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'Bullets over Broadway: The Musical'
A crossfire of fun and musical mayhem
Who needs the angst that newer musicals have been offering these days? Bullets over Broadway: The Musical provides all the ammunition required for an evening of nostalgic pleasure.
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Will Eno’s ‘The Realistic Joneses’ in New York
The playwright who cloned Edward Albee
Nothing much happens in Will Eno’s engaging but enigmatic The Realistic Joneses. So what, then, is this new young playwright trying to say? Maybe something about use — or nonuse — of language.
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InterAct’s 'Down Past Passyunk' at the Adrienne
Local flavor
The local story of the Geno's "English only" controversy gets sold short in this uninspired fictionalization.
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The Curtis Symphony Orchestra at the Kimmel Center (2nd review)
The grand passions of Penderecki and Tchaikovsky
The Curtis Symphony Orchestra ends its season with distinguished graduates and current students collaborating on a program that highlights intensely emotional music, old and new.
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James Turrell’s 'Greet the Light' at Chestnut Hill Friends Meeting
Spring weather brings new opportunities to experience James Turrell’s “Greet the Light” at Chestnut Hill Friends Meeting — a mind-altering sensorial experience.
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Fred Ho: Another worker's remembrance
Fred Ho did not win his battle. His huge legacy, however, endures.
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Curtis Symphony at the Kimmel (1st review)
What did Tchaikovsky mean? (and other unanswerable questions)
Can we not hear the Pathétique simply as a symphonic composition in four movements without extra-musical connotations of any kind? Does it matter whether Tchaikovsky had an agenda in mind? Would it matter if he had spelled it out?
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'The Master and Margarita' by Mikhail Bulgakov
Sympathy for the devil?
Mikhail Bulgakov dealt with the twinned madnesses of Stalinism and his expectation of a short life through the full, flailing exercise of will, intelligence, and faith.
Quince Productions’ 'Three Days of Rain'
Theater loves its dysfunctional families, but I don’t
I had the rare experience of enjoying a remarkable rendering of a play I’d otherwise dismiss scornfully.
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The Takács Quartet performs at Perelman
Dwelling with the angels
The Takács Quartet, a frequent guest of the Chamber Music Society, performed the rarely-heard Shostakovich Second Quartet and the Beethoven Fifteenth, with two brief works by Anton Webern that proved a connection as well as a contrast.
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