I.M.P. has announced two more shows at the Lincoln Theatre, and the only thing they have in common is a certain illegal substance: Fiona Apple plays the theater with Blake Mills Oct. 25 and …
Screencaps Dina Kelberman Through Aug. 17 at Nudashank p> Last March, Wham City artist and creator of City Paper's "Important Comics" Dina Kelberman found herself in the strange po…
In September of 1979 Lucian Perkins, future two-time Pulitzer-winning photojournalist (then a lowly intern for the Washington Post), happened to have a drink at D.C. Space.
Say you're a musical-theater writing duo trying to recover from the devastating failure of your first Broadway flop. What do you do? You write a musical about a former boy band star trying t…
Structures at the Edge of Infinity: from this heavenly body At Jordan Faye Contemporary through Aug. 16 Landscapes with no landmarks, civilizations with no people. What does the ques…
The Rainbow Plays By Rich Espey At Fells Point Corner Theatre through July 21 The penguins did it. The two football players who maybe flirt after getting knocked out and rejected …
The exhibition of this year's Janet and Walter Sondheim Artscape Prize finalists smells like the jury"Caroline Busta, Jenny Schlenzka, and Beverly Semmes"was desperate to be "relevant." Four…
Art Center Studio Artist Biennial Through Aug. 3 at School 33 Sometimes a group show is nothing more than a bunch of artwork in a room. However, at best, a group exhibition exponentially…
I Am: A Night of Monologues At the YES Drop-in Center (2315 N. Charles St.) July 12. Damien Haussling arrived in Baltimore about a year and a half ago. He's originally from the Was…
For Mirlande Jean-Gilles, who moved to Baltimore from New York City in 2004, what began as a dare from a friend three years ago"to post collages of eye-catching images of Haitian tent cities…
Round House Theatre, the Montgomery County-based company that runs two theaters in Silver Spring and Bethesda, announced today that it will cease operating its Silver Spring black-box space …
The city selected a new operator for the troubled Lincoln Theatre back in April, and now, finally, we know who it is. I.M.P. Productions, the company that owns the 9:30 Club and books Merriw…
The Capital Fringe Festival, D.C.'s most consistent dispenser of kooky theater and performance, recently announced its full 2013 lineup. The annual gathering starts July 11 with 129 plays th…
There is only one thing worse than hearing about someone's drug trip or spiritual experience, and that is seeing it enacted. Whether we think of the psychedelic experience as therapeutic (as…
Baltimore Performance Kitchen's production of Romeo and Juliet begins like many other summertime Shakespeare productions: outdoors. That's where the comparisons to stock summer Shakespeare e…
It's no coincidence that the giddily slender plot of Anything Goes plays like a particularly breezy episode of Frasier: Joe Keenan, that sitcom's best and most consistent writer, has a…
Venice By Alexey Titarenko Smoke Drawings Dennis Lee Mitchell At the C. Grimaldis Gallery through July 6. Time is as malleable as clay for Alexey Titarenko's camera.
Selfie at Guest Spot @ the Reinstitute through July 13 Despite its promotional materials, Selfie, the new show at Guest Spot through July 13, graciously has nothing to do with the pictur…
Euripides' Medea Directed by Melissa O'Brien Through June 29 at Mobtown Theater Though ancient Greek tragedy is the progenitor of all subsequent theater, we don't generally unders…
As the Source Festival's short-play showcase "Afterward"Â makes clear, writing in short form has its challenges. Occasionally, that becomes all too evident in some of these short works, wh…
Throughout the play Becky Shaw, characters travel between Boston, Providence, New York, and Richmond. That seems plausible, but to look around at the audience in Round House Theatre one nigh…
Drawing all over your middle school notebooks was one way to look productive while avoiding learning the quadratic formula. Super Art Fight, pegged as "the greatest live art competition in t…
When Kwame Kwei-Armah came to Center Stage as artistic director two years ago, he talked to anyone who would listen about "starting a conversation." He wanted his choices for the company to …
Culturally specific theater offers a different experience to different audience members. It can make viewers reconsider their assumptions about others, and perhaps even their own identity. T…
Act a Lady Written by Jordan Harrison Produced by Iron Crow Theatre at the Theatre Project, through June 8 The opening scene of playwright Jordan Harrison's Act a Lady, currently …