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Tony Matelli: New Gravity at Wellesley College

Beholder’s Eye

Do the denizens of Wellesley College have the right to walk across campus without confronting a middle-aged man in his BVDs?
Bob Levin

Bob Levin

Articles 5 minute read
Susanna Phillips and Christopher Maltman in the Metropolitan Opera’s opulent production of “Die Fledermaus.”

'Die Fledermaus' by the Metropolitan Opera and the Vienna State Opera

Different bat-times, different bat-channels

Fledermice (those German bats) have come at us from two directions: glitzy American or schmaltzy Austrian, take your choice.
Steve Cohen

Steve Cohen

Articles 3 minute read
BalletX dancers Jaime Lennon and Jesse Sani. Photo by Matthew Murphy.

BalletX Winter 2014 program

Performing flexibly and with fun

BalletX’s dancers move in ways that are simultaneously strenuous and fluid, harsh and delicate, serious and amusing.
Susan Perloff

Susan Perloff

Articles 3 minute read
Chloe Felesina of BalletX

ClassicAlive presents Gabriel Cabezas and Chloe Felesina

Ballet over easy with a cello on the side

How do you bring ballet out from behind the curtain of elitism and high ticket prices? Serve it for Sunday brunch (with mimosas) to families. That’s what LiveConnections at World Café Live does.
Naomi Orwin

Naomi Orwin

Articles 3 minute read
The orange groves of Duarte were gone by the time the events of "True West" take place.

‘True West’ at Theatre Exile (second review)

Lost in the boonies

Some call this a masterpiece by America’s greatest living playwright. Others find it irritating and have walked out. Both are appropriate reactions to a play that’s about split personalities.
Steve Cohen

Steve Cohen

Articles 3 minute read
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Astral in Wonderland

Astral’s young artists lead a visit to the worlds of Winnie-the-Pooh, Peter Pan, and a dreamy young girl named Alice.
Tom Purdom

Tom Purdom

Articles 3 minute read
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Vox Renaissance Consort’s Renaissance Candlemas

The time travelers’ songs

The renaissance costumes could be cheesy, but instead they add to the magic of the music.
Tom Purdom

Tom Purdom

Articles 2 minute read
American GIs admire "In the Conservatory" by Édouard Manet. This painting from the Kaiser-Friedrich Museum in Berlin had been brought to the mine for safekeeping. (Photo credit: National Archives and Records Administration, College Park, MD / Public Domain)

'Monuments Men': a disappointing tribute

A great story still untold

I wish I could say that The Monuments Men is worthy of its subject and of the people who strove and died to save the art of western Europe. Instead, The Monuments Men is an action-comedy whose action is dull and whose comedy is formulaic.
Armen Pandola

Armen Pandola

Articles 11 minute read
Artists of Pennsylvania Ballet in "Serenade," choreography by George Balanchine © The George Balanchine Trust Photo: Alexander Iziliaev

Pennsylvania Ballet's 'Serenade'

A celebration of two dance anniversaries

George Balanchine's Serenade, first performed 80 years ago, has changed over the years, but the Pennsylvania Ballet's production preserves its loveliness and soul.
Sharon Skeel

Sharon Skeel

Articles 4 minute read
Wood, Wilder, Apple: Sympathy for the left.

‘Other Desert Cities’ at the Walnut

Cold-blooded conservatives vs. warmhearted liberals

Somewhere west of Generation Gap, a family modeled after Ronald Reagan’s wages bitter ideological warfare. Too bad the characters here are mostly caricatures.
Steve Cohen

Steve Cohen

Articles 2 minute read