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Team Sunshine's 'Sincerity Project'

The thin line between sincerity and artifice

The Sincerity Project takes the notion of sincerity as timeless, self-evident, decidedly apolitical, and fully accessible via performance, which makes the show feel a lot like a game of Truth or Dare at a sleepover: Amusing to an extent, if not slightly phony, and occasionally revealing of a juicy tidbit, but overall limited to the provided guidelines.

Samantha Maldonado

Dec 16, 2014 Articles 3 minute read

An era of human brawn: Thomas Hart Benton, “Instruments of Power” from “America Today.” (Metropolitan Museum of Art)

Thomas Hart Benton's 'America Today'

America on the move: The Benton murals find a home

Thomas Hart Benton’s masterful mural sequence, America Today, is an important and defining work of its time that should make us rethink both Benton himself and the scope of American art.

Robert Zaller

Dec 14, 2014 Articles 5 minute read

Ella and Topher meet smart, not cute. (Photo of Faure and Jones by Carol Rosegg)

Rodgers & Hammerstein’s 'Cinderella'

A 21st-century fairy tale

The script of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella is barely recognizable in this new production, but the 1957 music is wonderful and augmented with other gems from those prolific songwriters.

Steve Cohen

Dec 12, 2014 Articles 3 minute read

Reading in bed has never been so scary: Essie Davis and Noah Wiseman in “The Babadook.” (© 2014 - Causeway Films)

Jennifer Kent’s ‘The Babadook’

Living with the shadows

The Babadook hits almost every image of the horror film genre, yet it somehow manages to emerge as a standout movie with a fresh take on what scares and strengthens us the most.

Alaina Johns

Dec 09, 2014 Articles 4 minute read

Dolce Suono: Music of Spirit, Longing, and Passion

Five friends on a Sunday afternoon

The Dolce Suono Ensemble presented a program that created the perfect mood for a chamber music concert.

Tom Purdom

Dec 09, 2014 Articles 3 minute read

Everything's great, as far as I can see: Hunter, Schnetzer, and Ullman.

Revival of David Rabe’s 'Sticks and Bones'

Vietnam: Look back in anguish

This timely revival of Sticks and Bones pours salt in open wounds, as we welcome scores of soldiers home from the recent Iraqi and Afghanistan Wars and then find, to our incomprehension, that they are suffering from PTSD. Are we as blind to their suffering as David’s family is to his?

Carol Rocamora

Dec 09, 2014 Articles 4 minute read

Inspired by Hitler Youth: “South of Scranton.” (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Art © The Educational Alliance, Inc./Estate of Peter Blume/Licensed by VAGA, New York)

Peter Blume: Nature and Metamorphosis, at PAFA

Being in with the In Crowd

This retrospective exhibition of works by Peter Blume (1906-1992), American modernist, gives us a good indication of American art from the first half of the 20th century, pre-Abstract Expressionism.

Anne R. Fabbri

Dec 09, 2014 Articles 3 minute read

Kate Czajkowski as Estella, Sally Mercer as Miss Havisham, and Josh Carpenter as Pip. (Photo by Mark Garvin)

'Great Expectations' at the Arden Theatre (2nd review)

An unexpected hit at the Arden

For many readers, Great Expectations was an enthralling and transformative epic, while for others it was boring required reading that was filled with convenient coincidences. Whichever your opinion, the Arden’s production provides fast-moving entertainment.

Steve Cohen

Dec 09, 2014 Articles 2 minute read

'Portrait of Ida Roessler' (1912): Wounds are being delivered.

Egon Schiele’s portraits, in New York

The artist as martyr

Egon Schiele revolutionized the art of portraiture virtually overnight in the early 20th century, and his self-portraits in particular remain one of the sovereign achievements of modern art.