Pluto, which runs through March 15 at the Round House Theater in Silver Spring, Md., is concerned about wide-scale tragedy than it is with exploring something much simpler: The relationship between a mother and her son.

When it comes to things like personified stars, blind, tentacled beasts and disembodied brains, it’s pretty hard to compete with the imagination. But Round House Theatre’s production of A Wrinkle In Time is up for the challenge.

Alexander Strain in My Name Is Asher Lev. The archetype of the misunderstood artist is explored to insightful, intimate effect in Round House Theater’s My Name Is Asher Lev. The thoughtful, character-driven piece watches the title character (Alexander Strain) proceed, semi-chronologically, from childhood to maturity, navigating between his passion for painting and his household’s traditional Jewish upbringing. And while the synopsis sounds a little cliched, Asher Lev never feels like it: its characters are…