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Jennifer Childs’s ‘I Will Not Go Gently’ (1st review)
Am I still relevant?
Aging is tough, but it beats the alternative. So goes the old joke. Jennifer Childs’s latest play and Ellensue Gross’s paintings provide fresher responses.
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An open letter to Harper Lee
Mockingbird America, then and now
Racial ignorance and fear have retreated since To Kill A Mockingbird first appeared; its often maligned author deserves some of the credit.
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Tempesta di Mare does Venice and Naples
Pleasures of the recorder and lute
Six of Tempesta di Mare’s principals went one-to-a-part with music from two of Baroque Italy’s musical capitals.
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Aeschylus’s ‘The Eumenides’ at the Penn Museum
A hot time in the old tomb
In The Eumenides, Aeschylus first captured that moment when pre-literate Greeks first turned away from revenge and looked instead to the goddess Athena for wisdom, justice and reason. It’s not a bad recipe for our present age of fear and anger.
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Ayckbourn’s ‘Things We Do For Love’ in Delaware
An absurdist with a grasp of real life
Think Alan Ayckbourn is the English Neil Simon? Think again. He's more like the English Anton Chekhov.
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Shakespeare Theatre’s ‘Twelfth Night’
The Bard turned upside down
Seen together in repertory, Shakespeare’s romantic comedy Twelfth Night and the tragic Macbeth are greater than the sum of their parts.
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AVA’s Puccini double bill
Dirty deeds along the Seine
Puccini’s neglected Il Tabarro usually gets no respect. But it shines in an innovative new production by the Academy of Vocal Arts.
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Sophie Treadwell’s ‘Machinal’ by EgoPo (2nd review)
. . . But roses have thorns
In 1the 1920s the repressed protagonist of Machinal murdered her husband. Today’s women have found healthier outlets for their frustrations.
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Sophie Treadwell’s ‘Machinal’ by EgoPo (1st review)
Ground down by the urban machine
After nearly 90 years, Sophie Treadwell’s Machinal still packs its Expressionist message about the dehumanization of people — especially women — in a mechanized society.
Robert Zallerand Illustration by Mike Jackson
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Ken Burns examines ‘Jackie Robinson’
Let my people play ball
When Jackie Robinson integrated Major League Baseball in 1947, he confronted mindless bigotry, especially in Philadelphia. But some white Philadelphian rejoiced, as I can personally attest.
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