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Curio Theatre’s lesbian ‘Romeo and Juliet’
When gender is irrelevant
Everyone producing Shakespeare these days is adapting the Bard somehow. So why not a lesbian Romeo and Juliet? The tension of the gender swap grips the experienced theatergoer throughout the performance.
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The Met’s ‘The Nose’ in HD Live
The exuberant heyday of Russia’s avant-garde
From Gogol to Shostakovich to the South African director William Kentridge, the absurdist tale of a disembodied nose has survived as a refreshing reminder that laughter is the most effective antidote for government oppression, censorship and pomposity.
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Paul Taylor Dance Company at Annenberg
Still growing at 83
For 60 years Paul Taylor has created choreography that often deals with controversial themes and ideas. But he’s still evolving, as last weekend’s retrospective program demonstrated.
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Julian Rushton’s ‘Mozart’
The astonishing truth about Mozart
Mozart was a genius, but he was hardly the womanizer and spendthrift of popular mythology. His immense musical talent aside, Mozart was a pretty ordinary guy.
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Donmar’s ‘Julius Caesar’ in Brooklyn
Friends, Romans— and women, too
Phyllida Lloyd’s ingenious production of Julius Caesar stages Shakespeare’s classic in a women’s prison with an all-female cast. This audacious concept reveals the play’s relevance to what’s happening in our turbulent political world today.
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Dante Ferretti’s film designs at MoMA
He turns cardboard into dreams
Production designers are the unsung heroes of film. The script and director may be brilliant, but at the end of the day, the audience must be able to accept that a plaster and cardboard set is the real thing.
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Ben Urwand’s ‘The Collaboration’
Hitler and Hollywood: Six degrees of separation
I’ve just finished reading a remarkable book— and all sorts of links started coming into my mind. It's the story of Hollywood’s obscene collaboration with Germany in the 1930s— one in a chain of collaborations from the Armenian genocide to the Holocaust.
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Irish Rep’s ‘Juno and the Paycock’ in New York
The boil on the Boyles
The seductive Sean O’Casey masterpiece, Juno and the Paycock, runs the gamut from hilarity to heartbreak in a milieu constricted by both financial and emotional poverty, as well as suppressed rage at the insignificance of Irish lives as filtered through church-influenced godly standards of purity.
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Alfonso Cuarón’s ‘Gravity’ (2nd review)
One very, very lonely woman
Director Alfonso Cuarón has paired the most elemental plot I’ve ever seen with visuals you must experience in the theater to believe.
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Piffaro open its ‘Tudor Season’
Across the English Channel
(and into the office)
Piffaro opened a season-long sojourn in the Tudor era with a demonstration that Henry VII may have been a better composer than a husband. Meanwhile, Piffaro’s back office provided hope of better days ahead for Philadelphia arts administration.
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