THEATER
DOUBT / / 8 p.m. Wednesdays-Fridays; 2 p.m., 8 p.m. Saturdays; 2 p.m., 7:30 p.m. Sundays. Through March 9. Olney Theatre Center, 2001 Olney-Sandy Spring Road, Olney. $25-$48. 301-924-3400 or olneytheatre.org.
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This intriguing play, winner of the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, raises tough and fascinating questions about the dangers of moral certainty.
Set at a Catholic High School in Bronx, N.Y., in 1964, Doubt concerns a dedicated nun, Sister Aloysius Beauvier, who suspects that a popular new priest may be molesting a student -- who also happens to be the only African-American pupil at the school.
"On some levels, this play is very much a whodunit," director John Going said in a statement. "However, the audience is missing the point if they focus just on whether or not the priest is guilty."
Warning: This production could result in spirited post-theater conversations.
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[MARY CAROLE MCCAULEY]
ART
CINEMA EFFECT / / 10 a.m.-5:30 p.m. daily. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Independence Avenue and Seventh Street Southwest in Washington. Free. 202-633-1618 or hirshhorn.si.edu.
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Film can take us out of the commonplace and transport us to new realms of experience. This two-part exhibit presents videos and installations by artists who have used cinema's moving images to convey a heightened sense of the real. The first part, Dreams, explores the different states of consciousness from wakefulness to dreaming and their intersection with imagination and fantasy.
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[GLENN MCNATT]
FILM
JEWISH FILM SERIES / / 8 p.m. Saturday. The Meeting House in Oakland Mills, 5885 Robert Oliver Place. $9. 410-381-4809 or www.columbiajewish.org / film_series.shtml
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The Columbia Jewish Congregation's 16th Jewish Film Series continues Saturday with Lisa Leeman's 2006 documentary Out of Faith, a look at how the pressures caused by a series of interfaith marriages threatens the stability of a traditional Jewish household. At the film's core is Auschwitz survivor Leah Welbel, who hasn't spoken to her grandson in the six years since he married a non-Jew; now her granddaughter is also preparing to marry out of the faith. Leeman's earlier documentary, 1990's Metamorphosis: Man Into Woman, was nominated for the Grand Jury prize at that year's Sundance Film Festival and was voted the Filmmakers Trophy for documentaries.
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[CHRIS KALTENBACH]
POP MUSIC
NEW YORK DOLLS / / 8 p.m. Tuesday. Rams Head Live, 20 Market Place. $20-$22. 410-244-1131 or ramsheadlive.com
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To celebrate 35 years of rock infamy, the New York Dolls are on a winter tour. With its sleazy glam image, the band set the precedent for punk and metal, influencing such acts as the Ramones, Blondie, the Strokes and the Libertines. The Dolls' most recent album was One Day It Will Please Us to Remember Even This, released in 2006.
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[RASHOD D. OLLISON]
TELEVISION
JERICHO / / 10 p.m. Tuesday. WJZ, Channel 13
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The post-apocalyptic drama Jericho was nuked off the TV grid by CBS last spring, but some devoted fans managed to persuade the network to give their favorite show a reprieve. Their tactic: mass shipments of nuts. Seriously. This season, the action moves beyond the small town of Jericho, Kan., to include America's new military capital, Cheyenne, Wyo., and New York City, which was strangely spared in the initial nuclear attack.
Regulars Skeet Ulrich and Brad Beyer return, but Jericho will feature a slimmer budget and a smaller cast this season. Apparently, nuts can't solve everything.
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[TIM SWIFT]
CLASSICAL
BALTIMORE CHAMBER ORCHESTRA, HANDEL CHOIR / / 7:30 p.m. Wednesday. Kraushaar Auditorium, Goucher College, 1021 Dulaney Valley Road. $35; free for students. 410-426-0157, 410-704-2787, thebco.org.
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Jonathan Leshnoff composes music that speaks immediately and eloquently, as those who heard the premiere of his Violin Concerto by the Baltimore Chamber Orchestra in 2006 can attest. The BCO will offer another Leshnoff premiere this week, in collaboration with the Handel Choir of Baltimore -- Requiem for the Fallen. The piece incorporates texts from the Hebrew Kaddish and the Latin Requiem Mass, as well as a prayer by St. Francis and poetry by Walt Whitman. Leshnoff's goal is to commemorate victims of war, civilian and military, and address "issues that are contemporary and on people's minds."
BCO music director Markand Thakar will conduct the program, which includes Free From Season's Passing, an orchestral work by Nashville, Tenn.-born Lee Gannon, written less than a decade before his death from AIDS in 1996. Schubert's Symphony No. 6 and Brahms' Schicksalslied (Song of Destiny) will also be performed on what promises to be one of the most emotionally rich concerts of the season.
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[TIM SMITH]
WASHINGTON
47TH ANNUAL WASHINGTON BOAT SHOW / / Noon-9 p.m. Thursday-Friday, 10 a.m.-9 p.m. Saturday, and 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Sunday-Monday. The Washington Convention Center, 801 Mount Vernon Place N.W., Washington. $5-$10. Children 5 and younger free with paying adult. 703-823-7960 or washingtonboatshow.com.
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Boaters of all types will find a smorgasbord of nautical items and activities at this five-day event, one of the Mid-Atlantic region's largest boat shows.
The program features more than 500 vessels of various styles and hundreds of display booths for accessories. Attendees can also consult advisers on how to buy, finance, insure and maintain boats.
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[JENNIFER CHOI]
DVD
BECOMING JANE / / Miramax Home Video. Available Tuesday. $29.99.
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Anne Hathaway creates a charming version of what Jane Austen might have been like as a young woman -- and how the social and familial pressures she faced might have found their way into her later fiction.
Lawrence Fox, son of British actor James Fox, is the staid, rather boring Mr. Wisley, whose infatuation with Jane isn't exactly returned in kind; she is far more interested in a brash law student played by James McAvoy.
Of course, Jane's family members are pulling for Mr. Wisley, who could keep them in the life to which they would like to become accustomed. And of course, Jane bridles at the suggestion that her emotions should play second fiddle to her family's needs.
Sound like a Jane Austen novel? That's the point.
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[CHRIS KALTENBACH]