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Act 1 ends with a man holding the two guys who swindled him hostage at gunpoint. He was just trying to get a puppy for his wife. A red puppy.
When the legendarily pervy cartoonist R. Crumb thinks your drawings are weird, man, they're weird. In a short video running on a loop in the back room"which explicitly prohibits minors"of Th…
Where The Whangdoodle Sings
Written by K. Frithjof Peterson
Directed by J.D. Sivert
Through Jan. 19 At the Theatre Project
Baltimore's rebooted Contemporary museum debuts its 2014 programming with the launch of its CoHost speaker series this week.
Momento Mori
By Adam Estes
Through Jan. 11 at Metro Gallery
When T.S. Eliot first saw the paintings from the Lascaux caves in France, he said: "Art never really gets any better."
In 1954, Joseph Papp started the Shakespeare Workshop, a mobile theater that brought free Shakespeare performances to all five boroughs of New York. Thirteen years later, Papp opened the Pub…
Wham City has made the transition to television"or at least to infomercials. Dave Hughes, who created the program Off the Air on the Adult Swim network, noticed the loose collective of Balti…
You could be forgiven for thinking something like a miniature movement is afoot over on West Franklin Street.
The Gershwins' Porgy & Bess—which is to say, the 2011 opera-into-musical re-engineering by the playwright of Top Dog/Underdog and others—may indeed be a bastardization of a t…
Egypt's Mysterious Book of the Faiyum
The Walters Art Museum
Through Jan. 5
With its glass-bottomed boats and plentiful alligators, Silver Springs was once the premier tourist destinati…
What made 2013 a thrilling year on D.C. stages was precisely the thing that makes it admirably resistant to year-end trendspotting"the variety, rather than the number, of good shows on of…
The studio that Seth Adelsberger shares with erstwhile CP contributor Alex Ebstein in the Nudashank gallery space is remarkably clean. The white walls and spotless floors underline the sense…
Worst Case Scenario
Performed by Single Carrot Theatre
Through Dec. 21
Single Carrot Theatre's Worst Case Scenario"the last production at its Charles Street location before moving to Ho…
Beowulf
Adapted by Charlie Bethel
Through Dec. 22 at the Theatre Project
Beowulf, the English language's first literary masterpiece, is a tale with many characters and several important…
Deborah F. Rutter, current president of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association, will take over as the Kennedy Center's new president on Sept. 1 2014, Kennedy Center chairman David Rubens…
Liz Lerman crosses her hands, shifts to the side, crosses her arms, looks down, leans back and then forward over the back of her chair, hands out, grasping downward; she turns toward Paloma …
John Ruppert, a sculptor who uses earthly materials and forms, didn't really know what he would be doing when he went to Iceland for a residency in Reykjavik last summer. "I just knew I was …
Today, the Howard Theatre announced a new partnership that could ramp up concert-booking competition in the already entertainment-saturated U Street NW corridor. Howard Theatre operator Blue…
Baltimore-based photographer Robert Houston, 78, has been documenting civil rights struggles, poverty, and street life since 1965.
A Civil War Christmas
By Paula Vogel
Through Dec. 22 at Center Stage
Have you ever seen one of those historical pageants put on by museums, high schools, or small-town centennials?
Review of the Broadway-bound musical If/Then from Washington City Paper. This is not just the perfect vehicle for Menzel; it's the perfect vehicle for the fans hurtling towards middle age w…
The Apple Family Plays have nothing do with iPads or MacBooks or the indignities visited upon those who assemble them. Richard Nelson's quartet of hypercontemporary dramas attempt merely to …
Post-Arcadia
By Kate MacKinnon
Through Dec. 21 at Jordan Faye Contemporary
Artists and poets have mourned the destruction of nature since the Industrial Revolution, regurgitating the sa…
Kevin "KAL" KALlaugher once saved the Block, Baltimore's notorious red-light district. Or at least that's how former Mayor Kurt Schmoke sees it.
When he retires from the arts center in 2014, Kennedy Center President Michael Kaiser will take up a new gig at the University of Maryland, the university announced today. The arts leader pl…
