Through March 10. The Little Theatre, 675-2055. Through Feb 25. Carol Bolt King County Art Gallery, 296-7580. Through Feb 23.
Accumulation is a sticky wicket.
I want to believe that I am greater than the sum of my stuff, and yet the first thing I do when I go to someone's house is check out the bookshelves. Timmy Dowling's photographs at Houston show guys, most of them in their early 20s, with their stuff. David is shown in a bathing suit, standing in a contrapposto pose that is a distant variation on the famous Michelangelo boy of the same name. Some milk and cookies sit heartbreakingly in the foreground. Jeremy aims a plastic gun at the camera, in a closet stacked with lunch boxes, action figures, immaculate rows of albums, more plastic guns, toys, and some clothes shoved aside in the last remaining wedge of space.