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Fringe 2015: Idiopathic Ridiculopathy's 'Exit the King'
An excruciating exit
Even though playwright Eugène Ionesco is considered the father of absurd comedy, his Exit the King is terrifying.
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Fringe 2015: 'After the Rehearsal/Persona'
The fantasy of film translated to the reality of the stage
Bergman’s oeuvre translated to the stage reconnects us to our early infatuation with the filmmaker and makes us question what he’s saying in a new way.
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Elijah Wald's 'Dylan Goes Electric!'
Electric Bob
Dylan made it okay to like rock ’n’ roll. He carried the intellectual endorsements to make those who’d disparaged or abandoned rock regard it anew. And he had the genius to make those still-popping fingers rethink rock’s capabilities.
Jennifer Higdon’s 'Cold Mountain'
A chilly mountain
The world premiere of Jennifer Higdon's first opera, Cold Mountain, has many fine elements but misses greatness.
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Fringe 2015: 1812 Production's 'Shoplifters'
Tackling a meaty subject gingerly
Do we have to pay for what we get in life? Or can we just go out and grab what we want without consequences? Shoplifters tackles these questions but doesn’t really come up with answers.
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'Best of Enemies': The Buckley-Vidal debates of 1968
The documentary Best of Enemies revisits 1968’s game-changing TV debate between two cultural titans, William F. Buckley Jr. and Gore Vidal.
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Help! My daughter is a music major!
Despite my best efforts to guide her, my daughter's love for music wore me down. Now I'm hoping for the best.
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Why telling jokes is like writing music
In comparing the making of music to the making of a joke, I’m not saying that music ought to be funny. The main sense of a sense of humor is funniness, of course, but the best comedians handle all the humors.
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Big changes at the Free Library of Philadelphia
Philadelphia's library, reinvented
Money from the William Penn Foundation, along with other public and private gifts, has enabled the library to undertake a big-picture initiative to increase flexibility and efficiency for current and future users in a project called Building Inspiration: 21st Century Libraries.
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Kate Bolick's 'Spinster'
The solipsistic spinster
Kate Bolick takes almost 300 pages to analyze her decision not to marry from every possible angle in Spinster: Making a Life of One’s Own, while remaining oblivious to her level of privilege.
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