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Play
Written by Samuel Beckett
Directed by Stephen F. Nunns and Lola B. Pierson
Friday, Noon: I enter St. Mark's Lutheran Church in Station North as three actors, Nathan Cooper, Nao…
The eye in the picture is distracting, alarming, demanding all at once. It's presumably female"the lashes mascaraed, the eyelids lined, the brows sculpted"and it's open very wide, as if star…
Crisco is somewhere between seductive and revolting. Oozing and plopping to the floor, it is vaguely sexual but almost totally artificial in all its partially hydrogenated glory. It is a mix…
Walking into Bohemian Coffee House on North Charles Street, one may recognize a few faces from around Station North
Max Weber: Bringing Paris to New York
At the Baltimore Museum of Art through June 23
Home
Written by Samm-Art Williams
Through March 17 at the Rep Stage
Audiences awaiting Anacostia Playhouse's opening in April may have to wait longer than expected. About two weeks ago, with demolition complete and building set to begin, the project hit a pe…
The D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities hosted a public feedback session last night for local residents interested in the future of the ailing Lincoln Theatre. A lovely idea, asking t…
EQUUS
Written by Peter Shaffer
Directed by Mason Ross
Through March 3 at the Annex Theater
Surreal Selves
by Erik Thor Sandberg
At the BMA through June 9
Harry
by Tony Shore
at MICA's Pinkard Gallery through March 17
Thousand Little Brothers
By Hasan Elahi
At Maryland Art Place through March 23
Artists who capture the public's imagination, like all popular superheroes, usually have a good orig…
Preach! New Works by Jeffrey Kent
By Jeffrey Kent
At the Frederick Douglass-Isaac Myers Maritime Park Museum through March 31
Yes, that is a blindfolded preacher hanging on the wa…
+1, or, The Bearable Delightedness of Being Controlled
By Scott Burke
At the Yellow Sign Theatre through Feb. 23
The misanthropic French novelist Michel Houellebecq makes the case…
D.C.'s Commission on the Arts and Humanities announced last week that it will host a public meeting on Feb. 26 for local residents who wish to discuss the future of the underutilized Lincoln…
The less theater you've seen in D.C. in recent years, the fresher you may find Shakespeare's R&J, Joe Calarco's four-man retelling of the Bard's tragedy"set not in ancient fair Verona bu…
The Tropic of Cancer
Directed By Nathan A. Cooper
Written By Caridad Svich
At Single Carrot Theatre Through March 3
Liberti(n)es
Through Feb. 23 at Open Space Gallery
I really don't like sports. I know this is not a popular sentiment in Baltimore presently, but it's true. I'm just not a fan. I d…
Locale Unlimited
By Jeremy Stern and Adam Franchino
At the Creative Alliance at the Patterson through Feb. 22.
The smartphone app suggests two routes to get from my apartment to t…
If you've been around Baltimore's art scene at all, you probably know Raoul Middleman's oil paintings: industrial Baltimore landscapes, wry self-portraits, historical scenes, and fleshy wome…
If you've sat within five feet of a liberal-skewing Facebook news feed this week, you've probably heard about playwright David Mamet's humdinger of a Newsweek cover story, delectably head…
Joshua Wade Smith is a Baltimore-based artist currently in his second year of a fellowship at D.C.'s Hamiltonian Gallery. Smith got his BFA at Texas State University in 2006 and graduated fr…
August: Osage County
Directed by Vincent Lancisi
Written by Tracy Letts
Through Feb. 17
There are several reasons why Vince Lancisi, artistic director of the Everyman Theatre, mi…
Today, the Kennedy Center announced plans for a $100 million expansion that will finally give the arts center much-needed space for education and rehearsal. The first major expansion since t…
The Mountaintop
Written by Katori Hall; directed by Kwame Kwei-Armah
Through Feb. 24 at Center Stage
After spending the late spring hitchhiking and much of the winter touring with a spoken-word Christmas show, local auteur John Waters is back in Baltimore to celebrate the 25th anniversary o…
