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Chamber Orchestra plays Beethoven and Mendelssohn
Lighter and brighter?
This kind of Chamber Orchestra concert inevitably raises a question: Do we hear anything we wouldn’t hear in a big orchestra performance?
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Renegade’s ‘Bathtub Moby-Dick’ at FringeArts
Captain Ahab in South Philadelphia
Watching Ed Swidey as Captain Ahab in a South Philadelphia living room, I suddenly found myself fighting tears of recognition: Here was the father I never had, taking time to explain and illustrate for a child Melville's most famous masterpiece.
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Matthew Charman’s ‘The Machine’ in New York
Man vs. machine
The historic 1997 chess match between Russia’s Garry Kasparov and an IBM computer is the stuff that modern tragedy is made of: It involves a noble protagonist who, due to a tragic flaw (being human), suffers his downfall.
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Barbara Streisand’s comeuppance
A Streisand hit, without Streisand
Playwright Jonathan Tolins has transformed the most narcissistic book ever written into a comic masterpiece.
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The Barnes contemplates its audience
Don’t you dare go to the rest room, or: Like old times at the Barnes
The old, insular Barnes Foundation treated its visitors as suspicious interlopers, and not much has changed.
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‘In the Heights’ at the Walnut
Latins in Manhattan
In the Heights may bear a striking similarity to Fiddler on the Roof, but one of this musical’s strengths is its ability to echo universal themes and Broadway traditions at the same time that it celebrates Latin culture and music.
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Art Museum's "Art After Five': How to look at it
Looking at people looking at art: Friday nights at the Art Museum
Friday night is a great time to look at art and at people looking at art. At that hour the Art Museum sheds its persona as a graveyard for dead art and becomes a sacred precinct where art and its human audience revive each other simultaneously.
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"A Doll's House': the Geffers adaptation
Young Nora
This Doll's House is not a rewrite or a reinterpretation of the classic play. Rather, it's a one-hour introduction to the character who will grow up into the prototypical mother of women's liberation.
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Rick Buttari at F.A.N. Gallery
A preference for the past
Rick Buttari seems an artist in two minds: On the one hand, a keen observer of people and something of a social critic; on the other, a recorder of the cityscape he lives in.
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"Ajax' (2nd review) and "Heart of a Revolution'
Two dangerous men
Tucked away in pockets of this year's FringeArts Festival are gems of historical and literary discovery— in this case, about Karl Marx's adultery and the ancient Greek warrior Ajax's savagery.
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