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Astral Artists and Network for New Music

Saxophones and butterflies

Astral Artists and the Network for New Music present new music from Europe, Algeria, Japan, and Philadelphia.
Tom Purdom

Tom Purdom

Articles 4 minute read
Three women talking — but about what? Bissell, Inie-Richards, McKey. (Photo by Mark Garvin)

'Sense and Sensibility' at People's Light (second review)

Can Jane Austen pass the Bechdel test?

Sense and Sensibility fails the popular test about women characters in fiction, but succeeds in many other ways.
Mark Cofta

Mark Cofta

Articles 3 minute read
A knack for demystifying music: Tilson Thomas. (Photo by Art Streiber)

Michael Tilson Thomas conducts the Philadelphia Orchestra

Fresh insight born of long experience

As a last-minute replacement on the podium, Michael Tilson Thomas won over the audience with a classy program.
Linda Holt

Linda Holt

Articles 3 minute read
Comic anarchy with singing and dancing

'Plutus' by Aristophanes at Plays and Players

Wealth and poverty for laughs

The youthful cast of Once More Theater embody high spirits, belly laughs, clever off-center meditations, and all-around comic anarchy in Aristophanes’s Plutus.

Richard da Silva

Articles 2 minute read
Hoover in the Oval Office, 1967. (Photo by Yoichi R. Okamoto, public domain via Wikimedia Commons)

'The Burglary' by Betty Medsger

Breaking and entering

The extent and nature of J. Edgar Hoover's surveillance of peaceful protesters were unknown until seven antiwar activists broke into the Media FBI office in 1971. The documents the burglars took provided the signposts to investigate Hoover's horrifying subversion of the Constitution.
Bob Levin

Bob Levin

Articles 5 minute read
A friend betrayed: Cannavale and Essandoh. (all photos © 2015 HBO)

'Vinyl' on HBO

Deep tracks

Vinyl is Scorsese at his most Scorsese. Unfortunately, the master offers little that we haven’t seen before.
Michael Fisher

Michael Fisher

Articles 5 minute read
A woman and a man in lavish Regency costumes are coming close to kissing.

'Sense and Sensibility' at People's Light

A rocky road to marriage

People's Light stages the regional premiere of a fine adaptation of Jane Austen's beloved novel.

Bill Murphy

Articles 2 minute read
A bravura portrayal: Gooding as Simpson. (photos © 2015, FX Networks)

FX's 'The People v. O.J. Simpson'

Revisiting the O.J. case

O.J. Simpson was not treated like any other defendant arrested for a double homicide. The characters involved aren’t the suspects you expect in a domestic murder — they’re squares in the crazy quilt of American celebrity.
Armen Pandola

Armen Pandola

Articles 4 minute read

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Up-and-coming violinist Elizabeth Fayette. (Photo via elizabethfayette.com)

Violinist Elizabeth Fayette plays four French composers

Young and promising

Elizabeth Fayette demonstrates that she possesses some of the most important qualities a violinist can bring to her work.
Tom Purdom

Tom Purdom

Articles 3 minute read
Two different quartets? (Photo © 2015 Quatuor Modigliani)

PCMS presents the Modigliani Quartet

Saving the best for last

After a slow start, the Modigliani Quartet lived up to their reputation in a Perelman recital.
Robert Zaller

Robert Zaller

Articles 4 minute read