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‘The Wolf of Wall Street’ and ‘The Winslow Boy’
The full Scorsese treatment (for someone who doesn’t deserve it)
Martin Scorsese’s voyeuristic Wolf of Wall Street glamorizes a Wall Street scam artist who enriched himself by breaking every law in the book. Meanwhile, the simple honest heroism of Terrence Rattigan’s The Winslow Boy went barely noticed this fall.
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Light and shadow in a prison cell
The world in a prison cell
To prisoners serving a life sentence, nothing much changes from one day to the next. But when the inmates in my prison art class discover light and shadow, their whole world changes— which is what the creative process is all about.
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Bach Festival’s Cantata series
Bach with a dash of Bacchus
The Bach Festival Cantata Series provided another reminder of why Bach’s music cheers us: because no matter what the subject, we can feel his sheer delight in his own creativity.
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‘Cinderella Panto’ at People’s Light
Cinderella meets the Philadelphia Eagles
People’s Light has cornered a niche market with its annual nonsensical Panto production. I mean, where else can you embellish Cinderella with references to the Paoli Local, Ted Cruz’s government shutdown, The Elephant Man and Obamacare?
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New City Stage’s ‘Frost/Nixon’
Nixon meets his match
As this masterful production makes abundantly clear, makes clear, Frost/Nixon is really about television: how it simplifies complex ideas and entire careers into a single snapshot.
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Lantern’s ‘A Child’s Christmas in Wales’ (2nd review)
Even in Wales, was Christmas ever this somber?
Would it be too much to ask that a few kids be cast in a play that’s so purely wrapped up in the wonders of youth?
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Lee Breuer’s ‘La Divina Caricatura’
A dog’s search for meaning
Lee Breuer’s two-and-a-half-hour multi-media music-driven puppet extravaganza is an American epic, featuring a dog with an addiction to a bad master and a longing for fame who spirals into the depths of popular cultural despair and unexpected spiritual teachings.
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Amsterdam: The city as museum
Rembrandt would recognize this place (and so would John Adams)
Yes, Amsterdam remains a Mecca for aging hippies, hash parlors and whores. But hold the snarky jokes. The city is an architectural wonderland of the 17th and 18th Centuries, full of dozens of remarkable museums.
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Carrie Underwood vs. Julie Andrews
Carrie Underwood confronts the Maria problem
It was a gutsy move when country singer Carrie Underwood took on the role of Maria in NBC TV’s live presentation of The Sound of Music— a role that belonged, in many viewers’ minds, to Julie Andrews. How do we deal with a change in our expectations when someone else takes on the role?
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Curio Theatre’s ‘Gender Comedy’
Do you really think Shakespeare’s comedies are funny?
In the sophomoric and absurd Gender Comedy, Curio Theater does to Twelfth Night what should be done to Twelfth Night.
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