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Axial Precisions
By Rene Trevino
At C. Grimaldis Gallery through March 8
Looking at Rene Trevino's dense paintings is a bit like flipping through an encyclopedia or roaming throug…
The Book of Mormon
Written by Trey Parker and Matt Stone
At the Hippodrome Theatre through March 9
John Waters says that
Hairspray
is the most subversive of his works because …
Jason Curtis rides a Segway through Mount Vernon with Baltimore City police officers on a Friday night. Curtis is usually chipper, a master of vibrancy. He is the head of the Mount Vernon-Be…
If you missed your chance to see singing missionaries dance with African warlords when The Book of Mormon sold out the Kennedy Center last summer, you've got another opportunity to snag t…
On the heels of what might be the worst show it's ever produced, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company is bringing back one of its best: Stupid Fucking Bird, playwright Aaron Posner's irreverent up…
Opera fans don't get many opportunities to see things that nearly no one in the audience has seen before. It's a test of how a work of art stands up on its own, without any famous aria or…
The Kinsey Collection
Through March 2 at the Reginald F. Lewis Museum
"The Cultivators," a painting by Samuel L. Dunson Jr., on display as part of The Kinsey Collection at the Reginald…
Written by R.M. O'Brien
Directed by Mason Ross
Through March 2 At the Annex Theater
Buried within the meandering exposition, parodic nostalgia, undigested history, and superfluous…
Tales of Ordinary Madness
By Petr Zelenka
Through March 2 at the Fells Point Corner Theatre
Before the opening night performance of Petr Zelenka's Tales of Ordinary Madness at the…
In the talkbacks after Full Circle dance company's performances, the first question is often the same: What comes first, the movement or the music?
What in the Sam Hill is going on in Katie Duffy's "Searching for Medusa, Pussy Protector (Door Guardian)"?
Stones in His Pockets
By Marie Jones
Directed by Derek Goldman
Through Feb. 23 at Center Stage
There are more than a dozen characters in Stones in His Pockets, the deceptively dark co…
All too often, opera is still seen as stuffy.
Last week, occasional CP contributor Cara Ober threw Baltimore's art world into something of a tizzy
In the last 20 years, our understanding of space and time have been altered by new technologies; the political system and the economy are fractured and uncertain
Last week, Single Carrot Theatre hosted the grand opening of its beautiful and spacious new location at 2600 N. Howard St.
Art Star
By Michael Scoggins
Through Feb. 15 at Guest Spot @ the Reinstitute
Many cultures have seen writing as a kind of magic. To spell something out is to cast a spell.
The Flu Season
By Will Eno
Directed by Alix Fenhagen
Through Feb. 15 at Single Carrot Theatre
The 1999 Magnetic Fields album 69 Love Songs investigates nearly every permutation of the…
In a presentation last night at National Theatre, TheatreWashington announced the 2014 Helen Hayes Awards nominees. Who cleaned up? Woolly's Stupid Fucking Bird caught the biggest worm,…
More renderings of the Kennedy Center's planned $100 million expansion have been filed with the National Capital Planning Commission, and they offer a fuller picture of what the center ma…
This week's winter storm has caused yet another delay. This time, it's Keegan Theatre's production of Gore Vidal's The Best Man. Originally scheduled to open Jan. 25, the play will now op…
Attendees at this year's Helen Hayes Awards will no longer be confined to their plush velvet seats inside the Warner Theatre. TheatreWashington, the organization that oversees the awards, an…
Starring in a biographic jukebox musical requires a lot from actors. They have to embody a well-known person without resorting to caricature, and they have to sing well enough to keep the cr…
Crimes of the Heart
By Beth Henley
Directed by Susanna Gellert
Through Feb. 9 at Everyman Theatre
I don't get it when local theaters stage a play that has already been made into a s…
Madeleine Keesing: Particles
Through March 15 at Goya Contemporary
Few artists are lucky enough to develop a late style, and those who do often find their late work unfavorably compared …
