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Jack W. Schneider
Through Dec. 22
Green may be the color of our era. We talk now about "going green" to mean living in a more environmentally friendly way. And while this metapho…
For All The World To See
Through March 10 At UMBC'S Center For Art, Design, And Visual Culture
Forty-five years before Barack Obama's election as president, James Baldwin was in …
The D.C. Superior Court has ruled in favor of The Shakespeare Theatre Company in a lawsuit against its landlord. In a order signed today, the court barred the defendants—nonprofit grou…
BUS STOP
Written by William Inge
Directed by David Schweizer
Through Dec. 23 at Center Stage
On a March evening in the early 1950s, a small-town diner 30 miles west of Kansas City fill…
Gran Prix
Through Dec. 16
Often, the text that accompanies a show seems to have little or nothing to do with the art on display. Either the artist is unable to explain his or her own w…
Combat Paper Project
Through Dec. 10 at the UMBC Special Collections in the Albin O. Kuhn Library
Single Carrot Theatre has entered an agreement with Seawall Development to move into the building at 2600 N. Howard St. in Remington at the beginning of 2014.
With streaming services such as Netflix on the rise and local video stores"including Baltimore's own Video Americain"struggling to stay open, a new group, the Baltimore Video Collective, hop…
Tiffany Black: The Shedding Room
George Belcher: Sum x Dreams
At School 33 through Dec. 29.
Photographic representations insult the works of George Belcher and Tiffany Black current…
In the abandoned steel mills of Pittsburgh, Pa., Bill Miller began to feel his way toward his art. "We would go into the mills and build big sculptures," he says. "A big owl, a big monkey, o…
An acerbic academic gets wild and crazy with Old Scratch one midwinter's night, and that's not even the most unlikely event in The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart, a singular exercise in s…
The evocative melody
of a recently acquired sound piece, "The Shallow Sea" by Turner Prize winner Susan Philipsz, sets a lilting tone that lingers in the artfully arranged galleries of t…
Hyattsville's Community Development Corporation puts out a call for street muralists [Hyattsville CDC]
Playwright Annie Baker (Body Awareness, Circle Mirror Transformation) talks about Vermo…
Heroes
Written by Gerald Sibleyras, translated by Tom Stoppard
Directed by Donald Hicken
through Dec. 2 at the Everyman Theatre
For its last-ever production at its Charles Street loca…
First Impressions: Sol Print Studios
through Nov. 30 at Stevenson University
For many artists, printmaking is a magical act. Working in a series, with the ability to make subtle changes,…
Talking to Wils Wilson, director of The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart, which starts tonight at the Bier Baron Tavern. What's special about performing in a tavern? "The audience see…
Since D.C. has one of the most robust theater scenes in the country, it's no surprise that the city is also full of schools where aspiring Hamlets can hone their craft. The biggest of these …
So, some guys hit a Laurel recording studio to cut an anthem for famed Chicago criminal Larry Hoover. They wrap up and leave. Then they return with guns—to rob the studio. [NBC Washing…
What's new this weekend in local arts.
In celebration of what would have been Woody Guthrie's 100th birthday, Theater J is producing Woody Sez: The Life and Music of Woody Guthrie, a collag…
Two weeks ago, Theater JÂ made history when it performed a play on Saturday afternoon at its home in the D.C. Jewish Community Center. It was the first time the company had performed on Sh…
Like many people under the age of 50, Chris Forsyth has never known a world without the Rolling Stones. He remembers hearing "Street Fightin' Man," "Jumpin' Jack Flash," and the other Stones…
New History
At Guest Spot @ the REINSTITUTE through Dec. 7
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New History, the current show at Guest Spot's new Calvert Street location, brings together four…
When Michael Brush graduated from Towson in 2009, he found many of his friends in the Baltimore area were moving away.
When the curtains open on Arena Stage's production of My Fair Lady tomorrow, the spotlight will be on a distinctly different leading lady: The role of Eliza Doolittle, the unrefined street h…
The Completely Fictional"Utterly True"Final Strange Tale Of Edgar Allan Poe
Written by Stephen Thorne
Directed by Curt Columbus
Through Nov. 25 at Center Stage
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