediately after TheatreWashington announced an overhaul of how the Helen Hayes awards are judged and distributed on Tuesday evening, reporters and theater-makers responded with questions a…
We've all been there. Falling for the wrong guy, the one you know will break your heart, the one who killed your last boyfriend and you are scheming to kill in a murder-suicide revenge plot,…
D.C. theater professionals and aficionados should prepare for an extra-long Helen Hayes Awards celebration come 2015. TheatreWashington, the organization that runs the awards, announced majo…
This year's Kennedy Center Honorees include two Latinos, Carlos Santana and Martina Arroyo. Other recipients are Billy Joel, Herbie Hancock, and Shirley MacLaine. [New York Times]
Metro C…
Michelle Antoinette Nelson has a problem with religion. Well, not religion as an idea, more how people use it and its artifacts such as the church and the Bible, that ostensible word of God.
Eduardo Rodriguez, the owner of Gallery 788, grins widely, almost wildly, above his Lao-Tzu billy-goat beard. The permanent wide-eyed smile and crazy Zen-master demeanor make one feel immedi…
Can't the Anacostia Playhouse catch a break?
Last week the playhouse's chief operating officer, Julia Robey Christian, went public on Twitter about the latest in a long line of bureaucrat…
Ignore, just for the moment, Joan M.E. Gaither's gorgeous "My Spiritual Family" mixed-media quilt that greets you when you first walk into the Ashe to Amen: African Americans and Biblical Im…
Not Yet in Ruin
James Bouché
At Springsteen Gallery through Sept. 6
Everything in James Bouché's solo show Not Yet in Ruin is carefully painted black, white, or gray, causing the only…
The Tempest
Written by William Shakespeare, performed by Daydreams and Nightmares Aerial Theatre
At Theatre Project through Aug. 31
Every director, actor, stage manager, backstage crew …
D'Metrius Rice: Psychokinesis
At the Metro Gallery through Sept. 14
The figure that appears in D'Metrius Rice's acrylic-on-panel painting "Motion Censor," currently on view in his Psycho…
Antigone
By Sophocles
Adapted and directed by Lynn Morton
performed by glass mind theatre at EMP collective through Aug. 25
Antigone is the most easily misunderstood"and therefore most …
It's six hours before the first preview of Broke-ology at the Anacostia Playhouse and I'm sitting on the plush red couch at center stage. The couch's ultimate destiny, I'm told by Theater Al…
Theatergoing is still generally considered a pastime for the privileged, and not only because of the high cost of tickets. In large part, the perspectives, situations, vocabularies, and ideo…
Big local theater companies would like to see the Helen Hayes Awards divided into tiers for small and large companies. [Post]
Capital Fringe Festival adds site-specific works to the mix. [Ca…
Art museums are in crisis. Of course, the city's museums are still suffering from the economic collapse in 2008. The Contemporary Museum suspended operations last year (though they are happi…
Hair
By James Rado and Gerome Ragni
Presented by the Stillpointe Theatre Initiative at the Strand Theater through Aug. 24.
It's easy to forget that "Let the Sunshine In," the ostensibly…
In the photo, she's boxed in. She stands with her arms above her head, tending to her hair. She's a marble nude statue, and she's being crated. Plywood runs on either side of her, above her …
Part of what makes the Capital Fringe Festival so exciting is the fast pace at which some of its productions develop. This year's festival just wrapped, but Taffety Punk Theatre Company won'…
A young fiddler climbs to a "roof" above the audience as Tevye begins his speech about tradition.
P.O. Box Unabomber
by Zdrava Kamenova and Gergana Dimitrova
Through Aug. 4 at Single Carrot theatre
Ted Kaczynski is back this week with Single Carrot's P.O. Box Unabomber. In his 199…
Studio Artist Biennial, Images and Ruins, a small group show, highlights the physicality (and mutability) of the printed photographic image.
It's the kind of statement only a 19-year-old artist with his entire career ahead of him could make.
"I need to control everything," says Zach Greenbaum, a film major at the Maryland Ins…
