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'Doubt: A Parable' at Lantern
A timely look at priestly abuse
Coinciding with the Vatican announcement of the head of a new appeal panel for sanctioned priests, John Patrick Shanley’s Doubt: A Parable opens at the Lantern Theater.
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'Private Lives' at Walnut Street Theatre
Lovers behaving badly
Does being witty make a bad marriage any better? If you dress well and have money, do you get away with behaving badly?
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Philadelphia Orchestra’s Russian concerts
How Russians stay warm in January
To combat January’s frost, Yannick Nézet-Séguin and the Philadelphia Orchestra set Verizon Hall ablaze with glowing performances of lush compositions from the Russian Empire’s opulent days.
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Michael Mann's 'Blackhat'
Hacking into reality
The exponentially increasing interconnectedness and interdependence that computers and the Internet have wrought also allow the potential for damage to be ever more serious and substantial, with the real possibility of taking down not just a bank but an entire national economy, or the killing of not just a handful but thousands. In that dark sense, even Blackhat barely scratches the surface.
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Mamet’s ‘Life in the Theatre’ at the Walnut Street Theatre
A glimpse behind the curtain
When we go to the theater, we want to believe in magic, but Mamet reminds us that it’s all make-believe created by actors not that different from ourselves.
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The Bucks County Justice Center
Who is a courthouse for?
As anyone familiar with the Socratic method of legal learning will know, any judging of the new courthouse and any courthouse must begin with the question of who exactly is the building for.
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How to have a career as a composer, in 10 easy steps
If you’re a composer, or would like to become one, just follow these steps, and I’ll be content, knowing I’ve done my part to make life easier for at least one composer.
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'Mozart in the Jungle' on Amazon
Who the hell plays the oboe?
Amazon’s Mozart in the Jungle gives us that look through the eyes of a naif, a stand-in for the author of the 2005 memoir on which the show is based. The subtitle of that book — “Sex, Drugs, and Classical Music” — tells you a fair amount about the series’ irreverent take, but doesn’t convey the passion for the music that also shines through.
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Peter Jackson’s ‘The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies’
Guillermo del Toro takes us for a ride
If you read The Hobbit and you’re still confused by the conclusion of this totally superfluous three-film epic, don’t worry. Just count the number of animals you can ride into war in Middle Earth.
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Steven Pressfield's 'War of Art'
Battling the demons of Resistance
The title of The War of Art, a little book on how to break through creative blocks and finish projects, is apt because author Steven Pressfield doesn’t pull any punches.
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