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Bach@7 presents new works by Rimple and Edwards
Bach@7 goes Lutheran
Bach@7 tries a new venue and puts on an intercontinental show.
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Gogol's 'Inspector General' by Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium (1st review)
Who's corrupt?
Invited to dance, the Inspector General extends his palm, and the more it is greased, the greedier he grows, until he gets on his horse and gallops away.
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'The It Girl' by Simpatico Theatre Project (second review)
Giving voice to a silent star
Clara Bow was “the It Girl,” a flapper with an indefinable sexual something, but we know very little else about her. In reviving her, do we risk turning her into one more cliché of the starlet victimized by the system? Are we using her for our own purposes and once again robbing her of her own voice?
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National Theatre Live broadcast of 'Les Liaisons Dangereuses'
A battlefield of the sexes
Christopher Hampton’s devastating play about sex and power is set in pre-revolutionary France, but is relevant today.
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The Philadelphia Orchestra’s final Vienna concert (second review)
Romance with a touch of class
This Philadelphia Orchestra concert succeeded so admirably because all the musicians were on the same page. They embodied a fundamental idea that romance and boundaries, emotion and structure, are reconcilable opposites that, under the right circumstances, attract. The composers put this idea down on paper, and the musicians executed it in real time.
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Ike Holter’s ‘Exit Strategy’ by PTC (first review)
Blackboard jungle, redeemed
Everyone seems to agree that America’s urban public education system is broken. Ike Holter’s Exit Strategy suggests that today’s preferred cures may be worse than the disease.
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'The It Girl' by Simpatico Theatre Project
The plight of the It Girl, then and now
Girls just wanna have fun, says Simpatico Theatre Project’s world premiere of The It Girl, but it isn’t easy. Sometimes respect and equality seem damn near impossible.
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Kristoffer Diaz's '#therevolution' at InterAct
New play is out-performed by new space
In his new play #therevolution, Kristoffer Diaz imagines a popular uprising reminiscent of the 1976 film Network, but neglects to fuel the outrage convincingly.
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The Philadelphia Orchestra’s final Vienna concert
A few words about human chemistry
How exactly does good chemistry manifest itself in an orchestra? The Philadelphia Orchestra’s final Music of Vienna concert got me thinking about the answers.
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'Harvey' at the Walnut Street Theatre
What would Dr. Phil say?
Once again, a play from the ’40s offers us alcoholism and mental illness as ripe topics for comedy. In Harvey at the Walnut Street Theatre, an alcoholic dreamer draws us into his world and makes us believe in imaginary friends. After all, when life gets hard, who doesn’t want to escape reality?
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