"Stupid FUCKING Bird!" Anyone who got to announce the name of Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company's "sort-of" adaptation of Chekhov's The Seagull did so with devious relish last night at…
The All-American Genderf*ck Cabaret Written by Mariah MacCarthy Directed by Susan Stroupe Presented by Glass Mind Theatre at Gallery 788 through April 19 At some point in Glass M…
This column used to be called "Art Seen," but last week we had the headline "Conflicts of Interest" and we liked it better, so that's the new name. And though there won't always be conflicts…
Pete Ross says that a survey of printed material in the United States between the 1730s and the 1830s turns up 58 different references to the banjo"and 57 of those citations describe the ins…
The Camp David Accords might never have been signed were it not for President Jimmy Carter's golf cart. In Camp David, the world premiere play at Arena Stage, there's no way for characters t…
InDirect Effect: Christian Benefiel / Jennifer Gilman Through April 19 at Area 405 Jennifer Gilman's "Liminal Drift #5" takes up almost the entirety of Area 405's front gallery spa…
The Memo Written by Vaclav Havel, Directed by Stephen Nunns Through April 27 at Single Carrot Theatre The first thing we notice when Sarah Gretchen walks on the stage as Sarah Bal…
Weeknight tickets to Arguendo, an inventive but frivolous bit of comic theater derived from a 1991 Supreme Court case, start at $70, which works out to about a dollar per minute. No wonder W…
Twelfth Night William Shakespeare Through April 13 At Center Stage I've seen Shakespeare updated in a lot of different ways, but Center Stage's current production of Twelfth Night is …
Comedian Mike Birbiglia has been heard countless times as a storyteller on the This American Life radio program; he wrote, directed, and starred in Sleepwalk With Me, which won a 2012 Audien…
Final rehearsals for a show that includes both full nudity and aerial choreography can be stressful, but the artists behind Iron Crow's The Homo Poe Show, at the Baltimore Theatre Project th…
Front Room: Sterling Ruby Through June 15 at the Baltimore Museum of Art Sterling Ruby has been anointed. Roberta Smith of The New York Times said that Ruby may be the most interesting…
In recent seasons, Dancing with the Stars has attempted to up its credibility by inviting members of the New York City Ballet to perform live in a sparkly, televised spectacle. When th…
Mr. Marmalade Written by Noah Haidle, directed by Johanna Gruenhut At the Stillpointe Theatre Initiative through March 29 Lucy (Kelsey Painter) says she's 7 years old. She has an imag…
Face|Book Through March 29 at the Creative Alliance at the Patterson's Amalie Rothschild Gallery Alex Queral's portrait of Robert Crumb looks just like Robert Crumb"at least, the versi…
Plenty of TV watchers have noted how closely Netflix's political drama House of Cards resembles an opera, but until now, no one's tried to make an opera that looks like House of Cards. That'…
The Dresser Written by Ronald Harwood At the Everyman Theatre through March 23 The Dresser opens to the sound of air-raid sirens, which immediately sets the tone of unease and…
Light Touch Featuring Frank Hallam Day, Chrystel Lebas, Heidi Morstang, Marja Pirilä, and Lynn Silverman On display through June 22 at the International Pier of BWI Photographic imag…
Like poetry, modern dance proceeds from an embattled position. Performers feel like they must win over a hostile, or at least indifferent, audience. By way of a program for Effervescent Coll…
"A man, a plan, a butt plug." Such reads the description of one of 18 amateur porn films coming to the Woolly Mammoth Theatre next week as part of the HUMP! Tour. The tour comes from the min…
There was a time when the arts and sciences weren't so divided. There was no specialization and people aspired to universal knowledge. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel was probably the last per…
In conjunction with the opening of Camille Henrot's Grosse Fatigue at the BMA, MICA hosted a multimedia screening of her film Psychopompe with live music. At first, the band, led by compo…
4 by Chekhov Written by Anton Chekhov At Fells Point Corner Theatre through April 6 Elena Ivanovna Popova (Zarah Rautell) loved her husband. He was a good man"yes, he was prone to disrespe…
According to 20th century painter and art collector Sara Roby, the best way to celebrate American visual art was to showcase pieces by actively working artists. So that's what she did beginn…