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Michael Hollinger's 'Incorruptible' at the Arden
A dark comedy of the Dark Ages
Playwright Michael Hollinger returns to the scene of his crime with this revival of one of his earliest and funniest scripts, Incorruptible .
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Relâche and 'The Lodger' at the Penn Museum
Old movie, new music
Live music by Relâche enhances enjoyment of Hitchcock's first hit, the silent film The Lodger.
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James Lapine's staging of Moss Hart's 'Act One'
For love of the theater
Moss Hart’s dramatic journey from impoverished origins to one of the most successful Broadway writers and director of his time (1930s-1950s) has inspired countless theater artists — including Lapine — with its purpose and passion.
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'The Bletchley Circle'
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No – it’s crime-fighting women!
Ultimately, the series is not about the crimes being solved but rather the true identities of these extraordinary women. Each of them is forced to live a lie, pretending to be the helpless, hapless stereotypes that the male-dominated society of the time forced them to play.
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Albert Barnes and Paul Guillaume
Paul Guillaume was a Parisian art dealer who amassed a fine private collection. Albert Barnes was a great collector, a scholar and visionary educator who continues to cast a giant shadow over the modern art world. Comparing the two men does service to neither.
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The female antihero on television
Sisters are doing it for themselves
Right now, there’s a crop of TV shows that both pass the Bechdel test and feature female characters who would feel right at home with Jax Teller and Walter White.
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Philadelphia's Jeffersonian summer
The man behind the Declaration of Independence
Together, Slavery at Jefferson’s Monticello and Jefferson, Philadelphia, and the Founding of a Nation offer a comprehensive view of one man’s intellect, privilege, ambition, accomplishment, and limitations. Despite his failings, it is impossible not to admire what Jefferson did. Given his many gifts, it is also impossible not to wish he had done more.
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Wheeling to Columbus to Cincinnati
Road trip to art
Venture beyond the Boston-to-D.C. axis for your next art-lovers' road trip.
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Anthony Giardina's 'City of Conversation'
Politics, then and now
The City of Conversation joins the ranks of other deeply moving American family plays that conflate the political and the personal.
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‘Degenerate Art’ at the Neue Galerie
A world destroyed
The Neue Galerie, which specializes in Austro-German Expressionism, has mounted a significant exhibit to commemorate the notorious anti-Expressionist Nazi show of “Degenerate Art” of 1937. Some of the same art is shown again; some of it is lost forever.
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