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Danny Boyle's 'Steve Jobs'
The man behind the curtain
Michael Fassbender does a superb job portraying Jobs, but the director Boyle and screenwriter Sorkin go too far in trying to redeem the man's bad behavior.
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Sebastian Schipper's 'Victoria'
More than a one-shot wonder
Shot in a single, breathless take, Victoria is a masterful display of cinematography. But this shouldn’t overshadow its successes as both a profound and unconventional character study and, in its second half, a nail-biting thriller.
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'Bullets over Broadway: The Musical'
Everyone cheats
Talent aside, I can’t disassociate Woody Allen from his work, and Bullets over Broadway: The Musical has enough misogynistic sentiment to infuriate me even while I laugh at the antics on stage.
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Opera Philadelphia's O17 announcement
An announcement of operatic scale
New plans by Opera Philadelphia are daring and forward-looking. There are aspects of concern, however.
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On the importance of melody
Myth and melody
Music isn’t broken into the three parts of melody, harmony, and rhythm. It’s just melody.
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'Dracula' at Hedgerow Theatre
An old vampire with a few new tricks
Hedgerow Theatre’s revival of the classic Dracula story succeeds through solid acting, without camp or excess.
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'The Handmaid's Tale' at Curio Theatre
A Tale both frightening and plausible
A feminist nightmare comes to life in a brilliant stage adaptation of Margaret Atwood's Handmaid's Tale by Curio Theatre Company.
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In search of Philadelphia operas
Kitty Foyle and yellow fever, set to music?
With all this operatic creativity, money, and synergy in Philadelphia nowadays, how come no one past or present has written an opera that takes place in Philadelphia?
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'Antigone' and 'Metamorphoses'
A few words about dramatic language
When watching classic plays translated from other languages, consider what is lost and how much our contemporary mindset and values change meaning.
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Bruce Graham’s ‘Rizzo’ at Theatre Exile (third review)
The real Frank Rizzo, as I knew him
The good and the bad of Frank Rizzo the man are both there in Bruce Graham's Rizzo. But the play barely hints at the terrifying ugly of the man and some members of his police force, which I witnessed firsthand.
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