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The House of Yes
By Wendy MacLeod
Directed by David Morey
at the Mobtown Theater Through Nov. 23
There's only one thing we Americans love more than anniversaries, and…
It's nighttime in the Yemeni desert. Against the darkness is the silhouette of a village; nothing is moving save a few wisps of chimney smoke. With a mechanical whirr, an eye sc…
Morris Louis Unveiled
Through Feb. 9 at the Baltimore Museum of Art
When you walk down the Howard Street Bridge, it's impossible to ignore the graffiti on the walls …
"And trust me, as you get older, those colors are harder to sustain," says Bruce Nelson as Mark Rothko in early rehearsals for Red, the play about the famous abstract expressionist which ope…
Laura Amussen: AFLOAT
through Nov. 23 At the Creative Alliance at the Patterson
Albert Camus' The Stranger  is one of the core texts of existential literature. The novel's exploration of absurdity and ambiguity is perfect fodder for a remix artist to interpret.…
St. Nicholas
By Conor McPherson
Directed by Marlyn Robinson
Through Nov. 24 at the Performance Workshop Theatre
St. Nicholas
, the new production at the Performance Workshop T…
Two Suns over Thebes
Translated and adapted from Euripides' Bacchae by Alex Hacker
Through Nov. 10 at Annex Theater
Greek tragedy, as far as we can tell, originated out of the dithyramb…
Matisse's Marguerite: Model Daughter
Through Jan. 19, 2014 at Baltimore Museum of Art
Today, when parents want to brag about their kids, they do so in obscenely long Facebook statuses.
Marcus Gardley, who won the 2011 PEN/Laura Pels award for Mid-Career Playwright, is a busy man.
Earlier this fall, Everyman Theatre brought one of the American theater's great characters back to Baltimore.
Dracula
By Hamilton Deane, John L. Balderston, and Bram Stoker
Directed by Scott Alan Small
Through Oct. 31 at Patapsco Female Institute Historic Park
Bring wine and cheese"or, you kno…
Erin Fitzpatrick navigates the precarious piles of clutter in her sun-drenched Charles Village studio with ease. Fitzpatrick says one of the previous owners designated the studio, located in…
A Beginner's Guide to Deicide
By Qui Nguyen and Robert Ross Parker
Directed by Elliott Rauh
Through Oct. 27 at Single Carrot Theatre
Theological comedy is a pretty small genre which p…
Thanks to a generous donor, Ford's Theatre will reopen tomorrow morning, more than two weeks after the National Park Service closed the historic site as a result of the government shutdown. …
Director Aaron Posner says he was drawn to Romeo and Juliet "because of sex and violence, just like everybody else." Evergreen themes those are indeed, but when his version of the trag…
Allen Christian is standing in front of one of his four striking sculptures in the new exhibit at the American Visionary Art Museum when he says, "Sometimes it's helpful to hear the story be…
Dick Turpin: The spurious Highwayman
By David Brewster
Through Oct. 26 at C. Grimaldis gallery
David Brewster's large-scale landscape paintings, awash with fluorescent orange, neon gr…
Skeleton Hearts: Three Short Plays
By Lola Pierson, Sam Shepard, and Samuel Beckett
Through Oct. 11 at Acme Corporation
Theater is an art whose true media are time and space. When we …
The Laramie Project is homeless no more: Ford's Theatre has found a full-time venue for the show, the company announced today. Performances scheduled from Oct. 9 to Oct. 15 will take p…
If William Shakespeare had been a 1970s filmmaker, Titus Andronicus would have been quite the hit on the grindhouse circuit: Its lurid blend of vengeance, sex, violence, gore, and racial pro…
Animal Crackers
By George S. Kaufman, Morrie Ryskind, Bert Kalmar, Harry Ruby, and Henry Wishcamper
Through Oct. 13 at Center Stage
George Kaufman co-wrote several stage-comedy classics…
Richard Lewis describes himself as a recovering addict and a former Neurotic, and he has been a standup comedian since the '70s.
The shutdown has forced all Smithsonian museums to temporarily close, and now, the historic Ford's Theatre is taking a hit, too. This morning, the National Park Service informed theater s…
The Glass Menagerie
By Tennessee Williams
through Oct. 6 At the Everyman Theatre
It's tempting to think that we already know all we need to know about Amanda Wingfield, the domineering …
