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A celebration of community. (Photo: Pete Checchia/Philadelphia Orchestra)

Philadelphia Orchestra plays Bernstein's 'Mass' (second review)

Music-theater or agitprop?

Is Leonard Bernstein’s Mass gospel music, classical, Broadway, or rock ‘n’ roll? Yes. All of those and more.

Steve Cohen

May 02, 2015 Articles 3 minute read

Yannick: giving the Celebrant a run for his money. (Photo: Pete Checchia/Philadelphia Orchestra)

Philadelphia Orchestra plays Bernstein's 'Mass' (first review)

Singin’ the liturgical blues

Leonard Bernstein’s Mass was, with 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, the flop of his career. Its belated Philadelphia premiere, despite an elaborate production, showed why.

Robert Zaller

May 02, 2015 Articles 5 minute read

Freeman Dyson beholds Luci, a self-contained solar-power lighting device. (Photo by Esther Dyson via Creative Commons/Flickr)

Freeman Dyson's 'Dreams of Earth and Sky'

As a scientist who has wrestled firsthand with the moral quandaries of mass destruction and total war, Dyson is quite aware of the seemingly intransigent problems that continue to plague humanity. But he's confident that science, free inquiry, and democracy will yet allow the better angels of human nature to prevail and prosper.

Mark Wolverton

May 01, 2015 Articles 4 minute read

“Two-and-a-half feet of tubular sex.” (Photo by Matthew Murphy)

'Kinky Boots' at the Academy of Music

Gender identity issues set to music

Kinky Boots, with its catchy tunes and outrageous costumes, has come to Philadelphia at just the right time, to remind us that “you can change the world when you change your mind.” And you can have a good time while you’re doing it.

Naomi Orwin

May 01, 2015 Articles 4 minute read

The man I love has got rhythm: Fairchild and Cope in “An American in Paris.” (photo © 2014 Angela Sterling)

'The King and I,' 'An American in Paris,' and 'Something Rotten!'

Too many musicals?

“Too much of a good thing can be wonderful,” Mae West once said. Does that also apply to Broadway musicals this season?

Carol Rocamora

May 01, 2015 Articles 5 minute read

Tempesta di Mare, Café et Catastrophe

A novel brew and a classic tale

Tempesta di Mare celebrated coffee and recounted a Greek tragedy in a recreation of an 18th-century French musical salon.

Tom Purdom

Apr 28, 2015 Articles 4 minute read

The triumph of law and order. (Photo © 2015, FX Networks.)

FX's 'Justified'

Good-bye to a great bad guy

Justified shows the edgy, hand-on-your-gun relationship between lawman and outlaw in “Bloody Harlan.”

Bob Ingram

Apr 28, 2015 Articles 3 minute read

A Spain where the sun never shines. (Photo: Kelly & Massa.)

The trouble with Verdi’s ‘Don Carlo’

Sympathy for a tyrant

Verdi's Don Carlo is an opera that’s better heard than seen. Because the unevenness of its dramatic line tends to undercut the beauty of the music, Don Carlo is worth attending only for the chance to hear vibrant voices — which, happily in this case, were mostly magnificent.