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Mathieu Amalric’s "The Blue Room"
Who's killing whom?
Mathieu Amalric’s taut adaptation of Georges Simenon’s Blue Room is a story of passion that devolves into murder, but, even more, about the transgressive turns of the human heart.
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Koresh Dance Company's 'evolution'
An exercise in world-building
Ev.o.lu.tion explores how to communicate frustration, desire, agony, ecstasy, longing, and identity through visceral expression. The performance is emotionally charged, so moody in its aesthetics that it begs to be absorbed and, if not interpreted, then felt.
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'Mary Poppins' at the Walnut Street Theatre
The dark side of our favorite nanny
Mary Poppins makes a bad nanny but a fun family musical.
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Astral Artists and the Chamber Orchestra spotlight the viola
All kidding aside
The accidents of the scheduling process produced two consecutive concerts that spotlighted the viola and proved, once again, that viola jokes are a baseless and vile calumny.
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David Dobkin’s ‘The Judge’
Anger management
Robert Duvall’s stardom began when he played a Mob lawyer to perfection in The Godfather. His turn in The Judge as a magistrate who can’t escape the consequences of his own rectitude is the capstone of a splendid career.
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'Father Comes Home from the Wars' and 'The Oldest Boy'
Myths that define us
Father Comes Home from the Wars and The Oldest Boy are each steeped in mythology, and each has a compelling tale that changes the way we view the world.
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Paul Strand at the Art Museum (3rd review)
Witness to a century
The Art Museum's comprehensive Paul Strand exhibit draws deeply on its holdings of Strand. But you can’t see him whole with the politics left out.
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Bill Walton: Artist to Artist at Drexel
A little to see, a lot to like
Consisting of prints and objects the late Philadelphia artist Bill Walton traded, gave, or bequeathed to colleagues, the exhibit hides in plain sight in the Pearlstein Gallery’s 3,500 square feet.
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The artist's intention
Sketching in the Pitti Palace evokes thoughts of a prison yard.
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'Great Expectations' at the Arden Theatre
Cliffs Notes on a classic
A Dickens adaptation that makes us laugh? Seeing the Arden Theatre Company’s Great Expectations is like watching the Cliffs Notes come to life — in a good way.
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