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Jeanne Sakata’s ‘Hold These Truths’
Do Americans really believe in self-evident truths?
Hold These Truths, about the U.S. government’s internment of Japanese Americans during World War II, may make you think that things haven’t changed much in America.
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Chamber arrangements of full symphonies
The fine art of downsizing
The Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia and the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society presented a pair of small-scale transcriptions that produced a large-scale impact.
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Michael Whistler's 'Mickle Street'
When Oscar Wilde came to Camden
What is our fascination with Oscar Wilde? In 1882, he stopped in Philadelphia to give a talk on aestheticism, and it seems he never left. Now he has taken the town by storm once again, appearing in the opera, the theater, and the library.
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'Rasheeda Speaking' at the New Group
“You need to be careful”
Actress Cynthia Nixon makes her directorial debut with impressive skill and control. The threat of violence hangs on the air from the moment the play begins, and Nixon keeps her foot on the pedal as the conflict escalates to a shocking, unbearably painful final scene.
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Peter Serkin and the Orion Quartet
On the edge of musical revolt
The Orion players considered the Haydn masterworks worthy of the same attention as the Reger and Schoenberg. Their playing effectively countered the tendency to hear Haydn as a lightweight compared to those who followed him.
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'The Cherry Orchard' at People's Light
The times they are a-changin'
Oscar-nominated actors Mary McDonnell and David Strathairn join the People's Light & Theatre Company ensemble in a fine production of Chekhov's Cherry Orchard.
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Reforming applause
The stuffiness of the modern classical concert must end, but the music must also be heard. Our best model would be rock performances in dive bars.
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The case against Oscar-bait biographies
Bio(nit)pic
My beef with biopics goes way back to when I was 11 and Gandhi beat E.T. for Best Picture.
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Top ten reasons you should watch the Oscars Sunday night
In honor of David Letterman — the Worst Oscar Host Ever — Armen Pandola presents a Top Ten list of reasons to watch the Oscars.
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'Into the Woods' at Theatre Horizon
A gathering around a campfire
Into the Woods is Stephen Sondheim’s most complicated musical — so intricate that major theater companies have trouble fitting the parts together. So it’s amazing to see the small Theatre Horizon pull it off successfully with an innovative approach that’s more imaginative than any I've seen.
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