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The East Coast premiere of Jennifer Higdon’s 'Cold Mountain' (1st review)
An intimate musical story
A second look at Cold Mountain reveals intimate aspects. In other words, the mountain thaws out when you approach it from a different perspective.
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Performance Garage gets city grant
A $500,000 grant from the city will help Performance Garage with much-needed upgrades.
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'Pride and Prejudice and Zombies'
Mr. Darcy slays zombies
It’s hard to get over your first Elizabeth Bennet (Greer Garson) and Mr. Darcy (Laurence Olivier), but Pride and Prejudice and Zombies adds two more candidates to my list of favorites.
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Iron Age presents Caleb Lewis's 'Dogfall'
War spans the century
Iron Age stays in Center City for Dogfall, an unusual drama about war's human costs.
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Ike Holter's "Exit Strategy" by PTC (second review)
A play that educates on modern inner-city schools
Ike Holter’s play about a failing Chicago school, Exit Strategy, hits close to home in the Philadelphia Theatre Company’s superb production.
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'L’amore de tre re' by the Academy of Vocal Arts
The AVA exhumes a buried treasure
There are reasons why L’amore de tre re was neglected for half a century, but its merits override those reasons. The AVA production performed a needed service.
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'Wait Until Dark' at the University of Delaware
Enjoy being afraid in the dark
Stage thrillers work best when we let them be plays and not movies, as Wait Until Dark shows.
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John Ridley's 'American Crime,' season two
Too many shades of gray
The second season of American Crime raises intelligent questions: Can a teenager struggling with his sexual orientation and rough sex fantasies actually be raped, and is there any hope of establishing that legally? Or is Taylor an odd variation of the Victorian heroine who dreams of being ravished, but then decides that wasn’t such a good idea after the fact?
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Gogol's 'Inspector General' by Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium (second review)
Satire without a clear target
The Inspector General is fun, but ignores deserving modern targets for its satire.
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PCMS presents the Emerson Quartet
After 40 years, still on top of their game
The Emerson Quartet, still one of the world’s best, plays now with maturity as well as drive. Its annual Philadelphia performance gave us works of two Romantic masters taken all too young, as well as a modern one who experienced the horrors of his age.
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