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Fringe Festival: 'The Body Lautrec'
The dark side of the Belle Époque
Brilliant scenic and puppetry design of Cromie marries a Paris bordello to the aesthetic of the Mütter-like cabinet museum in this musical that looks at the dark side of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.
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Fringe Festival: Pig Iron’s ‘99 Breakups’ (third review)
Not just romantic breakups
The performances of 99 Breakups, some more inscrutable than others, have a few verbal and physical gems, but aren’t exactly revelations on human nature.
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Rick Buttari, Deborah Fine, Miriam Singer, Katherine Stanek, Donna Usher
A gallery stroll in Old City
Three shows in Old City galleries are worth a visit.
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Fall 2014 TV preview
The new Fall TV shows are coming — along with some others that the networks haven't actually bought yet.
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The Buffalo Bill Center of the West
'The Best Museum in the World'
Though with more academic rigor, the mission of the Buffalo Bill Center for the West is not so different from the task William F. Cody set for himself: to make the American West appreciated around the world.
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Fringe Festival: Idiopathic Ridiculopathy’s ‘Rhinoceros’
Absurd is the new normal
Ionesco was prescient: In today’s weird and wild world, a lot of us are surrendering to the notion of life without inherent meaning or order.
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Choral Arts Philadelphia sings Rachmaninoff's 'All Night Vigil'
On the road with Choral Arts
Most of the singers in Choral Arts Philadelphia are unpaid volunteers, but they attack their job like pros.
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Fringe Festival: New Paradise Laboratories’ ‘The Adults’ (second review)
A deflated balloon
The adroit cast of The Adults takes ideas from a great play by Chekhov and contorts them into a mannered exhibition of body movements.
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'If/Then' on Broadway
Chances and choices
In If/Then, after two acts and 22 songs, Idina Menzel’s character (both of them) realizes that life just keeps happening: a cascade of choices and chances, paths pursued and paths ignored. You can’t ever know what will happen next.
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'Book of Mormon' at the Forrest (fourth review)
The power of theater compels you . . .
F-bombs and crude jokes and satire, oh my! The Book of Mormon made my mother laugh and want to see other shows she normally wouldn’t. Theater is powerful stuff.
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