Wendy Gaunt and Elliott Rauh star in Single Carrot’s provocative “Food for Fish” {thanks, Single Carrot}

From today’s b, the paper

“Food for Fish” // SINGLE CARROT THEATRE
Single Carrot opens its promising second season with a comedy about people alternating between reality and dreamland. Written by off-Broadway playwright Adam Szymkowicz and (very) loosely based on Anton Chekhov’s “Three Sisters,” the offbeat work focuses on three women in New York longing for their childhood lives in New Jersey (apparently, they’ve forgotten it’s New Jersey). Before you scream “Garden State” foul, Szymkowicz emboldens his look at life’s greater meanings by exploring gender roles — the play’s central relationship is played gender reverse. Definitely food for thought. Thursday-Oct. 26, 7:30 p.m. Thursday-Saturday, 2:30 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. Load of Fun, 120 W. North Ave. $12. singlecarrot.com.

“The Marriage of Art, Science and Philosophy” // AMERICAN VISIONARY ART MUSEUM
Fifty artists shine in AVAM’s latest mega-exhibit. Its title sounds like that freshman seminar your brainy college roommate raved about, but this is one you’ll actually queue up to see. Big reason: 112-year-old self-taught Alabaman artist Frank Calloway, whose crayon, pen and marker drawings on butcher paper will be featured. Calloway will also take his first airplane ride to attend tonight’s preview party. He’s getting an 11 a.m. welcome. On view through Oct. 3, 2009. Preview party: 7-10 tonight. 800 Key Highway. $12 admission, $20 opening party. avam.org.

“Stories from the Woods” // CURRENT GALLERY
Folklore and classic painting blend with installation pieces and stylized sculpture in this artist-run gallery/performance space’s latest. This is pure escapism, especially the work of American University student Bonner Sale, whose narrative work produces an adolescent yearning. Also not to miss: Emily Slaughter, whose depictions of pagan rituals are inspired by woodland creatures, and Maryland Institute College of Art grads John Bohl and Annie Gray Robrecht, who, respectively, incorporate youth culture and daydreaming into their creations. On view today-Oct. 31. Opening reception: 7-10
tonight. 30 S. Calvert St. currentspace.com.

Jordan Bartel is assistant editor at b. E-mail him at jordan@bthesite.com.

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