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'Scenes from a Marriage' and 'Love Letters'
Plumbing the depths of love and marriage
Scenes from a Marriage and Love Letters provide two sharply contrasting looks at love, both inside and outside of marriage.
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Astral Artists: Old World/New World
From klezmer to the cosmic
Astral Artists presents a concert that’s as American as pizza, with a tour de force for the clarinetist on their roster of promising young musicians.
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Philadelphia Orchestra’s season begins (second review)
Mountain views and a stormy Mozart
Each time he mounts a large-scale composition, our beloved Yannick shows his mastery of the expanded orchestral forces involved. If only Lang Lang exerted such (self) control.
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Philadelphia Orchestra’s season begins (first review)
The grand and the grandiose
The Philadelphia Orchestra’s season opener featured Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 17 with a willful Lang Lang doing everything at the keyboard except playing the music, and Richard Strauss’s sprawling Alpine Symphony, which showed the Orchestra to much happier effect.
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Globe Theatre's 'King Lear'
Can high tragedy be a form of entertainment?
The Globe Theatre’s production of King Lear doesn’t give Lear the centrality this tragedy needs.
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Barbra Streisand, Tony Bennett, Lady Gaga
Tony and Barbra get a gimmick
Some popular singers cover the standards; others do unexpected partnerings. These albums, by two of the best singers in the last half century — Barbra Streisand and Tony Bennett — do both.
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Revisiting 'Miami Vice'
1980s noir (in pastels)
More than just the visual style or the cool soundtrack, it's that sense of alienation, of existential heroism in the face of utter futility, that hit home back in 1984. In a way that few if any TV shows had ever done before, Miami Vice depicted a chaotic universe in which the only moral absolutes were those created and maintained by its inhabitants.
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Dilworth Park
Is Philly ready for greatness? Maybe, maybe not
Dilworth Park is better than the old Dilworth Plaza. But it also isn't great.
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Emily Mann directs 'Antony and Cleopatra' at the McCarter
A mature staging of an immature romance
McCarter's Emily Mann attempts to make sense of one of Shakespeare's messiest plays, and the result is worthwhile.
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Fringe Festival: Leah Stein’s ‘Splice’
Site-specific dance: transformative for all ages
The Leah Stein Dance Company’s recent FringeArts work, Splice, was a satisfying and inspired convergence of a contemporary dance performance within an art institution.
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