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Operatic glam: Sarah Chang. (Photo by Cliff Watt via imgartists.com)

Sarah Chang with the Philadelphia Orchestra

The woman in red

Violinist Sarah Chang dazzled in Dvořák as the Philadelphia Orchestra, under Măcelaru, brought youthful vigor to Beethoven and Eastern European favorites.
Linda Holt

Linda Holt

Articles 4 minute read

The Pennsylvania Ballet's Tribute to Jerome Robbins

A storyteller's legacy

The Tribute to Jerome Robbins was a triumph as the dancers from the Pennsylvania Ballet soared in their interpretation of Robbins’s works.
Gregory King

Gregory King

Articles 3 minute read
Misleidys Pedroso in her bedroom, 2014. (Photo: Art Brut Project, Havana, courtesy Christian Berst and Art Brut Project Havana.)

Misleidys Pedroso: Musculatura Viva at Galerie Christian Berst

The marvel and the albatross

Born deaf, Misleidys Pedroso does not speak, read, or write. She expresses her needs or feelings through the simplest signs. She spends most of each day at home, creating art.
Bob Levin

Bob Levin

Articles 5 minute read
Cook: "endearing and annoying and exactly what a young man should be who lives on the edge of danger."

‘brownsville song’ by Philadelphia Theatre Company (second review)

Too many young lives lost

Have we turned the tragedies of life into entertainment?
Naomi Orwin

Naomi Orwin

Articles 3 minute read
Diego Silva as Faust. (Photo courtesy of AVA/Don Valentino)

The Academy of Vocal Arts presents Gounod's 'Faust'

A devil of a deal

A new generation comes to grips with the moral attitudes and the religious faith of an earlier time.
Steve Cohen

Steve Cohen

Articles 2 minute read
Ganey (left), Cook: Falling through the cracks.

‘brownsville song’ by Philadelphia Theatre Company (1st review)

No place to hide

“Black Lives Matter” may sound like empty rhetoric. Brownsville song, Kimber Lee’s gritty ghetto drama, may change your mind.
Dan Rottenberg

Dan Rottenberg

Articles 3 minute read
Brad Pitt in “Killing Them Softly” (© 2011 - The Weinstein Co.)

George V. Higgins: An appreciation

I’ll put three books by the late George V. Higgins up against any three books written by anybody since Hemingway or Faulkner — maybe everybody from Mailer on.
Bob Ingram

Bob Ingram

Articles 4 minute read

Amerita, Network for New Music, and ARTCy

Dante and light, insomnia and Whitman

A veteran new music organization and a fumbling newcomer presented a quartet of premieres.
Tom Purdom

Tom Purdom

Articles 5 minute read
Philip II (Eric Owens) confronts Elisabeth (Leah Crocetto) with evidence of her love for Carlo. (© Opera Philadelphia | Photos by Kelly & Massa)

Opera Philadelphia's 'Don Carlo' (second review)

A risk that paid off

Opera Philadelphia took a giant leap with its production of Verdi’s sprawling masterpiece.
Steve Cohen

Steve Cohen

Articles 4 minute read
An odd quartet: Mulhearn, Lambert, Geiger, and O’Brien. (Photo by Mark Garvin)

'Biloxi Blues' at People's Light

Humor rooted in pain

Military comedy gets the Neil Simon treatment.

Bill Murphy

Articles 2 minute read