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At MICA's print shop on Dolphin Street, Bob Cicero pulls block letters from Globe Poster Company's drawers with swift motions
The D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities has selected a new operator for Lincoln Theatre, but the commission has yet to announce who that operator is, the Washington Business Journal r…
New York Magazine's star art critic Jerry Saltz recently wrote a much-buzzed-about piece on the "Death of the Gallery,"
Iceplants by Hidenori Ishii
Through May 18 at C. Grimaldis Gallery
Hidenori Ishii moved to the United States from Japan to study environmental science at George Mason University in 1997.
Last week, Center Stage began its public previews of Clybourne Park (pictured), Bruce Norris' Pulitzer Prize-winning take on Lorraine Hansberry's Raisin in the Sun. Norris' portrayal of race…
10x10
Through May 5 at the Fells Point Corner Theatre
It turns out that it's easier to make people laugh in 10 minutes than it is to sober them up.
You would think newspapers have a responsibility to present photographs as unquestioned reality, right?
A House, a Home
Adapted from Chekhov's Three Sisters by Ben Hoover
Through April 14 at the EMP Collective
At Glass Mind Theatre's A House, A Home"based on Anton Chekhov's Three Si…
The Other Real
by Conor Backman
Through April 28 at Nudashank
Two revolutionary ancient Greek painters, Zeuxis and Parrhasius, had a contest.
Last night's untricked-out Helen Hayes Awards at the Warner Theatre began almost immediately with prize-giving, and that was mostly what we got: Few distractions, and lots of people talking …
Interested in seeing a show this month? Hoping for one that will force you to contemplate the consequences of infidelity and the temporal nature of life, plus be entertaining to boot? Then y…
Folger Theatre's The Taming of the Shrew and Signature Theatre's Dreamgirls took home the big two prizes at last night's Helen Hayes Awards, winning statues for outstanding resident play and…
New Eyes on America: The Genius of Richard Caton Woodville
At the walters art museum through June 2
The French poet Charles Baudelaire wrote "The Painter of Modern Life," his hugel…
Timothy Horjus: Solo Exhibition
At the Creative Alliance at the Patterson through April 13
Slipping
Written By Daniel Talbott, directed by Steven J. Satta
Through April 13 at Baltimore Theatre Project
Twenty years ago, the first art review I ever wrote for the college paper was about a show at a cafe.
What do you do when you're a theater with a hole in your schedule but little time or money to fill it? You snap up the rights to off-Broadway's most in-demand two-person show. The Last Fi…
Blues Alley owner Harry Schnipper makes it known—again—that he's eyeballing Lincoln Theatre. Oh, and his historic jazz venue could possibly, maybe, potentially relocate. [Washing…
The Mountaintop, Katori Hall's award-winning play about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. the night before he was killed at Memphis' Lorraine Motel, is enjoying a post-Broadway life at Arena Stage.…
God of Carnage
Written by Yasmina Reza
Directed by Eleanor Holdridge
Through April 7 at Everyman Theatre
The backdrop to the stage for Everyman Theatre's new production, God of C…
Threshold to the Sacred: The Ark Door of Cairo's Ben Ezra Synagogue
Through May 26 At the Walters Art Museum
I imagine the question of how to present the ark door of Cairo's Ben …
The Absolute Comic, on view at sophiajacob through March 30, addresses caricature and humor in relation to the curatorial process.
Earlier this week, D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson rejected Anacostia Playhouse's attempt to work around a parking requirement that's holding up construction on the theater.
As City Pap…
Mud Blue Sky
Written by Marisa Wegrzyn
Directed by Susanna Gellert
Through April 14 at Center Stage
Mud Blue Sky is a play that examines the kinds of connections we make when we are…
Marisa Wegrzyn, a Chicago native, is an author of numerous plays who recently moved to L.A. to pursue screenwriting. City Paper sat down with her at Center Stage the day before Mud Blue Sky'…
