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The future of professional theater criticism: An international view
Journalist critics grab their bullhorns and take theater to the streets. What will be the effect on theater when all that shouting dwindles to a whisper?
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Listening to Lincoln: Dave Burrell's Civil War Concerts
An ear-opening musical evocation of a Civil War massacre
The feeling at this world premiere was akin to attending a musical salon in Paris and hearing a breakthrough work performed for a small elite audience: The room was small but filled with eager listeners. That is how great work often begins in the arts and sciences.
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'Red Velvet' and 'Raisin in the Sun'
Black in a white world
From a London theater in the 1830s to a Chicago tenement in the 1950s, a black man’s struggle in a white man’s world is being eloquently portrayed on the New York stages this season.
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The Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia plays Schumann, Britten, and Haydn
The glories of the useless
Ignat Solzhenitsyn leads the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia through three examples of the useless, irrelevant, and un-metaphorical art extolled in two recent BSR essays.
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'The Light in the Piazza' at Villanova Theatre
The return of the musical?
The American musical has become a revival show, but the Villanova Theatre’s production of the 2005 Broadway succès d’estime, The Light in the Piazza, tries valiantly to make a case for it as forging a new direction. I’ll still take "Mack the Knife."
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Why Shakespeare? Why now?
Shakespeare-lovers are enjoying a plethora of productions in honor of the Bard's 450th birthday.
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Neysa Grassi and Warren Rohrer at Locks Gallery
Metaphorical movement
Neysa Grassi and Warren Rohrer represent over 40 years of abstract painting in Philadelphia, a historically rich conversation that is too good to miss.
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'Three Sisters' at the Arden (2nd review)
A leisurely entry into a leisurely world
This is the real thing, as opposed to the Durang comedy that trades on Chekovian names. It’s a realistic and compelling look at the Russia of 1900, despite — or because of? — some changes in staging and text.
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Durang's 'Vanya and Sonia' by PTC (2nd review)
Relying on outsiders
An homage of sorts to Chekhov is on stage at the Suzanne Roberts Theatre while the real Chekhov is across town at the Arden. The resemblances are slight.
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Quita Brodhead: Bold Strokes at the Woodmere Art Museum
These 56 paintings illustrate Quita Brodhead's life journey through the 20th century: her visual reactions to traditional subject matter and her embrace of the new, especially the visual arts that originated in Europe.
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