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'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' by Theatre Exile (1st review)
The ghosts of Taylor and Burton
Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor’s quarreling ghosts must be hovering somewhere over Philadelphia: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and two other Taylor-Burton vehicles are either currently or recently on local stages.
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The Philadelphia Orchestra plays John Williams
Time warps
Stéphane Denève’s program with the Philadelphia Orchestra was a mixed bag, stylistically and musically, with the lightweight John Williams thrown in with a Magnus Lindberg premiere and a Prokofiev masterpiece.
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'The Jungle Book' at the Arden
Learning from the animals
The laws of the jungle, it seems, can be more forgiving than the laws of man. But children still have to learn the rules of the world they live in so they can survive and thrive.
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Further thoughts on public art in Philadelphia
Beneath the boots
Can art exist in public spaces without a power cord?
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Ray Bartkus’s Storylines at Drexel’s Pearlstein Gallery
An illustrator's art
A viewer of Ray Bartkus's oversized photo-realist paintings gets a mosquito’s-eye view, in which eyelashes look like fringe on a shawl and fingerprint whorls look like a topographical map.
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Philadelphia Orchestra’s ‘Peter and the Wolf’
The wolf, defanged
At Saturday’s performance of Peter and the Wolf, narrator Michael Boudewyns unveiled an elaborate array of symbolic props in an effort to offer the audience something for the eye as well as the ear.
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Lyric Fest: 'I'll Make Me a World'
The world, with all its sorrows
Lyric Fest joined the Singing City chorus in a highly emotional portrait of the wonders and difficulties of human life.
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'Wolf Hall' and 'The Audience'
Brits on Broadway
With Thomas Cromwell and Elizabeth II, Britannia rules on Broadway, at least for this season.
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Thomas Gibbons's 'Uncanny Valley' at InterAct (second review)
Unnatural scenes in 'Uncanny Valley'
As a warning about technological innovations, Uncanny Valley is a false alarm. Its development of character is as mechanical as its subject matter.
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Quintessence production of 'The Three Musketeers'
Diving into submerged sexuality
The engaging Quintessence production of The Three Musketeers makes the Musketeers more appealing than Dumas intended. As written, they’re a bunch of hair-trigger Hells Angels ready to fight at the slightest provocation and thoroughly contemptuous of their social inferiors.
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