Summer Stage
Act a Lady. A play within a play about men from a Prohibition-era town who dress in women’s clothing and put on a production. May 24-June 8, Theatre Project, 45 W. Preston St., (410) 752-8558,...
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Hare Krishna Rathayatra Chariot Parade And Festival of India, noon-6 p.m. May 26, McKeldin Square, Pratt and Light streets, festivalofindia.org. ISKON Baltimore holds its 11th-annual Rathayatra...
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Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery, University of Maryland Baltimore County, 1000 Hilltop Circle, Catonsville, (410) 455-3827, aok.lib.umbc.edu. A New Context: Photographs from The Baltimore Sun Revisited.
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If You Can Get to Buffalo: An Exploration of A Rape in Cyberspace by Julian Dibbell Written by Trish Harnetiaux Directed by Eric Nightengale Through May 25 at Acme Corporation Imagine that I am...
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It is rare, but not inconceivable, to encounter a tropical, underwater paradise in an art gallery in Baltimore.
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The Aesthetics of Precision by Timothy App Through May 26 at American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center Through May 29 at Goya Contemporary Ohio-born Baltimore painter and MICA professor...
View ArticleChicken-Boxing Macbeth
Sure, Kevin Spacey’s Baltimore-filmed House of Cards seems loosely based on Shakespeare’s Macbeth, but you don’t need all of the blocked-off streets and film crews in order to experience the classic...
View ArticleFight Club
A week before The Beaux’ Stratagem opens at Everyman Theatre, six actors are on the stage trying to work out a tricky fight scene that involves flying swords. As four actors begin to sword-fight, Katie...
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Act a Lady Written by Jordan Harrison Produced by Iron Crow Theatre at the Theatre Project, through June 8 The opening scene of playwright Jordan Harrison’s Act a Lady, currently in production by Iron...
View ArticleTheater Review: "Beneatha's Place" at Center Stage
When Kwame Kwei-Armah came to Center Stage as artistic director two years ago, he talked to anyone who would listen about “starting a conversation.” He wanted his choices for the company to challenge...
View ArticleSmoke and the Water
Venice By Alexey Titarenko Smoke Drawings Dennis Lee Mitchell At the C. Grimaldis Gallery through July 6. Time is as malleable as clay for Alexey Titarenko’s camera.
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Euripides’ Medea Directed by Melissa O’Brien Through June 29 at Mobtown Theater Though ancient Greek tragedy is the progenitor of all subsequent theater, we don’t generally understand it very well.
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Selfie at Guest Spot @ the Reinstitute through July 13 Despite its promotional materials, Selfie, the new show at Guest Spot through July 13, graciously has nothing to do with the pictures people...
View ArticleStage Review: A Sorcerer’s Journey, by Single Carrot Theatre
There is only one thing worse than hearing about someone’s drug trip or spiritual experience, and that is seeing it enacted. Whether we think of the psychedelic experience as therapeutic (as the...
View ArticleStage Review: Romeo and Juliet, by Baltimore Performance Kitchen
Baltimore Performance Kitchen’s production of Romeo and Juliet begins like many other summertime Shakespeare productions: outdoors. That’s where the comparisons to stock summer Shakespeare end.
View ArticlePatchwork Beauty
For Mirlande Jean-Gilles, who moved to Baltimore from New York City in 2004, what began as a dare from a friend three years ago—to post collages of eye-catching images of Haitian tent cities, working...
View ArticleScrawls and Whispers
Art Center Studio Artist Biennial Through Aug. 3 at School 33 Sometimes a group show is nothing more than a bunch of artwork in a room. However, at best, a group exhibition exponentially enhances...
View ArticleI am, I said
I Am: A Night of Monologues At the YES Drop-in Center (2315 N. Charles St.) July 12. Damien Haussling arrived in Baltimore about a year and a half ago. He’s originally from the Washington, D.C. metro...
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The exhibition of this year’s Janet and Walter Sondheim Artscape Prize finalists smells like the jury—Caroline Busta, Jenny Schlenzka, and Beverly Semmes—was desperate to be “relevant.” Four of the six...
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