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It is times like these, times when I am sandwiched between a low ceiling and a 6800 gallon tank of salt water on a metal railing less than a foot wide with no clear way to escape, that I won…
Bessma Khalaf: Yes, Even You
At Gallery Four through June 7.
A beach at sunset is a chill sight to behold. Waves roll in, and the only music that floats into the ears is their gentle r…
Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy
By Guo Tai Gong
Directed by Evan Moritz
Through June 8 at Annex Theater
A baby has already been thrown off a cliff, and the play has hardly begu…
Experimental theater has a reputation for being unfriendly, if not downright hostile, toward the audience, but Baltimore's Lola Pierson has been trying to turn that characterization on its h…
A couple weeks ago, we had a little disagreement with our friends down at the Maryland Institute College of Art. Or rather, I thought all of the celebrations of the certainly meritorious Fre…
I am standing in front of the Florence cathedral, the grand canal of Venice, the Vatican. I gawk for maybe five seconds before submitting to the all-too-common photographic impulse, snapping…
For D.C. actor Frank Britton, yesterday nearly ended the way most opening nights do. He and the cast of Forum Theatre's The Last Days of Judas Iscariot took theirs bows, gathered in Ro…
You know summer is almost here when a massively hyped guitar band from England makes its way to a slew of gigs on the East Coast. This year's band is Eagulls, a post-punk quintet from Leeds.…
Atlanta-based photographer Shelia Pree Bright remembers what it felt like when people let her know she was in some way different from them. A self-described Army brat, in the 1970s her fathe…
Things in Russia have changed so much during the five years Yury Urnov has spent in Baltimore that he jokes it feels more like 350 years. When he first arrived in 2009, he worked with the Ce…
Evan Moritz of Annex Theater recalls a conversation with Ryan Haase of Stillpointe Theatre. "Ryan Haase came up to me one night and he was like, 'Wouldn't it be awesome if the old vaudeville…
The Shakespeare Theatre Company will build a new headquarters—and housing—in Southwest. [Housing Complex]
Priests: the new face of D.C. punk? [Post]
Photos from the opening recep…
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Words and music by Stephen Sondheim; book by Hugh Wheeler
Directed by Ryan Haase
Presented by Stillpointe Theatre Initiative at Area 405 thr…
Russell De Ocampo, the owner of the Windup Space, accidentally told City Paper photographer J.M. Giordano that he could photograph Chris LaMartina, the director of Call Girl of Cthulhu, for …
In Baltimore's art scene, we're accustomed to viewing dainty, craft-inspired artwork in former auto-body shops, looking at delicate paintings in filthy warehouses, and encountering conceptua…
After just 16 performances on Broadway, Arena Stage's multi-million dollar production of The Velocity of Autumn closed yesterday. Producers made the announcement last Wednesday, …
In late 1999, just before the Y2K disaster, I made a terrible mistake.
On a shoestring trip to Europe, I drank some mushroom-laced tea and went to Amsterdam's Anne Frank Museum. My frien…
Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike
by Christopher Durang
Directed by Eric Rosen
Through May 25 At Center Stage
Anton Chekhov thought of his plays as comedies, while Konstantin Stani…
"I love thinking about time in a trippy way and what it means to be outside of time," says Connor Kizer by way of introducing the ideas percolating through his new play, Chronotony, which de…
Many of the galleries and performance spaces in and around the Copycat Building took part in "Alloverstreet" last weekend. I stopped into the extraordinarily white and bright Springsteen Gal…
Not since Gossip Girl went off the air has Washington been entertained by such young, attractive, well-dressed backstabbing New Yorkers.
Fiasco Theater, a small troupe that specializes in co…
Our meta take on D.C.'s theater prom: The Helen Hayes Awards Awards (no, that's not a typo) [Arts Desk]
The latest Captain America movie features a scene in the National Air and Space Mus…
In 2012, we gave Sun columnist and WYPR host Dan Rodricks "Best Stepping In It" for his coverage of pit bulls. We misspelled his name on the certificate we mailed him. It came back, ripped i…
By the Way, Meet Vera Stark
By Lynn Nottage
Directed by Walter Dallas
Through May 11 at Everyman Theatre
Vera Stark (Dawn Ursula) is doing that thing she swore she'd never do: Sh…
At last night's boozier, extra-festive, less-emphasis-on-the-awards-part Helen Hayes Awards at the National Building Museum, Signature Theatre walked away with the most trophies, a lot of pe…
