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The Full Circle Dance Company's Moving Passages: Dances Inspired by Writing relies on speech almost as much as it does on music. The challenge for the program's 13 dancers is to find a rhyth…
Center Stage features workshop readings of three of Thomas Bradshaw's controversial and thrilling plays, Southern Promises, Strom Thurmond Is Not a Racist, and Mary, on consecutive nights as…
Green Acres
By Sue Spaid
at Red Emma's Jan. 18
Rirkrit Tiravanija's "Untitled (bicycle shower)," one of the BMA's new acquisitions, might seem a bit out of place in the formal hal…
See Through
by Mary Anne Arntzen
Through Jan. 27 at The Institute of Contemporary Art, Baltimore
For more information, visit icabaltimore.org
Flatness was a defining obsession of…
Nelson Pressley: "... the National [Theatre] is a low-budget, skeletal operation that maintains a handful of outreach operations to help justify its not-for-profit status. Rent doesn't seem …
Idly Bent Theatre Company, a D.C. newcomer, appears to be shooting for the moon with its first production in town. Hailing from the University of Virginia, two of the founding Idly Benters p…
Behind Walls
Through Jan. 19 at C. Grimaldis Gallery
Behind Walls, a show featuring the work of six different photographers at C. Grimaldis Gallery, takes exterior walls of buildings a…
Weekend of Magic
at Theatre Project Jan. 11-13
David London, a 30-year-old Rockville native, has been a magician since he first pulled a rabbit out of his hat at a cousin's bar mit…
SmörgÃ¥sbord
Through Feb. 1 at Gallery CA; opening reception Jan. 18
In Don DeLillo's novel Underworld, the artist Klara Sax is painting decommissioned Cold War jets in the middle o…
In 2012, D.C.'s theater companies threw an admirable amount of support behind local playwrights. Most prominently, Theater J launched the Locally Grown: Community Supported Art Festival a…
Sitting on the couch in his Franklin Square apartment, James Singewald is surrounded by pictures of decaying buildings. Boarded-up rowhomes with facades that haven't been tended to. Old sto…
Toward a New Form Order
Through Jan. 26 at Guest Spot @ The Reinstitute
Toward a New Form Order, featuring the works of Baltimore's Lisa Dillin and New York's Matthew Northridge, runs …
Toward a new form order
Through Jan. 26 at guest spot at The Reinstitute
Lisa Dillin says that, with works like her "Natural Lighting Emulator," her tiger and ocelot tile pieces, h…
Les Misérables, as its title suggests, isn't exactly two buckets of fun. But Tom Hooper's adaptation of the stage musical is a passable entertainment if you don't mind ignoring a few irksom…
D.C. Theatre Scene reported this morning that Artisphere has given the boot to WSC Avant Bard, its in-house theater company for the last two years.
Artisphere spokesperson Annalisa Meyer con…
The Million Dollar Quartet's arrival at the Kennedy Center's Eisenhower Theater is a sort of homecoming for the now five-year-old Sun Records musical: After an initial staging by Floyd Mutru…
Apples From the Desert is a clever title for a play with a familiar storyline, but unfamiliar setting. Many a play, reality show, and soap opera has revolved around a chaffing child with ove…
On Sunday afternoon, the capacity crowd at Theatre Project snakes out into the front hall and is chatting with members of the cast of Double Edge Theatre, which has just finished its final w…
Small Wonders and spectaculars, and particulate matter
Through jan. 5 at jordan faye contemporary
Jordan Faye Contemporary has stuffed the walls of its new space in an old Mount Ve…
Getting to Know the Window
Through Jan. 6 at Current Gallery
Of Getting to Know the Window, Patrick David, co-curator and one of the five artists in the Current Gallery show, says: "It…
Ubik
Through Dec. 30 at D Center
When Philip K. Dick first introduces Joe Chip in the third chapter of his sci-fi novel Ubik, he does so with pulpy economy. Chip, the novel's harried p…
Mixed Doubles
By Eight Playwrights
Directed by Marc Horwitz
Through Jan. 13 at Performance Workshop Theatre
A Christmas Carol is like crack to theater companies: do it every year or not at all, but after your first hit, you're hooked on that sweet holiday revenue. No other play can rake in the kin…
Judge rules that Shakespeare Theatre Company's landlord can't boot it from the Lansburgh Theatre [City Paper]
The controversial "Drum Major" inscription on the Martin Luther King Jr. memoria…
Office Ladies
Written and directed by Lola B. Pierson
Music by Alex Scally and Stephen Strohmeier
through Dec. 16 at St. Mark's Lutheran Church
