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Bradley, Elledge: Root for the underdog of the moment.

Musical ‘Nerds’ at PTC (2nd review)

Gates vs. Jobs

This history of the high-tech rivalry between Bill Gates and Steve Jobs is wacky and ridiculous, but that’s the formula that worked for The Book of Mormon and The Producers.

Steve Cohen

Dec 07, 2013 Articles 4 minute read

Is George Bailey happy? Who really gives a damn?

It’s Not Such A Wonderful Life

Where are you, Clarence, now that we really need you?

Here’s a thought for the holiday season: Haven’t you seen It’s A Wonderful Life enough already? Don’t you have anything better to do with your time, especially now that the film is owned by the 21st Century’s answer to Mr. Potter?

Perry Block

Dec 07, 2013 Articles 3 minute read

Dover Quartet: Something to teach their elders.

Dover Quartet at the Perelman

Curtis scores again

The Dover Quartet’s musicians were just 19 years old when they formed at Curtis in 2008, and by appearance they still look like kids. Possibly because for them the music is so fresh, they seem almost effortlessly to take the listener immediately into the depths of the music.

Victor L. Schermer

Dec 07, 2013 Articles 5 minute read

Bahorek (left), Bradley: Messiah complex.

‘Nerds’: A high-tech musical (1st review)

Revenge of the geeks

Steve Jobs and Bill Gates as nerds and then moguls really did change the world, and now we all have to “turn off our cell phones” when we go to see a musical comedy about how this state of affairs came about.

Naomi Orwin

Dec 07, 2013 Articles 3 minute read

'Enemy Behind the Gates': Huggins designed the costumes, too.

Philadanco salutes Huggins at the Perelman

They can act, too

I just saw the most spectacular Philadanco concert I’ve ever seen— an all-Christopher L. Huggins celebration, with six of this young choreographer’s works. Each one gave me such goose bumps that I worried people could see them through my sweater.

Merilyn Jackson

Dec 07, 2013 Articles 5 minute read

His solidarity with his fellow man insists on change but rejects coercion.

Albert Camus at 100

The rebel, the moralist, and the man

Albert Camus, once read on every college campus in America, is now remembered vaguely if at all. Yet his voice is timelessly relevant, and so is his compelling cry for decency and morality in an unforgiving universe.

Robert Zaller

Dec 03, 2013 Articles 5 minute read

Tempesta di Mare and 1807 & Friends

Do I hear a harpsichord?

Tempesta di Mare and 1807 & Friends inadvertently conducted an unplanned dialogue on a perennial question: How do you play Baroque music under modern conditions?

Tom Purdom

Dec 03, 2013 Articles 3 minute read

Lydia Diamond’s ‘Stick Fly’ at the Arden

Guess who’s coming to dinner, with a twist

When two adult sons introduce their girlfriends to their parents on the same weekend, sibling rivalries flare, class distinctions divide and family secrets unravel. It’s a familiar story with a unique difference: This family is rich, well educated and black.

Steve Cohen

Dec 03, 2013 Articles 3 minute read

Can the good survive in a world that isn't?(Photo: Richard Termine, New York Times.)

Brecht’s ‘Good Person of Szechwan’ at the Public Theater

A truly good life: My generation and yours

This irreverent, kitschy, politically incorrect version of Brecht’s cynical parable made me squirm. But my playwriting students loved it. Brecht probably would have loved it, too.

Carol Rocamora

Dec 03, 2013 Articles 4 minute read

Bookler, Quinn: To eat or not to eat, that is the question.

‘Hands Across Veronica’ at Walking Fish

Body image: The way we live now

Gin Hobbs’s Hands Across Veronica is a dark comedy that uses a tragic format to describe the way we live now: obsessed with image, and bereft of self.