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A week before The Beaux' Stratagem opens at Everyman Theatre, six actors are on the stage trying to work out a tricky fight scene that involves flying swords. As four actors begin to sword-f…
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How to Build an Arts District
If You Build It, Who Will Come?
Stage of Development
What to Expect at LUMEN8 2013
Anacostia's Arts Scene Is Growing
The art of Amber Robles-Gordon is the art…
How to Build an Arts District
If You Build It, Who Will Come?
Stage of Development
What to Expect at LUMEN8 2013
Anacostia's Arts Scene Is Growing
A month after the Anacostia Playhouse was…
If You Can Get to Buffalo: An Exploration of A Rape in Cyberspace by Julian Dibbell
Written by Trish Harnetiaux
Directed by Eric Nightengale
Through May 25 at Acme Corporation
Imagine…
It is rare, but not inconceivable, to encounter a tropical, underwater paradise in an art gallery in Baltimore.
The Aesthetics of Precision
by Timothy App
Through May 26 at American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center
Through May 29 at Goya Contemporary
Ohio-born Baltimore painter and …
Disagreement is a natural part of any collaborative creative process. With most theatrical productions, the creative team works toward a director's vision for the play. As such, the buck sto…
Responding to recent criticism of the Kennedy Center Honors' limited representation of American artists, the Kennedy Center today announced that it is changing the way it selects honorees fo…
At the close of last year's Capital Fringe festival, Executive Director Julianne Brienza was saying what had always seemed inevitable: Fringe's time in Mount Vernon Square was running out. A…
Act a Lady. A play within a play about men from a Prohibition-era town who dress in women's clothing and put on a production. May 24-June 8, Theatre Project, 45 W. Preston St., (410) 752-855…
Hare Krishna Rathayatra Chariot Parade And Festival of India, noon-6 p.m. May 26, McKeldin Square, Pratt and Light streets, festivalofindia.org. ISKON Baltimore holds its 11th-annual Rathaya…
Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery, University of Maryland Baltimore County, 1000 Hilltop Circle, Catonsville, (410) 455-3827, aok.lib.umbc.edu. A New Context: Photographs from The Baltimore Sun …
Clybourne Park
By Bruce Norris
Beneatha's Place
By Kwame Kwei-Armah
Through June 16 at Center Stage
Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun is a great play for many reasons, …
Barbara Geary is teaching Derek Brown how to slice a throat. About two weeks before the May 10 opening of the new Baltimore Rock Opera Society production, Murdercastle, the cast and crew occ…
The Washington National Opera's new production of Show Boat, the 1927 musical, opened only a few weeks after the release of "Accidental Racist," the misbegotten country-rap duet in which Bra…
Caitlin Cunningham has had a good month. She was chosen as one of the six finalists for the Janet and Walter Sondheim Artscape prize only days before her first solo show opened at sophiajaco…
Topdog/underdog
By Suzan-Lori Parks
Directed by Jennifer L. Nelson
through May 19 at Everyman Theatre
Coming into a play like Topdog/Underdog, you expect a certain degree of symbolism.
After watching Stanley Tucci's 2007 film Blind Date, No Rules Theatre Company's producing artistic director Brian Sutow knew he had to adapt it for the stage. "I immediately felt that it was…
The Shakespeare Theatre Company is exhibiting two dozen of Nina Dunn's photographs of Europe under the conceit that "if Shakespeare had a camera, what would he have captured?" Dunn's images …
Shakespeare Theatre Company Artistic Director Michael Kahn just got a few fancy letters to tack onto his name: Yesterday, Kahn was inducted as an Honorary Commander of the Most Excellent Ord…
The VIP
Written and directed by Aldo Pantoja
Through May 12 at Single Carrot Theatre
Bow down on one knee or two"those are the options the Spanish offered Atahualpa
