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The East Coast premiere of Jennifer Higdon’s 'Cold Mountain' (second review)
From epic novel to operatic realization
Cold Mountain manages to retain enough of the grandiose proportions of plot, effects, and setting to satisfy the opera buffs while — largely though the words and music — a more humble humanity comes through.
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'Sex Is a Funny Word' by Silverberg and Smyth
Tackling the important issues around sex
Read Sex Is a Funny Word, no matter your age, whether or not you have children. Because Cory Silverberg’s radical and urgent message — sexuality with a side of social justice — is badly needed.
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Filter Theatre's 'Twelfth Night'
A rollicking rock ’n’ roll ‘Twelfth Night’
Filter Theatre's touring Twelfth Night provides musical heat and clownish jollity in a cold February week.
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Ike Holter's "Exit Strategy" by PTC (third review)
Reconstruction my ass!
In Exit Strategy, Ike Holter effectively conveys the frustration of massive school closings, which have had a damaging effect on inner city school systems — and on those who rely on them.
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Vladimir Jurowski conducts the Philadelphia Orchestra
The one who got away
Guest conductor Vladimir Jurowski led the orchestra in a varied and challenging program that drew from it some of its best playing in years.
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Lennox Randon's 'Memoirs of a Dead White Chick'
Experiencing another life
Memoirs of a Dead White Chick is a lively, entertaining read. It considers issues around gender and race — and the darker side of America's history of them — without delving too deeply into their horrors.
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Philadelphia Chamber Ensemble and Fine Art Music Company
Small but necessary
Philadelphia’s local music groups may be small, but they all have special strengths.
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Liz Duffy's 'Or,' at Hedgerow Theatre
Farcical fun and serious themes in Restoration England
Most of us don’t know anything about 17th-century playwright Aphra Behn, but we should, as Hedgerow Theatre’s strong production of Or, shows.
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The Golden Age of King Midas at Penn Museum
Archaeology fit for a king
King Midas was a real Phrygian ruler, and Penn archaeologists have been excavating his home, Gordion, since 1950. Some of the treasures unearthed are on display in a dazzling show at the Penn Museum.
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Robin Kirman’s 'Bradstreet Gate'
A tangent to murder
Bradstreet Gate is a promising first novel, a book first about uncertainty, but also about the difference between even bright students’ fantasies and “actual, multifarious reality,” as well as the odd, formative nature of friendships made on the threshold of adulthood.
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