Tuesday, December 10, 2013
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 …
SOURCE: citypaper.com at 12:00AMLiz 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 …
SOURCE: citypaper.com at 12:00AMWednesday, November 27, 2013
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.
SOURCE: citypaper.com at 12:00AMWednesday, November 20, 2013
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, a…
SOURCE: citypaper.com at 12:00AMWednesday, November 13, 2013
“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…
SOURCE: citypaper.com at 12:00AMWednesday, October 30, 2013
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 dithyra…
SOURCE: citypaper.com at 12:00AMWednesday, October 23, 2013
Marcus Gardley, who won the 2011 PEN/Laura Pels award for Mid-Career Playwright, is a busy man.
SOURCE: citypaper.com at 12:00AMWednesday, October 16, 2013
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…
SOURCE: citypaper.com at 12:00AMWednesday, October 9, 2013
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 …
SOURCE: citypaper.com at 12:00AMWednesday, August 21, 2013
Antigone
By Sophocles
Adapted and directed by Lynn Morton
performed by glass mind theatre at EMP collective through Aug. 25
Antigone is the most easily misunderstood—and therefore mos…
SOURCE: citypaper.com at 12:00AMWednesday, August 14, 2013
Art museums are in crisis. Of course, the city’s museums are still suffering from the economic collapse in 2008. The Contemporary Museum suspended operations last year (though they are hap…
SOURCE: citypaper.com at 12:00AMWednesday, July 24, 2013
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Dina Kelberman
Through Aug. 17 at Nudashank
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Last March, Wham City artist and creator of City Paper’s “Important Comics” Dina Kelberman found herself in the stra…
SOURCE: citypaper.com at 12:00AMWednesday, July 10, 2013
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 “relevan…
SOURCE: citypaper.com at 12:00AMWednesday, June 26, 2013
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 (…
SOURCE: citypaper.com at 12:00AMWednesday, June 19, 2013
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 …
SOURCE: citypaper.com at 12:00AMSelfie 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 pictur…
SOURCE: citypaper.com at 12:00AMWednesday, June 5, 2013
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…
SOURCE: citypaper.com at 12:00AMWednesday, May 29, 2013
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 experien…
SOURCE: citypaper.com at 12:00AMWednesday, May 22, 2013
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…
SOURCE: citypaper.com at 12:00AMWednesday, May 1, 2013
Caitlin Cunningham has had a good month. She was chosen as one of the six finalists for the Janet and Walter Sondheim Artscape prize only days before her first solo show opened at sophiajaco…
SOURCE: citypaper.com at 12:00AMWednesday, April 17, 2013
Iceplants by Hidenori Ishii
Through May 18 at C. Grimaldis Gallery
Hidenori Ishii moved to the United States from Japan to study environmental science at George Mason University in 1997.
SOURCE: citypaper.com at 12:00AMNew York Magazine’s star art critic Jerry Saltz recently wrote a much-buzzed-about piece on the “Death of the Gallery,”
SOURCE: citypaper.com at 12:00AMWednesday, April 10, 2013
The Other Real
by Conor Backman
Through April 28 at Nudashank
Two revolutionary ancient Greek painters, Zeuxis and Parrhasius, had a contest.
SOURCE: citypaper.com at 12:00AMWednesday, April 3, 2013
Twenty years ago, the first art review I ever wrote for the college paper was about a show at a cafe.
SOURCE: citypaper.com at 12:00AMSlipping
Written By Daniel Talbott, directed by Steven J. Satta
Through April 13 at Baltimore Theatre Project
SOURCE: citypaper.com at 12:00AMNew Eyes on America: The Genius of Richard Caton Woodville
At the walters art museum through June 2
The French poet Charles Baudelaire wrote “The Painter of Modern Life,” his h…
SOURCE: citypaper.com at 12:00AMWednesday, March 27, 2013
God of Carnage
Written by Yasmina Reza
Directed by Eleanor Holdridge
Through April 7 at Everyman Theatre
The backdrop to the stage for Everyman Theatre’s new production, God of…
SOURCE: citypaper.com at 12:00AMWednesday, March 20, 2013
Play
Written by Samuel Beckett
Directed by Stephen F. Nunns and Lola B. Pierson
Friday, Noon: I enter St. Mark’s Lutheran Church in Station North as three actors, Nathan Cooper, N…
SOURCE: citypaper.com at 12:00AMMarisa Wegrzyn, a Chicago native, is an author of numerous plays who recently moved to L.A. to pursue screenwriting. City Paper sat down with her at Center Stage the day before Mud Blue Sky�…
SOURCE: citypaper.com at 12:00AMMud Blue Sky
Written by Marisa Wegrzyn
Directed by Susanna Gellert
Through April 14 at Center Stage
Mud Blue Sky is a play that examines the kinds of connections we make when we are…
SOURCE: citypaper.com at 12:00AMWednesday, March 13, 2013
Walking into Bohemian Coffee House on North Charles Street, one may recognize a few faces from around Station North
SOURCE: citypaper.com at 12:00AM 
